The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 843: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCVI

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

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

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Welcome to Meat Eaters 12 and 26, presented by Maltry Mobile and On X Maps. 12 of Meat Eater's biggest and baddest hunts from the last year released throughout 2026. These are long-form episodes, so you get more of what you love. The first one up is my baited bear hunt in Manitoba. If you've ever wondered what a baited bear hunt is like, you'll love this episode. My favorite part was watching a younger bird.

bear spend an hour trying to figure out how to get a creatively hung beaver carcass down from a tree. Check it out now on Meat Eaters YouTube channel and be on the lookout for more 12 and 26 in the coming months. We're ready, Phil? You're also thinking of one bourbon, one shot, one beer. Yes, we're ready, pretty. I hope these are all fishing questions. Those are Eric Church lyrics, but I don't know if they're one bourbon, one scotch, one. beer. All right, Bernie, take it away.

You done, Randall? I was waiting for you, my my f***. Whoa. Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the R-rated version from Randall. I think HR's here. You son of a B. It's not me swearing, kids. It's that one over there.

This is the only game show where conservation always wins. Nope, that's staying in. All right. Tighten it up, Randall. Jeez, man. I'm your host Brody Henderson and I'm joined today by Janice Patelis-Nus-Nus-Nus-Nus-Mouth, Randall Williams, Alyssa Smith, Seth, Morris, and Corey Culkins. It's a 10-round quiz show with questions for meat is four verticals, kind of, usually, sort of,

which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. I don't think I have a cooking con. That's not good for me. There's a prize. Meat-eater will donate 500 bucks to the conservation organization of the winner. choosing. IFAQ. I didn't have any because I had put this script together like 30 minutes ago.

So Spencer sent me one. And Janus, our listeners are dying to know if you sold your beloved 65, 65, 655 Swede. That's right. I sure did. You did. Oh, yeah? Thanks to this year podcast. Oh, yeah.

A couple people wrote in. And the second guy that wrote in was one person too late, one email too. late. Really? And yeah, it was a real easy transaction. He said, what do you want for? I told him how much I paid for it, how much I needed to get out of it. And he's like, all right, sounds good.

I sent it off to Pennsylvania. Did you sell it with optics or no? I did. It had, you know, nothing fancy of a scope on it and just left it on there and gave it to the guy kind of freebie. Nice. That's great. If me, Dider Radio wasn't dying this week, I was going to pitch a segment someday

that just be the classified. Like so-and-so has a boat for sale Oh dude, I got all kinds of stuff I need to sell Can we do that anyway? Yeah, on the news show Maybe the news show will have classifieds And like so-and-so in Maine Needs a hunting partner for duck season

We're going to solve some stuff You need a sweet bear rug Call the Boys at the Meat Eat Eater flagship store They're selling one or what? Selling mine Oh One of mine In this store?

You only need one Which I found out after I had two How much you asking? We're not going to discuss price here. That's perfect for your second home in Montana. Yeah. All right. Before we get on in the questions, like I said, I just finished this script about 30, 40 minutes ago.

So I don't have like a carry index. But I do have a stat of the week related to that, which is when Spencer hosts, the average player gets 5.0.0. five questions right. When there's a guest host like myself, the average person gets 4.04 questions right. So a whole point less when there's a guest host.

So it's probably going to be hard. So just like bite the bullet and suck it up. But this is also really hastily prepared. Well, we'll see. Hard could be easy. Do you try to pitch easier questions knowing that we usually as guest hosts make harder ones?

No, I'm not going to like just set you up. with a bunch of like softballs. No, I know, but it's no fun if it's super hard for everybody. So I try to be somewhere in between, but I still, obviously we all still end up pitching too hard. Yeah, well, I mean, I think. So you didn't think about that. Just got to learn more, I guess.

It's a tough batch. But it's weird, this is a weird part. You say the average player. But what's that mean? It would be like the average number of questions. Average number. That are correct. It's the same thing, yeah.

So that's 5.05 correct answers. I think it should be the average of the top three players. Yeah, it'd be higher, I bet. Yeah. Probably a question higher, I bet. It might be different. Maybe they get more answers correct. We'll be.

We'll have more stents next time there's a guest host to show you guys that it's harder. All right. Play the drop, Phil. Don't sound so excited, brodie. Normally, Spencer gives me some runway. No, I'm not Spencer. Phil's just totally blindsided. My goal is not to, like, host like Spencer.

Be on your toes. That's you, bro. I can't hear. Is it over yet? Yeah, it's over. It's right. But what's the line goes up. All right, here we go.

