The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 840: The Grand Finale Extravaganza | MeatEater Radio Live!

Episode Date: March 6, 2026

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It's 11 a.m. Mountain Time. That's 12 noon for our friends in Resolute Bay, Nunavet, on Thursday, March 5th, 2026. And we are live from Eater HQ in Bozeman, Montana. I'm your host, Randall Williams, joined today by my friends and dear colleagues, Spencer Newhart and Stephen Rinella. We've got a great show for you today.

As we all know, this is the Meat Eater Radio Live, grand finale live extravaganza. And here's what that means. Spencer, Phil, and I will be carrying this record-breaking broadcast from start to finish. Steve is going to join us for the first hour. Then Brody's going to join us. Then Yonis is going to join us. Then we've got a bunch of folks coming in from the office to play some games. Finally, Corey Culkins is going to join us until we ride this tired old horse into the ground.

I thought everybody was getting tattooed. choose. You just broke embargo, Steve. It will move past it. That's fine. It occurred to me last night that these five... It occurred to me last night that these... I wanted to drop by.

Oh, that's going to be happening. Hold on. Hold your horses. It occurred to me last night. These segments unintentionally resemble the five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. So hang in there, everybody. Along the way, we're going to hit a bunch of listener feedback.

We're going to rip through a pile hot tip-offs. We've got some surprise interviews and some goodbye messages. We'll hit all of your favorite segments, and we'll also resuscitate some short-lived segments that were so bad we never tried them more than once. Steve, Spencer, how are you today? Good. I'm doing good. Exciting day, sad day.

This podcast is going to be best consumed by watching it. And if you can't tune in for the whole thing, at least go just watch the very first three minutes of Randall Williams music video because it was art. It was very good. I like how it made it seem like you were dead in the end. Yeah. Because then imagine the uplift when there you were. The very first thing people see after that is actually... You can expect more of those roller coaster rides of emotion throughout the next six hours. Whenever we made videos for school projects in high school, we added an in-memorium slide at the end for one of the kids involved. And it was just like something we did.

So, yeah, that was fun to make. Phil whipped that puppy out in a, I don't know, we did, took us about an hour or two, so I think we could probably just... The editing took longer than the shooting, but yeah. Okay, well, I'm just saying, we have room in the future to do more of that. Was that Phil singing? That was me sing. Oh, for real?

Yeah, we did five takes and picked the worst one. I don't know how to take that. I don't know you know how to sing. You just kind of talk, but make tie all the other things. Sounds together. It's that easy. We did record another music video that is not going to make it into the show. We have six hours worth of content for you today, and there was probably another six hours that got cut.

A lot of it is still on Randall's whiteboard in his office. Yes. What didn't make it into the show? Randall wanted to order tuxes. Well, as I mentioned, alluded to earlier, a shot-for-shot remake of the music video for, I'll see you again with Wiz Gleaf and Charlie Puth from the Fast and the Furious Seven sound. track where they CGI'd dead Paul Walker into the moving vehicle.

That did make it in. Oh, yeah. The tuxedo thing, I looked into it. It seemed like an unnecessary expense. And I don't really know of any good costume shops. We don't do those around here. Yeah. Because it's probably hard to get a budget for a show and it's done. You'd be surprised.

Took the words out of my mouth through. We found some money. You'd be surprised. This might be the most expensive episode of Radio Live in its history. It definitely is. As expensive as every other episode we've ever done combined. Yeah, we wanted to actually just bring a camera as we drove around Bozeman and like went to a bar and went

to a restaurant. But that seemed complicated. So what we've got, we've got. And I think it's people are going to like it. A lot of our traditional segments and some, some fun surprises mixed in if they have the patience for a six hour piece of media. We'll see.

Later on, Randall wants to order Outback Steakhouse, which I, I've respected your commitment to that for the last few weeks. Randall would be like, you know it would be funny if we'd order out back Steakhouse. Why is that funny? I don't know. That might be the problem with the show. Now,

if you can look on that funny. It's going to be hilarious. I have it up on my screen right now. When Randall's eating baby back ribs in the studio later, that will be quite funny. I might get a Joey mac and cheese. Okay. It's all Australian themed.

Yeah, I guess Steve, do you want to Maybe before we dive into all the fun here, we can talk about the news show for a sec? Yeah, the news show is going to be called the news show. Yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't enunciate, but I added an S as well. The news show is the news show. Yeah. And that'll be starting next week. Yeah.

Same losers you're used to. It's not live. It's a weekly news show. And we're going to be hitting the news. The news. We're going to be hitting our news. Our news. And your news.

And your news. And your news. Yeah. So that's very exciting. Yeah. And that's kind of what the next week of media or podcast looks like here. Should we get on with this? Phil, sorry.

We've also got Jake, the producer of the studio here. Oh, yes. And I didn't check in with you, Phil. How are you doing? I'm doing well. I was telling you earlier this morning, I did not get a lot of sleep last night. I don't know if it was the massive Carnier I saw a burrito I ate before I went to bed, which is probably a bad choice.

But I like to think it was just the excitement and the fervor that was awaiting me today this morning. Do you find having a big old meal right before bed gives you kind of weird dreams? Oh, 100%. Yeah, elevated heart rate, nightmares is bad. Just don't get dreams. I don't sleep either. I'd be glad, dude. There's nothing good about a dream, man.

Yeah. I take him. I took a melatonin last night because I didn't think I'd be able to sleep either. Just stressing out over the six hours. I used to take that. Then I learned that's a, I mean, I still do now and then, but that's like, you're like basically taking hormones. Well, I don't do it often, you know, just when I really need it, like for the meat eater finale. Yeah. I never put that together that it's like a hormone treatment. Yeah.

I don't know. But you're, I'm no doctor. Well, keep the show going. You're getting me on hormones today. Let's get back to that great joke. Our first segment. That great joke about where you're going to have lunch. Our first segment is nearly one hour fishing. Feel lucky. Well, do you punk? Go ahead.

Make my cast. Now, until now, this segment has been known as one-minute fishing. But in the course of that segment, we did it 22 times, and only four contestants have been successful. Is that right? For the grand, yeah, for the grand finale, we're doing nearly one-hour fishing. That's where we go live to someone who's fishing, and they have somewhere between 45 and 60 minutes to catch a fish. And if they're successful, we'll make a 500

donation to a conservation group. This week, our angler is Pat Durkin, who's near Osseo, Wisconsin, and he's fishing for a donation to walleyes for tomorrow. Based in Fondelac, Wisconsin. He is the only two-time... He's on the hard water. He's the only two-time

one-minute fishing champion. It's an honor to have him with us. Pat accounts for half of all the victories in the history of this segment. Pat, welcome to the show. Hey, guys. Thanks for having me. Looks like you've got quite a crew there with you. Yeah. Let me introduce our crew here. This is my grandson, Eddie. Eddie look at the camera. Steve is Eddie's hero. What's up, Eddie? My good friend, Dom Flot, our resident guide and all-around good fishing expert.

Excellent, excellent. And it looks like quite a stack of meat laying there on the ice, man. Oh, we've got a good morning so far. I got a quick trivia question for you guys. you don't mind what happened 190 years ago tomorrow morning give me a minute a hundred and nine that's a bad that's some tough math right there too many years what happened pat 1836 oh oh tomorrow morning march 6 1836 carry the one i'm at a loss pat what is it for me there There's a great call for you. Oh! When was the Alamo?

I don't know. You're right, Steve. Oh, wow. $500. That's great. It's not how it works. Pat, can you tell us what you're fishing with here, if you don't mind giving away a trade secret? We're fishing mainly with wax worms, also chicks.

That cropies have been hitting a one inch. long ice fishing jig. Hmm. Who's that guy? Who's that guy behind you? Behind you there? This is Dom Flok. Dom, you want to stay up?

He's the mastermind of the excursion here? Right. I don't know how well you guys can see this. But we're using these Widowmaker Slab Spoon Seekers. Yep. Just tipped with a little plastic on. I don't know if you guys, can you see that guy?

Oh, yeah. Got it. Yeah. Orange and yellow. And you're a fishing guide or you're so an enthusiast? I'm not. I'm the guy with the picker bolt motor, the bolt with the saw blade on it. Oh, yeah.

Oh, awesome. Hey, Pat, have that little kid take a couple of those slabs there on the ice and hold them up to the camera. I can't quite tell what I'm looking at. Show him, Steve, your bluegill too. Yeah, grab a couple of them big slabs and put them in front of the camera. Put your finger right in there. They've got Bluegill, croppy, and bass. It looks like the little mixed bag there.

Don't embarrass us. Oh, wow. I think caught a 10-inch bluegill earlier. Very nice. Has there been any catch and release today, Pat? Not at all. Okay. Just for small ones that are not worth a couple of cleaning.

Sure. Now, is everybody going to be cleaning fish later? Or is that reserved for the adults in the operation? I think that kid has licked his finger Eddie likes to watch he's not quite skilled with a knife yet Gotcha gotcha gotcha Well pat to kick off our one hour

Our nearly one hour fishing here We're going to do a traditional one minute fishing segment And see if you guys can get lucky in 60 seconds As is tradition And then after that We'll kick it back to you whenever you guys Pull in a fish up until the end of our hour here So if you guys are ready,

why don't you get positioned over your holes there and give it a whirl? That's true. That's all for you. All right. Are jigs in the water, Pat? What's that? Are jigs in the water?

Are you going? One more to go. Okay. Put pause on the music then. Yep. Okay. Let us know when you're fishing. Four anglers.

today. I got a rebate my hook. Hmm. You think you'd have been ready. He's had too much success this morning. Yeah, it looks like they're having a hard time keeping their bait on their hooks there.

They're fishing awful close to each other. Yeah, they are. Not spread out. No. This is the most lines we've ever had the water? So when one of them's on, they're all on. That counts.

It's just the most lines we've ever had in the water for one minute fishing. I think it is. That's why Pat's so successful. Yeah. Yeah, I don't like. how they leave all their ice shavens too close to the hole. Because you know that starts to freeze up and you're always snagged up on it.

Okay, Pat, are you ready? All right. Start the clock. Start the clock. Okay. Start the clock. He's got one minute. Oh.

He's done it twice before. So exciting. Can he three peat? I'm surprised I still have that much good ice there. Looks like a... Yeah, we're in the north. A nice controlled jig. Oh!

Oh! That's on. Oh, no. That's on. Oh! He's done it again. He's not a chrious. The only two-time and now the only three-time champion of one-minute fishing, Mr. Pat Durkin.

Unbelievable. My goodness. He's fast, too. Yeah. He's a fast runner. American hero, one-minute fishing legend, he's done it again. He's a firebrand. A firebrand.

If you read his writing. There's people that want to kill Pat Durkan. Not in this room. Not in this room. We celebrate the man and his legacy. Pat, can you give us a look at that fish that you just pulled in? What was that? A little bluegill? A little bluegill.

Oh, fantastic work. That little bluegill has earned $500 as a donation to walleyes for tomorrow. Congratulations, Pat. Well done, Pat. And like we said, we will check back in with you and see how the day is progressing here for the next, oh, 49 minutes. So we'll be here. That's back when they made real America. Americans right there.

Oh, man. Congratulations to the whole Durkan clan. What a day. The whole state of Wisconsin. Thanks for having it. Yes. Pat, he reps them well. We'll be around.

Talk to you in a bit, Pat. God, hot rod, dude. My goodness. Well, that bodes well for today's, uh, what a way to end. My God.

Tremendously exciting. Our next segment is indefensible laws. Oh, geez. Oh, does this mind? Hey, little hunter. Let me light your candle calls. These truths are so hard to handle now. Yes, they are.

So we figured hard truths and indefensible law were basically the same segment. And I like that drop better than my indefensible law drop. So there you go. Yeah. And that's your, that you have the license to do that as the artist. What does the indefensible law drop sound like? It's just, it's like a law and order cue and Corinne singing over it. Can you play it? Is it any good? Can we hear it at some point today? Yeah, I don't have it prepped right now. But we can, oh, you got them in cues.

Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, da. Dun, da, da. Yeah, that is weak. Usually I trust your judgment, Phil, but that was better. Oh, you think so? I'd like to. I'm offended. Corinne coming in there.

Okay. Well, indefensible laws where we come up with ideas that we want to be laws, they may or may not be defensible. And Steve, I believe, would you like to lead us off with your indefensible law? Is it my turn? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I have a graphic. Yeah.

Give me 30 seconds on that graphic, Steve, if you want to intro it. Okay. What I think as a society, culturally, we spend a lot of time honoring places where people died. Roadside, you know, signs. Like I went to where they shot Kennedy, for instance. Right. Right. We also do a lot of markers about where we put dead people and cemeteries.

Yep. I feel that what's almost more interesting is that we would memorialize where people almost died. Oh. So, for instance, last summer, my friend Puder almost died in a bizarre waterline accident. I mean, he got, picture the most tightly wound coil of the picture the most tightly wound coil of hard pipe. Yeah. Okay. Thick wall,

three inch poly pipe that's been wound tight since the beginning of time. This is up at the fish shack? Yeah. Yeah.

And then all of a sudden, all of a sudden that wind comes loose. And because of just, it's a weird deal, but this happened to be,

this is where the indefensible part comes in. This was on Tongus National Forest. Why we had this pipe, there is because of the route the pipe had to take to get to our place. Gotcha. So I feel that I want to erect

I mean it flattened him out. And knock them out. And would these replace traditional like sight of death markers or is it just additive? It just would be that someone's wandering through the woods and they would come across this

that would be good. And they would see that here almost Lys Puder Of course Struck and head by coiled pipe Would you have any of these tombstones anywhere Yes Give us some examples

What would be the most prominent of these In your legacy Well it would be like Almost got charged by a bear Or whatever Yeah yeah Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah

Like you can go where Custer died Right But you can't go where he almost died Probably be the same place No it'd be all over the place. It'd be like Civil War battlefields. And these might be more colorful, colorful stories.

They're not as sad. Yeah, you don't. Because these are stories of hope. The stories of hope. Why didn't he die? I don't know, it didn't hit him hard enough in the case of Booter. I'll admit, you texted this. Knocked his hat off.

You texted this image to Phil and me this morning. And I had no clue what your law would be until you got to the end of your sentence. Yeah, this is not what I was expecting. But I like it. it. Yeah, I'm on board. I like it. Do you feel that as a society we focus on the negative? And maybe we over memorialize

the negative and under memorialized the real close calls. You remember the series we did, close calls? Okay, close calls was something bad almost happened. Very popular series. Blood trails is that it did happen.

My only reservation with this is that at bad intersections, that just be covered in these things. No, no, no, that's not adventurous enough. This is a woodsy kind of thing. Okay. I'm bringing this to this show. Listen, I thought I was at Media to Radio Live. I'm not, I'm not down at the highway commission. Yep, that's fair. That's fair. Who's funding? I'm not at like a town hall meeting. Who's funding these tombstones? Just wherever it happens. It'll come out of your guys budget. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Because, well, zero dollar budget after today.

Well, that's where the budget's actually going. Sure. Yeah. Just to fund these tombstones. Sure. Sure. Yeah. Just, I mean, they don't have to be marble. just whatever sort of rough stone is natural. Yeah, I'd like him to look like that. How do you think Pouda would feel about this? Would he be tickled? I haven't sent it to him yet, but I'm gonna. Because you know, you could do this. Breanna made that.

She's young enough where she can do that stuff immediately. For me to get that graphic, I would have had to have chiseled it. Yeah. Out of marble and took in a picture of it. And scanned the photo. And I would have faxed it over. Sure. She had it done in no time.

That's incredible. I don't know how she did it, but she did. She's like instantly. She has a lot of like hidden skill sets. Instantly was able to generate that image. I don't know how she made that tombstone. I'm going to try to get the actual physical tombstone she made, but like very quickly. You could just do this though, Steve.

You could you could put that up at your fish shack where Puder almost died. Oh, I think I will. It's a good idea. Are there any other, would there be any other close call tombstones? Lots of them. I mean at the at the fish shack. Yeah, it'd be like here almost lies Steve and his wife. Oh, both you.

But it'd be a floating memorial. Okay. Two tombstones. I'm going to have to tie it to a log and anchored that log out where it happened. That's good. Well, Spencer, do you have, what's your indefensible law here? It's not much of a law. I was thinking about the best run business in America that I could think of.

Does anything come to mind if I were to say that to you? Costco? No. Meteor? No, well, yeah, number one. Number two, though, I think would be Chick-fil-A. They're always efficient, always consistent. Friends.

Closed on Sundays. Closed on Sundays. Yeah. And I like that. I don't care about the whole, I don't, like, I'm not a blue law kind of guy. Yeah. But I like it that everybody would say, like, you can't have a restaurant that's closed on Sunday. And they're like.

Yeah. In a nice way. Yeah. I've never lived in this. They gave the finger in a nice way. I've never lived in the same place as a Chick-fil-A. So I, you know, would get it like two times a year when I'm traveling. Sure.

But it's always just so well run. So what I want to do is. Can I throw in something in, though? What do you got? Me and Yani. This is years ago. Everybody's all, chick fillet this, chick filet that. We're always hearing all about it.

Give me an example of what they're saying about it. Oh, it's so good. It's so good. Waffle fries. Let me just, uh, nothing but respect. Sure. When you go into chickplay, the people that work there, they seem like they could get a job at the bank. They do.

I'm going, yeah. But I went there with Yonni, first time we ever stepped foot in one. What location? We got our sandwiches. I don't remember. We landed in airplanes and went and got some. We got our sandwiches. And to be honest with you, when it came down to the actual experience of eating the sandwich,

I was like, dude, I've had a sandwich like this a thousand places. There's nothing special about this sandwich. I like it that the lady that took our order could have worked at a bank if she wanted to. That was cool. My experience is that every time I've been to one, they're just perfectly run. So I would like to give them a wildlife agency to run just to see how they do. And we could start off with a small one, like the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife. That one's not very important.

No, because they'd make it that you can't fish on Sunday. Yeah, but it would be okay because they're so successful that everyone would be tagged out on Saturday. That's how good Chick-fil-A is at their job. So if we just give them a game department. This is the dumbest and defensible law I've ever heard. Can you change it? Can you make a thing that's called the dumbest law? Yeah.

And we're going to give. I trust Chick-fil-A that much that they could run the Delaware Game Department. If they do a good job, maybe, you know, give them a state like Missouri, and then they could take a stab at the federal agencies. He's only want to be in the room. I think it would work out. I believe in them. They do that good of a job every time. I agree in your assessment of Chick-Fle.

So you think wildlife management should be handed over to the restaurant, the private restaurant business? I trust Chick-fil-A. Yes. They're that good. Hey, man, listen. Are we on meeting or radio live? Delaware. Are we down at the highway department?

If anybody out there is Delaware fishing game, man, listen, I want you to know that I'm not saying this. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, I am. Spencer. Well, my indefensible law, I had, I had one that... Does that have sauce they make good on fish? Well, they make a bunch of different sauces.

They make like a Polynesian sauce. That one I don't get the fanfare about. It's kind of like a sweet chili, isn't it? With chicken, I'm just like honey mustard, barbecue, buffalo. I don't really need anything beyond that. Yeah. Yeah, I hate that. That's why the show has to go off the air.

Stuff like that right there. That single-handedly did it. Well, Steve, well, Steve, let's see how you react to my indefensible law. We're getting into application season here, and I'm thinking about how I'll be filled with rage and resentment when I find

out that certain people drew tags I wanted that, in my mind, didn't deserve them. You feel it's merit-based. Well, no, I just... So my law would be that fish wildlife and parks in the state of

Montana draws two pools for each tag. Okay. And they start calling people. If a successful tag draw is over the- You want them to call people. Over the age of 18, they called them and said, tell me about this tag you put in for.

How long have you wanted this tag? What do you know about this place? Yeah, where is it? If somebody's like, if someone's like, I don't know, my uncle told me this is sweet, they're out. Then they call the next person. If that guy's like, I've been looking forward to this my whole life,

If I could have one opportunity. He's like, I could tell you right where I'm going to camp. And maybe they could even negotiate with them. They'd be like, let me tell you, if you give me this Moundgo tag, I will not put in for Big Horn Sheep for the rest of my life. Wow. And that way we can kind of thin out the application pool. So you picture there being like a tag concierge.

Yeah, something like that. Someone like a vet with a vetting. Just, yeah, like an audit. Someone like Randall. An audit of the tag pool. Like, does this person really want this? That's a great idea. If someone's like, you know, I'm not that into mountain goats, but I just put in for everything every year.

Mm-hmm. And I don't even know where that unit is. Or they're like, you know, I already drew a tag that month. Like, I'm going to be hunting, hunting elk in Wyoming that month. So I'll probably have a few days to hunt this tag. They just kind of make their notes. And it's like Santa Claus. They go down the list again.

And so it's still lottery based, but there's an added bit of scrutiny. Yeah. I think that you do like, this is great. It's a good law. I'm glad. I could picture that it's great law. I can picture that the interviewer has some like discretion. Yeah.

And they put you on a sliding scale. Right? Just to make it easier. Like they're able to take these inputs. They're able to have a conversation. And then they're able to go like one to 10. Do they deserve it? Yeah.

It's like a weighted. It's like waiting grades. Yeah. So in the end, there's a number. Yeah. Yeah. And so it's got to be a number. It's not just, I mean, at first I had this idea of like a council, a council of elders.

Mm-hmm. That's got to get expensive. Yeah. Well, it'd be volunteer based. It'd be like a bunch of old timers that have like hunted sheep and goats when like anybody could get a tag, you know? Yeah, but then they're going to be bitter. That's true. You know what would hurt me on this scale is I'm a guy who applies in the last like 12 hours.

of the application being open. And I think they would look at that and they would say this doesn't mean as much to him because he didn't apply 24 days. No, no, no. They would know that they wouldn't unfair. Because there's also guys. So maybe it helps me then. There's guys that sweat. There's guys that sweat it up into the last minute.

Yeah. And he was waiting for all the day that had come in. Yes. For instance, a couple years ago when you drew an elk tag and then a week before the season, you found out that you'd put in for the wrong tag. That would hurt me. tag that I wanted. That would hurt me. That would have hurt you.

Yeah. Well, maybe that law is defensible. Randall also doesn't like if someone post a reminder on Instagram about like that's true. You have 24 hours to apply for the big horn shoe tags. I think that, I think that would have been, I think that might have been an indefensible law in the past. Do you have time for a quick story? Sure. We got, we got six hours.

Yeah, we've got plenty of time. Please tell a long story. Well, I'll tell shorty. Okay. When I was in, I can't remember what. grade. When I was in whatever grade you're in right before you start getting to be able to vote, the teacher. Oh, have I told you this story? Yeah. Go on though. It's a good story. I'll probably tell the story all the time. His name was Al DeYoung. And the teacher was basically said, because he was

supposed to encourage people to go register to vote and help him get registered to vote. What did he teach? I can't remember government or whatever something like that anyways i just remember him saying why would i want to dilute my vote with you people's vote yeah his thing was remember i'm concerned only with what affects alde young so he's like there's no way i would try to get all you people down there voting too because that makes my vote worth less that's fair i don't trust you they're realist a cold you know clear-eyed realist i feel like if i feel like if heard other stories about that teacher. I feel like he made an impact.

Did you ever trade a shotgun to him? No, that was a different guy, but that's also a very good story. Very good story. That's back in the old days, man. The good old days. We're in the good old days right now. No, I didn't say good days. I said the old days.

I was going to say, this is one of my favorite stories. I just remind people. I remember them saying, hey, you know what? This isn't in the whatever, high school. Yeah. Them going, you know what? No more guns at school. And I thought, well, that's not going to work.

And I remember going down, I'm not kidding. I go to the principal's office. I tell the story of time, I go to the principal's office. And I say, well, what do you mean? He goes, well, that doesn't really, that's not for the guys that hunt and stuff. Yeah. I was like, cool, because I was nervous for a minute. What about crossbows?

Can we have crossbows in the parking lot? All righty. Well, that's the very last time we'll do in different. law. May it rest in peace. Our next segment is hot tip off. Can I ask a question? Do you feel like you're not checking in

enough on the comments? I'm trying. I've been flagging the ones here and there, but it's real tough guys. Pretty soon here. We're trying my best. We're going to listener feedback in about 15 minutes. We'll do some listener feedback here in a little bit. We decided that doing like 10 to 12 listener feedbacks

today might be a lot. we're going to kind of play it by ear. Sorry, Phil, I feel like I'm getting ahead of you with my transitions here. Oh, no, you're fine. Do you want to set that up again? Yeah, our next segment is Hot Tip-Off. Let's all do a Hot Tip-Off.

Hot Tip-Off. Hot Tip-Off is where two listeners go head-to-head-off. Hot Tip-off is where two listeners go head-to-head with competing. pieces of advice. And after we hear each tip, we'll declare which one is hotter. If you have a hot tip up until today, you could have taken a one-minute video on your phone and emailed it to radio at the meat eater.com with the subject line hot tip off. But it's too late because this is the last episode. Well, I don't know, because I think that this could have a home in the new show. Your news. Yeah. This, okay. Like a lot of this, I think, sure, could have a home.

Okay. Well, standby. Stand by. Stand by here. Dirk and catch fish. I mean, that's a whole episode. Today's contestants for our first hot tip off of the day are Thomas Yoder and Zach Venkis. Folks in the chat, make sure to vote on which hot tip is hotter. Roll that hot tape, Phil. You know, I actually don't know which two I'm going to play

right now because I didn't label the names. I just labeled them 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on. So you don't know what you're serving up right now. Let's find out together. We also didn't talk about how we knew bathroom breaks. We're just getting go when we need to. Tyler Fox. Tyler, welcome to the show. All right, hot tip here for those rut hunts when you got a long day and you're in the saddle, I don't know about you, but for me hitting knees on the trees, moving, I just fidget all the time. So what I did, I went and got some camouflage nylon sewed up a little hammock here. Now you can sit in it, super

comfortable, can sit here for hours and hours and hours, not feeling like you need to move super easy just to stand right back up it's like a saddle but extra big extra comfy now when it's really cold out went ahead and sewed up a little under quilt for it one side I did blaze orange other side camo just wrap that bad boy around clip it in now your butt's going to be nice and toasty if it's really cold you can just kind of like nestle on in a little bit right here and you're good to just ride it out for hours shoot out of that damn thing. Jason Trowd. Well the bow I mean. Yeah. Hey, media. My name is Jason Trowd. I'm coming at you today from Snowy Erie,

Pennsylvania. Shout out to Brody. And today I got a hot tip for you on how to convert a standard 200 foot ounce laundry detergent bottle into a waterproof, weatherproof trail camera hood that will keep your camera free of debris and snow, but also not interfere with their photos. Take that same bottle, a utility knife, always remember practice knife safety. I cut off both the spout side and the front side, so you're left with this bottomless hood shape. Take that hood and get a drill, draw some holes in the back so I can cut a slot, as well as one for your cable lock.

And take a hood and paint it black. There you go. You can run your strap through, put your camera in, strap it to your tree, you're good to go. It's taking something that you'd normally throw away, away making some useful out of it. There you go. Don't got to talk about that. Your vote is for Jason then. Well, because the other guy, I mean, they sell those.

Do they? He made it more comfortable. No, no, he made a saddle rat to go around him while he's in his saddle. Phil, do you have a poll going for the audience? The poll is live. So get those votes in, give you a minute or two here. I'm just going to shut up.

I'll let the poll decide. I like, give a vote. I mean, I like the, I think my vote would probably be for the trail camera cover because I just like that guy's vibe. And it's recycling something. Yeah. The other guy is sewing things, which I greatly admire when it comes to people who make their own stuff. Oh, yeah. I've, great guy.

I've often thought about taking an old sleeping bag and just cutting it off at, like, at the waist and putting a little zip cord in there. So when I'm like sitting there glassing, I could pull a sleeping bag over my. Because, you know, like puffy pants work great and all, but having everything trapped inside of sun. So I believe they call that an elephant footbag. It's used by mountaineers. I got a hot tip that'll blow both these guys out of the water. What's that? If you got little kids, get them a big insulated poncho.

And when they start getting cold in the boat or whatever, put that on them. That's what you're talking about. I'd vote for Tyler Fox. he had the sleeping bag hammock because that dude, despite being 20 feet up in a tree, he is more comfortable than 95% of people who are listening to this right now.

Is he going to shoot a bow out of how he's got that rigged out of how he's got that. He would need some good fair warning that a deer is coming to get ready, I think. Like that deer better be damn loud coming through the woods. We'll give you 30 more seconds on the poll, guys. I'm going to shut it down. Is it close? You know, it's really not.

Who's winning me? If you want to vote for Steve, hashtag Steve in the chat. It will not go towards anything. We can just find out now because it's not going to, it's not going to tighten up here. It's been pretty consistent. The winner with 74% of the vote was Jason with the trail cam hood. You don't want a bunch of wet snow laid over the thing.

He stole that from Trappers, Martin Trappers. Oh. Well, that thievery is going to get him $100 need-eater gift card. Awesome. Wow. Congratulations, dude. We got, I don't want to hack on the other guy, man. I mean, you know, that's cool.

No, I like it. I like it. We've got five more hot tip-offs coming to you later today. Yeah, yeah. And we might not get to the last one until 4.55, but we'll get there. Phil, at this point, we have a few messages from the crew. Why don't you play Clay's message here? Yeah, let's do it.

Clay had a message for Radio Live. Radio Live. I mean, I'm sad to see you go, but we were never that close. I mean, I just feel like you gave a lot of attention to the guys up in Bozeman. And me and Brent and Bear, you know, we just, we just didn't get to know you that well. I don't, it's not really your fault. It's just kind of the way things worked out. But that also means we just were never that close.

I mean, I watched it. I enjoyed it from afar, but it was kind of like watching somebody else eat a rib-eye steak, you know. And for that, we'll see you later. We'll see you down the road. What a nice, respectful message. Clay is there something I'll get from my wife someday. It's not you, it's me. That was sort of like it's not you, it's not me.

I just, I'm indifferent. We were just never that close. Clay clearly had other things on his mind at that moment. At that moment. You don't think he threw that on for his goodbye message? I don't know. I think he's been trying. I think he's been doing a little fashion show with all his Arctic gears.

Because he's from down south, but he's going up north. He's just really confused about how to try to stay warm. I think that message is going to be very familiar with the rest of the crew members who tell us goodbye today. Yeah, I would like to say, you know, he said me and Brent and Bear, but Brent Reeves hosted several episodes of this program, flew across the country to do just that. So when actually earlier when we said this might be the most expensive episode I would have to count Brett's

airfare and hotel for that but let's see what Tony has to say here Phil Meteeter Radio live crew just sending you a little note for your sign off episode here the last one. It's pretty sad I think I speak for a lot of people

when I say I really liked the way that you usually had some hosts in studio to do this that weren't totally dependent on just who happened to be available in the Bozeman office. I like that. I really like how there was, you know, sometimes guests, but mostly just not, I guess, or maybe some call-in stuff was really informative.

And that's what I like about podcasts. And, you know, a lot of the segments that were on this show were a part of this show. And that's, you know, something that you can say about it. So true. So I'm sad to see it go. But it sounds like we have a lot of good stuff in the hopper, and we will, you know, these are big shoes to fill, but I think we'll figure something out,

and I think we've got some good stuff coming. So congratulations to all involved, and we'll see you on the next adventure. What a sweetheart. I mean, you know, that's what really sticks to me that, like, how the segments on the show are part of the show. Yeah. That was Tony's message.

That really hits me. It was a podcast. It was a podcast that was recorded live in the studio. That really hit me. Really, really quick, guys. I don't even know if I'm allowed to do this, but I figured since Jake is in the room today and he helps Jordan with blood trails,

we got a comment from someone saying, when can we expect a blood trails drop? And Jake, I don't know, is it okay to play the sneak peek trailer for season two? Is that? Yeah, I think now it would be a fine time. That's great.

Yeah. For the first time ever. Great, here we go. For years it echoed through, truck speakers and tree stands across America. A live campfire style show about conservation, wild game, and the occasional awkward commenter. Well, Radio Live, we've got a very active chap. But then, silence. This season on Blood Trails, we investigate the mysterious death of Meat Eater Radio Live.

Was it poor ratings? Internal politics? a rogue comment section? Or did the show wander into territory someone didn't want explored? You're only 15 feet away from this thing and it's given you the side eye. If I'm in that close, I'm drawn and ready with lethal force. These smaller cartridges are capable of cleanly killing everything from bears to moose. Just raise your hand if you think this is probably the best ever media radio live. He is. I think he's horny. I think that's what's wrong.

There was no body, no closure, just an empty time slot where hunters once gathered to debate broadheads and backstraps. In this explosive episode, we reconstruct the final minutes. We analyze the suspects, algorithm shifts, audience discontent, the KGB. And that one guy who can't let go of his outdated magnum. 300 win magna. I just can't. New hot cartridges are so lame to me. Was it murder, a mercy killing?

Or did Brody finally get caught using fake reading glasses to look smarter than he is? Oh, there you are. You're all done with those, film? Tune in next week for a brand new, totally real episode of Blood Trails, the murder of Meat Eater Radio Live. Oh, that's chilling. Oh, man. That is chilling.

I'm sorry. you on that idea, Randall. Yeah, this was one of my ideas that seemed like it wasn't going to happen, and Jordan executed it to perfection. Oh, well done, George. Along with Jake. Thank you, Jake, for putting that together. Well done, God.

I can't wait to watch. I'm dying to know what happened. Should we check back in with Pat here? Yeah, let's see if he's paying any attention. See if that pile of fish is doubled by now. I hear you. What happened, everybody? But they get bored with the show, Pat?

No, I was just grabbing my sandwich. There's your guys' problem right there. Pat, did everybody else fall in? Where's the rest of your crew? Well, Eddie had to go back to second grade. Dom's still here. So it's just two of us now. We got a few more crappies and a couple more bluegills.

Incredible. What did his absence note say from school that he had to go be on a live podcast. This gets very complicated, Spencer, because his little sister is in kindergarten and got to go snowboarding out west the last three days. So to keep him calm, they told him earlier this week that he gets to go on Meat Eater Radio

live with me. Wow. And that meant a lot to him. You could tell he, he was really excited all week about this. Okay. So you guys made his day. It's a good time to be a Durkin,

grandchild then. They're just doing all kinds of stuff around the country. It's, you know, it's a lot of fun and keep those kids. You know, I made, last weekend I made Eddie a wingbone call for turkey season. So we're getting ready for that too. Pat, how many fish would you say you've caught since we last checked in with you? Only about, I'd say, four or five, it slowed down. Well, according to the rules of nearly one hour fishing, We're going to add a dollar to the pot for every fish that you've caught.

So we'll be donating either $504 or $505 to walleyes for tomorrow. Oh, my goodness. That's great. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Are you going to be out there all day, Pat? No, we'll probably shut down pretty soon because I got to go home and clean fish. Oh, you're living the dream.

Yep. No complaints here. All righty. Well, Pat, again. congratulations on being the one and only three-time winner of one-minute fishing. It's an honor that, sort of by the nature of this show being canceled, will never be topped. So you can wear that, you can wear that hat proudly until your final days here. We will erect a one-minute fishing Hall of Fame in the office here, Pat.

You're going to be the only inductee. I could not be more proud. All right, Pat. Great to see you. Thanks for joining us here. And congratulations once again. You bet. Thanks for having me on.

Thank you, Pat. Oh, boy, what a guy. Well, Phil, is it time that we get into some listener feedback here? Let's get into some listener feedback. Now's the time to get some more questions in. I've been flagging them here and there. But, you know, you guys have been knocking it out of the park. And it's impossible to keep up with you.

but I'll try my best. We have a question. I'll try to get some Steve-focused ones while he's here for the next few minutes. Yeah. This is from Russell Wickland. He asks,

what is the go-to book to bring to hunting camp this year? Alaska Moose in September. He's got plenty of audio books for the 56-hour drive to where he's going. If you guys have any recommendations. I'd have to know more.

Oh, you need more details than that. Well. Do you have any like just kind of general picks? Books you've read recently that you've enjoyed classics? Well, I'm trying to think. If he's going to Alaska, let's just say that. Like, he wants to get in the mood.

He wants to be in the mood. I would go with, I would go with coming into the country by John McPhee. I would go with Alaska's Wolfman. Just throwing some off top of my head. I would go with, it's a little Northia. But if you're an intellectual fellow and you got a good, and you got. I don't know. If I knew you better, I might say Arctic dreams.

