Ep. 650: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CXLVII

Summary

The MeatEater Podcast: Ep. 650 - "Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CXLVII" Release Date: January 15, 2025

Introduction In Episode 650 of The MeatEater Podcast, host Spencer Newhart steps into the role of trivia master for a vibrant and competitive episode of "MeatEater Trivia." Joined by a diverse group of guests—Giannis, Cal, Brody, Randall, Seth, Hansi, Corey, and Nate—the episode promises an engaging mix of hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking knowledge, all infused with the signature MeatEater humor and camaraderie.

Trivia Game Kickoff The episode swiftly transitions from brief advertisements to the heart of the show: a 10-round trivia contest with questions drawn from MeatEater’s four core verticals. Spencer kickstarts the atmosphere with enthusiasm, introducing the prize—a $500 donation to a conservation organization chosen by the winner. The camaraderie is evident from the outset, with Spencer highlighting Phil’s past contributions, such as his highly viewed episode "Phil's Cinema Trivia" which garnered a 32% increase in YouTube views ([03:55]).

Round-by-Round Breakdown

1. Woodsmanship: 14ers

   • Question: Which of these states does not have a 14er? (Washington, Colorado, California, Idaho)
   • Notable Interaction: Randall quickly identifies Idaho as the correct answer, humorously noting its proximity to a potential 14er peak ([11:05]).
   • Quote: "14ers are mountains with an elevation over 14,000ft." ([11:05])

2. Conservation: Prescribed Burns

   • Question: What is another term for a controlled burn as defined by the U.S. Forest Service?
   • Discussion: The room debates the term "prescribed burn" versus alternatives like "backburn."
   • Insights: Spencer explains the ecological benefits of prescribed burns in managing wildfire risks and ecosystem health ([16:47]).

3. Fishing: Kelp

   • Question: What term refers to brown algae that grows as large coastal seaweeds in colder seas?
   • Answer: Kelp
   • Humorous Moment: Phil remarks on kids using kelp as whips, adding levity to the scientific discussion ([20:27]).

4. Natural History: Amber

   • Question: What female name is also the term for fossilized tree resin?
   • Answer: Amber
   • Notable Quote: Spencer recites a summary related to "Jurassic Park," enhancing the educational aspect ([21:03]).

5. Hunting: Wild Turkey Bourbon

   • Question: Which Kentucky bourbon was named after an executive’s annual bird hunt in 1940?
   • Answer: Wild Turkey
   • Guest Commentary: Brody rates Wild Turkey Bourbon as "totally serviceable," providing a subjective review that adds personality to the trivia ([29:10]).

6. Biology: Egg-Laying Mammals

   • Question: Besides the platypus, which other mammal lays eggs?
   • Answer: Echidna
   • Educational Insight: Spencer elaborates on the unique physiological traits of these mammals, such as their single duct for waste and reproduction ([35:43]).

7. Fishing: Lake Champlain’s Monster, Champ

   • Question: Which American lake is home to the legendary monster Champ?
   • Answer: Lake Champlain
   • Discussion: The questioned its association with cryptids like Loch Ness, blending folklore with ecological facts ([39:08]).

8. Cooking: Carpaccio

   • Question: What is the nine-letter dish defined as thinly sliced raw meat or fish served with a sauce?
   • Answer: Carpaccio
   • Historical Note: Spencer shares the origins of carpaccio in 1950s Venice, linking culinary arts to cultural history ([43:29]).

9. Conservation: Loggerhead Sea Turtle Nesting Site

   • Question: Where is the largest loggerhead sea turtle nesting site found in the world?
   • Answer: Florida
   • Environmental Insight: Spencer discusses loggerhead turtle populations and conservation efforts, highlighting Florida’s significant nesting records ([47:04]).

10. Hunting: Marco Polo Sheep

    • Question: What subspecies of Argali sheep, native to Central Asia, is named after an Italian explorer?
    • Answer: Marco Polo Sheep
    • Final Insights: Spencer underscores the challenges of hunting such elusive and threatened species, connecting historical exploration to modern wildlife management ([50:15]).

Closing and Winner Announcement As the game concludes, Brody emerges victorious with nine correct answers, earning the privilege to direct the $500 donation. The group decides to support the Utah BHA (Buck Hunters Association), reflecting their commitment to ongoing conservation battles. The episode wraps with Spencer expressing gratitude and teasing future trivia sessions, ensuring listeners are already anticipating the next episode of MeatEater Trivia.

Notable Quotes:

• Spencer Newhart [09:53]: "Game on, suckers!"
• Phil [27:09]: "What are you gonna do this weekend? Do you say, I'm going bird hunting."
• Cal [29:27]: "Wild Turkey makes you feel too, to be fair."

Conclusion Episode 650 of The MeatEater Podcast masterfully blends competitive trivia with educational content and engaging interactions among its participants. By covering a wide range of topics relevant to outdoor enthusiasts, the episode not only entertains but also informs, staying true to the podcast's mission of enriching listeners' understanding of the natural world. With memorable moments and a strong emphasis on conservation, "Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CXLVII" stands out as a testament to The MeatEater Podcast’s enduring appeal and commitment to its community.

Transcript

[Stephen Rinella]

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To terms and conditions hey American history Buffs, Hunting history buffs, listen up. We're back at it with another volume of our Meat Eaters American History series. In this edition, titled the Mountain Men 1806-1840, we tackle the Rocky Mountain beaver trade and dive into the lives and legends of fellows like Jim Bridger, Jed Smith and John Colter. This small but legendary fraternity of backwoodsmen helped define an era when the west represented not just unmapped territory, but untapped opportunity for those willing to endure some heinous and at times violent conditions. We explain what started the mountain man era and what ended it. We tell you everything you'd ever want to know about what the mountain men ate, how they hunted and trapped, what gear they carried, what clothes they wore, how they interact with Native Americans, how 10% of them died violent deaths, and even detailed descriptions of how they performed amputations on the fly. It's as dark and bloody and good as our previous volume about the white tailed deer skin trade, which is titled the Long Hunters 1761-1775. So again, this new Mountain man edition about the beaver skin trademark is available for pre order now wherever audiobooks are sold. It's called Meat Eaters American History the Mountain Men 1806-1840 by me, Stephen Rella.

