The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 865: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCXIII

Episode Date: April 22, 2026

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Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newhart. And today we're joined by Brody, Nate, John, Marge, Logan, and am I missing anyone? Maxwell. I'm here. I'm here. This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from Meat Deer's four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. There is a prize.

Meadeter will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winner's choosing. All right, we have a couple mailbag questions today. Again, we're going to start doing more of this instead of the IFAQs that are just about trivia. So send your questions to trivia. at the meat eater.com if you would like the crew to answer them. This first one is from Matthew Meschke. I'm from North Dakota and just drew a once-in-a-lifetime elk tag. I'm 25, and this will be my first elkunt.

Do you guys have any advice on judging elk? Let's say a 330-inch bull compared to a 360, thanks. I am not the guy to answer this, but we work with some people who are the people to give you a good answer. The first one here is Jason Phelps. he says every bowl is put together so differently that it's hard to judge them off of just a quick visualization. He's saying it's hard to tell the difference between a 330 and a 360 just from a glance. He goes on to say that you need to do some studying. And he says start with the base. On a standard six point bowl, if you have 15 inch time length, 50 inch beams, 40 inch spread,

and 60 inches of mass, you have a 350 inch bowl. Then you can deduct an add a 15 inch ball. Then you can deduct an add on from there. He said, first, you want to check that there's six points, then the frame, then see how it's all put together. So that's what Phelps says. Basically, there is no quick way to field judge. Janus Putelles, here's what he says. Here's a quick and dirty way to field judge, bull elk.

On big mature bowls, the average mass width and main beam length will be about 200 inches. And then here's where the math starts. The last thing to score then is the time length on a six point bowl. If you take the average length of the times and multiply by 10, since he has 10 scoreable points, and then add that to 200, you'll get a good field judgment. For example, if you have a bowl that has an average time length of 15 inches, I'd guess I'm looking at a 350 inch bowl. The math breaks down 15 times 10 is 150 plus 200. That equals 350. If every point is pushing or exceeding 20 inches, then you're looking at a 400 inch.

Bull. My buddy J. Scott has done a lot of content on YouTube and Instagram about field judging. He also has an app called Horn Score that will teach you how and help you field judge elk. Yanni says he'd recommend both. Brody, do you have anything to add? Yeah, like I'm never going to be the kind of person that's going to walk around with those kind of math formulas or like a calculator. Like I get it. Like, I just feel like you're going to know when you're looking at. at a giant number one but what i would look for in simpler terms and what those guys described is a long-ass main beam and long third and fourth points like tall third and like that

especially that fourth one if it's like 20 24 inches you're looking at a really good bull okay um but whoever said it phelps like the difference between a 330 and the 360 is like not that much he's saying you need to study it. Yeah. Even when you study it, it's not a guarantee. 10 or 15 inches that could be air. If you're just looking at one that's wide and one that's narrow, you know? So long main beams, real long third and fourth is what I would look at first, like as a general impression.

Anyone else in the room have some input for Matthew on how to feel judge giant elk? I like Max's. Yeah. What was Max's input? If you pull up the gun and start doing one of these, it's probably pretty big. Did you write this question, Max? Somebody from North Dakota drew a very good L-Tag. I wonder where's he from or if I know him?

What's his first name, Matt? Matthew Meshki. But Maxwell also from North Dakota and drew a good elk tag this year. No. Oh, yeah, but not in North Dakota. No. No. Do you know non-residents can't hunt North Dakota?

Yeah. Well, I guess I assumed that. It's the same way in South Dakota. And I feel like they manage similar. Again, I'm not an elk killer. in the room, but I spent some time around big elk and like Yellowstone specifically. The first thing that always jumps out to me, I'm like, oh, my God, that's a big bowl is it's whale tails. If it's got like really big whale tails, I'm like, oh, I'm looking at a giant bull right now.

Like, long or width? Just both, like, it's like, oh my goodness. Those are, there's some space there. That comes into that, like, long fourth point, you know. Any other input for Matthew? Logan, what was your input? I mean, I've personally never killed a bull elk, so. I mean, it sounds like he's a, like, he's a long,

in a similar situation where this is his first once in a lifetime. Yeah, once in a lifetime. But yeah, don't go home not filling your tag. So I wouldn't be too concerned. Good advice about that. We have another mailbag question. This would be the last one from Joshua Fowler. If Phil played along with trivia, what would he score?

We need some more episodes with Phil playing. Phil. Yeah. How would you do, you think? I would do all right. I think I'd say before that I would, I think I'd crush cooking. I don't mean to like talk myself up. I feel like I know most of the cooking questions.

Everything else would be, I mean, hunting. would be abysmal. Fishing would be possibly worse, but I think I'd do okay in conservation, or some of your weird, more esoteric categories, like mountain men or geography, whatever you're calling. For a non-hunter, Phil has absorbed a lot of

information in the last way. As much eight years. How long have you worked here, Phil? Since 2019, and I've heard every episode of the meteor podcast, some of them multiple times. But I don't know how much of that I've actually retained. It would be a good test. You keep track today,

and see how you would do on this episode. If we had Phil's four verticals, if this was his brand, Phil Eater, what would the four verticals be? Oh, man. Well, I think video games would be my best category. Anything before 1995 would be spotty. I think I'd do okay, though.

