The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 869: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCXIV

Episode Date: April 29, 2026

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Jordan Sillars, Maggie Smith, and Roman Schnobrich. 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.

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and today we're joined by Janice, Brody, Randall, Jordan, Marge, and Roman. This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from meat eaters' four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. There is a prize. Meadeter will donate $500 to the Conservation Organization of the Winners' choosing. Jordan Sillers, our favorite Canadian Texan in town. That's right.

What are you doing here? I am here to talk about blood trails. Okay. We got a new season of blood trails coming out. The first two episodes are out. The second episode dropped today. So you can go listen to those. If you missed it from last season,

Blood Trails is a true crime podcast about hunters and anglers. So we have an entire first season you can go listen to if you missed it from last season. We also got a chance to go out and do some kind of on the ground filming yesterday. We went down to the Moose Creek area just south of Bozeman here, where one of the cases we're covering this season, the incident happened down there. So we're able to go down and just kind of see the area, see what it was like. And yeah, I got some good insight from that. Did your perspective change on anything being there in person? You know, it did a little bit.

So the story is about a camper who was killed by a stranger, a guy he didn't know. And the story is that the perpetrator kind of walked into his camp and he was invited in to, you know, share some drinks, just kind of have a good time. And my perception of the campsite was that it was kind of, there's a bunch of other campsites around. You know, the guy just kind of pulled off the road and there he was. but the campsite itself is actually like four miles in. So this guy went intentionally to this campsite, which is where he ended up murdering another guy. So yeah, it was good to be up there.

What episode is that one? This is going to be episode seven, season two. One of my favorite compliments that I get Jordan about trivia is people will say this is the only show that my spouse will listen to with me. Usually it's a man saying that about their wife. I see that all the time with blood trails as well. It has like some real mass appeal that goes beyond your traditional meat eater audience.

So well done. Yeah, thank you. I get that a lot. I get, you know, I try to get my wife to listen to meat eater stuff and this is what she listens to. What I also get that I really appreciate is I'm not a big true crime guy, but I like this. Oh, yeah. So that feels good. That makes me feel good inside.

And I bet that's a lot of folks in our like core audience. Yeah, yeah, exactly. The ladies love true crime. Right. And that's a fact. Marge's shaking your head no. You're saying no? This lady don't. I'm just saying I don't. Oh, well, you didn't say that. You're shaking your head no.

You need to say yes, Yanni, you correct. Most of the ladies love true crime. I myself and my hater. I was misleading. Yonnie, too. All the ladies in my universe are true crime listeners and they've listened to blood trails. I mean, I like blood trails, but I'm not like a true crime. Junky. Yeah, whenever we get in Sydney's car and it connects to her phone, I'm not sure if I'm going to hear like Charlie Crockett or then the husband was murdered.

Keeps you on your toes. Yeah, I know. She's fantasized about that. Brody asked if we could talk about Yanni's haircut before the show started. I did. I did. I asked that. Randled it. I'm sorry.

I spent the whole day with Yanni and he had a hood on. He rolled in with his hood off. because we were freezing. Yeah, we were outside. So I didn't get a good look at this bad boy. Yeah. We're on the range, the wind was blowing, the snow was flying. But I didn't get a good look at this.

It's a very salt and pepper military look. I stole this line from Katie Finch, Steve's wife. When Steve recently got it cut, she was like, you're a little too like Sean Penn from one battle after another. So when I went into the barbershop, I'm like, look, dude, don't make it so high and tight. Then I get that Sean Penn from one battle after another look.

And obviously, Colonel Yanni, I'm a little too close to that. The way that I look at it, it's like in a week, it'll be longer, and it'll be fine. When I go to get my hair cut at long last time, I'm to tell him, give me like an early Jerry Seinfeld. Listen, do you have a plan or are you just going by a deal? I don't have a plan. No, listen, this is serendipitous because my barber, just saw Jerry Seinfeld in Vegas last weekend. He was down there for his birthday.

He saw a couple shows, and Seinfeld's one of them. And he said, however old he is, he's like well into his 70s now. And he said he just killed it. So maybe it's homage to the great comedian Seinfeld. You should do that. Yeah, it had a great little... Yeah. Go long enough to get a real ponytail going around.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the thing is, I kept the sides trim for a while. So I can't get the whole... Oh, you got. But I can't pull the sides back into the pony. That's okay. You'd be a better historian if you had a ponytail.

I had a ponytail. No, don't do it. Through a lot of grad school. You can have to move to like Santa Fe or something if you start wearing your hair in a ponytail. Let us shot at Dan Flores. He's in Bozeman. What are you talking about? We're in Bozeman.