[Spencer Newarth]

It'S a meat eater podcast. Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newarth, and today we are joined by Giannis, Cal, Brody, Randall, Seth, Hansi, Corey and Nate. This is a 10 round quiz show with questions from Meat Eater's four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation and cooking. And there is a prize. Meat eater will donate $500 to the Conservation organization of the winner's choosing. And for the stat of the week, this week we're looking at the performance of Phil's episode of Not Meat Eater Trivia. If. If you'll recall, Phil did cinema Trivia two weeks ago and the audience has spoken. Phil's episode got 32% more views on YouTube than the average episode of Trivia. Yeah, give him some claps. There we go.

[Phil]

Way to go, Phil.

[Spencer Newarth]

By those numbers, I think we can officially declare Phil the best guest host. And put me on the hot seat.

[Hansi]

Did Phil also do his own jingles for his own episode?

[Spencer Newarth]

I don't think he had any genuine. Well, he had a different intro.

[Stephen Rinella]

He had a custom intro. Yeah, Game of Thrones theme intro.

[Cal]

It was a whole experience.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Randall]

I think it's interesting that you, Spencer Newharth, the host, are just immediately assuming that it's just the host on the episode. Obviously, people just tune in for the host, so it's all Phil. There's other people in the room, bud.

[Stephen Rinella]

Well, I think there's some caveats that come with that one is that I had a handful of visual questions, so I think some of those viewers probably came over from the podcast. Possibly. But also neither of us hold a candle to Shelby, so I think she's the one you gotta look out for.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, that one's like doubled our regular page views. Yeah.

[Stephen Rinella]

Call's coming from inside the house there.

[Spencer Newarth]

But Phil needs to do more trivia. The audience has told us. Maybe next time, Phil, we can do some media related trivia. And it has just like one thread connected to the Meat Eater universe.

[Stephen Rinella]

Yeah, yeah, no, I'd love to do it again. So I'll.

[Phil]

Hey, you're telling Phil how to do his job now, Spencer?

[Spencer Newarth]

I'm telling him how to do my job. Yeah, yeah.

[Hansi]

Do we see a future? You know how MTV used to be music, television, videos, and then it transformed into what it is now? I mean, meat eater in 10 years.

[Cal]

Five years, we could just have our own Jersey Shore.

[Phil]

It could be Media Eater.

[Spencer Newarth]

Well, Phil, what did you name it? You said it was when you took over the company. What was it called?

[Stephen Rinella]

It's going to be called Game Beater, which, you know, I think I could use a couple more passes.

[Spencer Newarth]

Here's our infrequently asked question segment. If you have a trivia related question for our crew, send it to trivia@the meater.com with the subject line IFAQ. Tate Green says if we keep sending the same question, does it have better odds of getting picked? And he sent me that question three times on December 12, 13 and 16. Well, Tate, it got me to read your IFAQ, so in this case it helped. Normally I'm a few months behind in the inbox, so if you send me a question in January and you don't hear it by like maybe send it again if you think it's a really good question and I made a mistake and it should be in the show, just wait a few months and then, and then send me that question again. Your best way to get picked, though, just send me a phenomenal question. That's your, that's your best odds of getting the show. And if it's a phenomenal question and you're convinced that it should be on meat eater trivia, then wait, you know, a quarter and then send it to me again and we'll see what happens.

[Cal]

Having spent some time in the inbox, I think another piece of advice is include the answer to your question.

[Spencer Newarth]

That's, that's whenever I'm reviewing.

[Phil]

Wait a minute.

[Spencer Newarth]

That's helpful.

[Phil]

What are you doing in the inbox?

[Cal]

Guest hosting.

[Spencer Newarth]

When you guest host, you get, you get access to the inbox.

[Phil]

But, but there's, I smell a rat.

[Cal]

There's a handful of, I mean, it's not uncommon to see someone sends in a question and like the subject line is the question and then there's no answer. And it's unclear whether they want you to include that in the game or provide them with something that's been bugging them that they don't know.

[Spencer Newarth]

Some people will ask too if it helps to send flavor text. And I would say 30% of our people who write in will send their flavor text.

[Hansi]

I would appreciate the flavor text.

[Spencer Newarth]

It helps in that it may inspire a different question. So the question you sent may not work for meat eater trivia, but your flavor text, a paragraph of text can have something in there that I can mine to use on the show. So flavor text does help you, but it's not necessary.

[Hansi]

Spencer. I almost went casual camo this morning. And so it's coincidence.

[Spencer Newarth]

Getting cold outside, man.

[Hansi]

Yeah, but what does that have to do with wearing Camel.

[Spencer Newarth]

A lot of my warmest gear, like any good Midwesterner, happens to be in camo print.

[Hansi]

Got it?

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah. Now, in a previous episode of Trivia, we had a question about the auto hook setting ice fishing device with an alliterative name that's been banned in Minnesota. The correct answer was Jawjacker. But Bryce Jaglinski wrote in to say that there's another piece of gear that would work for the correct answer.

[Randall]

The Jig Linsky Ice fishing for sure.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, here's it's even more Midwestern than that. Bryce said that he is the fishing teacher at a school in Wisconsin. Oh, awesome. The what?

[Phil]

Man, that dude. He needs let me know when he's going to retire.

[Spencer Newarth]

You want that job? Let me tell you what Bryce had to say. The Finicky Fooler will also hook for you. Has an alliterative name and is banned in Minnesota. So the Bryce is right. And if you said finicky cooler like him, then you also got that one correct. So it could be Jawjacker or Finicky Fooler.

[Cal]

I saw a Jawjacker at Murdoch's the other day. Oh, yeah. It reminded me of my defeat in that episode.

[Spencer Newarth]

What was your answer?

[Randall]

Seth is the only guy I know who owns one.

[Phil]

I got one.

[Stephen Rinella]

I got a couple.

[Spencer Newarth]

You boys ever use them? All the time and love them. Okay. Yeah.

[Phil]

When you can drill a shitload of holes in a state like Wyoming, there's no reason not to have one.

[Spencer Newarth]

You know, you'd reach for that instead of just a standard tip up, though, every time.

[Phil]

Depends what you're doing.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Phil]

Like tip like, you know, like Canyon Ferry where you're fishing in 40ft of water. Tips are kind of a pain, but I use them both.

[Spencer Newarth]

All right, now, the Shelby index for today is a five. So I'm putting on putting us on perfect score alert. With that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil. Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that? You stand to win everything.

[Brody]

Game on, suckers.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question 1. The topic is woodsmanship, and this will be multiple choice. Which of these states does not have a 14er?

[Cal]

No.

[Spencer Newarth]

Is it Washington, Colorado, California, or Idaho?

[Phil]

Why do I get the markers that are out of juice?

