Ep. 668: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CXLXIII

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Introduction: Promoting Historical Insights The episode kicks off with host Steven Rinella promoting his latest audiobook, "Meat Eaters American History: The Mountain Men, 1806-1840." Rinella delves into the Rocky Mountain beaver trade and the lives of legendary mountain men such as Jim Bridger, Jed Smith, and John Colter. He explores how these backwoodsmen shaped an era of westward expansion, highlighting their survival tactics, interactions with Native Americans, and the harsh conditions they endured. Rinella emphasizes the audiobook's depth, promising listeners an engaging exploration akin to his previous work on the white-tailed deer skin trade.

Main Segment: MeatEater Trivia Championship Begins Spencer Newarth introduces the core of the episode—the inaugural 2024 MeatEater Trivia Championship. Unlike traditional game shows, this championship does away with playing games and instead pits the six highest-scoring trivia players of 2024 against each other across three episodes. The contestant lineup for this episode includes Steve Giannis, Cal, Randall Brody, and Seth, who are vying for the title by answering a series of 30 questions. The ultimate prize is a $3,000 donation to a charity of the winner's choice, with potential for an additional $1,500 through special "Moneyball" questions sponsored by Athletic Brewing.

Player Dynamics: Friendly Rivalries and Banter The episode showcases dynamic interactions among the contestants. Spencer teases Seth about his status in the competition, leading to playful exchanges about Seth's potential growth within the trivia pond. The camaraderie intensifies as Nate and Spencer engage in humorous debates over radio etiquette, specifically the correct usage of "over" and "out," with Nate asserting, “You can’t say over and out” ([03:36]).

Cal and Nate share anecdotes about dealing with fax machines and Amish communities, adding personal flair to the competition. The players often joke about each other's trivia knowledge and strategies, creating an entertaining and relatable atmosphere for listeners.

Gameplay Highlights: Navigating Trivia Questions The championship progresses through a series of diverse trivia questions spanning topics like biology, cooking, hunting, fishing, and conservation. Each question is met with varying degrees of confidence and collaboration among the players.

1. Biology Question ([17:48] - [20:25]) Question: What comes between class and family in taxonomic ranking?
   Options: Order, Genus, Kingdom, or Phylum.
   Answers: Four players correctly answered "Order," while Nate initially misunderstood but later acknowledged the mistake, praising Spencer for the correct answer.

   Notable Quote:

   • Spencer [20:25]: “The hierarchy is life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.”

2. Cooking Question ([20:57] - [22:17]) Question: What does MP stand for when listed as the cost of seafood or meat on a menu?
   Answers: "Market Price" was correctly identified by Seth, Giannis, Randall, Cal, and Steve. Spencer humorously explains how restaurants use "MP" to denote fluctuating prices and exclusivity.

   Notable Quote:

   • Nate [22:17]: “You don’t have to take it to do it because, you know, like, menus are so full of it when it comes to fish descriptions.”

3. Hunting Question ([22:57] - [24:40]) Question: These two words used to describe moon phases imply that the illuminated part is growing or shrinking.
   Answers: "Waning" and "Waxing" were correctly answered by all players except Nate, who clarified the meanings after Spencer had incorrectly explained them.

   Notable Quote:

   • Spencer [24:40]: “It's as if the fruits and vegetables.”

4. Natural History Question ([25:12] - [26:08]) Question: Merriam-Webster defines this 11-letter word as an expanse of water with many scattered islands.
   Answers: "Archipelago" was correctly answered by Giannis, Randall, Cal, Steve, and Brody, while Seth and others struggled.

   Notable Quote:

   • Seth [29:06]: “The Ring of fire.”

5. Conservation Question ([29:53] - [32:17]) Question: The Greater Wynwood Exotic Animal Park, the focus of the Tiger King documentary, was located in which state?
   Answers: "Oklahoma" was correctly identified by Seth, Randall, and Cal, while Steve and Brody guessed "Texas."

   Notable Quote:

   • Spencer [31:15]: “Joe Exotic followed fall under that.”

Sponsorship and Charitable Donations Athletic Brewing plays a significant role in this episode by sponsoring the championship. They pledge to match donations and support "Moneyball" questions—special trivia queries that can significantly increase the total donation. This year’s potential donation peak reaches up to $4,500, benefiting the National Wild Turkey Federation.

Notable Quote:

• Spencer [07:26]: “The entire championship is sponsored by Athletic Brewing, who have met, who will be matching meat eaters donation and sponsoring three Moneyball questions.”

Scoreboard Updates and Competitive Edge Spencer provides regular updates on the contestants' standings, creating suspense and highlighting the competitive nature of the championship. Randall Brody emerges as a strong contender, often leading the scoreboard, while Seth and others aim to catch up.

Notable Score Update:

• Randall Brody [53:20]: “This weighs heavily on me.”

Engaging Conversations and Personal Stories Beyond trivia, the episode is rich with personal stories and light-hearted interactions. Cal shares a humorous tale about visiting Lake Tahoe with his sister, while Steve Giannis discusses modern slang and societal changes in language usage among younger generations.

Notable Quote:

• Cal [48:46]: “First time I went to Lake Tahoe. This is just a story specifically to embarrass my little sister. We came in from the south, super windy road, real pretty, and the cop puked all over the backseat.”

Closing Remarks: Teasers for Upcoming Episodes As the episode wraps up, Spencer teases the continuation of the championship in subsequent episodes, emphasizing that scores will carry over and hinting at more exciting trivia challenges ahead. He thanks Athletic Brewing for their generous support and encourages listeners to participate via the Podcast Reader hotline, especially those from Amish and Mennonite communities who utilize fax-to-email services.

Notable Closing Quote:

• Spencer [54:10]: “Join us next week for more meat eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins.”

Final Trivia Recap: Lake Tahoe and Saskatchewan The final questions of the episode cover Lake Tahoe as North America's largest alpine lake and Saskatchewan's branding as the "Land of the Living Skies," emphasizing its importance as a breeding ground for waterfowl. Randall Brody consistently demonstrates strong trivia knowledge, while the other contestants show growth and determination.

Notable Trivia Explanation:

• Spencer [48:53]: “Lake Tahoe has lake trout, brown trout, rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, kokanee salmon, and a variety of warm water species.”
• Spencer [52:28]: “Tourism Saskatchewan says the Land of the Living Skies. Monikers because of their northern lights, beautiful sunsets and migrating. Some estimates say half of the continent's waterfowl migrate to or through the province.”

Conclusion: Building Anticipation for Episode Two The episode concludes with Spencer highlighting Athletic Brewing’s contribution, updates on the scoreboard, and thanks the listeners for their participation. He humorously acknowledges the extended runtime and assures that future episodes will be more concise, while also setting the stage for continued competition and engagement in the trivia championship.

Notable Closing Interaction:

• Nate [55:52]: “I'll be Silent Bob at that whole game.”
• Spencer [54:35]: “This episode went long. I think we burned up all of our banter, so I bet next episode will go quicker.”