From an author who's kind of uneasy with hunting. Yeah, and that's one that would be good for a hunting camp where you're doing a lot of sitting and waiting. A lot of sitting and waiting. If you're a ridgetop moose hunt. Yeah, if you're a ridgetop hunting where you get in a contemplative mood, Arctic dreams. But I think coming into the country is just a phenomenal Alaska book. But it's such a rich category. I mean, there's a bazillion great Alaska books, man.

There's also just like classic Jack London stuff. I mean, that's... No. No, whatever. I downloaded, like, because you can get a bunch of just, like, classic books on Kindle or whatever on your phone for like 99 cents. We don't know that he's a bargain hunter. I don't know.

If he said it as a bargain hunter, thinking volume. Moby Dick. Moose hunter. But what? Now you're just naming books. Moby Dick works metaphorically for a moose hunt. It's a man on a quest. I got it.

I think I've read eight books this year, and I track them in an app called Goodreads. And there's one book out of those eight that have given five stars, and that was Travels with Charlie in Search of America by John Steinbeck. And that particularly, I think, works if you're driving 56 hours, that sounds like you're going across most of the continent, which is what John Steinbeck does and travels with Charlie. he drives around the whole country and stops places. Oh, no, no, read his thing more carefully. What?

For the 56 hour drive. Yeah, he's got plenty. Understood. He's looking for like what to read when he's there. Travels with Charlie in search of America. I maintain that answer. So he can reflect on his drive. After you've gone through, you know, a whole bunch of states.

But you're just naming books. You're not even like cherry picking for the experience. I just did. If he said just name some books, I would have done that. A long road trip, 56. He doesn't need him for the road trip. I understand, but he's driving 56 hours. So he's going to see the whole country.

And then he's going to read a book about when John Steinbeck saw the whole country. Oh, I got you. Very good book. Dostoevsky, crime and punishment. There you go. Shaddy, the kid asks, and I think Shattie's in the chat a lot. Oh, yeah. He's a loyal listener.

This is Steve question for sure. Yeah, I've been trying to catch a coyote with a dirt hole set with a little meat and gland and urine lure. But you stress that with a period. I keep catching grinners instead. Should I not use meat? How can I keep possums out? Yeah. I think if you're using, if you're using like a tainted meat,

um, that's going to draw grinners. I, like, I've kind of, as I've matured, gotten older and wiser, I've come to have much more faith in very, very, very, subtle sets placed in very specific places. Like, instead of trying to draw them into some loud,

crazy situation they never encountered, putting it right where they want to be, right on the ditch row, or right on the trail they were on to run. If it's a tilled field, right down the groove, they want to run. If they're running a two-track, it's like you're right in there

and just minimum. minimum attractants. Just going like subtle. But it's when you, it's hard because in your head you're thinking that you're just going to have fresh dirt thrown out. You're going to have 18 smells going on. It's going to have visual appeal. It's going to smell like something rotten.

And that's all great, man. But it's like you're trying, you're catching you. You're making a set that you think. You're making a set that you think would look appealing. Subtility. This, an analogous situation from my own past is when we were like growing up and wanting to catch catfish, we'd have our parents drive us to Meyer and go by like stink

baits that you stuff in tubes and all this other shit that looks good that you see on TV. It's like as soon as we switch to just a worm and a hook, catch 10,000. times more fish. But it was like, if we want to catch big fish, we need all this stuff that seems good to us. And we were just getting sold on, you know, false bill of goods, right? I'll one up you. Not one up you, but I'll stack that on you. Mm.

Over the years on halibut. Mm-hmm. To eventually realize, after trying to put, like, you know, giant baits and squirt stuff and this than that, two different baits, a small flutter jig. But you're like, it's just hard to have faith. Anyways, that'll keep the Grinners

down. Do you ever struggle with too many possums in your coyote traps? Only back in one out, yeah, but we don't have them here, but in Michigan, uh, yeah, Grinners trapping red fox, grinters was a real problem, was a real issue, you know.

But during the mini fur boom with two, I was talking recently with Stu Miller, during the mini fur boom of 2011 to 2014, Stu Miller said he was paying for his gas with Grinners. During the mini boom. Interesting. Grinners for gas. Next question.

Who on the Meteor crew? Yeah, just try flat sets. Great. Would last the longest on the show alone? You guys have any thoughts about this? Whoever's not married. That makes sense. Oh.

You think you think marriage would be the biggest hurdle? Dude, if I was doing that, I'd have the time of my life, but my wife be pissed. Yeah. How are you supposed to explain that? Hmm. Uh,

what else you got there, Phil? Uh, there's another trapping question. Oh. From T. Woods. What's the number one bit you've used for trapping raccoons? Is he talking about coon coughs?

Yeah, I, you know, I doubt we're going to get any clarification. Brody's out there flipping us off through the window. Can I guess what your answer will be? Uh, sardines. Man.

Oh. Like in pocket. Sets and pocket sets with lure, any kind of like, any kind of fish in pocket sets with lures. I used to use a lot of smell heads and stuff. I don't know. Just whatever. Coon Cuffs, that's a whole different story.

Number one bait. Give him an answer, though, from number one bait. Depends. You can't give him just something. Next question. These questions have been coming in almost every week, but I don't think Steve's been here for one. It's that time of the year.

I think people are excited. This is from Dallas Tynes Lines. now that it is tag application season, what tags are you hoping for? And what tags are you confident in getting? I don't, I'm not reaching for any big tags this year. The one thing I am trying to do, I want to hunt Kansas rifle season in December.

But to do that, I need to get a permission. And I've sent out 22 letters so far. I thought it would take me 20 letters to get one yes. Of those 22 letters, I'm at zero permissions right now. And their tag deadline is, in late April. So I'm trying to secure a permission before late April. That's more about, less about the tag application. I know I will draw because I have the points, but I just don't have the spot to hunt yet. So that's, that's like the big thing I'm working towards right now.

Are you going to have to do a cannonball run door knocking trip? I don't know if I got that drive in me just for this year. I'll figure out something else. And then I'd like, you know, okay, 2027 now is when I'm going to do it. And you don't want like a permission from like someone that you're the people you know know. Do you have a permission for me? I'm just, I'm just asking. Yes.

I, if Steve has a permission to offer. So part of the thing is you like to get it. Oh, I mean, that's, it's like, it gives me butterflies in my stomach.

If I get a permission, it's like as satisfying. You don't want someone just hand you a permission. If you want to hand me a permission, I'll take a hand given permission. Yeah. I feel like I've burned it now.

I've sent out my 22 letters. I scouted these landowners. I creeped their Facebook. I'm like, oh, they don't haunt. Their grandchildren. don't hunt. I can, I can secure permission, but it hasn't worked down.

You're kind of spying. So if you receive one of these letters from Spencer, you're feeling very uncomfortable right now. Return to send her right there. It's even weirder than you thought. It's also a compliment because I think you got big giant white tail bucks on your property. The other thing is, though, I don't target. It's very easy to get sucked and be like, okay, this is a 10 out of 10 place. That's where I want to hunt. I'm not looking for 10 out of 10. I'd like to look for like a 7 out of 10. You don't want a 10 out of 10. Steve, I will take a 10 out of 10. but I can't target. I would be wasting my time

by writing a letter to someone who has a 10 out of 10 property because someone already hunts there. A 7 out of 10, though, I think I can sneak into. I understand. So I'm done, huh? I leave.

Well, we can answer a few more questions. Steve, do you have any tags you're hoping for this year? Always. Just doesn't want to share. No, I don't mind sharing. Always. That's fair.

You going to share? All of them. Phil, do you have any other, Steve specific questions to get to you. None that I have flagged right now. There's a question about Steve and Yanni if they'll ever sport facial hair. Oh yes.

Huh. I think about it now and then. What do you think about it? You know what would impress people is in my lower back. Yeah. I sometimes will grow a hair. I know about this as my wife will grab them and show them to me. Oh. I'll sometimes grow a

hair longer than my middle finger. Go down dang. Out of my lower back, but he'll be all alone. What do you make of that? Well, it's a tree, you know, it's like a tree that doesn't have any competition from any other trees. Yeah, I call it like my ass neck. It's like, and you know it's funny. You know, like, if you go to, let's say a chunk of plywood's laying out in your yard.

Yeah. And you move it. Mm-hmm. How the plants under there. Mm-hmm. Well, they don't look great. Uh-huh. But sometimes you'll see one that was kind of growing himself to death.

Yeah, trying to get to the sunlight. That's like the hairs on my ass neck. So, I don't know. Take that for what you will. Yeah, that's the answer your question about facial hair. The ass neck, making its first and last appearance on Meteor Radio Live. Yeah, that's a good time for Steve to leave. Before Steve leaves, before Steve leaves, I meant to hit this off the top, but I feel like it's fitting that you're here.

I'm excited to announce to the world that Virgil Edison Morris This morning Hell yes Baby and mother are happy and healthy Seth says And I have a text in my phone I transcribed it here 7 pounds 6.5 ounces

20 inches Like a real good large mouth bass Okay So So congratulations to the entire Morris clan I got more to say on this subject Yes I want you to know

that I've like you know me and Seth caught a we're working on our video our cat video yeah so me and Seth caught a remarkable cat when we took it to the auction the cat went for a lot of scratch

we had agreed when we caught the cat I was just in a good mood and I didn't even know what I was saying I said let's when we sell that cat because we weren't technically working we're just dink around. I was like, when we sell that cat, we're going to put it into Virgil's little bank account. That's high on the hog now. Yeah. He's got, he's going to Harvard. Plenty of diapers. Steve, do you know the song the night they drove old Dixie down? Oh, yeah, of course. I was trying to get Seth to listen to it. He'd never heard it yet because it's about a man named Virgil.

Yeah, Virgil Kane is my name. That's right. In the Granville train. Love that song. Can I read something? Please. I'm going to share with you guys one of my favorite. quotes. Please. This is dedicated to, I sent it to Seth this morning to him and his wife to say, now you'll finally understand the quote. Are you ready? In describing seeing his children newly born, he wrote, far from being young, as young as a human being can be, they seemed immensely old. their foreheads and features streamlined by time, as archaic and smooth as the heads of pharaohs,

an Egyptian sculpture, as if they had traveled an immense distance to find their parents. Then, in a second, they became young. A mic dropped from Steve. Yeah. Right there, buddy. Yeah. That little baby comes out.

He seems like a crazy little alien. And then all of a sudden, you're like, oh, it's a little baby. There's new life. There's new life on the outside world in here, only death. Yep. When you first see that baby, your first thought, it's terrible. Yeah. Your first thought is, oh.

Mm. And then a couple minutes later, you're like, oh, oh, he's so cute. This little baby Virgil. I'm looking forward to meeting this nice young man. radio as Spencer likes to go. I had to settle. I had to level with him and Kelsey this morning over text. Yeah.

And inform them that that baby doesn't look like either of them. Oh. No one ever tells anybody that. No. Except you. Maybe we should. Yeah. You're all right.

They say nothing. Right. They say it looks like you. Or they keep. No one ever goes, it doesn't look like you. I've never thought babies looked like anybody. I agree. Because I don't walk around seeing someone like, you look like a baby.

You know? it's like the inverse I'm out right you're out there so much thank you Steve ladies gentlemen Stephen Ronella for the very last time

on meat eater radio live and this show will continue oh yes we have a just really quick we have a new host shuffling in I am going to do a stopover

for the podcast version of this episode the video feed will continue so this will be YouTube exclusive content I'm going to step out for a couple of minutes

and I'll be right back and we will start our next segment here. If you guys just want to make Yeah, hop in there, Brody. Talk about your day and a quick break here. Hey, Phil, can you put me on the list since I'm in here? Oh, yes.

Yes, that list. Really quick, you guys, I wasn't rolling on the podcast version, which is fine as I didn't play the drop. So if you just want to do a quick recap of everything you just say. Damn it, Phil. No, no, no, we shouldn't do that. Let's just keep it going. Okay, well, for the listeners out there who aren't watching, I brought in a micro spike for show and tell that my sun shot.

Microspikes. Microspikes. For a micro spike. Ladies and gentlemen, for the very last time on Meat Eater Radio Live, it's another show and tell. And Brody's got the smallest buck in the world. Spencer, what did you bring for the classroom here? I brought you a replica of the. Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot track in California from 1967.

Wow. This is the, you know, the most famous footage of Bigfoot that exists. It's like, you know, imagine that grainy footage of a Boulder Creek in Northern California where the Bigfoot kind of looks at the camera and he's got his arms out. He's walking suspiciously like a human. Like a Bigfoot. Yeah. Anyway.

Oh, I have so many questions. Patterson Gimlin, they were the two filming it. They went and, you know, found the track afterwards from where that Bigfoot walked. I think this thing is it's like 15 inches long, seven inches wide. This is one of the absolute dumbest things I've ever purchased. Yeah. How much did the gift shop get you for? Oh, no, this was off eBay.

Take a guess. We'll do an early game of the price is right as to what that cost. Yeah. Who'd you get you got from some. Off eBay. $89. Some big foot-en-thusies. I'm going to say $499.

$499. It was $40 with $20 shipping. So I paid $60. And I'm very happy I did. I regretted it almost immediately when I hit purchase, but then when I got it in the mail, I was like, this is wonderful. I'm very glad I have this. It looks great in my office.

It's made of gypsom cement. It's about as thick as a deck of cards. And yeah, it sits on my bookshelf, and I'm very happy. I have a replica of the world's most famous Bigfoot's track despite not believing in him. A mold of the original mold. That's right. Someone has the original mold out there. And then they sold that mold to other people.

to be able to make, you know, their own replicas, and I've just got one of probably thousands. Do you ever bring it down to fishing access sites and stop it through the sand? No, but that's, that's clever now. I should do that. What is the equivalent human shoe size? Oh, man, I don't think it exists. Again, 15 inches long. No, I feel like Shaq's foot is twice that size is quite. Are you wearing crocs today, Randall? No. No, okay. No, okay. I was going to have you put that up here. We can do it. Yeah, you got a size 13, so we'll see what a Randall big foot. It's not that. You know what? Yeah. I mean, I feel like a 17 or an 18. Sorry, you have my shoe very close to your face.

Well, that's fascinating. I always wanted to get, like, just carve out of wood, some bigfoot feet like that. And then when I was guiding, like run my jetboat up on a beach, walk across the beach, have someone drive the jetboat to the other side and pick me up. So there's just like, after the water comes down during like a high water event, just have a fresh beach with some bigfoot. tracks on it. And never got around to it. That'd be in a remote place where you'd have to talk yourself into someone doing that to trick you. Yeah, it's like, why would anybody spend their time doing this? Yeah. But then again, here we are on hour two of Meteor Radio Live. Randall, what do you have for show and tell?

Well, I brought a clavicle from a moose and it's got a hole in it. What could that be from? It's from a 180-grain corlock. I was lucky enough to draw a Chiris Moose test. probably 12 years ago in what state in Montana

with one one point and that's the entrance or the exit that's the entrance shot him twice that one knocked them down as a high shoulder will do but the cool thing about that is I had a buddy who's

oh my God who could that be, Bill? Oh, that was Steve. Oh, okay. No idea what he wants. The, uh, yeah, so I had a buddy who's living down in the Bitterroot at the time and my tag was down there and I was driving down to hunt and I was talking to him and he's like, do you have a shoulder blade? And I said, no, I don't.

Oh, for rake and bushes and he said, oh, you need it. He's like, get a shoulder blade and rake bushes. So I went by his house and he gave me a shoulder blade like that. and I had it out there smashing stuff and the bull I killed actually like he before shooting light I could see him out in the field and he and this cow went down and I was just like heartbroken I was like shit I'm not going to see this thing again I'm like well I do have a call

like I guess I could try to see if this stuff works and I started whacking that shoulder blade on the on the tree next to me and stuff and the bull came just running in in and like lip curled up like bird dog in the ground just like and then he paused I killed him and I brought that that shoulder blade I'd brought to call with I brought that back to my buddy Chris and I gave it to him I'm like here this worked and so then when I saw that the shoulder blade I had looked like that it was like this seems like a great trophy to have yeah it's like a

memory of that because it was really funny I like traded one shoulder blade for another so you're just replicating a different bull who's raking his antlers on brush just sounds like antlers. Yeah. But, um, Steve, Steve was calling to say it's a scapula, not a clavicle. That is. Oh, yeah, that's true.

Stephen Ronella. Sorry. We put that on the news show, correct. We knew what you did. Can we cut that out of here? Yes. Snip, snip. I don't know why I said clavicle.

That thing's getting a little greasy and yellow, though. You need to retreat. It is. Yeah. It lives in garages and you can just slap a nail anywhere and stick that little nail through the bullet hole. That's the thing about skulls and bones. and bones, like after a while they start

leaching that oil again and they get kind of, you got to redo them. Yeah. Phil, where do we stand? What would you like to hit next? We've got a few minutes until we can start the segment that you all know is coming. Do you put me on the list, Phil? Yes, you are number one. Should we hit some? Oh, should we hit some Chetiquet?

Yeah, we can see what our good buddy Chester. All right. Our next segment is Chetiket. Do I have a Chetickett Take it away, Chet? Oh, I totally have a Chetachia. Chet, I'm live. C-T-I-Q-U-E-T-E.

Find out what it means to me. C-H-T-T-I-Q-U-U-T-E. He sounds. Offended. Offender. Suck-E-T. There we go. All right.

And then as this customer... Hello, everybody. Chester Floyd coming at you from Wisconsin. I've got a chat kit question for you. This week from Justin wrote in. He's from Minneapolis. And he says seven years ago, a very generous friend mentored me on my first hunt. Since then, I've hunted white tails each season on his property and in neighbors in

West Central Wisconsin. And I've been fortunate enough to have that is the HQ. 100 times and given heartfelt gifts. But I still feel like I can't fully repay their hospitality. With several young kids at home, it's hard to get there more often. How do you keep balance in relationships like that? At worst, I'll make sure their freezers are full when they are no longer hunting as much. Well, Justin, I can relate a little bit and wrote a little song here.

I've got kids like you. Why do they always have to have the few years to a good dad? I'm thinking too hard to do. Yeah, it's hard to find the time. Wanted to give is always on my mind. Here's two good folks and thinking too hard ooo. Even helped him out with the land and gave a gift, it's a real good plan.

You're a good man and you're thinking too hard ooo. Justin, I picked this one because it's a good man Because it's not controversial, it's good etiquette. And we need guys like you. I bet you you're doing way more than most people that have permission to hunt properties. And I commend you for that. And I also can relate to you because I have kids and I think about things probably way too much. See you later, everybody.

Good old Chester. God, what a good guy. What a good guy. Where's Spencer go? Spencer, I think, went to the bathroom without telling anybody. Phil and I were talking this morning, and we thought we should actually make it a point to announce when we're going to the bathroom. Yeah, you guys are going to have to work out, like, scheduled breaks if those course lights are going to keep making an appearance. That's a good point.

That's a good point. Phil, what, what are you thinking next? You know what? I was running yesterday, like, in a neighborhood in Bozeman, speaking of peeing. I was running. and uh... Whizzer here, look at this guy There's these dudes parked at like on the street Outside of this other dude's house. They're like they're working

Yeah Doing some kind of like construction project or something And like in downtown Bozeman Dude like opens his truck door and just starts taking a leak in the street right behind his truck door That's cool Yeah Like something you don't see that every guy rocks Yeah

Are we still doing chat? If it was out in the country I wouldn't think twice, but, you know, we kind of moved on from Chetiquet. I would just like to acknowledge Chester's beautiful voice. It occurred to me, Phil, that we should have had Chester play Charlie Puth for our cover of See You Again. It would have been better. So you guys already answered the Chetiquet?

Chester did. He was wondering how to like, in song. How to, you know, tell this person how much it means to him that he likes hunting there. Is that right? No, it's like a, it's like a. How he says thank you? How, yeah, if he was thanking this guy well enough. And Chet said he was doing more than more than most people.

Yeah, and that's the perfect question for Chester, because he's probably the most conscientious member of our staff here. If I, you know, obviously it means a lot to that guy. What he could do is he could send that landowner that video and be like, look how much this means to me. I wrote into a podcast that's canceled to get advice on how, if I'm thanking you enough. Yeah. That's how much just means to be. I think that's a backfire if you're like, see? Yeah.

See what I'm doing? You know what I find that's like a good thing, like a good message delivered to landowners? Just like be real genuine and be like, this is my favorite thing in the world, is deer hunting. And you're allowing me to do that and that just means so much to me. I say that's all the landowners that I get permission from. And I think that's a, you know, just a nice thing to hear. Just be real honest. Yeah, that's cool.

Phil, what's our timing look like here? Sorry for the mystery folks, but we have a very special surprise that Phil is. coordinating and that explains some of the some of the uncertainty regarding our order of operations. What was Corey doing out there? I don't know what he was doing. I think he was delivering food. I'll say one more thing back to the Chetiquet.

Today is Chester's last day at meat eater. He told me I was allowed to tell that to our audience. Yeah, I think that's more of like technicality. He's still part of me either. He's still part of the meter. Yeah, he'll always be a meat eater. I'm going to pour one out here for Chester. Can you see?

Oh, Phil. Yeah, just right. Right on the studio floor there. Yeah, I'll pour it right on the studio floor. Oh, so why are you do that, Spencer? We poured one out for Chester. Shout out, Chester. Can't wait for it to get real hot in here.

Oh, yeah. Thank you. I almost put on a hoodie this morning. It's got to be a t-shirt day. No, no. It's a t-shirt day for sure. All right. Phil, what do you think?

Well, we can answer some listener feedback while we're waiting. This is from Dan B. Pooper. I love this guy. His question is, what was your most scenic poop? Wow. Do you have any that stand out? Hmm. Hmm. Scenic.

Sorry, go ahead. On the Pacific coast. I was camping on the ocean on, on Washington coastline, no bathroom for, for many, many miles. I had just gotten there and set up my tent and had to do that right there. So that was a very scenic spot. Yeah, I immediately what came to mind was, uh, there's a backcountry campsite in Glacian National Park. that has the designated bathroom area, and that thing just looks out. Is it like an outhouse kind of thing?

Yeah, without the house part. Right. Just a whole. Yeah. But then I thought when I was working up in Alaska, our outhouse just looked out at the river. And so whenever I was the only person staying in camp, which was more than you'd think, I would just leave the door open all the time.

And you just sit there and watch the river go by. That's pleasant. Yeah, I'd have to say any of my, like, Alaska moose caribou experiences, like sitting on a ridgetop, dropping a deuce. Yeah. And you're kind of like, you know, looking over your shoulder for a grizzly at the same time. I mean, any, any BM where you don't have cell service and you can just truly be in the moment. Yeah. You know.

Yep. Sam Sohold, he has talked about making a coffee table book called, like, The Pretiest Places I Pooped, which would just be a peoped. which would just be a P-O-V picture that's taken, you know, with the camera facing away from him. Yeah. Maybe he gets some kneecaps in the foreground. That's done in number two. Well, we were talking about bathroom breaks earlier. It made me think I think they use code names for that on the sets of movies and TV.

Like they'll call, I think a 10-1 is they're going. They're just urinating. A 10-2 is well you can put that together. And since we're on the subject, let's just get all of these out of the way right now. Samson Brown also great apt name Would suffering violent diarrhea from a crunch wrap Supreme count as a woodsy death if I were in a tree stand? Yeah, sure.

I mean, if getting Taco Bell induced diarrhea counts as a death then I'm a cat, I'm like 10 cats. There'd be a lot of cats. I've got 900 lives. If you were found at the base of your tree stand on the ground covered in your own excrement? Yeah. Yeah, I think Steve, we'd have to twist his arm, but he would put up one of those tombstones there.

Samson Brown almost died here from violent diarrhea. I did have a comment on Steve's thing, like memorials. He would also, it would have to be more than headstones. You'd have to develop a buoy for near deaths on the water. That's good. What else we got here, Phil? Fusatol says, no question. just thank you all for the great material.

Really going to miss this show. I don't think that's a soft sea, Phil. I don't think that's a soft sea at all, but that's nice. PHUC. It's the last episode. Just say it. Well, it's someone's name, so I can't get in trouble for saying, fuck it all. There you go.

713. Thank you for watching. This is from The Grizzly Guide. Question for Spencer. I'm doing my yearly trout slash camping road trip with the family. this summer. This year we're doing Utah. What areas should we hit to find fossils? Utah is really great because it has a lot of BLM land and BLM land is important because they have probably the loosest restrictions when it comes to what you can collect. And the general rule is that it just, it can be anything

that's not from a vertebrae. So you could collect like petrified wood. That means you could collect plant fossils. You could collect an insect fossil. There's a really cool spot I've been to in the western part of the state where you can you pay a small fee to go into someone's quarry to dig for trilobytes. It was called you dig.

So if you go there and you go do the you dig, you're guaranteed to go home with some treats. That area is also surrounded by BLM that you can go and find all kinds of other gemstones on. The best advice on this is just like whatever part of Utah you're going to be in there, go to YouTube

or Google and type in Southern Utah rock hounding. They're not going to be a whole lot of trout angling down in southern Utah. So can I give a little another little another little. Yeah, yeah. What do you got? The Green River below Flaming Gorge Reservoir has like

from there all the way to the Colorado border there's plenty of BLM land like Spencer was saying and very good trout fishing. Yeah. In that green river area, there are a few spots where you can go find leaf fossils. So if you type in leaf fossil hunting, Utah, you'll get some pointers there. But it's a great state.

You know, one of the best ones to be a rock hound. Cool. There have been some comments about the drops. I said on a previous episode, I will string them all together at some point in the near future and just drop them on the Meteeter TV subreddit. And I see here that there's a lot of folks who took offense to my use of the term clavicle rather than the appropriate term of scapula. I apologize. I know. better. And if we were doing, if we're doing more episodes of this show, I would not make that same mistake again. I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of. I think it's overblown. Thank you.

Steve is watching though. I know. It's good. I'm surprised you wouldn't turn this on. Busy guys still makes time. It's great. So let's keep up the quality content here after that from Spencer. Randall is a burrito, a hot dog or is a hot dog a burrito? They're both sandwiches. Yes, thank you. Glad we clarified that. That's just good podcasting. That's great podcasting. Yeah, we had someone say who's better LeBron, Jordan, or Durkan? Shout out to Pat. Well, Durkan's not going to have a chance to add to his ring collection here. So Durkin's going to have to live with three rings.

He's retiring on top. Yeah. And he also can't go for the longevity, like the all-time leading score or anything like that. Yeah, Pat Durkin number one. Brody has a surprisingly, he gets fired up if Randall and I were saying that LeBron is better than Jordan. Brody doesn't think so Me and most of the world

Yeah Come on There we go That's exactly what I mean Jordan It's not even I thought about wearing my LeBron three team jersey

Look man For this event Like Yeah it was just a different game And Jordan's era man They used to beat the shit out of each other And now they're just a bunch of like Wimps

They can't like hit each other It's a different game Different game D Wade says What New Guns has Randall purchased recently for his collection. Wow. That's a great question. You know, to be honest, I haven't been acquiring as much of late.

Probably the most exciting new thing in my world is last year I did a full conversion of an HKUSC to a UMP, which is basically retroactively creating a German submachine gun, semi-earned. auto though. So I had to learn all about 922R compliance because it's a gun that can't be imported. So just a whole new rabbit hole of federal firearms regulations. That was fun. And it's fun to shoot. It's very accurate. I've got a can on it. And it brings me great joy. The old adage, I think, from Marie Kondo, if it doesn't bring you joy, get rid of it and bury me with. with the UMP. It has no purpose on earth.

But it does make me watch clips from Sicario to feel like I am Benicio but Del Toro. What else are we doing in the Brody Henderson hour? We've got, I mean, we've got meat theater. Okay. We've got, Corey Colkins for that. We've got your cameos. Yeah, Corey's ready.

We've got Phil's trivia. I just need to text Corey if we want to hit some meat theater. What do you think, Phil the engineer? Well, I think we've got to hold off on meat theater until after the segment we're waiting for here. Sure. Should we hit Spencer's cameos? Oh, yeah, sure.

You want to run? Yeah, we've got some special messages from across the Meat Eater universe, folks who wanted to chime in and wish us well and congratulations on the end of this program. Spencer, why do you look so happy, man? You're just overjoyed right now.

That's a good day. All right, let's take a look at this video. Oh, the weatherouts. side is frightful, but the fire is so delightful. And since we... Oh! Oh! Oh, ho!

Hello, Phil! Randall, Spencer. Good to see you. All of you. And I'm wondering why we're getting together on such an occasion. It's months away from Christmas. Well, let me take a moment. to look up your information on the old centipad here and and I'll find out why why we're

together today let's see P-H-I-L-L-R-A-N-D-A-L-L and S-P-E-N-C-E-E-N-C-E-R Phil Randolin Spencer oh yes here we are oh this is not good news It seems as though your podcast has been canceled. Well, I am sorry about that. It's never easy when a podcast goes belly up. Well, let's see we can dig a little deeper and find some good news here. Oh, let's check out your status on the naughty and nice list. That should be good.

This is demented. Let's see here. For Phil, oh, naughty. for pirating music from LimeWire in 2006. But then again, didn't everybody use the LimeWire in 2006? Perhaps we're being a little too harsh on you. On that one, Phil. Randall, here we are.

Oh, oh, not good. Also on the naughty list for not giving 39 cent to charity at Taco Bell. Oh, no. Oh, if I remember correctly, $0.39 used to get you a bean burrito at the bell. If you ask me, it should be them on the naughty list. Oh, and last but not least, let's see here. Spencer. Oh, this is good.

Spencer on the nice list. Wow, never petting a service dog, even though you wanted to. Service dogs need love too. Well, it's my best to all three of you. I hope that you can do something creative in the future, and keep it on the nice list, all right? Oh, this is demented. We can explain what's going on there.

We got approval from the me-deer suits. I really had to beg them. If we could each get $100 to use on cameo for our finale. So me, Randall and Phil each got $100 to spend to get somebody to wish us well on our next endeavor. And that was my cameo from Santa Claus. Well, that's great. And how much was that one? That was my budget there.

That was $100? Yeah. Wasn't it worth it? He went three minutes long. That was, I mean, bang for your buck from Santa there. Yeah. I feel like that's kind of a bargain. That's a serious Santa there.

Yeah. Oh, and that's Santa. Like, I write the prompts for him. but he started freestyling when he went, you know, the 39 cents used to get you a bean burrito at the Taco Bell. That should be them. That was improv. Yeah. Five-star review for Santa.

That's great. Yep. That's great. So we'll have cameos later on from Randall and Phil as well. Yeah. This is from Leland. When can we expect the perfect venison hot dog recipe? Oh.

What's a great question? There's a lot of question marks. Things are up in the air. about how we tackle that challenge, I will just suggest that one of them potentially involves intercontinental travel. And so we're working on scheduling and budgets for that. So we have potentially access to world-class emulsifying technologies. We do have one venison hot dog recipe on the website. It's from Wade Trung. It's a venison red snapper hot dog, which is famous. what in like Maryland?

Is that where the main? Maine, okay. Yeah, northeast. Somewhere in the northeast. So you can go try the venison red snapper recipe, Wade. Or excuse me, Leland. Phil, what else we got here? We got nothing?

What about the shout out you have or a letter? Oh, those things? Yeah, yeah. Let's, um, we got an email. I've got a couple emails here that I wanted to share. Uh, one, this is a letter we received from Troy Edwards. Troy writes, Hi everyone, I'm Troy, I'm 13, and I live in Kodiak, Alaska, which is badass.

That's my own commentary. He didn't have that. This is my mom's email address. She did give me permission to send this email. I'm hoping to send a shout out to my dad, Graham Edwards. He has listened to all the meat eater podcasts since the beginning, but he is currently on his way out of town to go musk ox hunting on Nunavak Island. I know he will be listening.

I'm sorry I can't it log in live to the grand finale, but I'm in seventh grade and I have school. That's a great reason, Troy. We appreciate your support and your, uh, your sensibilities about your own education. Will you please give a shout out to my dad? I would really appreciate it. Troy Edwards, consider your request granted. Shout out to Graham Edwards. Good luck on your musk ox hunt. And Troy Edwards, uh, I will note he, um, class president, Thespian, wow. Seventh grader, and he is fighting for improved playground equipment for Codiac Middle School. He's got it all. So that was just the brief bio I got.

But shout out Troy, love the email and had to speak to Troy's request there. If he was a Durkin grandchild, he wouldn't have to be in school today. I know. I thought there was some irony in that. And then I've got another message here. This was one that's been, I think, awaited by all of the loyal meat eater radio live followers. This is from our friend Mogore. And I will read Mogore's message in full as follows.

Hi, folks. My goodness, where does one even begin? Today's show fills me with a swirl of bittersweet emotions. I know it will be spectacular of that I have no doubt, and yet it is the final chapter. But let's set that aside for a moment. Greetings to everyone. My name is Mogor Petter, or simply Mogor, as you know me. Still writing from Hungary from the town of Papa, just as always.

By now, you could probably recite that in your sleep. I should start by saying the team kindly invited me to appear on today's broadcast as a live guest, but I politely declined. I get stage fright, and I would only end up anxious and stumbling over my words instead of savoring. I can hardly believe I'm saying this. the last radio live. But Jake, the producer and Randall were gracious enough to read this

farewell message on my behalf. For that, I'm truly grateful. Moguer, thanks to you. Every Thursday, I waited eagerly for 7 p.m. local time, when I could sit down and watch radio live. When this whole journey began, I never imagined I'd be able to catch every episode,

but my girlfriend and I always made sure Thursday evenings remain sacred. Radio live time. And thank you to her as well. She's watching along with me right now. Mogher, I'll admit, when I read this email, I thought to myself, tonight might be a very, very late night for you, unless you plan on dropping out partway through. I've cherished so many moments.

The old hunting stories told through vintage photos. Randall reading the review of a film I passionately recommended. Sorry, Randall. Spencer's tactical breakdown of how to drink his favorite beer. Brody burying his face in his hands the moment he heard my name. Winning a book and Corey helping ensure Hungarian customs wouldn't give me trouble. Your surprise appearances in the chat when you weren't even in the studio, and of course, Phil's extraordinary work. He poured his heart and soul into this show. He's brilliant. Take good care of him.

Getting to know you more deeply has been a joy. This show had a kind of magic that no pre-recorded program could ever replicate. I'm deeply grateful. I've learned so much from all of you, and I hope stepping away from this show will make room for something new to grow. Fingers crossed emoji. Wow. And a heartful thank you to my chat friends as well. Your kind words over the years met the world to me. It touched me every time you thought of me or mentioned me especially in these last few months. I'm not sure what else I could say. Perhaps nothing more is needed. Let the show roll on. I know you'll give it everything you've got just as you always have. Thank you for everything. Warmest regards, Mogore. Shout out to Mogore. That's very nice. Very nice. Yeah. You know, it's obvious. I think there's probably a lot of other folks that have been equally as devoted in their listening, but it stands out when someone is on the other side of the world and listening to each and every episode. I understand why he didn't want to appear. It's not his thing, but man, it'd be nice to be able to put a face to the name.

Yeah. Because Mogar, you're like, you know, when you think Mogor, big old Viking, something like that. I don't know. I don't know. He could be, I mean, I sort of like, I sort of like the mystery. Yeah, but it's fun. But it's like, goodbye.

I want to see the guy. Yeah. The movie he recommended was hundreds of beavers, right? Yes. What Randall's best movie club, he's ever done. Yeah, and I think that was the, I think that was probably the highlight. That might be what killed movie club. Because...

Just couldn't get any better after that. The Benigan's bit, I felt pretty uninspired. We did it all. Yeah. So, thank you, Mowgore, and thanks to everyone else who's tuned in over the course of this show's existence. Phil, tell me what to do. let's just We could do Phil Trivia

We could do an office tour Let's go ahead and let's knock out Phil trivia Let's do Phil's trivia Tell me when you're ready and I'll read it Okay Go ahead and read it Randall Our next segment is Phil's trivia

Power resides where men Believe it resides It's a trick A shadow on the wall You're in the great game now. Phil's trivia. Your great game's terrifying. Randall,

just ruined everything. Go ahead. Phil's trivia is where the tables are turned and Phil gets to be the subject matter expert. He'll ask us three trivia questions to find out just how little we know about pop culture. Take it away, Phil. That copy is relatively inaccurate because I actually have 20 questions for you today. I've only got an hour on the show. This is madness.

Do you have a hard out at one? No. Okay. That's great. I wasn't planning on leaving. These are all kind of rapid fire questions, though. So the idea is to get through them relatively quickly here. Far away, buddy.