Here we go. I hate this trend that Steve has started. He's gotten everyone to mutiny with, against the head. headphones. Really? I'm anti-headphone now. Listen, when we're doing this, headphones, I can't wear headphones when Steve's in here. Because he's just in the mic talking the whole time.

I can't think. Anyway, go ahead, Brody. You keep them on, Seth. Do what makes you feel good about yourself. All right. First question is conservation. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this state has the most, Fish and Game Wardens.

Is it A, Pennsylvania, B, Washington, C, Texas, or D, Florida? That is a great question. Mm-hmm. Which state has the most fish and game wardens? Pennsylvania, Washington, Texas, or Florida? Yons, you wrote an answer down right away. It's unlike you. Well, I just had a gut feeling.

Got to go with it. We are wearing the lucky Canam hat, too. That might give you some extra powers. I better start thinking where I'm going to donate my winnings. Everyone got an answer? Yeah. All right. Flip them over.

We got Janus with Pennsylvania, Seth, Pennsylvania, Randall, Texas, Corey, Texas, Alyssa, Texas, Spencer, Florida. Whoa. Makes bad. We have a correct answer. Yep. Spencer. Mm-hmm. It's Florida.

It's happening again. Son of us. According to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data from May 2023, the states with the highest employment levels for fishing game warns are. Florida was 7 to 800 officers, Texas, 480 to 500 officers, New York, 390 to 400, Tennessee, which is kind of a surprise, 350 to 370, North Carolina, 370, and California, 300 to 350. So what are 1 and 2? What are the numbers? Florida and Texas. Florida's 7 to 800, Texas, around 500.

Wow. I just figured with all the plunders in Pennsylvania. You got to take into concern all that coastline that they got to patrol. Texas got some coastline, too. Yeah, they do. They do. They had a lot of land. 200 fewer game wardens.

A lot of private land. All right. Spencer got it right. It wasn't that hard. It's almost like Spencer knew that question. Okay. Question number two. Two, ecology.

Oh, uh-oh. Name two of the only four states east of the Mississippi River with Alpine Tundra environments. Oh, ho. I like this question, too. Did you write this? Sure did. Alpine Tundra. There are four states east of the Mississippi that have Alpine Tundra.

Name two of them. Corey Struggis with geography outside of Montana. This is true. Really, anywhere east of here, I will admit. We can never have a map in the meat eater trivia studio. Because Corey asks for it every time. Yep. There's geography involved.

Alyssa, how are you feeling about your answer? Anyone feeling good? This is a great question, Brody. I'm jealous, I didn't think of this. Thank you. Hold on. Oh, you got time, Janus. Take your time.

Take your time. Two of the four. Boy, I keep going back and forth. Geez, what will I think of? Are we ready? Does anyone need a stall for time? No. No.

Okay, flip them over. Yannis says Vermont and New York. Seth, West Virginia and Virginia. Randall, Maine and New Hampshire. Corey, Maine and Michigan. Alyssa, Maine and Vermont. Spencer, New Hampshire and Vermont. We had some correct answers.

The four states are New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Minnesota. Do you need... I'm not Minnesota, Maine. Yeah. Oh, geez. Dang. It was my dad.

I was going to say Mount Katodin. Phil, do you need people who raise their hands if they got it right? No, because I think when I saw that you put Minnesota and I was like, I'm not sure that's correct. I was counting. I just had the wrong. Oh, I got angry.

I think I got the right ones. Okay. All right. I think it's Janus, Randall, Alyssa, and Spencer. I got to control my heart right now. Here's a little flavor text. New Hampshire hosts the largest amount of alpine tundra in the northeastern U.S., particularly on Mount Washington and the surrounding summits in the presidential rain. Maine contains significant alpine tundra on Mount Catedon.

New York features small isolated patches of Alpine tundra, limited exclusively to the highest peaks of the Adirondack Mountains. Mount Marcy. And. Sorry. Well, I'm just trying to read, man. Vermont contains the smallest amount of the four with less than 125 acres of alpine tundra remaining.

These fragile sky island ecosystems are remnants of the last ice age often found above 4,000 feet in elevation. Cool. I just saw some Instagram. It must be BS because I saw things that like in Shenandoah. which is isn't that Virginia yeah that there's

some of the same alpine tundra as in Alaska really yeah I don't think so you just saw that's why I put yeah yeah yeah on the internet we can double check it but I'm pretty sure this is I think it's a good question could totally be wrong yeah this stuff's under um this environment's under a lot of pressure right now shrinking, not doing well. So, they need to preserve it.