I'd say, like, the 1990s is in early 2000 Seattle Mariners. That's, I think I'd do really well there. Is that the team that won, like, how a hundred-some games? In 2001, they tied the record for, I think, 162 wins in it. 162 Gives. Was Genggerald? Those are already gone

at that point, Phil? No, he was still there in the mid-90s. But he was gone by the time they tied the record for games. Here's a whiteboard for you. Oh, thank you.

Most wins was 1-16. 116, yeah, yeah. Okay, so we video games, early 2000s Mariners, two more categories. Yeah, I'd say like music. I think I'd do pretty well. Tiki drinks?

Well, here's the thing. There's a part of me that wants to say, like Star Wars and Tiki drinks, but those are deep oceans and people, I think people would call me a poser and say that I've putting up rookie numbers there. But, and then I'd say,

let's just stick with meat eater cooking as the fourth one. Oh, wow. Okay. Good for Phil. There we go. You'll do okay on today's episode. We have some housekeeping to get to before we play. On a previous episode of trivia, I had a question about the seven-letter chemical that M-44 bombs spray in the face of coyotes. The correct answer

was cyanide, and in the flavor text. I again referenced how they explode in the coyote face, but Jay wrote in to say that this isn't quite accurate. He pointed out that cyanide is housed in a plastic capsule that's sealed with wax. When the spring-loaded

plunger is triggered, it forces the solid cyanide out of the capsule and directly into the mouth of the coyote. There is no explosion and no cloud of cyanide. The emailer points out that I'm using jargon for anti-hunting propaganda by incorrectly referring to it as an explosion or a cyanide cloud.

You know what, Jay, I think you're right. That it's important to be accurate with those things. So there is no cloud of cyanide. There is no bomb-like explosion for those. It is a capsule that's deploying into the coyotes mouth. All right, the Shelby Index for today is a four. So our winner should get eight correct answers. That's possible.

And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the job, Phil. Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that? Just tend to win everything. Question one, the topic is Phil's vertical cooking. And this will be multiple choice.

According to outdoor life, blank is, quote, universally the best wood for fish. Is it mesquite, hickory, pecan, Or alder. You're a piquan guy. According to outdoor life, Blank is universally the best wood for fish. The best for what? Like bonking them on the head?

Or, like, smoking them? I think they're referring to smoking them. Universally the best wood for fish. Your four choices. What's fish? Hickory, piquan, alder. Just all fish.

Salmon. To get a turkey hunting, but you don't know much about smoking fish, does he? According to outdoor life, this is universally the best wood for fish. Mesquite, hickory, pecan, alder. I'm trying to think when I buy those wood pellets, it says like... It's got the graph on the back. And it says, like, what it's good for. Yep, it's a good place to start.

Brody, do you have this one right? I have what should be the right answer. Oh, okay. That's a good way to put it. According to Brody Henderson. Logan, have you smoked any fish? Yeah, smoke a lot of trout. But I kind of just use whatever pellets I have.

Whatever's handy. John, how about you? Same exact thing. Okay. Nate? No, fish smoking. Not a big fish guy. Marge, smoking fish.

No. Maxwell, smoking fish. Occasionally the salmon, like on a cedar plank. I guess with Heather. There you go. You were observing. Yeah. What kind of wood did you use there?

Hey. Your four choices for the universally best wood for fish Mesquite, Hickory, Pecan, Alder. Is everybody ready? Yeah, I think so. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says, Hickory.

Logan, Hickory, Marge, Hickory, and she drew us a nice dead fish that's getting smoked. John Hickory, Maxwell, Alder, Brody, Alder. The correct answer is Alder. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about.

Got that one right. Tasting Table, Bradley Smokers, global seafoods, and other. agree that Alder is the top choice for smoking fish. They say it produces a mild, delicate, sweet smoke that enhances a fish's flavor instead of overpowering it. After Alderwood, the next most popular choices for seafood are oak, apple, and cherry. Beautiful. Brody, do you have any other input on choosing wood for smoking fish?

I would say anything, like in the fruit tree arena is good for, like, sweeter and milder. versus like heavy-duty smoke flavor like hickory or muskete. Yeah, I've seen it described as like mesquite and hickory is like taking a sledgehammer to something, while like an alder or an oak or an apple or a cherry is like a paintbrush to something. And so you're looking to do the paintbrush when you're doing this fish. You learn something new every day. Rather than hitting it with a sledgehammer. Question two, the topic is hunting.

This next great question is via David Raome. according to Rock Island Auction Company, the Mossberg Blank is, quote, the most produced shotgun in history. Nate and Max had their answers before I finish the question. According to Rock Island, option company, the Mossberg Blank is the most produced shotgun in history. I'm surprised by this. Yeah, I feel like there's another gun you've jumped to as like, oh, that's the most produced. one, and we can get into the stats after this, but I think that one's not far behind.