This is called filled trivia or 4-3-2-1. What does that mean? It'll be sort of self-explanatory once I start the show. But these are going to be kind of rapid-fire questions. When you have your answers, just let me know. And we'll move on to the next question after we... So wait, how do you decide who's winning and losing? Oh, I'm keeping...

I'm keeping score here. Good, good, good. Okay. So no, just like chit-chatting for five minutes about. Oh, absolutely not. First question. Or four. That's the first round.

It's called for John. Paul. Ringo. Blank. Oh. Got it. You know it? What's his name?

That's the question. I know. Five. No, his last name. Four. Three. Two. One. Reveal your answers.

Randall says George. Spencer says Peter. Brody says Phil Harrison. That's a point for Randall. The correct answer was indeed George. I remember how you had that real bad pop song in the 80s. Remember that one? What was it? I don't remember the 80s. Phil's got to know. Nope, I have no idea.

I wish I was there for you. That's a great first question. Next question. Leonardo, Raphael, Michaelangelo, Blank. Got it. This is a sick game. Five, four, three, two, one. Reveal your answers. Randall says Donatello.

Spencer says Peter and Brody without an answer. Another point for Randall there. The correct answer is indeed Donatello. Those are the teenage mutant ninja turrets. Which one is Donatello? Donatello is the purple one with the boastaff. Correct. Randall knows.

Phil, is there one that's more preferred than the others and one who's like the ringo? Leonardo is in the blue. He's kind of the de facto leader. Raff's kind of the tough. Mikey is the funny guy, and Donatello's the tech guy. Okay. Tech or gadgets or, you know. Who does Phil like?

I'm a Mikey fan. But Donatello's charming as well. Next question. It's getting tougher now. Yeah, because those first two weren't hard enough. Peter, Ray, Winston. Got it. Oh, I have no idea what we're going for here.

Peter Ray Winston. I got no clue. Randall's going to end this game before it even begins. Five, four, three, two, one. See your answers. Randall says Egon, Spencer without an answer, Brody without an answer. The Craybusters is indeed Egon Spangler. Those are the ghostbusters.

Yeah. Next question. Michael, Lindsay, Job and blank. Jake, the producer, shaking his head. He knows this one.

Oh, what, what, what? This is going to ruin Randall's perfect game. Hmm. Five, four, three, two, one. Please reveal your answers. Randall says, Will Arnett, Spencer and Brody without answers. Will Arnett is the actor who plays Job,

but I was looking for Buster Blues. Oh, played by Tony Hale. Those are the four main siblings from Arrested Development. Phil, did you like the reboot of that? It had its moments. I thought some of it was really clever,

but it didn't have that magic from the first few seasons. Are you a Scrubs fan, Phil? No, but I know that that revival just happened. Okay, I was hoping to get your opinion on that. Next question, Turtle, Vinnie, E, and Blank. Oh, I know the show. That's it, though. Got it.

Please reveal your answers. Is this right? Oh, you're so close. says Donnie? Donnie? Donnie. Spencer and Brody without answers. The correct answer is Johnny

Drama. Those are the, it's the foursome from the HBO show Entourage, which I for some reason watched six seasons of and I wish I could get my time back. You did? Did you like the movie? I didn't see the movie.

Phil, you didn't strike me as a fan of that show. Well, I watched it in my freshman year. No cut. Our next round is called three. A little bit different this time. I think I see where it's going, though. Scary spice Ginger spice

Tiny spice One of these things Does not belong Oh Got it Go ahead and reveal your answers Randall says tiny Spencer says tiny

Brody says Scary The correct answer is tiny Because that is not a spice girl Baby spice Oh Who are the other one? Who are the other one?

Oh you got posh Sporty Yeah ginger Those all of them I was more of a bewitched guy Wow Bewitched Mm

Next question Yako I'm not gonna pick up my board anymore Or dot Just gonna put my feet up for a while Phil We are the yako Smacko

Or dot one of these things Does not belong Brody They have to reveal your answers Brody Huh? Yes Randall and Brody say Smacko

They have baloney in their sacks They have baloney in their sacks What? Smacko is not a member of the Annamaniacs. That would be Wacko. Can you sing us some of that song, Phil? Anamaniacs. We have blown intersex.

I don't remember all the lyrics. I'm watching the viewer account closely. It's not dropping yet. I know. You guys are doing great now there in the audience. No, I think it's you, man. Oh, wow. These are Call of Duty entries.

We have Infinite Warfare, Extraction, or Black Ops 7. Wow. One of these things is not. an entry in the Call of Duty video game franchise. What was your era, Phil? Did you play? Oh, I started playing. I was there for Call of Duty 1.

Followed it through Modern Warfare and a little bit into Black Oz, but then I fell off hard. I haven't played Call of Duty a while. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Spencer says Blackop 7. Brody says Blackop 7. Randall says. Extraction?

The correct answer is extraction. That is not a Call of Duty game. I can't believe they have seven of those. I know. Neither can I. Next question. Stephen Spielberg films. Your choices are Flight of the Navigator,

1941, or the Sugar Land Express. One of these is not a Steven Spielberg film. Got it. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Randall says 1941. Spencer says 1941. Brody says Sugarland. That is a Zero percent.

It is. It is. Blight of the Navigator was not a Steven Spielberg movie. That was one of those like E.T. kind of ripoffs that happened after E.T. came out like there was Mac and Me was one of them. This was one where a kid gets, uh, um, stows away on a spaceship. I was thinking of 1917.

It was not directed by Stephen Spielberg. Mac and Me is that the one that Paul Rudd is obsessed with? Yeah, he always plays the clip on Conan. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one. Uh, next. Starting Pokemon. Jesus. Bolbosaur, Phil, Charmander or Shell Soak.

Phil, have you played the... I was with you until you got to this question, Phil. The reboot of the Fire Red? Have you played it? I got Leaf Green and I have played it. Okay. How's that going for you? I'm enjoying it.

It's a big, big old hit of nostalgia. Okay, you tell us after this who you picked is your start. Sure thing. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Randall says shell soak. Spencer says shell soak. Brody says Bulbosaur. The correct answer is shell soak.

That is not the name of that waterer's Pokemon. It is Squirtle, a squirting turtle. Wow. And Phil, who did you start with? I usually pick squirrel, but this time around I picked Charmander because I never did when I was a kid. Oh, okay. Next up, we're halfway through guys. You guys doing good?

Yeah, good. Okay, this round is titled two, and it is Academy Award themed, since the Oscars are coming up here in the next couple of weeks. Wish Best Picture winner has the longer runtime. Lawrence of Arabia or Titanic? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Randall says Titanic, Spencer says Lawrence of Arabia. Brody says Lawrence of Arabia.

Spencer and Brody get that. The correct answer is. Lawrence of Arabia. which is 222 minutes long, Titanic is 194. Next question. Which actor has never won an Academy Award? We have part-time Bozeman local Glenn Close or George Clooney. Which actor has surprisingly never won an Oscar?

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Brody says Glenn Close, Spencer. Everyone says Glenn Close. Everyone is correct. She has never won an Oscar. She's come close many times. And who knows? Did you deliberately make both of those GC initials?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I met Glenn Close. Okay, did you, though? I'll give it to you. Which of these films from 2025 has received the most Academy Award nominations this year? We have one battle after another or sinners. This is tough, Phil.

I mean, just the whole Oscars round. Yeah, I know it is, right? That's why it's Phil Trivia. There's so much Oscars. Phil trivia. Go ahead and reveal your answer. Everyone says sinners. Everyone's correct. Sinners just set the record for most Academy Award nominations ever with 16.

Have you seen it, Phil? I have. Do you like it? I enjoyed it immensely. Yeah, it was tonally way different than I was expecting, and I loved it. I was a little underwhelmed with one battle after another, I'll tell you that. I liked it a lot, too. I liked it, but I was underwhelmed.

Okay. I like that both Phil and Brody like sinners. Now I'm confident. Yeah, you'll have a good time. Totally. How's this show going? One battle after another would have been way better if it was. just about Benicio del Toro's character.

He rules in that movie. Which of these best picture nominees contains the most uses of the F word? We have the Wolf of Wall Street from 2013 or Anora, which won best pictures a couple years ago. Go ahead and reel your answers. Randall says Wolf of Wall Street. Spencer says Anora, Brody says Wolf. The correct answer is the wolf. Oh, I thought you were trying to trick us.

Of Wall Street. I do have some stats here because it's interesting. Wolf of Wall Street says, says the F, uh, it contains the F word 5669 times at a pace of 3.16 times per minute. That's good. Anora contains fewer uses of the word at 479, but at a quicker pace at 3.45 times per minute because it has a shorter. Wow.

Uh, over 300,000 blank rounds were fired in the making of which of these action films. Predator or Starship Troopers? This has nothing to do with Oscars. I don't think either of these movies were not. Predator might have been nominated for a... Oh, Predator is an Oscar-worthy movie. So Starship Troopers. Yeah, I don't know.

Go ahead and reel your answers. Randall says Starship Troopers. Spencer says Predator. Brody says Predator. The correct answer is Starship Troopers. Think about how many rounds each of the actors and Predator would have had to fire. I know, but I didn't even... Like, I was thinking about the two different types of movies and whether Stars...

Like, if they were even using, like, actual guns in that movie. Yeah. And the mini-guns. The minigone and Predator spits out a lot. Okay, this is the final round. Oh, good. I wrote these in a haze last night, and then I got a better idea for something to do this morning,

and then I didn't have time. So you get the... The bad one? The bad one. Perfect. Here we go. This round is titled one. The best part of waking up is...

Oh, man. Now you're talking, Phil. Go ahead and reveal your answers. everyone says Folgers in your cup everyone gets a correct answer All I can think about is the weird commercial where the guy is sort of

romantic with his sister Yeah What about the Seinfeld episode? Crystals Brody you seem like you drink Folgers When you are here I seem like I'm a daily Folgers user or something

Question two No Costco coffee You are here Costco coffee When you're here You're here You're I don't know go ahead and reveal your answers.

Randall says your home. Spencer says your family. Brody says your family. That's a point for Spencer and Randall. Or Spencer and Brody. It is when you hear your family. Of course, that's Olive Garden. Oh.

Which we've had a mystery delivery from this morning here at HQ. I think that's lunch for all the people watching upstairs. Okay. Next question. We're almost done, guys. Thanks for holding on. There are some things money can't buy for everything else.

Oh, boy. Oh, that's great. Yeah, it's such a responsible message. message in it right here right go ahead and reveal your answers randall says there's mastercard Spencer says there's master card everyone says there's mastercard and it is indeed there's mastercard is this the last one here good Phil's trivia no two more can you hear me now there's something comes after that brodie can you hear me now I thought that was it I thought that's all there was to do it Randall Randall

says good Spencer says good I almost can you hear me now five times brodie without an answer uh it is indeed good that is the old verizon tagline this is the last one your link to the your link to the dot dot dot hmm you know this one randall i think so you're gonna have very impressive score after this randall trivia i know i've heard this one but i can't think of it you i've heard it once advice no. Okay, go ahead and reveal your answers. Randall says outdoors. Spencer says Multiverse, Brody without an answer. The correct answer is food chain, and that is the tagline for meat eater and perforated. I thought that's what it was. I thought that's what it was.

That's why I said outdoors. Thank you for playing Phil Trivian. I believe only by a couple of points is Randall Williams. Man, this company may want to look at their motto. We've got to make some more T-shirts. It's not very sticky, is that? Let's get some people on that. That was fun, Phil. Thanks for putting that together. I know that's a lot of work, and I appreciate that you took the time to do that in a very busy week. It was my pleasure.

It wasn't a fish heist to D&D game. Maybe some people appreciated that about it. But, yeah, thanks for playing along. You join us yet. Yeah. Jake, would you mind poking out around the corner? Because I was going to go first, but now I'm thinking it might not happen for me or I'll go last.

So why don't you, if they're rolling, then we can start doing other stuff. Mm-hmm. Okay. Is there anything we want to do with Brody before he takes off here? I thought I was doing meat theater. Should we knock that out?

Yeah. Heck yeah. You want to set that up, Brandon? I will. I will. Let me just text, let me text Corey. We've got,

we also have hot tip-offs so we can run in the meantime until Corey joins us. Oh, we can do that. Okay, we've got hot tip-off number two of six happening next, while Yanni watches us from the green room. Mm-hmm.

What's he eating? Olive Garden When you're here You're meaty I saw Corey wander around With some like corn dogs or something I'm getting hungry It might be a surprise

I saw that too Hey it's Janus We're running Yeah we're running long I'll text you Mm-hmm Thanks Yomi All right

Our next segment is hot tip off I'm not gonna play the drop Unless you want me to No go ahead Just do the thing No no I meant you don't have to do it You can hang out

I don't know. Hot tip off. H-O-T-I-P-R. Let's all do a hot-tibab. I want one. Yeah, we haven't eaten them yet, though. The 1,000-plus people who have been tuned in for the last few hours, oh my goodness, thank you so much for watching the show.

We really appreciate you. Sorry for the mess it's turning into. The show normally isn't... It doesn't go this far off the rails, but it comes close. How's going? Jake. It's going. He nothing has started and you are still first. Oh, can you

tell them that someone else can go first? Oh, okay. Sorry, thank you so much. If they're waiting for me, yeah, tell someone else just finished setting up. Okay. Someone else. Let's get them cord dogs in here. Because we can't do meat theater without me, right? Brody will be there in like 10 or 15 minutes. Yeah, don't worry about it.

Someone can go ahead of me. Just slide. Play the hot tip-offs, Phil. Yeah, Phil play the hot tip-off. Let's all do a hot tip-off. H-O-T-I-V-R. Let's all do a hot tip-off. All right, our next batch of hot tip-offs. We don't know who is providing them because it's not in the script,

so let's take a look. Or I think our internet's happens. There we go. Stephen, gang. This is Stephen from Minnesota. Here's a hot tip to get a little bit more meat off your squirrel. So this is the rib cage of a squirrel. Typically, people throw this part away,

but my mom taught me a trick to get a little bit more meat out of your squirrel. So, kudos the mom. You have a rib cage here. And basically what you do is you grab it, and then you pop the ribs out like that. So you could kind of see it popping out right there. And then you just pull that down. And once you pull it down far enough,

you could start pulling the ribs off a little bit. And then once you get those ribs exposed, you just take scissors, and then you just cut off the bones at the very end. And he also cut off this bottom part too. That's pretty. This is all just cartilagy stuff that'll get stuck in your teeth. It's beautiful.

So yeah, there's a little bit more meat off your squirrel that you otherwise would have thrown away. And to be honest, it's not much meat, but it's more stuff from your harvest, making the most of it. Ryan Seamster. Hey, meat eater crew. Ryan Seamster coming at you from Colorado with a hot tip. I heard the other day you guys telling some horror stories about losing some deep freezers full of meat and I got a solution for you. Go to your favorite online retailer. And put 3499 by yourself one of these.

It's made by AccuWrite. It is a freezer monitor. Comes with two probes. About so big. I got one in the deep freezer. One of the freezer inside. You set high and low limits for the temperature, and this thing will scream and yell and fuss at you

if it gets outside those limits. It saved my deep freezer two or three different times thanks to some bad GFI outlets or your kids leave the door open or whatever. It's worth it. Go buy it. You won't regret it. Appreciate you guys.

Oh, and ask Clay if he knows what a schmoo is. If not, take away his Arkansas card. Later. Well, guys, what do you think? I think a squirrel room cage or the freezer alarm. I mean, the freezer alarm is a good tip, but I don't think it's like hot. He was telling us to buy a thing to use it for its intended purpose, which, like, you know, that thing would be very helpful. But I'm going to agree with what I think Brody was going to say.

Stephen Yang and the squirrel butchery. Yeah, using more meat's always a good tip. Would you pass me to the corn dog, please? Corey Culkins has now joined us in the studio, and he's brought the most phallic foods he could find. A half dozen corn dogs and three bananas. It's the perfect time to do a quick podcast stop down, and I will remember to hit record when I turn it back on. Are these the caffeine ones or non-caffeine? Bill, how's the chat doing?

It's been pretty consistent and about at the exact same ratio as the first batch here. And I will do ahead and end the poll there with 74% of the vote. The winner is indeed Stephen with the squirrel meat. Congratulations, Stephen. Now, Corey Culkins has brought us some Mountain Dew Baja Blass. Phil, can you give us tasting notes on the varieties that we have here? Oh, sure. Well, Baja Blass is going to be, you know, the, the,

the varietal that used to be locked behind the doors of Taco Bell, but Pepsi has since opened the floodgates, if you will. And you can buy Baja Blast in stores now. You can buy a diet version of no sugar version. They might have like other fruit flavors of it too. Yeah, shout out to TNC had seven different options. Oh my goodness. That's huge.

That shit is awful. Phil, I have a Cabo citrus here. Tell me about Cabo Citrus. I have never tried Cabo Citrus. Get this one to Phil. Give that to Phil. That's Bill's Baja Blat. Oh, good.

Yeah, yeah. I quit drinking soda when I started drinking beer, but this is a special occasion. Oh, okay, good. I could choke down a regular Mountain Dew. There's no way I could finish one of these things. Here, there's one regular here. No, I can't. I'm good.

I've now swapped Phil with a voltage raspberry. What do you think of voltage raspberry, Phil? Voltage. Voltage wasn't in the, wasn't in my main lineup growing up. I was a live wire original and Code Red kid. Code Red, it sounds silly to say this Mountain Dew is too sweet, but Code Red just kind of had like a medicinal sweetness that I came to test. Yeah, cop syrup.

So Baja blast and live wire became my favorites. But voltage is, voltage is good. It's a little less punchy than the other flavors. Phil, should we, should we do our meat theater? Randall, I think we should do meat theater. Oh, okay. Hold on second. Let me just collect my thoughts.

Is there stuff going on out there? Oh, there's a bunch of stuff going on. Should we announce it? What's happening? Let's do meat theater first. So Brody, and Skiddle, he has stuff to do. I'll pop back in afterwards.

Now it's time for a fan favorite segment, Meat Theater. I love this. I've never gotten to participate in this. You can be a real juicy part. I hate to say it, Spencer, but I didn't write you apart. Oh, no. Meat Theater is where we take outstanding hunting literature and feed it into artificial intelligence and ask the computer to generate a short, dramatic script to be performed line by untrained actors.

And we welcome to the studio, Corey Kalken, child actor to the stars. I realize that the term child actor is often used to refer to a child who's an actor, but Corey plays a really convincing child. He does. I'll take that. Thank you. And this is the reason that I didn't write a part for you. It's because I'm a trained

actor. This week we're exploring a true classic of outdoor storytelling. Robert Rorke's the old man and the boy. I'll be playing the old man. Corey will be playing the boy and Brody will be playing Pete the dog who has been given a speaking role by the AI in order to fill out our traditional

traditional three-part troop. Yep. Best film. Phil. Phil is the narrator. Did you have to bully the AI to get the dog speaking parts? Yeah. Usually, I usually have to add a third person.

Yep. So, Phil, whenever you're ready. We don't even get to read the script beforehand. It's just like, go for it, huh? Yep. We're live. Okay. Set the move.

The old man knows pretty near close to everything. And mostly, he ain't. painful with it. The thing the boy likes best about the old man is that he's willing to talk about what he knows. And he never talks down to a kid. Corey, that's you. When are we going, old man? The birds will be

moving soon. Higher, please. When are we going, old man? The birds will be moving soon. Are we going? Are we going, honey? I spot birds. Oh boy. Oh boy! Oh, boy! Oh, boy! Hold your horses, boy. Quail don't punch a time clock. And you

settle down there, Pete. We'll get there. We're going bird hunting. Sorry, really quick. Corey and Brody, do you mind scooching a little bit closer towards Miranda just for the camera? You know, we want to make this good.

Thank you. You bet. That's what I'm talking about. Brody, that last line is yours? Bird hunting, my favorite. I've been waiting all morning. No, we're going to approach a gentleman. And you got to approach a gentleman

as a gentleman yourself. That means you too, dog. I'm a gentleman, old man. I'm the most gentlemanly dog I know, old man. It's just a bird. Just a bird, son, this little Bob White is pure class, every ounce of him. He don't weigh but five ounces, and he's smarter than most men I know. You treat him with respect or you don't hunt him at all.

A covey of quail is family. You look after family. How do you look after a bird? Well, you shoot him careful. You don't take too many. You plant him some pears. so he's got something to eat. And when you shoot, you shoot one at a time.

Nobody can kill the whole damn cubby. I can try. Lord, help us. Come on then. Let's see what Pete thinks. They walked out to the Pea field with P, the pointer. The dog whirled around crazy-like, then froze solid, tail up, nose forward, one paw lifted. Got him!

Right here. Don't move. Nobody move. I got him. Oh boy. His birds! Well, look at that. Beautiful.

Pete's got him. Damn right I got him Hold Covey 20 yards May 15 Hold still boy don't you dare walk heavy Can I shoot? Take my gun Walk in past Pete Jenno now

Don't make him nervous The birds will come up fast Just pick one Just one You gotta kill the first bird Before you can shoot the second That's a rule of thumb Just one bird boy

Listen to the old man Just pick one God damn it What did I just Where are they? You didn't hit a damn one Damn. What I tell you? Shot at all of them.

The whole flock. Come on, boy. I held that point for five minutes. What I tell you? I missed. I missed them all. No shit you missed. I could have told you that was coming.

Of course you did. You shot at the whole flock. Come sit. But... Sit. Don't feel too bad. First time I pointed birds, I broke my point. Chased after them.

Got my ass whipped good that day. I've missed a lot of birds in my time. I'll miss more if I shoot at enough of them. But I learned something you got to learn. You can't kill them all at once, not even if they're sitting still on the ground. A bobwhite is a gentleman, boy, and gentlemen deserve your attention

one at a time. But I wanted to get them all. Well shit, we all want that, kid, but that ain't how it works. I know, but wanting don't make it so. That's true of birds and darn near everything else. We'll go put up the singles in a bit. They won't be moving yet, left their scent up in the air.

Old man? Yeah. Why do you care so much about these birds? Well, I'll tell you something. I never knew a man that hunted quail who didn't come out of it a little politer. Associating with gentlemen can't hurt you. You need all the politeness you can get. Yes, sir.

You know what else a dog can teach you about living? A good bird dog won't point rabbits. Oh, he might, but he knows it's wrong. He'll look at you guilty like he stole an apple. He knows. If a dog's got sense enough to know right, from wrong, what's your excuse? Yeah, that's right.

I saw a rabbit this morning, bat one too. But did I chase it? Heck no, I'm a bird dog. I got standards. I don't. You will... Oh, sorry, that's the dog. You will, though.

Old man'll teach you. Damn right, you don't. Now, let's go find those singles. Remember, one bird, pick him out, watch him, swing through him, and for Pete's sake, don't shoot at his whole damn family. Finally, let's go to work. They walked out into the field.

Pete circled and locked up again. The boy approached carefully this time. A single bird flushed. Just one this time. Right there. Steady now. Yes! Hotcakes!

You got him! I got him! I got him! Old man, I got him! Well, I'll be goddamned you did. Pete Fetch! Got him! Nice shot, boy!

Soft mouse, see that? Didn't even ruffle his feathers. I'm a gosh-dang professional. Look at that. Five ounces of pure clas! ass. He's beautiful. Told you, gentleman bird takes a gentleman dog to find him. To find him. Oh boy. He is and you hunted him right as a gentleman. You're learning, boy. You shoot one bird at a time and pretty soon you learn to live life one day at a time, one problem at a time. Can't kill the whole covey, can't fix the whole world. But you can do what's in front of you and do it right. Is that what you learned? That and a lot more. Most of it from birds and dogs and fish.

Animals are honest. They don't lie or cheat or crowd each other for no reason. And they do what they're supposed to do. People could learn from that. We're simple. We point birds. We fetch birds. We don't shoot at the whole flock. Humans make everything complicated. Teach me more. Long as you keep listening, I'll keep talking. Now let's head back. We got enough birds. Don't want to shoot out the covey. They're family, remember. Oh, I remember.

Good. I'm hungry. Let's go home. Yeah, I'm really hungry. And so, the boy learned about quail. But more than that, he learned about respect, about patience, about doing things right, one at a time. The old man taught him with birds and dogs and long walks in the November fields, and the boy never forgot. You know, boy, I had a setter bitch once named Lou, dumbest damn dog you ever saw, but loyal. Lou, I heard about her. pointed stumps. Hell of a dog, though. Hell of a dog.

Lights fade and crowd goes nuts. Wow. Amazing. That's good. That's good. Corey, thank you. Randall's always just a phenomenal performance. Corey. So impressive. Beer, energy drinks, mountain dews. Guys got it going on. I get in a weird mixture going here. That's what media radio live is. Beers and energy drinks. Meets. I don't want to hog them, though. Well, you best better.

Would you pass me? Would you pass me one, please? Double fisting. Who got the jalapeno one? Yonis, you come to sit over here? I got a jalapeno one earlier. When Randall needs me, is now my... I think, am I done?

Oh, should we do a feedback? And then I'm done? What do we got? I think we're going to start, we're going to do tattoos I regret after... Oh, okay. Whoa. Well, I better go do something then. Like right now?

You mean now, Phil? Well, so I think so. someone else is currently taking up the position but we it's hard to run a show and also keep track of what's going on out there at the same time. It looks like... Alex is out there. This is a terrible idea. Hey Jake, can you

nod the phone if you can hear me? Great, okay, we're going to come to you at about a minute and a half here. Raleigh, do you want to set up the next segment? Our next segment is tattoos, I regret. So should I stick around or just go get in line? Get out of here. Yeah, can I go pee now? Yeah, you can.

Deani, you come over here. Thank you, Brody Be sad I'll be seeing you, Rand Yeah, yeah Brody, you can go After Alex He's in the chair right now

Ladies and gentlemen Brody Henderson Thank you Thank you Thank you for me I'll always find more beats I'll see you a bit like What the fuck does that mean

It's a tattoo I regret What an amazing sounder, one of the best. However, for this last episode of Beat Eater Radio Live, we're doing a little twist on the segment. That's right. The segment this week is called Tattoos.

I won't regret. And why is that? Well, let's go live to producer Jake, who's in the vestibule across the hall from the podcast studio and see what's going on over there. Hey, how's it going over there, guys? You're on, Alex. Going well.

And Alex, who are you sitting down with right there? Baker. That's right. That's our buddy Baker from Black Street tattoo here in Bozeman, Montana. He's doing some flash tattoos for the meat eater crew here at headquarters today. We thought we do a little twist on the segment. Anyone who wants to get a tattoo can head down there and get inked up by Baker. If you work at meat eater, you have to work at meat eater.

That's right. I mean, I don't know. If you knock on the back door, we might like. in if there's time. And meat eater's paying for these tattoos. That's also where our budget went. Yeah. Some folks in the office getting free ink.

Mountain Duke, corn dogs, and tattoos. That's right. And Baker, do you want to tell us a little bit about your new shop here in downtown Bozeman? Yeah, just opened right in the middle of Bozeman about three weeks ago. It's been going great. It's been super busy. Cool location.

Really cool shop. We got to come check it out. Right on. and people can check out your work. I'd say your Instagram handles are probably the best place to do that. Baker, Baker, Baker with the extra R on the end. My other handle is, I just want something small for all fine line tattoos. And then Black Street chat with a two at the end.

Easy to find. Right on. There we go. I'm down. Thank you. Alex, what did you get done? Let's see it, man. Here, kid you showed off. Yeah.

Whoa. Oh, that's wild. That looks killer. I thought we were doing, like, real simple stuff. I don't know anything about tattoos, though, so. Cool, right on. We will check in with you guys a few times throughout the rest of the day. Thanks for your time.

See you soon. See you a bit. Yeah, thanks, guys. And so if you've been wondering why this whole broadcast has been so chaotic and that the past hour has been so just terrible. Why would they wonder that? Isn't that how every one of these shows is gone? This has been especially bad.

We were trying to line it up so that Phil would get tattooed live and the timing just wasn't working out. Time it wasn't right. I'll still try to get in there. Maybe at the end of the day. Because Phil's in the cockpit too. Phil's got to fly the plane here. It's tough.

We were going to do a segment that would require not a lot of my attention. And we're still going to get to that segment. Yeah. Randall, I don't know if we want to do that. Now. The office tour? Yeah. Well, whenever you'd like, whenever you'd like to do it, Phil.

We could also do that when we transition to the big group later on if you're looking for a different spot. Let's do that. Yeah, so stay tuned. We're going to, Randall's going to give everyone watching on YouTube live and later a tour of Meteor HQ. So you'll get to see all the arteries and hallways and where we make all the stuff around here. And ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the studio, Janus Patelis, the Latvian Eagle. the third co-host of the Meteeter Radio Live, Grand Finale Live extravaganza. Janus, have you been watching along today?

I have not. Oh, shit. But he was in the studio to witness. Yeah, I did, yeah, I did have my lunch in here. How would you guess it's going so far? Well, the way you just described it was 30 seconds ago, you seem to think it's not going so well. But I see that you've eaten three corn dogs, so that can't be that bad. That's true.

Today's not a bad day. I just had, did you guys tell everybody that they fed us a big pasta meal? I didn't, we weren't aware of that. Oh, you weren't? No. Well, it was on a Slack message yesterday. We've been broadcasting. Oh, I haven't been watching Slack except the things related to this broadcast.

The company bought us. It just said yesterday, what did it say, Phil? It said pasta bar. And I was like, oh, that sounds kind of weird. And then as I was walking down the hallway, smelling it, I go, oh, maybe they just got Olive Garden to cater or lunch. And sure enough, on the big screen in our main conference room is Meat Eater Radio Live, and there's a big old pasta bar set up.

So I just way over ate pasta. Alfredo, lasagna, had a salad, even had half of one of their breadsticks. Then I come down in here, and Corey's got corn dogs. So I had to have a corn dog, which ended up being, I have a problem. Too much? I have a sugar problem. I'm eating a regular meal and in my head

my brain is like what are you going to have afterwards you should have something a little sweet afterwards you know but that corn dog fit to Bill perfectly oh there's some sugar

in that joke can someone throw me a banana please oh I hope you're going to say corn dog well I haven't eaten anything today the only thing I want to drink

his coffee and Mountie do oh what a catch by Phil not a great throw by me great catch I played left field

after I couldn't play catcher anymore because I got a horrible eczema from my dog strap. I love that. That's a perfect reason for Phil Taylor to stop playing catchers. That's great. So anyways, I think it's going well. Yeah, the first hour, the first hour is pretty strong, the second hour things. Randall's really stressing out when the whole spirit of the show is that it's a complete cluster. Yeah, no, it's good.

Everyone loves that. I just want to keep, could I have another corner? Of course. So should we move on to our third hour of programming, Phil? Yeah, I think we should. Please, let's do it. Phil, why don't we kick off the third hour of our broadcast with a special message from the founder of meat eater Stephen Ronello? Oh, big supporter of this program.

He loves it. Here we go. You know, when I first heard about radio live going off the air. For people that are listening out watching is lifting weights. That's why he's grunting. I thought to myself. Who the hell's that? So I had to call my assistant.

So who the hell are these radio live guys? Oh, it's those idiots you beat on your pathway to becoming the only human to ever win to Meat Eater Trivia World Championships. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, whatever. Thank you, Steve. Warming. That was great.

Wasn't he in here earlier today? He was. Yeah. So it's just, I know, the bit doesn't really work with it. It's a little bit of K-Fabe that's not lining up. No, he's there right now. He's in his hot tub. Some people might have tuned in halfway through, though, and they don't realize that.

Maybe there's, maybe we've just destroyed the realism. It was. It was good. I think Steve likes to flex that creative muscle. I like how he said when he heard about it. Yeah. Which means that he thought it in his brain that we shouldn't do Media to Radio Live anymore. That was when he heard about it.

Our next segment. Wait, what is our next segment? Mead eater menu. You're going to find out. Well done, Phil. Meat eater menu is when our hosts cook up a wild food dish and share the story of how we gathered the main ingredients and how it was prepared.

Lovely. I can't wait for this one. Phil, who's going first here? Looks like we have, is that Janus Patelis? Patelis? Poo tellus is how you announced it in Latvia. Got too much going on here. There we are.

Yep. Wow, that's a pretty dish. Thanks. Tell us spelled the dish, Yonis. Yes. Pretty common dish that we do at my house often, which I would say is like a grilled loin where it's usually just salt and pepper, some olive oil, grill it outside on the grill to about 125,

pull it, let it rest for five minutes, slice it up, and then we serve it next to some vegetables and potatoes. And the vegetables and potatoes rotate different versions of those two. What was different here, and what I want to talk about is that the sauce is

well, I guess the steak with the sauce would be called steak a pov. And I don't know if I'm pronouncing that properly. Sounds good. Looks kind of creamy. Pauv is pepper. in French. So it's like steak of pepper,

I guess, is how you would directly translate it. Jared Rizley from Shan Restaurant here in Bozeman. He came on to Judge Gross episode. Yeah, if you're in Bozeman, go check out Sham. I feel like that's universally been determined that that's like our best eatery

in town. Oh, 100% best now? Well, like, if you asked anyone, like, what's your favorite spot? And they were going to name three places I think every single person, if they've been there, might be tough as to get a resi at. Yes. Yeah.

And that's why I hesitate to even say how good it is because then it's even harder. He's like, he should come in more. I'm like, yeah, if I want to come eat dinner at either 4 or 8.30 p.m. because those are the openings that you can get in at. Anyways, when he was roasting, judging roasts, he said to me, you know what I think I do a lot of times with Wild Game, I make steak au au au au au au auve. I was like, oh, make mental note, went home, looked up the recipe. Extremely simple.

So simple that I can tell you now by heart how to make it. It's a good recipe to have then. Yeah, 100%. You basically take a couple small shallots, chop them up real fine. Again, depending on how you do the meat, if you're going to pansear the meat or you grill the meat, this part might be a little bit different because a lot of people will, when they put the heavy, peppers on the steak, they will sear it in a pan, and then that way when you take those out, you have the fawned that built up from the meat searing, and you're going to have some of that

residual pepper already in there. So you throw your shallots in there, saute those for a minute, and then you put in, these are approximate measurements, about a third of a cup of brandy cognac, or if you don't have those two, bourbon works, just. fine. So I've just been doing it with good old Jim Beam. And you let that reduce a little bit, let the booze cook off. Then you add roughly, I don't know, maybe a cup of chicken stock. Let that reduce by half. And then basically at the end, you just finish it with a little bit of heavy cream or crem fresh, if you happen to have that. Lovely, which we haven't. So we just use regular little heavy cream. But yeah, you end up with a,

It's nice because it looks heavy, creamy. It has that flavor, but it's actually very light because it's mostly just chicken stock, you know, and a little bit of a little bit of boo. So very plain, simple sauce, but as we all know, when you're eating a lot of lean venison, it can be nice to have a little sauce with your medicine. So that's the dish. Now, that was made with that night we had two loins. thought out, you know, I cut my loins in probably a pound and a half, maybe two pound chunks.

And he should start measuring them more. It makes sense because then when you grab a package of ground and you're like, oh, it's a pound. I know exactly what I can do with it. And you grab those chunks of loin and you're like, ah, I don't know. Is this enough to feed for people? That's why I always just cook more.

That's what I've started doing. I'm always like, Jennifer, just pull out two. Have a little tipperware of steak slices the next day. Exactly. Delicious. Delicious. So I had one white tail backstrap, one mule deer backstrap. They're both Montana animals.

My oldest killed the mule deer on the youth hunt last year, which was a great moment. As a dad, we spotted the deer kind of together late in the day while we were sitting on another deer waiting for it to stand up with the youngest daughter. and my and so I said well we I can't go with you after it's I'm going to stay here with with Mabel and so I said well no big deal I'll just go up there and hunt it myself and she took off all on her own and a little while later it was getting kind of dark I'm waiting for her to come back down the hill and instead I hear and she killed her first deer by herself that's great yeah it's really cool beautiful meal the the whitetail one was uh my youngest because we didn't, she didn't kill a mule deer on the youth hunt.

And so we made several attempts at trying to kill a buck on a private ranch that we got access to. And I think on the second hunt out there, yeah, we got lucky and had a nice one walked by. That was the one with the crazy palmeded brown tines. What else is on the menu this week now? Oh boy, I have some bear thought out that I don't have a plan for. And I need to make a plan very soon because I think it's been thought. out for close to a week in the fridge. And so it's getting to that point where I could lose it if I don't get her done. What else did we make? The other night we had, we do this often enough

to say often, breakfast for dinner, which is usually biscuits and gravy. And I love making some biscuits. My kids love the biscuits. And I feel like I've, I don't mean to interrupt you guys, but it's kind of important. We have a certain person getting their first tattoo. Oh, boy. Who could that be? Let's cut to that feed here. I don't even know. Wow. You're on.

