The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 888: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCXX

Episode Date: June 10, 2026

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Randall Williams, Seth Morris, Max Barta, Nate Mason, Alyssa Smith, and Omar Lopez. 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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He's still figuring it out. It started May 11th, but it seems like almost a glorified travel agent, but loving it. Oh, okay. Strengths and weaknesses when it comes to meat eater trivia, hunting, fishing, conservation, cooking. What do you think? Cooking dead last, hunting first, conservation, second. What was the third? Fishing. Fishing. Fishing, yeah. Fishing third. In Omar's slack profile picture, he's got a big old velvet buck. First one ever. Oh, okay. It's in his office, too. It is, but he's broken. He fell off the wall. Happens. Were you there when it happened? No, I was gone, and then my roommate's going to like, dude, you're going to be pissed. but your deer fell off the wall.

And I'm like, no. He did. So he's been broken for like a year, two years almost. But he's got a plan to get it fixed. Yeah, we have a plan. Oh, what's the plan? Hayes. John Hayes.

Oh, dude, I got a, well, yeah, I got some bucks I need fixed up to. What'd you bring? Oh, it's a failed taxidermy. Not the fire bucks. You can't get this. Well, at least one of the fire bucks. That looks like an artistic choice.

Well, that's the good one. You haven't seen the bad one. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, Nate has a deer skull that looks like it was set on fire. Actually, the other day I wasn't in here and you guys had a DIY taxidermy question. I'm telling him that dude who wrote in, do maceration. It's, you can't mess it up.

That's what Yanni's about these days. You can mess up boiling, I promise. Yeah, it has some good evidence of it. This is a 10-round quiz show with questions. He boiled it so hard. Turn it. Tell what happened real quick. He ran out of ice.

No, I had a turkey, what's the, like a turkey friar, thank you. And as a 15 minute cutoff, I tried to bypass the 15 minute cutoff because every 15 minutes I was going out there. Ooh, I remember that. It didn't work. And so every 15 minutes I kept going out there. We start a movie. I'm like, this will be the last run. It'll go 15 minutes and be done.

Two hours later, I walk out there. It finally bypassed the cutoff. There's no water in the bucket. The bottom is melted down. and there's just flames coming out of the deer skull's eyes. Yeah, and so one of them's fine and one, I mean, they're both bad, but one of them. Well, there's two of them. Just one of them's real, bro.

So I need it fixed. 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 winner's choosing. We have a mailbag question today. Send your mailbag question to trivia at the meadeter.com. have something you want the crew to answer.

This is from Jesse Vanderhaden. I'm a first-generation hunter, and I'm wondering what is something that the crew enjoys to see while hunting that isn't their intended game animal? So it has to be an animal? Sunrises. Something, yeah, sunrises.

I love hearing owls in the tree stand. That's a good one. I like seeing rare stuff. Like if you're in Pennsylvania, deer hunting, like a fisher comes running by. Or like if you're in Alaska and a Wolverine comes running by or something. Yeah, any small mammals.

You know what I hate? Something is rare. Armadillos. Oh. Why do you hate an armadillo? They sound identical to a deer. But you cannot find them until they're like right under you. I was going to say just a combine harvesting wheat. Oh, it's fall.

Yeah. It just brings me back to fall and a bunch of waterfall food all over the place. I would say rocks and mushrooms are my favorite things to see that are not my intended game animal. It is predictable. Yeah, this year, uh, analo punting in Montana, I found gypsum for the first time. Not a rare thing, but I've like never seen it before, uh, out in the wild. And then in South Dakota, I found some dinosaur bones and petrified wood while mule deer hunting. Uh, and then early fall, there's like some good

foraging to be had, uh, some of my favorite mushrooms, chicken in the woods and oysters. And then this year in Idaho, I found an apple tree that just had like the most delicious biggest apples. Um, mountain in Idaho. That's awesome. That was very exciting. Did you set up and hunt that apple tree? I hunted near it. I did not kill anything by it, but it was like something that clearly everything in the neighborhood was interested in. Any other answers for Jesse on things you like to see while you're hunting? Shell casings. Old ones. Old ones. Yeah. Old ones. Yeah. Old ones are like it's still smoking 30 out six case in the ground. You don't want to find one like next to a gut pile or something. No, but I like finding old tarnished cases. Seth has a way cool.