[Spencer Newarth]

All right, throw that one by the door, and that one is going to leave this room. It's going to go right in the garbage. Oh, no, no, no. Not that one.

[Randall]

No, that one was dead.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, okay. And Randall's gonna find some new markers.

[Cal]

Yeah, I'M all tangled up in the wire.

[Phil]

I like that blue one you got in your hand there, Randall.

[Spencer Newarth]

Again, question one. The topic is woodsmanship. Which of these states does not have a 14er? Three of them have a fourteener. One of them does not. Is it Washington, Colorado, California or Idaho?

[Phil]

Rocky Mountain High.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay, Randall, the quickest answer. Do you know this one?

[Randall]

I do.

[Hansi]

Someone else said that.

[Cal]

Brody, I could tell you the the high points in each of these states and their elevations.

[Spencer Newarth]

Why do you know that?

[Cal]

Because I love mountains.

[Spencer Newarth]

Just to be good at trivia. Again, Washington, high points. Colorado, California or Idaho. Which of those states?

[Stephen Rinella]

I could give you three.

[Spencer Newarth]

Randall does not have a fourteener. Is everybody ready?

[Cal]

Actually, Colorado. I'm not sure.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, what happened?

[Phil]

I take back my tested.

[Cal]

I take back my ball.

[Phil]

You mean you're not sure what the high point is?

[Cal]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Cal saying Idaho. Giannis says Washington. Seth, Idaho. Randall, Idaho. Corey, Idaho. Hanzi, Washington. Nate, California. Brody, Idaho. The correct answer is Idaho. About half of the room got that one right. 14ers are mountains with an elevation over 14, 000ft. There are 96 in America which are all found in Alaska, Colorado, Washington and California. The tallest mountain in Idaho is Bora Peak, which has an elevation of 13.

[Cal]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

12, 662. So Idaho does not have a fourteener. I was a little nervous about the Tetons. How close are the Tetons? So I looked up. The tallest peak in Wyoming is only about 20ft shy. Oh, they're not 14.

[Phil]

But that's not the Tetons, is it? I don't fit in a Wind River.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, I don't remember what it was, but I didn't feel good about making Idaho a choice when it was only 20ft away from being a 14er. So I went with Idaho and Mon.

[Randall]

Montana's not a fourteener state either. 13 something granite 12 something granite 12, I think. Is it? Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question two. The topic is conservation. This next great question is via Justin Matthiason. Also known as a controlled burn. The U.S. forest Service defines this as quote, a planned fire used to meet management objectives. Also known as a controlled burn. The U.S. forest Service defines this as, quote, a planned fire used to meet management objectives.

[Hansi]

Our in house forester have it.

[Stephen Rinella]

Seth, If I'm reading the question right.

[Spencer Newarth]

I think it's also known as a controlled burn. The U.S. forest Service defines this as a planned fire used to meet management objectives. About half of the room has come up with their answer. Brody, you have this One, Right.

[Phil]

I don't know. I. I mean, I know I've heard this term used before, but I don't know if it's what you're looking for.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay, this is question two.

[Hansi]

Did you come up with this question?

[Spencer Newarth]

This was via Justin Mathiason.

[Phil]

You know, you got a good one. It gets real quiet in the room, Spencer.

[Spencer Newarth]

We still have some blank whiteboards.

[Phil]

I think Forest Service expert Seth over there got it right away.

[Stephen Rinella]

Why am I Forest Service expert?

[Spencer Newarth]

Who you worked for, were you ever employed by them?

[Hansi]

Forest Service?

[Stephen Rinella]

Not Forest Service, no.

[Cal]

Have you done one?

[Phil]

Well, you were on a fire crew, correct?

[Stephen Rinella]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rinella]

In the private sector?

[Cal]

Yeah.

[Phil]

You guys were, like, contractors for. For the Forest Service?

[Stephen Rinella]

Yep.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Again, also known as a controlled burn. The U.S. forest Service defines this as a planned fire used to meet management objectives. This is question two. The topic is conservation. This. This is a tough start for our players. Looking for a perfect game. Yeah.

[Phil]

What was The Shelby index?

[Spencer Newarth]

5. Someone in here has a 10 in them today.

[Hansi]

Not Yanni.

[Spencer Newarth]

Not Giannis. Went with the backwards hat today. On a Tuesday.

[Stephen Rinella]

Of all days.

[Spencer Newarth]

Of all days on Tuesday.

[Hansi]

Please tell me backwards hair. Is that not okay?

[Spencer Newarth]

You've asked me before. You're always like, oh, backwards hair today, huh, Spencer? And then I feel like my answer is, like, yeah, it's like, Thursday energy.

[Cal]

And it's a camo hat.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah. Casual camo. Backwards. On a Tuesday. On a Tuesday in January. January's got to have, like, the worst Tuesdays that there are. I'd say.

[Phil]

Yeah. He does kind of look like he's getting ready to drink a beer on the beach.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah. Yeah. Now Johnny sees it. Excuse me? Brody sees it.

[Stephen Rinella]

There's a lot of, like, what's good, fellow kids Energy.

[Spencer Newarth]

Steve Buscemi from. Was it 30 rock?

[Stephen Rinella]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Does everyone have an answer for question two?

[Hansi]

Dirty rock. I like that. Which.

[Spencer Newarth]

Which character Steve Buscemi plays? Was it a private investigator?

[Stephen Rinella]

He goes undercover at a high school, but it's. He looks like Steve Buscemi, but he's got a skateboard and a hoodie and, like, a backwards hat on or something.

[Spencer Newarth]

Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. What's that say?

[Phil]

Cal Randall gets points for creativity.

[Spencer Newarth]

Giannis says prescribed burn. Seth, prescribed burn. Randall, deliberate conflagration. Corey prescribed. Prescribed burn. Yeah, you know what I meant. Hansi, SL Burn. Nate, fire, Blaze, Dragon, Charizard. Brody's prescribed burn. The correct answer is prescribed fire or prescribed burn.

[Cal]

I was going for something without burn in it.

[Randall]

Oh, I know these things where it, like, uses so many common terms always jack me up.

[Spencer Newarth]

If too many years. If too many years pass without a fire, an agency may use a prescribed fire to help the health of an ecosystem. Some of the benefits of controlled burns include minimizing the spread of pests, providing forage for animals, recycling nutrients back into the soil, and promoting the growth of new plants. The Forest Service also says one of the best ways to minimize wildfires is by using prescribed fires.