Oh. Brody Anderson. Getting. What is your biscuits? They're 6-7 mid, I'd say. Is that the tattoo you're getting? Is it a 6-7? No, I was talking about biscuits.

What kind of tattoo are you getting Brody? Well, I'll show you in a little while, Spencer. Sounds good. We'll leave you guys alone now. I just want to do it. That's great. Yeah. Wonderful.

How damn this hurts. I love that. Good for Brody. He's young at heart. I didn't know Brody was going to get his first tattoo today. That's awesome. Bill put out a casting call looking for volunteers to get a tattoo, and Brody was one of the first folks in line.

He's been eager about this. That's great. Interesting. Good for Brody. I think we'll get a reveal later on in the studio here. Oh, that's good. I hope it's all bloody and nasty. You guys want to scooch off that way.

We'll see you guys are in the frame a little bit better. You can do that. Which way do I have the hang of this? Now. Towards this way a little bit. There we go. All right. Next dish.

After I stick this up, I'm going to step outside for a second. Sure. Next dish, this one is mine. That is a soup called fujoli. And I learned about this from Stanley Tucci. Stanley Tucci has said that he eats pasta every day. Who is Stanley Tucci? How would you just, he's like, he's a famous actor.

What would be some of his roles? Easy A? Was he an Easy A? I'm gonna pull him up here so it don't sound like a fool. Stanley Tucci. Devil wears Prada. Sturgeon. Stanley Tucci's searching for Italy was a television show.

He's famously Italian. Conclave. Oh, loved Conclave. Transformers Age of Extinction. The Kingsmen and Hunger Games? I think Conclave is one of the best things I've watched in the last few years. Who did he play in Hunger Games? Kind of one of the eccentric.

He is like the broadcaster of the show. Caesar Flickerman. You know on Hunger Games how they have like an e-intertainment sort of show where they interview the people? That's Stanley Tucci. Oh, okay. He, like, wears his Italian on his sleep. He's very Italian. He said he eats pasta every day.

This is his favorite soup ever. It's called Fijolian. So when Stanley Tucci talks about pasta, I listen. It's an Italian soup. It's got a lot of beans, mirapois, which is celery, onions, carrots, bell pepper, kale, didalini pasta. I don't know if that's how you pronounce that. D-I-T-A-L-I-Didilini pasta.

Marinera, broth, herbs and spices, and then ground meat, which for mine is ground venison. Takes about an hour to make. It's a very tomato-y soup, a very beanie soup. I'd like this soup. I would give it like a seven out of ten,

but it's my wife's favorite soup. She would give it a ten out of ten. How do you spell it? the food. It's F-A-G-I-O-L-I. Fajoli. Fijoli soup. And you don't get too gassy from this meal. No, I mean, there's a lot of ingredients in there. It's just like when you look at it, you're like, oh, there's beans in here. So in my mind, it's like now this is a bean soup, but it's like an Italian bean soup. Again, it's got marinera in it, some tomato paste broth. There's a lot of different recipes online for this one. It's beautiful.

It's just like a unique soup too. I would say that when I eat it, I don't know what to compare it to as far as other soups that I make. Looks like a comfort food. I would say it's a comfort suit. I think I feel like Stanley Tucci has said that this was like something his mom made. And so it's very nostalgic soup for him as well. That's great.

We're now getting to the end of soup season here. You know, we've probably got a few weeks left. So that means a lot of soups in my house at this point. Yeah, and I wasn't trying to be funny about the gassy thing. And I think I just maybe need to eat more beans. Yeah, I wasn't laughing about it. Like, you're trying to tell a joke. I was just thinking it's funny that like your mind is like, that looks good.

Would I fart if I ate it? You and I went to lunch yesterday and I think my burrito had some beans in it. And I mean, I had to go to Archery League and had to like, you know, be sort of. of coy and tactical about when I was going to rip all my farts as I was walking to go get my arrows because it just like it hit me so hard luckily they weren't super stinky but man did I was gassy I mean I don't know I just we live in different worlds yons I just assume that I'm going to be farting all day every day I see I don't really I don't really have like a rule of thumb for what I need to avoid or when I need to avoid it somebody says that olive garden has it I did not know that

At first I thought it was spelled, might be spelled F-A-Z-O-L-I, like the chain Italian place Fizzoli. And I was thinking, oh, now I know what Fizzoli means, but it's with a G. Fijoli. So that will make that probably one or two more times during soup season. Looks delicious. As far as the critter that came off of, I don't know, when I look at a brick of ground meat, I couldn't tell you where those come from.

I imagine if you were to like take a DNA sample, you'd find two or three different deer that that came off of. in my freezer. It's probably a white tail from Idaho that I killed two falls ago, would be my guess. Love that. Randall, before we get to your dish,

Handyman Uno is a question for Janus. Did you ever pick from the fan submissions for Roes? The suspense is killing me. I would guess Handyman Uno submitted something. Maybe. I don't, or you can see that, what's that little mark on the left say,

Stephen something? I don't know. Stephen Hands, I bet. I don't know. Anyways, I've narrowed it down. I'm planning on early next week reaching out to some folks

and conducting short interviews to continue the process of the casting call. That's exciting. Someone else in the chat says that Fijoli is like a cross between chili and minestrone. Which is, that's the best way I think you could describe it. That person knows what they're talking about. That's great.

I love it when people can just explain things like, I always think it's very clever when I explain that Cincinnati style chili is like a Mediterranean bolognese like a like when you can make an analogy it's like a Mediterranean because people are like oh is it Chile

I'm like it's more like a bowlingier it's more like a very savory almost Middle Eastern like spice profile bolognese. It's like if somebody from Cincinnati soupy bowling years wanted to make a unique chili

yeah that's what that person from Cincinnati would come up with yeah exactly fill my dish please before my culture is further insulted by these gentlemen. So I was going to make a dish on the other day that is something that we like to do where we'll grill like some steaks and grill a bunch of veggies

and then whatever that white soft cheese. Reclet? No. Like a ricotta of veggies. And then I was grilling this stuff and I had all the veggies. in a basket and I flipped a basket on all the veggies spilled out on the ground. Well, not all of them, but a lot of them. And so then I had to save those for Sydney's lunch because she packs them for lunch.

And she wasn't, she wasn't going to eat this for dinner because she wasn't feeling well. So I was like, I don't have any veggies. They'll just eat this steak. So I had grand ambitions of like to. And this is what we like to do with steak. But it's nice grilling weather. Stood outside on the grill for a while. but I forgot the trick with the basket that you actually have to hold it,

you know, that little slider that locks it closed can get away from you. So just one of those things where at the beginning of grilling season, you're remembering all the little tricks and everything. And yeah, I spilled all my veggies. So I just ate this. It's a big chunk of bison steak that I found in the freezer, left over from Sydney's bison from... That bison been eating pretty good?

Oh, phenomenal. Perfectly cooked. Phenomenal. Yeah, I was very pleased with that. that. I was very pleased with that. So yeah, it's not like a, it's not like a carnivore diet thing. It's just I spilled the other stuff. Did the dogs enjoy that? Yeah, Dali ate a bunch of mushrooms and what else we had. And there's some squash and some things like that. And then you were just going to take that on and kind of melt the ricotta or sprinkle it on there?

No, just a little, I don't even think I'm using the right cheese. It's just like a dollop and you can kind of like sauce your veggie in it. Okay. I mean, it could be goat cheese, maybe, if not ricotta? No. God, this is embarrassing. I mean, ricotta comes in a tub. Yeah, it's not. Barada.

Oh. There's barata. Barada. I feel like, do you cut that one open and sort of like, yeah, it's kind of like a puff ball. Yes. Yeah. So we'll do barata and veggies.

Sorry, they got the scapula thing wrong. Macata thing wrong was barata. Barada. I like brazada on some pasta. Like if you didn't have meat in the pasta and you put that on top, and that's like how you'd finish it. But yeah, it's nice, it's nice with like some grilled veggies. And, uh, yeah.

I love getting ideas from you guys. Like in the last year, you know, Spencer, we've been doing Spencer's, uh, potstickers. Potstickers, a bunch. And now I'm going to try barata with my meat and veggies. Don't buy the ricotta. No, no. Where do you get the barata? Is that easy to find? Albertsons has it. Oh, okay. Yeah. But tonight I'm making an elk casserole with tater tots on top.

And I got the recipe from my buddy, which is, you know, it's not too crazy. I could have probably thrown one together. But it's nice to have someone else's recipe because it'll make it taste different than my food. Yeah. You have a foundation now to start out. We're doing a little sheet pan, we're doing a little sheet pan dinner with some elk broccoli. worse that I got out this morning. What does a sheet pan dinner mean? Just put everything like on a big cookie sheet. Uh-huh.

Throw it in the oven. Like last night we did, we did a chicken on the sheet pan, like some grapes and some slices of squash and things like that. And you just season it all, throw it all in, pull it all out, slap it all on the plate, eat it all. Just like a one dish thing. Yeah. One pan meal, that's like, yeah, that's what moms on Facebook really like to make.

It's something that. I find some good recipes from moms on Facebook. Yeah. No, it's like a nice easy, it's like a nice easy thing you get. You can even chop stuff like before you go to work. Yep. Chop it up, you get it home, throw it in the oven and I don't know, like 30 minutes later. It's done.

Good media menu finale. Mm-hmm. What's next, Randall? Our next, oh, I've got the wrong script in here. Our next segment is, gear talk. I miss something. though with this plate of food that Corey brought in. Was there a theme?

No. I think he was just doing us a solid. Yeah, I think he was just trying to help us out. Randall, we still, we're probably not doing the thing we talked about. Outback steakhouse. Because I didn't get a corn dog and I haven't eaten today. And I'm getting pissed. When I asked if anybody else wanted a corn dog.

Somebody in the office, please bring Phil some olive garden. There's got to be extra olive garden. Yeah, bring me some cold Alfredo. Please deliver. Yeah, but he heated up in the microwave. on the second floor. We can still order a back steakhouse

if you want, Phil. It'd probably be here by three. Yeah, please do. Thank you. Our next segment is Throwback Thursday. I'm excited for this long.

No, it's gear talk. Not according to my screen. Oh, shit. Yeah, I read past there. Sorry. Can you play two sounds at once? No. Actually, maybe.

I haven't tried. Did I mention Stephen Brody are old as shit? Our next segment is Throwback Thursday. We go back Thursday is where we look at old hunting and fishing and photos of the crew. I think I added some extra syllables in there. They had to be hunting and fishing.

Not really. You didn't say that. That's just how we've always done it. Is yours a bowling alley or what? Mine is adjacent. Okay. All right. I think our first one is going to be.

Oh, hold on. Nope. Let's take a break. Brody's coming in. Oh my God. It's not just any tattoo. Wow. That's a lot.

What does that say, Brody? Come over here. You'll be on camera. What does that thing say? Where? Where? Like right here, right here between us. That says, I don't know, it's Latin. Solo, Virtues, nobilitat, which is, the Henderson clan is an old-ass Scottish clan,

like going back hundreds and hundreds of years. And that was their, like, clan motto. And it means virtue alone and nobles, which basically means, like, the Scots were fighting, like, the tyranny of British monarchy dictatorship. They didn't want to be taken over by some jackass, acting like a dictator. So it basically means like your name, your title, your rank. None of that means shit.

It's like what you do is what makes you a noble. And I think it's kind of appropriate for the times we're living there. That's a great first tattoo. Well done. Congratulations, Brody. Congratulations. Did you feel brave getting that tattoo, Brody? No. I was kind of trying to figure out how to explain it to my wife. Oh, she doesn't know. That's how I got my first tattoo as well.

No. Brody, you know that thing's permanent, right? You guys think tattoos are good behavior? They're not good behavior. Look, I ain't going to be on the tattoos I regret segment. That's right. I'm just using a line from, I think you should leave. Later, dude.

Thanks, Brody. Thanks, brody. That's nice. Thank you for sharing. Well done. And also, thank you to Corey, Alkins for bringing me. Phil's eating some Zogna.

Is it warm or cold? I don't know. It's yet to be determined. I will keep you updated. Okay. Oh, four corn dogs is a bad idea. No. Let's throw a photo up there, Phil, and get to the throwback.

Okay, this is me. This picture was from August 2014. My buddy Dan on the left, me in the center, my buddy Jake on the right, his dog, Bruce. It's really cold. That's a hell of a dog name. Bruce was in his first. think, season of hunting at that time.

This picture, it was taken on a Friday. And this was during South Dakota's August goose season, which was fairly new at that point. It was maybe like that was the first year or one of the first years in this county where they had the August goose season. So you're like swatting mosquitoes out there as you try to kill Canada geese.

We got 15 of them that day. That was a three-man limit. Here's the story, though, that I want to tell behind this picture. Um, my hometown bar had two furs on Thursday nights and two furs is where you buy a drink, you get one free. And so if we were ever like waffling on going to two furs, you just twist the other guy's arm and be like, you know, you're losing money by not going to two furs. And that always worked.

Um, so we didn't miss very many two furs. So we went to two furs the day before this hunt. And that morning, I could barely sit up in my ground blind. I was like really struggling. And I was like, man, this is, you know, one of the worst hangovers I've ever had. And I didn't think I had drank that much the night before, but sometimes two furs sneaks up on you. So it could have been deceiving. So Thursday night was two furs.

Friday morning was the goose hunt, the picture you're seeing here with Dan and Jake. Saturday, I go to work. I worked at a federal fish hatchery at this time. And on the weekends, just one person would work. And I was working that weekend. And I was still, like, not feeling good. And I'm like, man, this hangover, it's now gone from one of the worst to just the worst I've ever had in my life. And I was laying on the floor of my office at work after doing the fish chores that morning.

And it was in a lot of pain. And I start Googling what's going on. And I realize that my appendix needs to come out. And it was in fact not a hangover that I was battling. I just had like all the textbook symptoms. That's great. So I drive to convenient care to get this taken care. And I go into convenient care and I tell them, I say, my appendix needs to come out.

I'm quite sure of it. And they're like, okay, we need to take our own test, though, just to make sure that's what it is before we go cutting you open. And so they take, you know, some images of my inside. And the doctor comes in the room and he says, if you don't mind before we give you the diagnosis, we have some students with us today who are shadowing us, you know, this week here at work. Do you mind if they come in and hear how,

you know, what we tell you? I'm like, yep, that's no problem. I was in college at this time. So in walks, three of my peers from the college where I go to school. And I was a biology major. They were all biology majors. I didn't know their names, but we were familiar with each other. I knew who they were.

And so they all have note pads out that they're writing down on. And the doctor says, so we looked at your images and we determined that you're severely constipated. That's what's going on. You don't need your appendix out. And so I was just like mortified. You know, the most embarrassing moment of my life,

I have this doctor telling me that I'm constipated. It's not my appendix. And meanwhile, it's three of my classmates, um, who were like taking very earnest notes on their clipboard, probably writing down,

you know, like, uh, this guy can't poop, um, or something like that. So it was, it was a really awful experience.

I go to Walmart after that, load up on all of the laxatives, um, go home and I still, can't solve the problem. Sunday morning comes around and I'm just in like really, really bad pain at this point. And I drive to the ER and I walk into the ER and I'm like, hey, I need an enema because I feel like I'm about to die here. And they're like, okay, but we got to do our own test first just to make sure that's what's going on. So they go and they take some tests and the doctor

comes in the room and he's like, hey, your appendix is about to rupture. So it was just like, Absolutely terrible. I took all the laxatives. It just, like, destroyed my insides. That was not the problem. I was correct. It was my appendix. It wasn't a hangover.

I wasn't constipated. And they put me into surgery right away. And now I don't have an appendix anymore. Trust your intuition and the internet, folks. And it all started on that goose hunt where I could barely sit up. That was when my appendix was like, all right. Well, it's great to go. That's a great story, Spencer.

I feel I got, I'm surprised you. In the six years, the seven that I've known you, Well, he's still embarrassed about the constipated thing. He doesn't want anybody to imagine him being constipated. Those girls never got the update. I didn't get to, like, find them the next day. Oh, I would have walked into class. Did you say that, I don't think, I think you just said peers.

You didn't say that they were a girl. It was three women. Yeah. I would have just walked into class the next day in like a white t-shirt with just a bunch of blood coming out of the sutures from your appendix thing. And be like, oh, Doc was wrong. Yep. So that was the goose hunt appendix story. Beautiful.

You guys had a bunch of five-gallel. buckets out on that goose hunt. What for? I don't think we were using them on the hunt. They were just in the back of someone's truck. They used it for the picture. Both those guys were farmers. So they, you know, they were always within arm's reach of a five-gallon pail.

They were just using the pictures. That's right. Okay. Great work. I think we got Randall up next. It's my throwback Thursday. This is my throwback Thursday. This is the first summer I worked in Alaska.

It's like the first week of September or something And we packed up the whole lodge What year is this? 2006 No, no, not 2006. 2010, maybe. So it was me, my boss,

his wife, and two dogs in the boat And we're all going in for the season. So close up the lodge, pull all the boats out of the water, take the one boat that's going to town. We fill it full of shit. and that's like a caribou my boss shot and i've got to fly out that night i've got like a midnight

flight um out of anchorage and so we load up the boat we we go to get going down river and the boat won't get up on step we're like oh shit we got like way too much shit in here so we we go back we put some we like decide what could just live there for the winter we went to another lodge and gave them some stuff for like stuff to put on the plane, you know. And we try to take off again and we can't get the boat up on step. And eventually we, I think we went back three times and still couldn't really get the boat up on step. Wow. We're like, all right, we just need to go.

Like, it was, it was kind of just ride. And it was never like actually getting up and down, but it was getting out of the water a little bit. And so we go down this river and we turn up the Sissina River, which is like the big, river flowing down into Cook Inlet. And we just make that turn. And like these are two big glacial rivers, like big water. And all of a sudden the boat just stops. And the motor's still running, but we just like drop into the water.

And we lift the motor up. And what we realized was that some of the bolts holding the jet foot on the motor had come loose and there's a stud that comes down that had sheared off and so the foot of the jet motor the thing that like collects all the water had just totally fallen off the motor

and why the reason we couldn't get up on step is because the motor wasn't drawing water through the jet pump surprised it's still running that shape I think it was just like loose and like inefficient inefficient and then it was a catastrophic

failure so we're just stuck in this river the foot fell off the motor we can't go anywhere and uh we kind of kick and paddle over to a sandbar and eventually get in touch i think with the in reach get in touch with a guy at the landing who comes down in this big barge like a big you know custom built barge with two outboards and he toes us back to the landing um just like ripping upstream uh long story's short, like we go, um, we go through the drive-thru. I think it was a Carl's Jr. in Wasilla, and we show up to the Anchorage Airport like 45 minutes before my flight and I'm still wearing my waiters. We like never changed out of what we're wearing. Like the plan was like go and get

cleaned up and get. So I, this like we were in this old F-150 van. I kind of hop out, throw my shit out, take my waiters off, roll it all up and stick it in the, stick it in the bag. And fly home. But I'll never forget, like, getting out of the van at the airport, taking waiters off that are still wet and just being like, ah, man, I'm tough, you know? Like, they're probably wondering what the hell we did. But it was one of those things is just like, uh, I feel like this happens a fair bit where you think there's one problem and you just keep like kicking at that problem. We're like, oh, we just have too much stuff. And at some point, we'd taken out enough of it that we should have known that it wasn't the

weight of the boat. But we never actually checked, like, the, check the motor out and almost ended up spending the night on that sandbar. But thankfully, we had, we were able to get in touch with someone. You recently said,

year 22 was when you were most the hands, when you were most handsome. How old were you in this picture? Yeah, that's probably pretty close. Okay. That's probably pretty close. Yeah.

Yeah, coming out of that, coming out of that summer, that winter was pretty good. What was working for you, you think, that age? Malnutrition. Mound nutrition and the lack of access to booze that summer. And also, I was like, you know, just, just like working all day long. Just like manual labor, carrying shit around, cutting firewood. That was when I was in my prime, you know.

And still handsome. You were just more handsome than you were saying. No, I'm hideous. A monster. Look at me. All right, Janice. Jake's having a live wire orange mountaine over there. Never seen that one.

Tell us about that, Phil. Live wire was one of my favorites. That's kind of what I shifted over to when Code Red got a little too much for me. I mean, it's just a very punchy orange soda with a little citrus twist, you know? Jake, the producer, does that agree with your take? tasting notes? It tastes like a pretty generic orange soda to me.

Take it back. Sorry, Bill. I was more of a mellow yellow guy. I don't know why. Maybe just to be different. Yeah, I can see that. I like the song. Donovan's.

Call me mellow, yeah. That is a good song. But yeah, you are kind of a nonconformist. It'd be hard to imagine. You're just hitting the dew, yard. Yanni, what's going on in this picture? Well, oh.

I don't know even which one of you is Yanni. Come on. I'm an assumed a little feller. No, the guy in the middle with the broken arm. You're not the guy in the left, are you? Yes, this picture is actually from the future. It's a little twist on throwback Thursday. The future Yanni scoutmaster.

I am on the right there with the cast on my arm. How did you get that cast? I believe that was 90 or 91. Were you guys even alive? I was born in 92. I was five years old. I was, I was months old.

Four or five, I guess. Jake? Yeah. You're born. So Spencer wasn't on the planet yet. Anyways. Yeah,

that's Latvian Boy Scouts. I can go on for hours about where we could, is there diverge from this photograph here. That's my buddy, Andres Anton's. I think in American society probably goes by Andres.

But he and I were born on the same day, six hours apart. And there's some sort of ceremony going on there. He couldn't remember. He sent me the picture a couple of weeks ago. He couldn't remember exactly what was going on. We were probably achieving the next step up in Boy Scouts. So in Latvian Boy Scouts, we pretty much, we wore the same outfits as American Boy Scouts.

We did kind of the same merit badge program. We just spoke Latvian, and then we went and did all of our activities with other Latvians, as well as the Latvian Girl Scouts, which I think was a divergence from American Boy Scouts. From what I heard from my friends, they didn't get to do stuff with girls. It was very nice because we got to go hang out with girls when we went on our, you know, on Boy Scouting Adventures. Andres' parents who are not in this photo, they used to, they kind of, always led the Cub Scout troop, but they, I owe them, I've told us them many times in the past, but they were the ones that they had the resources to take the time off, and then often,

we had a school bus that we had a council bus that we had a college club, we had our own school bus, the back, we took everything out, put in shelves and bunks and stuff, and they drove us all over the place on fun adventures. So I owed them a lot, because certainly in my younger years, you know, they exposed me to nature quite often, you know. So it was pretty cool. Yeah, the cast. Skateboarding. Oh.

I was about to get snowboarding. You could have given me 10 guesses. I wouldn't have said skateboarding. Yeah. I believe I was trying like a front side 5-0 grind. McTwistie. No, no, I never got that good to be trying McTwist. You got good enough to name things.

things that you were doing, though, that seems, you know, like you were in the 90th percentile of skaters then? Maybe. I took third place in a skate competition once. Yeah, there was three competitors. You were definitely a mellow yellow guy. But yeah, it was on the Kaysu Skate suit, which I think is now the longest running skate park in the United States of America after some park in, I think Encinitas closed down or changed

ownership or whatever. Bill Ferguson. I don't know if Bill still owns it, but anyways, yeah, it was there. It's a trick where if you imagine the half pipe, you're going on up onto the coping and just grinding the coping with your back truck. Yeah. And your back is to the, is below you, right? You're like looking up and away.

It's very easy to go the other direction. Do you mind if I pause you while at a facade? what kind of graphic did you have on the bottom of your deck? Oh, I mean, yeah, but in that time period, I had probably 30 decks. Whoa! So it's hard to say. God, I'm jealous. But then, during that, I know I had, it was a clear grip tape had popped on the scene right around then.

And I had a, I think I had a pink Dogtown skateboard that I had to clear grip tape on. So it was a dog town. It was a pretty bright deck. I can't remember which pro skaters deck it was. My first one ever was Corey Smith's, I believe that was his name, from Santa Cruz. And it had the Grim Reaper, I guess, kind of a character, and he's throwing the big fireball.

That does sound like a skateboard deck. But anyways, I broke that wrist, and that there is the reason. that my wrist, it doesn't bend any farther than that. Oh, interesting. Like that wrist goes back. How are your push-ups doing? I can't do push-ups like

in a classic form. I do them on my knuckles. So my push-ups are fine. Thanks for asking, but I just have to do them on my knuckles. But yeah, it's, I went years and years and years and sort of just dealt with it and it wasn't a problem, and then get a little age, and there's some arthritis that builds up into like a broken joint like that.

And it's become a little more problematic, especially trying to work out. Like actually this morning I was doing some Turkish get-ups. You know what that move is? Do I ever? Well, holding that weight, I can hold a lot of weight. But if it gets off canter at all, this wrist has zero strength in it. Yeah. So a big place I find it a lot is shooting my bow.

Right? When you got to pull against that. You need to be able to bend that wrist. little bit. Yeah. And so I actually draw with it like very like locked like this. And then once I get there, I open it up and I get into my relaxed. Has anyone ever watched you who's like a pro and been like, Yanni, your left wrist is all wrong when you're doing it. Oh, everybody can see it. Really? When they, I was actually just on the phone call with Matthews talking about this. And now their new limb shift technology makes it very easy for the shop to tune the bow so that it'll work.

for me. Because I torque that bow so much that if someone without this problem, like if you shot my bow, if you're a right hander, you will shoot it if you shoot it through paper which is the thing you do to make sure your bow is tuned well. It'll cause a tear where they're like the front

the tip hits makes a hole but then the air actually comes through the paper at an angle and so you'll see which way it tears. Just because your bow is set up to compensate for... Yes. And so the guys in the shop now have set up enough bows for me that they know that they set it up with like a three to four inch tear.

I think it's to the right. And then they'll be like, that's right. And then I come in and I shoot it and I'll just shoot a bullet hole through the paper. It's like you've got a lift in one shoe. Like if your legs were different lengths. Kind of. Um, so yeah, that, I was in a cast for 11 months that year. I started and all it was was the broken wrist and you can see that picture. It shows I have the cast up to my biceps. I had the like over the elbow uh cast and then they took that one off and gave me a shorter one. I had to do this thing at night where they would put this thing over my cast and it sent like radio frequencies like through the bone to try to help the healing. They basically screwed the pooch completely on healing on healing this bone. Funny stories years later.

I mean years later. I think I was maybe even living in Bozeman. Maybe yeah. Maybe I had this job. So maybe just like 10, 11 years ago, like have good insurance, got enough money to waltz into the hospital and be like, fix this. They take x-rays and the guy comes in and he's like, man, wish I could help you. He's like, I can do things like break it, re-break it, pins and all this. But you're going to end up with the same range of motion that you have now. It's beyond fixable with this. point and you're just going to have to deal with what you have for the rest of your days. Damn.

Yeah, it's a bummer, man. If you get us, like, and you wouldn't think that your wrist would be such a thing, but like, you know, from push-ups to any kind of strength thing like that, it, I'm always compensating for it. Do you bench? Classic? No. It's very hard.

I have to, like, keep, like, a very weird kind of straight, I don't know, like, almost rotate my wrist forward to do it. Yeah. If we're ever wrestling, Yanni, I know a weak spot. Oh, 100%. Okay. Yeah, you can take me out by pinching that wrist. That's good to know.

Sorry not to make light of it. No, it's all, I mean, it is what it is. It is what it is. I played a lot of basketball during that time period of my life, too. Thank God that's not your stroke hand. Yeah. But what happened is I would go to the Y every day after school because it literally across the street from our middle school.

Yeah. And it got to the point where they had to be. make special rules because they didn't like I basically learned that that cast I could pretty much just like push anybody out of the way and and people didn't like it that I was just like using my cast as kind of a weapon as I was playing basketball. That's sweet. Was your left did your left-handed layup ever develop? No. Sam here. No no. I didn't enter my wrist though. I think we've got gear talk up next randle but I'm just so we're not doing back-to-back. PowerPoint presentations. Do you want to do this fake news thing? Yeah. Yeah, we can go to fake news. Can I make a comment real quick before fake news? Sure. I can't believe you guys are pulling over a thousand viewers right now. The whole day. Yeah, it's so far. Yeah. It dropped off there for a minute. I started getting worried, but we're back up in the healthy territory. Uh-huh. Once they found out Yanni's skating, crud. I don't know if you saw the comments, Yanni, but there were a lot of folks very genuinely taking today off work. No. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of disgusting how many people said they were.

But we're happy that they're here. Filthy creedans. I wonder if their employers know. Like, are they really taking PTO? Those are people with us? They have unlimited PTO. I mean, I'm halfway, like, hoping that our employers don't know about this. I know that they do, but I feel like they shouldn't.

All these people, let's see, it's like early March, squirrel seasons have to still be open in a lot of states. Shouldn't she folks be out squirrel hunting? Well, not on a lot. Radio Live. It's playing. Fishing. This is appointment television.

Phil, thanks to Dalton Morgan who says he will die before he turns off the stream. Hell yeah. That's a challenge. Hell yeah. You ready for this one, Phil?

Yeah, do fake news? Our next segment is fake news. You sure about that? It's a meat eater radio live fake out. For the second time ever in the history of

Media or Radio Live, This is a fan favorite segment. Meat Eater Radio Live fake out. That's where we've lied to the co-hosts about the planned segment. Instead of doing fake news, we've got a surprise interview with the host of Meat Eater Radio Live, Randall Williams, who's coming to us live from Meat Eater HQ in Bozeman, Montana. Randall, welcome to the show. Thanks, Randall.

It's great to be here with you. Randall, I wonder if you can give folks a little background on Meat Eater Radio Live. Yeah, sure, Randall. Happy to speak to that. Meteeter Radio Live, as I'm sure your listeners are aware, is a weekly podcast that we live stream every Thursday at 11 a.m. Mountain Time from Meteor H.Q. in Bozeman, Montana. The first episode aired August 22nd, 2024, and over the past 19 months, it's proven to be a remarkably flexible and always fresh piece of programming for its devoted listeners. As of this week, however, Meteor Radio Live is being sunset. Wow, that sounds like a tremendous accomplishment to run a weekly live podcast spanning some 80 episodes. How did you guys handle weeks where you weren't in the office? Sorry to interrupt. Is it possible to interrupt your... No, it's not.

Say it for Christmas. We actually had to pre-record some of our live episodes. Those pre-records still had the same chaotic, unscripted feel of the live stream, but obviously there are some drawbacks. One of the best parts of the show is our interaction with the live audience, and those pre-records obviously made that impossible. Did you guys ever experiment with recording part of the show ahead of time, but then combine that with a live stream? I can imagine a scenario where you could live stream part of the show and pre-record another element, so it had the appearance of a regular live episode, but folks might not notice they were interacting with pre-recorded footage. That's a hell of an idea, Randall. It's actually one we considered, but never figured out how to pull it off until now. Well, now that Radio Live is ending, how are you and the crew handling it?

Yeah, I'm doing okay and Spencer's come to accept it. I've noticed that Phil has come to work with booze on his breath a little more than usual, but not that much more than usual. I thought so. The real wild card is Janus. I'm almost certain he's taking this the hardest, but he's not being very open about his feelings.

Hard to read that one. Luckily, his office mate Corey is a really good guy, and they have a close relationship. We're all trying to play our part in Yanni's support system, but Corey's bearing the brunt of that burden. Boy, that's hard to hear, Randall. I'm wondering if you have any final parting words for the Meat Eater Radio Live audience. Yeah, I think everyone here at HQ just wants to thank the radio live audience for their trust and patience over the past few months.

This show has been a hell of a lot of fun to make, mostly because there weren't any standards or expectations regarding the quality of content. Well, Randall, we appreciate your time and good luck with the Meat Eater Live grand finale live extravaganza. Thanks, Randall. I appreciate you having me on. That worked flawlessly. That was great. It's one of our best guests we've had so far. Yeah, that was one idea I was really excited about. Thanks for Phil's help in allowing me to pull that one off.

Was that a thing that we were going to do and they never did? Or did you just come up with that? I'd sort of toyed with the idea. But then I thought it would be funny for the finale to interview ourselves. But then I got time got away from me So it was just a solo interview But I think it worked out better that way I mildly knew this was coming

Because in our document that we follow the script Randall has a section that's just called secret Yeah That's where that was I did not go and look at it I'm very proud that I resisted Seeing it but that's now I know what lived there Oh that was fun

Thanks a lot guys thanks for indulging me And I love Phil sounder That's Phil was very deep in his bag To make that sound for the the meat eater fake out. He stole the ball, crossed up a defender, did it between the legs, dunk. Yeah, I was going to say the exact same thing.

I think Brianna maybe has brought us some Outback Steakhouse. I think food got delivered here by maybe someone watching the show. Oh, it's a dairy queen. What do we have here, Brianna? I think it's from a fan. Okay.

Okay, if you couldn't hear our friend Brianna there, someone ordered food to our studio, which is incredibly kind. Please show yourself in the chat. Shout out to Brian H. Oh, thank you, Brian H is the order. It's from Dairy Queen. Thanks, Brianna. Two corn dogs, two hot dogs, and a regular fry.

Wow. That's great. This is highly unexpected. We are eating well here in the studio. But how excited are you right now? Who wants what? I'm actually really excited. Oh, you know what?

They're not corn dogs. They're probably chili cheese dogs. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. That's cool. So now... This is the best day ever.

Except for the ending of my favorite part of my job. Is... Are the previously consumed four corn dogs going to, like, affect it all, like your moves? No, it'll be here in the next 10 minutes, Randall. It'll improve his game, I'd say. Yeah, we got two chili cheese dogs and two hot dogs. Whoever did this had a better idea than my little stunt that we just pulled off. Who wants one?

Phil maybe. Phil said he's hungry. Well, now I'm full of Olive Garden, so I'm doing great. If there's anybody in the meat eater live, sorry, not the media, the meat eater office listening. Ketchup, mustard, relish, if we have it, please. Oh, the commercial kitchen definitely has two of those. Maybe I'll grab some on my tour. What should we do next, Phil? Should we do...

We can move on to Gear Talk. Wow. Our next segment is Gear Talk. His name is Yonis Fulatelis. It makes me wonder if he still wants to talk about. Does it have a choice? How much money will he spend? It's Yanni talking gear again.

Oh, I'm going to miss that, Phil. Creamy, Brody. That will skull? Do we... Roddy's got to take his show and tell item home. While this transfer happens, I'm going to start a new audio file

for the podcast version. So hold tight for about 15 seconds. Live audience. We're holding tight here. Yeah, well, you do this. I'm going to take a 10-1. Okay. So my...

Yeah, when you come back, could you also bring the ketchup and mustard? Yeah, I will. So my gear talk is this thing. It's made by Night Eyes. Uh-huh. I'm familiar. And it's a daisy chain with a bunch of little plastic double-sided carabiners, S-hook-type carabiners.

And then on the end, it's got this plastic-coated wire. Yeah. They call those gear ties. Gear ties. Gear ties by night eyes. Which parts of gear tie? The like firm part. That thing.

So this thing, I don't like keep it in my backpack or anything. I keep it at the truck. But if you're like getting back to the truck and hunting the next day and you got, got a bunch of like sweaty clothes or whatever. Just to hook this inside the truck and you can clip your like gloves, your socks, your hat, all that stuff on there. You could do it outside of the truck if it's not like snowing or raining out and get some wind on all of your stuff.

You can hang it up in your, in your tent. But I found it to be. And also in the garage when you get back home, just like it's a makeshift clothesline. And it spaces it all out for you. this stuff doesn't slide around on there. And those gear ties make it real simple to just like on the, you know, the little, oh shit handles of your truck window. Like tie it on there, tie it to a headrest, hang some stuff up.

Or like in the bed of your truck under the truck cap. It's a handy little piece of gear. It was a Christmas present. And I wasn't quite sure, you know, how it would fit into the routine. But it's like just something to have around to like hang stuff up. Looks like everybody could use one of those. Yeah. Yeah, probably overstate.

stated its usefulness. Can you give us a little critique of the chili cheese dog from DQ? Or a compliment. Oh, I think it's good actually. Yeah, I don't really have any tasting notes. This is just a very solid

chili cheese dog. Okay. Uh, Yanni, you go, my gear talk has pictures. Okay, you'll go next. You don't have any pictures. You read my mind. Thank you. I probably didn't want one. I did not.