That's what I shot my turkey with on Wednesday. Oh, good. Really? Yeah, that's I think you're going to be real disappointed with your answer, Max. Really? Wow. Okay, too late to change. I wonder if we have the same one then. How you really feel, Rudy. According to Rock Island Auction Company, the Mossburg

Blank is the most produced shotgun in history. No. If this gets real tiki-tacky, I'm going to be pissed. Okay. Nate is now unsure of his answer. And between Brody and Max, I would feel like Max has a deeper knowledge of shotgun. So I'm excited to see what you guys have for your answers.

I mean, I can't think of it right. Okay. Like 100% in raw. Wow. Okay. Is it just not a Mossberg that he wrote down or did he write down a Mossberg? It's not a Mossberg. What?

Oh, buddy. No. What gun am I thinking about? We're going to give our other players. What Spencer was talking about? A little bit longer. Hey, no, no, no, no. You got stop over there, brother.

He got the first one, bro. To Rock Island Auction Company, the Mossburg Blank is the most produced shotgun in history. All right, let's flip these bad larries. Large John, Logan, how you doing? I'm not answering. I'm not going to ask. I keep thinking of a competitor that I have owned. All right, all right.

That's fine. Everyone's got their answer. John, you give up. Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Mossburg 500. Logan says 12-gauge, Marge drew us a strutting turkey. I'm trying to.

John, without an answer, Max, says the Remington 870. Brody says the Mossburg 500. Brody and Nate got it. Who knows more about shotguns? The grader answer is the Mossburg 500. Why did I say 870? There have been 12 million Mossburg 500s made, which is about 1 million more than the second place Remington 870.

was created by Carl Benson in 1961, with the user base in mind being hunters. But the pump action shotgun was quickly adopted by law enforcement and military, which raised its popularity as one of the world's most used guns. We had 870s in the armory, not 500s. I think it probably varies. I'm right, then. I'm just saying the military, like, I thought it was going to be the opposite of that. Gosh.

Yeah, Monster 500. I had 870 in my mind. I was like, yep, it's got to be it. Do you own a Mossburg 500? No. No, I don't. We're in 870. Oh, wow.

He's a fancy guy. You don't go with one or two on the most made shotgun list. No. Question three, the topic is conservation. The invasive Eurasian blank dove is easily identified by a black stripe that sits on the bird's neck. Nate and Brody already have their answer. Max is joining them. The invasive Eurasian blank dove is easily identified by a black stripe that sits on the bird's neck.

Man, my last name is Dove. This is disappointing that I don't know. Dang. We'll educate you all about doves after this. Cousin Eurasian. The invasive Eurasian blank dove is easily identified by a black stripe that sits on the bird's neck. Sometimes they have to get the old red rider for these things when they're in my garden. Yeah.

Max, do you know this one? I would hope so. Okay. That's right, Max. Good job. Max's back on track. And Spencer, I've gone through the questions. The fill index is also a four today.

Oh, okay. Great. I like that. Marge, do you have this one right? No. John, how about you? I think so. I bet you could walk out this door and go outside and find one of these things in like 30 seconds.

I think so. Yeah. You could also find a moose in about 30 seconds. I heard that today. Oh, was that in the actual pond back there? Is that the Parker over here? Oh, okay. But some, I don't know who it was, but someone told me that the moose was walking around like our.

Dude, how are your chick's doing? I want a chick update. I think, I'm 99.9% sure there's a hen nest in our hen house. You need to swim out there and take a look. I don't need to swim. So, yeah, the Drake is just like using the pond. and the hens nowhere to be found and you can't confirm it

in the hen house but it's like there's a little bump in there that I think it's a little head mallard One more time we're on question three The topic is conservation The invasive Eurasian blank dove Is easily identified by a black stripe That sits on the bird's neck

Go ahead and reveal your answers Nate says rock Logan morning Marge morning John collared Maxwell, Collard, Brody Collard. The correct answer is Collard. What was I thinking?

The Eurasian collard dows. I don't think you were. You know what a rock dove is? The pigeon. That's it. Dang. The Eurasian collard dove is native to Africa, Europe, and Asia. It made its way into the United States after some escaped from captivity in the Bahamas in

1974. They are taller and heavier than the native morning dove and white-winged dove and are easily identified by the black stripe. that forms a semi-circle on the back of their neck. Most states allow unregulated hunting for collared doves as they out-compete native birds for food and nesting sites. As Brody said, you'll find them in the Gallatin Valley here as I think probably potentially all 50 states.

And all times a year or two. Doesn't matter. Usually morning doves pitch it south in the fall, but like erasuredives are here all winter long. Do they taste good? It tastes like a dove. Yeah, I think if you did a Pepsi challenge, you wouldn't know. The difference is my guess.

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Question four, the topic is woodsmanship. This unit of measurement, which is the equivalent of four inches, quantifies the distance between the ground and a horse's withers. Nate has his answer. Max says he's got it. This unit of measurement, which is the equivalent of four inches, quantifies the distance between the ground and a horse's withers.