Noteworthy Quotes with Timestamps:

• Spencer Newarth [02:12]: “This year's championship is unlike any we've done before. There are no playing games. Instead, we have the six players here who average the most points per game in 2024.”
• Nate [03:36]: “You can’t say over and out.”
• Spencer Newarth [20:25]: “The hierarchy is life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.”
• Seth [22:17]: “It’s expensive.”
• Spencer Newarth [31:15]: “Joe Exotic followed fall under that.”

Key Takeaways:

• The MeatEater Trivia Championship offers a unique blend of competitive trivia and light-hearted banter, fostering a sense of community among outdoor enthusiasts.
• Sponsorship from Athletic Brewing not only enhances the competition's stakes but also supports conservation efforts, aligning with The MeatEater Podcast’s mission.
• The episode balances informative trivia segments with entertaining personal interactions, making it engaging for both regular listeners and newcomers.

Listeners can anticipate more episodes where the competition intensifies, the donations grow, and the camaraderie among contestants deepens, all while promoting conservation and appreciation for the natural world.

Transcript

[Stephen Rinella]

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 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, you can buy this wherever audiobooks are sold. Meat Eaters American History the Mountain Men, 1806-1840 by Stephen Rinella.

[Nate]

Foreign.

[Spencer Newarth]

Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia. This is the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newarth, and today we're joined by Steve Giannis, Cal, Randall Brody and Seth. This is episode one of the 2024 Meat Eater Trivia Championship. This. This year's championship is unlike any we've done before. There are no playing games. Instead, we have the six players here who average the most points per game in 2024. This championship will span three episodes. Whoever has the most points after 30 questions will be declared the 2024 Meat Eater Trivia champion.

[Steve Giannis]

So it's not clear how close was number seven. Number seven beaten out.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, so we. Seth made the cut. He was the sixth person in the room. And then we had Nate, Corey and Hansi.

[Nate]

So Seth's not just down here hanging out?

[Spencer Newarth]

No, he's. He's in the top six. I've earned him.

[Steve Giannis]

Yeah, Congratulations, Seth.

[Spencer Newarth]

We talked about it before the mic. Seth could either be the small fish in the big pond, which is this, or he could be the big fish in the small pond, which is the Jabroni's pool. So he said he likes this. Why is that? Seth, why do you like being a small fish in the big pond? Cuz I have room to grow. That's right. He's got room to.

[Nate]

Well, Picture how old are you? 33.

[Cal]

Picture.

[Nate]

When he's my age, he'll like be a trivia dominator because he's got all years absorbed more shit.

[Spencer Newarth]

Uh huh. He does. I don't know if we have 20 years of this show to go, but.

[Nate]

Theoretically, sure.

[Steve Giannis]

Who did Seth beat out?

[Spencer Newarth]

He beat out Nate who was seventh, Corey who was eighth, and Hanzi who was ninth. So Seth just made the cut. The episodes matter then for the rest of the year. So keep that in mind when we're playing trivia and you want to make the cut for the championship.

[Randall Brody]

He's got, he's written his name boldly.

[Steve Giannis]

That's what Spencer likes.

[Spencer Newarth]

Uhhuh. What's your problem with Nate?

[Nate]

So you know how he like cracked me about that? You can't say over. I don't know if you heard like you can't say over and out. Are you aware of this?

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Nate]

You know, everybody says over and out.

[Spencer Newarth]

Some people have emailed me about this to the trivia inbox as well.

[Nate]

You can't say over and out. Okay, he told me about that.

[Spencer Newarth]

Uhhuh.

[Steve Giannis]

Are you going to explain why? Oh, I don't know.

[Nate]

If you're like, I think you need.

[Cal]

To define though too. Like there's a gajillion little kids running around with walkie talkies being like, oh, it's people.

[Nate]

It's people that watched all those 70s movies about truckers that say over now. So on radio etiquette, when I say over, I'm saying I'm done talking. Go ahead. Right out is I'm gone. Leaving the conversation. So over now as you're saying, I'm done talking. Go ahead. I'm gone. It's not a thing. You can't say over and out.

[Cal]

As in if they were to say something.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Steve Giannis]

How would you communicate that? I am done talking and I am leaving the conversation out.

[Nate]

It's not over to you. I mean like if, let's say you're a weather guy and I'm a news. We're a news show and you're the weather guy and I go over to you. Yanni, I wouldn't. Then cut your camera off.

[Steve Giannis]

All right?

[Spencer Newarth]

Now throw it back to me. Steve, what do you mean say you do. Do the thing?

[Nate]

Be like, oh, what our problem is?

[Spencer Newarth]

No, just be like over. Well, you can tell the problem. Yeah, go ahead.

[Nate]

Well, then he also pointed out that a compliment sandwich is not named properly.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Nate]

Because the compliment is sitting between insults. And a ham sandwich. Where does the ham sit?

[Steve Giannis]

Between the bread the bread?

[Nate]

Yeah, it's an insult sandwich.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, okay.

[Nate]

And he was texting me the other.

[Spencer Newarth]

Day, and he was saying, third correction.

[Nate]

Well, no, just like, a little problem I have with him. He was texting me the other day, and he said something like Roger. He said, like, roger, comma, we'll see you then.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Nate]

He did that two weeks ago, and I made a joke, don't call me Roger, to which he didn't reply.

[Spencer Newarth]

It's really cool.

[Seth]

He's never seen an airplane.

[Nate]

So he did it again. He said. He said something like, raj, sounds good. I texted him again, thinking he missed my joke the first time, and I said, don't call me Rog person. He comes up to me and says, I see that you're doing a thing about this Roger thing. I'm not replying to it. I just don't think it's funny.

[Spencer Newarth]

That's why Nate's not here today.

[Nate]

I wish she was here, and I would beat him.

[Steve Giannis]

I like Nate. Nate really knows the way to Steve's heart.

[Nate]

He does?

[Steve Giannis]

Yeah. I feel like.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Steve Giannis]

You really appreciate people that come at you like Nate does.

[Nate]

Yeah. He introduced himself by correcting me about something.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Nate]

At the free table. I was at the free table.

[Spencer Newarth]

Were you giving or taking?

[Nate]

He just comes by and goes, you know. No, he just told me something I did that was wrong.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. Again, my goodness, it's quite the relationship you two have built.

[Nate]

And one last quick thing. There's a little tension. I didn't know this either. Did you know this is like a Marine Corps army thing with him and Chili?

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Nate]

I think they legit don't like each other.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Huh. Wow.

[Cal]

Well, I. I think Nate's an officer, right? Yeah.

[Nate]

That's a lot of tension.

[Cal]

Yeah.

[Randall Brody]

And he's like, clean cut. And Chili's kind of got the bad boy aesthetic going right now. They're a natural foil.

[Nate]

There's a real swing and dick. There's a real swinging dick thing is.

[Steve Giannis]

The tension, you know, come out.

[Spencer Newarth]

And I think Steve's made the tension.

[Cal]

Yeah, I was gonna say, I bet we can make it.

[Spencer Newarth]

This is wishful.

[Steve Giannis]

I wonder if Alex has gotten involved.

[Spencer Newarth]

Because he's Marine Corps.

[Nate]

I'll have to ask.

[Spencer Newarth]

All right, now you throw it back to me. Steve say, oh, over to you. There we go.

[Steve Giannis]

All right.

[Spencer Newarth]

The entire championship is sponsored by Athletic Brewing, who have met, who will be matching meat eaters donation and sponsoring three Moneyball questions.