I'm on the wagon or off the wagon, however they say it at the moment. So no beers for me. For Gear Talk, I brought this here bag. This one happens to be made by Exo Mountain Gear. It's pretty much what you'd call a roll-top dry bag.

This one, I believe, is a little bit lighter than most roll-top dry bags. Say you would just buy an REI for the purpose of putting some gear in for a rafting trip but this bag lives in the

bottom of my backpack and you guys have all heard this before maybe live by the same rule that it's always great to have gear that is multi-purpose

right you can that it's not you're not carrying around just for one reason so the main reason for this is to carry out I don't know if it's the main reason

I think this is pretty much split 50-50 but to carry out meat and prevent your gear and your backpack from getting just totally soaked with blood and having to clean it later. That thing smells like meat. Yeah, you can smell it now that I've unrolled it. Kind of in a nice way. Yeah, it cleans up very easy. I literally just flip it inside out, spray it a little bit.

I throw it in the washer and just run the old regular cycle on it and it comes out super clean. The other thing, though, that I've started doing with these bags like this, and this is something I learned. on our honeymoon in New Zealand, which is a very, very wet place, especially the time of year we were there in the fall, that instead of running rain covers for your backpack, like something that go over your backpack, there they basically just lined their entire backpack

with one big garbage bag, and then all of your gear goes in there, you roll the top down, and that keeps your gear way drier than a rain cover. Rain covers are just, light, they get pulled off, they're not, they're not completely inclusive of everything that's, you know, on your gear. So yeah, so now, if I know I'm going to have a wet trip, I just basically put every single piece of gear that needs to stay dry in here, roll it shut, and it just lives

inside your backpack. So your backpack itself still gets wet, but everything inside of it stays nice and dry. You don't have to worry about it. And so, yeah. Well, who makes that again? This one's, made by Exo Mountain Gear, but I'm sure there's a bunch of companies out there that make it. But this one's nice too when you're packing a heavy loaded meat because it is narrow enough.

I don't know if that's, if you can tell. It's narrow enough that... Just the load out. Yeah, well, the load ends up being more vertical and along your back, which is a much more comfortable way to pack meat than have all that same amount of weight just sitting right on the top of your booty

where it can get very uncomfortable, very quickly. So, yeah, there you go. All right. My Gear Talk has a couple photos that Phil is going to pull up. I'm reviewing my rooftop tent. I've owned this rooftop tent for two years. It's my second rooftop tent. My second one that I got is the thing that the most researched purchase of my life that wasn't a house or pickup. This would be number three was my rooftop tent. After all that research, I decided I wanted a super Pacific. They are made in Portland. And I absolutely love it.

I really enjoy this thing. My wife really enjoys it as well. We use it together. We've used it on our own. I think I've probably spent 50 nights inside of it. A lot of different times a year, different parts of the country I've done. This picture was in Montana in November. I stayed in there.

I've done California in March. I've done Arizona. in May. I've done Minnesota in June. So I've used it a lot of different seasons. Really big fan of it. It's ideal, I think, for someone who is doing either solo trips

or a trip with one other person. If you have like two teenage kids as well as you and a spouse, it's not a rooftop tent isn't for you. This is for... Just so we're clear that was ketchup. That was not a

a gastric issue there. Call that a 103. Roof top 10 would be again ideal for someone who's like just got a spouse or maybe a spouse and a dog because it's like the size of a queen bed

up there but that's literally all of the space that you have in one of those things. I think the ideal user lives someplace with a lot of public land. The type of camping that we do a lot you'd call boondocking which is just you pull over someplace and that's where you sleep and you don't

need a reservation. And it's just like a piece of BLM or national forests where you can disperse camp legally. That is how we spend most nights in our rooftop tent. I'm a really big fan. I will own one of these things well beyond how long I own this pickup. This rooftop tent is going to go on my next truck and probably my truck after that. Oh, you think it'll last that long? I sure hope so. Yeah. I'm a big fan. So I would recommend a rooftop tent to anybody who lives, in the west who enjoys long road trips where they are doing a boondocking style. Now, I've never heard it called boondocking.

What would you call it? Dispers canvassing. I feel like boondocking is... That's RV lingo. It's specific to, yeah, like when you're sleeping in the thing that has wheels that got you there. Then I think if you're not staying... If you're not staying somewhere like in a developed

campground or with hookups, RV people call that boondocking. Boondocking. Again, mine is a super Pacific. I'm a really big fan of it. Oh, yeah. Oh, Randall's got an alarm going on. What's that alarm mean?

I set an alarm for 2.28 p.m. So that. That means we're three hours and 28 minutes into this podcast, which officially makes this the longest podcast in the history of meat eaters. Oh, we did it. Yes. Yeah. Everyone in the chat, you were here.

Meat Eater episode 105, which aired on September 205, which aired on September, 21st or September 2nd, 2019. That was three hours and 28 minutes long. The title, that was Managing Bambi, again, episode 105. And we have now killed and buried that as a record in the history of this company. So congratulations. Who was on that one? We did it.

It sounds like a Hefflefinger episode. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't remember. I did this like five minutes before he started. I asked Phil if there's an easy way to look it up. He said no. so I just scrolled through all them and wrote down the ones that seemed the longest.

But this is officially the longest meat eater podcast ever. And we're only halfway through. Mm-hmm. So it's actually slightly scary. How much we have to do. Yeah. That means if this math holds Randall, you'll have eaten, I would say, a dozen hot dogs by the end of our street. I'm almost, this is number seven.

You're doing it. You're doing it. I can talk about the rooftop tent all day. If you have questions about it, reach out to me. I'll try to answer. any questions you have because it is a big purchase and it's something that is is going to potentially go to your next vehicle as well. We have somebody in the office who recently got one and they're very disappointed in their purchase. Oh no? Yeah, Nate Mason. Sad. He does not enjoy his

experience so far and he wishes he'd have done a couple things differently. So don't be Nate. You know, really research this thing. Reach out to me if you have any questions. You could have told me that. How long is it lengthwise? You know, For a fellow that's six, two, I find a lot. It looks like my toes might be touching. Your toes might be touching. It's a wedge-style rooftop tent. There's many different styles.

This style is called a wedge style. And so your toes, Yanni, you're a big guy. They might be touching the bottom, but Super Pacific has the option to give you an extender inside. It's kind of got a false floor when you're on top of it or a false ceiling if you're in the bed of your truck. That makes it longer. So you'd be totally fine there.

Super Pacific. The most important thing is you're comfortable in there. You're never wet. You're never dry. There are other wedge styles on the market where it's been deemed that that wedge style has a waterfall, it's called, where you'll get condensation at the top and it trickles down. And by the end of like your sleep when you wake up in the morning, you're going to have wet socks. I've never experienced that in the Super Pacific. The online community is an agreement that they don't have that issue either.

But there are a few brands on the market. The wedge style is really tricky to engineer from what I've gathered in SuperPacific. and Super Pacific has nailed it. Big fan. Cool. I think we have our crew joining us shortly. They're going to be coming in the room.

So if we have a couple of feedbacks, Phil, I feel like we should maybe save movie club for later. Okay. That's fine. I have to be 100% honest. I have been missing so much of the chat. That's okay. If we're going to do feedback, that's fine,

but I'll just be kind of cherry-picking as I'd see stuff. Sorry, to Rand. What if we do a hot tip off? And then while we do the hot tip off, the crew will come in and we're going to move on to the next hour. And then Randall's is okay if we do movie club later? I don't care. Okay. Yeah, I'm definitely not going to play the drop this time.

H-O-T-I-V-R. Let's all do a hot tip off. H-O-T-I-V-R. Let's all do a hot tip off. Phil, were you ever privy to Lauren? Moulton's hot tip-off little thing that he did live for us.

I remember you guys used to do those and I think you posted a couple on, even on YouTube, like back in the day. It was before my time, but I'm not super familiar with him now. There's a nice example of some fun vocals. Oh, I'll have to check it out.

Yeah. Are we still live? Yes, Janus, we're live. Folks are just watching us trade seats. That's right. Oh, yeah, I guess that was the plan. Yeah, okay. Well, these, uh, this third head-to-head of our hot tip-offs today, uh, once again, we do not know who it is, so let's all be surprised. Jack Shevel.

Oh, no, that says meat pole. Wait, what's happening? I am Jack shovel. I have a hot tip for y'all. If you take a prangle can and you wrap duct tape around it, take a, Swiss Army knife, or whatever you have, and stab a bunch of holes in it. It is perfect for catching crawdads. Look, my little brother has a bunch of them to show you.

So catch them cradads. Ian Esky! Hello everyone. My name is Ian and I'm coming at you with my hot tip today. If you're like me, you're really busy and your friends are also really busy. So sometimes it's hard to find a hunting partner. Well, what I did is I went and made my own. I'm not going to go into the details of how you make one, but there's some books on that you can probably read. But it's definitely a long-term investment.

But what you want to do to make it pay off is kind of start them out with some literature. I've got a couple of just examples here of the literature we read and are going to be reading. But yeah, that's what you need to do to get your own hunting partner that you can make go hunting with you any time. There you have it. A couple of solid tips there. Go ahead and put the poll up in the chat. I'd be honest, when the kids said prangles, when he said you get a prangles can, that sold it for me. That is the winner.

A plus, no notes. But let's see what the chat has to say. Phil now has the chat voting. While that happens, we are making a pit crew change in the room here. I'm now in the driver's seat. Randall is off to the side, digesting. We also have a few new crew members joining us in the room. We are going to be playing a game shortly.

Actually, we're going to be playing a lot of games shortly. The first one is going to be a returning segment that we've only done one other time. And after that, we are doing a brand new segment. Folks in the room, you are going to need your cell phones for the second game that's coming. Phil, how is the chat doing? Are they getting their votes in? The votes are coming in. It's closer than the last two have been.

But I don't know how much it will tighten up. the next minute or so. But we can go ahead and give you 10 more seconds to get your votes in here. I missed it. What exactly did the second guy say? He was, I mean, I put it up in the chat. His tip was basically intercourse. Reproduction.

That's what I thought. If you want to have a hunting partner all the time, they make one. Phil, you ready to call it? Let's call it here with 63% of the vote. That's right. It's Jack and his Pringles can. All right. Prangles.

Hot dog. Jack, you're getting a We can give him a gift card? He's getting a $100 gift card. Jack. Thanks, Jack. Great show that with your brother because I think showing the bag full of crawfish was a nice touch. You're right. I think that sold it for folks

who were voting. God, that's great. Okay, we have now added three more people to the studio in our next segment is mystery meat. Oh, I forgot to grab the drop from my computer upstairs. Oh, no. Can you sing it? It was the police one. What is this meat?

It was please don't stand so close to me. Mystery meat! We've only done this one other time. And basically, Max Barda has brought us some mystery meat that only he knows what it is. And we're going to taste it and try to guess what the mystery meat is. And he's got it on some skewers. I think we should have been blindfolded for this. Yeah, it's kind of already been figured out.

The first time we did. I don't know if your microphone's on. If it is, I'm not hearing much of it. I'm unmuting everybody. Another AV problem. Am I good, Phil? Yeah, you're good. You're hot.

Yeah, so the first time we did mystery meat, I was like, oh, yeah, this is going to be an everyday thing. Now, since I'm the only one that's done it, I think it should be Max's mystery meat. That's how I have it written in the dog. It's great. We've rebranded it now. Oh, yeah, I think it was mystery meat sponsored by Max Varta.

Yeah. So Max has two skewers of meat here that we are going to taste. and then try to guess what it is. I feel like my eyes were already giving me a good hint. Can we just guess from here? No, you got to try it first. Yeah, you got to try it. Patience, scratch up.

How should I do this? We'll just... We can each have one. Yeah, but you're probably going to want to cut it a little bit. I'll just take these off here. Cut, cut half and hand it over here, Maxwell, please. Looks scrumptious. Yeah, I don't know.

I've never cooked this meat before. Okay, there's a hint. I've... Here, I'll just pass the cutting board around. You guys can do it yourself. Oh, no, don't pass that thing around. That's going to be dangerous. Just can you throw them?

I won't even cut it. Just give everybody a heart already. Everybody open their heart. Hey, hey, what kind of heart, Yanni? I don't know if it's even going to be good, to be honest. I'll be honest. I don't really want to eat it. How are you doing after those?

I'm deep-cued glibed. I'm super full. Yeah, you seem like you overcooked them, Max. I was going off some. recommendations from someone else. All of our timing all day has been terrible. Max also thought he was going to be serving this 40 minutes ago. I'll take a bite.

The delicious. Is that what happened? Is that you just stayed on the grill for 40 minutes? No. The guy who I got these from told me how to cook them. I think there was some communication issues. No. So when Spencer asked me to do this, he never said it has to be good.

It just has to be a mystery meat, though. You're right. The only parameters. I did not say it had to be good. No, that's true. I've never even, but I'm enjoying it anyway. Good. I mean, yeah.

No, it's pretty good. It's dry for sure. I'm getting my iron. Yeah, I'd be like Yanni correctly identified it as a heart or some sort of organ. A heart it is. One bite. What animal would have a heart this size? I ate mine.

I've eaten seven hot dogs today, Max. What animal would have a heart this size, Johnny? Yeah, or a duck. I feel like he would have cooked a goose or a duck heart by now. Hmm. Who would have? He said he's never cooked this in his life. Yeah.

Oh. Seems like a big duck. It could be real. I don't know. It's too small. It would be a turkey heart. Is it too small? Yeah.

I have turkey heart. It's got to be something he was able to get aid of as well. Is it a bird, Max? Yes, it is a bird. Okay, it is a bird. You want more? A sandhill crane. No.

Tundrous one. I've already heard it once. A goose? Canada goose. Yeah. It is a Canada goose. Oh. Yeah.

I'm surprised their heart's that big. Yeah. Steve gave these to me. They're lovers. I had to reach out to him and just be like, what should I make? He goes, oh, make this. I mean, I'll be honest. Like, if it wasn't dry, it just tastes like a heart.

Yeah. I like it. Oh, yeah, if you had cooked it to meat, no thank you. But Steve told me to cook it on, like, low in fat. So I used some of your bear grease. And I just cooked it in that and then did a little sear. That was it. It's perfect.

You did good max. A little dry, but perfect for a little skewer. Quit telling him it's too dry. Heart Nuggies. No, I mean, if you're going to cook heart, don't cook it to medium well, cook it to medium rare. That's what I read on the internet.

You'll have a much better experience. It pairs well with a Baja Blast Mountain Dew or a Coor's Light or a chili dog from Dairy Queen. Yeah, that last one's still looking at me. All right. We are doing something we have never done now in the studio. Everyone is going to get out their phones. Okay, it'll take me a couple minutes to kill some to get set up here.

Yes. You need your phone. Oh, actually, Yanni, you could use my phone. Okay, great. What time is it? It is 240. 240. So this is the last thing you're going to do, and then you can bounce after this.

This is our final use of Janus Pitellus. You guys got a link for this? Yep, I just sent you. I do it on the photos? No, no, you're going to scan a QR code here in just one second. Our next segment is a new segment called Quiplash. Here's how this game works. Each player is given a prompt that I wrote.

their goal is to create a funny answer, then their answers go head to head, and we will vote on which one is our favorite. They are awarded points for getting votes, and the player with the most votes at the end wins the game. Randall, Janice, Max, Phil, Corey, and Alex are playing. I will try to narrate what is going on. This is probably best consumed by watching it, but I will try to make a listing audience. And if you are watching this live right now, you can actually participate in this game. After we all join. Oh, sick.

After we all join, I will show you a code on the screen. And you can be a part of what they call the audience, which means you get to, you also get to vote for your favorite answers and responses. And it does weigh towards the who gets points. So give me a, give me a minute here. I think my wife's watching. So, okay. Hopefully she'll play. Yeah, we practice playing this game.

And Corey Culkin, these. providing some x-rated answers. Once you go to the website, type in that code. Don't say it out loud until we're... Oh, well, now I thought I was going to scan a code. Oh, I was wrong, Yanni. Here, let me, hand me my phone, and I'll get you to where you need to be. Thanks, Spencer.

And Yanni was typing something furiously on my phone. If you're like to... I'm in, baby. If you'd like to participate at home, go to jackbox. dot TV Jack like the name J-A-C-K Box

dot T-V well done that's nice that's great thanks Alex ask her how she thinks I look that she could probably hear you ask her how long she's been watching oh Bill we can see the screen

I don't know how that matters Alex do you like this longer hair or should I get a cut winter just showed back up I'd keep it long Okay, is everybody joining this? Oh, good job, Phil. I don't know how you worked that magic. I don't know how I did either. You did it anyway.

We should have a fight. Alex, you got a tattoo today, right? I sure did. Oh, yeah, you got the hand tattoo. Oh, yeah, we should probably go give an update out there. I think Hillary is up right now. Let's see yours. How many players?

How many players do you have? You're going to have six players, Phil. Okay, great. You are the sixth player in the room. Oh, unless Jake wants to play instead of you, Phil. Oh yeah, I'll step out because that would make me that would make it easier for me. So give me a sec here, actually. Jake is going to play.

All right. Phil, can you remind our audience how to join and vote? Yeah, they can't join until I start the game here because otherwise they become a player in the game. And for those in the room playing, this is on a timer. So you need to be quick and you need to be witty. Oh, yeah. I know, I know because now that I'm not playing, we got to do it over again. Oh, okay.

So there's a, there's a new code for you. code yani this is going to take some troubleshooting uh but it will maybe be worth it and after this game um i think we have three or four more games that we're playing today yeah and movie club and movie club hey rana we're gonna get to movie club we're gonna do that with uh cord tight at the end of the show oh are we we still have a capital yeah Corey what's your heart out today oh crap 6 p.m i mean whatever i just got to drive five hours tonight with Oh, I forgot about that. A foot plus snow on the past.

Whatever. I'll get out of here when I get out of here. Okay. You know, that's a good attitude. There you gone. No, none, yeah. Crete. What are you going to do there?

Right by. I screwed up again. Oh, nice. Oh, Phil. What happened down? I've never done a custom game before. I'm so sorry. Okay, okay.

Oh, you're doing okay. It's not great, but I don't think it's ruined this. Oh, that's an easy one. Don't read that one out loud. Okay. Okay, this time I'm not going to join. Jake, whoever joined, it might be Alex. You'll be.

responsible for running the game probably waiting for Alex to choose what we felt as though the finale was the right time to try something new uh because if it's good you know we'll do this all the time no no keeps disconnecting this is a this is a really bad uh maybe we won't do uh quiplash you know how how about we if we have time at the end we'll come back to quiplash okay so you want to move on to a different game uh yes but everyone in here can still play the the other game games, right? Yeah. Yeah, they can play the other games. Apologies to the audience at home. Randall, I heard you're going to go jump in the pond.

It's ready, buddy. I was just out there. You start sweating profusely in the meat sweats. They're probably coming. Okay, Yanni, you're going to stick around for our next game meat pole. It'll just take like 10 or 15 minutes. Okay, everybody get a whiteboard, a marker, and an eraser because our next

segment is MeatPole. Say, show me a meat, boys, and take my Paul are welcome to meet eater radio. I got a game to play. All these hot dog boxes are. We need a. We're going to have to clean up. What do you need?

Yeah, okay. So meat pole is a test of how much you know about your fellow hunters and anglers. I surveyed 500 meat eater listeners about the outdoors. Your job is to predict their answers. There are three questions. Whoever is closest to the correct answer will get two points. whoever is second closest will get one point. You guys are in charge of keeping your own score.

You got that? Phil's got too many things to operate over there. So you guys need to pay attention to what your score is and who is closest and who is second closest. The chat is also going to play along and Phil is going to watch them and he will shout out whoever has the best answer for MeatPole. Yeah, we'll see if I can keep up with 1,000 people. All right. Our first question for today is what percentage of meat eater listeners,

have eaten roadkill. What percentage of media listeners have eaten roadkill? Randall is doing some very impressive multitasking over here. He's got a chili dog in one hand and a marker in the other. My fingers are too greasy. I could probably just right on the board with chili grease.

Did we find out who delivered that for you guys? Brian. Brian H? Is that it? Brian Harmon. I don't know if that could be. The professional golfer. Maybe. What percentage of meat eater, listeners have eaten roadkill. Go ahead, Randall. I just didn't know if that was the name of the Uber driver or if that was the name of the person who ordered it.

What percentage of meat eater listeners have eaten roadkill? Yanni, have you eaten roadkill? Yes, sir. What was it? Most recently a calf moose. Yeah, you watched that thing get smacked on the road, right? Not quite. My neighbor did.

And then he immediately called me and said, just go get that thing. Did it taste any different than a regular moose? eating a calf. Did you notice like, oh, yeah. This thing is more tender and body. Yeah, yeah. Because, I mean, it was, I mean, we did the math. I mean, if it popped out in May, I think it was like three months old.

Whoa. There's still a giant. Still took two of us. We barely got it into my truck, two of us. And, yeah, it was extremely pale meat. Mm. Just like a veal, you know, how they have that more of a pink than a red color. Very few people have eaten a calf moose before.

Yeah, definitely not. That was only. Three months old. What percentage of meat eater listeners have eaten roadkill? Again, I surveyed 500 of our listeners to get this answer. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Randall says 31.

Jeez. Yanni says 27. Cordy says three. Alex says 13. Maximus says three. Jake says 28. What to me, Yanni. The correct answer is 18.8% have eaten.

roadkill. So I think Alex was the closest. Who was the second closest to 18.8? I think Corey and I. No. Without going over? No, you go over. What's that two points? Yanni had 20. Yanni had 20s.

So two points for Alex. One point for Janus. A 2024 UGov poll found that 6% of Americans have eaten roadkill. 89% have not. And 5% said they weren't sure. That survey also found that 33, percent of Americans said they think it should be illegal to eat roadkill.

I'm very concerned about those 5% of people who said they weren't sure. Yeah. Like, what's in the crock pot? I actually had that thought when you're saying that. I'm first, talk with your after done you on. I'm sure I've eaten roadkill, but I, like, I couldn't think of a specific instance of it. Phil, who did the best in the chat, 18.8%. If you said 18 or 19 in the chat, you know your name.

Way to go. Okay. Well done, Bill. Our second question is what percentage of meat eater listeners would rather get attacked by a black bear than a bison? So they were asked, would you rather be attacked by a black bear or a bison? What percentage of listeners said they would rather get attacked by the black bear instead of a bison? Corey, which one would you pick? Would you rather be attacked by a black bear or a bison?

Black bears are little bitches. Okay. Yeah, I feel like it's a pretty easy call, and I'm just hoping that the media listeners know what they're thinking about. What percentage of media listeners would rather get attacked by a black bear than a bison? I feel like you could fight off a black bear easier than a bison. Randall any input, Black bear or bison, which one you pick? I mean, I feel like, yeah, it's fairly obvious. I don't think black bears kill that many people.

Okay. And when you consider how few bison there are, and it seems like someone gets killed by one every year at Yellowstone. I mean, that's probably just statistically completely inaccurate, but it seems that way. You're not going for the right answer. You're going for what meat eater listeners said. One percentage of them would rather get attacked by a black bear. So I feel like they know their stuff. Then a bison.

Is everybody ready? Yep. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Rambles saying 72%. Oh, we're right in there. Janice 75. Corey 69. Alex 77.

Maxwell, 73. Jake says 60. One of you is dead on. The correct answer. It's 62%. It's 60.3. Jake, he, nailed it. So Jake gets two points.

Who was the next closest? Maybe Corey? Alex, what did you say? No, you said 609. Corey got himself one point there. It's estimated that two people a year are attacking. by bison in America with those encounters almost always happening in Yellowstone. For Black Bears, it's about a dozen attacks each year.

In the last 120 years in America, there have been two fatal bison attacks and 63 fatal black attacks. Oh, I was completely wrong. What did you say? I said it seems like every year there's, you hear about someone getting killed by a bison, it's just not true. I feel like we had one recently that maybe that's. And that's probably clouding our judge in June.

So 60% said they would rather get attacked by a black. bear instead of a bison. All right, here is the third and final question. This question is not about our fans. It's about you guys. What percentage of pickups in the meat eater parking lot were backed into their

spot yesterday? I know one. I know two. What percentage Now I know two. Seth wasn't here, so that isn't. That's funny because I thought about this when I parked today. What percentage of pickups in the mediaeater parking lot were

backed into their spot yesterday. Yesterday. Damn. I know what it looked like today because I thought about this as I backed. Like, why is nobody backing in today? Oh, really? That crossed your mind.

It's nice to be able to go straight out of your spot. Who has points in here so far? I think we have... I do. This is just like Trivia Spencer. Goose egg. Okay, Max and Randall have... It's not at all like trivia Max

because you and I are doing the same. We may have a tie or we may have a winner after this. What percentage of pickups in the meat eater parking lot were backed into their spot yesterday. And you went out and counted? I went out and counted. At what time? It was when I got here because then I also parked.

I'm not going to tell you which direction. I know which direction you parked. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, he's one of those that thinks it's not going to matter. I don't think that's true at all. Do you have any idea how quickly I can back up? I do it without as I can go forward.

I do it without thinking. I base it on how busy the parking lot is. If it's like very smooth to back up. back in, I'll back in if it's convenient. If it's not, I'll just go in, you know, regular. I just have more confidence backing up. Hmm. You mean backing into a spot or backing out of a spot?

Backing into a spot. Yeah. Even if it's like there's no other cars in the parking spots, I still back up. Yeah. See, I feel like busier you should back in. Yeah. It makes the exit safer. Yeah.

Is everybody ready? Hold on. What percentage of pickups in the immediate parking lot were backed into their spot yesterday? Go ahead and reveal your answer. answers. Randall says 37. Janice says 50. Corey says 47. Alex says 93.

Maximus says 87. Wow. Jake says 85. The correct answer is 64.8% of pickups. Who was the closest there? I feel like Corey, maybe. Yonnie, maybe. 64.8.

Yanni, you were the closest. I think that makes you the winner today. You got four points at the end of the game. No, that only gave me two, right? Two just now. Yeah, so I have three. Three. Yanni wins anyway, unless who was second closest? Nice job, man.

I guess maybe me. And so you got to have two points. Yonni's our winner. That was 11 out of 17 pickups. It's far less common to back into your parking spot at me, Deeder, if you drive an SUV or a car. And that 65% of backwards parkers is way, way. above the national average, studies

show that between 6% and 13% of American drivers back into their spot. China is the opposite, where it's estimated that 88% of drivers back into their parking spot. They're way ahead of it. So at Me Deeter HQ, it's 65%

of the pickup drivers. In China, 88% of all drivers back into their spot. I'm with Corey. Truck or no track? I figured out. I'm, you know, I didn't specify on that one, yeah.

But in a meat eater parking lot, the pickup driver They're the ones who are backing into their spots. I wonder what they teach them in China. I just think it's interesting that in this room, there's three or four different reasons that people are choosing to back into a spot. And so I'm wondering now,

what is their belief in China as to why you should do that? For me, it really comes down to whether or not I'm texting actively. It's a lot easier to pull straight in if I'm texting. Kids, he's making jokes again. Yeah, I shouldn't joke about that. Seriously.

Yanni is going to stick around. for one more segment and then he has to go. I am, okay. Our next segment is a hot tip-off. I'll do it. Phil, T-O-T-I-V-R.

Let's all do a hot tip-off. Is he not like this one or what? He just doesn't want to play six times today. Phil, your jingles are going to be the best part of this entire six-hour-long show. That's very kind and completely untrue, but I that's the one just because we do hot tip-offs almost every week and it's the most grading kind of intense drop that I have. I like Chaparone but not that much.

Yeah, you apologize to Chapo. I don't see those hot tips, Phil. Here we go. See if I can actually do it correctly this time. Call in Hartford. What's going on, meat eater crew? Today I've got a hot tip coming at you from Missoula, Montana. Hell yeah.

My name is Colin Hartford. Today we're talking about keeping our meat good when we're processing our wild game at home. My hot tip is to have two buckets when we're doing any kind of grinding. My first bucket, tote, whatever you want to call it, has my meat. In this case, it's sausage. The bottom one has a layer of ice, just a bag of ice that we crunch up, throw on the bottom, have a two bucket system. It's kind of like a double boiler, but it keeps everything cold.

It keeps all your meat from getting warm in between the freezer, the grinder, and the actual finish product. Keeps everything cold, keeps everything better. Also, strap some kind of ice pack to your grinder. I'll use electrical tape or painter's tape, whatever you got. Tape ice pack, ice block, whatever you've got onto your grinder. Keep that system colder. Keep it lasting for longer. Keep at it.

Kayle Patterson. Hey, this is Kale Patterson from Colorado Springs, and this is my hot tip. Hopefully it makes it in before radio live ends. That'll be a sad day. Shout out to Phil for all the jingles. So my H-O-T IP off is when you're grinding meat or making sausage.

At the end, there's always that last little bit left. You can throw some ice cubes in there or even just some plain white bread and it pushes that last little bit out. The ice cubes is also just a decent thing to throw in there. If you're doing a large batch, helps cool off the inside. So hope that helps somebody. A couple of solid hot tips there. Bill is going to allow the chat to vote now. It is Colin who has the ice tote trick or kale who has the bread in the grinder.

both of these about grinding meat. Yanni, before you leave, who are you voting for? The iced tote trick or the bread in the grinder? Ooh. Yanni? It's tough. It's tough. I mean, those are two really good tips. I'm probably more likely to use the tip about getting the meat,

your last little bit of meat out of the grinder. So I'm going to go with number two. Agree. That gets my vote as well. Corey, which one are you picking? Got to keep your meat cold and go gris. Okay. He's giving it to Colin for the ice tote trick.

Maxwell, do you have an opinion? Number two. Number two, he likes the bread or ice in the grind. Yeah, I've actually used that and it works phenomenal. Phil, is it a close vote? It is a close one. So if you are watching currently and you have not voted, get in there and let your voice be heard. Alex, next time you grind meter, you're going to use either one of those hot tips.

Number two. Number two, he's also voting for the ice or bread in the grinder. Jake, what do you think? I mean, I like number one better, but to Janus's point, I think I'll actually use number two. Okay. Randall, who did not see the hot tips, would you like to give an opinion? Yeah. I think what's most important is what the chat thinks. Yeah, okay.

Phil, let's wrap up the voting in the chat. Okay. They're still tatting out there, guys. It is getting closer, Spencer. I know we're running long, but it's the last episode. It's the last episode, yeah. After this, Phil, before you wrap up the poll, would you do that? like to check in on the tattooers? What do you think?

Yeah. Jake, yeah. If you want to head out there and roll, we'll cut to you in a sec. Okay. So we are going to wrap up voting here shortly. We will check in on the tattoos. I'm trying to vote right now. We'll do some listener feedback. Hey, can I just say bye? Say bye, yes. Please. Ladies and gentlemen, Janice Patel.

Thank you, Yonnie for your time. Captaining this ship on his final journey. Straight to the bottom of the ocean. straight to the bottom. It's been a fun run. Yeah. Had a lot of laughs. We've had some laughs.

And the thing is, even though we're sunsetting this one, we're also giving birth to a new one. And I believe that at least the three of us, we're going to continue to have a lot of laughs. The rest of these guys, you guys better bring your humor game a little bit more. But three of us, we're going to keep laughing. Also, Max, I don't know if you heard,

but your heart was kind of dry. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Ending the poll and the winner with only 53% of the vote is kale with the bread in the grind. Wow. Good done, Kaye. Yanni is leaving.

Ladies and gentlemen, Yonis Patel us. He's going to give us one animal call before he leaves, though. What do you got for us, Yanni? Oh, wow. So sorry for anyone listening live at all. You probably just wrecked someone's car on the highway. Multiple cars Multiple cars

Potentially I'm good I'll eat it Go ahead Yeah, go on here Okay We're going to get an update On the tattooing

Take us live To the room next door Phil Let's see how it's going Over there Oh we have Jen in the chair How are you, Jen

I don't know If our audience has met You have you been on trivia No there's Johnny Okay Jen Why don't you introduce yourself And let us know what you do here at Meteator.

Okay, I'm Jen, and I'm events and marketing operations coordinator here. Right on. It's like we got the famous HQ Internet is cutting out on. Oh, no. We're back. Jen, what tattoo are you getting today? I am going to get, oh, buying three little ladybugs represent my daughters. Love it.

I like it. Very good. It looks like she's adding to what is already a quarter sleeve. Are you going to go for a full sleeve someday, Jen? Yes. You are, okay. You got employed here just at the right time to be able to get this free tattoo on the books. Cool.

I know, it's perfect. Jen is the brains. The brains and the muscle behind the media live tour. So if you enjoyed our live tour, Jen is the one you have to thank for that. Let's talk to our tattoo artist for a second. Baker, is that? That's his name, right? Baker, who has handled the tattoo the best so far?

Hmm. Hard to say. Oh, okay. You can remember the name. Everybody has done really well today. Was Brody being a little baby? You did pretty good. Okay.

I mean, I'll call him out because I was out there when we weren't live streaming. Brody at one point yelled, oh, it really hurts up there. Yeah, yeah, I heard that too. That is true. That is true. He did. That does really hurt. Okay.

Jen's like, please stop distracting this man as he does a permanent alteration to my skin. All right. We'll let you go now. Thanks, guys. Thanks, everybody. We got a couple more hours of Baker in the studio. I'm sure we'll check in again. Phil, do you want to do a listener feedback at this moment?

Oh, goodness. Yeah. Sorry, guys, we haven't checked in on listener feedback for a super long time. I'm sure there have been great questions. Right now, it's mostly meat poll answers. And so... Would we like to fit in the office to her shortly? Or do you want to save that for later?

I think we should do that when I sit down in the chair. Yeah. So I think there might only be a couple people left before it's my turn. So we can do some other stuff. So Randall could do movie club. I know we've got a room full of people here. So I don't know if we want to. We could play the prices right.

We could do a cameo from Phil. We could do the movie club. What do we think? Yeah. Let's go ahead and do, we can do my cameo. Okay. And then if we want to do price. is right after that.

That sounds good. It was perfect. Let's see how Phil spent his $100. Sure. Now, these were initially going to be a surprise for each other, but Randall and Phil were so giddy about their cameos that they shared them with each other. I have resisted that urge so far, but they were just so happy. They didn't.

I'll show you mine if you show me yours. So it's not even a surprise for them, but it will be a surprise for me and everyone else in the studio. Let's see this. Yeah, I think it's good to do right before we do prices right, because, you know, Spencer, you're one of my favorite game show hosts. Oh, okay. So is this gentleman.

Hey, radio team live. Congratulations, you guys. This is Richard Karn. A tool time salute to you guys. Phil wants you to know that he just feels like you did a bang-up job. I'll tell you what, I've never actually watched Meteor Radio Live, but I heard it was pretty amazing. Oh, my gosh, correct me if I'm wrong, but Spencer, you are an amazing game show host. Wow.

Come on. Don't worry about what Steve says. Oh, thank you. No. I know. Survey says. Anyway, congratulations, you guys. A job done well.

Enjoy it. Wow. He's looking good. Phil, I just sent you an image in Slack that we should get to at some point. It's not that important. Oh, it's not important, but I mean, it's wonderful. Phil, how did you decide on him and who were some of the folks that you decided not to buy on cameo. I mean, honestly, he was, he was one of the first guys I saw and,

you know, I was a home improvement guy. He is my favorite family feud host with all due respect to Louis Anderson and Steve Harvey. Richard Dawson, right? Richard Carn. And also, he was, he played Maya's dad on Penn 15 and I thought he was incredible and it was a super underrated performance. So, uh, just an underrated show in general. Oh, oh, oh, yeah. You love Penn 15. You haven't seen Penn 15 on Hulu and you grew up and you're about the same age as as everyone in this room. Yeah, you could really watch it. That's great. Phil Richard Dawson was a host of family.

Oh, sorry. I thought you were getting Richard Carnes name wrong. Ray Combs, Louis Anderson, Richard Carn, John O'Hurley, and Steve. John O'Hurley, you would know him from Seinfeld, he's like the big tall guy with the kind of the gray pompadour. I'm blinking on his character's name. He was like Elaine's boss or something.

Oh, yeah. Mr. Is it Peterman? Mr. Peterman. Yeah. But yeah, Richard Dawson. Hell of a good poll there, Phil. Hell of a good pull. Good cameo.