I think. I don't know any other that would fall into this category. For some reason, I have a reason why I put this answer down, but I don't know where it came from. I do, too. You know, Nate, I don't think you get enough credit for being one of the most well-dressed people at Needing. You know, what did I tell you this morning? Thank you. What did I tell you this morning?

Thanks a lot. Rarely see you in a t-shirt. Yeah, he also got complimented. We were filming something down in the kitchen earlier, and he walked by letting his dog out, and Nick Glenn complimented him. And then Nate said that he wore this to church yesterday, and he didn't want to fold it up.

So it was his Monday out. I laid it on the ground. I think Chip slept on it last night, and then I put it back on this morning. I did discover that I have a hole right in my crotch, though, so don't look. Now they're too holy for church. Yeah.

That's good. This unit of measurement, which is the equivalent of four inches, quantifies the distance between the ground and a horse's withers. I was making some smoked salsa down in the kitchen. We taste tested it beforehand. Give us a review somebody so that people want to go watch the video of it when it comes out a few days. It was delicious. I thought it was great.

It was so good. spicy. I put that on chicken, not just chips. Very good. Not just tacos. You all did yourself, Spencer. That video will be up very soon. I rolled up to the grill expecting to say you were smoking some fish or whatever.

Turkey. And it was also. Yeah. Coming to the meat eater store. Spencer's chilling. Spencer's salsa. It kind of tastes like hot mama's salsa. I don't know if you've had that one.

But it's like... Oh, isn't that from Costco? No. No. I love hot mammas. It's like around this area. That's a local bozeman. Yeah.

What's the one from Costco that's, really good. Oh, yeah. That peach salsa, dude. It's a little salty, but it's good. It's everybody ready for the unit of measurement. Yellow. It's equal to four inches, quantifies the distance.

Don't think so, but maybe. Oh. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says hand. Logan says cap. Marge without an answer. John without an answer. Max says shoulder.

Brody says hand. The correct answer is hand. Brody and Nate. Got that one. One right. Tyler's. Maybe that's what I was thinking about. This four inch unit is roughly the distance between your pinky and thumb when your fingers are held together.

The hand measurement goes back to ancient Egypt, where a hand was 3.7 inches and a fist was 4.25 inches. On horses, hands refer to the distance between the ground and the top of the shoulders. The average horse is about 15 hands tall, while a tall horse is usually greater than 16. I knew shoulders was in there somewhere. What are withers? Wither's would be the top of the shoulders, I believe. Shoot. Question five, the topic is fishing.

This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Matthew Smith for sending this great question. Matthew is going to get a board game signed by the crew. If you want a chance to win the listener question of the week, then send your question to trivia at the meat eater.com. This 10-letter saltwater fish is named after its teeth that resemble what you'd find in the mouth of livestock. This 10-letter saltwater fish is named after its teeth

that resemble what you'd find in the mouth of livestock. The room looks stumped. Wow. Yanni was supposed to be here today, and I expected that Yanni and Brody would immediately have this one right. This 10-letter saltwater fish is named after its teeth that resemble what you'd find in the mouth of livestock. But this could be a zero-and-a-shaust.

percenter. I gotta read this. Phil, one through five, which of these would you have right so far in our first five questions? So this was my toughest stretch here. I think the only one I would have gotten right would have been the cooking one, number one. Alder smoked salmon is a PNW delicacy. Of course. Brody, do you have a 10-letter fish?

Yep. Nate, do you have a 10-letter fish? Yeah, I feel like I'm in another tropical type situation. Okay. named after its teeth. This 10-letter saltwater fish is named after its teeth that resemble what you'd find in the mouth of livestock. We will get a scoreboard update from Phil the Engineer after this.

I had a nine-letter fish and I added one letter. We'll see the hands out. All right. It's always a good strategy. Yeah, number five here was one where it's one of those ones where you hear the answer and you're like, oh, but I don't think I would have put it together. If that's a hint for anybody, I don't think it's a hint for anybody. I don't think it is.

10-letter saltwater fish is named after its teeth that resemble what you'd find in the mouth of livestock. Do our other three players give up? Yes. I'm going to get skunked to this game. Oh, you got a couple in you, Marge. Maxwell, you give up? If I get this wrong, I'd like to present my case to the jury or judge or whoever. I can't think of anything.

I'm sorry. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Cuddlefish. Logan, sheep's head. Marge without an answer. John without an answer. Max without an answer. Brody, sheep's head.

He got it. The correct answer is sheep's head. Nice work. You'd find cud in the mouth of livestock. Nope. Is that why they're called cuddly fish? I don't think. I don't think your logic's work.

I'm just throwing out there. I think the biggest thing is that cuddlfish aren't fish. Mm. Touche. Okay. Thank you. I rest my case. The sheep's head range stretches along the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to Brazil.

They use those unique teeth to crush and grind shelled animals, such as crabs, oysters, and barnacles. New teeth are constantly replacing old teeth that wear down and break. Here's a picture of their mouth. This is why they call them sheep's head. I thought they were, it was just sheep. One of these. That's why I wrote. I think it's a weirdly phrased question.