Especially of obscure. I feel like you found an old one of that cartridge that barely exists anymore. I mean, it's old to the point where I can't even like. Can't read the headstamp. Find how old it is. There is no head stamp on it. Oh. Just like an old straight wall cartridge.

Finding sheds while you're hunting. Oh, that's true. All right. We have some housekeeping today on the Wives episode of trivia. We had a question about the most popular dog names for 2025 out of Duke, Loki, Roscoe and Marley, Duke was the most common. On the show, Katie was asking for a source, and then the other night,

while having a nice family dinner at Steve's house, she brought it up again. So I'm here today to give Katie that context. That data came from two sources, the American Kennel Club and the Rover app, which both placed Duke above the other three. Wow. So you can quit losing sleep.

But what's number one? Katie. Number one, I don't remember. What was it? Luna, I think, is like number one. Her girl? Well, I was thinking for like boy and dog. And then the other one that was up there was, I think Ruby and Max are like both in the top ten. So you're doing it, Max.

That's what I want to hear. Max's dog is Ruby. And his real name is Max. And Max is Max. At the Shelby Index for the day is a four and a half. So our winner should get nine correct answers. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil.

Look, I need to know what I stand to win to everything. How's that? You like this Omar? To win everything. Question one, the topic is fishing. This will be multiple choice. Which of these lakes is biggest? Is it Lake Okachobee, Flathead Lake, Lake Champlain, or Kentucky Lake.

Starting off with Omar's third best category, which of these lakes? is biggest. Okachobee, Flathead, Champlain, Kentucky. Hmm. This is measuring by the surface area

square miles. Hmm. Hmm. Do I just go whenever now? No. No? I tell you anything to flip over your whiteboards. Yeah, show us. Which of these lakes is biggest? Okachobee Flathead, Champlain. This is a great question. This is a great question.

Thank you. You think you're right, man. in this one. No, I would total guess. I think what would be interesting is biggest lake by volume. Very interesting. Is everybody ready? Yeah.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth, Okachobee, Randall, Okachobee, Omar, Okachobee, Nate, Champlain, Max, Okachobie, Alyssa, Flathead. The correct answer is Lake Okachovie. Bang. The room did well.

That's a good guess. It's a great lake, dude. At 730 square miles, Lake Okachobi is the ninth biggest lake in America. That's followed by Lake Champlain in 13th at 490 square miles. Kentucky Lake in 25th at 250 square miles and Flathead Lake in 30th at 192 square miles. So Okachobee twice, no, it's like 50% bigger. Omar's one for one on trivia. I know.

Oh, yeah. He's never gotten one wrong. Question to the topic is conservation. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Scott Prel for sending this great question. Scott is going to get a $150 First Light gift card. That chair is so bad. You want a chance to win the listener question of the week, then send your question to trivia at the meat eater.com. Who's got the bad chair?

I do. I fixed it. I fixed it, so I'm not rocking. It used to be like this, though. I thought you're trying to call in birds. We'll have a WD 40 party. I stopped. Sorry, Phil. This federal agency, which is known as the long blue line,

is responsible for cleaning up oil spills in coastal waters and the Great Lakes. Gosh. And the topic is conservation. This federal agency, which is known as the long blue line, is responsible for cleaning up oil spills in coastal waters and the Great Lakes. The room looks stumped. The long blue line. Hmm

Seth came up with an answer Do you like your answer, Seth? Eh, I mean It's pretty mid I feel like it It makes sense This federal agency Which is known as the long blue line

Is responsible for cleaning up Oil spills In coastal waters In the Great Lakes Nate, do you have an answer? Yeah, but I don't think it's right Okay Yeah, I don't

That's got one either. Randall was trying to gut check with Seth. No. Alyssa, do you have this one right? No. Okay. May have a zero percent. Maybe.

Every time I say no, it's right. So I'm just going to say no. What's that? There's one. This federal agency, which is known as the long blue line, is responsible for cleaning up oil spills and coastal waters and the Great Lakes. Whose Fob is that?

I asked that last time. You know what? It's been here for months at this point. Obviously, they don't need it. We should see if it works. Random key fob in the room. We could sell it at the auction house of oddities. Oh, wow. Someone will have access to this office.