Okay, moving on, our next segment is the price is right. Oh, I realize I don't have the script up. That's okay. We'll just enjoy the music for a second. Everyone get their whiteboards in front of them. Here it comes from Bozeman, Montana. Meat Eater Radio's most exciting 10 minutes. It's the final episode of Meat Eater Radio's prices.

Right. Randall Williams. Come on. down. Jay Birch, come on down. Corey Culkins, come on down.

Max Barda. You can come on down as well. I guess, Alex, you're here. You can come on down. You're the next five contestants on Meteor Radio's. The Price is Right. Now, here's your host,

Spencer Newhart. Thank you, Phil. This is our biggest game of Price is Right ever. We have five players in the room. It's going to be extra competitive. Now, this game is really simple. Phil is going to tell you about a product from the meat eater universe, and you need to guess its price. The player with the closest answer without going over will be declared the winner.

If every player goes over, then you'll all be told to try again. And the chat will play along as well, because whoever has the closest answer will maybe get a shout out from Phil. Yeah, maybe. They'll just shout out themselves. That's what they'll do. Okay, there are three products up for bid today. Phil, get us started. Our first item up for rid today is a 2023 Snow Bear XP.

This isn't just a mobile ice fishing shelter. It's a totally badass roving ice fishing fortress of masculine luxury. Checked out with every bell and whistle. This top of the line, Snowbear has a propane grill, satellite TV, surround sound LED and turn a light and a thermostat control furnace. Oh yeah, and four ice holes in case you forgot that this vehicle is for fishing. Uh-huh. Thank you, Phil. Well, this is one of the best things you do.

This particular snowbear is a 2020. model that has 46 hours and 232 miles on it. It's available right now in Cicitan, South Dakota at Glacial Lakes Snow Bear. You guys need to guess its price. Max has a large advantage here. This is, you know, right in his wheelhouse. Max, have you ever been inside of a snow bear? Yes, I have.

A couple times. Okay. Was it a successful trip? Did you catch some fish? Yeah, no, it's always fun in the snowbear. Must be nice. Nice warm and you're catching fish. You don't even have to go outside.

You don't. It lifts up and down. When you're fishing, lifts up, drive across the lake to the new spot down. That's tough. And you just relieve yourself in the hole. You can, yeah. And just drive to a new hole.

Depending on number one, number two. Spencer, what year did you say? It is a 20-23. 46 hours. 46 hours, 232 miles. And it is a snow bear X-P. We can't go over. My father-in-law does all,

well, most of his guiding out of one of these. Really? Yeah. Does he own the thing? Yes. Oh, this is not fair. Oh, are you going to inherit that someday, Max? Not when I live in Montana.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Maybe Max will be the owner of Snow Bear Sunday. Again, you cannot go over with your guess. Is everybody ready? Corey is making a funny face at Randall. Corey's playing the game here. Okay.

Corey's going low. Well, you're going a little high. I don't know. Everybody ready. Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Randall saying $102,99. Towley says $29,000.

Alex says 24,500. Maximus says 43,999. Jake says 40,000. That's pretty close. The correct answer is $123,000. What? You guys are idiots. You weren't even close

You had satellite TV? Max, are you kidding me? Randall was the only one who went six figures So he's going to get that point There was not a doubt in my mind that the thing's six figures Have you seen the price of it just a pickup truck these days? That's the most expensive snow bear for sale at Glacial Lake Snowbear The cheapest is a 2014 Snowbear TL which is 52,000

So even if we gave you a model that was nine years older and a lesser setup, $52,000 still cost you. So Randall gets that first point. Well earned. Phil, how'd the chat do there? They all did. I see cheaters. I think every person got it right on the money.

They did great. Brett Reeves is in the chat. Oh, welcome, Brent. We're glad you're here. That's a good guy. That is a good man. That's a heck of a good guy. Okay.

Phil, how about item number two? How about it? Our next item up for bid is a cameo from Babe Winkleman. Ooh. Instead of spending your hard-earned cameo dollars on a message from Jim Shockey or Slokmaster Tim Wells, hire the Babe Winkleman. Does your high school senior need some words of encouragement on graduation day?

Or maybe your Bachelorette party could use a pre-game pep talk? Yeah. Or did your buddy John, who likes to fish Lake Erie, have a life-altering medical emergency and now you think three minutes of fishing advice might help him pull through? Oh. Well, we know just the man for the job. Here's a video from Babe's cameo page that promotes his services. And I'll pull that up here.

Buckle in. We've got a three-minute video now coming from Babe Winkleman. This is what he has on the front page of his cameo for why you should buy Babe Winkleman's cameo. Did it pull up the, uh, there it is. Oh, it looks great. Hello, Dan. This is Babe Winkleman, and this is a special request from your good friend, John. I understand that you love to fish and you've been a fan of the show for a long, long time, and you fish Lake Erie. You probably didn't know that I filmed the first show ever on Lake Erie. I didn't know that. And put it out back years ago. And it was incredible. And I mean, it just, I filmed so many different places in Lake Erie over the years from Buffalo, New York, down to Dunkirk, all the way around, even some on the Ontario side.

Plus the Mami River and the, I was the guys that released the Detroit River to people, too. And that was pretty crazy. But I understand you have a passion for fishing that just won't quit. If anybody can relate with that, Mr. It's me. I've had a passion since I turned five years of age. And my dad just bought a new farm. And I had a creek running through it. And I was standing on the bridge looking into the water.

I'd never seen water before. I'd never seen a stream before, a river or anything on the farm. we had been on. And while I was looking down there, the second day, I seen a bunch of fish swim into a big swirling amount of water, an eddy. I didn't know what an eddy was at the time. It's only half over. And it was really cool. And I had my dad fix me up with a rod reel, and he made me dig some worms. I got them on there and caught 15 big striped suckers, which we all ate every one of them. But that was my start. And it's never left me. don't leave it leave you no matter what happens i don't think it could i think that you

love to fish like i do with every cell in your body i mean anything outdoors for me fishing hunting just being there i love to see good sunsets and uh sunrises and hell yeah we filmed the other day and i got the blue moon rising at night we were out fishing uh which was cool You can do all of those things yet. I understand you had a heart attack, and I understand as well that you're doing good since then. So more power to you is all I've got to say and keep fishing, no matter what. You can fish till you, there's nothing left of you. All of us can.

You was about to say something else. You can just sit on the bank and throw a barber out and watch it once in a while, and that's fine too. Particularly if you know that you've got a good chance to get in the bite. there. That helps a lot. I'm not suggesting you do that, but I mean, there's a lot of ways to go fishing and a lot of ways to enjoy it. And I wish for you to enjoy them all. So good fishing to you, man. I appreciate you as a fan and I appreciate you as a citizen, a true American. Have a good night.

Wow. What's in the cup, babe? Hell yeah, babe, Winkleman. What do you got, Randall? I mean, like, it got serious when you found out of the guy at a medical issue. But up until then, Phil had mentioned earlier, like, if the guy had a bad day fishing, I thought he was just, I literally thought he was like encouraging him just to not stop fishing. Which is for good reason.

But he kind of took a turn there for me. Yeah, it was a plot twist, two minutes in his video. So Babe says on his cameo page, he likes to help celebrate weddings, anniversaries, and retirements. That's the cameo big three. So what does it cost to get a personalized video just like that from the babe Winkleman? Have you guys ever done a cameo request? No, never. I know these three have in this last week.

Yeah, I got to ask, how much was Santa? Oh, $100. Yeah. Okay. It's worth it, right? Money well spent. I'm going to just send that Santa letters. $100 letters every now and then.

Well, you're on the naughty list. So does everybody have an answer for what it costs to do a Babe Winkleman cameo? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Randall says $240. Corey says 139.99. Alex says 400. Maxness says 79.99. Jake says $150.

The correct answer. This is incredible. It's $80, Max. One penny off. What a bargain. correct answer. If I know that, I would have gotten babe. I got him, though.

Max knew it. It feels good. Right on the money. A little shady. Yeah, did you cheat, Max? What happens in Price Radio if you get it right on the... Oh, these bells and whistles. What does happen, Phil?

Oh, man, I haven't watched in years. I'm trying to remember. I think you win the... Oh, you win the thing you're in the showcase. I don't remember. What's the third item, Phil? You get an extra third thing. You get an extra $1,000 or something like that.

Okay, if only we had computers to figure this out, in the meantime, let's do our third and final item ever from the media disperse is right. We put it like that. Our final item up for bid today is every single item from Bass Pro Shops. That's right. You're bidding on every single item from Bass Pro Shops website. Spencer may have killed three dolphins and sacrificed seven acres of rainforest to get Chat GPT to produce this answer, but It was worth it. Because maybe Meteor Radio Live isn't about the outdoors or conservation or friendship,

but instead it's about the bits we got to do along the way. Wow. So just one of everything. Every single item. That's right. Touching words from there. I don't even know. Yeah, you are bidding on what it would cost to buy every single thing that's currently

sold on Bass Pro's website. What could that number possibly be? Phil was right. If you have an exact bid, that they call it the perfect bid, the bell rings, you win a prize, and you receive a $500 cash bonus.

Since 1998, the cash bonus has gone up. No, it's been $500. The original was only a $100 thing. I can't believe they only give you $500 for mailing it like that. Yeah,

should be dumb. You know, I've heard stories of Randall getting kicked out of bars, and I've never believed it because he's such like a nice friendly guy for the most part. But you get seven hot dogs and two Coors lights in him and I can totally see it. He becomes the randomal at that point. That's eight hot dogs, Phil.

Oh, my apologies. Every single item from Bass Pro's website. Is everybody ready? Who has a point so far? Max has a point and Randall has a point. If you all tie though, Max is going to be the victor since he was one penny off of his correct. And I will say someone, I don't get to win a lot.

You know, trivia. Someone in the chat, one of the first ones I just happened to see was pretty dang close. So I'm going to call you out. Okay. You did pretty good. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Randall saying $30 million. Corey says 67 million.

Alex says 120 million. Max is going low. He says a penny. Jake says 750,000. The correct answer. is 8.1 million. That gives Jake the point. He had 750,000.

But Max is the winner because his correct answer back for Babe Winkleman was just a penny off. Now I'm kicking myself because I wrote 80 and then erased it and wrote 150. Wow. What was your answer? Just now? 750,000. That is roughly 32,000 items for an average price of $250 per item. Well done, Max.

and thanks for playing along everybody remember help control the pet population have your pets spayed and neutered Phil who in the chat did well on that Stephen Baskazquez guess 7.86 and he was one of the first people to guess That's sick, that was pretty close

Good job Stephen again 7.86 Phil what would you like to do next Should we do the next hot tip off that we have? Yeah, let me just pull up the video here because I don't have it ready Okay Our next segment

is hot tip off. Phil's not going to play the sound this time. H-R-T-I-P-R. Let's all do a hot tip-off. H-O-T-T-I-P-R. Let's all do a hot tip-off. All right, hot tip-off. Who do we have today, Phil?

Stephen Locke. Stephen Locke. Hey, meet at her live crew. This is Stephen Locke, coming from the Easter Shore, Virginia. And I got a hot tip for all the... the dog owners out there. So I got me a nice old dough the other day. And I'm sitting here processing it out. And as you're trimming up your backstrap or your hams or whatever, you're left with all these little trimmings and silver skinny bits. I know y'all, like myself, don't like to waste anything.

So these are valuable. You take them, you lay them out on a sheet pan. You can use a dehydrator or throw them into like an air fryer setting on your oven. and dehydrate them out and it turns into great little dog treats. It saves your money. It uses all your little trimmings, less waste on your deer. And yeah, it's a hot tip. Thanks. I like it.

They're fading. Hot tip of the day. If you got a dog that loves to retrieve, but is like to do their victory laps, you know, run around you a couple times. What I'd like to do is string up a rope. This one's fairly long. We've been working on our longer retrieves, leash, carabiner clip. So what this allows you to do is funnel them towards you,

no matter how bad they want to take that victory lap to the right or the left. Ready, Ranger? Fetched dead. So there he goes. It's great for older dogs that have outgrew that puppy in the hallway. So here you go, he's picks it up. Now he's forced to come back towards me. He wants to break to the right, but can't.

Good boy, Ranger. Good boy. There we go. Hot tip of the day. Man, tough call. I like the premise. Phil is going to allow our chat to vote. It is Stephen Locke with the dog treat scraps or Luke Middleton with the dog zip line.

Max, I'm going to give you my vote here. That means you get two votes in the room. Do you like the dog treat scraps or the dog zip line? I like the dog treats. Okay. Can you tell us more? I think I like the idea for number two. It has a good premise behind it, but I don't think it's practical in all situations.

I'm going to go with number one. Okay. Max says number one. Any other opinions in the room? I mean, Stephen gets my vote just for the accent. Yeah, I like this energy. Good vibes, that guy. Yeah, we need a little bit of energy in here, huh?

He's getting sleepy in here and warm. Yeah, it is very warm. Randall has to host an office tour for about 30 minutes coming up soon, so. I'm going to get some steps in. Yeah, the dog thing, I like it. It seems a little, I don't know. Aspirational. Yeah, I've always just like, when we had a dog that wouldn't bring it back and would just play, keep away, I'd just tie a 30-foot piece of paracord to his collar.

And so when he got near you and then tried to get away, you just step on the paracord and walk down it. And trap them. Okay. It just seems easier. But I like that. I would have voted for the dog zipline, but Max has my vote. He says dog. Visually it's very interesting.

Yeah. I was just thinking about how I trained my dog and like I trained her to like go to a place like a kennel or something like that. So like after so like it didn't really matter about the straight line. Like she came back and went to that kennel. So or that place board or at my side at heel. So. Yeah, got to go with the thriftiness of salvaging all your meat. Every other animal I kill I try and do that.

But I ended up just throwing the wads of meat. in the freezer and then I get lazy and end up tossing that a year and a half later. I'll grind the scraps into dog food. Sure. And then boil it and then just have a big bag of boiled meat. Before we wrap up the polling, our next thing is going to be some listener feedback. And then after that, Randall, if you're ready, we're going to do an office tour. Yeah, might as well. Okay, okay. Phil, how is the voting going? It is, this is the closest contest so far. It is, it is at, it's 50-50 right now. So if you have not voted, we'll give you another 30 seconds. Somebody break the tie.

We can't give out another $100 gift card today. Yeah, this whole thing will just collapse. The rock solid foundation will crumble. Phil, once that tie is broken, you end that polling

and tell us who gets the gift card. Okay. Come on. Oh, Jesus. It was broken and then it came back together. So I don't know who won. Okay. We're live.

Nobody gets a gift card. Everybody gets a gift card. Randall gets the gift card, I guess. Miranda, what are you going to spend that gift card on at the meat eater store? Another beaver hoodie, huh? Meets next. You know, I like that brown hat I just got. So someone...

So the poll ended at 50-50, and someone asked, hey, how could the poll be split if there was an odd number of votes? Because there was 253. YouTube does not give me the decimal point. It only only rounded numbers. So someone did win. Let's just give up. They both get a $100.

Hey! And if you can make it to... mediator HQ in the next 45 minutes you'll get a tattoo as well that's how we're breaking the tie each one of them is getting a $100 meat eater gift card today i think we have a couple hot tip-offs left before that's it for mediator radio i believe we have one more hot tip off i think that was number five okay all right uh phil let's do some listener feedback oh goodness i have to actually read the chat now uh why don't you guys talk about something until i find uh phil just a quick question should i use the same link that I got yesterday for our tour?

No, it will be a different link, and I will send that, oh, I will send that to you soon. But also, we have Chili. We have Chili. Is Chili ready? Well, he joined the call, but his camera and microphone are off. Chili, if you can hear us over there, or if this, oh, he's turning it on. Where is he? Should we do this first?

Yeah, let's do this. Okay, Randall, do you want to set this up? Yeah, so, uh, oh, sweet. Chili is on the scene in downtown Bozeman, Montana. I actually don't want to ruin the surprise. Chili, can you hear me? Yes, I... Yes, I can't hear you.

Get out of that nasty weather. Make a dynamic entry into the meat eater's store, please, and find Alex Zimmer. The store boys have been live streaming this all day. We didn't give them any heads up. And now our faithful, Jack of All Trades, Austin Chili Brad. Oh, yeah. Storeboys live on radio live. Oh, what up, Big John?

Oh, yeah. Happy birthday, John. Oh, is it your birthday today? A couple days ago. A couple days ago. A couple days ago. Yeah, you look great. How old are you?

I am 28 now. 28, man. God, nice to be 28 again. Chili, head on back there. Where's Alex? Where's Alex Zimmer, store manager, extraordinary? We got, we got... Oh, yeah, that's a good dog.

Here's the meat. leader store. I don't think Alec is here. Oh, no. He's not there? Who's managing this place? Alex. The dog.

Is Kaye? Is Kaye there? Nobody's here. It's just John and Stefan. They're not nobody. Go talk to them. I saw one of the store boys was getting a tattoo.

Chillie. Let's bring us back to the front here. John, you're going to be the store manager stand in here. This is Randall Williams Meteor Radio You're live on the grand finale live extravaganza.

I'm just wondering, I know you guys are loyal members of the media radio live audience. How are you guys dealing with the fact that this show is getting canned? Oh, man. Well, we've had it playing since 11 o'clock sharp. And I would say this episode here has been just a smidge unhinged. And we've had a lot of people walk by the TV and like stop in their tracks. and like tune in to random subjects

that we've been covering but it's been very entertaining we've been loving it we've been laughing yeah what's your favorite episode of Media Radio Live from like the first half of its run like early 2025

late 2024 oh boy I don't even know if I can remember an episode surely you could remember one episode fake fan they're all so memorable I might have been working while he was watching yeah a lot of them I might not even have been working.

That's okay, John. Hey, let me ask you another question. If we were going to continue this show for another, say, 15 months, what are some guests you'd love to have seen on Radio Live? Oh, man, that's a tough question. Well, me, of course. Oh, come on down. We got eight right here.

Hey! We love it. Good energy. I hardly even see him. That's a good guy right there. All you guys are good guys. guys. Hey, so who would you like? I mean, other than yourself, you guys are all welcome when Alec gets back to leave him there and come down to the studio. Any favorite segments from radio

live? You guys have any, I mean, what is the show meant to you? It was always my favorite. Yeah. Watching Randall Eat A Hotogs is pretty cool, too. Yeah. We got to get Pat Durkin in the store. Oh, we should do a Pat Durkin, a Pat Durkin night at the meat eater store. guys busy today a lot of foot traffic it's snowy outside not too much

there's a couple people in here shopping we should go interview them what's the Randall hot dog count out to it's just eight we ran out well we can door dash tomorrow yeah well I don't know it's probably not good for me who's actually in charge

in there I guess he's good to find me Johnny driving over the past night roads look little tough out there. Yeah, it'll be interesting. I'll see you on the side of the road.

Yeah, see in the ditch. Yeah, I'll see in the ditch later. I might fall asleep behind the wheel. Yeah, I didn't really think through how we'd end this segment. So if you guys have any final thoughts for a radio live audience, or maybe what the show's meant to you, you can feel free to share that now. It's been great. The Meat Eater Radio Live has always been great background.

audio Yeah. Do you find it help sales or hurt sales? It definitely like gives the wives and kids

something to do when they can do. That's a great answer. It helps sales more than anything I would say. Stract the kids and the wives it's always good for shopping.

Yeah, you guys are naturals here. That's a great answer. I'm glad we had Chili drive over there just for this. Yeah, Chili, sorry about that. We appreciate your

real team player drive safe on the roads and maybe we'll see it the cannery later yeah see you see boys at the can all right take care boys hi chile thanks jillie man that's a bunch of good guys that work in the store if uh if randall were we got top three list coming later if he were to do his top three favorite humans i think all three would be store boys oh yeah i love it they make me feel young yeah they kind of they need a reality show yeah just like especially yeah For sure. Especially at the house.

Yeah, like a 24-7 reality show. Yeah. The storeboy's house is cool. Yeah. They've got a lot of aquariums and terrariums. The other day, so I'm neighbors with them, sort of. The other day, I was like with my wife, holding laundry in our master bedroom. Something that's never occurred in their house.

No, it was at our house. And like, we hear this just loud obnoxious. something just cruising down the street and all of a sudden it's in our driveway it's K down as new to him motorcycle it's like a 1980 motorcycle like a tricycle

but yeah it was just obnoxious oh that's great a three wheeler Kade stored a boat at my house for like 10 days it was in rough shape Is he hiding it from someone? No it's a weird amount of time it was like a boat that was in his family and he was going to fix it up but then it

he needed some place to store it before you could get it to like his dad's place or so i don't really remember but i just get it and then one time he texted me is like hey we just like messed up my truck on livingston peak do you have a bunch of wire that we can use to attach my uh muffler so uh just you know there's there's like a lot of happiness and joy in this world that comes from just young dudes doing uh doing interesting stuff we got someone in the chat saying that there is taco bell on route to the hq oh my god Who was that? Who said that? That was collagander?

Collagander, your real one. Randall better do attention. Oh, she's finger in the store. Oh, my goodness gracious. Yeah, our celebration there was because her profile picture on YouTube is her in the meat eater store hanging with the store boys. That's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah, Alec, man, you missed your window.

Sorry, buddy. Yeah. Okay, Phil. Really quick, I'm going to make a new audio file for the podcast version. YouTube will not be affected in anything. I'll run upstairs my desk. You sure about that? It's a meat eater radio live fake out. Okay, we're not doing

listener feedback right now. I didn't use all $100 of my cameo budget on Santa. In fact, I bought a second cameo. This next cameo you're going to see is a witch from Canada who is predicting the future of

the next meat eater podcast. So Phil, please play that cameo for us. Good morning, my friends. Phil Randall and Spencer. I want to start out by thanking you so much for your purchase. It is literally because of people like you guys. That support my channel. That support my cameo.

That support my TikTok that I can do what I do. So I just wanted to take a small second to say thank you. And I appreciate all of you guys. So let's have a look at the question. So Phil Randall and Spencer are starting a new podcast that covers outdoor news. I like that. We're not. reading with advice and predictions for their new show.

Could you also give advice to fans who are sad that their old show is done? All right. So the first thing I'm going to say is I'm a brutally honest reader. I tell people they're not going to make the NHL every day. I literally do. Let's have a look. Yes, this is actually going to work. I'm seeing that you guys are going to start the podcast, probably the first four to

five months, it's going to feel like if it's dragging. So I'm going to warn you guys that the first four to five months, it's not going to be exactly where you want it to be. I don't want you to panic, though, because in the four or five hours, Mark, someone discovers you. You are going to be talked about on some kind of a show, and that's going to make a big difference, because whoever this person is is highly influential

and is going to give you guys a really cool voice. You guys are literally going to wake up to, you know, thousands of people tuning in more, and it's going to feel quite incredible. I really think that you guys have a crack, at this. I think if you guys really push through, because the first like six months might be a little rougher than you thought

but I'm seeing that you guys can really, really be popular. You guys can 100% show up in the top podcast, I think. You guys are going to win awards for this. Award! Whoa! Wow. And whoever discovers you is going to become a long-term friend of the podcast. It's going to become someone that

you guys can really, really trust, someone that you guys can really, really use in your surroundings. And that will constantly help you guys promote. So there's a big blessing there. Honestly, I think you guys are doing the good strategic pivot. I honestly think that you guys are going to be successful and doing it for a really long time. She's a suit. I see that this podcast is coming to something very, very big. Now, for the fans that are a little sad, this is a strategic pivot. I'm telling you guys right now,

you guys have just started seeing the Christmas tree. Those are the same cards. This is literally going to blow your mind if you can give them the time to change. and to pivot yes things might have changed with the podcast yes what you liked isn't there but I'm telling you now the strategic pivot is going to bring you guys so much further with these people and you guys are going to see pure magic and bliss so I'm telling you guys now like I literally tell people they're not going to be successful I really think you guys are sitting on something you guys have to put the work in you guys actually have to push through but it's going to be really successful and honestly you guys are going to be

beginning major brand deals because of it. Oh, major brands. Can I am. Derry Queen? Not you. I'm excited. I'm excited. Okay.

How much was that? Sophie, the Canadian, which was the, I don't remember the whole breakdown of my budget, but they were about 50-50. That was, and Spencer, you can explain where the origins of that are. The origins of that. Well, your desire to have a... If this show was going to go forever, I wanted us to bring in a taro card reader one day. And I was going to look up where I was going to look up where I was,

our five most popular states are like Michigan, Texas, Pennsylvania, Colorado, I think those are four of them. She was going to read tarot cards for hunters and anglers in those states. She was going to read our zodiac signs and say these two hosts would work good together, but maybe these two wouldn't work so good together. But media radio live didn't make it long enough. So we had to, you know, spend part of our cameo budget on Sophie, the Canadian Witch. So she said there that you guys need to hang with us for the first four or five months, but then maybe around like August, man, it's going to turn on. Oh, wow.

And just keep hammering. I like that she was insistent that she tells most people they won't succeed. Yeah. She was very flattering, though, towards us. Specifically hockey players. Yeah. She does a lot of readings for aspiring NHL players. A lot of junior hockey.

How many witches or tarot card readers are there on cameo? So there's like a bottom of the barrel cameo. Like their categories, like under, $500, under $250. There's a category under $25. Randall Williams. That is where Sophie the Canadian witch was that. You ought to think about

that. Alright, Phil, let's do some list of your feedback for real. And then Randall is going to give you guys the office tour of your dreams. Max, Alex, thanks you guys for joining us. You can stick around if you want for the office tour or you're welcome to go. I got to do dishes. I got to do some work.

Okay. Taco Bell be here anymore. This is work. Randall will catch help you with you a little bit on his office. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'll see in my office. I'll see on the, see on the second and third floors. Yeah, I think I could do a cameo where people pay a service not to get a video from me. Oh, okay. It's like they get a text that's like one of those sort of, it's like a antivirus warning. It's like, if you do not pay $39 now, a video of Randall will show up on your phone. That could be wild. I could make literally tens of dollars. Yeah, yeah. All right, Phil, what do you got?

This is from Scrub Life, Danny. Will we ever see another spouse trivian episode? It was up there with one of my favorite, four one of my favorite episodes of all time. Good question, Danny. I have it scheduled in April. We just figured out the calendars about two weeks ago. So Corey's wife will be here, Phil's wife will be here, Randall's wife will be here, my wife will be here. And so we are going to be doing that in about eight weeks from now. and the Taco Bell has just arrived.

That is a heavy bang. I hope you're seeing this. There's more dairy queen. More Baja Blas. Okay. Oh, you're a hero. Wow. Is something floating at the top of that drink?

Oh, these are dilly bars. There is something floating at the top of it. What is happening there? No marshmallows? Is it one of those weird effed-up Taco Bell seasonal drinks where they put like candy in their soda? What is it, Bill? I have no idea. More fan-ordered DoorDash has just arrived.

We thank you guys. Oh, there's only one dog. That's good. Should we get those ice creams in the freezer or somebody going to take one right now? Probably toss them in the freezer for now. Hey, Alex, can we send the ice cream with you? And then Phil has some more listener feedback. Ice cream bars with movie club. Chiro.

The spouse episode is coming in about two months from now. Cool. I'm just going to start grabbing ones that I see. It's a very wide filter here. The Dubster says, Hey, friends, have you ever considered smoking your clothes with a campfire as a means of scent control?

I've heard about it, but never tried it. Thoughts? No, I've never tried that. I feel like that's doing the opposite of what I want my scent control to be, which is just zero cent. So I've never done anything around a campfire like that. How about you guys?

I mean, I've started campfires in the woods and thought about it. Like, oh, maybe this will help me out. But never like, you know, intentionally like hovering over a fire to mask my scent. But I honestly personally think it would help. Yeah.

Make you smell less of a human more like a burnt tree. It's definitely occurred to me like when I am sitting around a fire after I've been sweating all day. Like this probably is a good thing. But it's not a, it's not a strategy that I do actively. What else you got, Phil? Let's see. Seth Stutes or Seth's Toots says,

Holy crap, still live streaming? Yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah, my, my thoughts exactly, Seth. We have hours left, Seth. I'm pretty sure we said six hours and we're almost at five. So it'd be weird if we weren't doing that. Yeah.

And I would say we are going at least an hour over today. Oh, my God, yeah. Someone asked if all the store boys live together? The answer is yes. Well, like a good number of them. There's like a healthy, there's a quorum. And I think they rotate in and out a little bit. Yeah, yeah.

Sometimes like they go to guide somewhere else. Randall, what's the best hot dog to beer ratio? That's from Isaac. Hmm. That's a good question. Two to one? You know, two beers to one dog or? Two dogs to one.

It's tough. I mean, because most. At a ball game. Say you're at a ball game. I mean, if you go to like a snack bar, you get one beer and two hot dogs. Okay. And then you don't get two hot dogs every time you get a beer. I don't know, the math gets tricky.

I've always wanted to do the 9-99 challenge. Have you? I've always wanted to do that. That means, what does it mean, random? Nine beers, nine dogs, and nine innings. And if I were a smarter man, I would have done it before they did the pitch clock. Oh, yeah. Because back in the day, I feel like it would have been much easier.

Now it's like real tidy, whatever. or two and a half hours or something. A couple summers ago, Randall was going to a minor league baseball game, and he had said beforehand that he might try the 9-9-9 challenge then, and the boon of it was that his wife wasn't going to be there. Oh, yeah.

I thought maybe he can't do that while Sidney's in attendance. Yeah, I just, I mean, it's not like, I mean, she would, it's not like she would stop me from doing it, but I've just, it's like having your conscience. You know, like I know that it's not a, good. I know it's not a good thing to do. I know it's not a good thing. You don't think she's going to go get the ninth dog and beer for you? No, I don't think she'd be cheering for me.

And I feel like she shouldn't. Let's be honest here. Let's be honest here. But yeah, I think when I went to the BHA rendezvous, there was a Missoula paddleheads slash Osprey game that weekend. It's going to happen someday, Randall. You're going to go throughout a first pitch somewhere. And then after that, they're going to present you with the nine and nine. I'd be great. Yeah. Yeah. What else you got, Phil? Uh, yeah, we have Nate saying, who thinks Randall needs to get on cameo? Exactly. Yep. Did anybody say yes?

No. I mean, it might be a, he's just, he's just asking if anybody thinks this is a good idea. You know what your bit should be? You should read tarot cards without any practice. Yeah. Just make a guess. I mean, would it make a difference? You tell people, like, you know, normally, I've got to tell a lot of hockey players that they're not going to make them in the NHL. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know what demographic would go for Randall's cameo. Bill? We've got RT for Liberty, who's in the chat often every week. He says, about to swap earbuds, been here since the start. Let's keep it going. That's what I like to hear. What does that mean? Is earboat to die?

Yeah. The show is the only thing dying today. It's the batteries on his on his earbuds. You need to go back to the wired. Yeah. Taylor Ferguson asked of Brody got a tattoo. He did indeed. Brod is that.

He was first tattoo live on Media to Radio Live. I have to scrub back a few hours. Back in the Janus Putellis hour, probably about two thirds of the way through. Brody came in and showed off his tattoo. Let's see. A lot of questions for Brent Reeves when he was in the chat. Phil,

are you going to get in a tattoo, you think, or no? Yeah. When Randall goes off to do the tour, I'm just going to set it full screen and have you guys just ask questions and provide commentary

and I'm going to go see how the tattoo chairs down. Okay, and full screen means that we can see the chat as well. Yes, you'll still be able to see the chat. Before that happens, I'm going to do a 10-1. then I'm ready to be here for a while. Randall, what kind of stuff to be you have from Taco Bell over there?

Randall, you got to try one of these, like, cream-filled Cinebond donut holes. Oh, yeah, those come with the breakfast combos. They're not bad. They're pretty explicit when you bite into them, but they're okay. So we've got churros and the cinnabonds. Oh, thanks. Oh, like the cinnamon twist. No, they're like

Little Cinnamon Donut holes Oh Oh well these are full of Oh I see the You're calling a churro a cinnamon twist We got churros too And two Baja Blast Mountain Dews And a mango

Refresca That has little dehydrated mangoes I think I tried one Yeah it looks It looks like marshmallows And if you're watching This is a good time to take 101 yourself

Or 102 If you're feeling brave Turn 2 boss? Oh. I feel like we're going strong. Corey, I apologize. Do you have a hard doubt today?

Not necessarily. No, I'm taking the next four or five days off after this. Yeah, but I mean, are we going to screw up your evening? You know, I should probably hit the road by about 5.30, 6 o'clock. Yeah, we can do the last couple segments without you. I would imagine so. What time is it? It's almost four.

It's almost four now. Another hour and a half. Yeah. Since you're asking. People are asking if we're going to get a new studio, sneak peek during the live tour. I'm thinking we will. I'm thinking so. It's not fully complete, but it is mostly constructed.

But, you know, all the knick-knacks and lighting and stuff are that it's not there yet. There is someone in the chat with the last name Henderson that says they have the same tattoo as Brody. No way. Similar Henderson clan. Yeah, apparently the Henderson clan is strong. Clan identity. Let's see, we've got Jake. It looks like we can do a quick tattoo update really quick.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who's in the chair now? Oh, it's Reva. My fellow podcast. Engineer. Engineer and producer and all things, analytics. Let's talk to Reva. Going down on the leg.

Riva, how's it going? Yeah. It's going fantastic. Cool. And this is, this is, this is, This is not your first tattoo that you've gotten from Baker, correct? It's done. It's a buffalo skull.

That's cool. Oh, wow. You're getting your finger tats. You're getting the company's money worth. Hey, Reba, good for you. These weren't from today. Oh, I see. Gotcha.

Nice. So you wrap it up there then. Oh, no. I can't understand what I'm watching. never mind. Yeah, yeah, that's it. It's all done. Okay.

That means, I think they're ready for Phil over there. Are you guys ready for Phil to hop in the seat of honor? Oh, goodness. Okay. So, yeah, when I take off, this feels like sending my kid off to kindergarten on the school bus for the first time. And I'm scared. I'm nervous, but proud. I'm going to be leaving this room and leaving it up to Jake, who will come in here and run the live tour with Randall.

Phil, shoot me that link, dog. Oh, yeah, that's a good idea. also Jake could you bring me another Coor's Light please there was they we were out oh no door dash god I've got some in my desk third floor floor conference room I think we have some Montucky down here

yeah yeah there are cold snacks okay I'm heading over there right now Jake okay okay so what is going to happen is Phil is going to go get his tattoo we're going to be flying blind for a little bit And in the meantime, Randall Williams is going to give you the best tour of the meat eater office that you could possibly have. Getting a little feedback. I got to let the...

Yeah, they should have waited. This is his first time. That's okay. And there he goes. Okay. It's just you and me, Spencer. So right now we are still looking at the tattoo artist. And then Jake will soon scurry over here.

Oh, look there's Phil Taylor. He was very quick. Nice. I'm looking to get it down on the long. Phil? Phil, what tattoo are we getting? I think I'm going to get a highway marker sign of Highway 1 in California, like the one that runs down the coast through Big Sur.

It's one of my favorite places in the world. Some of my favorite bands have written songs about it. Is it Ventura Highway? It's not Ventura Highway. It's a different highway. Okay. But that's a great song, too. I love the band, America.

Yeah. Okay, Phil. You make this tattoo quick because we already. miss you over here. How does the fresh air feel out there? It's incredible and I recommend it. I know you just were out here but I kind of don't want to come back. Is that okay? Yeah, that's okay.

Yeah, we can do this. All right. I'll do the rest of the show, though. We will check in on you later and then Jake is going to come over here and he is going to beam up Randall so we can see that office tour. Before we get to the Randall Williams office tour, Corey,

you are going on a hunt this weekend. I am. Can we talk about it? Yeah. Oh, sure. What are you doing? What are you hunting for? I was going to go out, do a little spot and stock hunt for some wolves. A very badass hunt to do solo, which is what Corey is going to do. Tell us about the logistics, what you have to do. Man, well, with the lack of snow and the warm weather we've had, this road that I'd like to access, typically you can't get into this zone without a snowmobile. But now I can drive a vehicle in there. I was actually going to take one of our Can Am defenders in there just in case, because we are getting snow at the moment. A little mix of snow and rain, so it's going to be sloppy. Got a nice wench on the front in case I need to winch myself out of a hole. But yeah, going for about five days. I got a

spot where I've seen wolves consistently. And it can spot and stocking, so I'll use predator calls. And I'll probably just sit in this one burn where a lot of deer and elk like to winter. And I'm just going to hang out there for about four days and hopefully catch a pack or a solo, just roaming back through. Do you do any calling while you're there? Yeah, I'll do like just a wounded rabbit or a wounded fawn call, mouth call, and then I'll also set out an electronic call. The wolves you're hunting, what do you think they're eating this time of year? Deer and elk. Like that's 100% of their diet. Mm-hmm. Okay. I have rabbits. Coyote. Well, there's not too many coyotes in this area because there's so many wolves. Okay. Yeah. Northwest Montana. The balance of predator and prey is a little

out of whack up there. You're going to go help it out, though. Yeah, I'm going to do my best. What's the weather like that you got coming? Rainy. It's going to be very wet. It's like right on that like upper 30s, low 40s mix of snow at night rain during the day. So it's going to be quite a first light product wear test. There you go. See if our new rain jacket holds up long enough.