Many different versions of this fish. Well, there's many fish that there's many fish that had. have this name and sometimes you'll hear them called sheephead. Freshwater drum, that's one that where I grew up. There's Atlantic sheep pet. There's Pacific sheep pet. They don't look anything alike. Like, yeah.

If you ask somebody where I was going up, if they, like, what did you catch today? And they were to catch a freshwater drum. There's like an 80% chance they would say a sheephead. Yep. But those drum do not have the teeth like this. No. So that I think you're like using the exterior or the exterior of the fish to be like, that looks like the head of the sheep.

Yeah. Like growing up in Lake Erie, we considered those things. trash fish. Oh, this is so good. When we went to Florida, we caught a bunch of those. We were super fun to fish for it. We, like, drop at times. This sheep's head you're talking about. I caught one on the fly rod. Oh, these things are very good to eat. Really good to eat.

All right, we are halfway through. You're sure you didn't catch a baby black drum? I'm pretty sure. I had the stripes and everything. Baby black drum have stripes. Do you remember those teeth, Matt? I remember those teeth. Okay. All right. Black drum would not have this. All right, Phil. Halfway through the game of trivia, give us a scoreboard up.

Oh, bud. Yeah, I hear it half time. Maggie's not on the board yet with zero points. Logan and John have one point apiece. Nate and Max are tied up with two. And with a perfect game, he doesn't have a flushed face doctor are nipping at his heels today. He's feeling good.

I wish he was here. He's got five points. Brody Henderson. Oh, we need like a colossal meltdown. Just to see the sweat pouring down his face. Brody could ramp up the earliest victory ever. Hey. By like question seven.

Let's see how this. How about this? People. Let's do it. I am all about it. Whoever finishes second gets to pick the donation. Oh, I like it. I like it.

Consulation prize. Sure. He's not going to give you the win, though. No. No. You can pick who it goes to, so keep playing. Question six, the topic is hunting. The Mitch Blank Buck, which is widely believed to be a hoax,

measured over 30 inches for its main beams and inside spread. Brody has the perfect game to stay. Finish his answer before I finish the question. The Mitch Blank Buck, which is widely believed to be a hoax, measured over 30 inches for its main beams and inside spread. This is sneaky. Steve's dream project is to do a big, big movie about this. I know. Oh, I think I got it then.

Yeah, I was going to say, I thought it was a pretty big hint. That's all right, Phil. I'm not too worried. I'm not worried for you, Brody. Isn't it that guy? Well, it's like getting in the right direction. We'll see what Spencer says. Okay.

But no. It doesn't sound like Max Nelson. Come on. Got some letters mixed up, maybe in the wrong place. I thought, I thought this. The Mitch blank buck, which is widely believed to be a hoax, measured over 30 inches for its main beams and inside spread. Nate, do you have this one right? Yeah, I think so.

Okay. I thought it was. You almost got me, you sneaky sneak. I don't think this is a, I just told you you were going into right direction. I know. Trickery. And I probably don't have it. Okay.

Yes, Steve. Steve is obsessed with this story As I think many hunters from his part of the world are Dude, I got some juicy deeds on the Beattie Buck Okay, tell me more We'll talk about it after. It's not Mitch Beattie Buck. No, it's not that.

The Mitch Blank Buck Which is widely believed to be a hoax measured over 30 inches For its main beams and inside spread. I have heard that you need to be careful What you say about this deer because the family is litigious. Oh yeah. It's a good word.

It's everybody ready. It's hilarious. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says, Ron Paula. Logan says Letterman, that's a different, that's a famous mulee here in Montana. Marge without an answer. John, without an answer.

Maxwell says Mitch Paula. I had Ron Paula down. R-O-N. Ed. I have Mike. Oh, Roe. Brody says Rom Paola, the correct answer is Rom Paula. Now,

what do you have there? Show us again. You have R-A-P-P-E. What else? Me? I have Mitch. He had. Mitch Paul. This is what I had. Oh, so close. I thought it was two names. I had Ron Paula.

Max? Max? Ron Paul? Max's answer is like if we played a game of telephone and he was last. Yeah, most of the time it is. Mitch Rumpala. The Mitch Rompala buck was supposedly killed in 1998

in Grand Traverse County, Michigan. It measured over 216 inches, which topped the world record Milo Hansen buck. But the deer was never officially entered into the Boone and Crockett record books, which added to speculation about the Rack's authenticity. A fellow Michigan hunter even publicly offered to give $10,000 to a charity of Rompala's choosing for him to get the skull X-rayed.

but Rompala declined. According to 2006 polling from whitetail.com, 83% of hunters believe the buck is a hoax. It just looks like it. It looks like the freaking bigfoot footage. We have a picture of the Mitch Rompala buck here. And Mitch was also known for like killing incredibly, incredibly wide deer out of the same like area in Michigan. That is not known for big deer.

This was pre-AI too. so. Yeah, 1999. He had to do some manual about that out there. Manual work to Allegedly,

Spencer, allegedly. Of course, yes. Do you have any any story for us, Nate, on the Beedy Buck? Okay, so what's the Beedy Buck?