Moving on. You guys don't seem too concerned about the Alpine Tundra. I was told to shut up, so. Well, you know, it is a little difficult reading when someone interrupts you in the middle of a question sometimes. You're not wearing it bones. You should be. We do that to Spencer, so I'll let it slide.

You just giving you more flavor text. I know. Mount Marcy. I thought you were going to ask. I thought you're going to ask about Mount Marcy later. Oh, wow. If we get to it. If we get to it, that's why I didn't want to acknowledge it.

What states that any? Yeah, where is that? Not, doesn't matter. Vermont? One of those. Yeah, Vermont. New Hampshire? Vermont.

Maine? Okay. Jeez. Next question is about ornithology. Ooh. Geez. Never had that as a category. What are sage and sharp tail grouse breeding areas called?

It's that time of year That time of year Where we're getting to the show I'm excited To go and see some I'd love to Breeding I'd love to I know a couple of spots

Mm-hmm Same Look at some of those Feathery kickballs out on the prairie They do their little Little thing Yeah Yeah, the shark tails get real crazy.

Pretty much like watching miniature turkeys. Yeah, same thing. Everyone ready? Yes, sir. All right, flip them over. Leck, Leck, dance floor, nothing, dance floor. I'm surprised, man. Okay, Leck is the correct answer.

The term comes from the Swedish word lech, imagine that, which refers to child's play or a game. It describes the communal mating ritual where male grouse gather in open areas to perform energetic strutting and dancing displays to impress the females. How do you spell lick? L-E-K? The grouse call it a dance floor. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

I bet so they do. We should have had a video with a little dance accompanying. If we'd had more time to prepare, we would have done that. I did ask Brody to host this episode one business day ago. So Brody, Brody's just doing me a big favor here. This is a killer batch of questions. You guys have been spending so much time preparing for that last episode of Radio Live.

You don't have time to do anything else. All right. Number four. Fishing. I have a feeling this one's going to cause some trouble. Oh, good. For some people. So it's not going to have anything to do with fishing?

Some people might not like it. I don't know, but I like it. Okay. It's actually fishing and cooking, even a little bit. Oh, okay. Okay. So I do have a cooking question. So there you go.

Okay, the question is, fly fishermen use this pantry item to prevent the guides on their rods from icing up. Huh. Do they now? Seth knows this. I don't know if the fly fishermen use it, but. You notice that how in Montana, the five fishing guides don't work in the winter, really? I know. It's like it just stops.

Oh, yeah. Give them a break. They all go to south. You didn't used to work like up on Missouri or over on the spring. You got to go rip the deep house? I never worked. Worked it myself. You know.

DIY, if you will. Man, in some ways, I liked winter guiding better than the summer stuff. More hardcore angles. Do you have this random? It's chill. I think so. Do you?

Spencer? No. I mean, I... You guys can chit-chat for more time. Fly fishermen use this pantry item to prevent the guides on their rods from icing up. Anyone feeling good about it?

Is that the... You wrote down the answer fast. I mean, I saw a guy doing this the other day. Nice. Really? She. Hopefully it's the same pantry item that you have. How did you know he had this pantry item that he was doing, and he's putting it on his guys?

Did he have? Let's not get into that. A container that said the brand? We'll wait for bro. Everyone ready? Okay. No. Go ahead.

You got time. Throw some time. Throw something down there. Seth made me less confident. I can't picture seeing someone do this. Flip them over. Knowing that they were doing this. Chrisco says, Yana says, Chrisco, Seth says Pam.

Randall says Pam. Randall says Pam. Spencer says olive oil. We had some people get it right. It's Pam cooking spray. I used Crisco. Which is what? It's, yeah, spray olive oil.

It's not olive oil. I think it's canola. It's not motor oil. It's not like gear oil. In your pantry. What kind of oil? No, we're not giving it to you. But what about me?

It's got to be spread. I had a pantry item that you put on your guides. I've never heard of anyone using Crisco. How about Earl? Does that work? Southern oil. If you can find something that says Criscoe, I'll consider. The fishermen in the room said Pam.

People use chapstick, which is an oil. That sounds like a real pain in the ass. I think Pam is like the thing that's famous for it. You spray it on. So you saw somebody out there with a yellow and red can spraying it up. The whole length of the rod or just like the end? No, you hit the guides. Yeah, you just hit the guides.