I think it's badass to go do any solo hunt no matter what it is, even if it's like the most basic thing. Just like going out there and doing it yourself and figuring it out and being responsible for your own well-being and your own success. and you're doing that at like 10x with this hunt you're doing I'm very excited to hear how it goes. Oh yeah, I'm excited. Well, keep your fingers crossed for me just because the access getting in,

especially with this weather. Okay. Could be a little iffy. But yeah, thanks. I'll keep you posted. Corey is going to be on our news program next week talking about the wolf. I hope so.

Hopefully I bring back a little wolf meat for the next roast episode. We'll see. TBD. Okay, Randall is ready to give us the office tour. There he is. Randall, where we at? Yeah. And I thought we're going to have all this fishing stuff.

Yep. Oh, can't hear us. Randall can't hear us. Can anybody hear us right now, Jake? They should be able to. I think it's possible his phone has not been turned up. Oh, good call. He might have turned it down when he left.

I'll text them. He's hanging up. We're live. And then he's going to call back in and try this again. We're determined to get this office tour off the ground. I have to say, sitting here and seeing myself in Phil's camera is in some ways

a testament to his good looks because this feels very unflattering. Yeah, my face is giant right now. Welcome, Reva, Reva, what are you doing here? Reva! Just here to enjoy. So gave me permission to come and steal donut holes. Please, please, sine buns right here. Take whatever you like.

Would you like any relish or Baja blast or half of Randall's chili dog? How about a banana? super well with this. Okay. We're getting a thumbs up from Randall. Should we try again? Okay. Randall is ready to go. Randall, where are you standing? Hello? Guys, I'm standing right here. Oh, my hands covered. I'm standing right here in the kitchen where we film the hit YouTube series Media to Rose.

You'll see right here the refrigerator that you know from Rose. Right there's the stove. Randall, Randall, yesterday I had heard that that that refurb. refrigerator kind of smelled, would you open it up and take a whiff and give us a yes or no on what it smells like, bad or good? Curious, what expired condiments might be in there. Yeah, it smells bad in that one. What do you think is the, uh, is causing the problems?

Couldn't be that half and half. I don't really know. He's got his whole face in the fridge. It's hard to, it's hard to manage the camera and smell the refrigerator at the same time. Stick the phone in the fridge. There's definitely a weird smell. The baking soda we've got here is not really helping. Oh, okay.

That's just one half of the fridge. Now he's going to open the other half. And does that half smell better or worse than the right half? There's not much in here. But it just kind of smells like, it smells like a meat processor. Okay. Like when you go to drop off a deer at a butcher, what that room smells like. That's what it smells like in here.

Okay. All right, continue with the tour. It's not terrible. So right now in the kids. kitchen, we're doing a little secret photo shoot for some brand new first light products. Oh, careful. If there is... Wow, we did get a little glimpse.

If somebody is paying close attention, they're going to figure out what we have there. Top secret. Hey, I'm in the closer. Hey, Nick. They're in the closer right now. We've got, I can see we've got a parking lot out this way. There's Steve's truck in the handicapped spot. Steve's still in the building.

And that pickup was backed in, correct? That's correct. So right now we're in the meat eater, the meat eater corporate gym. We've got an exercise bike here. We've got a little treadmill, got a little stair climber, and some freeways. Can you give us an example of a workout you like to do, Randall? Well, see this box drop thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll usually just come in, I'll usually just come in here and sit like this when I'm supposed to be doing something else because no one looks in here. No one ever expects to find me in here. So I'm just sitting like that. It's pretty straightforward. It's a nice quiet room to think in. You can see here there's a contest between Garrett and Nate as to who can do the most.

reps during work. Uh-huh. I don't know what that does for their efficiency. Yeah. Who would fool around on work hours? Yeah. Yeah. Seems like a giant waste of company resources.

Right. Okay. What else you got? Now I'm in Chili's office. Ooh, the gear room. I'm in Chili's office. That's the first Black Bear I ever killed right there. Oh.

And I'm... Oh. He's in a lot of cameras and stuff. Real expensive stuff in here. No one's supposed to be in here. Chile has, I think, the only office that has a keypad lock on it to keep people out of there. True. Yes, that's true.

And even if Chile didn't have valuable things in there, he'd probably still lock his door to keep people out. That's right. Okay, where are you at now? So now I'm walking past the podcast studio. I can hear him. Oh, wow. This is the entryway to the podcast studio. Uh-huh.

What's going on in there? And I'm walking down the hallway now. I'm walking south. and here's Phil getting tattooed. Oh, wow. It's chilly. We made it back. No, chilly.

Welcome. Way to go, buddy. Got some Zins and a Celsius, too. That's nice. Good stuff. Thumbs up, okay. How's your stuff going, Phil? Well, it hasn't started.

So, honestly, reclining here for just a few minutes has been incredible. Good, good, good. That's much to be hidden. Phil, what are all these wires in here for? I don't know. Or five, maybe. Wow. There's still three, four, or five tattoos to go.

Wow. Good work, Phil. Yeah, Corey's got to get one. Don't let Spencer chicken out. Phil says don't let Spencer chicken out. Run up that tab in there. We tip well too at me, Deeder. What I'm going to do now is give our audience the world's first glimpse at the new podcast studio.

Yeah, there's people who. work here who haven't even seen in this space yet can you turn a light on random do we have those i don't know i don't know clap your hands no i hit the switch and they don't work no lights okay um but you can see here there's some nice wood paneling mm-hmm some leather furniture there's some antlers mm-hmm a lot of antelopes skulls oh shit uh there's a coffee table that i just hit my on. Okay. There's a what I believe is a whale vertebrae.

Uh-huh. From Heather DeVille. Yeah, and it's just, it's like a little museum of sorts. But classy, not like Phil's podcast studio. Right. Much better ventilation in that space. Yeah.

Yeah, what's the temp in there? It's actually a decent temp right now. It's fairly comfortable. I can't tell, though, because my body just feels weird at this point. the hot dogs. I'm going to take the tour now. I guess we'll wander around here.

There's a hallway with some offices. This zone is kind of a mystery, I think, for most of the office, despite there being, you know, like a half a dozen employees down there, doesn't get a lot of foot traffic. Hey, there's our HR director. She's live on radio live. Does she have a dog with her? She does.

Okay, nice little pun. I think she's going for a dog, a dog, potty break. I'm going to walk down the FHF hallway here. Oh, yeah. Look for Paul Lewis. They share a building with us. We are still only on floor one of three floors for the Meadeter HQ tour.

Randall has to kill enough time for Phil to get an entire tattoo. So let's look inside every nook and cranny, Randall. There's Paul. There's Paul Lewis, the founder of FHF tier. He's running away. He walked away from me. I don't think he wants to talk to us. He's one move away from slamming the door on you.

Paul's too good at his job for this nonsense. Seems like a big distraction to me. Yeah, yeah, it is. That's, yeah. Here's Nate Mason. Hey, Nick Mason. You're live on radio lives. But you're live on radio live.

No, no. We've got Inception going now. We've got. Is it going to work? Oh, you're scrubbing. There might be a little delay. How's Chip doing today? Dude, he's being as done as always.

Oh, you get your bone. You get your little. Nate, how are you doing today? Great man. Just enjoying the Olive Garden. I wanted some of those synobons. There's more in there and should go ahead of it up. There's Nate's decorations and his saber.

That's a good guy. Nate, can you do me a favor? Yeah. I heard a rumor that on the. third floor in the refrigerator, there are some Coors lights. Would you see if there are any and bring them to me? Dude, time me, bro. We're on our way.

Okay, go, Nate. I'm timing you right now. Let's see how quick you can do this. Oh, he's got help too. Oh, go chip. Okay, good. Okay, Randall is exiting the FHF wing. That concludes our tour of the first floor. Yep, he's now going to walk backwards up the stairs to show you how talented he is.

Nate's making a lot of noise. I think I can hear him. So here we're getting to the... We're getting to the second floor. I'm surprised you didn't take the elevator. It's got to do that on the way down. Oh, yeah. We do have an elevator that goes to two of our three floors.

Very useful. Here's our kitchen. Now, here's the highlight of the tour. We're going to go to Phil's office. Uh-huh. This is the office of Phil Taylor. Phil has a large collection of Legos and Tiki Mugs. He's probably got the biggest teaky mug collection in all of Bozeman.

Whoa, one minute. Wow. Nate, you made it. Nate had made it with a beer one minute and seven seconds. That is a meat eater office record. Bad news, though. All I got is still looking. Okay.

He got some yogurt. He brought us yogurt and N.A. Bios. That's all I have. Thank you, Nate. I do need to get, where'd the Cinebuns go? Back with Jake. In that bag. I didn't know I had that power.

And then I'm going to steal the Baja Blas. Right there with the straw. Very impressive. Thank you much, Nate. Okay, Phil, where are we at now on the tour? Good wampum. I'm in the, I'm in the conference room where we planned this show yesterday. Seems like ages ago.

Refrigerator's been restocked. Ooh. Drinks, some snacks. Uh-huh. So that's good. That's good. If folks, if folks want, I'll show them Seth Morris's office. Yes, please. The new father. Yeah. This is what a, this is what a dad's office looks like. Hmm. New dad. Yeah, I can see. But usually Seth, usually Seth's right there. Yeah. That's where he sits. I mean, he does pictures and stuff on that.

Seth has the best. I don't know much about. Seth has the best sight line in the office. Show people from Seth's door how far down the hallway he can see. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, and out in the parking lot. Look at all those backed in vehicles. Uh-huh. Yeah.

That was four-for-four-four pickups were backed in there in our parking lot. Yeah. Seth can see all the way across the building. Wow. It's pretty remarkable. Yeah. That's where a predator would like to be. Hey, there he is.

And Ruby. Oh, there's Maggie. She's wearing headphones. You can't hear me. working the magic post production she obviously isn't watching oh she's watching the tour oh crazy thanks for all the support maggie smith oh man oh i think it just i think it just broke the internet oh we're down to three digits now 937 okay yeah we're losing people randall it's time to make this interesting what do you want me to do

Look for Steve. See if Steve's here? Yeah. Yeah, that would actually... We've got to go to Steve. We've got to save the live stream. Calling Audible. We've got to save the live stream.

Oh, we're down to 900. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. They're flocking. It's a mass migration. Why would they leave now? I know. But they want to see where we work?

Still, that's three times. Maybe they just have technical difficulties. Oh, we're back up to a thousand. We did it. Okay. Oh, doors closed. Oh. I wonder if...

Steve's doors closed. I don't know if he's busy. Knocked three times. Hold on one sec. You don't want to interrupt Steve in an important meeting. Are you busy? Oh, you're live on media radio. Hey, look like that.

Steve, Benel. I can't believe it. Yeah. Steve, tell us about some of your favorite things in your office. Okay. He's getting out of his chair. He's looking around. Well, I'll tell you what.

See this right here? Mm-hmm. This, this. You think you're looking at a polar bear. I would, yeah. That's a black bear that I left in the window for a long time. Really? Yeah.

That's impressive. What other interesting stuff you got? My beautiful wife. Oh, great photo. Very nice. Yeah. Big fisherman. Big, big, big fisherman.

She looks happy in that. All she does is fish. You want to talk about a lady. The expression on her face says this is where I've always wanted to be. That is one fishing lady right there. Yep, yep. That's a fishing lady. Yeah, she's in her element.

She's probably fishing right now. Good fishing conditions out there. I got you this book. Remember I was telling you about this? Yeah. I got it for you for a present. Thank you. Oh, wow.

I was just to Brianna the other day when she told me that this is on the way. I already read this book. Well, I was just telling you about it. I know. I read it as soon as he told me about it. But then I said to her, I have to read it again because it's told for the perspective of a drug addict. So it needs at least two or three reasons. I really like it when he sits on the truck seat and there's the baby rabbits in the truck. That's one of my first parts.

Steve, can you show us one or two more things? Read that whole book on the show. Can you show us one or two more things in there, Steve? Oh, boy. Yeah, just like just kind of keeping your listeners in mind. what they might find interesting um this is i this is i this is i rendered this mangroil myself oh oh man who made man who made man wow shot glass worth yeah um my dad this was my dad's he was old he's he talked about how old this was oh and he do you have any idea of old this no look at it

That's cool. He had a good joke, though. He'd say, not of this, but a joke is you say, like, this is my great, great, great, great grandfather's hatchet. Yeah. But it's had three new handles and two new heads. You got it? Just that thing about that.

Here's a Messiah spear. Dang. Got that for a hundred bucks, which is really surprising. But someone told me that a lot of things are 100. If someone's really old, like, how old were they? They'd be like, 100. Yeah. Because they don't, they're just, yeah, they're just something don't pay attention to.

So when we ask them, how much for that spear? He's like, 100. What is that meant to cut through we're cut into? Oh, they bring them, the guys, so they'll, see how it's got this spike on the end? Uh-huh. When they're doing something, they just drop it and just into the ground. That's a good idea. And then they use them to defend their stock.

Hmm. Okay. Huh. We ran into some guys, and a hyena had killed one of their, a hyena had killed one of their sheep, one of their goats, and they were heading out to, they were heading out to kill that hyena with some dogs, and they had Spears with them. Okay.

Pretty standard office decor. These are squirrel coozys. Oh, now we're talking. Beautiful. Have you ever actually used it? No. No. Here's a turtle shell, like an honest-to-god turtle shell, turned into a turkey call.

Ooh, let's hear it. What do you mean? Oh, there it is. Sorry, we couldn't hear it here, even with the headphones on. Oh, very subtle. Yep. Yeah, it's not loud. Okay, good stuff.

That would kill a turkey. Oh, here's some. This guy grew up just down the beach That's John Gary That's me as an adult But he lived I grew up just down the shoreline We're on the shoreline here And when you were a little kid

If you got your rod tangled up Or something or you're real broke You'd go find him And he would fix it And then I always tell Yanni this story Is Yanni in there with you guys? No he's gone He couldn't handle it

John Gary around this time John Gary told me I was at his house and he kept lists of all the books he read and every day he fished and he would cut up oranges

and put him in his freezer and then you'd make a vodka drink and put the frozen oranges in it he was one day telling me he said if you give me I'll sell you my house for $70,000 and you can have it right down to my shoes and he pointed to his shoes.

But he says, the catch is, I live here till I die. And I didn't do it. It was a very, very, very smart thing to do. Sounds like a cultured man. I wasn't at that mind, you know. Like you said it to me now, I'd get on the phone.

I'd be like, I got the hot one. That's like asking somebody for $100. Yeah, I'd be like, I got a hot deal. I just need some cash. It's going to be good. All right. Thank you, Steve. I appreciate you entertaining us.

Well, I'm out in time. This is probably last chance I'll have all. How are we doing? How's our viewer account doing? It bumped back up to 154. 1,054. Yeah, it started to go down when I began the tour. That's why I ran over here.

It looked like yours. Or just me. The camera angle, I think. Nice, Steve. Very, very good camera angle. Okay. We're still on the second floor. We've seen Steve's corner office.

That's where Corey and Janus used to work. Yep, that looks familiar. There's Matt Miller. He's watching the live stream. All right. Thank you, Matt. We're about to Inception. It's happening, yep.

That's sweet. You did it. Oh, you know what people would like to see? You're going to tell me. They probably like to see the free table. Oh, yeah. I'd like to see that. Now, the free table was recently cleansed,

so you're only seeing about 20% of what the free table stock normally is. Yeah. FHS air harness. Airframe. It's the Meteor's American History, Volume 1 on CD. Ooh. There's a company that turns digital audio products into CDs for libraries and things. We got one, but I don't have a CD player, so it's on the free table.

Okay. And what's that map? Free books. the map uh this is a uh i don't want to turn it does that look no that doesn't look it's a map of the 50 united states you're supposed to fill in with a photo of your adventures from those different states oh interesting what are the photo who do you think that belonged to before i see a few photos it's steve oh he didn't quite accomplish the whole map and there's directions here oh so i guess you go to a website and print off your photo

in the shape of those states. That has been on the free table for probably a year. That's just a staple of the free table now. It's pretty big. It's pretty big. Randall walked by his favorite room, the nursing room. He's not going to show us there. And I mean, I'm sure the people on the live stream don't need to know this,

but this is what podcasting excellence looks like. Hey. Uh-huh. It's a... On, or I guess YouTube, I don't know. A plaque that YouTube sent us for having a million subscribers. Randall is now making his way up to the third and final floor. Some would say this is the best floor of the Me, Dieter, HQ office.

Here's a bear that Brody killed. That's a big bear. I thought that was Clay Newcomb's bear. I think it's Brody's. Okay. I could be wrong. I'm going to fact check you there. Maybe Brody's not a hall.

We can ask him. There's a Buffalo robe. Yep. Oh, yeah, walk over to that overlook real quick, Randall, and show us that glass window. One day, probably two years ago, there was a bird that got stuck in here, and it was pinned up against that corner, and it took about half a dozen Meadeer employees to finally free it. And it crapped all over the office. It was a scary day here at Me Deerre H.C., but we solved it. There's a dead bug on that window now.

Okay, very good. 50% of those cars were backed in there. Uh-huh. Alex isn't at work? I see a chess table. Do you think he plays chess at work? He does. There's Garrett Long.

You know he's watching. He's definitely watching. Yeah. What would you like to say to the Meteor Radio Live final audits? I think it's too bad that it's being canceled. Yeah. Steve was afraid of sharing the spotlight with emerging talent. Yeah.

That's a great point. Yeah. Yeah. Good thing Steve's not watching. right now. Yeah, we, we are proving him right. Yeah. Alex's office, yeah, he's got the chess board. He sends a weekly slack message probably and says, please, somebody come play me in chess. So if you want to get employed here at me, did you put that on your resume that you will play Alex at chess? What's unsettling, I don't know if you

can see at the end of the hallway, there's a giant TV with me on it right now. No way. How is that possible? Nobody's watching it. I'll bring you into a Here's Corey and Janice's office. Oh, look at that. That's Corey's desk. Yep. That's Janice's desk. Yonis' desk is clean.

Well, yeah. What makes desks messy? Stuff. Work. Yeah, lots of work. Work. Endless work. Yanni's got about a half dozen muley skulls on the ground there, and then he's got

his biggest one, an absolute whopper. It's 196 inches, I think, he said that deer is. We got to rescore that. Then he's got a half dozen that need to be hung on the wall yet. That's Yanni's pile of deer. Corey, make a prediction as to when those will get hung on the wall. You know, I'd say by the end of the end of March. Okay, they've already been there for, I think, what, two weeks?

Three, probably. Three weeks he's had a half dozen skulls on the ground, and Corey is predicting that in the next three weeks they're going to get hung. Is my computer on, Randall? It's playing sound. I don't know what it is, though. It's probably the show. If you tell me your password, I could log in and turn it on.

You need my finger for that. Oh, yeah. That's okay. Just that we... We like the subscribers. We like the views. Okay. That must be Yanni's mountain lion, huh?

On the wall? I suppose. No, it's Corey's mountain lion. And I'm just joking. Oh, that's right. Sorry, Corey. Do you want me to go talk about it? No.

We already did. What's in there? Oh, my goodness. This is my office and what used to be Cal's desk. R-I-P. Although Cal's desk looks much like it did while he worked here. It's covered in my stuff, such as my Santa costume, books. And then here's my real desk here.

This is my sort of wall of mementos. Oh, I am. To narrate for folks listening, he has a can of Cincinnati chili. He's got a ham specialite beer. He has a Japanese version of the meat eater wilderness survival guide. He's got some black bear grease from May 2025. Yeah, I made and handed that to. Oh, okay.

He's got some marble golds that were given to us by the Poplar Middle School class that was here a week ago. Huh, they brought cigarettes. They did bring cigarettes. Yes, it was one of their three gifts they brought us. Oh, cool. It was tobacco. Here's my picture from when I went to medieval times. And there's my VIP badges from medieval times.

Here's a geo that Spencer gave me and some Kenyon Martin basketball cards that Spencer gave me. Former Cincinnati bearcats. These are the basketball cards Spencer gave me sorted out by coaches and players. It's tough because Joanne Howard is a coach, but this is a photo of him as a player. Yeah, no, it's coaches with coaches cards or players who turned into coaches. So it's both. Randall's office normally has, I'd say at least a dozen library books. And he likes to brag that because he's a doctor, he is allowed to check out as many library books as he wants.

And he takes advantage of it. Oh, my goodness. These are all library books that need to be returned. How many are there? 25, you think? I don't know. At least, yeah. They're going to take away your privileges.

I bet there's probably 30 or 40. Okay. I have a printout of all of them here. Oh. You're abusing the system, Randall. They're going to take it away. They're going to take away your library card. Oh, what kind of library doesn't want people to check books out?

Bad library. Good point. That's what. Here's Brody's office. Is he there? No. No. That is the darkest office in the studio.

Even when Brody's in there working, he's got the shades drawn and the lights off. Oh, this masterpiece of an office. This is Spencer's office, everybody. This is my office. Spencer, what's your favorite thing in that office? Oh, my favorite thing. I mean, there's a lot going on. Show me the whole room again, so I can give you a good answer on the favorite thing.

I really like your... Oh, I like the Sand Hill Crane wing. I was just going to say. That's pretty cool. Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah, I let that go into Rigamortis in that position. And then I just took a piece of FHF paracord and tied that up behind it. It's just hanging on a nail.

I'd say that's probably my favorite thing. It's probably the thing that people talk to me the most about is that. They don't ask you about your card collection? No, no. When I was a kid, I collected sports cards pretty feverishly. And unlike most kids, my mom did not throw them away. I held on to them. and now I've got like, I don't know, my best 40 of them on display there.

And he is just about to wrap up the tour here. He is going into, I think, our last room. What's in there? This is the conference room where everybody was... You know how fast Nate was? He didn't close the fridge. Oh. He was fast.

He didn't have a second to spare. I remember my first beer. Oh, we've still got some olive garden in there. Oh, lefters. The mag pies can go have. Yeah, yeah. That's really nice. Okay, Randall, is there anything else you need to show us today?

What do the meat eater bathrooms look like? I've always wondered that. You want me to do a, not the single holers up here. You want me to go do a real bathroom? I'll do the first floor bathroom real quick. Just back in my office real quick. Uh-huh. He's, uh, oh.

He's got Coor's banquets in there that are room temperature. You know. He's got many of them. Hey, Randall, can you bring a couple of those down, please? On their way, Phil. Okay, that was Phil's voice. We probably need more. Phil has just again joined us in the studio.

So, Randall, you can wrap up this tour whenever you'd like. We have our pilot is back in his seat. I'm on my way down. I'll hit the restroom real quick and then... I'm on my way. Take the elevator. Yeah, yeah, please. How's the tour gone?

I'm testing it. The elevator's bad for signal. The tour has gone very well. We dipped below 1,000 for just a second, and then Randall recovered, and we're holding steady at about 1,100 here since. Yeah, pretty impressive. All right, here, I'll hit the bathroom. Oh, is he using the bathroom? I don't know.

Yeah, he's not going to use the bathroom, right? That would be the green. No, no, oh, yeah, the light turned off. Okay. We're now going to see what the bathroom looks like. You can show the custer. Here fell custer. Portrait above the urinals. I love that.

Every time I go in there to take a leak, I look at like a new face in that. Yeah, there's a lot to look at. Yeah. Steve's obsession was getting this print in our office, and once we did it, now lives above the urinals. Looks like his little choppy in the bathroom. Inexplicably, a pulp fiction poster. Anybody know where that one? That was at the old office.

And it belonged to the tenants of one of the spaces. And they just left it in there. And so when we moved into the space, I think Steve just grabbed it. And now we have it. Okay. They had no idea until now. Okay. Thank you, Randall.

He is going to come back and join us shortly. That is the best tour. Oh, hey. Oh, someone sent us a pizza? Someone sent us a pizza. It's my turn. Okay. We now have a Papa John's pizza has also entered the studio.

Oh, my. Meat lovers. Meat lovers. Three meat pizza. Oh, man. Good to see that the live stream audience is still in good shape here. I was kind of afraid. Would you pass that to Phil, please?

I kind of miss you, Randall. I forgot that you got a whole body and it's not just a head. I almost got a thousand steps in that. Okay. It's pretty good. Oh, Jesus. Oh. Yeah, these beers are probably going to be real highly pressure.

happened, Phil. Phil opened up a Coors banquet. And it is all over my crotch. Okay, perfect. Luckily, Baker put some imaging film over my new tattoo because it also got all over that. Hey, will you guys be all right if I go get my

tattoo next? Yeah, we can handle that. I figured. What are you getting, Corey? Do you know yet? I was going to get some grizzly bear tracks on my cat. Oh, yeah. All right. You're welcome to take that pizza with you and see if anybody in the tattoo parlor would like a sound. These also tastes slightly corked.

If you're a wine guy. Okay. Let me just go find the timeline here. Okay, Phil, can we see the tattoo you got? Give us an update on the experience. It's a little bloody. I decided I got a highway mark, a highway sign from Highway 1 in California. It's one of my favorite places in the world.

Oh, God. Oh, Jesus. There's it. It's going to be a little. Phil's going to turn the camera here shortly. These things taste like, these things taste like malt liquor. I can't, I can't figure this out. There it is.

We can't see you yet. Oh, that's right. Thanks, Jake. You're already better at this than me. Oh, hell yeah, Phil. Oh, beautiful. California, Highway 1. What are the bands you like that have had songs about Highway 1?

The top two. Top 2. Death Cab for Cutie was very important to me. That's your favorite band in high school. The December is, but they also have us. I will follow you into the death. Just like that. But they have a song called Bigsby Canyon Bridge,

which is a famous bridge in Big Sur, California. Is Mogore still on? Mogar! It's, uh, let's see, seven, it's, uh, it's 12. late there.

It's 12.30. His time? Well, uh, I think we'll find out here soon. Okay. Next up, maybe, we do. Oh, he is on. He is on.

Mogor is there. That's, that's good. Shout out Mogor. That's sick. What time is it there, Gore. He says he's here. I'm here, period.

And then the Decemberus also have a song called California One Front slash Slash Youth and Beauty Brigade. That's one of my favorite songs. Okay. What do we think now? Should we do the movie club?

Are you ready for that, Randall? I think it's time to do meat eater movie club. Okay. Our next segment is the meat eater movie club. There it is. Corey might want to sit down for this.

Phil, you might want to turn my microphone down a little bit. Oh, okay. Just a little bit. Great. Give me a sec here. Okay. Sorry, it's hard to press a touchscreen audio mixer with sticky beer fingers. Okay, you're turned down a little bit, Randall.

Let me be clear. Congo is phenomenal. It's critics deny this point. Jaw-droppingly bad, says Metacritic. Lacking a sense of purpose. Purpose, says variety. A suspenseless adventure that betrays little curiosity, says rotten tomatoes. Except for Roger Ebert, who wrote false sophisticates will scorn it, real sophisticates will relish it.

Consider the following. Weird accents. A talking gorilla. Hippopotamus attack. Surface to air missiles. A gorilla drinking a martini. Hieroglyphics. Classic early 90s small arms.

Yes. Cigarettes. A gorilla jumping out of a plane. a diamond-powered laser cannon, a woman throwing a giant precious stone out of a hot air balloon. This movie gives you everything. Everything!

It does not have to explain itself. How did the team of 12 people carry on their backs a loadout that includes whitewater rafts, computers, crates full of heavy weaponry and ammunition, folding chairs, and a tiny little clock that Monroe Kelly, played by an effortlessly, effortlessly charismatic Ernie Hudson, keeps on his field desk,

that's referring to the tiny little clock that I mentioned a minute ago. How did they do it? Congo does not owe you an answer. Why is Tim Curry acting as though he is the lead in a one-man show that only he was invited to? All goofy energy and overblown accent and exaggerated facial expressions? You do not deserve to know this. How exactly can one, quote, put the phone number of this satellite into this laser and pull the trigger? Even if, and I quote, the chip from the laser has the satellite's number.

and the chip itself is a 12,000 channel chip. Congo says, forget it. You wanted restraint? You wanted thematic complexity? No. Congo says, how dare you ask? Laura Linney's character faces a simple problem. She wants to find a guy who's probably dead on the other side of the world.

It's hard to get there. That guy is dead. It's obvious how he most likely met his end. The other elements of the plot resolve themselves by a gorilla becoming a gorilla and Tim Curry getting bone crushed by a dozen badass ape soldiers. Then this mystical locale that the whole film has been leading up to

gets buried in molten lava. It's as if the whole thing never happened. The earth looked itself at the events of this movie and said, no, I will bury this. And it did. No one is any better off at the end of the film or learned anything. Except for one.

Oh. Oh, yes. Amy. Good gorilla. Amy. the only character who experiences genuine growth. Exiled from her homeland, she begins the film controlled by a man with a research grant. Her voice, her very consciousness, is mediated and commodified through Western science. Beautiful creature. She has feelings.

She has intelligence. She wants things. Amy, go home, Amy. And by God, she gets them. The single most emotionally coherent moment in the film is when the jungle reclaims her, when she steps into the green and does not look back. If Amy's story arc represents the potential for individual liberation, the gray guerrillas are something else entirely. They are perhaps the most layered element in the entire picture, though neither the film nor its audience seems to fully reckon with the implications of their existence.

They are a brave civilization defending their sacred capital from the intrusions of monsters hell-bent on resource extraction. Bound by an ancient contract to their long-dead masters, the gray guerrillas are the only characters in the same. film with honorable purpose. They must hold the line. And they do. They hold it with teeth and with stone and with coordinated fury against laser cannons and automatic

weapons and the full weight of Western industrial ambition. They hold it into the volcano removes all human and primological agency with a blanket of liquid hot rock. This is the film's sharpest message delivered almost

accidentally. The gray guerrillas stand alone between corporate strategy and quarterly earnings. Therefore, the gray guerrillas must die. And in the end, none of it matters anyway. The mountain swallows everything indiscriminately. Capitalist ambition and individual purpose be damned. We are all in this very room right now, the gray guerrillas. Do you hear it, Spencer?

I do. Do you hear it, Corey? No. The volcano is all. already erupting around us. We must. We must hold the line. Four stars, no notes.

Hmm. Very good. That was wonderful. Another review. Well done. Better than the movie. Powerful. I would say.

Don't say that. Amy good. It just now occurred to me that that was Dr. Frankfurter from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Who? Tim Curry. Oh. Also Pennywise.

I had no idea. Also the. the hotelier and Home Alone too. Phil, Phil, before we get any further, you know what to do. Oh, I do know what to do. That thing. Do that thing. I don't know. Randall, Ellen Walsh, Peter Clee.

I love that you're a fan of Congo. You know, I usually get nip-tuck or something else. Lately, it's heated rivalry. And I love when somebody remembers Congo. It meant a lot to me at the time. We shot mostly in, at the Sony stage, all of that jungle stuff was a huge stage. But we did get a lot of footage from Costa Rica.

It was fun to do. And it was a long shoot. And Laura Linney was great. Tim Curry was great. Ernie Hudson. So I remember it fondly. You guys, you have a podcast, Man-Eater Radio Live. So I'm just going to say congratulations on that.

And you and Phil and Spencer, I hope you had a great run. You're going to go on to do bigger and better things. Oh, I agree. And thanks for remembering Congo. Every once in a while I get somebody who'll bring it up. And I'm proud of it. It was a fun movie, fun to make, and hopefully fun to watch.

All right, cheers. And again, congratulations. That's great. That's a man who enjoyed making his cameo. Yeah, yeah. Some of the celebrities they make. mail it in and they just like don't want to be bothered to earn that hundred dollars yeah no i liked that he he added to my knowledge of congo um were we sitting oh yeah

we're sitting in the office upstairs yesterday watching congo and i i asked and you said where do they make it and i said on a studio in burbank mostly but also in costa rica and you're like how did you know that obviously yeah now we know oh that's too much fun. Oh, yeah, man eater. Yeah, man eater. I mean, I did go back and proofread my message to him. I did write meat eater. So. I thought that was just a clever joke that you played. Nope. Okay. That's great. No, it's just a Freudian slip. That is the second time that's happened. Back during, I think it was our first ever, not first ever, but first live two we did like three years ago. Steve was doing a hit with a local radio station in Phoenix. And when they were interviewing him,

So joining us next is Steve Renella from the company Man-Eater. So that's now twice at least that we've been man-eater instead of meat eater. Here's a question, Phil. Beyond your general impressions of the film, had Monroe Kelly been played by Tim Allen, would it have been a better movie? No? Is that the answer you're looking for? No, but I thought that was an interesting substitute.

Monroe Kelly, played by Ernie Hudson. The two alternates were Tim Allen and Ned Beatty. Time for my tattoo. Oh, good luck, Corey. Good luck, Corey. Corey's going to get a tattoo. Yeah, inked up. Corey will join us back here.

I don't think Tim Allen's a good actor. Ernie Hudson's a lot more charming. Yeah. Yeah, Ernie was, it would be weird if it was anybody but Ernie leading that expedition, I feel like. Tim Allen especially, it feels so foreign to like put him as the Congo jungle expert. Yeah. Spencer, what are your thoughts?

Yeah, it was a fun movie. It just felt like just pure 90s. Like what year was that 95? It felt like 1995. In a good way, though. Yeah, an easy watch. In my mind, I haven't seen this in probably 20 years. I was thinking the entire movie was just the demon apes.

that are attacking them. And then upon our rewatch yesterday, I didn't realize those are like, I don't know, 10%? 15% of the movie. Yeah. That was breaking news to me

on this 30 year old movie that they were just barely even part of it. Yeah. I mean, I alluded to this point in my review, but it is funny

when you take a step back and you think that the movie begins with like these guys dying and it's, like, what the hell happened to them? And then they go there and it's like, oh, shit, they got killed by these apes that are guard dogs. And they don't, you know, like, that's it.

Yeah. And everybody dies except for three of them. And they don't like, they don't really learn anything. The gorilla gets freed. You don't really see them develop as characters or people. Laura Linney still is like just as upset at Mr. Travis as she was at the beginning of the film. And during the escape, she has a tennis ball-sized diamond in her pocket that she just

throws on the ground. She says, I don't need this tennis ball-sized diamond that would change my life. Yeah. And like next generations. Shout out, Nate. We're just going to pitch it back to the earth. Yeah, but I love this film. We pointed out yesterday, it's got a whitewater rafting scene, which is a hallmark of every

sort of outdoor set movie. Yeah. specifically from the meat eater movie club. There's always a scene where someone's going through some rapids. And the California dreaming sing-along is great. Loved it. Love the mamas and the papas. And normally if you get a little sing-along, it's like 10 or 15 seconds.

They did like a full verse and chorus and started the next verse. Yeah. So I respect them, you know, giving like one minute to the mamas and the poppas. There's a couple beautiful landscape shots like at the beginning when the original expedition is walking up the volcano crater. just spectacular scenery. And they escape at the end in a hot air balloon, which I was tickled by. Randall had pointed out,

it's probably the only movie escape ever that happens in a hot air balloon. Yeah. Yeah, it's probably the only, oh, no, I shouldn't say that. It's dumb. I was going to say there's movies like volcano and,

like the idea that, oh, this volcano is just erupting at the exact second. Dante's Peak. Yeah, Dante's Peak and Volcano both made, believe, in back-to-back years. But yeah, it was just like, what if the volcano hadn't erupted? Oh.

You know? I guess they would have just lasered all the apes to death. What do you remember about the movie when it came out in 1995? Was it like on your radar? Did you love it? I don't remember much about when it came out. I was still just rewatching Jurassic Park mostly. But I remember in elementary school, we used to run around like apes on our knuckles.

Not you. Oh, yeah. Oh, I can't believe it. I bet I could run faster than some men can run on all four. I can run faster on all fours than I can on two legs. I believe you. And we'd run around. That move that they use when they take down Herkimer Hamoka, where they sweep his leg out.

