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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're joined by Giannis, Cal, Randall Brody, Maggie, Corey and Nate.
Cal
Thanks for having me, Spencer.
Spencer Newarth
Thanks for coming, Cal. I didn't know if you'd be here or not. I, my guess was two in a row. 89 chance you wouldn't be here. I don't want to say 90. 89 chance you wouldn't be here. So I was surprised.
Cal
I, I, at least I don't, I'm, I'm not one of those people who's like, well, who else is going to be there? I just tell you no.
Randall Brody
Who says that?
Cal
I assume there's people who say that.
Randall Brody
There's always those types of people.
Spencer Newarth
This is a 10 round quiz show with questions from meat eaters. Four verticals which are hunting, fishing, conservation and cooking. And there is a prize. Mini meat eater will donate $500 to the Conservation organization of the winner's choosing for the stat of the week. This week we're looking at the performance of our Meat Eater Kids. So far They've raised over $2,200 for conservation organizations that make the outdoors better for the next generation. Meat eater Kids Season 3 is available right now on the Meat Eater Kids.
Randall Brody
Podcast Feed Is, Is banter a part of this show or not really?
Spencer Newarth
The one we're recording right now.
Randall Brody
Right now, yeah.
Spencer Newarth
What do you, what do you want?
Randall Brody
We were just starting to get into some fun banter there off the top. I had some stuff to add, but then you just cut them off and then to keep going.
Cal
I wanted to ask Maggie if the $2,200 is like something tangible for these kids or is it like a billion gajillion dollars?
Podcast Announcer
Do you think I know about kids?
Cal
Well, aren't you just. I got twice with the kids.
Spencer Newarth
That's why I'm asking Maggie does guess that critter, when we got done recording last time trivia with the kids, they were out outside the studio twice. They asked me how much money they made today and I just had to make up a number on the spot because I didn't know what the exact was. But then they ran away yelling that number to someone else. So they, they were very excited. If it's a big number close to what the cap is that week, there'll be fist pumps. They high five. They're into it. They're into it. That, that $2,200, it means something.
Cal
Do any of these kids, like, do anything for money, though?
Spencer Newarth
Like.
Cal
Like I want to know. Like. No.
Spencer Newarth
Brody's kids won't even come play unless we pay them.
Cal
Nice.
Spencer Newarth
They made that declaration on the clock. The Hendersons are done with meat eater trivia. We've got a new. A new crop of children, though. And we found a stone suckers in Marshall Ckins, who we've now decided should have his own podcast.
Nate
Yeah, he'll figure it out soon. He'll be on the clock.
Spencer Newarth
Well, yeah, he better get paid for this.
Randall Brody
Coming.
Spencer Newarth
Moving forward, what would Marshall's podcast be about?
Giannis
Whatever's in front of him.
Spencer Newarth
I was gonna say. Yeah. Flavor of the week is basketball at the moment. Okay. Yeah. And then the week before that, it's Pokemon. The week before that is dinosaurs.
Cal
Fly fishing.
Spencer Newarth
Fly fishing. Great. This would be a good show. I'll listen. Yeah.
Cal
Be random.
Spencer Newarth
Random thoughts for Marshall. Marshall is a star, though. Very excited, and he's. He's our youngest player, I think. And so we got a lot of Marshall in the future coming up. You're gonna be served a lot of Marshall on meat Eater Kids. As long as he doesn't burn the house down. Is that a threat? Potentially. He doesn't know how to flick a lighter yet, but he's not too far away. Hey, maybe someone will teach him. What does. Does Mabel get excited? Can. Can you answer that for Cal about the. The conservation donation? That mean anything to her?
Randall Brody
No, I don't think so.
Spencer Newarth
Okay.
Randall Brody
I mean, if you told her like it was a hundred thousand dollars, that that would probably get her excited. Like a real chunk of money. But 500 bucks or whatever it is that you do for them kids. Yeah, it's not getting their fire.
Nate
Kids just don't have the same concept of money.
Giannis
No, we had.
Cal
That's what I'm getting.
Spencer Newarth
You had a good concept of money.
Randall Brody
Oh, I didn't have a concept of money at that age.
Cal
You kidding me?
Nate
Well, no, but, like, a buck was. If you had a buck in your pocket, you could do something.
Giannis
That's two hot dogs now.
Nate
Like, my kids don't even get excited when they got a 20 in their pocket.
Spencer Newarth
Oh, wow.
Cal
$50 corn dog down at the Conoco. Be all over that.
Spencer Newarth
All right, here's our infrequently asked question segment. If you have a trivia related question for our crew, send it to trivia@themeater.com with the subject line IFAQ. Colin Volmer says. Is it Spencer Philip Corinne that reads the questions we send? That's all me, these, these get addressed to a number of people, though. I'm probably 80% of the folks that they get addressed to. Phil is probably like 15%. And then the other 5% is just a mix of people think they're writing to an internal or they'll say Seth a lot since we're the S names on the crew. But if you send an email, I'm the one receiving that. Unless we have a guest host that week, then it's Giannis or Randall who are who are messing around in the inbox.
Giannis
It's always fun. You never know what you'll find.
Spencer Newarth
Phil, do you want access to the inbox? Do you want to see what people are saying?
Phil
I'm curious. I do get enough of unhinged Instagram DMs that, you know, I think I'm okay. I don't need to get in the inbox.
Cal
I need to stop doing that.
Spencer Newarth
Bill will not read this. All right, no housekeeping this week. So we get right to the trivia. The Shelby index for today is a 4.5, so our winner should get nine correct answers. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, phil. Come on.
Cal
5.
Spencer Newarth
Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that?
Giannis
Just tend to win everything.
Spencer Newarth
Game on.
Nate
Second, Spencer, before you get started.
Spencer Newarth
If.
Nate
You can issue half of a point to your lovely wife, why can't you issue half of a point to us?
Spencer Newarth
Just gives the index more diversity. Now we can have three and a halfs and four and a half.
Nate
You're either right or wrong, buddy.
Corey
You asked that like he has a say in the matter.
Cal
Dude.
Spencer Newarth
Yeah, she will reward herself half points and I'm not interested in arguing.
Giannis
Well, if we didn't do that, it would always be an even number. And that's just boring.
Spencer Newarth
That's what I'm saying. If you're playing along, what if you.
Nate
Could win the biggest trivia game of your life by half a point?
Spencer Newarth
Give yourself half points at home. You will not get them if you.
Randall Brody
Tell us which question it was that she got.
Spencer Newarth
Well, there's only one question she could get a half a point on, and that is question 10 today.
Giannis
So we're on question one.
Spencer Newarth
Question one. The topic is conservation. And as always, this will be multiple choice. Which of these pairings have the most combined public land? Is it Nevada and Utah? California and Arizona? Alaska and Indiana or Idaho and Colorado?