Fly fishermen use, obviously other fishermen to use Pam cooking spray primarily as an anti-icing agent. to prevent ice build up on rod guides or islets during cold weather fishing. Budget-friendly alternative to specialized lubricants. Used to keep flyline slick also and in some case to add scent to lures or baits. I'm giving myself a point since this isn't a real episode. What's not real about it? Like you're just not getting them right, so it's not real. Sounds like a real episode to me.

Woo-hoo, here comes another fishing point. Question. Two in a row? Yep. We're ready for this one? Yes, yes, we are. You're going to pull it up now? Oh, okay.

Visual. Hell yes. What two-word term describes the circular swimming motion of schools of tarp and shown here? Ooh. That's not the right button. Let's read the question again. What two-word term describes the circular swimming motion of schools? Schools of tarpins shown here.

Two words. I used to get real excited when I saw this. I've actually never seen it. It's cool. You can get pretty close to them when they're doing it. Question one more time. What two-word term describes a circular swimming motion of schools of tarpins shown here? Two words to describe what you're looking at.

Looks like that one. Just gulped some air there. Mm-hmm. Well, Mark Cain and I are going to go and maybe get into a little bit of this. Yeah, it's coming up on that time of year. Are you going to use your little fly poles? Oh, yeah. Oh, dude, throw a live crab in there and have fun.

Well, we might do that too, but I've yet to catch one on a fly, so I'd like to do that. Just break it off? Just instantly break it off. Everyone got two words? Flip them over. Yonis says Daisy. Chain, says fish twister, sandworm

crazy, cast here, death pool, tarp and tornado. We have a correct answer. This is a bad question to ask you. When someone in the room has been planning a tarpins trip. What was the answer? Daisy Chain. Groups ranging from a few to hundreds

of tarpins gather in Daisy Chains during the spring and summer migration period is often considered a pre-season. spawn ritual, the juvenile tarpen also gather in daisy chain, suggesting it may also serve as a defense mechanism against predators. While daisy chaining makes the fish easy to locate, they often ignore baits while they're in a daisy chain. Daisy chain also a sound engineer thing, right, Phil? Isn't that like when you connect a speaker to a speaker? Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah, when a bunch of cables are all connected together, sure. Phil. Yes, Brody. We got a,

scoreboard update. Yeah, it is half time. And here we have Corey Culkins with zero points in last place. We've got a, it's a close game after that. Seth, Alyssa, and Spencer have two points of piece in her tied up.

Three out of five ain't bad. In first place with three points are both Janice Pettellis and Dr. Randall Williams. Mm. All right. But no more questions related to things that people are actively researching. How would I know what he's doing in a month?

Because he's on the phone. all day. Talk about tarpen fishing. Yeah. I can hear it two offices right. I've heard him talking about a lot of hunting but not tarpins motion. Why you need to wear your headphones and look for tarpid. Why? What the hell are you doing, Phil?

Hunter Spencer is slacking me about a podcast thumbnail, so I apologize. It's just going to close out of a hot here. Yeah, go down there and catch fish, obviously, and talk conservation. It's going on in the Keys right now. You're going to eat them? I'm not going to eat any tarpon, but

The plan is to fish flats two days and then go do some meat hauling on the third day. That takes two of you to go down there and fish for tarpon and talk tarpun conservation. Oh, yeah. Well, maybe three of us. Well, the third is going to be max part of the videographer. One person, two seems like too many. Are you hitting up our buddy Nick or no? No, we're going to fish with Jake, our buddy Jake.

Where's he at? Big Pine, Key West. Nice, that'll be fun. Tough assignment. That'll be fun Yeah, it is a tough assignment, Randall I mean, obviously, you know You're more qualified than he is to go

But you know, he's got to learn something That's down there, so that's true That's true. Just remember to bring the Pam Seth, you were asking about eating them I think they used to grind tarpening up into cat food But I don't think people ever really were into eating them too much Um

Grind a little tidbit for you, huh? No, go. Okay, next question. Number six, it's conservation. Welcome to Meat Eaters 12 and 26 presented by Maltry Mobile and OnX Maps. 12 of Meat Eaters' biggest and baddest hunts from the last year released throughout 2026. These are long-form episodes so you get more of what you love. The first one up is my baited bear hunt in Manitoba. If you've ever wondered what a baited bear hunt is like, you'll love this episode. My favorite part was watching a younger bear spend an hour trying to figure out how to get a creatively hung beaver carcass down from a tree.