Let's not do that. Please. HR doesn't like that. Boy, I really don't like my answers for this question. Which is what? I don't know. I wish it said long orange lines. The long blue line thing makes me want to

put down some police agency. What if it was the long orange line? That would be my answer. Oh, okay. Is everybody ready? That's what I have to. It's not right. Randall, are you ready?

I think we're all ready since Max is just showing it. Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth says D.E.Q. Department of Environment. Environmental, Hawaii. Randall, Coast Guard. Omar, without an answer, Nate, EPA, Max, Coast Guard, Alyssa Coast Guard.

I don't think it's Coke Guard. The correct answer is the Coast Guard. Oh! Heaven of the ruin got that one right. I did not know that. That seemed too obvious. For oil spills in inland waters, the Environmental Protection Agency leads cleanup efforts, but for coastal and Great Lakes spills, it goes to the Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard has a unique set of responsibilities, including enforcing federal fishing laws, rescuing stranded marine mammals and leading search and rescue efforts on the ocean. Nate, long blue line. You didn't know that was the Coast Guard. Dude, the Coast Guard's the least. Uh-oh. Go.

Go. Okay, let me put it this way. I love when the Coast Guard jumps on, like, narco subs. Okay. Everything else I don't care about. Okay. What about rescuing stranded fishermen and things of that nature? Saving people.

Cleaning up oil spills. Like, dude. Cool. Hopefully you never need them one day. I love the Coast Guard. I just don't fish, dude. I wouldn't have gotten there without long blue line. That was a hint.

That was the only thing that... I would also like to point out that I did write Coast Guard down before Max showed his board. It's okay. No one accused you. No, but I was thinking it, Randall. You did show your board to me. Except for our boys at Drifter Hydration.

I've never met a Coastie that I really liked. Oh, no. You got to meet my buddy. At times of war, they roll up under the Navy. they become I don't know I was saying that if like if it comes to it

I doubt that my question is it technically an agency it is an agency there's like what is it the five branches of the military

six if you count space seven if you count the postal service but then the Coast Guard is its own thing yeah all right we're on to question three

shout up to Charles Pauley five wars the topic is the third life this next great question is via Jason Marshall he's a Coast German North Carolina has more species of this animal than any other state,

with some examples being the dwarf water dog and lesser siren. What? North Carolina has more species of this animal than any other state, with some examples being the dwarf water dog and the lesser siren. For how specific you need to be, if you thought it was catfish, you would put catfish, you wouldn't put like channel catfish or just fish. You put catfish. Oh, dude, I'm sucking today.

My chair is squeaking now. Wharf watered off. That's bad. Listeners, please send your complaints to Randall Williams. I also think that most of the chairs I sit in squeak, so maybe it's more of a groan than a squeak. It might have to do something with carrying capacity rather than lubrication. Oh, Randall. Don't do that to yourself. The chairs love to see you coming, Randall.

They do. They're cheering. They say, oh, thank you. If they're cold, they love it. They're cheering. North Carolina has more species of this animal than any other state, with some examples being the dwarf water dog and lesser siren. Randall, do you like your answer?

Eh. O for two, Nate, do you like your answer? No, absolutely not. Okay. O for two, Nate. You know what I do like Those guys who wrote in Dude shout out to Kyle and Max

Oh yeah Nate ran in Somebody wrote an email to trivia at the meat eater.com I ran into some trivia fans Out in the Wild These these dudes drove 28 hours straight from Virginia To Montana Just on turkeys

And Max shot a stud of a turkey Not me Huge spurs Biggest spur I mean I haven't seen a lot of turkeys But they were big Merriam Spurs No big beard. Like the dinkiest little tiny millimeter beard you've ever seen your life.

They met Nate and it occurred to them later that he was Nate from trivia. That's cool. You told them you were to FHF? Yep. Okay. They didn't pick that up from the vibes that you were the Nate. You know what I loved about this email? I loved that they said he was also, we didn't realize we had met a trivia champion.

Oh, wow. It made me feel real good. Thanks, guys. Again, question three, Wildlife. Carolina has more species of this animal than any other state, with some examples being the dwarf water dog and lesser siren. Although I don't deserve that title today. Is everybody ready? Sorry for letting you down.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth says frog, Randall, salamander, Omar, catfish, Nate Snail, Max Songbird, Alyssa, Seagull. We have a correct answer in the room. Randall got it. It is salamander. Wow. Water dogs. North Carolina boasts 64 species of salamander with Great Smoky Mountains National Park, earning the title of Salamander capital of the world.