Nate
Is this by acreage?
Spencer Newarth
This is by acreage. Which of these pairings have the most combined Public land. This would be a good question to see. So maybe you should go over to the meat eater podcast YouTube channel and you can watch trivia or turn on the Outdoor Channel. I think it's 6pm on Saturday night, 6pm Central. Which of these pairings have the most combined public land? Nevada and Utah, California and Arizona, Alaska and Indiana or Idaho and Colorado? Johnny, you were pretty quick.
Randall Brody
I know, but I'm going to change it.
Spencer Newarth
But quick to answer. But he's having second thoughts.
Cal
It's tricky.
Randall Brody
That's a great question.
Giannis
Good question. Yeah.
Spencer Newarth
Oh, wow. Thank you. Nevada and Utah, California and Arizona, Alaska and Indiana or Idaho and Colorado. Which of those pairings have the most combined public land? Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Nate saying Alaska, Indiana. Corey, same answer. Yes. Giannis, same answer. Randall, same answer. Maggie says Nevada and Utah. Cal says Nevada and Utah. Brody says Alaska. Indiana. The correct answer is Alaska and Indiana.
Podcast Announcer
I thought it was a trick.
Spencer Newarth
I think we had five. Get that right.
Cal
Hard to imagine.
Spencer Newarth
Alaska alone has 325 million acres of public land. If you combine all the other states from the question, you have 240, 40 million acres of public land, which is 85 million less than Alaska alone. Alaska's public lands are equal to the size of two Texas's. That's how much public land?
Cal
I believe it's Texas. That's impressive.
Spencer Newarth
A lot of public.
Cal
All the other states.
Spencer Newarth
All the. All. All seven other states from that list.
Cal
And how much?
Spencer Newarth
85 million acres.
Cal
Indiana, half.
Spencer Newarth
Less than a million. I think it's. It's. Oh yeah. Nothing compared to the other states on this list. Question 2. The topic is cooking. This next great question is via Domingo esa Call Fat. Lace, fat and lard are synonyms for this four letter word that's used to make pastries, puddings and bird feeder cakes. Nate and Randall have their answers. The topic is cooking. Caulfat, lace, fat and lard are synonyms for this four letter word that's used to make pastries, puddings and bird feeder cakes.
Giannis
I think we should go back to Indiana and just say they don't have nothing. We've got the Hoosier National Forest. Believe Great Sand Dunes is in Indiana.
Spencer Newarth
That's right.
Giannis
So they have some treasures compared to.
Spencer Newarth
The other seven states from that question. Not very much. But nothing to sneeze with. The other states in the Midwest. Yeah, it's a decent amount.
Cal
Reggie Miller.
Spencer Newarth
Yeah, they have that too. Tyrese Halbert and Caitlyn Clark call Fant, Lace, Fant and Allard are synonyms for this other four letter word. It's used to make pastries, puddings, and bird feeder cakes. Brody, do you have this one right?
Nate
Pretty sure.
Spencer Newarth
Okay.
Randall Brody
Have you jumped on the WNBA bandwagon?
Giannis
No.
Randall Brody
You, Spencer?
Spencer Newarth
No, no, I. My, my. The amount of time I can.
Randall Brody
Girls don't play above the rim, so why watch them, huh?
Spencer Newarth
The amount of sport. The amount of time I can dedicate to sports is all filled up right now. The nuggets command all my attention.
Giannis
I watch. I watch Caitlin Clark highlights.
Randall Brody
Me too.
Giannis
Mostly hard fouls on. On X Twitter, but yeah, I don't really follow him.
Spencer Newarth
Giannis looks confident, Nate.
Nate
Are they Bill Lambert? Like Dennis Rodman? Hard fouls?
Corey
No, not even close. This whole hard foul thing is. I'm gonna leave it at that.
Spencer Newarth
Okay?
Giannis
All right. All right.
Spencer Newarth
Cal, I think we're waiting on you.
Cal
Well, I'm. I don't think I was playing her.
Corey
I'd treat her the same way.
Spencer Newarth
Is everybody ready?
Corey
I wouldn't let her shoot.
Spencer Newarth
Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Nate, Corey, Indianis and Randall and Maggie and Brody saying suet. Cal. Without an answer. The correct answer is suet. That's S U E T. What is.
Podcast Announcer
That you wrote down there, Cal?
Cal
Chis.
Nate
Look, the only reason I got that right is a word.
Phil
Bird feed.
Nate
Like I've never heard anyone say. I'm going to put some suet in these pastries.
Spencer Newarth
Well, I'll tell you why. Suet is the hard white fat on the kidneys and loins of cattle, sheep and deer. It's a common ingredient in British recipes, providing moisture, texture and a rich taste to dishes for a non kitchen use. Check out our article from the meat eater.com called how to make bird seed suet with deer fat. So common in British cooking, not so common in North America.
Cal
I would say that's the. The least favored fat on wild game for doing anything with the interior fat is like the not.
Spencer Newarth
Not good bird feeder cakes though. The. The woodpeckers. That's the only thing they'll eat out of my bird feeder. Or the suet cakes. Question 3. The topic is wildlife. These artists are responsible for faking the sounds of animals walking, swimming and chewing in nature documentaries. And the room is stumped. The topic is wildlife. These artists are responsible for faking the sounds of animals walking, swimming and chewing in nature documentaries. This is a job title. This. It's a type of artist.
Giannis
It's a word. It's a word.
Spencer Newarth
Phil, you would have gotten this one right. I'm almost certain of it.
Phil
I was a sort of part time, one of these in my previous life.
Giannis
I was looking at you for a hint.
Phil
If you watch seasons three through six of Mountain Men, you can hear my footsteps, my heavy breathing, the cheap steak I brought from Safeway to mimic a skinning.
Spencer Newarth
Okay, Phil was this type of artist. These artists are responsible for faking the sounds of animals walking, swimming, and chewing in nature documentaries. What other sounds did you have to fake, Phil? Walking, skinning.
Phil
There were, there were a lot of like rafting sequences. And so we'd bring like some rubber out to the creek and like rub it up against some wet boulders and stuff.
Cal
And like, if you bumped into, let's just say a super famous artist, you would go back in time and you're like, oh, Claude, monetized. Would you then be like, I'm also an artist. Or would you be like, you're an artist?
Spencer Newarth
Yeah. This person, they are a type of artist.
Phil
You should. You should. After you watch videos of these people doing their thing online, it looks like art.
Spencer Newarth
Yeah, it's more satisfying. I've seen the Disney product.
Cal
Do it.
Giannis
Brody, did you get it? I think like, you'd know if you got it.
Spencer Newarth
Do you have it, Randall?
Giannis
No, I know what it is. I just. The words escaping me.