The Beattuck was the largest atypical until like what Mufasa was killed or whatever that one in Illinois or Iowa. God.

You know what I'm talking about. Yes. Luke Brewster and killed that yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I believe.

But that, that was killed real close to my college Cedarville, Ohio, shout out. And it was killed right on the edge of this, like, nature preserve that nobody gets to run around in. And giant bucks get grown all the time. So everyone's always talking in that area. Like, oh, was it really killed on the edge?

But we were at a party and went down the basement, and there's a life-size Beattie Buck. What the heck? Whose house is this? And it was John Beattie's house. Oh, damn. His daughter was throwing a party. Hopefully he's not listening. That doesn't settle the controversy.

Well, that's how it all got started. We were like, what the heck? And then, yeah. That's a good story. Whenever a really big deer gets killed, it doesn't matter if it's Mitch Romano or anybody in the world. There is speculation about how it died and the legality of everything. When Dustin Hoff killed his United States record, typical buck, and I had talked to him that next morning, I told him, I was like, dude, get a game warden to come out today and just, like, verify all of your facts. And then there will be no question as to how.

any of this went down. And that was one of the first steps he took just because this naturally happens no matter what. Question seven, the topic is conservation. What ocean are the Galapagos Islands located in? What ocean are the Galapagos Islands located in? This is question seven. The topic is conservation. Oh, dude.

This could ruin Brody's game. Could. Maxwell rocking his Minnesota Wild Hat today. Big game tonight. How are they going to do in the playoffs? Well, they beat the stars first game, round one. So I have hopes for them. Not high hopes. I just have hopes.

Okay. What ocean are the Galapagos Islands located in? This episode's coming out a couple days, Maxwell. Make us a prediction for the wild tonight. Wild win. Okay. Buy a score of... Three, two. All right.

Is everybody ready? No. We got Max distracted. With oceans. I know I'm trying to name my oceans. What ocean are the Galapagos Islands located in? I'm trying to turn. Nate, did you change your answer?

No, I should have, though. It's not too late. I know. I know I'll be more pissed if I change it and get it wrong. Marge, do you have this one right? I think so. Okay. She shook her head no and said, I think so.

Gosh, why am I? I'm just blanking. Maxwell, we're waiting on you. Yeah, that's fine. You can wait all day. I'm just recalling. Think of a Christmas song. I think there's a few you can eliminate pretty quickly, Max.

Yeah, thank you. But I'm not aware of your grass with geography, so. I know. But I'm just trying to think when one starts and one ends. Me and Max, me and Max grew up in the Dakotas, and in Western South Dakota, you have, the point of inaccessibility, which is the furthest you can be on the continent from saltwater.

Wow. So, me and Max, it's tough going on the ocean for us. It's not our day. I think you. I got that one crossed up. Man. Couple more seconds here, Max. Good?

John, are you good? Yes. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate, Atlantic. Logan, Pacific. Marge, Pacific. John, Indian, Max, Atlantic,

Brody, Pacific. If it's Indian, I'm going to be the correct answer. It's not Indian. It's not Indian. Brody keeps his perfect game going. It's across Ecuador. The Galapagos Islands are located. But if you kept going, you'd hit the Indian Ocean.

It kept going that way. I mean, in between China and India is the Indian Ocean. The Galapagos Islands are located about six. hundred miles west of South America. They consist of 13 main islands and six smaller islands. The Galapagos are home to 188 species that are labeled that's critically

endangered, endangered, or threatened. I was just stuck on Master and Commander, dude. I was thinking about Africa. That whole movie was setting the Atlantic. Oceans are no doubt. You got to go past Australia, like eventually. I was thinking, okay world traveler march. The two oceans touch each other.

I mean, all oceans touch each other. No, they don't. The Arctic Ocean doesn't touch the southern ocean. Antar. Of course it does. How? All water's connected. All the ocean is all connected.

He's saying adjacent. Question eight. Come on. The topic is geared. He still got it right. He's still whacking all of us. I'm Luke Wilson. Join me each week for film Never Lies.

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Season 2 of Blood Trails premieres April 16th. Follow now on Apple, Iheart, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. Question 8. The topic is gear. Bunny Boots, which are also known by this cartoony name, were created by the U.S. military during the Korean War. Nate. Dude, I almost bought a pair of these of the thrift story.

yesterday. Oh, that's a good place to find these. Brody, do you have this one right? Yeah. Bunny boots, which are also known by this cartoony name were created by the U.S. military during the Korean War.

In fact, I only knew them as Oh, you didn't know them as bunny boots. Okay. Nate, do you own a pair of these in or no? No, well, that's why I was... Brody. Have you ever put your feet in in bunny boots? Me? Yeah. Yeah. Ice fishing?