The animals thrive there thanks to the region's moisture-rich rainforest-like climate. The state was also largely untouched by glaciers during the last ice age, which gave salamander's extra time to evolve, adapt, and diversify. There we have a picture of their newest salamander. This is salamander number 64. It's a Carolina Sandhills salamander. Scientists have known about it since the 60s, but it wasn't until recent genetic work that showed that it is its own species.

Is that four toes or five toes? I don't know how many toes that thing has. It's like three on the front. You've got two on the front. Such a pretty little creature. I'd call those toes, not whiskers. They almost look fake as well. That would be something Seth would have in his tackle box.

Oh, yeah. It looks like he came out of a mold. It does. Throw that on a Carolina rig? Set hooks. Gosh. In North Carolina. Yeah.

Carolina rig with Carolina Sand Hill Salamander. That's good. Question four. The topic is hunting. The earliest example of this weapon is from 16th century French hunters who attached daggers to musket barrels to protect themselves from wild boar. Thanks, Spencer. I needed this.

Hey, Nate's back in it. The earliest example of this weapon is from 16th century French hunters who attached daggers to musket barrels to protect themselves from wild boar. Done some training with these weapons. Oh. Nate. Come on, man. It's a weapon, dude.

Dude, I listened to trivia today on the way in, and you were dishing out hints left and right. Wow. Was I? Yeah. What trivia was it? I don't know, the one where Brody won. I was doing everything other than getting the questions correct.

Yeah, that was a tough one. I don't know how many good hints I could give out when I just choked that one away. Few hints, Nate says he's trained with it, and Seth said it's hard to spell. What's your background? Nate? Infantry. Okay. I'm confident on my answer, then.

Coast Guard. Not Coast Guard. The earliest example of this weapon is from 16th century French hunters who attached daggers to musket barrels to protect themselves from wild boar. Connor's going to be so mad at me because I don't know. Yeah. And I know he's probably got some old junk surplus guns. Yeah, he does. Yes, I know for fact.

I think I've seen those at the Livingston range. Yeah. I think it's also the name of a very good restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama. Oh, that's a good name for a restaurant. It's like sort of ambiguous, but I'd like to eat there. Yeah. Maxwell, are you ready? I can't think of it.

It's on the tip of my tongue, but... I can draw a picture of it. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth. bayonet, Randall, bayonet, Omar, bayonet, Nate, bayonet, Max, Shank, Alyssa without an answer.

Well, I mean, the correct answer is bayonet. It's like a rifle shank. Now, Phil, what's going on back there? Yeah, what's with that sound effects? A tambourine, Phil. That was the bayonet sound effect. Phil's stack of tambourines. If we were a Monty Python film and someone,

if Nate stabbed somebody with a bayonet, that's what sound it would make. I don't think I've owned a bayonet since I sold an old SKS. And I can't remember where I sold it. We have some World War II ones that are When I worked at Dunham Sports, which is like a Midwest, small sporting goods store, we would sell those

were they like Yugoslavian assault rifles for $89? Ida Yugo. Those had a bayonet. I had a Yugo S.K.S. Did you get them packed in cosmoline? Mine was covered in Cosmoline. Oh, like just like that liquid.

Yeah. And I spent like days in my parents' kitchen just boiling parts from this rifle to get all the cosmoine out. That was probably like the last $89 gun that was so... I know. Kids will never get to enjoy that. I really loved it until one time it just started... Like, I pulled the trigger and it just ripped off the whole...

The old chain magazine. Yeah. Nate, tell us about... Are you stabbing stuff? We had a whole course. And we had to run around and there's like all these dummies set up and you had to... Basically, you passed if you screamed aloud. You must be doing it right

You're so fun Seth we should get a couple old Ugoes And box a steel caseed wolf 7662 ammunition Could you hunt with those things? Sounds false No, I just bought it at a gun show Yeah I know but like could you I suppose you could go

Yeah you can go I don't know why you couldn't Well I mean in Ohio In Ohio we were limited to shotguns at that time Yeah But yeah Early bayonets were made of metal Wood and bone

The hunters would stab wounded game with him sometimes to put the animal out of its misery and other times out of self-defense early versions were called plug bayonets because they were jammed inside the barrel of the gun. Question five, the topic is public lands. St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix

make up this territory that's home to America's 28th National Park. Wow, everyone seems so confident. Seth just had to sit there and watch Nate, Alyssa, and Max. Quickly, right something. Yeah. St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix make up this territory that's home to America's 28th National Park.