Spencer Newarth
Our room looks.
Giannis
If I saw it, I'd know it.
Spencer Newarth
These artists are responsible for faking the sounds of animals walking, swimming, and chewing in nature documentaries. Is everybody ready?
Cal
God, I think I'm ready to leave the room.
Spencer Newarth
Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Nate saying sound design, Corey, asmr. Giannis sound design. Randall, without an answer, Maggie says asmr, Cal sound engineer, Brody sound effects. Nobody got it. The correct answer is Foley artist.
Giannis
That's right.
Spencer Newarth
F O L E Y a Foley artist. The audio you're served in nature documentaries is rarely true to life. This is where Foley artists come in. Their job is to pound coconut shells on cobblestone to make it sound like a galloping horse, or run their fingers across a moving fan to make it sound like a flying dragonfly. According to Glassdoor, the average salary for a foley artist is $72,000.
Randall Brody
I recently worked with a videographer who had come off of a pretty long career filming nature documentaries, and he felt the same way about the visuals that you also see in nature documentaries. That is very much not nature. Yeah, I feel like he left.
Spencer Newarth
There's an easy tell if you're watching some nature documentaries where it's showing like one animal hunt another animal, if they never actually interact. If you don't see them in the same frame. Those were shot days or months apart. You'll see like an osprey that's hunting some little rodent. But you know that that was not like the sequence that they actually filmed at that moment.
Randall Brody
Yeah, that's a good point. I think he was speaking more of an in general terms, as in, you know, there's the life of X animal. They're only going to show you the 10 that's real fuzzy and cute.
Nate
Do you think it's more excusable when they. They screw up in a movie and show stuff or have the wrong sound?
Randall Brody
More excusable?
Nate
Well, like is it more sinful in a nature documentary to get things wrong?
Randall Brody
No, no, I don't think they're getting them wrong. They are purposefully only showing you the cute and fuzzy.
Nate
Well, yeah, but like I'm saying, like me and my kids just watch Indiana Jones in the Last Crusade.
Randall Brody
Yeah.
Nate
And there's a scene where and there's somewhere like in whatever, Asia and dudes fall into a river and alligators eat them. And there's no alligators in that part of the world.
Randall Brody
Yeah, it's different. I think that they should do a better job of that. But you know, for Indiana Jones is kind of all made superhero.
Giannis
Indiana Jones. Jeez.
Spencer Newarth
All right, question four.
Nate
Named after the dog.
Phil
Named after the dog.
Spencer Newarth
Question four. I'm going to ask our players not to cheat. You may have an opportunity to cheat on this question. But everyone is in here has agreed they are going to resist that urge.
Cal
That's not the quote. The quotes. We named the dog Indiana, right?
Spencer Newarth
Yeah. All right, question for the topic is gear. This next great question is via Nelson Luttrell. What three letters indicate A zipper was made by Yoshida Co. Ltd. The world's largest producer of chain lock fasteners.
Corey
Oh yeah, dude, you better right up my alley, big zipper guy.
Spencer Newarth
I don't see any zippers on our players. I have a zipper here.
Nate
I already wrote my answer down.
Spencer Newarth
Okay, Brody is going to his jeans for confirma. He's putting on his glasses multiple zip. What three letters indicate A zipper was made by Yoshida Co. Ltd. The world's largest producer of chain lock fasteners. Brody's zipper apparently did not come from them. Okay, so we have Nate looking at his zipper. Nate, does that have.
Corey
Yeah, I'm locked in.
Spencer Newarth
Okay, Corey, does your answer agree with Nate's zipper? It's same three letters.
Nate
What do you got, Randall?
Randall Brody
I got it wrong.
Spencer Newarth
Our players have checked.
Phil
Mine says G A P because it's from the Gap.
Spencer Newarth
Is everybody ready? Y. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Nate and Corey and Giannis saying ykk. Randall says xyz. Randall, xyz, Cal and Brody say ykk.
Nate
You know how when like you're sitting around glassing and shit's just not. Stuff's just not happening and you're like, just like always end up looking at your zipper and seeing that YKK.
Spencer Newarth
The correct answer is YKK. Yoshida Co. Ltd. Makes 7 billion zippers each year, which is about half of the total global production. YKK are the initials of the Japanese company's name that I can't pronounce. These zippers are used on tons of outdoor gear, including sleeping bags, backpacks, tents, soft coolers, and First Light gear.
Nate
It's like, isn't it like a marketing thing to put down like YKK zippers?
Spencer Newarth
I searched my inbox. I found multiple emails from First Light that were advertising that something new was made with a YKK zipper. So it seems to be something that people care about. Question 5. The topic is fishing. This six letter word is defined as quote, to clean out the bed of a harbor or river by scope by scooping out mud, weeds and rubbish. This six letter word is defined as to clean out the bed of a harbor or river by scooping out mud, weeds and rubbish.
Cal
We have not going to find that.
Spencer Newarth
On a lot of confident players in here. But not Brody.
Giannis
I saw a great video of someone doing this just the other day.
Spencer Newarth
Oh, okay.
Giannis
It's a little specialized craft that had a. A bucket like on an excavator. It's very cool.
Spencer Newarth
This is question five. We have a scoreboard update from Phil the engineer.
Randall Brody
After this, we go find a lot of sharks teeth at a place where they constantly do this and then kick it all over to this island and you can sit there and I'd like that. Find them by the handful and they're.
Spencer Newarth
Not, they're not like fossilized shark teeth. They're like from a shark that was just swimming around yesterday.
Randall Brody
No, no, no. Fossilized.
Spencer Newarth
Oh, they're fossilized.
Randall Brody
Yeah.
Spencer Newarth
That's fun.
Randall Brody
I'll give you a waypoint.
Corey
Find any biggies?
Randall Brody
Every now and then you get one that might be the size of a quarter.
Cal
Oh.
Randall Brody
But most of them are like pinky, you know, fingernail.
Corey
I grew up next to a beach.
Spencer Newarth
With one of those.
Corey
And the people who'd find the biggest, they just walk back. Old guys walking back and forth and letting the water push it up. And I'd sit there looking at one Piece of sand for like hours. Find two or three and some dude would come by with a coke can full of them.
Randall Brody
Just walking back and forth, see my techniques. I actually go back to the bank and then I just sit there and I don't have to walk. I can just sit there and just let it crumble and crumble and watch the little crumble pieces fall again.
Spencer Newarth
Question 5. The topic is fishing. This six letter word is defined as to clean out the bed of a harbor or river by scooping out mud, weeds and rubbish.
Corey
TikTok.