There's a lot of ponytails and man buns here. No, I don't think I can do the paint. But I just, I wanted to grow my hair out long to hide the bald spot. that's becoming increasingly prominent in the back of my head. There's only one way to hide it, Randall. Let's shave it all off. Well, I thought I was doing a pretty good job, and then I saw the last two minutes of the Buck Hunter video. And Phil caught a particularly gruesome angle of my scalp.

And with your bald spot, if your whole head is bald. Art takes sacrifice. Blood Trail Season 2 is out right now. Hold on, Spencer. What's up? Let's drag this out longer. I got two things. Okay.

First, as everyone should be saying farewell to Roman. Friend of the program. Contest an extraordinary, Roman. We've loved Roman. We've loved having you around. We miss you already. The second is, I'm going to read this to you, Spencer. Uh-oh.

That final question on trivia this week, last week, was horseshit. I did guess correctly between May and September and scored my first perfect game ever. Oh, good for that person. Hell yeah. I think it was a good question if you had a 50-50 chance at it. I don't know, Yanni, I don't think you were there. Randall, you weren't there. I was there.

It was what month has the fourth most boating accidents? I liked it. Yeah. The fourth most? Fourth most. If I asked you one, two or three, it'd be too easy. Yeah. Yanni, do you have a guess?

What month has the fourth most boating accidents? September. No, no. May. Me too. Wrong. All right, we have some housekeeping. Memorial Day weekend.

Memorial Day. Yeah. Since the beginning of the show, our prize for. the listener question of the week, it's been a signed board game with a $25 value, assuming our lowly signatures are worth nothing. This process of getting games shipped to us, then signing them, then shipping them to you, has created all kinds of logistical problems. Roman is largely responsible for making sure it happens and avoiding those logistical problems. But there's an especially tight bottleneck when it comes to getting the autographs, as I often go months,

without seeing your favorite crew members like Clay and Mark and Brent. This is made for a very slow distribution of prizes. Well, today that is going to change because our new prize is a $150 first light gift card for the listener question of the week. My goodness. Winners will receive those digitally within days of their episode airing. This is going into action immediately. So your prize is now worth more and getting delivered quicker. Wow.

Are you kind of sad that your game got... no no it was it was it was pretty dang annoying to deal with and and roman uh dealt with a lot of it too because like this person sends me the question maybe it's been in my inbox since 2022 and now i decide to use it it's our listener question of the week now roman reaches back out to them they might be dead they may not listen to the show anymore and now it goes three months without them seeing that email and getting back to us by that time the board games are gone it's it's just like ben uh as annoying as it is for us it's even more annoying for the people who who actually win these prizes.

Now you're going to get a $150 first slide gift card. Everyone's going to be happier because of it. I really hate the idea of someone passing into the great unknown. And not thinking that their questions were good enough when in fact they were. I agree. That's haunting. That just means don't go dying on us. You could get a new pair of first slides.

Now I got some crackle in my headphones, Phil. That's the muzzle break earlier. You could get a new pair of gravel or granite field pants first light with that gift card. Shirts. All kinds of recommendations for you. Company man. All right, the Shelby Index today is a four. So our winner should get eight correct answers.

And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil. I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that? Just tend to win everything. Roman, you feel like this could be your first win? I don't even want to think about it.

Yeah. You can do it. Question one, the topic is cooking. This first great question is via Hayden Hall. And as always, it will be multiple choice. The Runza, which Food and Wine magazine says is, quote, the best tasting hot pocket you've ever had is this state's most iconic dish. Is it Oklahoma, Nevada, Nebraska, or West Virginia?

Ha ha! The Runza, which Food and Wine magazine says is the best tasting hot pocket you've ever had is this state's most iconic dish. Hmm. Four choices. Oklahoma. I only had to write down two letters. Nevada.

Nebraska. West Virginia. I wouldn't say that. Huh? I wouldn't say what? Ask that question to me. How do you know what I'm asking? I just think.

know and I feel like it's a tip. Okay. But go ahead. No, no. You don't ask Yonnie. You can ask him after. No, no. I'll see if Yonis can read mine.

Roman, do you have this one right? I'm feeling decent about it. Okay. The Runza, which Food and Wine magazine says is the best tasting hot pocket you've ever had. Is this state's most iconic dish, Oklahoma, Nevada, Nebraska, West Virginia. Yanni and Brody confident. Our other four players. I don't really have a good reason to be kind of a reason,

but I don't know if it's a good reason to be confident. I haven't the faintest idea. I have no idea. Zero ideas. Well, maybe after this you need to try one of these best tasting hot pockets. Yeah, I haven't had a hot pocket in a while. Oh, I love me a good runs of. I'd love to just have a hot pocket.