Um, no, I can't remember. It was some meteor thing. Maybe it was ice fishing. I don't know. Brody and Nate's habit are all the four-cars. But it used to be, I don't know. Like, I haven't been in an army surplus store and so long, but you used to be able to just go pick them up. Oh, dude, that one that coming back from Salt Lake is so good. What's that one called? Phil, do you got this one right? This was one I did not get correct. No, Max. Can I call my dad? Maggie, I feel like you just wear these to work sometimes. I feel like I've seen that. No? Max, do you think Do you think your dad owns these? Do you think your father-in-law owns these? Probably does. He would know what bunny boots are also known as. Yeah. Bunny boots, which are also known by this cartoony name,

were created by the U.S. military during the Korean War. I'm going to take picture and send it to my dad's TV. Nate? What? El moose boots. Maybe that's what I'm thinking about it this time and not Riva. This is Max's new trick. He likes to phone a friend, but it doesn't count.

Well, I just, I don't know the answer until they text back. Logan, do you have this one right? I don't think so. They probably have these at the Army surplus store in Chicago. My dad's the worst text her, too, so he's not going to reply for a while. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nicky Mouse.

Logan, space boots. Marge without an answer. John says, Moxxwell, without an answer. Brody, Mickey Mouse boots. The correct answer are Missy. Mickey Mouse boots. Do you have a picture? I don't have them.

You'll recognize them if you see them. Yeah, they, well, I'll describe for you what they look like. Bunny boots are extreme cold vapor barrier boots that are designed to be worn in temps down to negative 60 degrees Fahrenheit. They were also referred to as Mickey Mouse boots due to their oversized appearance that resemble the footwear of the Disney cartoon. Army surplus bunny boot can be purchased for about $100 while some commercial brands will sell their own versions that retail for between $200 and $400.

The whole deal is you inflate them, right? I don't know how the vapor lock works, but like the thing is they have the vapor lock. Yeah. But they're giant boots that are either like pure white, which I think is when it's a bunny boot or black when it's a Mickey Mouse boot. And Phil has done a great job of producing one there and he pulled us up a picture. My Fibuis, my Fibukis look like those. Don't know what those are, but it's cool.

They kind of look like the Alaska company boots at Seths. Those are the Mickey Mouse boots. You're right, Marge. And I bet some people call them Space boots, Logan, but we're not going to count that as a cartoonie. You're going for space jam?

I originally had Looney Tunes written down. Good job, Nate. Two questions left. Please give us a scoreboard update. Everyone's on the board now. Maggie and John have one point. Logan and Max tied up with two. Nate's got four now and Brody still

with a perfect game here. and the final stretch has eight points. Question nine, the topic is wildlife. This next great question is via Chris DeVries. This six-letter word refers to the bristly plates that some whales have instead of teeth, which they use to filter krill, plankton, and small fish. Oh, my goodness.

Probably the first time in Meteor-Trivia history where we have had two questions about animal teeth. What if you spell it wrong? Oh. If you got everything else right there, Marge, but a letter or two is wrong, that's okay. This six-letter word refers to the bristling plates that some whales have instead of teeth,

which they use to filter krill, plankton, and small fish. I know what we're talking about. This is a whale. As soon as I hear it. We have a picture of those teeth after this answer is revealed. Brody, is this going to keep the perfect game going. Yeah. Okay.

I wish someone would give Nate a run for second place, though. I'm talking about this, right? Yeah. You know, good job, Matt. We don't even need to show the picture. It looks like a draig. I hope that Marge one ups you, though, and shows us even... I didn't draw a picture.

I'll just... Shshh. Trying to spell. Six-letter word refers to the bristly plates that some whales have instead of teeth, which they use to filter krill, plankton, and small fish. Gosh. Give me a sec. Just give me a set.

Oh, okay. Nate thinks it's in there somewhere. Can I say it out loud and not smell? Before we flip over the boards, Marge, you can just say your answer into the mic. And if that's right, you'll get the point. Do you think it's in your brain as well, Maxwell? Yeah, 100%.

Okay. He drew it for us. And I think his drawing is accurate. Yeah. I erased it. It wasn't my best Picasso work. We are now into late April, and I don't think we've had a perfect game yet.

So Brody is flirting with one. Really? All year long. I think we've been in a drought this year of perfect games. Six-letter word refers to the bristly plates. Some whales have instead of teeth, which they use to filter, krill, plankton, and small fish. I'm out.

I'm really excited for Brody to get the question 10. Hey, Brody, some of these whales cross many oceans. Some do. Is everybody ready? Okay, Marge, you say your answer for us. Baleen? That's right. Go ahead and reveal your answers.

Nate says, filter. Logan without an answer. Marge says Bailey. And one of her three spellings is correct. That's awesome. John without an answer, Max, without an answer. Brody says, B-L-E-E-N. B-A-L-E-N.

I didn't. I knew that. I knew it's a type of whale. That's right. There are 14 species of baleen whale. which include the blue whale, gray whale, and humpback whale. The baleen is made of keratin, which is the same protein that makes up our fingernails and hair. In some species, the baleen can reach 13 feet long.

During feeding season, blue whales can consume 35,000 pounds of krill per day. There is a picture of what Max drew us in baleen in a whale's mouth. I believe that is a humpback. Are they pushing the water back out and then the krill are getting stuck in there, mouth. I assume that's what they do. They suck it in, close, force the water out. That's so sick. And yeah, Blue Whales will do 35,000 pounds of filter feeding a day. A day? I thought you were going to say a year. During feeding season. Wow. Crazy the ocean has that much. It's always feeding season for me. All right, Phil, one more scoreboard update before we do question 10. I never thought about having a feeding season.