Spencer Newarth
TikTok. Howdy. Do you give up? Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Nate saying dredge. Corey says raking. Giannis and Randall and Maggie and Cal say dredge. Brody without an answer. The correct answer is dredge. Dredging can be harmful or helpful to a waterway. Often it's done to widen and deepen channels for large ship navigation. But there's also environmental dredging, which is sometimes necessary around cities. During this process, the goal is to remove sediment that gets polluted by sewers, spills, and municipal discharge. All right, we're halfway through the game of trivia. Phil, give us a scoreboard update.
Phil
At halftime, we have Maggie and Cal tied with two points a piece. Coming up after that, our brother laugh at me. Corey and Randall with three and tied up in first are Nate and Giannis. Nate though, four points apiece. Scoreboard's very symmetrical. It's making me happy.
Podcast Announcer
It's a nice look.
Randall Brody
It's a nice pattern.
Spencer Newarth
This is going to be.
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Question 6. The topic is hunting. This next great question is via Corey Hockett. This swath of BLM land north of the Grand Canyon has been referred to as America's Tibet by the Public Lands Foundation. This swath of BLM land north of the Grand Canyon has been referred to as, quote, America's Tibetan by the Public Lands Foundation. This is question six. The topic is hunting. Yanni, very quick to answer. Randall and Nate now joining him. Brody, do you have this one right?
Nate
I hope so.
Spencer Newarth
This swath of BLM land north of the Grand Canyon has been referred to as America's Tibet by the Public Lands Foundation.
Nate
But I've never heard it called that, so I don't know.
Randall Brody
I haven't either. But yeah, it's the only thing I know. Only name I know of any kind of land in that area.
Spencer Newarth
This could tighten things up. Well, Giannis in the lead. Nate, do you have this one right? No. Okay, again, the topic is hunting. This swath of BLM land north of the Grand Canyon has been referred to as America's Tibet by the Public Lands Foundation.
Randall Brody
Are you going to talk about the peoples that inhabit this place in your flavor text?
Spencer Newarth
We could. Could, yeah. Corey, how are we doing? Not great about this.
Corey
Cal, keep talking about those people if you want.
Randall Brody
In the flavor text.
Spencer Newarth
Nate, I think. I think you run out of time. Cory, does that have anything to do with the answer?
Randall Brody
Not really.
Nate
Randall House. Life in the world of history.
Spencer Newarth
Hey, thank you.
Giannis
It's fine.
Nate
You don't sound too excited, man.
Spencer Newarth
Well, it doesn't change because he's in third place right now.
Nate
Yeah, I'm trying to take his mind off of it.
Spencer Newarth
Okay.
Giannis
We're recording the Meat Eaters American History audiobook a week from yesterday.
Spencer Newarth
Okay.
Giannis
So I'm glad that you've put my mind back on that. This was a moment of looking forward to this moment of relief when I could just.
Spencer Newarth
I thought it was two weeks from now that that's happening.
Giannis
Well, we. We have. We have a half day over two weeks.
Spencer Newarth
They're holding the studio hostage for two weeks, basically. Is everybody Ready? Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Nate saying Great Mesa, Corey Moab, Giannis, Arizona Strip, Randall Kebab. Kebab. Maggie Moab, Cal Canyonlands, Brody, Arizona Strip. The correct answer is the Arizona Strip. Frodi and Giannis got that one right.
Cal
Oh, did you say America's Tibet?
Spencer Newarth
The Arizona Strip is about the size of Massachusetts. The remoteness and ruggedness of this region is said to look like the. The Tibetan Plateau of the Himalayan mountains, thus the America's Tibet nickname. 13A and 13B are the hunting units which are famous for trophy elk, mule deer, big horn sheep and Antelope. There are 8,000 people who live in that area. That's the size of Massachusetts. Is that what you were looking to talk about?
Randall Brody
Well, they're. I think they're like extreme Mormons.
Spencer Newarth
Oh, well, it's not that far from what, St. George, Utah, which is sort of that.
Randall Brody
It's like we're like, there's a lot of fundamentalists that inhabit that good place.
Spencer Newarth
To get away from folks, and we're.
Giannis
Sure that the Arizona Strip does not include the Kaibab.
Spencer Newarth
The BLM land is referred to as America's. Excuse me, America's Tibet. Tibet or the Arizona Strip. We're not going to give that to you.
Randall Brody
The Kaibab is right in there.
Giannis
We don't even want to look it up.
Spencer Newarth
Isn't that just like directly off of the Grand Canyon, the Kaibab Plateau? Yeah, that's like the Tibetan Plateau.
Nate
Both spots are like.
Spencer Newarth
But we're referring to all the BLM land that's the size of Massachusetts there, which is all the way to the Utah border.
Giannis
I think you're dismissing this.
Cal
I would like people to write in. If you live near this area or frequent it and have ever heard anybody say, oh, welcome to America's Tibet, or something like that.
Spencer Newarth
I didn't say it's commonly called that. I said it was referred to as America's Tibet by the public land.
Nate
Is that the stuff that's on fire right now?
Randall Brody
I don't know. I don't know.
Giannis
Look up kaibab fires.
Spencer Newarth
Question. Has anyone hunted kebab there?
Randall Brody
Nope.
Giannis
I knew I was in trouble. I knew I was in trouble. And Spencer, read my answer as kebab.
Spencer Newarth
Question 7. The topic is cooking. According to Taste of Home, the three parts of a turkey wing are the drumette, wingtip and blank. According to taste of Home, the three parts of a turkey wing are the drumette, wingtip and blank. Our players don't look like they're feeling Good about this one. Nate and Giannis now have an answer. Corey's joined them. According to Taste of Home, the three parts of a turkey wing are the drumette, wing, tip, and blank.
Nate
Do you know it? Giannis, you wrote down pretty.
Randall Brody
I had a. Had a word come into my mind. This just popped in there. I had to go with it.
Spencer Newarth
Okay. Cal, do you know this one?
Cal
I think I do, but I'm not digging hard for it, so I just wrote down something.
Spencer Newarth
Is everybody ready? Go ahead.
Podcast Announcer
Fighting for last place.
Spencer Newarth
Reveal your answers. We have Nate saying flat. Cordy says feathers.
Cal
Think about it.
Spencer Newarth
Giannis, flat. Randall, wing. Maggie, flat. Wings. Thayette.
Cal
Say it with confidence. Spencer. Jesus.
Spencer Newarth
The correct answer is the flat or wingette. Feathers. So we had about half of our. Got that one right. Is it. It is the drumette, wingtip and flat or wingette.
Nate
Now, Randall, you're a big hot dog eater. I think if you're a big chicken wing eater, you would have got.
Giannis
I just call them the drums and the wings.
Cal
You don't drum flats.
Giannis
I call them drummies and wings.
Podcast Announcer
The flats are the best. Wings.
Spencer Newarth
Drum.
Cal
Say drummies.
Giannis
Drummies.