[Nate]

Throw to me the win.

[Spencer Newarth]

What do you got? Okay, I'm gonna throw it to Steve real Quick, over to Steve. Perfect. All right, now you bring it back to me.

[Nate]

Well, I gotta say something.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Nate]

I like their chada nada.

[Spencer Newarth]

Uhhuh.

[Nate]

It's like a michelada chilada, whatever.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate]

With no alcohol in it. That's my drink, dude.

[Spencer Newarth]

Big fan then.

[Nate]

I don't have one in my hand right now, but that's my drink.

[Spencer Newarth]

All right, over. Back to me. The winner will get to choose where the $3,000 donation goes. The biggest in meat eater trivia history and. And combined with the Moneyball questions, this year's championship has a donation potential of $4,500. Give it up for Athletic Brewing for their continued support of meat eater trivia and conservation. Yeah, $3,000 donation with potential for 1500 more.

[Steve Giannis]

Are you gonna give the winner a T shirt or anything?

[Spencer Newarth]

Well, you get your name on the plaque that we have outside of the studio here in our green room. Got Brody's name on it. It's got Steve's name on it.

[Steve Giannis]

No one looks at that plaque.

[Spencer Newarth]

We're gonna add a third name.

[Nate]

They really don't.

[Cal]

You know what we should do? You know how, like in Memorial Gardens and stuff like that around towns, you can like sponsor a bench and then put names on it?

[Spencer Newarth]

That's.

[Cal]

That's what we should do.

[Spencer Newarth]

A billboard maybe? Let's go bigger than that. A whole billboard.

[Nate]

Oh, we have that one billboard. We take it over for a while.

[Spencer Newarth]

That's right. Alright, for the stat of the week this week we're looking at last year's performance in the meat eater trivia tournament. Steve won, getting 16 of 20 questions correct. Brody finished in second with 15 points, Randall in third with 13 points, Giannis in fourth with 11 points, and Seth in fifth with 10 points. That was what we're going off. Last year, Steve got eight correct in each episode.

[Nate]

That was great.

[Seth]

Going with the proper name today, huh?

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, wow.

[Nate]

Gonna do a proper game.

[Spencer Newarth]

All right, for today's ifaq, I want to address a obvious ifaq. Someone asked what's the weirdest question I've ever gotten? To which I explained how strange it is that about 50 people have sent me faxes. Well, a dozen of you wrote in with the same explanation for why that might be. Apparently the Amish and Mennonite communities use a service that converts a fax to an email. This is referred to as ifax, and it bridges the gap between those without Internet and those with Internet. Typically, it's used to conduct business or in this case, send emails to a podcast. And that brings me to My next question, which is how are these folks listening to the podcast without Internet? Well, there's a sneaky phone service out of Johnstown, Pennsylvania called the Podcast Reader. Here's what it sounds like when you call that hotline. When you call that hotline. Play the clip, Phil.

[Brent Reed]

Welcome to the Podcast Reader. ABC News Press 1. Fox News 2. NPR 3. SRN 4. Ohio AG Report 5. Replay Recording 6. Conference Line 7. AG Commodities Pricing 9. Plain People in the News 11. The World and Everything in It 12. Ben Shapiro 13. NBC Nightly 14. Apasa Cafe 15. Chasing Giants 20. Osterholm Report 21. ZDoggMD 22. Trim Healthy Mama 30. John Maxwell 52. Lumber Connection 53. Shed Geek 54. J. Scott Outdoors 55. Knock on Our Tree 56. Meat Eater 57. Bear Grease 58.

[Spencer Newarth]

Welcome to this Country Life. I'm your host, Brent Reed. That's what it sounds like if you call that hotline. That's great. And then hit 58 to listen to Bear Grease.

[Nate]

Can I tell you my favorite Clay Newcom Amish story?

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Nate]

Clay used to own magazine, Bear Hunting Magazine. And the magazine did really well with Amish Hunters because it was a print magazine. So he had a. He had an Amish dude that did his distribution in his community. And one day Clay's trying to meet him to hand him a the stack of magazines, and they're trying to coordinate a meet up along the highway. So he's meeting this Amish guy, and the Amish guy's got a driver that's driving him. And the guy's got a cell phone, though. And Clay's like, okay, we're gonna meet at whatever exit. And the guys goes, clay, I'll meet.

[Stephen Rinella]

You at the Edol Superstore.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, man, they didn't have that content available.

[Nate]

Clay said, let's just meet across the road from there at the gas station.

[Cal]

Spencer, can I tell you my favorite facsimile story?

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Cal]

So this is years ago when I'm doing all things First Light, and we were in heavy in dealer sales. And when you're heavy in dealer sales and you're opening up new dealers, you get calls to establish credit all the time.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Cal]

Well, one of our retailers had used First Light as their credit reference to open up terms with a competing hunting clothing manufacturer. A big one.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. And I'm not totally falling. Explain this again.

[Cal]

So you're a hunting dealer, right? Like, the way a lot of these things work is you don't pay for the clothing. As soon as it comes in, you get net terms okay. So you get 30 days upon receipt of the goods to pay. And ideally, in the retailer's world, you've sold enough of those goods to pay for that wholesale markup or a good portion of it in that time.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yep.

[Cal]

Now, the bigger you are, the more terms, the more favorable terms that you can demand. You know, like 90 day, 120 day. But you got to start somewhere. And you do these, like credit checks. Right. So one of our dealers had used First Light as their reference.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh.

[Cal]

So a very large hunting clothing manufacturer, their credit department or accounting department called me and they, in order to establish who we were, they said, yeah, do you know this dealer? Like, yep, we work with them. Okay. How much are they buying from you? You know, and that's just like something that you don't reveal when you're competing businesses.

[Spencer Newarth]

Right, okay.

[Cal]

And I was like, I can't tell you that. But, you know, guy's a good guy. And they're like, well, that doesn't cut it. And they kept pressing and pressing and pressing. And then she became very demeaning. It was like, well, you guys must be so small and you don't know how business works. And.

[Spencer Newarth]

Very charming.

[Cal]

And I was laughing to myself, but being polite. And eventually, after saying how we didn't know how things work and we were so small and all the things she said, now what's your fax number? And I just thought it was so fricking funny. And I'm like, well, we do a lot through digital these days. This is just something us tiny folks do.

[Spencer Newarth]

Did you have a fax machine on hand then?

[Cal]

We had kind of the same deal. Like you had a number that would convert the fax into an email?

[Spencer Newarth]

Yep, yep. So besides the Ben Shapiro show, the Trim Healthy Mama podcast, and lumber connections, the Amish have access to meat eater and bear grease. Shout out to the folks who are listening to this exact. This exact episode via a hotline. I'm glad you're here. And keep faxing in those questions. All right, last thing before today, I want to hear some predictions on who is going to be the 2024 champion. Brody, what do you think?

[Seth]

No, I don't make those kind of predictions. That's, you know.

[Spencer Newarth]

You got nothing.

[Seth]

No, I just want to know what Steve's drawing.

[Spencer Newarth]

Steve, what are you drawing and who do you think is going to win?