Check it out now on Meat Eaters YouTube channel and be on the lookout for more 12 and 26 in the coming months. Let's pull this one up, Phil, because it's like a weird one. The blank zone describes the area of Colorado and Wyoming where chronic wasting disease was first documented in mule deer and elk. replace the blank with the correct seven-letter word. God, why do I keep doing that? Having a bad day, Phil. Good together back there. I need to get it in your cans, but he's got the wrong sound.

I've got Hunter and Riva trying to both call me at the same time. Brody's yelling at me. It's terrible over here. Hmm. Hunter and Riva, like, you guys work while you're doing, you're doing other stuff while you're doing this? They try to work with me while I'm doing that. Blank zone.

How many letters? Seven. Seven. The blank zone describes the area of Colorado and Wyoming where chronic wasting disease was first documented in mule deer and elk. It's a seven letter word. I have another seven letter word that I'd like to use. It's one word. Yeah, just one word.

Okay. Is lab leak one word? Hashtag lab leak is one word. Is that a conspiracy theory? No. Oh, this one's struggling. People are struggling with this one. Mm-hmm.

Seven letter word to describe the zone where CWD was first documented. Everyone got an answer? Nope. No. Gosh, not even close, Brody. Did you know this before you found this out for a question? Mm-hmm. I think you'll...

You think I'll know. I think you should know. It's in there. Right, Randall? I don't know. This is this kind of thing you should know. I don't know. Does Randall know?

Depends if I get it right or not. Yanni lived in Colorado. Therefore, he should know it. There's a certain vibe. Randall throws off when he's got the right answer. No, I truly don't know this. I've got a seven-letter word that I think is a strong contender. Oh.

He knows it. I don't know it. Truly. All right. Hold on. Get your answers in there. Flip them over. Oh boy, we might have a zero percenter.

Okay. We do. The answer is the endemic zone. Oh, boy, it was. The chronic, chronic wasting disease endemic zone in Colorado and Wyoming is the original contiguous focal point of the disease in North America. CWD was initially identified in 1967 as a mysterious wasting syndrome, causing captive mule deer, to lose weight and die at a research facility near Fort Collins, Colorado.

Researchers later confirmed it was a preon disease or transmissible spongiform and sepal off at the TSE in 1978. There you go, the endemic zone. I'd like Randolph answer, though, Genesis. Yeah, that was cool. I thought you had it, man. Phil Collins. I thought you had it.

Okay, moving on. number seven categories hunting what common species of dabbler duck is also known as a gray duck Corey just like not happy dude I got other stuff I could be doing

you want to get in a huddle call with Revan Hunter? Yeah I could probably do better at that a gray duck boy there's a lot of them a lot of gray ducks but it's a dabbler You're honest, you're a so-called waterfowler, come on.

Am I? Yeah. I think you're the only one in this room was filmed waterfowl hunts. Hmm. Always as a beginner. That's true. I feel good about my answer. What common species of dabbler duck is also.

known as a gray duck. Okay. Flip them over. Brody's... Oh, yeah, I think you guys... Yonah, I think you guys... Yonah Dajan, Seth Gadwal, Randall Gadwal,

Corey Mexican Teal, Lissa Mallard, Spencer Eider. The answer is Gadwal. The primary nickname for... Hey, I'm brother. ...is gray ducks referencing their

modeled gray-brown appearance. A couple other nicknames form are Texas Mallard, a regional name sometimes used because they're common in Texas wintering grounds. And also, I never heard this, pirate of the lakes derived from their behavior of stealing food from other birds. Oh, I like that.

Yeah. I've shot a gadwaller, too. I think they get confused with hen mallards a lot. They look quite similar. Okay. Question number eight, wildlife. This is also our listener question of the week from Brian Parks. This goes back to like the last time I hosted when I did all listener questions.

And this isn't this one I didn't get to. So Brian asks, What African animal is the closest living relative to the pronghorn antelope? Listener question in the week. What African animal is the closest living relative to the pronghorn antelope? Pam brother. Gadwal brother. Oh, Seth was just, you might have learned this on your recent trip across the pond, Seth.

I don't think it was brought up. No? I feel like this is just a good solid trivia question. I honestly could be wrong, but I think I'm right. We'll find out. We'll see. You still throwing up a blank? No, I got an African animal written down.

No, I mean, have you gotten a question right? Nope, it's zero, buddy. Cool, well, let's keep it going. No, no, I'd love to break the answer. Nice here, buddy. Oh, he just showed it to Janus, and he looked. That's all right. I saw his eyes move.