Is everybody ready? You'd love a run. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Roman, Oklahoma, Jordan, Oklahoma. Randall, Nebraska, Marge, Oklahoma, Yanni, Nebraska, Brody, Nebraska. The correct answer is Nebraska. The Runza is Nebraska's version of a pierogi. It's a baked sleeve of dough that's often stuffed with meat and cabbage.

The dish is so popular that the state birthday fast food chain simply called Runza, which has 90 locations across five states. To learn how to make a wild game version, go see Jenny Win Wheatley's recipe on the meat eater. dot com called venison runzas The runsas I've had Are not like Perugis No not at all How would you describe it's pretty good? It's more like bread

Around meat rather than like A Yeah it's a noodley type Yeah it's a big deal versus a perogi Something that you would have to either boil or fry in a pan to prepare Sure I also wouldn't say it's super close to a hot pocket either But like in it's closer to a hot pocket

You hold it in your hand It looks like a sandwich that the like a sloppy Joe that the bread melted together anyway our dear friend pat hopman his his wife Kathy makes them delicious oh in Nebraska oh yeah yes and I think that's like one of the iconic foods you can get at the boys make a showing at the kids deer youth camp very popular question to the topic is hunting this gun brand is nicknamed big green because of their green colored branding packaging and logo Jordan And Randall, quick to answer this one.

This gun brand is nicknamed Big Green because of their green colored branding, packaging, and logo. Randall, did you know that they were called Bing Green? Or are you just using the green colored branding packaging and logo to arrive? Yeah, I've heard it before. How about you, Jordan? Yeah, I've heard it. Gun brand, nicknamed Big Green because of their green colored branding, packaging, and logo. Brody, do you have this one right?

Well, we'll find out. I mean, Green. Yanni, you've clearly had a runza before. Give us a review. Yeah, the ones I had looked similar to the picture that you, the most recent ones were from Kathy Hoffman. I forget, did hers have cabbage in them?

Or is it just like meat, onion burger, cheese? Maybe a little bit of cheese. I've had multiple versions of hers and she does them different ways. But yeah, I love them. They're good. They're filling. I enjoy the fast food version just because I'm like, I'm like, I'm doing Nebraska's culture while I'm here. It's a great, they're a great pre-make for like deer camp, right?

You don't have got to worry about. Yeah, they travel real well. The version of that where I grew up is a Fleischkekela, and I love a Fleischkekela. And it's very similar to a Runza. That's a beautiful word. It's a deeply German word. You know what it means? I don't.

I don't know, baked bread. Flesh and meat? Yeah. This gun brand is nicknamed Big Green because of their green colored branding, packaging, and logo. Is everybody ready? I hope so. Go ahead and reveal your answers.

Roman, Remington, Jordan, Remington, Randall, Remington. March without an answer, Yanni and Brody say Remington. They got it. The correct answer is Remington. The green that Remington uses is a dark green that's often likened to John Deeregrine. The color is heavily featured on packaging for their guns and ammo. The brand has embraced the nickname and even has a series of gun cabinets that are known as the big green gun safes. Question three, the topic is fishing.

Mystery Tacklebox says rods made of this 10-letter material are, quote, highly flexible and heavier than graphite, but also less expensive and weaker. I just picture that nice box of corlock sitting on the shelf. Deer's worst nightmare Mystery tackle box When Corlocks Are like $14 a box Take me back Yep

As I feel like back in the old days If you were to look in the ammo aisle It would be mostly green of just Mostly yep green and yellow Mystery Tackle Box says Rod's made of this 10-letter material Are highly flexible And heavier than graphite

But also less sensitive And weaker I put four of those, I believe 165s, maybe 180s into the first bull elk I ever shot at. Actually, second bull elk I ever shot at. Most likely also I put one

of those in the first bull elk that I ever shot at, which I did not recover. The second one I recovered, but I just felt like with where those holes were in it, that it should not have taken four shots. It should not have gone so far. And since that day, I wrote them off.

I killed my first mule deer. Anelope. Killed a Sharis moose. And I think my first black bear with Corlocks. My guess would be that was my first decade of hunting.

Yeah. Corlocks. They were available. Rods made of this 10-letter material are highly flexible and heavier than graphite, but also less sensitive and weaker. Come on, fly gal. It's hard to try.

I was just driving. The tipped corlocks came out. I think thousands upon thousands upon thousands of white tails are still killed by those quarrelations. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answer. Roman, without an answer, Jordan says, carbon fiber. Randall, fiberglass, marge, fiberglass, yani, and Brody, fiberglass.