St. Croix makes a great fishing round. My brain was in old Europe when you began this question. It was in a gloomy monastery. And then we ended up in a warm, sunny beach. That's a very different St. Croix. That's St. Croix is what, on like the Minutes. Minnesota, Wisconsin border? Is that right?

Yeah. This St. Croix is a few thousand miles from there. This St. Croix? Yeah. Okay. It's not in Wisconsin. You changed it. Back to the board.

We'll get a scoreboard update and fill the engineer after this. St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix make up this territory that's home to America's 28th National Park. Max, comparing answers. Are you teaming up over there? Just checking. I'd like to compare that. Does everybody agree?

I'll show you by you show me yours. Okay. Wow. We now have four players who have seen each other's answers. They all like what they have down. Let me see yours, Randall? Randall's sweating it now. Go ahead and reveal your answers.

Seth says, Smokey Mountains. The rest of the room says the U.S. Virgin Islands, they got it. The correct answer is the Virgin Islands. Jeez. Virgin Islands National Park is located on St. John, preserving about 60% of the island. and a portion of the ocean.

The land was donated by Lawrence Rockefeller to the National Park Service under the condition, under the condition that it would never be developed. The park gets about 400,000 visitors each year, which is more than some parks in South Carolina, Texas, and California. Its main attraction is its beaches and coral reefs. Also, it's donkeys. It has some donkeys that you might encounter. Dang.

Donkeys. On the beach there. All right, Phil, we're halfway through the game. Trivia. This is a scoreboard update. Everyone's doing fairly well, but I will say that you can kind of see a Brody-sized hole in the scoreboard here. We've got Seth. I don't see a problem.

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Can I find that Panda Express? I'm not telling you anything. Yeah. Good for you, Alyssa. She has a lot of valuable. So I'm guessing it's not going to be sweet and sour sauce. I would not accept that answer. McDonald's sweet and sour.

I only... This sweet and sour condiment, which is popular in Chinese American cuisine, is named after the bird that it's traditionally served with. Randall word is Chinese food rank among all of your cuisines. Top three. Oh, I don't know. I just... I don't think about cuisines as being ranked.

I mean, I love it. Randall doesn't see color. But if you had to eat one for the rest of your life, Indian food. Yeah. Agreed. Oh, really? Yeah.

Wow. Totally. Alyssa, just look away. I think you fell in a lot. I really... That's not even... This sweet and sour condiment, which is popular in Chinese American cuisine,

is named after the bird. I really hope I'm not wrong. I'll be really embarrassed. Oh, I hate when that happens. I'm rooting for you, Alyssa. I hope you're the only one. Nate, do you have this one right? I've got a good guess, but I could imagine being wrong.

It's on that time or two. Is it named after the bird or named after a bird dish? Not telling you anymore. Okay. Okay. Is everybody ready? Yes. Yes.

Randall Go ahead and reveal your answers Seth, duck sauce Randall duck sauce Oh no Omar Saracha Nate Peking Max

General Sout chicken Alyssa The correct answer is Duck sauce How was it gonna give me a Peking duck I don't think so No I don't think we will

I'm gonna do the flavor text No Alyssa said with extreme disgust and prejudice Duck sauce is an orange jelly That's made with fruits like plums, apricots, or peaches provide with sugar, vinegar, ginger, and chili pepper.

You'll often see it in packets alongside soy sauce and spicy mustard. It's the American version of sauces served with Peking Duck and is most commonly used as a dip for egg rolls and crab rangoons. I was initially going to say orange chicken sauce.

Which, you know. I think it's just orange sauce. Ducks. I was tripped up because I think Soracha's logo has a animal. They call it rooster sauces. So that's my best guess. Okay.

Good guess. Logic on your side. I got halfway there. Question seven, the topic is hunting. This next great question is via Sean Doherty. New Mexico's blank blank missile range has given out Orix tags since 1974. We've had something like this before. We have talked about New Mexico's, what they refer to, I think, is like the big three.

But we have not covered this specific thing. This is not going to help me close the gap with Randall. New Mexico's blank, blank missile range has given out Orix tag since 1974. Omar, you've probably been here. Yeah. What were you hunting when you were there? I wasn't hunting myself, but I was with someone that was hunting oryx. Okay.