Uh-oh. You guys should chat a little while Janus talks, really put the pressure on him. I'll give you a hint. Yeah. He lives in Africa. Be careful with those hints. The closest living relative. One of these was recently killed with a hot rod 6 millimeter cartridge.

A Swedish cartridge? Nope. Hot rod. Got an answer? I sure do. There's going to be 10 people that heard that. They're going to enjoy that reference. Yonah says Impala, Seth says giraffe, Randall,

Giraff, Corey Gazelle, Alyssa Kuw, Spencer, Giraff. The correct answer is giraffe. Giraff, brother. Pronghorn are the last remaining member of the family Antillo Caperday. With their closest living relatives being giraffes, molecular studies and genetic evidence confirm the pronghorn's closest living relatives are giraffes. While they share common ancestor, pronghorns evolved independently in North America for millions of years. Like giraffes, which have osicones, pronghorns possess specialized bony, hair-covered structures, though pronghorns usually shed their outer horn she's annually.

Ocicones. That's a word I did not. No. Cool. There you go. Giraff. That's a wild animal. It's a wild, weird animal.

Love looking at drugs. I think Randall might be running away. Do we do a scoreboard update now, Phil? After a question eight questions. Usually, yeah. We usually do. Let's take a look at that sucker again. Randall.

Here we are. As previously confirmed, Corey is still representing with a big old goose egg. Working on it. Alyssa's up next with two points. Yonis and Spencer are tied up with three Seth Morris has four and in first place with five points. Mount Marcy has to come up at some point.

I hope so. He said only if we need to. It'll be a tiebreaker. But Randall can... What's the elevation in the mountain? We should look it up. I used to own a t-shirt with it printed on it. Okay.

Seth, everyone's rooting for you. Boy Scouts of America. What happened to that shoot? Come on, Seth. I don't fit it anymore. But one of the One of the photos in which I looked The handsomest in my life

Was taken wearing that shirt Wow, what age That was the phase of my life About 22 Oh Yeah Peacantomsomness at 22 Oh man

Yeah Nah, you're there now No I'm just letting this go on For a while I'm just chewing up some clock here bro Yeah I'd like to see that

The category for question nine Is history So Randall's getting all excited No No But I don't think he'll be excited I didn't think you'd throw me a bone, Brody. Name the company that made the legendary bush float planes, the beaver and the otter.

Dang it. It should have gone, not history. I couldn't figure out what category it should be. Air travel? Year? I don't know. I mean, if you got a... Aeronautics.

Yeah. History. I like history. You'll get some history. Everyone ready? No. Come on. Wow.

Brody's ripping through this. Yeah, you are. I'm doing my best to slow it down. He wants to play instead of host. Phil, how are we doing on time? Who else been in one of these planes? Do we get a second half? I'm a little short, actually.

Who's been in one of these here planes? Who's been in both these planes? I think I've been in both. The old otter patotter. Oh, I've got some stories that'll curl your hair. A little turbo otter action. The hot dog guy? You talking about the hot dog guy?

No, no, no. You mean the guy out of Prince of Wales does the hot dog? No. What's the hot dog? He liked to show off, like, flare over. Oh, I thought it was like a literal hot dog. And stuff. No, but that would be a good hot dog.

Yeah. You're like the hot dog guy? It's like this guy sounds sick. He was just like hot dogging in the airplane, or there's a different reason you called the hot dog. No, because he was hot dog. Unnecessary hot dogging in the plane. Okay.

You know that there's old pilots and there's bold pilots, but there's no bold, old pilots. What I say is there are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom hunters, but there are no old, bold mushroom hunters. There are old hand loaders, and they're bold hand loaders. Actually, there are some old bold hand loaders. All right, now you do one, set. I don't have one. Ice fisherman. No, there's a lot of old

Bull and ice fishermen. Seth, actually, you're doing pretty well today. I thought you might be a little distracted considering what's about to happen soon to you. Oh, man, I've been telling me. I'm feeling good about it. Feeling good about it. Seth's going to be a daddy in case you guys didn't know.