[Nate]

Well, I made my name end in a fire breathing dragon, but I ran out of space, so he's kind of puking.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, I like that a lot. I think that the defending champion Like.

[Nate]

I'd like to win, but if I had to guess, I would guess that. Randall.

[Spencer Newarth]

Wow. Now, you didn't play a lot in 2024. You think that's going to benefit you or hurt you?

[Nate]

No, hurt. Hurt.

[Spencer Newarth]

Hurt you.

[Nate]

Just a little rusty.

[Spencer Newarth]

Cal, who do you think is going to win this year?

[Cal]

I'm going to go with Brody.

[Spencer Newarth]

Wow. All right. Going back to the OG Champion, did.

[Steve Giannis]

He play enough, though, to have. Have like a minimum amount of games to qualify for this?

[Seth]

He's the last year's champion. It gets an auto.

[Cal]

That's right.

[Spencer Newarth]

That's how it works. The Masters.

[Nate]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. There's something like that in golf.

[Spencer Newarth]

You get an auto bid for eternity. Randall, who's going to win this year?

[Randall Brody]

I said myself last year and I didn't, so I'm gonna say Steve.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, wow. Okay. Yanni, who's gonna win?

[Steve Giannis]

I'm going. Seth.

[Nate]

Well, yeah, right.

[Spencer Newarth]

Seth, what do you got for us? Okay, we don't even go with Seth, too. Yeah. All right, we got three vot notes for Seth. One final note about the tournament. I've had all these questions fact checked by our very own Dr. Jordan Sillers, so I'm confident in their accuracy and that Steve won't have any complaints. That's right. He's our. Our second doctor in the office.

[Nate]

I don't know if you heard, but it's not quite public yet.

[Spencer Newarth]

What? You're a doctor. Okay.

[Seth]

Stolen valor.

[Cal]

Honorary stolen.

[Spencer Newarth]

All right, the Shelby index for today is a four. So our winner should get eight correct answers. And with that, we're on to round one of the championship. Play the draft, Phil. Oh, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that?

[Nate]

You stand to win everything. Game on, suckers.

[Spencer Newarth]

Round one, question one. The topic is biology. This first great question is via Mitchell Prusa. And this will be multiple choice. What do you got, Steve?

[Nate]

I always like to be able to look up there. Be awkward if I'm staring at you the whole game.

[Spencer Newarth]

Shouldn't have sat you there, I guess. All right, what comes between class and family in taxonomic ranking, Is it order, genus, kingdom, or phylum? Topic is biology. What comes between class and family in taxonomic ranking, is it order, genus, kingdom, or phylum?

[Cal]

All right, everybody ready?

[Spencer Newarth]

Think the batch of questions we have are on the harder side. There'll definitely be some hundred percenters. There might be some zero percenters.

[Nate]

Hold. Stop the game.

[Spencer Newarth]

What's the matter?

[Nate]

My marker broke.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay, we've got a Backup marker available for you there. We're not going to derail the whole thing. What comes between class and family and taxonomic ranking, order, genus, kingdom or phylum.

[Seth]

Been a long time since high school.

[Cal]

Biology, I was going to say. But, you know, the advantage of high school is you. You don't think about anything else. Your brain's so much clearer.

[Nate]

I need to tell my high schooler.

[Cal]

So much in the world. It's like girls and nothing else.

[Spencer Newarth]

And taxonomic rankings, you know, my high.

[Nate]

Schooler one day last, like, one day says, you know, I'm gonna start doing good at school. And, like, instantly started doing good at school. What was going on? Yeah, like, what was going on before he just made that decision.

[Spencer Newarth]

Right. It wasn't like.

[Nate]

It was like, instant also. It's like all A's and B's.

[Spencer Newarth]

Just one.

[Nate]

He's like, you know, what are we.

[Seth]

Thinking about other stuff.

[Steve Giannis]

Yeah, exactly.

[Nate]

Is everybody ready to decide that he was gonna do good?

[Spencer Newarth]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying genus. Giannis says genus. Randall says order. Cal, order. Steve, order. Brody, order. The correct answer is order. Four of our six. You know what? Steve got that one.

[Seth]

If you look at this the other way, it actually looks like a gobbler. Like, there says, so how's it go?

[Cal]

Oh, yeah, I think it's a dragon with acid reflux. That's just how dragons work.

[Spencer Newarth]

The hierarchy is life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. Some examples of order are primates for humans, carnivora for coyotes, and galliforms for pheasants.

[Nate]

You know how I knew that?

[Spencer Newarth]

How'd you know that?

[Nate]

They teach this thing King Philip, but I can't remember the rest. So I knew it went kingdom, phylum. And then I knew what. I mean, I knew what some of that stuff was. And.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, and he got it right. Question two. The topic is cooking. What does MP stand for when listed as the cost of seafood or meat on a menu? What does MP stand for when listed as the seafood or meat?

[Randall Brody]

Two options for you there.

[Spencer Newarth]

There's a brown and a green menu. Our players all look confident. This may be a 100%.

[Randall Brody]

If you'd like to stick with red, I've got another red.

[Spencer Newarth]

Making pasta. Oh, that's what MP stands for. Exactly.

[Nate]

So, Seth, Cryo.

[Steve Giannis]

No, I put military and police.

[Spencer Newarth]

What does MP stand for when? Remember, cost of seafood or meat on a menu. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth and Giannis and Randall and Cal and Steve and Brody. Saying market price. They got it. The correct answer is market price.

[Seth]

Would you accept it?

[Spencer Newarth]

Expensive.

[Seth]

Expensive.

[Spencer Newarth]

No. Market price implies that the listed item is subject to market fluctuations, with the cost changing on a daily basis. It's most commonly used with lobster, crab, oysters, salmon, tuna, and mushrooms. Besides accounting for price, the MP designation is meant to make it seem like the menu item is exclusive and seasonal.

[Seth]

The other day, we ate our last chunk, king salmon, and my. My boy looked up the price of a pound of king salmon. He's like, man, we made money on that fish.

[Spencer Newarth]

It's a good way to get rich.

[Nate]

You don't. You don't have to take it to do it because, you know, like, menus are so full of it when it comes to fish descriptions. I just. Now I'm like, can you explain that to me? You know, when you say that, it's.

[Phil]

Whatever, yeah, servers must love you.

[Spencer Newarth]

Do you get a satisfying answer every time?

[Cal]

Never.

[Spencer Newarth]

Never.

[Nate]

We have, you know, New Zealand or, like, Hawaiian. You know, I'll text a friend, like, are there blank in Hawaii? No.

[Stephen Rinella]

Are you sure that's what that is?

[Nate]

Well, let me. I'm not sure.

[Randall Brody]

Let me ask the chef.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question 3. The topic is hunting. These two words that are used to describe moon phases imply that the illuminated part is growing or shrinking.

[Seth]

You need both.

[Spencer Newarth]

Both words. These two words that are used to describe moon phases imply that the illuminated part is growing or shrinking. Some optimistic players again, except for maybe Steve.

[Nate]

Well, give me a minute, okay? I know.

[Spencer Newarth]

Give him a minute. This is question three. The topic is hunting. These two words that are used to describe moon phases imply that the illuminated part is growing or shrinking. Seth, do you have this one right?