Spencer Newarth
Drummets have a single bone and are meteor, while flats have two bones with crispier skin. When it comes To Chick Wings, 2014 polling shows that 45% of Americans prefer drumettes, 29% prefer flats, and 26% like both equally. What is this room like?
Podcast Announcer
Flats.
Nate
I'm an either or man.
Giannis
I like both.
Nate
Different technique for both. Like, they enjoy them differently.
Spencer Newarth
It's convenient that I'm a. I'm a drums person and my wife is a FL person, so we can just split our orders. Works out.
Giannis
I like to just take the flat and pull it straight through my teeth. Yeah, Just strip the outside edges off and then bust it open.
Spencer Newarth
See, I like to push it down and turn it into a drum. Blue cheese or ranch and then dip.
Cal
Blue cheese.
Spencer Newarth
Blue cheese. Yeah. Ranch. I grew up in ranch country. Yeah. So 45% of Americans. Drumettes, 29%. Flats, 26%. Both equally.
Cal
We were out to lunch the other day with a bunch of your countrymen, and I didn't say anything at the time, but it was quite hilarious.
Spencer Newarth
A lot of ranch on that table.
Cal
There's just a lot of sides of ranch. Didn't really matter what was being ordered.
Randall Brody
Is that the same lunch I was at?
Phil
Yeah.
Cal
It was just more comforting to have it up, to have it there.
Spencer Newarth
Maybe.
Cal
I don't know.
Spencer Newarth
Emotional Support. Ranch. Question 8.
Cal
They eat with one fingertip in it.
Spencer Newarth
It's Conservation.
Randall Brody
Well, in case if they're. It's really dry and they start choking and they just do a shooter.
Spencer Newarth
Question 8. The topic is conservation. This next great question is via Sam Blumenfeld. This seven letter word is defined as quote, a plant or animal that's native and restricted to a certain place. This seven letter word is defined as a plant or animal that's native and restricted to a certain in place. This is question eight. We'll get a scoreboard update from Phil the engineer after this. I think I'm right. Okay. Doesn't sound like it.
Randall Brody
My old lady's going to have my ass if I don't.
Spencer Newarth
Sorry. You're a flats guy.
Giannis
Well, I do. I like them both.
Spencer Newarth
Both.
Giannis
I like them both. I mean there's nothing better than just like a monstrously large drummy.
Spencer Newarth
Yeah.
Giannis
What am I supposed to say at the restaurant?
Spencer Newarth
Drummette.
Giannis
No, not drummet. Drummy.
Spencer Newarth
Yeah.
Cal
I mean, no, drummy is just very off putting to me.
Giannis
Drumette.
Spencer Newarth
It's like a drummy.
Cal
Feels like you're trying to be hip somehow. That's weird.
Giannis
No, no, I just like if you're.
Nate
Go get some drummies.
Cal
Hey, bro, hit me with some drummies.
Giannis
So. So if you're sitting there and you've got a pile of wings on the table, you go. Do you mind if I have the last drumette?
Corey
Yeah, you say drums.
Podcast Announcer
Chicken wing.
Phil
Keep it to one syllable. Flats and drums.
Corey
Can we agree boneless wings are just no trash.
Nate
Does every wings also should be illegal?
Spencer Newarth
Yeah.
Randall Brody
Did you guys see that recently on. On what's the show called? Hot Ones?
Nate
Oh, yeah, that's the show. But.
Randall Brody
Well, recently they have some. Some new episodes have popped up in my YouTube feed and there's been some real good ones. Bill Murray like was not phased.
Cal
Stone cold.
Randall Brody
But anyways, they're not eating chicken wings anymore. They're eating this like it's like a lump of something.
Phil
They let the guests pick whatever they want to eat. So sometimes it'll be like tofu wings.
Cal
Or turkey or whatever.
Randall Brody
Yeah, that's what it was then.
Spencer Newarth
Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Nate saying endemic. Corey without an answer. Yanis and endemic. No clue. Maggie without an answer. Cal and Brody say endemic. They got it. My brain is just not the correct answer Is endemic. E N D E M I C.
Randall Brody
She used to be the web site editor.
Podcast Announcer
Job lost with that one trivia question.
Spencer Newarth
The voice of guess that critter Endemic animals are those that are only found in a single specific region and Nowhere else in the world. Some examples of animals that are endemic to the United States include the alligator snapping turtle, lesser prairie chicken, red wolf, water moccasin, and tule elk. All right, Phil, let's get a scoreboard update with two questions left.
Giannis
Oh, my God.
Phil
Ryan Callahan, Corey Calkins, Maggie Hudlow, and Randall Williams have been eliminated from the game.
Giannis
It's a bloodbath.
Phil
The only players left are Nate and Brody with six points, and Giannis Putellis is in first place.
Nate
Makes the last couple questions exciting.
Randall Brody
Oh, man, I'm feeling the heat. You gotta take this hoodie off.
Spencer Newarth
Question 9. The topic is outdoors. This man was Outdoor Life's humor columnist from 1983 to 2009 and wrote the books Kerplunk. And they shoot Canoes, don't they? Oh, my gosh.
Randall Brody
This man's last name.
Spencer Newarth
Outdoor Life's last name would be good enough. This man was Outdoor Life's humor columnist from 1983 to 2009 and wrote the books Kerplunk and They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?
Giannis
It's a good question.
Spencer Newarth
Did you get it right?
Giannis
I believe so.
Spencer Newarth
Okay. Do you have this?
Giannis
If you'd thrown another book title in there, I'd be sure of it.
Spencer Newarth
Okay, this is.
Cal
I. Yeah, I don't know if you could.
Nate
Over there, buddy.
Randall Brody
Yeah, dude, I wasn't freaking born, bro.
Giannis
In 2009.
Corey
Listen, dude, I wasn't even in middle school in 2009.
Giannis
I don't think.
Nate
Do you know who was the president in 1776?
Randall Brody
Yeah, dude.
Giannis
George Washington.
Cal
No one.
Phil
Nobody?
Giannis
Nobody.
Randall Brody
Okay.
Spencer Newarth
This man was Outdoor Life's humor colony from 1983 to 2009 and wrote the books kerplunk and they shoot Canoes, don't they?
Giannis
Now, if you said 1876, I'd say Ulyses S. Grant.
Spencer Newarth
Okay, Nate, how we doing?
Corey
I mean, terrible.
Spencer Newarth
Could fall out of the running after this one. Is everybody ready?
Podcast Announcer
I know this.
Spencer Newarth
Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Nate saying, Bill Waterson. Corey says Patrick Durkin. He got part of it right. Giannis says McManus. Randall. Bill Heavey. Maggie. Patrick. Something Cal. Patrick.
Podcast Announcer
There's your half a point, McManus.