[Randall]

I do want to say that a backburn is technically correct. Because if your management objective is to slow down a fire or stop a fire, a back burn is a prescribed burn. That's right.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question three.

[Randall]

So did I get a point there?

[Spencer Newarth]

We're not going to give it to you.

[Randall]

Well, let's go through the Forest Service manual.

[Spencer Newarth]

When I was at Fort Stewart, I.

[Stephen Rinella]

Was on this list of. They would send out what training errors were getting burned. And I'd get like five emails a.

[Spencer Newarth]

Day like, prescribed burn, prescribed burn, prescribed burn.

[Stephen Rinella]

More people should be doing that, is all I'm going to say.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question.

[Stephen Rinella]

Burn your property.

[Spencer Newarth]

The topic is fishing. Encyclopedia Britannica defines this as. Quote, brown algae that grows as large coastal seaweeds in colder seas. Question 3. Another stumper for our crew. Encyclopedia Britannica defines this as brown algae that grows in large coastal. That grows as large coastal seaweeds in colder seas. Brody with an answer. How do you feel about your answer?

[Phil]

Excellent.

[Spencer Newarth]

How about you? Set.

[Phil]

I like your little archer man.

[Stephen Rinella]

Nate, I'm just thinking of brown that grows up in Alaska.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Stephen Rinella]

I don't deserve it. I should erase it.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, boy. Brody did not like that hint. Brown algae has large coastal seaweeds in colder seas. Seth, now what I'm thinking of.

[Stephen Rinella]

What I'm thinking of, I don't know. It's considered algae.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. I don't know. Question 3. The topic is fishing. Encyclopedia Britannica defines this as brown algae that grows as large coastal seaweeds in colder seas. Brody, do you think Seth said too much? I do. Okay.

[Phil]

Way too much.

[Spencer Newarth]

Way too much. Did it help?

[Stephen Rinella]

I didn't think it was a hint that saying that Alaska was cold.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, keep going.

[Cal]

Seth, what did you think of my answer?

[Stephen Rinella]

I dig that answer.

[Cal]

All right.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay, you two, Randall and Seth agree on what it might be. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Cal says bull kelp. Yanis, bull kelp. Seth kelp. Randall kelp. Corey kelp, Hansi kelp forest. Nate kelp. Brody kelp. Everybody got it? The correct answer is kelp or kelp forest.

[Cal]

Better than My original answer, snot.

[Spencer Newarth]

Contrary to popular belief, kelp is a type of algae, not a type of plant. That means they have hold fast instead of roots, blades instead of leaves, and a stipe instead of a stem. Kelp provides critical habitat for many fish and marine mammals.

[Phil]

You know what else it's good for?

[Spencer Newarth]

What's that?

[Phil]

Kids turning it into whips and beating each other with it.

[Stephen Rinella]

I was just, I was just gonna say the kids in Alaska get more entertainment out of kelp.

[Phil]

Oh yeah.

[Stephen Rinella]

Anything else?

[Phil]

Every day they come back with it, beat each other, make like rock water rockets out of it, eat it.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question for the topic is natural history. And this next great question is via Aaron Welsh. This female name is also what you call fossilized tree resin. A lot of our players quick to answer, they're getting their confidence.

[Phil]

You got any of this in your fossil collection, Spencer?

[Spencer Newarth]

I do. I did not find it though. It was given to me Female name Dr. Henry.

[Cal]

Henry Woo.

[Randall]

I know. I'm so glad Steve's not here so we don't have to go down the what's a female name sponsor.

[Spencer Newarth]

I'd like to hear him argue about this. This female name is also what you call fossilized tree resin.

[Brody]

What's the category?

[Spencer Newarth]

Natural history. Is everybody ready? Did you just get. What's so funny over there, Phil?

[Stephen Rinella]

Corey just has. He's got some questions, I guess.

[Spencer Newarth]

Are you ready, Corey? Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Cal and Yani saying amber. Seth without an answer. Randall says Amber. Corey says pitch. Hansi, Nate and Brody say amber. They got it. The correct answer is amber. Amber is often translucent with a hint of brown, yellow or orange. Famously, it was the catalyst for creating Jurassic Park. Here is a one minute video of the movie where the park's mascot, Mr. DNA describes Amber's role in dinosaur cloning. Play the Phil.

[Stephen Rinella]

Once again, apologies to the YouTube audience.

[Nate]

A DNA strand like me is a blueprint for building a living thing. And sometimes animals that went extinct millions of years ago, like dinosaurs, left their blueprints behind for us to find. We just had to know where to look. A hundred million years ago, there were mosquitoes, just like today. And just like today, they fed on the blood of animals, even dinosaurs. Sometimes after biting a dinosaur, the mosquito would land on the branch of a tree and get stuck in the SAP. After a long time, the tree SAP would get hard and become fossilized, just like a dinosaur bone, preserving the mosquito inside. This fossilized tree SAP, which we call amber, waited for millions of years with the mosquito inside. Until Jurassic park scientists came along. Using sophisticated techniques, they extract the preserved blood from the mosquito and bingo dino DNA.

[Cal]

Is this a young Brett Reeves doing the voice?

[Brody]

There were, like, four different regional accents in that. In that voice.

[Spencer Newarth]

Real scientists have tried replicating Dr. John Hammond's work from Jurassic park, but are still unsuccessful. So I do have a piece of amber, and it does have a bug in it. No way. I do, but I. I did not find it. No. It was given to me. A font from a fossil collector in Utah. No question.

[Hansi]

No labia in the flavor text. I'm surprised.

[Spencer Newarth]

What's Latvia?

[Hansi]

Well, one of the world's top amber producers.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, okay. As we all know, I was waiting for you to pitch in with that. Question 5. The topic is hunting.

[Unknown]

No.

[Spencer Newarth]

No pun intended. This Kentucky bourbon fittingly got its name after a distillery executive went on his annual bird hunt in 1940. This Kentucky bourbon fittingly got its name after a distillery executive went on his annual bird hunt in 1940. This is question five. We will get a scoreboard update from Phil after this. Who are our bourbon or whiskey drinkers in the room? Not me, Corey and Hansi.

[Stephen Rinella]

I drink it, but there's nothing.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, Hansi, you got this one, right?

[Brody]

I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a guess.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. Corey, do you have this one right? Man, I sure hope so. Okay.

[Cal]

There's another bird game, bird themed whiskey that I'm thinking of, but I not sure if it's a bourbon.

[Spencer Newarth]

This Kentucky bourbon fittingly got its name after a distillery executive went on his annual bird hunt in 1940.