The correct answer is fiberglass. Fiberglass was the most popular fishing rod material until graphite hit the market in the late 1960s. Fiberglass is still one of the most commonly used materials today, especially on slow and medium action rods. Some anglers prefer the delayed loading that comes with a fiberglass rod, which gives fish more of a chance to take the bait. Question four, the topic is woodsmanship. This next great question is via Christy Holmes. This word, which also refers to Rolling Stones's 105th best guitarist of all time, is defined as, quote, logging debris. left in the forest after a harvest.

Didn't even need to finish the question for Randall. He just knows the Rolling Stone list of best guitarists so well. This word, which also refers to Rolling Stones' 105th best guitarist of all time, is defined as logging debris left in the forest after a harvest. With hair like this, I'm an honorary guitarist. Yeah, you'd look like you could play a mean solo. Oh, until you look at my fingers. Oh, what's wrong with your fingers?

I just feel like they're blocky and not very, I don't have a lot of dexterity. Too sausagey for a guitar? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I have hard time with buttons and stuff. Brody is now arrived at an answer. Do you think it's right, Brody? 100% it's right. Okay.

This word, which also refers to Rolling Stones of 105th best guitarist of all time, is defined as logging debris left in the forest after a harvest. Rolling Stone went to number 250 when they were making that list of greatest guitars. Jeez. What a passionate group. I'm kind of surprised he's so far down,

but then there's been a lot of good rock and roll. Yeah, there's a lot of people that have played a guitar. I wonder how many non-rock and rollists were on that list. I don't know. I mean, who's not a rock and rollist in some respect. That's right. You know?

classical guitarist. I would say that if there was, say, some very blues-centric musician on that list, that they maybe would fall into that category instead of like a real rocker. I said something stupid. I'll take that back.

Again, the topic is woodsmanship. This word, which also refers to Rolling Stones 100. He doesn't like it when he sets us up to go off on these tangents and then we do. And it has to be such a cleverly written question. We're just, we're sort of just, You're welcome to you.

I just need to interject with the question again. You're welcome to finish. This is one of those questions that the hint made it harder for me. Yeah, I agree. You know what I mean? I agree. But I just got the second part, I've been like, Okay.

Marge, do you have this one right? Jordan, do you have this one right? Roman has. Roman, you're a rocker through and through? I had to get over my anger at Spencer first. then think clearly enough to figure out what the name of the debt of the, uh, I feel like I know this

wood on the ground. Oh, you for sure know this. Too tired. Do we have an audio clip with this, Spencer? Uh, we do not. It's not Prince because I think he's much higher than 105. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal

your answers. Roman and Jordan without an answer. Randall says slash March without an answer. Yanni and Brody say slash, they got it. The correct answer is slash. Slash has a mulch-like quality providing nutrients and protein for plants and animals on the forest floor. That's, of course, the physical woody slash.

I was just saying it's pretty dumb. It's also often used by loggers to create trails for heavy equipment, which avoids soil damage. The Rolling Stones says slash is the guitar hero and does his best work and sweet child of mine. Welcome to the jungle in Paradise City. I just added Paradise City to my hard run playlist. It's a good one. Keeps you pumped up. And he's only 105.

Imagine what the next 104 would like. It reminds me when he made that shirt that we couldn't release and then we filmed that great ad with Sam and Hillary. Oh, yeah. And I wore that shirt a lot. And we couldn't ever release. Damn intellectual property. Question five. The topic is Wildlife.

This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Justin Faye. We're sending this great question. is going to get a $150 first-like gift card. If you want a chance to win the listener question of the week, then send your question to trivia at the meat eater.com. Check out the new pants, Justin. Harvestmen, which are in Arachnid,

are more commonly known by this three-word name. Harvestmen, which are in Arachnid are more commonly known by this three-word name. Randall now doing some scribbling as he makes direct-eye contact. the Biondi. Trying to throw them off. Uh-huh.

Oh. Oh. Jordan Sillers, do you have this one right? I thought I did, but the arachnid is throwing me. Oh, I hate arachnid. Spooky. Me too. We've had a big old spider on our range cleanup yesterday for Earth Day.

Mm. Also some other unique items. Yes. I found a drone. Randall found... Sex toy. A sex toy? I don't think it's fine to say dildo on the air.

Okay. Come on. It's weird that it was out at the gun range. I don't know. I mean, he said afterwards. It's a dildo. It's like, could show up anywhere, I feel like. Is it weird that it's out of wrong?

I don't agree with that at all. I don't agree with that at all. I mean, like, I don't think. I'm not like, I'm thinking you're like, oh, we're at a gun range. Why is this thing here? I did take home about. Seven nice pieces of OSB and T-post. Usable OSB.