Spencer Newarth
That was what I. McManus. The correct answer is Patrick McManus. Bill Heavey, he was the other humor columnist. McManus's writing has been compared to Mark Twain. Much of it is about his outdoor adventures growing up in Idaho in the 1940s. His stories feature recurring characters such as his mentor, Rancid Crabtree, his best friend Crazy Eddie Muldoon and his dog Strange. Outdoor Life said in 2018 that McManus belongs on the Mount Rushmore of outdoor writers. What's the other book that you're real fond of? Cal. Of his.
Randall Brody
Something about grasshoppers.
Spencer Newarth
Right. He's a prolific writer. The Bear. Yeah. A Bear in the Attic is. That's probably my favorite short story of his.
Cal
I know there's only mounting Mount Terrible or that that story is pretty darn good.
Randall Brody
There's a. In one of the air transporters that we use in Alaska in their sort of public restroom in the office. There's a short on the back side of the door in the toilet stall by McManus. You can read. It's about him riding a bike to a deer hunt, being successful, and then putting the deer on the bike with him to take it home. And it's. It's quite fun.
Spencer Newarth
Love. Love is riding. Very Mark Twain esque.
Cal
There's a great one about looking for sign. He's out with his older cousin who can drive.
Spencer Newarth
Right.
Cal
But it's, like, very applicable for, like, if you ever go out and mixed company hunting, it's great because, like, the cousin, like, jams on the. The brakes and skids the car, and then there's frozen, like, noticeably frozen deer tracks on the side of the road. And the cousins, like, I'm the one with all the experience here. This buck just came through. Right?
Nate
It's a bygone era, man. They just don't do that kind of writing anymore.
Spencer Newarth
All right, here's the correct answer review. 1. Was Alaska and Indiana. 2. Suet. 3. Foley artist. 4. YKK 5. Dredge. 6. Arizona strip. 7. Flat or wingette. 8. Endemic. 9. Patrick McManus. Phil, let's get one last scoreboard. UPDATE 10.
Phil
Giannis can hold it down for question 10. He'll be running away with the game. He's got eight points in first place. But Brody is hot.
Nate
I wouldn't exactly say he's running away with it, though.
Phil
That's true. That was an exaggeration because you're hot on his ass with seven the only.
Spencer Newarth
Players left in the game.
Randall Brody
I don't like the way this game is going for Randall. Yeah, because he's getting to burn up all of his wrong answers in one game. And it doesn't help me for the next time I play against him. I would much rather if he would split these.
Giannis
I might not have used all my.
Cal
He's gonna be chilling with some drummies later and thinking about.
Giannis
I don't understand the. The Drummy thing. Because when you're eating.
Spencer Newarth
What was your answer?
Nate
I think this is what gets you in trouble.
Spencer Newarth
I feel like it's a marketing term.
Randall Brody
That you bought into.
Giannis
When you're indulging in wings, it's fine to just sort of be like, oh, I need another drummy. Just, you know, you're acting like a slob. Got everywhere.
Cal
I think maybe you should start asking that you're around and see if they actually think it's okay if you're like, drummy.
Giannis
I just don't want to use a word that ends with E. T, T, E when I'm eating wings.
Randall Brody
You don't have to.
Giannis
It seems too buttoned up. Except for towelette. I use to eating the drum.
Spencer Newarth
Question 10. The topic is fishing.
Randall Brody
Oh, half point opportunity here.
Spencer Newarth
Name four of the eight states that have a state record muskie over 50 pounds. Wow.
Randall Brody
Son of a gun.
Spencer Newarth
Name four of the eight states THAT have a state record muskie over fifty pounds. A lot of furious writing in the room. Again, we're down to giannis, who has eight points, and Brody, who has seven. In four of the eight states that have a state record muskie over 50 pounds. Randall, does Sydney have a wing preference? Are you guys in a very harmonious relationship when it comes to sharing?
Giannis
Sydney has a wing preference. It's to eat the first three quarters of the win.
Spencer Newarth
Oh, and then you clean up after.
Giannis
Get to eat all the grisly bits and all the stuff everywhere. Yeah, so we are. We do have a harmonious wing relationship.
Spencer Newarth
I get like a symbiotic.
Giannis
I get a stack of drummies. Man, they still got a little bit on the end. I'm just lollipopping them.
Cal
And some Sunny D. Yeah, that's how. Yeah.
Randall Brody
Feels like it goes.
Spencer Newarth
Name four of the eight states that have a state record musky over 50 pounds. Randall and Cal are not going to put any extra thought into this one. They wrote down their four states. Put that whiteboard down. But Giannis and Brody are really struggling.
Nate
Oh, I'm not struggling.
Spencer Newarth
I'm just like your posture and face. Say other.
Cal
Constipated.
Spencer Newarth
No.
Nate
No. I went running this morning, so no problem there.
Spencer Newarth
Name four of the eight states that have a state record muskie over 50 pounds. Yanni, how you doing?
Randall Brody
I've got a solid three.
Spencer Newarth
Okay.
I
Solid three fourths of a point, I will say.
Giannis
Just getting back to wings, I think.
Spencer Newarth
Please.
Giannis
They're still like a very nostalgic food for me and I crave them, but they've lost a lot of luster since the price of chicken wings has gone up to the point that you don't want to order more than you can eat. You know, like, I feel like when I go to a wing place now, I'm like, do I really want to pay for 20? Right.
Spencer Newarth
But a cold leftover wing? I'm a huge fan.
Giannis
That's true.
Spencer Newarth
Really? Like, yeah.
Nate
Remember the old. Well, you might be too young to remember the old, like 10 cent wing nights.
Giannis
Oh, no, that's. Yeah, that's what we had in high school. Yeah, we used to just go out like after football practice or something and.
Nate
Pitchers of beer for like $2 buckets.
Giannis
Of 50 wings and just try to see how many you could put down.
Podcast Announcer
I have a hot. Take that. I think grilled wings are actually better than fried wings.
Spencer Newarth
I think there's a big spectrum just.
Cal
Grilled on the establishment.
Podcast Announcer
Maybe because I'm especially good at grilling wing, but it's a new level in my wing eating career.
Giannis
Cal tried to make a chicken wing one time out of an elk shank.
Spencer Newarth
Yeah.
Giannis
For a Super bowl party lollipop.
Cal
Yep.
Spencer Newarth
All right, how do you feel about your answer there?
Randall Brody
Yanni and Suvi and I got one.
Cal
Deep fry on coconut.
Spencer Newarth
Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Nate saying Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota. Corey. Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, Illinois. Giannis. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, North Dakota. Randall. Wisconsin, North Dakota, Minnesota, Kentucky. Maggie. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota. There's a trend, Cal, New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan.
Nate
I like Cal's answers, Brody.