[Steve Giannis]

I think so.

[Spencer Newarth]

Steve, do you have this one right?

[Nate]

Yeah, buddy.

[Spencer Newarth]

Is everybody ready?

[Steve Giannis]

Oh, yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying waxing and waning. Giannis and Randall and Cal and Steven Brody with the same answer. The correct answer is waning and waxing. A waning moon is one that is growing, while a waxing moon is one that is shrinking. You can tell if a moon is waning or waxing by looking at what side is illuminated.

[Nate]

No, no, no, no, no, no.

[Spencer Newarth]

What do you got?

[Nate]

Waning. Isn't that shrinking?

[Seth]

Yes.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, I'm sorry. I had it backwards. Good catch, Steve. I didn't have Dr. Jordan Sillers fact check my flavor text.

[Seth]

Which one's better for killing whitetail giannis?

[Steve Giannis]

I don't know.

[Spencer Newarth]

You can tell. You can tell if a moon is waning or waxing by looking at what Side is illuminated in the northern hemisphere. If the right side is illuminated, then the moon is waning or growing. And if the left side is illuminated.

[Nate]

Stop saying that.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, you're right. I wrote this whole thing wrong.

[Seth]

We get it.

[Nate]

It's like Japanese script. You read Japanese script backward. That's how the.

[Cal]

Unless you're Japanese.

[Nate]

If the first thing they teach in school. Listen, kids, we do it backwards.

[Spencer Newarth]

I don't trust any of my flavor text for this. And so I'm just going to tell you to go read the Wired article on the media.com called New Research confirms the moon doesn't affect deer movement. Question 4. The topic is fishing, but Mark believes that it does.

[Steve Giannis]

Now I've been in touch with him recently about it because we're getting ready to have Dr. Bronson Strickland on. And he described himself as moon curious.

[Spencer Newarth]

Future meat eater Episode Question 4. The topic is fishing. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Charlie Cuber presenting this great question. Charlie is going to get a board game signed by the crew. If you want a chance to win the listener question of the week, then send your question to Trivia at the meat eater.com Merriam Webster defines this 11 letter word as an expanse of water with many scattered islands. Merriam Webster defines this 11 letter word as an expanse of water with many scattered islands. This is question four. Randall, you have this one, right?

[Randall Brody]

I do. I hope so.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. Steve looks confident.

[Randall Brody]

Been reading a lot about the war in the Pacific, so.

[Nate]

Shut up.

[Randall Brody]

Islands.

[Seth]

Yeah, that's, that's, that's not a.

[Randall Brody]

That's not a stretch.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Nate]

I don't like any kind of that.

[Stephen Rinella]

Chit, chatty clue given.

[Spencer Newarth]

Brody, do you have this one?

[Randall Brody]

We've all got a lot more comfortable with that in your absence.

[Nate]

I got a tidbit for you when you're ready.

[Spencer Newarth]

I'm ready.

[Nate]

What do you call them?

[Spencer Newarth]

Flavor text? Yeah, go for it.

[Nate]

Well, I'm not gonna give it now.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, it's about this question you're saying. Okay, Yanni, you have this one, right?

[Steve Giannis]

I came up with an 11 letter word, but I'm not sure about my spelling.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Seth]

There ain't too many 11 letter words. I bet.

[Spencer Newarth]

11 letter word defined as an expanse of water with many scattered islands. Cal and Seth do not have an answer quite yet.

[Seth]

Come on, Seth. I bet on you.

[Spencer Newarth]

I know as soon as I hear.

[Steve Giannis]

It I'm gonna be pissed, but keep thinking, just keep thinking, you know, back to the moon thing and bring it around to Clay. Clay and I Had a long conversation the other day about scent control.

[Nate]

Does he believe in the moon?

[Steve Giannis]

Nope, doesn't believe in the moon for deer. Yeah, but he grew up with an ardent. His father was ardently into scent control, like, to the point where it drove. He thinks it drove his two brothers away from deer hunting.

[Nate]

Like eating apples up in the tree and stuff like that.

[Spencer Newarth]

I don't know about.

[Steve Giannis]

No, I think more about the clothing and doing all that. But now Clay thinks that it's just like, you just believe it to believe it. Right. Like it's a bunch of Huey.

[Nate]

I mean, like the wind is scent control and that's it.

[Steve Giannis]

Yeah, but then I see on Instagram yesterday, the Clay can walk around with two. Two coat hangers and find water.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, but is real.

[Phil]

It's.

[Spencer Newarth]

He's not at science, dude.

[Nate]

I've spent more time with him on those wires. It's not real.

[Steve Giannis]

I know.

[Nate]

I've done it with them.

[Steve Giannis]

It's just people are so interesting that.

[Nate]

You can so clearly say that in any kind of, like, controlled circumstance, they can't do better than Rand them.

[Seth]

Yep.

[Nate]

Yeah, but I've done it, dude. And it messes with your head.

[Seth]

We wrote about it in the kids book Crayfish.

[Nate]

I've gone out with them with the wires. It messes with your head.

[Phil]

Is it supposed to be like a divining rod or what?

[Nate]

Yeah, he doesn't like to call it a witching rod because it's like. Makes it seem a little.

[Spencer Newarth]

Cal, do you have an answer?

[Cal]

I can't think.

[Spencer Newarth]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth and Cal without an answer. Then we have Giannis, Randall, Steve and Brody saying archipelago.

[Steve Giannis]

I wouldn't have gotten that.

[Seth]

How you pronounce it.

[Spencer Newarth]

Archipelago. Some examples of archipelagos are the Florida Keys, Hawaii and the Virgin Islands. Most archipelago archipelagos are formed by volcanoes, glaciers, or erosion. These island chains are often rich with life that's unique to what's found on the mainland.

[Randall Brody]

And the Aleutians.

[Nate]

Yeah, that's what my tiny about.

[Cal]

I named all of those.

[Spencer Newarth]

What do you got, Steve?

[Seth]

The Ring of fire.

[Nate]

In John McPhee's Pulitzer Prize winning Annals of the Former World, he explains that in 80 million years, Japan will have accreted the Aleutian archipelago and docked it up against Alaska. Not wild.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question 5. Excited to see that the topic is conservation.

[Nate]

Cal wants to be there when it hits.

[Randall Brody]

That's gonna be all over Instagram.

[Spencer Newarth]

The greater Wynwood Exotic Animal park, which was the focus of the Tiger King documentary, was located in this State.

[Steve Giannis]

Oh, buddy, I don't know.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question 5. The topic is conservation. The Greater Wynwood Exotic Animal park, which was the focus of the Tiger King documentary, was located in this state.

[Seth]

This is one of those questions that really wanders outside the boundaries.

[Spencer Newarth]

I'll tell you in the flavor text why it's so relevant.

[Seth]

I don't really care.

[Spencer Newarth]

The Greater Wynwood Exotic Animal park, which was the focus of the Tiger King documentary, was located in this state. Who hasn't seen Tiger King in here? Steve. Okay, Steve, Brody and Cal have not seen.

[Phil]

I recorded a podcast with Seth about Tiger King.

[Spencer Newarth]

I know.

[Seth]

That's it. Oh, be honest.

[Steve Giannis]

You've seen it, but I still don't remember.