Oh, yeah, cut, sharp right angles and not a hole in it. Wow. Yeah, you just got to get out there past 100 yards. A lot of those pieces of USB are. Where people are unwilling to walk back to get their stuff. I'll check my zero and then stretch it out. The deal, though, was it like the 50-yard spot, right? That was pretty close.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was by, there were a lot of broken clays. I have to imagine at one point it was flying in the air. That's what I was going to say, Clayton Launcher, makes sense. Yeah. They're also just a good variety of beverages that have been shot to pieces. Everything from a real highbrow IPA to a monster energy drink. Yeah.

To just, you know, some. Sparkling waters. Energy booze. Liquid death. Yeah, just. It's a good reminder that folks of all types have access to our public lands. And folks of all types just leave them completely trashed. So.

Well, I appreciate you. going out there. I was bummed. I couldn't make it. Me too. It looked good. When we drove past today, I mean, there's you'd need, you'd need an excavator to actually clean that place up, but it looks a lot better. Just like the scrap wood is gone, the pallets are gone.

At least, I'll point out that this is, we did a clean up there. Was it last year? Yeah. I think so. And a, and a big section of that state land still got closed to shooting because people were treating it so bad. Oh, it's horrible. I mean, I was

thinking, I was thinking about it yesterday and I was like, man, if any other user group out there left a piece of public land looking like that, all we would do is like if bird watchers left behind broken beer bottles and plastic and all this shit, all we would talk about is how awful bird watchers are. You know, it's like, yeah. Harvestman. Preaching the choir here. Sorry about that, guys.

Which are interacted. Are more commonly known by this three. word name. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Roman without an answer. Jordan Sillers without an answer. Randall says Daddy Long Legs. I'm not going to show my

Mars without an answer. Yanni, Daddy Long Legs, Brody, Daddy Long Legs. The correct answer is Daddy Long Legs. They got it. The name Daddy Long Legs is also sometimes used for crane flies and cellar spiders. It's commonly

said that they're incredibly venomous, but lack big enough fangs to break human skin. However, almost everything about that lore is wrong. They are not venomous, and they do have sizable fangs that are similar to those of a brown recluse. They mostly use those fangs for grasping and chewing, not for defensive bites. For more on this subject, go read my 2019 article on the me,deer.com, called Our Daddy Longlegs venomous. Heartfell, we're halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard update. My seven-year-old came up to me literally yesterday and gave me a little.

And gave me that fact. And he was like, hey, dad, did you know? And I had to break his heart and tell him that's just an urban legend. It's not true. Yeah, but I think it's even worse that they have big fangs. In his face. Somehow it makes it worse. It's a story of two distinct groups here.

With one point apiece, are Roman, Jordan, and Maggie. They're all tied up. And with a perfect game, five points apiece, a Randall, Brody, and Janus. General Janus. Wow. Lieutenant Colonel. I thought you missed one. No.

I was unsure about the first one. Phil gets really mad when you question as mad. Well, that's because I'm never wrong. Have I made a big fuss about anything yet today? No. He wasn't sure about Nebraska, but he got it. It just really stinks for me.

I need every little leg I can get up. Last spring, Clay Newcomb and I collaborated with Jason Phelps at Phelps game calls and building each of our own favorite turkey diaphragms called prime cuts. Now, I'm going to tell you, I love mine because it's easy to use. I'm not going to go, I'm not going to win a turkey calling contest. It's just not going to happen. But when I run this call, I get the sounds that gobblers are looking for. I have a great turkey hunting track record.

If you go listen to real turkeys out in the woods, they're not going to win calling contests, right? That's who I listen to. I can make those sounds on my cut. I also hunt with Phelps's cut, and I hunt with Clay's cut because they're all three great cuts. Check out Prime Cuts at Phelps Game Calls.com. I think you'll be glad you did, and you'll find out that the Steve Ronella cut is an easy-to-use cut for beginning callers who just want to start making good turkey noises and getting action. Question six, the topic is hunting. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, the two main types of ducks,

are divers and blank. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, the two main types of ducks are divers and blank. Looks like this will keep the perfect game going for our three leaders. I think there's...

I hope so. I feel like there's two answers to this. Are you thinking that too? Yeah, but I don't want to mess it up. Then I'll have to argue with Spencer. That's right. Marge, do you have this one right? I think so. Okay. It's a question about birds that I sort of have a hunch on so I'm feeling like I'm on easy.

You're a bird hater, not a bird lover. I don't, I don't hate him. I've seen you express extreme disdain for birds before. Where is this coming from? He owns more birds than anyone in this room. I don't have a lot in common with them, but I will have you know that I have 12 birds outside my house and six birds inside my house. And he rescued some plywood yesterday. What birds are inside of your house?