Tim Curry. Yeah, they run by him, they sweep his leg out, and then they all crowd her out and start pounding him. We did that at recess. Like, we'd have, like, eight guys running around on their knuckles and we'd, like, sweep out someone's leg, and then we'd all get around and just kind of hammer fist them, pound them. So that was fun to remember that as I watched Herkimer Hamoka die. This movie has just a lot of faces. Oh, yeah. Oh, that lady's in these four other things.

Yeah. That guy, you know, was like a strong player in the early 2000s. I wasn't ready for Congo to have like that many names attached to it. Phil, any other thoughts on Congo? I hate to be a big poop on the party. I still have not seen the entire movie. like you spent our saw bits and parts of it growing up and then yesterday when we tried to watch it

there was just too much planning and prep going on so I have failed in my duties as a media radio live participant no it's fine and I think like if someone were to say hey Randall that's not a meat eater movie club movie I would say to them okay but

I feel like it's a movie that revolves around wildlife which is always I don't know. It does something to me. We've seen the Knott Spencer has twisted himself in to accommodate certain trivia categories and everything.

I think he pulls it off with a plum and so I'm, this is absolutely a meat eater radio. There's an expedition into the wilderness involving animals directly. They've got guns, they've got tents, they've got very primitive satellite communications.

I loved all the technology. As you pointed out, when you said they're carrying computers, Not like a Macbook. They're carrying like a full-on desktop set up. Yeah, and Dylan Walsh is just wearing a Jansport backpack like you'd expect to see a second grader wearing on his first like week of school. What was the last movie club we did? Oh, the legacy of a white-tailed deer hunter.

That's back-to-back movies that had Mary Poppins backpacks where it's just limitless about what you can pull out of them. Excuse me, I have a chero in my mouth. How does it taste? It's very delicious. But very kind folks. I went back when I was writing the piece about how many guys are carrying stuff, I went back and it's, there's like several shots where it's clear that there's only eight or nine parachutes floating down from that plane.

Several of them are just crates. And then I was looking at the scenes where you could see sort of the whole line of porters. And I really don't think I ever counted more than eight or nine of them. Yeah. What are the odds that the three main characters are the only survivors? the whole thing. One of the porters, while I was doing this, I noticed one of the porters just had two big brown leather suitcases just under his arms like this.

I thought it was a really nice, a really nice touch. Any other thoughts on Congo before we move on? Not really. I mean, I just, I love Jurassic Park. I love Congo. I mean, that's the thing about this movie. It was clearly made in the immediate wake of the success of Jurassic Park and like another Michael Crichton property.

It contains a lot of the hallmarks of Jurassic Park, but without kind of the Spielberg finesse, I guess you could say. But that doesn't make it any less charming, I don't think. Yeah, and there was the one scene where the guy is like slipping in the mud or the mud is washing out their camp. And as I mentioned yesterday, it's almost like straight out of Jurassic Park when Dennis Nedri is trying to take the barbosol canister full of dinosaur DNA to the South docks.

And he runs the Jeep off the road. before he's killed by the Dilophosaurus. You know, and he's like trying to get the... Yeah, there are a lot of visual sort of cues that they are trying to make you think of Jurassic Park. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I bet this is better as a book.

I feel like you don't have to know every detail of everything. You don't have to know that they have a Mary Poppins backpack to, like, pull off all of these stunts when you're reading the book. Yeah. But when they like, you know, when your eyes have to see it happening. you just may be a little more forgiving. So as a book, I bet it's a better experience. Yeah. I need to reread the book.

I only read it like, I only read it probably the beginning of last year. And it's some books I read before I go to bed and I don't remember any of them. And some books I read before I go to bed and I remember all of it. And this was one where the only thing I remember about it was just thinking, God, like so much of this

is just straight out of, uh, straight out of the movie. Although as I did some research, there are differences. I think I said this last week, but when you look up, I don't read a lot of horror fiction, but if you see a list of someone recommending them, my 10 favorite horror books ever, Jurassic Park is almost always on it. So I need to read that at some point. If I'm satisfied, I'll pick up Congo.

In Congo, the book is from 1980. 15 years. 15 years, yeah. Bizarre. Any other thoughts before Movie Club? No. Why don't we why don't we take this old horse out back

and put one right between the eyes? Okay. The next thing we're going to do then is we have a special message from Brent Reeves to say goodbye to Meadeer Radio Live. Bill. As we bid a fond farewell

to Meet Eater Radio Live, I'm reminded of the times that I hosted that weekly endeavor and the enjoyment I received from my colleagues. and our guests and the interactions we had with the faithful listeners who, like the rest of us, obviously had nothing better to do on a Thursday and shoot the bull with a bunch of like-minded souls for about an hour.

I'll miss flying up to host a show on a moment's notice and no one else could do it and see all my compadres that work out of the office in Bozeman. So here's hoping that we come up with something else that'll allow me. to venture up there and see my friends and talk with the folks that follow what we do. Since I don't have anything to drink, I will raise this crescent wrench in honor. Fair winds and following seeds. Oh, that's great. Very good.

Okay, I think let's maybe do our final hot tip off of the day. We got a few more segments to go, but Corey calls. Our third host is currently getting his tattoo. So after he gets his tattoo, we will carry on with the regular schedule program. But right now we have another hot tip off. Are you going to play the sound this time, Phil? No, I don't think we're going to do it this time. It doesn't have it.

Sack Venture. H-O-T-I-P-R. Let's all do a hot tip-off. T-T-I-T-I-T-R. Let's all do a hot tip-off. Sorry, Zach. Good. What's up, meat eater?

Zach ventures from Stoughton, Wisconsin with a hot tip. Troll and crankbaits for walleye in the summer can be fun, but also frustrating if you run into floating weeds and algae. I found a cheap, efficient way of how to combat that and make your crankbaits weedless. Every walleye angler has these laying around. They're night crawler rigs, bottom bouncers. And what you do is you take a pair of side cutters and cut right above the weight there and right above the swivel here.

And you're left with a good, nice, stiff piece of wire. And what you do with that is, you attach it to your lead line like so with a sparrow swivel on it. And then a couple foot leader down to your crankbait. And what that'll do is it'll kind of push all those floating weeds. out of the way, push that algae out of the way. You could keep them angled down. You can tilt them up like a rake, whatever works for the weeds you're working with. But I found it's a cheap way. These are about a dollar a piece. Cheap way to keep your crankbaits clean on a dirty lake. Thank you. Thomas Yoder.

All right. This is Thomas Yoder. I am showing you all a hot tip. for meat eater hot tip off. If you're out trying to fish and you need to re-spool a reel can be kind of inconvenient if you don't have a holder for your line. And so what we've done is poke the headrest rod through one side

and then you can adjust your tension with the headrest adjustment. That way you keep constant tension on your spinning rod. or any other kind of reel. But yeah, a little hard to do this one-handed. You get the idea. Nice, steady, even tension.

Good action. Okay, that was our final hot tip-off. Wow, that's it, huh? That's it. And our audience is going to decide who gets his final $100 meat eater gift card. We have Zach, who had the bottom bouncer crankbait cheat, and then we have Thomas, who had the head rest. line spooling.

Paul is live. Randall, what do you think? Who gets your vote? I like the line spooling. It's not groundbreaking, but I do feel like I've wasted a lot of time with like a pencil through a spool of line,

and then I'm like holding that with my toes. Or you have like an unwilling spouse who's just mildly annoyed. And then you're like, you're like, less tension, more tension. Yeah, well maybe we should trade. Maybe I should hold. the pencil and then you do the reeling instead.

Exactly. We've all been there. We've all known what that's like. I mean, I'm curious to see how easily I would mess that up and jerk the thing out of the headrest. But I like, I like where that guy's heads at. Yeah. That's clever. Probably more applicable to more folks. I liked Zach's bottom bouncer trick. I've pulled a lot of crank baits. I've never seen somebody do that before, right? That felt like an original thought to me. A lot of crankbates are very sensitive about the tuning. I imagine that would kind of mess with some of that.

And maybe if you had a crankbait that dove, you know, 10 to 12 feet, now you've changed how deep it's going. But that looked like a dude who knows how to pull crankbaits. So I trust him there that you're still going to catch a lot of fish with that. And also keep the weeds off your plug. So I would give mine. vote to Zach. Phil, what's the chat saying here?

We can wrap this up because it's pretty pretty decent. Not a blowout, but with 63% of the vote, the winner is Thomas Yoder with the car seat headrest. That's great. Very good. Well, Phil, Phil, you've really shot, like,

the name, noises, pronunciations, emphasis, whatever you want to call it. You really were shying. starting star up until the very end. Thank you so much. Up until the end. I'm glad to hear that Steve likes that enough to maybe bring it back.

It's a fun way that we get to involve our audience. I kind of think it's one of those things like when a politician's on the stage and they sort of see where it's leaning. And they're just like, no, Social Security's going to be more. Actually, this radio life thing is pretty good. And the person's staff are all standing off the stage. Like, looking at you're like, what are you saying? Yeah. So the hot tip-offs may or may not live on Beyond Radio Live. We'll see. Keep those ideas fresh, though. In case we bring them back, we'll have a different email address for you to send them to. Thomas wins our final hot tip-off. Do we know how Corey's tattoos going? Jake is going to go check on him in just a second. We'll drop in to get an update. Before that, though, I think we have, well, let's do some listener for you.

feedback, Phil. Let's do some list of feedback. Gosh, okay. Do you have anything? And then after that, I mean, I haven't. I've been on it. I got an idea. If you, I got an idea. Okay, give us an idea. Are you going to share the idea? Okay. Okay, what's going on here? Oh, man, I really hope he picks up.

Hey, Ryan, you're live on the Meat Eater Radio Live, Grand Finale Live, Extravaganza. We're six hours and three minutes into our live stream, and I wanted to check with you to see if you had any any warm wishes to share with our faithful listeners. You've been a central part of this show throughout its entire run. So wanted to... What a marathon.

Yeah. Have you been watching this whole time? What are you doing right now, buddy? Clean shirt, button down shirt, because I'm heading to a field to table event outside of Bentonville, Arkansas. Oh, fantastic. Fantastic. Are you going to see any of the Newcomb Reeves clan in that area?

So Brent Reeves is coming down. Oh. And, yeah, this tonight is where we magic of where food comes from to folks and kind of spread that public land, public wildlife love. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. Yeah. Well, I don't want to keep you too long, Cal, but if you would,

could you tell folks what Radio Live has meant to you as a host and then as a loyal fan since you've left us here? Like the beauty to radio live, which I truly don't want to see go away, is just like that direct interaction with folks who are, you know, compelled to follow along. it's a good good place to share knowledge, share laughs, and, you know, inform each other. Yeah. Well, that's great. Cal, the audience is happy to hear from you right now. I'm seeing messages on the screen. One man says, holy shit, did not expect, oh, no, sorry, he said, holy shit, did not expect this call to still be going. No, not this call. Yeah, not the call, sorry, just. I misspoke. He's just shocked that we're still doing this. But there are other people expressing surprise that you're on the phone and they're glad to hear from you.

So Corey Culkin's just walked in here. I don't want to keep it too long, but I just thought it was only right that we check in with you, sir. Well, no, thank you very much for thinking of me. Just out here, you know, whipping up support for public lands, waters, and wildlife. God knows we need it. Arkansas is a great place to do that. Yep, absolutely. Well, say hello to all our friends down there in the great state of Arkansas, and we will catch up with you here in a bit.

Love you, Cal. Yeah, darn right. We'll love you too there, my friend. Thanks, Cal. Be sure to let folks know the Black Bear Bananasa is on this Saturday at the fairgrounds here at it, right outside of your northwest Arkansas airport. Oh, man. I wish I could make it.

Cal, also just one last bit of news before I let you go here. Virgil Edison Morris was born today. Seven pounds, six and a half ounces, 20 inches. Seth says like a real good largemouth bass. So. I texted him. Yeah, beautiful. I texted them, yeah.

Big, big huge congrats, growing the fan. Yep, indeed. All right, buddy. We'll take care. Enjoy your time down there. We'll catch up with you soon here. Send her home for me. We'll do.

We're burying this thing. Ten feet under. Not six feet, ten feet. Thanks, Cal. Bye, Cal. Oh, that's good stuff there. That's good stuff. That's good stuff.

We could hear from Cal. Cory, how did your tattoo go? Man, it went really well. It hurt like shit. Did it really? Yeah. Oh, brutal. The last one I got was by a guy named Hout and Butte on my arm.

And this one I got on my calf. Got some grizzly bear. tracks walking up on the leg. Oh, man. Yeah. You'll be able to keep those, keep those tats clean in the wild. I hope so. It was actually, yeah, I did it on purpose. It'll be above my boot and under a over the calf sock. Nice. Yes. Nice. Uh, Phil has a heart out here in 27 minutes. Oh, Spencer. I was trying to keep that a secret. Oh, I'm sorry. So we get, we're going to, well, I'm just, well, here's the thing. It's not even just that I, once this show ends, it's not like I get in my car and drive home. I have to make the podcast version of this six and a half hour show. So I'm going to be here. So I'm going to be here. So. for a little bit longer, and I have a family at home waiting for me. So we have a few more segments to do, and I don't want to skip anything.

Yeah. So if we just want to, like, knock these out. Because we got some good stuff. We do not have families at home. So we can just keep going. Yeah. No. Okay.

Next up, fake news, Phil. Should we do fake news? Yes. Let me just bring up the slide here. Okay. The end is in sight. Okay. Our next segment is fake news.

You sure about that? It's a meaty to radio live fake outs. We have a third fake out of the day. Oh my God. My cameo budget, I actually fit three people into my $100. How did you manage to get such great cameos? Yeah, well, this last one may leave you wanting a little more. Is it red from the eye?

Island boys? You probably don't even recognize this person, so I'll have to do some explaining afterwards. Go ahead, Phil. Phil, Randall Spencer, what's out? It's the Boves. Coming to the Iowa direct from Humbold, North Coast of California in the Redwoods.

Well, the meatersuits and myself want to wish you condolences on your cancellation. But hey, you guys lost to the best. I mean, you're only used to the Boves, man. I expect. But anyways, Yeah, Spencer, you sound like you're the brains of the group. And they wanted to know a fact, those offshore rocks down there,

if you can see them. Supposed that's where people say they see squashes swim out and get muscles. You see that's where the squashes swim out and get muscles. I'm on this peak Oh my God Wow She has a next place to do a call My throat's thrash

I can only do a whip Woo Do you hear that response? You say my throat is thrash Maybe as you guys Keep it squatchy Yeah Keep it scotchy

If you don't know There was a reality show called Finding Bigfoot. It had 100 episodes back when I was in college. My roommate and I used to watch it all the time. It had like a four-person crew. That man's name was Bobo. And Bobo, he was kind of the most recognizable face of the crew. And his thing was he was the caller of the group. So when they would go out at night, he's the one who would do the

squatch calls. And one night, I had a buddy who went to college in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He was in Gentleman's Club of that of the Black Hills and he saw Bobo in there and he knew I was a fan and he texted me and I told him to get Bobo to do a squatch call and so they yelled across the strip club Bobo do a squatch call and he in fact did one I think it was in Underwood South Dakota new Underwood South Dakota maybe that's great anyway that you can't make that up that's who Bobo was and his fact was that you know that's a spot where you see the Sasquatch swim around and build their muscles So my $100 cameo got me three celebrities.

I misunderstood. I thought he was swimming to like catch muscles, but he's swimming to build his muscles. I don't know. You could be right as well. I like your version better actually. I think I'm with Randall. I think that's what he meant. I like your version.

That's even better. I like it better than Sasquatches are engaged in fitness. He is ripped. Yeah. So that was Bobo, a person that probably 1% of our audience. will recognize. And then I like how he said that the reason our podcast is getting canceled is because we're going up against Bobo's podcast. Can't compete. Russell Russell Wickland says, I thought the witch was off. I stand correct. That's right. So that that is, I promise now that's my final. Oh, that's good.

Let's do fake news for real. Play the drop, Phil. Oh, yes. Where is fake news? Let's play fake news. A pee tape and rush a pizza game balloon. a UFO. Steven's a better shot than yon miss, or is that so? This opportunity comes once every few weeks. You can do anything you set your minds to, guys. Except like teleport or fly or stuff like that.

I've never caught that part at the end, Phil. What a little Easter egg. Well, there's another Easter egg, I don't think, because people just start talking over it immediately during the new tiebreaker on trivia. I slowed down Doug's song. for his trivia song So very faint and echoing

In the background After it goes It's the meat eater podcast Okay I'll just listen for that next time If you've made it to hour seven Of our media radio live today Now you'll know about that little Easter egg

Fake news is where Randall reads a series of headlines In which a real one is hiding among Three Impostors Me and Corey's job is to figure out which one is true Take it away Randall Question Headline 1

Yeah, I guess you point We used to do full headlines Now it's just kind of fill in the blank Multiple choice No, this is better This is the way to do it Okay, I like this Blank lawmakers

Way Grizzly Bear comeback plan After 100 year absence I'm gonna do the Brody slam Mm-hmm Blank lawmakers way grizzly bear Comeback Plan after 100 year absence Your choices are Nebraska

Colorado California Or Mexican Hmm. Interesting. To go with D there. Mexican. I guess I don't know why I made it Mexican and not Mexico. We know what you're talking about.

They're Mexican lawmakers. I did this late at night. They're Mexican lawmakers. They're from South Dakota, but they're Mexican. Sorry. It's an important part of that headline. Corey's got an answer. Yeah.

She's got his answer. I read this headline. You did. Oh, you just, we could have skipped it. California. See is for California. California. The tank is getting a little...

That's one point each for Corey and Spencer. All right. Look at that headline. Geez. California lawmaker. Let's just move on because these guys have already read this article. Oh, I have. Tell me more, please.

Well, there's a new proposal. Senate Bill 1305 that would require the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to create a public plan explaining how grizzly bears could be brought back. Before they can be released, scientists would need to decide whether grizzlies could survive on their own in California without harming the environment. The department would need to finish the plan and send it to lawmakers and other state offices

by June 30th, 2028. Yeah, send them. They need to have them. They got a grizzly on their flag. You can't put a grizzly on your flag if you don't have any grisleyes in your state. Still in valor. Quick, we've got to move on to Headlight 2. We've lost 30 viewers.

This is a good one. Salmon blank skin care is having a moment. But does it actually work? Experts weigh in. Is it salmon belly skin? care, salmon eggs skin care, salmon oil skin care, or salmon

sperm skin care. Okay. What do you want to rub on your face from a salmon to get nice skin? Belly, eggs, oil, or sperm? Since we're not playing quip lash, this is my

chance to write sperm on a bone. Oh yeah, so I'm so sorry we can't play quip lash. Maybe we'll get to it eventually. Spencer wrote some great custom prompts for it because you can make your own custom game. And one of my plans for this morning was to test out the custom game so I didn't

eat shit when we were live. It turns out I still did that. Hey, we're live. Phil, that's the one thing that someone remembers from this whole failed experiment. That was weeks ago. Yeah. But maybe we'll do it on some extra live stream at some point.

I want the viewership to go up so much more. Well, I think we're now encountering a time when people got to go home and live their real lives. To their kids and have meters with their facts. Cook supper. Do we both have our answers? I got my answer.

Yep. Spencer says oil. Corey says sperm. The correct answer is sperm. Oh no. Look at that headline. It began as most beauty crazes now do in glossy clinics and on celebrity skin. The so-called salmon sperm facial quickly earned a reputation for delivering glassy,

luminous complexions. Soon, whispers of fish day and. DNA and miracle glow treatments traveled from aesthetic clinics in Seoul to Instagram feeds. But despite the eyebrow raising name, no raw sperm is being applied to the face. The active ingredient is PDRN, short for polydeoxy ribonucleotide. I nailed it. A compound derived from purified DNA fragments taken from salmon sperm cells. Here's why I didn't think it would be sperm, because it's not sperm.

It's milt. It's like the technical name. But also they wouldn't put Milt in a headline. Look at this. Look at this Instagram post. It's from an influencer. Watch me. Watch me inject salmon sperm in my face.

How many likes? Thousands. Hundreds. 323. But that was two days ago. Yeah. We'll do that on the same stream. We do Qiplash.

We'll do salmon milk facials as well. Yeah, I encountered the term regenerative aesthetics. Okay. While doing my research for this. Stem cells. Yeah, just like things, you know, No, it's a fancy word for youthful, making yourself look youthful. There, I'm going to scroll through where I said, Phil, please add this photo, and then I have the photo of that woman.

Yeah. All right. Headline three, Hiker shares disappointing video after climbing to top of Mount Everest, colon, and then there's a quote from the hiker. Did the hiker say, so disgusting and so sad? This was way too easy. the clouds ruined our view or what a waste of money Hiker shares disappointing video after climbing to the top of Mount Everest

Also negative I wonder why So disgusting and so sad This was way too easy The clouds ruined our view What a waste of money Those are all Those are whatever three fake ones you have They're three good fake ones you did you did a nice job on this one

Oh thank you Thank you Is this the last one or more? This must be, no, this is it. This must be why our viewers have bumped up to 9.53 again. Climbing back towards that 1100 mark. Yep, yeah. Listen, I know you're kind of joking, Randall, but I got to say it's a gosh dang miracle

that we had a thousand people watching the show the entire time. Anyone who's tuned in, I genuinely appreciate you watching this show. It's like, you've blown me away. I truly thought there. There's going to be a point today where we didn't have anybody there. We were just laughing about there. There's no one there. I thought after hour four, it would be like double digits.

Yeah. I truly did as well. Yeah, who's, you guys have your answers? I've got my answer. Corey's got two years. I got two. I got, go ahead. Corey says, what a waste of money.

Spencer says clouds. Oh, we've got a 0% or no. The answer is A, disgust, so disgusting and so sad. Hmm. The greatest peak in the world has become one of the greatest exhibits of evidence for cynics who subscribe to the idea that humans ruin everything. We do. Mount Everest is covered in waste, including lots of human excrement or excrement, as most people say.

On display was a dirty camp that featured waste tents, discarded equipment, and other debris from expeditions. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Each climber leaves about 18 pounds of trash on Mount Everest. Wow. Yeah. Lots of dooky, lots of oxygen bottles, but yeah, dukey too. Sad. Yeah, so that was fun.

Corey, I think you won. Yes, I did win. He got two, I got one. Yeah. Follow up with Jake for your prize. Yeah. I will. You win a subscription to whoever wrote those articles, so.

Meat eater premium. I'll just take this hot Coor's lap. I wouldn't drink those. Excuse me. Coor is heavy. I wouldn't drink those. They taste really bad. We are getting towards the end.

Next up. Do we want to do our last? our final goodbye video. Yeah, we have a message from Mark Kenyon to say goodbye to Me, Dieter Radio Live. Let's hear it, Phil. Well, as the saying goes, I hate to see it go, but I love to watch you leave. And that has been true here with this last episode. Awesome work, guys. Thanks for all the hard work. Thanks for the memories. Thanks for the laughs. Thanks for helping me discover my true passion for play-by-play announcing of fishing,

which I discovered on a one-minute fishing episode once. And man, he was quite good. So, cheers to good times. And cheers to what's next. That was a little too earnest. I don't trust him. Yeah. I feel like that's the most honest and genuine thing that's been said on this entire live stream.

I don't know if I'd like it. Mark doesn't mess around. No, he doesn't. That's a good guy too. A lot of good guys on the show today. we broke a record for good guys on the show. Thanks, Mark. Okay.

We got another, we got a couple more segments. Yeah, I've got two more segments. Are we going to fit? Are we going to make it under the deadline here, Phil? Oh, yeah. It's close. We got it. Okay.

Our next segment is top threes. God, that's a good one. You'll turn the volume up here and try to hide that. Phil, who was going to. first for the top three. That's a great question. Spencer. Okay, I'm going first. Great. Here are the top three, top threes that I never got to do on Me, Deeder Radio Live. The number three top three that I never got to do was favorite national parks. Now, if I were to do this top three, I'll tell you, I've been to 21 of them. I'm going to visit my 22nd in May.

And I would have told you that number three is Olympic National Park in Washington. Number two is Redwood National Park in California. And the number one, the best national park is Yellowstone in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho. There's like a reason that Yellowstone is the Coca-Cola

of national parks. It's got amazing wildlife, geology, scenery, seasons, fishing, culture, hiking. It's just like so beautiful. It should be a bucket list thing to see. And it gets a real bad rap, even from like people in this office who live 60 miles from it.

that it's just got too many people, which it does sometimes, but you can also have intimate experiences there. Go in the shoulder season, go in the off season, visit during a weekday. And if that doesn't work out, if you have to go on a Saturday in July, still do it. It's a place that you should see. And it's like totally worth it, I'd say. All right. The number two, top three that I never got to do is office dogs. We've got a lot of office dogs around here.

If I were to do this top three, I would tell you that number three is max. his dog Ruby. Number two is Ben's dog Bear. Bear is blind, and that makes me really sad. Um, so bear had to be on the list. And then number one is Riva's dog Riley. He's a Rottweiler. I think he's eight years old now. Uh, he's just such a good boy. He's got a nice coat on him. He's real handsome. He's real well behaved. Uh, he knows a couple tricks. He'll shake. He'll sit. Uh, so that's nice. Uh, I love all the office dogs, but it's not even really close for me. I think Riley's number one. He's the best of them all. Any feedback on Riley, the office dog?

That's another good guy. Riley is a good guy. He's a good boy. The number one top three I never got to do is my favorite restaurants. Now, if I were to do this top three, I'd tell you that heirloom barbecue, heirloom market barbecue in Atlanta would be number three. Number two would be Katz's Deli in New York City. And the number one is ginger pig in Denver.

It's Asian fusion. It's a mandatory stop. Every time I'm in Denver, the food is absolutely, amazing. The prices are good for what you're getting. Always has very good service. It's casual enough where you could, like, show up in sweatpants, but it's also nice enough you could go on a date. You need to order the Hong Kong French toast, the Korean fried chicken with aoli, and then always get the Beijing dumplings. It's my favorite restaurant in the world. I wish it wasn't 10 hours away. I love ginger pig. Yum. Always, also a location in Boulder, Colorado. So those are the top three,

top threes I never got to do. Hmm. Sad. Can you, what if you wear? What if you wear? sweats on your dates. Yeah, it's a double-ammy. You said you can wear either wear sweatpants or go on a date. Yeah, then you should do that. Both of them. All right, who's the next top three? Let's go ahead and do Randall.

All right. I had three categories of top threes, but I didn't like two of them. So I just went with the top three times. I've had vehicle problems while doing something hunting and fishing related. Okay. Nice. Oh, hell of those are right.

Just don't, sorry. Yeah. I have no choice but to spoil it for you guys. Chill, man. Just chill. Number one was driving a jetboat up river and pulled the, went to start it again and pulled the cord out and the motor didn't fire. So then we had to float the boat all the way down the river, just hanging off the bow and kind of kicking our way down there.

And then ended up managed to land it at a different lodge and they fixed it for us. That was a very memorable vehicle problem. Another one is a buddy. got his truck stuck on the edge of a like a 200 foot. I wouldn't call it a cliff, but there's nothing that would have stopped your truck from sliding off. Hate that. So I went up there as this opening morning of Bear season.

I went up there, chained up my vehicle, and went to pull him out, and it just made things worse. And then as I was backing out, this should have been number one, as I was backing out my chains rubbed up against his tire because I sort of slid down into him. Chains ripped off, cut my brake line,

So then I'm backing up without any brakes. The chain broke your brake line? Yeah. Yeah, it spun around. Like when it rubbed up against his tire, the chain came loose and cut my brake line. So then we had two trucks, like,

leaning against each other stranded on this cliff, and we had to get a wrecker up there, and he got us out. But that was dumb. That was a long day. I had an honorable mention for one night we were hunting deer out east of here on my buddy's boat.

And in the middle of the night, he got out to take a leak and the boat wasn't there. And the wind had blown the boat away, ripped the steak out that we'd tied it to like as the anchor. Could you see it? No, that's just gone, gone. It was pitch blackout. And we couldn't see the boat. We couldn't get a reflection off the boat.

So he woke me up at like three in the morning. And we just put on our headlamps and walked along the shore until we found it. Thankfully, it didn't go that far. But like it very easily, had the wind been blowing in any other direction, it could have been a really bad thing. And then the number one thing I had was my buddy and I were dove hunting. And he was driving a Honda, a cord. And he popped the trunk with his keys. We took off our vests and put our guns in the trunk, shut the trunk, and his keys were in the vest.

So then we just had to walk. We just had to walk all the way out of this wildlife area, down a row. road eventually we never got service I think we got picked up by a cop before we got service but then he came back in what state were you in?

In Ohio. The Honda Accord, that's the appropriate dove hunting vehicle. Yeah, it was great. Yeah. It was great. But yeah, just a lot of fun memories.

I also had two other categories of scariest moments where I nearly died or thought I was going to die and then cool encounters with animals were not hunting but I won't go into those because it's 524. Okay. Corey, I think you're up next then for the top threes.

Yeah. I'll need to refer to some photos here. What's your list today, Corey? Okay, so these are my top three most memorable moments being in this room for me, Eater Radio Lives. Oh. Don't, like we got napkins if you guys start tearing up here. It's a great category.

Let's see, number three would have been Phil's teaky mugs that he broke out for top three. I really appreciate that, but I had no idea. I knew you were a teaky mug guy, but this is like beyond what I had originally thought. And that, I think that was maybe your number three mug. I don't believe that was your number one. No, I think I think that that was my number one. Was it? Okay.

Forgive me. Either way, it's a fantastic mug. I think I had three and then I brought some honorable mentions. Oh, that's what it was. I couldn't know myself. I feel like after you did that list, Phil, is when you got all the teaky mugs in your office. Were they all in there before? Oh, they've all been in there.

I've been slowly out of them. Can I interject? Seth Jones 1410 writes shout out to my son Henry we were potty training and he just peed on my arm because I was paying attention to media radio wide shout out to Seth

and shout out to Henry P cleans up easy sorry to interrupt I just enjoyed that yeah number two here Phil oh yeah what I put up here else oh well it was the Christmas episode way back two Christmas at 2024

we were all a young man back Two Christmases goes, that was the very first Christmas on this show, if you can believe it. There's a screenshot of when Santa made an appearance. He's given Spencer a nice head rub down, and he's got his bloody sack of toys. Yeah. His game bag of toys that we all gifted each other. Oh, boy, that was fun. Blind Santa, what do you call it?

And then Santa did one minute fishing after that. Oh, yes. Yeah, that was a good day. And then, Corey, you were with him. Yeah, we had a lot of fun that day, Corey. We took the canoe to a local pond. Good guy. Hey.

I had one of these after my vasectomy a few weeks ago. Oh. Oh, a bloody sec? Good one. Breaking out the jokes. Okay. And my number one most memorable moment being in this room for Meat Eater Radio Live would have had to have been when we brought in the turkey. Was it Brogan?

Brogan the turkey. Alyssa Smith's turkey came in and just the look on Randall's face was everything. What's the problem with it? turkeys again? You just don't trust them? I don't have anything in common with them. Well, that's for sure. They have hollow bones. And they only, they only evacuate themselves from one hole. Yeah. But you, you love Thanksgiving and they hate it. We're a higher order of being. That was just fun to bring an animal into the studio. Yeah, we should do that more often. Maybe next time. Just not a, not a bird. Yeah. We can, we can help it. Hard to beat those three moments.

It was a big bird. Yeah, that was a lot of fun. Okay. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I'm going to, I'm going to suggest something, and I might just kill everything when I suggested it. I feel like that was a great moment to wrap the show on. Oh. You want to end it there? Well, our last segment is great. I think this is just poor planning on our part.

I feel like whatever the last segment is would have been better earlier in the show. Yeah, you have to feel. Oh, oh. Yeah. I guess we have to do it at some point. What about some listener feedback? Can we talk to the audience one more time? That's just a list of feedback before we say goodbye, goodbye.

I don't have anything specific to because I've been reading a lot of it but not really flagging anything. So yeah, I don't know. We love you guys. Take a couple minutes to wrap it up here. Thank you for watching. Thank you for listening. Media Radio Live was fun. This was a thing that didn't really exist.

And then they wanted to do some more podcasts in the office and we're like, well, what about this thing? And then that's what it was. They said that's the least bad out of all the ideas. that have been proposed for a third podcast. Kind of true. We were about a week from doing our third podcast of the week. And at that time, that podcast was going to be getting reports from people across the country. It was going to be, we called Doug Dern.

He's going to be like, oh, yeah, the Morrell mushroom harvest is looking good over here. And then we called Chester and he'd say, yeah, we're catching a lot of walleye. That's what it was going to be. And then, you know, we're like, what if we just make it a variety show instead? So that's what it was. And now here we are, 18 months later. So, it's a fun journey. And this is kind of, kind of the OG crew here.

Is Corey, after Corinne stepped away, whether it was his choice or not, stepped in to produce this show for a few, for a while, several months. Back when the show was flawless, remember those days? Yeah. Yeah. And Jake, Jake isn't here now, but he's done a great job stepping. He has. He wasn't, it's not like with Corey, he knew the culture.

He had been here for a while, you know, and so. So he was able to step in and kind of take the reins. But Jake, we hired and said, by the way, you're doing this, whether you like it or not. And he's done a great job. And he's, I wish I could tell that to his face, but he is not, I don't know where he went. He's getting tattooed up right now. It must be a big tat. Because he's been gone for a minute.

That's sick. Okay. Well, if he gets back in here, it's all over his chest. But then, yeah, I just want to say, like, everyone just stepped up incredibly. Like, I said a version of this during an all company meeting the other day, but just like Spencer and Randall for giving the show, kind of form and the personality that it's had. Everyone who's hosted the show, like Brent said, getting a phone call in Arkansas, and then two days later, he's sitting in Spencer's seat hosting the show.

I mean, everyone from like Mark, I mean, Lake Pickle was a part of it. Jordan Sillers, Tony Peterson, Cal, Steve, Brody, Janice, Corinne, Clay. I'm sure I'm missing. Maggie Hublo. Brogan the Turkey. Brogan the turkey. Santa. Santa Claus.

Clause. Big ups. Well, Phil, I don't think it's fair to list all those people and not recognize your efforts and talents that have gone into this. I think, I think Spence and I bring a yin and a yang to this show, but you're the the dots in the ying and yang. You know how when you draw them? Yeah, you know how there's the dots in there? Yeah, I mean.

One's white. One's black. Every week, we decide what we're going to do. and then everybody kind of taps their feet into the last second and then sends Phil a bunch of shit he has to organize in this really complex live streaming platform and Phil does it every week without us or I was going to say with a smile uh so Freudian slip there an angry smile sometimes but yeah uh it's it's been fun to have a venue for Phil to showcase some of his talents and uh it's been a been a real joy it's been a real fun outlets just i

just let me do a bunch of crap without asking anybody and and hope that I don't get in trouble for it. And so far, so good. Yeah. So. Yeah, I mean, it's, it has been nice to have kind of that, we used to call them Trump cards in your back pocket, where you could say, what are they going to do?

Fire me? And he's going to do radio live next week. So now we've got to watch our, no, we're going to watch our peace and cues. I didn't think of that yet. That'd be tough. Thank you, Phil. Thank you, Randall.

Thank you, Corey. Thank you to all our loyal listeners. If anybody out there, stuck around for all six hours, 36 minutes, and 31 seconds of this journey to the center of the madness. Thank you. We appreciate you. And I think the interaction with the listeners has been the best part of this. Yeah. And I think that's the last thing we should say. Like, I mean, holy crap. You guys absolutely showed up today. I honestly, I honestly can't believe it. there's somebody say, holy crap.

They're like trying to impress a T-ball team. Holy crap, guys. Get it together. We don't have that Trump card anymore. So we got to keep it buttoned up. Holy shit. Thank you guys so much. I mean, not even just this last show where you showed up in incredible numbers, but just all the people who have been here, I mean, guys like Mo Gore and Nate and Spencer, the other Spencer.

Shout out Leland Hart. Leland Hart. RT4. I mean, there's something, I know I'm forgetting a lot of you. Don't feel bad. It's just, yeah, thanks for being here every week. And for those who only tuned in when they could, that was great as well.

I mean, thanks for making the show what it became. And here's the weird part. We got another podcast coming out next week. So. And we kind of don't know what it's going to be. We have no idea. It's kind of up to Steve. Live it on the edge.

Okay, we're going to say goodbye. And Phil is going to play that music video one more time, which is our best goodbye we can give you. Hell yeah. Thank you. Let's watch the, viewers just tank. Thank you, Media, to radio live

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