Do they fill their tag? They did. Did they have on range or off? Off. Okay. We're not going to say the name. Is it who I'm thinking of? Rime with 80 billers.

That's a good guy. I like that guy a lot. And I know on range, they have like broken horn oryx or just regular. Is it the same way off range? I have no clues. I think off range is just an off range. Steve had an off range tag.

If you fill that one? Yeah. I've heard that's a tough hunt. It was tough. Yeah. It was tough for you guys? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. To the last day for us. Tough hunt, but I think success rates are still like north of 35. For off range? For off range. Really? Yeah.

I've heard that meat is some of the best. I got some of it was good. It was so hot. Was it hot on your guys? Oh yeah. Oh, it's terrible. Ford killed one and gave me some of the meat and it was delicious. Was it?

It was delicious. Gerald? Henry. Is everybody ready? New Mexico's blank blank missile range has given out oryx tags since 1970. Go ahead and reveal your answer. answers, white sand, white sand, white sand, white sand, white sand. Max says area 51, Alyssa without an answer.

The correct answer is the White Sands Missile Range. Yeah, I could think of it. Alyssa's blank white board was closer than here. Give her half a point, Phil. The White Sands Missile Range is home to North America's largest free-ranging oryx population. The herd started from 95 oryx that were stocked there. in the 1960s and 70s. It's estimated that about 5,000 of them live on the missile range today,

with another couple thousand living in the surrounding desert. Tags are very hard to draw and run upwards of $1,600 for non-residents. Question 8. The topic is biology. Name four of the five vital organs in a mammal. Name four of the five vital organs in a mammal. This is where... Shelby got her half point.

It was actually three-quarters point, but that would break the Shelby Index. We'll get a scoreboard update after this. Define Vital. In my flavor, I'm not going to tell you anymore. Name four of the five vital organs and a mammal. Well, there's only some. The definition is when you Google vital organs in a mammal. It says these are the five vital organs in a mammal.

It's probably one you need to live. Yeah, but, dude, I'll... I don't know. How's your list going, Randall? Are you trying to add or eliminate? I'm trying to think of my fifth. I have other... I know of other organs.

So I guess I'm doing elimination. But I'm trying to add a fifth at the same time. Name four, five vital organs in a mammal. Maxwell do you like your answer no no he hates it yes yeah

I would say that's the good oh oh we only need four only four I guess if you're at five you don't get extra credit yeah you put oh yeah I was going for five that was stupid

Omar do you have your answer I have mine Max do you have your answer no I need I mean I just need one more just think about what like time

A turkey needs to survive. Hey, stop throwing out them hints over there. Not a mammal. But it's not a mammal. It might actually help Max. While we kill time for Max. Epstein Island is you can see... Little St. John, right?

Yeah, you can see... I was writing that to Seth on my... Virgin Islands National Park. I think they're like 12 miles apart. Oh, does that way... I saw you doing... Randall didn't want to bring it up. Yeah, I didn't want to bring it up on the podcast,

but I did write to Seth, Epstein Island. And then I wrote Little St. John. Exactly. Or is it St. James? Oh, little St. James. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You take the Lolita Express to Little St. James. I think it's good that I don't know what it is. Because I've never been there. Okay, exonerated.

Name four of the five vital organs in a mammal, Maxwell. How are we doing? Yeah, we're good. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth, heart, lung, liver, brain. Randall, brain, heart, lungs, liver. Omar, heart, lungs, brain, kidney. Nate, heart, liver, lungs, kidney.

Max, lungs, heart, liver, stomach. Wasn't using my brain. Alyssa, heart, lungs, brain, kidneys. All right, the five vital organs are brain, heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys. Everybody let Maxwell. You don't need two kidneys. He said he wasn't using his brain. They're so important.

You need, they give you two. What about skin? That's a good point. You need a skin. That's the biggest organ of the body. There you go. It's true. Yeah.

Not in a mammal, though. Yeah. Okay. In a room. These are the five pillars that keep the body of a mammal functioning. And if any of these organs fail, the organism cannot survive without immediate medical intervention. The non-vital organs that a mammal can survive without are the gallbladder, pancreas, stomach, large intestine and appendix.