[Cal]

Ah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh. Oh, okay. Hansi, one of our whiskey experts going back to his whiteboard.

[Cal]

Hmm.

[Spencer Newarth]

Hansi, also a sommelier.

[Brody]

I wish taking donations to do that homework.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, you got to take classes for that, right? Oh, it's a big deal, Hansi. Or, excuse me, Corey, if you have this one. Right. Have you had this bourbon? Yeah. What do you think of it? You know, I have a hard time reach for tasting the difference between it all. Honestly, it all tastes good. Out of your ski jacket. Hansi, if you have this one right. Do you have a review of this bourbon?

[Brody]

Like a number? Like a. Sure.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah. I love. On a scale of one to ten. Sure.

[Stephen Rinella]

I think it's five to five.

[Brody]

Yeah, I can. I can do that.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Brody]

Do that.

[Spencer Newarth]

You gonna tell us or.

[Brody]

I had to switch it up because I think I put a scotch on there first.

[Cal]

Okay.

[Brody]

Like scotchy.

[Spencer Newarth]

Scotch.

[Cal]

Damn.

[Spencer Newarth]

This Kentucky bourbon fittingly got its name after a distillery executive went on his annual bird hunting Puzzle. I don't know.

[Randall]

I don't know what it is.

[Hansi]

Did you grow up skiing drunk?

[Unknown]

Technically.

[Hansi]

I always just like, heard of people doing it. But first I just. We just never did it for some reason.

[Spencer Newarth]

What's that? Drinking and skiing?

[Hansi]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, you gotta have a little nerp on the chairlift sometimes.

[Phil]

Were you doing something else up there?

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah. Yanni had those lefties with him.

[Phil]

No. He used to do that dangerous back country stuff. So you couldn't afford to.

[Hansi]

Yeah.

[Cal]

Growing up skiing drunk, to me, just. I envisioned toddlers immediately. It can be very interesting visual.

[Hansi]

They look like they're.

[Phil]

You just doing that where people ski.

[Spencer Newarth]

Doing the pizza down the hill, straight down shots.

[Cal]

You sit at the chairlift and it's like watching bowling from the perspective of.

[Phil]

300Ft of vertical straight to the bottom.

[Cal]

Car hurt. 60 miles an hour into the lift line is everybody. Y'all watch out.

[Spencer Newarth]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Cal saying bird dog. Giannis says Wild Turkey. He crossed out bird dog. Seth. Wild Turkey. Randall. Wild Turkey. Corey. Wild Turkey. Hansi. Wild Turkey. Nate, Buffalo Trace. Brody. Wild Turkey. The correct answer is Wild Turkey. The room did very well.

[Randall]

How often when you go turkey hunting, Spencer, like, just what are you gonna do this weekend? Do you say, I'm going bird hunting. I'm going on my annual bird hunt. Just a question.

[Spencer Newarth]

I think six of our eight players got that right. I feel good about the word.

[Brody]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

That's why I wrote if I would have given you anything. You know what?

[Randall]

Don't answer the question.

[Cal]

Hansi, what were you going?

[Spencer Newarth]

I would not say I'm going hunting, but it wouldn't be wrong.

[Brody]

My first.

[Hansi]

I'm going to start now.

[Cal]

I was picturing the bottle.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Cal]

But I couldn't come up with the name.

[Spencer Newarth]

That distillery executive said his buddies in camp loved the bourbon he brought with him. So they named it after the bird they were hunting. Other liquors with birdie names include Red breast, Famous grouse, Gray goose, Kentucky owl, Old crow and eagle.

[Cal]

Rare Old Crow make you feel to be fair.

[Phil]

Cal, I was just thinking, sometimes when you're turkey hunting, you'll be like, found some birds. Didn't find any birds. I heard some birds.

[Randall]

So same question to you. It's spring. You're out doing stuff. Brody, what are you doing this weekend? You say we're going on our annual bird Saying it.

[Cal]

If he'd said when he went on his annual Turkey Hunt in 1940, would you have gotten me Too easy?

[Randall]

I think I would have been warmer.

[Spencer Newarth]

What's your Review of Wild Turkey Bourbon.

[Brody]

I think it's a totally serviceable bourbon. Put it at a 3.5. 375 out of a 5.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Brody]

If we're talking like. If we're talking like, Colonel E.H. taylor is like a 4.5 and Pappy Van Winkle being a 5, I put Wild Turkey in that 3 territory. Solidly serviceable. Excellent. I'm gonna put Old Crow down at, like, 2 and, like, right up there with Northern Lights.

[Unknown]

What about Jim Beam?

[Brody]

Crow comes in a glass bottle. If we put a plastic bottle, we're going one. That's like vodka with caramel coloring.

[Spencer Newarth]

I'm gonna write more bourbon questions just so we can get your commentary. Have you had Pappy before?

[Brody]

I have never had Pappy, so I shouldn't. But, you know, it's one of those, like. It's the.

[Spencer Newarth]

The price.

[Brody]

Come on. Like, but, you know, again, taking donations here. Okay, you want me to find out what a five is like? Please. My desk is open.

[Spencer Newarth]

Phil, we're halfway through the game. Give us a scoreboard update.

[Stephen Rinella]

There we are. Hey, it's a pretty. It's a pretty close game, all things considered. We've got Nate in last place with two. Coming up next are Cal and Hansi with three points a piece. Then I'll tie it up are Corey, Giannis, Seth and Randall with four. And in first place, it's a perfect game for Brody Henderson.

[Spencer Newarth]

Wow. Again, this was supposed to be a tournament episode today, but Steve couldn't make it, so we had to punt on that. But the room is.

[Phil]

Well, this would be a stressful tournament.

[Spencer Newarth]

Some heavy hitters.

[Hansi]

Are we still doing a tournament?

[Spencer Newarth]

We're going to do it at a certain point. If we can't make it happen with Steve's schedule, we're just going to play it without him. And I'll figure out an alternative to still get Steve involved because he is the defending champion.