Spencer Newarth
New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan. Here are the eight states. Wisconsin, New York, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky, Iowa. Brody got that one right. And Giannis got a world record from New York, York. Well, so here, let me tell you the Wisconsin and New York state record. Muskie weigh 69 pounds. Michigan is 58 pounds. Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania are 55 pounds. And West Virginia and Iowa are 50 pounds. Despite multiple state records that are bigger, IGFA recognizes the world record as a 67 pounder that was caught in Wisconsin. So New York, they have. Their state record is 69 pounds, but the IGFA does not recognize that one.
Cal
Yeah, there's controversy. I was. I was too chicken to do. New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio.
Spencer Newarth
A lot of Great Lakes states on that list.
Cal
Yeah.
Randall Brody
Didn't we interview a guy on the Meter podcast? That's all he talked about was like Muskie controversy.
Spencer Newarth
Pat Durkin has wrote about it a number of times. There may have been a guest.
Cal
No, he had like the. He's like the historical.
Spencer Newarth
Yes.
Cal
Historian. Oh, he's the record bookkeeper for.
Nate
Yeah, didn't he have some nickname like the Muskie Doctor or something like that?
Spencer Newarth
All right, we're headed to overtime. Play the drop.
Giannis
Exciting to play again.
Nate
Two tiebreakers in a row.
Spencer Newarth
Okay, we got a new sound from Phil. Is that.
Giannis
Is that able to play on tv?
Phil
Yes.
Giannis
Nice.
Spencer Newarth
Oh, very good.
Phil
Royalty free.
Giannis
We don't strip all the soul out of this bad boy just. Just so we don't run.
Cal
Just a What?
Giannis
No, just to make it. Just to make it TV friendly.
Spencer Newarth
All right, we are down to Giannis and Brody, who both have eight correct.
Nate
Answers, almost as if this was scripted for tv.
Spencer Newarth
We will settle this with a numerical question. Whoever is closest between those two will be declared the winner. But the rest of the room will play along as well, because if somebody gets it right on the nose, metered will add an extra 1 donation to the end of the game. The tiebreaker topic is woodsmanship. According to NASA, how many phases of the moon are there?
Randall Brody
According to NASA, according to the key.
Spencer Newarth
How many phases of the moon are there? And if Yanni and Brody were to tie again, we will do a thing that's only happened one other time in meteor trivia history. We will go to a second tiebreaker, and that will unlock another new sound that Phil has over there.
Phil
Absolutely.
Spencer Newarth
According to NASA, how many phases of the moon are there?
Cal
Are you drawn out? Every face.
Nate
Ones I could come up with.
Randall Brody
Okay.
Spencer Newarth
Brody looks pretty satisfied with what he wrote down. Randall has now joined him. How many phases of the moon are there? The NASA part is just to assign this to somebody so you know that it's. It's official and it's real. This is the agreed upon.
Podcast Announcer
You drawing pictures, Cal?
Cal
I am, yeah.
Spencer Newarth
By most folks. According to NASA, how many phases of the moon are there? Randall? Going back to his extra $100, I.
Giannis
Might as well just erase what I have and not replace it with anything that's.
Podcast Announcer
That's kind of where I'm at.
Giannis
Not a big moon guy.
Spencer Newarth
We want a 600 donation.
Cal
I'd get rid of it if I could with tides.
Spencer Newarth
How are we doing? Yanni?
Cal
Yeah. Has anybody proposed getting rid of the national debt by selling the moon?
Spencer Newarth
There's.
Cal
It's hanging right there.
Spencer Newarth
There's some Internet companies where you can buy moon real estate. It's not that expensive either. And although I don't think. I think it's been argued that they don't have that official ability. It's been argued, yes. Yeah.
Nate
Kind of sell public land.
Spencer Newarth
That's right.
Nate
I'll get rid of this for you even though you own it.
Cal
Because the moon is. Is owned by the world. Right? It's not. Isn't. Wasn't that the declaration is.
Spencer Newarth
It's.
Giannis
That's what the moon wants you to think.
Cal
Yeah.
Spencer Newarth
Yeah. Yanni, we're waiting on you. He really wants this. W.
Giannis
In reality, we're just an alien ant farm.
Spencer Newarth
Yanni's a bigger band. I guarantee you.
Randall Brody
Big moon guy.
Spencer Newarth
Feel your answers. We have Nate saying 8. Corey says 8. Randall says 6, Maggie says 28. Cal says 5. Then our two players left. We have Brody saying 6. Indianas saying 8. One of you is right on the nose. The correct answer is 8.
Randall Brody
Giving Yanis.
Spencer Newarth
And Corey also had it right on the nose. Players.
Randall Brody
I want you to explain it though. I want to know if my thinking how I got to A.
Spencer Newarth
The eight phases of the moon are new waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full waning gibbous, third quarter and waning crescent. The cycle repeats itself every 29.5 days. So those.
Podcast Announcer
That's what I.
Cal
That was the number I was thinking about four.
Spencer Newarth
The four majors and the four miners to give you eight phases of the moon.
Randall Brody
And they all hunt.
Spencer Newarth
Well. There you go.
Randall Brody
That's right.
Spencer Newarth
All right, Giannis, what are you gonna do with your 600 donation today? This is the second straight episode we've gone to overtime and had somebody get it right on the nose.
Randall Brody
Awesome.
Spencer Newarth
And both times it was our winner. Last time it was Brody with 1992. Yeah. Runs through it. This time it was Giannis with eight.
Phil
I wasn't gonna call attention to that since this is. I don't know if this episode can be on TV with the. With that whiteboard declaration.
Randall Brody
Sorry. Well, they're kind of related, but the other day I was getting a new tags for our new plow truck and went decided to go custom and just because it was a white truck and I wanted a cool looking plate to go on it. And there's so many options of cool looking plates. And so I texted Cal and I'm like what's up? What's up with the plwa, man? Should I support them? And Cal's Response was like 100. Yes. Great organization. Need all the help they can get.
Spencer Newarth
Okay, so who is it?
Randall Brody
Cal, I'm going to ask you to give the pitch.
Cal
Public Land Water Association. They're based out of Anacanous these days. Anaconda, Montana. Formerly a strong candidate for state capitol. A good if you build it, they won't come story.
Spencer Newarth
Okay.
Cal
Public Land Water association, they are utilizing the the public to identify public access that's been illegally shut down. So this started as a bunch of lawyers who like to fly fish and pulling up to legal stream access sites to see them illegally posted for as a no trespassing areas. And so they started getting litigious and started raising awareness. Now PLWA has a list of easements that are currently being disputed by unsavory landowners. A situation that spiked seriously during our influx of new Montana residents during COVID who bought land that had existing access easements through it and decided it would be better for everybody if they shut that down so they could have it for themselves. So Public Land Water association is a great organization.