[Spencer Newarth]

Need to tell me what state that Greater Wynwood Exotic Animal park was located in?

[Cal]

There's several states that allow for this type of stuff to happen.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. You got to narrow down to a few.

[Cal]

Yeah.

[Steve Giannis]

What's amazing is that that gal, Carol Baskin. Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, Cal knows her, but he hasn't seen the show.

[Nate]

Well, she's real involved.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Steve Giannis]

Yeah. Anti jackass or anti hunting?

[Spencer Newarth]

Is everybody ready? Cal, you ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying Oklahoma. Giannis says Florida. Randall says Oklahoma. Cal. Oklahoma. Steve. Texas. Brody, Texas. The correct answer is Oklahoma. Cal, Randall and Seth got that one right.

[Nate]

Who else? Who?

[Stephen Rinella]

Who is everybody here?

[Nate]

Got it. Perfect.

[Spencer Newarth]

We'll find out here after this. This is question five. Joe Exotic owned the zoo for 17 years. It was purchased by Jeff Lowe in 2016. Then a court ordered that it to Carol Baskin in 2020. She has since sold the property. Joe Exotic is currently serving a 21 year sentence for one count of murder for hire, eight counts of Lacy act violations, and nine counts of endangered Species act violations.

[Randall Brody]

So he didn't get his pardon.

[Spencer Newarth]

He has not gotten his pardon yet, but he sure works on Trump for that. He leans on pretty hard, dude.

[Nate]

I think the. I think that the presidential pardon was such a mistake and it's a national disgrace. Now I'm talking everyone. Everyone. I rarely does someone get pardoned. I'm like, oh, cool.

[Spencer Newarth]

Joe Exotic follow fall under that.

[Nate]

If they could get a.

[Cal]

Like, that was the country music star that Reagan.

[Nate]

I would love to have the presidential pardon go away. It is just a national embarrassment.

[Cal]

Reagan pardoned a country music star, like, basically based off of fandom and the lyrics. But his like the type of person that that was was like a walking serial killer. Yeah. And it was like, well, people seem to love the music.

[Spencer Newarth]

So. Brody, Joe Exotic had 17 violations.

[Seth]

I got you. I just didn't like it because I don't know it.

[Spencer Newarth]

Phil, we're halfway through round one. Give us a scoreboard update.

[Phil]

Here's where it stands, gents. We've got Seth and Giannis tied up with three points. Cal, Steven, Brody all have four points a piece, and Randall Williams is in first place with a perfect game and five points.

[Randall Brody]

This weighs heavily on me.

[Nate]

I'd probably be doing better too if I just sat around watching TV all day.

[Cal]

It was on Coke, Gaines and Rhinestones podcast.

[Spencer Newarth]

I'll.

[Phil]

I'll look it up after the game. Sorry, I'm a little busy.

[Spencer Newarth]

Are you.

[Randall Brody]

Are you dialing into the podcast hotline?

[Spencer Newarth]

California?

[Cal]

Oh, yeah, man, if you guys haven't listened to Cocaine and Rhinestones, I mean, it is a fantastic.

[Spencer Newarth]

I didn't hear that. I mean, on the Amish.

[Seth]

That's the title.

[Nate]

Yeah, it's great.

[Cal]

It's David Allen Coe's kid.

[Seth]

Oh.

[Stephen Rinella]

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 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, you can buy this wherever audiobooks are sold. Meat Eaters American History The Mountain Men, 1806-1840, by Stephen Rinella.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question 6. The topic is natural history. Daniel Freeman was the first to take advantage of this law, which was signed by Abe Lincoln to give public land to private citizens. Brody and Randall already have their answer for question six. Daniel Freeman was the first to take advantage of this law, which was signed by Abe Lincoln to give public land to private citizens. Steve, with a loud answer over there. Now you're giving a hint to your competitors about how much writing you're doing there.

[Phil]

Says reagan pardoned merle haggard.

[Spencer Newarth]

There you go.

[Cal]

It wasn't Merle. Maybe I had that screwed up with somebody else.

[Nate]

That's the only time I've ever been like, oh, good.

[Cal]

Please don't think that I was talking about merle haggard.

[Spencer Newarth]

Folks.

[Nate]

I want to go on the record. That's the one time I've been like, oh, that's a good idea.

[Spencer Newarth]

Daniel freeman was the first to take advantage of this law, which was signed by abe lincoln, to give public land to private citizens.

[Stephen Rinella]

I mean, what kind of weird authority.

[Nate]

Oh, sorry. Not. Not this.

[Spencer Newarth]

Uhhuh.

[Stephen Rinella]

If it went to the supreme court.

[Nate]

If each case in the vote and you had to get a majority vote from the supreme court after being nominated by the president, I could get on board. But, like, just give someone unilateral, like, on the way out the door.

[Spencer Newarth]

Sure.

[Nate]

Unilaterally. Oh, sure. Let him go.

[Spencer Newarth]

Or on the way in the door.

[Nate]

Yeah, on the way in the door. It's especially the national embarrassing.

[Steve Giannis]

The preemptive part. Door.

[Seth]

You're going to walk.

[Nate]

Oh, yeah. And it'd be like, oh, I don't know. Maybe he did something wrong. If he did, he's pardoned.

[Randall Brody]

It's kind of like. It's kind of like the super bowl halftime show of presidential administrations. Just like this weird novelty that, you know, is going to pop up. I wonder who's going to get it this year.

[Spencer Newarth]

Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth and giannis and Randall and cal and Steve and Brody saying the homestead act. They got it. The correct answer.

[Nate]

But this is.

[Cal]

This isn't the homestead act that everybody thinks about, though.

[Spencer Newarth]

What's. What's your problem? Steve?

[Nate]

He wrote homestead.

[Seth]

So did you look at yours?

[Nate]

No, no, he didn't write. I was just saving time. He didn't write.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yep. The homestead act was created in 1862. It allowed any citizen who had never taken up arms against the u. S. Government to claim 160 acres of public property. In return, that person had to live on the property, build a home, and farm the land for five years. About 270 million acres, or 10% of the United states, was claimed under the homestead act.

[Seth]

Was it a per person or per family thing?

[Spencer Newarth]

I think you had to be over 21 years old, so that probably cut.

[Cal]

Off from, you know, everybody had a family at 21.

[Randall Brody]

We got a new one. We got a new one just introduced in the Montana legislature.

[Cal]

Yeah.

[Randall Brody]

Which is selling off state parcels under 100 acres?

[Cal]

Yeah. Only available to folks who've been in the state for 10 years.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh.

[Cal]

Yep. And the maximum acreage is 5, so kind of a funny one.

[Spencer Newarth]

You cheering for that one?

[Cal]

No question.

[Nate]

Sounds like a lot of pheasant hunting spots going.

[Cal]

Yeah, exactly.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question seven on the topic is conservation. This is the Athletic Brewing Moneyball question of the week. For every correct answer provided, Athletic Brewing is going to make a 100 donation. That's capped at 500 this week. Athletic Brewing is giving to the National Wild Turkey Federation. Here is your Moneyball question. What federal agency directly manages national grasslands? This is question seven. The topic is conservation. What federal agency directly manages national grasslands? This is our Moneyball question. So for every correct answer capped at five correct answers, we're making a $500 donation to athletic Brewing. Excuse me. Via Athletic Brewing to nwtf.