Did you listen to that song yet? I did, yeah, it's good. Okay. Okay, that's good. Name the company that made the legendary bush float planes, the beaver and the otter. Flip them over if you got an answer. Yonis to Havelin, Seth, the Havelin,

Randallon, Boeing, C-Cat Air Cub. The name the company is DeHavilland Aircraft Company. DeHavillan Aircraft Company was founded by Sir Jeffrey DeHavilland in September 1920. The pioneering British aerospace manufacturer

was responsible for innovative aircraft designs like the Moss series, the World War II Mosquito, and the world's first jet airliner are the comet. But hunters and anglers, particularly in Alaska and Canada, are more familiar with the various models of beavers and the larger otters. Often used as float planes, the otter and beaver can also be outfitted with skis and

wheels, making them the most reliable and popular bush planes ever built. Though production on the otter and the beaver ended in 1967, many of these aircraft are well over 70 years old and still flying today. Right brother Seth. It was right there for you. Yep. Yep. Instead of aviation. It's real interesting when you get one of these things now, though, because they'll have like an Apple iPad, like retrofitted into the, all these like manual old controls.

I love flying in those things. Man, they're fun. Yep. There's always a lot of this. Yep. And there's always a lot of this. Yeah. What do they do it up here?

Toggles, fiddling with stuff. It's like rudder or something. Yeah. Yep. fiddling around um all right is it over

yeah yeah is it no no it's not over do we want another scoreboard look because it's interesting oh I guess Corey has zero

Alyssa has two Spencer has three Janice has four Seth has five Randall has six I guess I gotta do two three four five six Corey so you could get one

if you had one if you had one if you get all the rest of them wrong I've got to do a a correct answer of you I guess number one One was Florida.

Number two, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. Number three was LEC. Number four was Pam cooking spray. Oil. Number five was Daisy Chain. Number six was the endemic zone. Number seven was Gadmole. Gadmore.

Eight was giraffe. Nine was dehavelin. Can we count oil? No, don't do it. I don't need any help over here. I'm fine. Charity. I mean, if

Corey really like needs that to boost himself up. No, we always want to see the scoreboard be one, two, three, four, five, six. What kind of oil does Pam spray? I think it's canola. Yeah. It's oil.

Seed oils. Okay, here we go. Last question. If you would have said cooking spray and not pan, I would have given it. Oh, yeah. If you just said cooking spray, I did not.

Yeah. Oh, it's all oil. I mean, you could rub oil on the... He's not going to give me Criscoe, which is... No. I'm sorry for bringing this up again. I was trying to be nice, but now it's getting annoying. Yeah.

There's too many oils. Like, gear oil? No, no, no. Crude oil? You wouldn't find that in your pantry. You might. Nose oil. Snake oil.

Here's the oil. the barrel oil. Yeah. There are no. Okay. Last question. We're done debating this. The question is again, fishing.

Ooh. Last question. Fishing. Since I always get a number 10 fishing question this. Okay. Ready, Bill? Name the two states that lay claim to the world record small mouth bass. Ooh.

Both states? Yeah. That's kind of the whole point. Sure. Wow, Randall has an answer. I don't like that at one bit that you know this. Two states. I won't tell you this.

I know how it was caught. This was discussed in detail on the meat eater podcast. Oh, that's why he knows this. No, I know it because I know where this lake is. This lake? Oh, I don't know. He just gave away. Didn't give a hint, but it's not a big enough hint that I'm going to like.

Lake or river. Redo the question. I know where this reservoir. Hmm. Body of water. Or pond. There's a world record out of there? Name the two states that lay claim to the world record Small Mount Bass.

I know the lake, but I don't know the two states. Are they close to one another? What, the states? It'd be weird if they weren't. Well, I mean, it could be a tie between two states. Yeah, that's true. I mean, maybe I don't. Yes, they are.

Maybe I don't know this. I'll give you a clue. They are. I'd imagine they're bordering. I've been to this lake. Catch any small mouth there? Mm-mm. What were you doing there?

I think we were mountain biking in Boy Scouts. Mountain biking in the lake? No. Boy Scouts. Hey, Phil. Boyle that chain. That boy scound over there. Which means you would have been living in Ohio at the time.

This is a very... Oh, okay, Seth. This is a very nostalgic round of trivia for me. It's kind of a hint that Randall's telling you this, too. We traveled, I mean, we went to Montana. We went to Canada I'm just trying to get them to think a little bit What other states

We went all over the place Is everyone having some big small mouth states? Come on High adventure trips You're the only bass master I feel like I can tell you the lake I don't keep track of records Although that's a good fish right there

Come out of Tennessee here it looks like Oh Large mouth Large mouth large mouth What? Oh just for the like the state record State record yeah But we're talking

Bronzebacks, baby. There's a 15.75 pound large mouth. Small jaws. Holy cow. Do you say 15 pound large mouth? 153 quarter. Oh. Mutant.

Okay. If you don't got an answer, you're going to need to come up to one real soon. Pick two states, Seth, that have big bass. Big. Come on. What? What'd you pick?