Nate
Do they get involved in like the disputes that whether whether a road is a public.
Randall Brody
Yes.
Cal
Yeah. So there's a bunch of road disputes right now which are are real serious. Their most famous case and you know, like, you know they need a lot of help. So there's a lot of groups involved at the end. But the Sailor Lane case over in the Ruby Valley would be like they're one of the biggest examples of PLWA notifying the public to be in this fight because the Sailor Lane case actually threatened the entire Montana stream access law. So we have phenomenal stream access in the state of Montana only because groups like PLWA got involved.
Spencer Newarth
600 going their way via meat eater Giannis and his plow truck.
Randall Brody
Yeah, Public land water access on Instagram. I just recently started following them and there's. They post a lot of good stuff. It's very informative.
Podcast Announcer
Montana.
Cal
They're only in Montana yet. I mean you can take the tools that they can give you into any state. And yeah, if you're ever in Anacanoes you can go over and visit Smelter Brewing.
Randall Brody
But since all of you out there one day dream of hunting in Montana, recommend you pay attention here too.
Spencer Newarth
There you go.
Cal
Yep.
Spencer Newarth
Well done, Yanni.
Randall Brody
Thanks Spencer.
Spencer Newarth
Join us next week for more meat eater trivia. 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.
Spencer Newarth
Bucks.
Nate
And he's an avid amateur rock hound.
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The MeatEater Podcast: Episode 734 Summary – "Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CLXXIII"
Release Date: July 16, 2025
Host: Steven Rinella
Episode Type: Trivia Game Show
In Episode 734 of The MeatEater Podcast, host Steven Rinella, affectionately known as Spencer Newarth, transforms the show into an exhilarating round of MeatEater Trivia CLXXIII. This episode stands out as the only game show on the network where conservation always takes the crown, aligning with the podcast's mission to deepen the understanding of the natural world.
Notable Quote:
"This is the only game show where conservation always wins." – Spencer Newarth [00:12]
Spencer welcomes a dynamic group of contestants: Giannis, Cal, Randall Brody, Maggie, Corey, and Nate. The game is structured into 10 rounds, each encompassing four verticals: Hunting, Fishing, Conservation, and Cooking. The stakes are high, with the winner's choice of a conservation organization receiving a $500 donation.
Spencer emphasizes the impact of the trivia, highlighting the success of MeatEater Kids Season 3, which has already raised over $2,200 for conservation efforts benefiting the next generation of outdoor enthusiasts.
Notable Quote:
"Each episode welcomes a diverse group of guests who add their own expertise to the vast world of the outdoors." – Podcast Description
Topic: Public Land Acreage
Question: Which of these pairings have the most combined public land? Nevada and Utah, California and Arizona, Alaska and Indiana, or Idaho and Colorado?
Correct Answer: Alaska and Indiana
Cal humorously questioned the tangibility of the $2,200 raised, prompting discussions about children’s understanding of money.
Notable Quote:
"Alaska alone has 325 million acres of public land, equal to the size of two Texas." – Spencer Newarth [08:17]
Topic: Synonyms for Fat
Question: Fat and lard are synonyms for this four-letter word used in pastries and bird feeder cakes.
Correct Answer: Suet
Participants debated the usage of "suet," with insights into its culinary applications and regional preferences.
Notable Quote:
"Suet is the hard white fat on the kidneys and loins of cattle, sheep, and deer." – Spencer Newarth [11:20]
Topic: Animal Sound Production
Question: These artists fake the sounds of animals in nature documentaries.
Correct Answer: Foley Artist
The role of Foley artists in enhancing the auditory experience of documentaries was elaborated, including their techniques and contributions.
Notable Quote:
"Foley artists pound coconut shells to mimic a galloping horse or run fingers across a fan for a dragonfly’s wings." – Spencer Newarth [14:38]
Topic: BLM Land Nickname
Question: This swath of BLM land north of the Grand Canyon is referred to as "America's Tibet."
Correct Answer: Arizona Strip
The nickname underscores the area's ruggedness and remote beauty, drawing parallels to the Tibetan Plateau.
Notable Quote:
"The Arizona Strip is about the size of Massachusetts, known for trophy elk and big horn sheep hunting." – Spencer Newarth [29:03]
Topic: State Record Muskies
Question: Name four of the eight states with a state record muskie over 50 pounds.
Correct Answer: Wisconsin, New York, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky
The finale tested participants' knowledge on big game fish, particularly muskies, highlighting regional records and the International Game Fish Association's (IGFA) stance.
Notable Quote:
"IGFA recognizes the world record muskie caught in Wisconsin at 67 pounds." – Spencer Newarth [47:35]
The episode is peppered with lively banter, showcasing camaraderie and playful competition among participants:
Randall Brody proposes creating a podcast for fellow participant Marshall, joking about his unpredictable hosting skills.
Notable Quote:
"Marshall is our youngest player, and we're serving up a lot of Marshall on MeatEater Kids." – Spencer Newarth [02:40]
Discussions about children's reactions to the $2,200 conservation fund illustrated the challenges in communicating financial concepts to younger audiences.
Notable Quote:
"Kids just don't have the same concept of money." – Nate [03:50]
After a tense trivia showdown, Giannis emerges victorious with a perfect score, earning the right to allocate the $500 donation to a conservation organization of his choice. This victory not only rewards Giannis but also reinforces the podcast's commitment to supporting environmental initiatives.
Notable Quote:
"The Arizona Strip is about the size of Massachusetts. The remoteness and ruggedness of this region is said to look like the Tibetan Plateau." – Spencer Newarth [29:30]
Steven Rinella wraps up the episode by acknowledging the competitive spirit of the trivia game and reiterates the importance of conservation efforts supported by the podcast and its listeners. He teases future episodes, ensuring fans are eager for more engaging content.
Notable Quote:
"Join us next week for more MeatEater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins." – Spencer Newarth [56:09]
Conservation as a Core Theme: The trivia game underscores the podcast's dedication to conservation, with every correct answer contributing to environmental preservation.
Community Engagement: Through interactive segments like trivia, The MeatEater Podcast fosters a sense of community among outdoor enthusiasts.
Educational Entertainment: The episode balances fun competition with informative discussions on topics like wildlife management, cooking with wild game, and the significance of public lands.
Stay Connected:
To support ongoing conservation efforts and participate in future trivia games, listeners are encouraged to engage with The MeatEater Podcast community through their official channels.
This summary captures the essence of Episode 734, highlighting the engaging trivia format, participant interactions, and the overarching commitment to conservation that defines The MeatEater Podcast. Whether you're an avid hunter, fisherman, or nature lover, this episode offers both entertainment and insightful discussions to enrich your outdoor experiences.