The smaller chickens. inside your house. Well, in the garage. Oh. Just to prevent them from dying. Dying early deaths. Being killed or? Well, we did have a close call yesterday when a big bird flew in and tried to attack one of our birds.

And I thought, yeah, it, we saw all the chicken sprint. And then this eagle flew over the porch. Like, if I'd been standing on the porch with a big landing net, like a king salmon landing net with a decent. handle, I probably could have grabbed this eagle. Which is one of the most exciting things. Which version of eagle? I think it was a golden eagle. I know they're rare, but it was gigantic.

They're not that rare. They're rarer. Rare, yeah. Well, that was a trivia question at one point. I was skeptical. A juvenile bald eagles often get confused with them. Yeah, this thing was giant. And I went out there and I was expecting to find a dead bird.

Not that I would have wanted that, Brody. but there were a bunch of feathers but none of the chickens were injured so I think yeah I reached out to my neighbor to see if any of his surveillance cameras have footage of this because I think it would be pretty dramatic

despite the fact that they're birds yeah the two main types of ducks are divers and blank Randall also rescued some plywood from the Earth Day cleaning up yesterday that he said he was going to build something nice for his chickens yeah so real chicken

I just think I just think if you have a nice scrap of I even took home some nice like 18 to 30 inch lengths of 2 by 4 that were perfectly usable there were also some really expensive exterior decking like decking screws that I almost if I had had a cordless drill I would have pulled them out because those things are expensive too

is everybody ready yeah I think the audience is done with go ahead and feel your answers Roman says Sitters Jordan, dabblers Randall Dabblers Marge Puddle

Rianis Dabbler Brody Dabbler The correct answer is Dabler or puddle duck Oh Marge got it

This division is based on feeding behaviors Divers descend underwater to eat vegetation tubers fish mollusks crustaceans

snails and insects Examples of divers are canvas backs Redheads Buffleheads and golden eye. Dabblers feed by tipping their body in a way that puts their head underwater

and butt in the air. Their diet is less animal-focused, consisting more of vegetation, tubers, and seeds. Examples of dabblers are mallards, pentails, teal, whiggin, and woodies. Well, they like to eat some insects, though. Remember how in the eagle,

when those blue wings and midges would be hatching up, man, they'd be in those eddies just pack man on them. Question seven, the topic is out there. He don't care. You guys You guys are both like doing the same thing. They're doing sicker eyes.

It looked like a music video. You're both like dancing. Question seven, the topic is outdoors. Maybe it's expensive. I'm like birds. He wasn't impressed by it. I like birds. We also have an all company meeting

happening shortly here. So I'm trying to keep us on track. Is that more important than entertaining our audience? I feel like we're kind of missing each other today. I feel like some people are trying to rush on. Some people are trying to enjoy it. And then, like, vice versa. I just think we need to reset.

Marge also needs eye drops. I'm looking out from Marge. We need to get her some eye drops. Question seven. Phil, leave all that in. The topic is outdoors. Who wrote the novel? The Call of the Wild.

Who wrote the novel? The Call of the Wild. You couldn't come up with a category, so you just said outdoors for this one? Just said outdoors. We just had a fun social media post that came up with. I was asking our community about their favorite book

or what book has impacted their life the most. So this was a, this made an appearance. It was a common answer. Okay. I was just reading about this guy the other day. Hmm. Yeah. Yeah.

We didn't know it was a guy. Did we? No. Dang. There you go, Randall. Just eliminated half the authors in the history of mankind. Almost all of you have answers already. And I'm not going to come up with one.

Is it right? I think he'll come up with one. Who wrote The Call of the Wild? Sorry. Is everybody ready? I think you'll know it. Marge, do you want to come up with an answer or no? Yeah, we'll give her a second here.

Who wrote the novel? The Call of the Wild. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Roman, Jack London, Jordan, Jack London, Randall, Jack London. Marge without an answer, Yanni and Brody, Jack London. The correct answer is Jack London. The Call of the Wild was published in 1903. It's about a 140-pound St. Bernard Scotch Shepherd dog named Buck,

who's stolen from his home in California. Buck then winds up in Alaska and Canada, working as a sled dog. Eventually, he starts socializing with wolves and feels an urge to live in the wilderness. It's been printed in 47 languages, with PBS calling it one of the greatest American novels, Fall Time. The Nazis also banned it. That was one of their books that got burned, was The Call of the Wild. Is there a Harrison Ford version of?

I was just thinking that it's weird partially CDI. I remember my boys watching it. It's good. It does not spark any interest in me. Yeah, but the Nazis hate it. You don't even want to read it just to see why it was banned.

It's not long. I know, but. Yeah, it is a short. It's like 150 page book. I'm good. You guys gave me the summary. That sounds good. That's enough of that.