Breeding season. Feeding season. I have two points. Migration. John has one point. Maggie has two points. Logan and Max also have two points. Should have lump them all together? Nate's got four and Brody has over double the second place. Player's score with nine and a five. What if I pass along my winnings from Brody to the third place?

I make the rules here. All right, here's the correct answer review so far. One was Alderwood. Two, Mossburg, 500. Three, collared dove, four, hand is how you measure a horse. Five is sheep's head, six, Mitch Rompala, seven, Pacific Ocean, eight, Mickey Mouse Boots, nine, Baleen. Here is question 10.

The topic is fishing. This next great question is via Clay Smith. According to 2023 data, what month has the fourth most boating accidents? Four. Not looking for one, two, or three. I knew it. I am looking for number four. My God.

According to 2023 data, what month has the fourth most boating accidents? You're wild for this one, Spencer. And if this may be the dumbest question you ever asked. I think it's a great question. As soon as you start thinking about it, I think you'll arrive. Brody, have you tried thinking about it? The right answer, Brody. Yeah.

And if Brody can get this one right, we will double today's donation to $1,000 for some lucky conservation group that Nate is going to pick. Oh, shoot. $1,000, $1,000, $1,000, according to 2023 dad. At what month has not one, not two, not three, the fourth most boating accidents. How conservation-e does it need? Can it be like conservation adjacent? Sure. Okay.

Yeah. Your question or your answer? No, my donation. Oh, okay. According to 2023 data, what month has the fourth most boating accidents? I'm going to donate to ts.com. Hey. The TSTS test.

Dude, you know what I'm, no, I can't show you because my answer's on there. No tungsten in that turkey I shot. Hmm. Oh, do you like your answer? No, I mean, I use some form of logic. to get there, but... Sure. It's just like which holiday

do people get more drunk during? Wow. That's the question. No, the fourth most. No, but yeah. Yeah, he's done his proper rankings when he's arrived at what he believes to be number four.

According to 2023, data, what has the fourth most boating accidents? Got a one and twelfth chance here. I don't think it's December. You never know. Could be December in Texas or... On the coast somewhere. I think this is one of my favorite questions we've done in a while.

Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says May, Logan, September, March, September. Nice. John, June, Maxwell, September, Brody, September. Number one is July. Number two is August. Number three is June.

Number four. September. Is May. So, Brody did not get that one right. So Memorial Day, baby. Nate got that one right. Wow. July is when the most boating accidents take place with 936 reported in 2023.

That's followed by August at 574, June at 561, May at 462, and September 5th place at 368. We're close, Brody. 125 fewer. If I was asking that question, it would have been in order list of top three. The deadliest months are in the winter though, which is when the highest percentage of boating accidents result in a

fatality. In January, 29% of accidents had a death, which is about two and a half times higher than July at 12%. Those crazy duck hunters. It is those crazy dogs. Going out when the weather's not good. All right, Brody is today's winner

with nine points But second place, Nate, who got five correct answers, is going to choose where the $500 donation goes. Nate, we'll take a good one. We're going to donate to the Station Foundation, which is a nonprofit that caters towards kind of like Tier 1 military community. Okay. And they just started a hunt track where they take super, they take like four Tier 1 vets. Maybe Tier 2. They take four vets.

And they run them through the entire process of like never having killed anything in your life besides maybe a human. to running around with guns or running around with bows and shooting a critter. What's the difference between Tier 1 and Tier 2? Tier 2 would be like your Navy SEAL Ranger Regiment type guys. Is there a tier 3? No, you don't...

I don't know. That's a good question. Tier 1 would be like Ranger reconnaissance, SEAL Team 6. What's the name of the place one more time? The Station Foundation Hunt Track, specifically. I think we've done a little... Yeah, they do phenomenal work. It's a really small group that they cater to, but it has a huge impact on those guys,

and we'd love that they get a little more recognition. That's awesome. Worthy place to get our $500 donation today. Join us next week for more meat eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. Thanks, Spencer. Thanks, Spencer. Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he's the host.

Using those smooth, mellow tones, he lays them questions down. And he likes taking those two and three, three-year-old bucks. And he's an avid amateur. On Blood Trails, the stories don't end when the hunt is over. They just get darker. I've seen something in the road.

I instantly thought it was a sleeping bag. And there was a pool of blood. Oh, my God, he doesn't have a hit. Blood Trails is a true crime podcast born in the outdoors, where the terrain is unforgiving, the evidence is scarce, and the truth gets buried under brush and silence. Indications were he should be right there, but he wasn't. This season, we're going deeper.

From cold case files to whispered suspicions, from remote mountains to frozen backwoods. Each story begins in the wilderness and ends in darkness. Because out here, there are no witnesses, no cameras, just fragments and the people left behind trying to piece them back together. He's not an honest person. He's incapable of the being. on us.

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