They're near each other. Oh, they are? Yeah. That's what he told you that. There you go. Pick one that borders that state. You're making Randall too comfortable over there. Being from PA, you ought to know that geography over there.

We're good. All right, flip them over. Minnesota and Wisconsin, Vermont, New York, Kentucky and Tennessee, Michigan, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Kentucky. Wow. Dale Hollow, Tennessee, Kentucky. We had three people get it right, Kentucky and Tennessee. Oh, wow.

Alyssa, how'd you know that? Oh, I got that right? Yeah, that right. Nice. Wow. Yeah. Okay. On July 9, 1955, David Lee Hayes caught an 11 pound, 15-ounce, small-mouth bass, 27-inchs long,

trolling a bomber plug in Dale Hollow Lake, which straddles the Tennessee, Kentucky border. That record was challenged by allegations of tampering in the 1990s, and the record was rescinded. but eventually those allegations were proven false. The world record was reinstated, which stands to this day. The fish was caught in Kentucky waters, but weighed and measured in Tennessee. So both states lay claim to the record. I don't remember what the controversy was. What do you mean the other lake?

One was Dale Hollow. What was the other lake? It's the same lake. Same lake. Borders both. It's just on one side. I thought I remember they're saying something about maybe like, spark plugs in the belly of the bass.

Oh yeah, there's all kinds. There's like this disgruntled employee at this marina who like made allegations of tampering, like stuff in the fish with weights or something like that. And it all, it all came out that that guy was just like talking shit. And the record stands to this day. So there you go. Looks like Randall is our winner with seven questions right.

Congratulations. Randall. Good job, Randall. Very good. How are you feeling about that victory, Randall? It's a good. It's a good start to the new season of Meteor Trivia after heartily disappointing. Season five now.

Yeah, season five. Whoa. Yeah, this is a season opener. I'm going to retire soon. Yeah. Ranel, who's the money going to? Let's send this money to the Coastal Conservation Association. Tell us why you're sending it.

Um, well, it's a group that works on, uh, fisheries issues, I believe specifically in the Gulf, but, uh, we used to do some work with them when I was at TRCP and then when we're on the live tour, uh, guide, I believe at the Dallas or Austin show, who guides on the Texas Gulf Coast suggested it. And believe it or not, it's been so long since I've won a game of trivia. Oh, that, uh, we're just getting to it now. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, so. be honest, I'll run into those guys on his tarpen fishing. That'd be nice.

Tell him I say hi. I will. That was all the way back in 2025, Randall. I know. Gosh. Goodness gracious. Young man then. I've got,

I'll be honest, it's very flattering when people send me donation requests. But at this point, I am, I've drowned and then settled into the bottom of the lake and sediment has landed in top of me. I'm becoming a fossil.

Very close to fossilization. Hold on before we go. Oh, we're going to do a bonus question. Everyone was wondering about the Mount Marcy thing. We're going to pretend that Seth and Randall tied. What is the elevation of New York's highest peak Mount Marcy? Good Lord. Might be quick, right?

It's crazy that you said that earlier, Randallin. You have it on your shirt. Yeah, but I haven't fit that shirt. I haven't fit that shirt. I don't worry about that one. I didn't prep the Mount Marcy phone because that was Brody's backup tiebreaker, which I didn't think was going to happen. I'll give the answer to that too.

Oh, wow. Okay, we'll write down two answers. Hold on the other one. What's the elevation on New York's highest peak, Mount Marcy? What was the one that was on? Last year, Lake Superior froze over. Oh, last year. The last time.

The last time. Oh, I thought you. Gotcha. Last time. Okay, so here's the Mount Marcy one. Fill through it all into just. I believe Mount Dix is also nearby. D.I.X.

That one might have. We're real close. It might. It was a shirt with a list of like, Oh, yeah, we are close. The 10 highest. Flip them over. Oh, whoa.

Wait, you're not doing the year superior? No. Oh. 504. I was going to say it's either 49 or low 50s. I'm willing to bet that there's not one spot east of the Mississippi higher than any answer, except Randall.

What's the answer? Oh, wait, wait. Actually, there is a spot. Well, I think Randall is closest, right? Randall is closest, the answer is 5344. Just over a mile. Then he got the tiebreaker. What's Washington? When's the last year, Lake Superior froze over?

96. Oh, that was a good year. Thanks for listening. Yep. Well done, Randall. Dominant performance. Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he's the host. Using those smooth, mellow tones, he lays them questions down.

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