White Fang. Yes. It's like an American classic. I'm sorry. Topic is. I'm more into hatchet. Good for you for standing your down too. Yeah, Marge, don't give in.

You don't need peer pressure. Question eight, the topic is conservation. Just young. California officials announced in 2025 that feral hogs with this color meat shouldn't be eaten because it meant that they ingested a rodenticide. This could change the perfect game that Brody, Johnny, and Randall are working on. Question eight. would know this question if you listened to Cal's Weekend Review or read the website.

That's right. I remember talking about it. Or our newsletters. California officials announced in 2025 that feral hogs with this color meat shouldn't be eaten because it meant that they ingested a rodenticide. Does anybody besides Jordan think they got this one right? I think I got it. Okay.

All right. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answer. The answer is Roman, blue, Jordan, blue, Randall, purple. Marge blue, yonny blue, brodie blue. They got it. The correct answer is blue. Or purple.

Purple is blueish red. I went with a color that you'd have some question, is this normal or should I not eat it? Wait until you see the picture. The feral hogs had been eating a blue colored pesticide that was intended for ground squirrels. The pig trapper who discovered it said the meat reminded him of a blue. blue slushy. California officials quickly issued a warning for hunters saying to be on the lookout for neon blue flesh in pigs, deer, bear, and geese. That looks like a rocket pop. I figured it would be like a suspicious color, not like a glaring do not ever eat this color. Yeah. When I heard that

they had blue flesh, I was imagining that I would need to like squint to see the blue, but no, this is a full-on neon highlighter blue. Yeah. Is it actually in the flesh or is it? I was going to say. It was the fat and the flesh, they said. Mm. Mm. All right, Phil, scoreboard update. Two questions left. Oh, man.

Crap. It's a little bit more spread out now. Sorry for that. Roman and Maggie have three points. That's right. Jordan Silver is one up with four. Then Randall, with his purple, he's down to seven points. Shoot.

Yonis and Brody still are holding the perfect games. They've got eight points apiece. It's because we're both wearing these first light jackets. that what are the dabblers do Justin Faye can get one of those with his gift card Question nine, the topic is

Wildlife The Animal Planet documentary Mirkat Blank Spent 53 episodes following Mirkat families in the Kalahari Desert Stumped The room is stumped

Oh, I just got it The Animal Planet documentary Mirkat Blank. This is a hit. Spent 53 episodes following Mirkat families in the Kalahari Desert. Brody, very confident. There was a time in my life when Animal Planet did a little babysitting for me.

And it helped him get this one right. The Animal Planet documentary Mirkat Blank spent 53 episodes following Mirkat families in the Kalahari Desert. Phil, would you get this one right? Yes. Yes, I would. Okay. Randall, do you get it?

Not yet. There was a commercial for this show that played in the lobby of my local movie theater. Just on a loop. So it's kind of burned into my head. What would be the Phil Index today, you think? Oh, I haven't done that yet. Let me figure it out. Take a look.

Sure. Roman, do you have this one right? No, particularly. Animal Planet documentary Mirkat Blank, spent 53 episodes following Mirkat. families in the Kalahari Desert. Brody may be the only one to have the right answer. This would be a tough show for me, Spencer. I think it would be a

three. No cut. I don't like my answer. I was giving myself a benefit of the doubt, but I'm not going to do that. Brody, for the second week in a row, will have a perfect game going into question 10? Will Yanni join him? Our sabotage last time.

Randall, do you like your answer? No. Do you have any familiarity with this show? Like, can you picture a commercial and advertisement, the show itself? No, I can't. I can't remember the last time I went to a movie theater and I don't watch Animal Planet. The Animal Planet documentary Mirkat Blank spent 53 episodes following Mirkat fans. Do your chickens have names?

The Kalahari Desert. Well, yeah. No, they don't. One of them has a name. Two of them have names, but one. One of them I don't remember which chicken that is. Initially when we got them, we thought it would be funny to name them all after professional wrestlers. But then it became apparent that we couldn't keep track of which ones were which.

Except there's a really goofy one who has this big crest. Oh, the warrior? No, we called him the Ayatollah of rock and rolla. It's fun. And then we just shortened that to the Ayatollah, which is since taken on the Yeah. Much different. And it was funny because we,

because there's like a picture of me holding that chicken. And it's on, it's on the window at our, like one of the food trucks in Livingston. And so someone was like, oh, is that you? And I'm like, yeah. Is that your chicken?

I'm like, yeah. They're like, what's its name? I'm like, the Ayatola. And they just, like, they're like, I was like, no, no, it's after the wrestler. But there is another chicken name, the undertaker, but I don't, I don't know which one that is.