[Unknown]

Hey, American history buffs. Hunting history buffs, listen up. We're back at it with another volume of our Meat Eaters American History series. In this edition, titled the Mountain Men, 1806-1840, we tackle the Rocky Mountain beaver trade and dive into the lives and legends of fellows like Jim Bridger, Jed Smith, and John Coulter. This small but legendary fraternity of backwoodsmen helped define an era when the west represented not just unmapped territories, territory, but untapped opportunity for those willing to endure some heinous and at times, violent conditions. We explain what started the Mountain man era and what ended it. We tell you everything you'd Ever want to know about what the mountain men ate, how they hunted and trapped, what gear they carried, what clothes they wore, how they interacted with Native Americans, how 10% of them died violent deaths, and even detailed descriptions of of how they performed amputations on the fly. It's as dark and bloody and good as our previous volume about the white tailed deer skin trade which is titled the Long Hunters 1761-1775. So again, this new Mountain man edition about the beaver skin trade is available for pre order now wherever audiobooks are sold. It's called Meat Eaters American History The Mountain Men 1806-1840 by me, Stephen Rinella.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question 6. The topic is biology. This next great question is via Joe Mason. Platypus and blank are the only mammals that lay eggs. Platypus and blank are the only mammals that lay eggs. The room is stressed again. Except for maybe Randall. Randall, do you have this one right?

[Cal]

I believe so.

[Spencer Newarth]

Randall is confident. Brody, who has the perfect game going, is tapping the whiteboard against the bill of his hat.

[Cal]

We need one.

[Spencer Newarth]

Can you picture it, Brody? You know the animal you just got can't find its name. Platypus and blank are the only mammals that lay eggs. This is question six. The topic is biology. Seth now going to his whiteboard.

[Cal]

It's a tough, tough little game here. I wouldn't have guessed that it was a five on the old index.

[Spencer Newarth]

She did well, Seth, how do you feel about your answer?

[Stephen Rinella]

I honestly have no clue. I just wrote something down.

[Spencer Newarth]

Platypus and blank.

[Phil]

Give us a hint.

[Spencer Newarth]

Spencer are the only. Here's your hint. They're the only mammals that lay eggs.

[Cal]

Phil, do I know this?

[Stephen Rinella]

Spencer, can I give a. Give a Phil hint. That won't help anybody.

[Spencer Newarth]

If you're certain, Phil, it will not help any of the eight players in the room, then I'd say go for it.

[Cal]

I feel good about that though. No, no, don't do it.

[Spencer Newarth]

No, do it.

[Cal]

I think I know what you're going to say.

[Stephen Rinella]

I don't think you.

[Spencer Newarth]

If it were to help somebody.

[Cal]

I think I do.

[Spencer Newarth]

It would be Randall. And Randall already have. It has his answer.

[Stephen Rinella]

Well, honestly, it's a hint that might actually throw people off because they might think what they might know.

[Cal]

Yeah, but they don't do it. But they don't do it.

[Spencer Newarth]

We're going to. We're going to say hold off on the hit.

[Stephen Rinella]

Okay.

[Spencer Newarth]

It's a type of Pokemon, isn't it?

[Stephen Rinella]

You're not far off.

[Cal]

We already got a Charizard.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Platypus and blank are the only mammals.

[Cal]

That lay eggs, which is just disgusting when you really think about it.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, we need something. Go extinct, these perverts.

[Cal]

Make up your mind.

[Spencer Newarth]

Is everybody ready? Brody, come on.

[Phil]

Oh, just write something down.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. He's gonna throw some letters on the board. Corey, Hansi, you give up. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Kalan Yani without an answer. Seth says pangolin. Randall says echidna. Corey, Wallaby, Hansi, anteaters. Nate, Pangolin. Brody. Wombat.

[Brody]

That's.

[Cal]

That's the word.

[Spencer Newarth]

Randall got it. The correct answer is echidna or a spiny anteater. Now, Hansi said anteater, but I don't think we're gonna give it.

[Giannis]

Oh, come on, come on, come on.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay, we'll give it to.

[Cal]

How many cheaters are there?

[Stephen Rinella]

We're giving it to Han.

[Spencer Newarth]

Listen, if. If everyone else says, come on, how many?

[Phil]

For sure.

[Cal]

How many points do you have?

[Spencer Newarth]

How many points does Hansi have?

[Stephen Rinella]

Oh, sorry. Hansi currently has three. If we give him the point, he'll have four.

[Spencer Newarth]

Agrees again. It's an echidna, AKA a spiny anteater. Platypus and echidna possess other unique qualities, like legs that are on their sides instead of underneath them and having just a single duct for urine, feces, and sex rather than multiple openings. Scientists say egg laying mammals were once common but got out competed by marsupials about 70 million years ago.

[Brody]

Is it still called a cloaca? I gotta know.

[Randall]

Cloaca.

[Spencer Newarth]

I don't know if they are. I just wanted to say that word.

[Randall]

Platypus is also venomous.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Randall]

Yeah. Which is a crazy fact.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question 7.

[Cal]

Are you gonna move on without our hint?

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, yeah. What's the hint? Phil?

[Stephen Rinella]

Oh, I was gonna say he's a very prominent antagonist in a famous video game franchise is Knuckles. This animal from Knuckles. From size the head. Technically, an echidna wouldn't help me. Yeah, exactly. But Randall. Randall got it. He. He knew.

[Cal]

Phil, if I knew it.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question.

[Randall]

Well, the hedgehog is also something that can be venomous.

[Hansi]

But.

[Randall]

And that's. Yeah, same. Same deal. But they rub venom, they eat venomous stuff, and then secrete it onto their spines.

[Cal]

Ooh.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question.

[Randall]

It's not. They're not generating the venom.

[Spencer Newarth]

7. The topic is fishing. What American lake has a monster named Champ, whose sightings are likely just long nose Gar and lake sturgeon. What American lake has a monster named Champ, whose sightings are likely just long nose Gar and Lake Sturgeon. Oh, Brody and Randall both like their answers. Hansi, do you have this one right? No. Okay, again, this is question seven. The perfect game is now over, but I think it tightened up.

[Stephen Rinella]

This is a far stretch. First fishing question.

[Spencer Newarth]

Well, it says it likely just a long nose. Gar and Lake Sturgeon. What American Lake has a monster named Champ whose sightings are likely just a long nose. Garbage and Lake Sturgeon. We had a question a few weeks ago about Mothman. If you can't tell right now, I'm reading a Cryptids book which has inspired a few trivia questions.

[Brody]

What's the definition of Cryptids?

[Spencer Newarth]

Like what? It's any animal that's not recognized by science or something like that. So there are animals who were once considered Cryptids that then just became accepted. Like there's a fish that we thought was extinct for 65 million years.

[Cal]

Coelacanth.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yes. And then they found one and then it just, you know, became an animal. So I think.

[Phil]

But wasn't that thing always in the fossil record and they just. It wasn't a cryptid. It was just extinct.

[Spencer Newarth]

Sure. But I think by like the cryptids.