[Randall Brody]

I wish I had some Athletic Brewing to celebrate this Moneyball question, but it's just so darn good. I drank it already.

[Spencer Newarth]

We can get you another one after this.

[Randall Brody]

Perfect.

[Spencer Newarth]

Do you have this one right, Randall?

[Randall Brody]

I do.

[Spencer Newarth]

With confidence?

[Randall Brody]

Yes.

[Spencer Newarth]

I think you look like you're the only one who is very confident about this one. What federal agency directly manages national grasslands? Our other five players are leaking confidence.

[Nate]

I got two down.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay, three. Wow.

[Nate]

I need to scratch one off.

[Spencer Newarth]

You boys ready?

[Steve Giannis]

Sure.

[Spencer Newarth]

Steve, I think we're waiting on you. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying the National Park Service. Giannis says the National Park Service. Randall says the U. S. Forest Service. Cal says the U. S. Forest Service and the usda.

[Nate]

He says U. S. Fish and Wildlife. No, sorry.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. He says the usda, he erased the line through it.

[Cal]

Well, that wasn't intentional. Sorry. I'm not trying to screw with anybody. I said usda.

[Spencer Newarth]

We have Steve saying the National Park Service. He crossed out blm. We have Brody saying the National Forest Service. He crossed out USDA and Department of the Interior. The correct answer is the US Forest Service. I think we had, what, three of our players.

[Phil]

I think only Randall and two of them.

[Spencer Newarth]

So that's a $200 donation from Athletic Brewing going to NWTF.

[Cal]

Sorry.

[Steve Giannis]

Turkey Federation.

[Spencer Newarth]

The Forest Service manages 20 national grasslands, most of which stretch from North Dakota to Texas. These areas make up 4 million acres, which is bigger than Connecticut. National Grasslands are managed similar to national forests and are often open to hunting, fishing, grazing, and mineral extraction.

[Seth]

You know what's weird about them, though, is you roll through them and you, like, think you can jump out of the car and shoot an antelope, and you can't in a lot of places. It's like people are running ranches and farms on the grasslands.

[Nate]

A lot of times I get them wrong and I didn't really get them wrong.

[Spencer Newarth]

You just got this one.

[Nate]

This one I just got wrong.

[Steve Giannis]

Aren't I feel like national grasslands on onyx are purple. I could be wrong.

[Cal]

I think you're right.

[Steve Giannis]

That's what made me do. National Park Service question National Parks per 8.

[Spencer Newarth]

The topic is cooking. This next great question is via Patrick John Riley. Bon appetit defines this six letter word as quote, a naturally occurring thickener and stabilizer helping jams, jellies and fruit preserves. Set a confident room on this one. They've gotten their swagger back. Bon appetit.

[Cal]

Reminds this six.

[Nate]

There's got that look.

[Spencer Newarth]

Six letter word as a naturally occurring thickener and stabilizer helping jams, jellies and fruit preserves set.

[Randall Brody]

I can picture the word.

[Nate]

Randall can't get it.

[Spencer Newarth]

As Steve has pointed out. Randall has a blank whiteboard.

[Nate]

Randall can't get it.

[Seth]

Are you picturing it backwards like the Japanese?

[Cal]

Yes.

[Steve Giannis]

Sugar.

[Randall Brody]

Randall, I'm starting with the jam or jelly and pulling it apart in my head.

[Spencer Newarth]

This is question eight.

[Nate]

Let's hurry up of round one. Time to play.

[Spencer Newarth]

Cal, do you have this one right?

[Cal]

I think so.

[Spencer Newarth]

Six letter words. Naturally occurring thickener and stabilizer. Let's show them jams, jellies and fruit preserves.

[Nate]

Time's up.

[Spencer Newarth]

Randall, how you doing down there?

[Randall Brody]

I don't know if I'm gonna get it if this keeps up.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Steve Giannis]

Or keeps up.

[Nate]

Let's just wrap her up.

[Seth]

There's gotta be some kind of cutoff.

[Nate]

Yeah, let's go.

[Spencer Newarth]

Wow.

[Nate]

He don't have it. No sense of sitting around waiting.

[Phil]

Now he's writing something.

[Spencer Newarth]

They're getting to it now.

[Nate]

Let's hustle.

[Steve Giannis]

Okay, Randall, let's give him 10 seconds of quiet.

[Stephen Rinella]

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

[Spencer Newarth]

You remember this, Randall, for next time you're sitting on an answer and Steve isn't.

[Randall Brody]

I thought I was very polite and low key about the last question.

[Spencer Newarth]

Bon appetit.

[Nate]

Oh, God.

[Spencer Newarth]

Six letter word as a naturally.

[Nate]

Well, now we're just sitting around for real now. It's like really draggin.

[Spencer Newarth]

Jams, jellies and fruit preserve set.

[Seth]

I'm gonna flip mine over.

[Spencer Newarth]

Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth and Randall without an answer. Giannis, Cal, Steve and Brody say pectin. They got it. The correct answer is pectin.

[Nate]

Why does it make me happier than getting one right?

[Cal]

Ain't no, archipelago, I'll tell you that.

[Spencer Newarth]

Was that answer there somewhere? It was okay, yeah. Naturally in fruits and vegetables. But there are also commercial options. When heated with sugar and acid, pectin forms a mesh that traps liquid, and as it cools, it sets and suspends pieces of fruit. To see pectin in action, watch our wild and whole video on Theme Eater.com called How to make jelly.

[Randall Brody]

However long it took Steve to write that down was as long as I had to think about the question.

[Nate]

I understand because you started heckling.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, that's true.

[Nate]

True.

[Spencer Newarth]

He says. Question 9. The topic is fishing. Located in the Sierra Nevadas, this is North America's largest alpine lake. We're gonna hold off on a scoreboard update until after question 10 in this round.

[Nate]

Oh, I wonder what the answ the answer is.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, do you know the answer?

[Randall Brody]

Yes.

[Spencer Newarth]

The points will roll over into episodes two and three. We're on question nine. Located in the Sierra Nevadas, this is North America's largest alpine lake. Randall is confident. Our other players are not.

[Cal]

Oh, I've got an answer.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay, but are you confident?

[Cal]

Well, yeah. Cause it's the only thing I that's in my brain right now.

[Spencer Newarth]

So this is question.

[Nate]

I know something that lives in it.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question 9 of 30 questions.

[Randall Brody]

I was about to write that down before you finished the question.

[Spencer Newarth]

Wow.

[Nate]

I thought you know the answer.

[Randall Brody]

Yeah, I thought it was a question about animals, though.

[Spencer Newarth]

Do you know the answer, Steve?

[Nate]

I'm gonna write down what's in it.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. But as a reminder, we're looking for the name water. North America's largest alpine lake. Yanni. How we doing?

[Steve Giannis]

I have an answer, but.

[Spencer Newarth]

Randall, would you like to fill this silence with some poking?

[Randall Brody]

I mean, I've spent some time in the Sierra Nevada. Spencer.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Cal]

Panning for gold.

[Randall Brody]

Section of the John Trail through King's Canyon, et cetera, et cetera. There's a fire.