Okay. That went a lot farther than I thought it would. We used to... Again, I just feel like the energy is off. Like, I just gave that and Spitzer goes, okay. No, it's just a hat down. I like it. But it's much tougher on the kids when you lose them and they're named.

When they don't have names, like, there's just a little more separation. As Sidney refers to them, she's like, you know, the pretty one. I'm like, yeah. Yeah Exactly A lot of times we have so many different breeds In our small flock That a lot of time you can just say

You know the Osterlorp Or the naked neck or the You know Yeah I don't know any of their breeds either Hmm The Animal Planet documentary Merecat Blank I think it came to me

Oh is everybody ready You have an alliterative answer I do Go ahead Oh no My answers Roman says Oh you didn't get

I didn't I don't think so Randall Nation, Marge, Dynasties, Yanni, Mansion, Brody, Manor. Brody got it. The correct answer. Now that you say that I know that.

Manor. Son of my gun. That was close. Mirkat Manor ran from 2005 to 2008 and then got a BBC revival in 2021. The show told the story of The Whiskers, which is a Mirkat family that's part of a long-term field study. At the peak of its popularity, it was Animal Planet's most popular show with more than 4 million viewers in the United States. The series received three Emmy nominations.

All right, here's a correct answer review. One was Nebraska is home of the Runza. Two Remington, three fiberglass, four slash, five, daddy long legs, six, dablers, seven, Jack London, eight, blue pig meat, nine, meerkat Manor. Phil, scoreboard update. It's a lot more. Interesting now. Brody has pulled ahead with nine points. But Janice, hot on his trail with eight.

It's between those two players. Question 10. The topic is fishing. This last great question is via David Heiser. Either we are going to go to overtime. He got a chuckle out of that. Brody's going to have a perfect game. That when he said this question is...

Or they both get it wrong. Or they could both get it wrong. And I said fishing. And I could get it right. And he said fishing. Because he, and then I'd tie on us for second. Yanni did nail it. And it's the second week in a row where Brody has a fishing question at number 10 with a perfect game.

Game is rigged. For Brody to win. The St. Mary's River flows from Lake Superior to this other Great Lake. Oh. The St. Mary's River flows from Lake Superior to this other Great Lake. Randall very, excuse me, Brody very quick to answer, but he is staring at it. his whiteboard, sussing out if he has it right or not. Oh, man.

The St. Mary's River flows from Lake Superior to this other Great Lake. Yeah. Okay. It's going to stick with that first answer. Perfect game on the line. No, I'm second guessing. But then again, it doesn't matter anymore. Jordan Sillers, do you have this one right?

I have a Great Lake. I'm very confident that I have one of them. While we wait for our players, I want to tease that. Next week is probably our most anticipated show of the year. The Wives of Meat Eater Trivia will be returning. Did you get told of my wife? Is she coming? The invite has been sent to her inbox. So, TBD.

We had a few wives who had not responded yet that I had to circle up with today. Randall Yes Nothing You don't want me to talk about I was just hoping you didn't want me to talk about my chickens again Because I don't feel like that's going well as a segment

I feel like I'm oversharing We're gonna get it sponsored actually You guys are being very You're like distancing yourself in what I'm saying Well we are seven minutes away from an all company meeting And potentially going to overtime I just don't own chickens I can't relate

I mean But Nick Topp upstairs the first time he and his wife bought chickens they kept him inside in their guest bathroom and it turned on the water in their guest bathroom and flooded their crawlsiness. I did not know that. I love that. He asked me if I wanted

his rooster because he said it was really mean and they couldn't have it around the kid and I was like no and then later I said do you find someone who would take that rooster? He's like yes some guy in Facebook wanted it right away. Just wanted dinner. I don't like that poor rooster the St. Mary's River

I could see two paths that rooster could have taken from Nick. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Roman says, Erie, Jordan, Michigan. Randall, Michigan, Marge, Michigan,

Yanni, Michigan, Brody, Huron. The correct answer is Lake Huron Got it right Giving him what I think is the first perfect game of 2026 The St. Mary's River starts at Lake Superior's

Whitefish Bay Before traveling 75 miles to Lake Huron's North Channel It forms an international border Between the United States and Canada It is a key water body for cargo travel The St. Mary's is a rich fishery known for its walleye, perch, bass,

pike, and salmon. All right, Brody, $1,000 donation for having that perfect game. Good job, Brody. What are you going to do with all that money? Let's send it to sportsmen for the Boundary Waters. Because the fight ain't over yet. So let's give it to them. $1,000 heading to support the Boundary Wors.

Join us next week for more meat eater trivia. The only game show where conservation always wins. We've got a meeting to go to. Bye now. Thanks, Spencer. Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota. he's the host using those smooth mellow tones

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