[Phil]

Like Bigfoot.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yes. Mothman. Champ.

[Phil]

I don't think Coelacanth qualifies.

[Spencer Newarth]

Is everybody ready?

[Cal]

The abominable snow.

[Randall]

Unless there's a story of coelacanth coming in and like, stealing children.

[Spencer Newarth]

Right.

[Cal]

The Chupacabra.

[Spencer Newarth]

Uh huh. Chupacabra was a recent cryptid. Most of the Cryptids that we hear about go back to, like, I don't know, Native American lore. But the chupacabra was like, 1999.

[Stephen Rinella]

Interesting.

[Phil]

It's not based on some.

[Spencer Newarth]

No, at first. And like, sort of the thought of what a Chupacab Jabra is has changed. It started in Puerto Rico, whereas described as sort of an alien like figure. And then by the time it made it to the states in Texas, it's become like this hairless blue dog. Yeah, I just didn't come around till the 90s.

[Cal]

I associate it with the Taco Bell dog also because it sounds like a dish you'd order. Taco Bell.

[Spencer Newarth]

Does everyone have an answer for the American lake that has a monster named Champ whose sightings are likely just a long nose guard in Lake Sturgeon. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Cal says Champlain. Giannis says Placid. Seth Placid Randall, Lake Champlain. Corey and Hanse say Lake Champlain. Nate says Okeechobee. Brody Lake Champlain. He got it.

[Randall]

The correct answer is great phonetic spelling of Okeechobee.

[Cal]

The thing where you have all your answers to try to get one of them right.

[Spencer Newarth]

No, no, same answer. Champ has been deemed America's Loch Ness. There have been hundreds of sightings of Champ going all the way back to the Iroquois tribe. The lake monster has been described as being 15 to 50ft long with a snake like body and horse like head. Have you ever seen the. Seth?

[Hansi]

The answer was in the question.

[Stephen Rinella]

Well, I almost went with Champlain, but the, the, the movie Lake Placid was throwing me off.

[Cal]

But it wasn't on Lake Placid. That's a deep cut.

[Stephen Rinella]

That was so frustrating.

[Randall]

So stupid. Terrible, terrible question.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question 8. The topic is cooking. And this next great question is via David Cervini. Merriam Webster defines this nine letter dish as, quote, thinly sliced raw meat or fish served with a sauce. This question 8. We'll get another scoreboard update from Phil the engineer after this. Merriam Webster defines this nine letter dish as thinly sliced raw meat or fish served with a sauce. Brody, you got this one, right?

[Phil]

I got nine letters.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. Yanni joining them. Yanni, you got this one?

[Hansi]

I believe so.

[Spencer Newarth]

You Pennsylvania boys ever been to Lake Champlain?

[Phil]

No. That's a long ways.

[Spencer Newarth]

Vermont, like, it'd be like driving to northeast Montana, right? No, no, it's a hall.

[Stephen Rinella]

That northern spot is sneaky big.

[Randall]

Well, to be fair, northeast Montana's a hall from here.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, it's like seven hours.

[Cal]

Yeah, but I mean, but we go there recreationally.

[Phil]

I don't know, like, I don't know what it. What do you think it would take, Seth, to get up to northern Vermont.

[Spencer Newarth]

Like, or southern southern New York, because it goes across both states probably.

[Stephen Rinella]

Well, takes about nine hours.

[Spencer Newarth]

We're gonna answer this.

[Cal]

We can answer this.

[Randall]

So it's like maybe six hours.

[Spencer Newarth]

Lancaster and okay, representative from that's way south. Okay. That'd be even longer from there to Lake Champlain. Six hours, 50 minutes. And that's if you're like going from Southern PA. What about from State College?

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Or Erie State College. Again, we are on.

[Randall]

This is why the Internet ruined our talk, you know.

[Stephen Rinella]

Really?

[Randall]

Really.

[Spencer Newarth]

Pittsburgh State College would be 7 hours, 13 minutes. And again, that's just going to like the western side.

[Cal]

Erie, Pennsylvania's got to be like 445.

[Spencer Newarth]

We're done. We're done doing distances from Pennsylvania places to Lake Champlain. Again, a nine letter.

[Cal]

Somebody out there listening.

[Phil]

But that's like.

[Spencer Newarth]

I knew it.

[Phil]

And northeastern miles or time that's way longer than Montana time in what way, because there's, like, everybody, like, no one thinks twice about driving six hours across Montana.

[Spencer Newarth]

I know it's a haul. Get a nine letter dish that's a thinly sliced raw meat or fish served with a sauce. Is everybody ready? And I bet if. If you're going from where we're sitting now to, like, northeast Montana, that's probably six and a half hours.

[Cal]

You'd pass a lot fewer Burger Kings, though, along the way, which is how some of us measure our road trip.

[Spencer Newarth]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Calend Yanni saying carpaccio. Seth says sashimi. Randall says carpaccio. Cory sashimi, Hansi and spelled it wrong. Nate for sure and Brody say carpaccio. They got it. The correct answer is carpaccio. Here's how you spell it. C A, R, P A, C, C, I, O. Anybody have that right? Yeah.

[Randall]

Yes, a lot of people.

[Spencer Newarth]

The modern version of carpaccio was created in Venice in the 1950s. It was specially made for a wealthy customer whose doctor recommended she stop eating cooked meat to learn how to make it with fish or venison. Check out Wade Trung's article on the meat eater.com called how to make carpaccio.

[Stephen Rinella]

I want.

[Randall]

I would love to go to that doctor.

[Cal]

Yeah, I know. Wondering what else he's got in his toolbox.

[Spencer Newarth]

Well, he was in the 1950s, so you might need a medium to talk to him. Phil, give us a scoreboard update with two questions to go.

[Stephen Rinella]

Yeah, pull it up here. There she is.

[Hansi]

Oh, damn.

[Spencer Newarth]

Just stopped. Yeah.

[Stephen Rinella]

I think only two players are out of the running here. We've got Nate with three and Seth with with four. Then coming up next are Kalianis and Corey with five points a piece. Hansi has six, thanks to that anteater question.

[Hansi]

You guys, look at him laughing now. Now he's knocking on your door, Randall.

[Stephen Rinella]

And then tied up in first place are Randall and Brody with seven points.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question nine, the topic is conservation. The largest loggerhead sea turtle nesting site in the world is found in this state. Question 9, the topic is conservation. The largest loggerhead sea turtle nesting site in the world is found in this state. I have not seen anyone write down an answer yet. The largest loggerhead sea turtle nesting site and the world is found in this state. Johnny, how you feel about your answer?