[Phil]

Random playing with fire.

[Cal]

There's a fire.

[Randall Brody]

No, there was a fire.

[Spencer Newarth]

It's a man made, like.

[Randall Brody]

Yeah. How do I do it, Phil? I just go.

[Nate]

It's more of a.

[Spencer Newarth]

Is everybody ready?

[Nate]

Trail it out like this.

[Spencer Newarth]

Located. Located in the Sierra Nevada. And it goes on just a little. North America's largest alpine lake. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have said. That's it. Crater Lake. Giannis says Whitney, Randall and Cal say Tahoe. Steve says golden trap.

[Nate]

That's not even right.

[Spencer Newarth]

Brody says right. The correct answer, double wrong is Lake Tahoe. Brody, Cal.

[Nate]

I've been to that.

[Spencer Newarth]

Randall, get that one right.

[Nate]

That's what? They kill a guy in there in the end of Godfather 3 or 2.

[Seth]

Veto.

[Spencer Newarth]

Sure. Measured by volume, Lake Tahoe is the biggest lake in in America. That's not a great lake. It is 1645ft deep, making it second only to Crater Lake as the deepest lake in the country. Lake Tahoe has lake trout, brown trout, rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, kokanee salmon, and a variety of warm water species.

[Cal]

First time I went to Lake Tahoe. This is just a story specifically to embarrass my little sister. We came in from the south, super windy road, real pretty, and the cop puked all over the backseat.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay, Your sister's the cop.

[Cal]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Cal]

Oh, yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

You gotta go. Now, here's a correct answer review for our listeners at home.

[Nate]

The bed over here.

[Spencer Newarth]

One was order 2. Marketplace. 3. Waning and waxing for archipelago. 5. Oklahoma. 6. The Homestead Act. 7. U.S. forest Service. 8. Pectin. 9. Lake Tahoe. Here's question 10. The topic is hunting. This province calls itself Land of the Living Skies with Ducks Unlimited declaring it, quote, the continent's most important breeding area for dabbling ducks. This province calls itself Land of the Living Skies with Ducks Unlimited declaring it the continent's most important breeding area for dabbling ducks. Seth, quick to answer. Seth, do you have a guess or do you know this one?

[Steve Giannis]

I have a guess.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay, we're going to get a scoreboard update from Phil after this. See how our players are doing after round one of the three round trivia championship. This province calls itself Land of the Living Skies with Ducks Unlimited declaring it the continent's most important breeding area for dabbling ducks. Is everybody ready? No.

[Nate]

My wife's taking tennis lessons and she got yelled at for swearing too much. They talked her about swearing too much lessons.

[Spencer Newarth]

What are some examples of the words that she uses?

[Cal]

You're more of a pickleball player.

[Spencer Newarth]

What are the words that she swears with? Start with.

[Nate]

With. The one that got her was. Was not a terrible one.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Nate]

Yeah, just like a sh. Real loud.

[Spencer Newarth]

Wow.

[Nate]

But she said with most swings.

[Spencer Newarth]

That'Ll do it.

[Steve Giannis]

You know, lately, when people been dropping the frig on me, have you noticed, like, it's become a thing in our society, in our culture? You haven't noticed this?

[Nate]

I mean, it's always been around.

[Randall Brody]

Depends who you're hanging out with.

[Nate]

What the.

[Spencer Newarth]

The real F bomb?

[Steve Giannis]

No, Frigg.

[Nate]

Frig. Like a frigate.

[Seth]

I feel like that's been around for Frick.

[Nate]

Frigg. We tell our kids, you can't do that. It's the same as doing it.

[Steve Giannis]

Okay. Yeah. I feel like it's become more of a thing where, like, people that I know that don't ever use the real F bomb.

[Nate]

Sure.

[Steve Giannis]

Now walk around very loosely saying frig. And I stop them mid conversation now and go, you know what? When you say that, I think you're saying placeholder and not frigg. So please.

[Nate]

Now our kids run around going, gaff. I don't gaff.

[Spencer Newarth]

What the hell does that mean? Give a.

[Nate]

It's like, come on.

[Spencer Newarth]

Good for them. You know what? I applaud that you say the only.

[Cal]

Gaffe in this house is something you grab a halibut with.

[Spencer Newarth]

Does everyone have an answer for the province that calls itself Land of the Living Skies? And it's the continent's most important breeding area for dabbling duck? Go ahead and reveal your answer.

[Nate]

I put a little joke into mine.

[Spencer Newarth]

Brody and Giannis and Randall saying Saskatchewan. Cal says Ontario. Steve says Saskatchewan. What's that say, Cat?

[Nate]

Well, I remember Nugget was filming a show there one time, but I also.

[Spencer Newarth]

Wrote a sketch one and Brody crossed out Saskatchewan and wrote down Manitoba. The correct answer is Saskatchewan. I think we had four of our players.

[Cal]

Pains me so much because Saskatchewan is so badass for waterfowl. I've just never, ever heard anybody say it's the land of the living sky.

[Spencer Newarth]

That's what they call themselves. Tourism Saskatchewan. Tourism Saskatchewan.

[Nate]

Saskatchewan.

[Cal]

A lot of farmers in Saskatchewan.

[Spencer Newarth]

Tourism Saskatchewan says the Land of the Living Skies. Monikers because of their northern lights, beautiful sunsets and migrating. Some estimates say half of the continent's waterfowl migrate to or through the province. What makes Saskatchewan so duck and goose friendly is its shallow water, lakes and grain production. Phil, we just wrapped up round one. Give us a scoreboard update.

[Phil]

Here's where it stands. We have Seth in last place, currently with five points. Coming up next is Giannis Buchelis with six. Tied up with seven points apiece are Ryan Callahan and Steven rinnell. They have seven.

[Cal]

Embarrassing.

[Phil]

Next up is Brody with eight. And in first place, just one point ahead of Brody, Randall Williams has nine points.

[Nate]

Goes to 30.

[Spencer Newarth]

30 questions we have, and then we'll do three tiebreakers. Panic yet if we have a timer, minor panic at the end of those 30.

[Cal]

There's 30 questions in just this game.

[Spencer Newarth]

No, no, no. This is the end of episode one. Oh, we're gonna take a break and then we're gonna come back and record episode two. And as a reminder, the scores will carry over to episodes two and three and thanks to Athletic.

[Nate]

I'm not saying anything. The next game.

[Spencer Newarth]

Thanks to Athletic Room for helping make this the biggest donation in meat Eater trivia history. Thanks $200 to NWTF for that moneyball question.

[Nate]

I'm gonna Silent Bob at that whole game.

[Randall Brody]

I'll believe it when I say, well.

[Spencer Newarth]

This episode went long. I think we burned up all of our banter, so I bet next episode will go quicker. Join us next week Join us next week for more meat eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins.

[Nate]

Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he's the host. Using those smooth, mellow tones, he lays them questions down. And he likes taking those two and three year old bucks. And he's an avid amateur rock hound.

[Stephen Rinella]

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.

[Nate]

So again, you can buy this wherever audiobooks are sold.

[Stephen Rinella]

Meat Eaters American History the Mountain Men, 1806-1840 by Stephen Rinella.