Phil. Scoreboard update. Two questions to go. Scoreboard update. Maximilian is in last place with three points. What? Alyssa and Nate are tied up with four. Seth and Omar have five and still holding on to that perfect game is Dr.

Randall with eight points. He's already won today's episode. So now we're just going to see if he can double that donation to a thousand dollars. Put too much pressure. on that. Question nine. The topic is natural history. A YouTuber was arrested in 2025 after he visited North Blank Island in an attempt

to give the highly protected tribe a Diet Coke. Easy. Nate had his answer before I finished the question. A YouTuber was arrested in 2025 after he visited North Blank Island in an attempt to give the highly protected tribe a Diet Coke. Diet Coke are good. It's an admirable quest.

I feel like if I was those people, I'd like a Diet Coke. I would like a Mountain Dew. Oh, company man. Yeah. Code Red, specifically. Nah, no, Baja blast. Okay. Dude, imagine giving them a white monster. Or game fuel. I'd give him a bush light.

Wow. We'd really bring them into the year 2026, bushlight, Baja blast, and a Diet Coke. It's the island vibes. Randall, are you going to get this one right? Man, I know it. I actually read,

I was reading something that referenced this in the last week. Uh-oh. And I'm just drawing a blank. It's frustrating. Do you know this one? It's very frustrating. Especially because conservation will suffer as a result of my inadequacies. Oh.

Yeah. Take that one home with me. Six less turkeys born next year. Randall didn't know what island it's is. And now I'm hurting Max by doing that, which pains me even more. Give us a new update on the hen house out there. I haven't seen the ducks in a week. Okay.

Where do they go? No idea. The hen and eight ducklings are gone. Okay. I think I saw the hen today. The one that hangs out with the two dudes? That might be a different hen. Did you see any ducklings?

No ducklings. I haven't seen the ducklings in a week. Now, they'll sometimes do a dunds out of the two dudes. double clutch in a year, right? So maybe she'll come back and have batch number two. Maybe, but like, it's weird that everything's gone. Like, usually from the nest, they travel from the nest to the water. And once they made it to the water, they stay there and raise the duck lanes.

But like, I don't know if she went and found new water or what, but I don't think all of them died. Max is nervous. Keep your eyes out in Bozeman. If you see a hand with. I checked both of them twice a day. Eight ducklings, right? Eight ducklings and a single-hend mallard. If you see a hen in South Bozeman with eight.

The drakes are still out there. I saw three drakes in a hand today. Yeah. Again, we're on. Question nine. Topic is natural history. A YouTuber was arrested in 2025 after he visited North Blank Island in an attempt to give the highly protected tribe a Diet Coke. Randall, do you have this one right?

No. No, I don't. Should I give it to you for conservation? No. No, then I'd end up as a fraudulent score. The turkeys wouldn't like that either. No. Actually, yeah.

More turkeys would add to the great piles of fraud that constitute my present existence. The donation needs to be pure of heart. Don't let pay bow and Benbow get you down. I feel like mine might sound like it. Okay. Go ahead and reveal your. your answer. Seth without an answer Randall says Easter.

Omar says Papa New Guinea. Nate says Sentinel. Max without an answer. Elissa without an answer. The correct answer is North Sentinel, the YouTube Island. Oh. Yeah.

I thought we're looking for the YouTuber so I put down Jake Paul. North Jake Paul Island. North Jake Paul Island. It was like Grains hour. Max was thinking he needed to find a It's just worried about it. He needed to look up the Papa

New Guinea YouTube account. He's missing out all the good stuff. I think Jake Paul Island would just have a Diet Coke factory out there. Probably. The Centales are one of the world's last uncontacted peoples with only a handful of outsiders visiting them in modern history. It's estimated that the population of the 23 square mile island

is between 100 and 200. The Indian government enforces a straight five-mile exclusion zone around the island, which is for the tribe safety and public safety, besides the YouTuber, the last person to visit the island was a Christian missionary in 2018 who was killed and buried on the beach. Who was the YouTuber? That's all I could see in my head. I don't know the guy's name.

It wasn't Jay Paul. No, he had a long last name with a lot of vowels that looked like it would be on the back of a hockey jersey. Oh. That helps you not at all. No. We're now looking at a picture that someone took of five of the members of worth.

They got to be, like, I don't mean this in a, like, harmful way. But like, how are they not super inbred?