[Hansi]

I've seen a few loggerheads over the years.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, you don't have to say where.

[Hansi]

Yeah, say where in the ocean.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, okay. It'd be a cryptid if you saw it anywhere else. Probably the largest loggerhead sea turtle nesting site in the world is found in this state.

[Hansi]

It's popular to eat the eggs in some places.

[Randall]

That's what got them in trouble.

[Hansi]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Hansi]

But no, to make like a cast of the shell and then recreate it and use it. In a lot of coastal places, you'll see them as, you know, in like a beach cottage. You'll see that, like a fiberglass cast of the shell. It's pretty cool.

[Randall]

And that's because they're big in your relative speech. Cottage.

[Stephen Rinella]

Oh, say just. Just the fact you said beach cottage.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rinella]

Takes me to a certain place. Now we know it's on the ocean.

[Brody]

Yeah, I was gonna say Oklahoma. Now I've gotta change my mind.

[Spencer Newarth]

Is everybody ready? No. Randall, how do you feel about your answer?

[Cal]

I don't feel super confident.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. Brody, who is tied for the lead with Randall, how do you feel about your answer?

[Phil]

I got a bunch written down. I haven't circled one yet.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. Better be fixing to select one. I think we're gonna flip over the boards. Everybody ready?

[Stephen Rinella]

Yep.

[Spencer Newarth]

Brody, go ahead and reveal your answers. Cal says Florida. Giannis, Florida. Seth, South Carolina. Randall, Georgia. Corey, South Carolina. Hanzi, South Carolina. Nate, Florida. Crossed out Texas. Brody says Florida crossed out Georgia and South Carolina. We have a correct answer in the room. It's Florida. I think four of our players maybe got that one right. There are nine population segments of loggerhead turtles, all of which are listed as threatened or endangered. Injured by the u. S. Fish and wildlife service. Florida set a record in 2023 with 130, 000 loggerhead nests, which is 30, 000 more than the average year. The world's next largest site is located near Saudi Arabia, where about 20, 000 loggerheads nest.

[Phil]

We were in South Carolina last summer when they were coming up on the beach. It's cool.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay, question here's a.

[Randall]

You ever do some, like, real dirt bagging up in Mexico? You do have to look out for huevos de tortuga.

[Phil]

Yeah, they don't mind.

[Unknown]

Yep.

[Spencer Newarth]

Here's the correct answer review so far before we do question 10. One, was Idaho. Two, prescribed fire? Three, kelp. Four, amber. Five, wild turkey. Six, echidna. Seven, lake Champlain. Eight, carpaccio. Nine, Florida. Question 10. The topic is hunting. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Jace Jenkins for sending this great question. Jace is going to get a board game signed by the crew. If you want a chance to win our listener question of the week, then send Your question to trivia@the mediator.com and before I read it, Phil, give us one last scoreboard update.

[Stephen Rinella]

Yeah. It's down to Randall and Brody. Brody just pulled ahead with that last answer. He's got eight points and Randall has seven.

[Spencer Newarth]

Here's question 10. This subspecies of Argali sheep that's native to Central Asia is named after an Italian explorer. Brody is writing his game over. Randall, some confidence.

[Randall]

He could have taken that a lot of different ways.

[Spencer Newarth]

Randall and most of the room is confident in their answer here. This subspecies of Argali sheep that's native to Central Asia is named after an Italian explorer.

[Brody]

How does it feel to not be included in the word most.

[Spencer Newarth]

Hansian courier? Not as confident. Oh, no. I had an answer before you finished. Oh, okay. I don't know who you're talking to. Just Hansi struggling with this one. Is everybody ready? Hansi, you gonna come up with an answer?

[Brody]

Type of sheep.

[Spencer Newarth]

Type of sheep named after an Italian explorer. A really fun game in the pool.

[Hansi]

Oh, I was just gonna say that.

[Spencer Newarth]

Go ahead and reveal your. Yes. Hansi gets it. Cal and Giannis. The whole room says Marco Polo, and everybody got it right. Correct answer is Marco Polo. Oh, well. Marco Polo sheep are known for their giant horns and rugged home range. They are considered a near threatened species with population declines due to habitat loss from climate change and warfare. The sheep are named after Marco Polo. He documented them when crossing Mount Iman in 1271. To hunt a Marco Polo sheep, you'll need at least $50,000 for a tag and guide. Brody is our winner today with nine correct answers. Brody, which one did you get wrong to cost the perfect game?

[Cal]

Echidna.

[Spencer Newarth]

Kidna couldn't come up with Echidna. So Brody gets to choose where the 500 donation from meat Eater goes with Going to be.

[Phil]

Cal, does Utah have a BHA chapter?

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Randall]

Utah BHA is kicking ass right now, so.

[Phil]

So the Supreme Court just decided not to hear the case for Utah, the Utah land grab. But that doesn't mean it's not. That doesn't mean it's going to go away. So we'll donate it to Utah BHA so they can keep fighting that. That land grab effort.

[Spencer Newarth]

Brody's sending $500 their way. And we just covered that subject on Themeeter.com about what's happening in Utah. Join us next week for more Meat Eater trivia. The only game show conservation always wins. Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota. He's the host. Using those smooth, mellow tones, he lays them questions and he likes taking those two and three year old bucks and he's an avid amateur rock hound.

[Giannis]

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[Unknown]

Hey American history buffs. Hunting history buffs, listen up. We're back at it with another volume of our Meat Eaters American History series. In this edition, titled the Mountain Men 1806-1840, we tackle the Rocky Mountain beaver trade and dive into the lives and legends of fellows like Jim Bridger, Jed Smith and John Coulter. This small but legendary fraternity of backwoodsmen helped define an era when the west represented not just unmapped territory, but untapped opportunity for those willing to endure some heinous and at times violent conditions. We explain what started the mountain man era and what ended it. We tell you everything you'd ever want to know about what the mountain men ate, how they hunted and trapped, what gear they carried, what clothes they wore, how they interacted with Native Americans, how 10% of them died violent deaths, and even detailed descriptions of how they performed amputations on the fly. It's as dark and bloody and good as our previous volume about the white tailed deer skin trade, which is titled the Long Hunters 1761-1775. So again, this new Mountain man edition about the beaver skin trade is available for pre order now wherever audiobooks are sold. It's called Meat Eaters American History The Mountain Men 1806-1840 by me, Stephen Rinella.