Oh, genetic. Like, the genetic baller neck is real tight. I think they, they believe the populations fluctuated between like 30 and 500. Wow.

And they'll go and check on them sometimes after a hurricane rolls through just to try to be like, are they okay? Are they doing all right? But it's still a lot of unknowns. But it's not like

they would take the help, would they? Well, see, that's what's such so interesting. I think they, I think they, had one positive experience with some anthropologists back in like the 70s who went there and they

gifted them coconuts and I think they gifted them a pig maybe and that went okay but then there were some other bad relations where they took some members of the island away those people died before the boat even landed and it's just like soured things ever since all right here's a correct answer review so far one was lake okechobee two coast guard three salamander four bayonet five virgin islands six, duck sauce, seven, white sands missile range. Eight was brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys. Nine was Sentinel. Phil. Schoolboard update.

Randall still has a victory, but 100% thanks to Spencer, jinxing it. He has lost the perfect game. That's right. Seth, Omar, and Nate playing for second place. Here's question 10. The topic is Wild Life. This next great question is via Andrew Green. This nine-letter word is defined as, quote,

Any large, thick-skinned, non-ruminant mammal, most notably elephants, rhinos, and hippos. This is such a good question. Via Andrew Green. This nine-letter word is defined as Any large, thick-skinned, non-ruminant mammal, Most notably elephants, rhinos and hippos. I've heard this, but I don't have it.

Randall, do you have this one right? Yes. Okay. Yes. Big Zoo boy, I'd be disappointed if you got this one. Now I have a real issue with North Set and a while. Who's a big zoo boy? You're on my list.

You're Big Zoo boy. Zoo boy. Nine-letter word defined as any large, thick-skinned, non-ruminant mammal, most notably elephants, rhinos, and hippos. Randall may be the only player who even comes up with an answer. Come on, guys. You know this. I do. It's next day.

I'm going to take a swing and say they probably don't. I don't know it. Really? It's, oh, dude. We need to do a tiebreaker if second place doesn't get decided. Give clues. We should start getting some clues. Go ahead, give them a clue.

I don't know how you'd give a clue on this one, Randall. It's hard to spell. I saw the first three letters of the word on Randall's board, and I still can't come up. Tell the rest of the room. If I had a real, if I had a real, if I had a clue. real problem with my skin being too thick what sort of doctor would I

see? Oh, okay. And then if you know the dinosaurs, the dinosaurs that have a really thick skull. Oh yeah. I think, Phil, can you look that up? Oh, I got it. I got it. And sets all the first three letters which were what, Randall, what were the first three

letters? I don't want to give that. I got the sounds. I don't want to give that up. Crossing a line. Phil, could you look up the dinosaur? Well, there are several, but I think I know what you're talking about. Yeah, I think that's the right name for it. Okay. But I feel like I've just been reading too much. Randall, you are correct. In the Jurassic Park university. Did you give that in a weird order? Yeah. Okay, cool. I'm good. I'm in it. Is everybody ready? I got the sounds, maybe. Put her there. Thanks, dog. Come on. Alyssa wants to get into that second place conversation. Zoo Boy podcast coming out

spring of 2027. Go ahead and reveal your answer. Seth, with an answer. Randall says, Pacaderm. Omar, without an answer. Nate, he got it. Pacaderm. Max without an answer. Elissa without an answer. The correct answer is Pacaderm. P-A-C-H-Y D-E-R-M.

I knew somebody had that in there. Packaderm is derived from the Greek word pacidermis, which translates to thick-skinned. This is an obsolete term with modern genetic studies, placing them in different animal orders. Packaderm is considered an artificial classification, but still a popular one.

All right, Phil. He is showing us the scoreboard. Randall is today's winner with nine correct answers. He got the Shelby Index right on the nose. Randall, what are we going to do with that $500 donation? Let's send this to the organization Outdoor Mentors. Okay. Steve at Outdoor Mentors just recently wrote into us to update them on what they're doing,

but they're pairing kids with adults who will get them outside and they're expanding into 40 different states. And so let's send this money there and get some more kids out in the woods and on the water. $500 that could buy a lot of fishing rods, maybe a couple guns. And if you'd rather have $1,000 versus $500, you can thank the good people of North Sentinel Island. Join us next week for more meat eater trivia. The only game show where conservation knowledge is. Good job, Randall.

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