Ep. 821: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CXCIX

Summary

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The MeatEater Podcast Ep. 821: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CXCIX

Release Date: January 14, 2026
Host: Spencer Newarth
Panelists: Giannis Patelis, Brody Henderson, Randall, Corey, Nate, Logan Williamson

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Overview

This episode features a spirited round of "MeatEater Trivia," the long-running, conservation-themed outdoor game show where contestants vie for a $500 donation to the conservation organization of the winner’s choice. Host Spencer Newarth leads the crew and guests—including regulars and staff from First Lite—through a 10-question quiz spanning hunting, fishing, woodsmanship, wildlife, conservation, and cooking. Along the way, the group swaps stories with their signature mix of humor, in-depth outdoor insights, and friendly ribbing.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

First Lite at NWTF and Trade Show Banter

• First Lite & NWTF: Logan Williamson’s presence signals First Lite's prepping for the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) convention in Nashville next month (Presidents Day weekend).
  • "You can come see First Lite at NWTF. You can come see Giannis, me, Clay, some of the other crew members." (03:43)
• Owl-Hooting Contest: Team debates reviving a voice-only owl hoot contest at NWTF as opposed to tube calls.
  • “I think bringing back the voice, owl hoot would be a real hit.” (02:25 Giannis)
  • Discussing how calling techniques draw in real owls to the point of distraction.

Live Tour Stories & Regional Outdoor Culture

• Comparisons of owl-hooting skills from past live trivia tours.
• “Once we got into Texas, it just dropped off the cliff. Like those folks, like aren’t—aren’t owl hooters at all.” (05:18 Giannis)

Trivia Rules & Host Grading

• Unique Scoring: Nate proposes the negative 5 to 5 hosting scale, referencing his previous turn at hosting.
  • “I do think we should use negative 5 to 5 for roasts. ...” (06:23 Nate)
• Panel offers candid feedback on each other’s trivia-hosting performances, with much banter.

Correction from Previous Episode

• Spencer addresses a prior quiz dispute about “crop” vs “craw” as a four-letter organ in birds; both are accepted. (09:01 – 09:50)

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Featured Trivia Questions (with Answers & Commentary)

1. Boone & Crockett/Pope & Young Record Entries (11:34)

• Q: What's the cost to enter an animal into the Boone & Crockett or Pope & Young record books? ($0, $20, $40, $60)
• A: $40
• Memorable moment: “I never killed one big enough to have to find out.” (10:45 Giannis)
• Discussion on which applicants (official measurers, agencies) are exempt.

2. Landlocked Sockeye Salmon Beer (13:06)

• Q: This salmon shares its name with a Canadian beer.
• A: Kokanee
• Giannis: Reminisces about drinking Kokanee beer at 19: “...put it in the class of... Budweisers and Molson’s...” (13:32)

3. Popular Woodsmanship YouTube Channel (16:11)

• Q: Luke Nichols’ YouTube channel, quitting announcement in May 2025.
• A: Outdoor Boys
• Nickname discussion: “I always get served his content through someone else...” (15:49 Spencer)

4. Alliterative Conservation Term (18:50)

• Q: The maximum number of a species that can sustainably live in a given area (definition).
• A: Carrying capacity
• Wolves in Yellowstone used as a case study: “The number one killer of wolves in Yellowstone National Park? Other wolves. That is correct.” (19:27 Giannis & Spencer)

5. Amphibious Ten-Letter Goby Fish (22:42)

• Q: African/Australian goby that walks and breathes on land.
• A: Mudskipper
• Brody nails a tough question; group reminisces about related fish.

6. Oldest Outdoor Monthly Magazine Acronym F.F.G. (27:00)

• Q: Outdoor magazine since 1925: "Fur, Fish, Game"
• A: Fur Fish Game
• Giannis laments a lost Jack O’Connor book loaned to Steve Rinella:
  • “Never got it back and the salt gave it away.” (25:54)

7. Where Most US Pollock is Harvested (30:05)

• Q: Northernmost Pacific body, between Asia & North America, major pollock source.
• A: Bering Sea/Bering Strait
• All agree, but Nate’s spelling (“Bering Straiac”) draws laughter.

8. Butcher’s Vertical Saw (32:13)

• Q: Vertical saw with endless tooth belt (used in butchering).
• A: Band saw
• Giannis admits: “For a long period of my life, I thought that it was just called a bandsaw.” (32:24)

9. Extinct “Thylacine” Species (36:40)

• Q: Thylacine is another name for this extinct animal.
• A: Tasmanian Tiger
• Randall references the Willem Dafoe film “The Hunter”: (36:45)

10. Tree with Insect Name—Two Types: Black & Honey (39:27)

• Q: What tree is named after an insect, with black and honey varieties?
• A: Locust
• Side discussion on honeysuckle and its invasiveness; closing out Brody’s win.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On tour culture: “I just don’t know if our show attracts the people that can make the best owl hoots.” (04:34 Giannis)
• Band saw safety: “These things, I think, are dangerous. ...You have to sign a waiver before you turn it on, I think.” (31:27 Giannis)
• Dark Trivia Humor: “What’s the number one killer of wolves in Yellowstone National Park? Other wolves.” (19:30 Giannis & Spencer)
• Win gives back: “What are you going to do with your $500 donation? ...We’ll donate to National Wild Turkey Federation.” (40:55 Brody)
• Giannis’s post-game gratitude: "Thanks, Spencer." (41:11)

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Key Timestamps

• Trade show plans & live show stories: 00:46 – 05:41
• Host evaluation and feedback: 06:23 – 08:45
• Clarification on 'crop' vs 'craw': 09:01 – 09:50
• Game begins: 10:15
• First half of trivia (questions 1–5): 10:15 – 23:15
• Scoreboard check & color commentary: 23:15 – 23:56
• Second half of trivia (questions 6–10): 25:08 – 40:27
• Final scoreboard & winner's donation: 40:27 – 41:11

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Contest/Feature Details

• Contest Format: 10 questions, four outdoor “verticals” (hunting, fishing, conservation, cooking)
• Winning Prize: $500 donated by MeatEater to the winner’s selected conservation group.
• Winner: Brody Henderson – chose National Wild Turkey Federation.

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Tone & Atmosphere

The episode’s tone is irreverent, knowledgeable, and highly collegial. Regular guests tease each other over answers (and spelling), reminisce about outdoor lore, and share an authentic passion for hunting, fishing, and ecological stewardship. Good-humored debates about rules and memories of previous events show MeatEater’s mix of expertise, humility, and fun.

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Summary prepared for listeners who want every critical highlight without the banter, ads, and intros!

Transcript

[Spencer New Arth]

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[Spencer New Arth]

It's a media podcast. Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer New Arth. And today we're joined by Giannis Brody, Randall, Corey Nate and Logan Williamson. Logan, when you're in town, that means there's something happening with First Light. What is happening with First Light? We are just trying to get ready.

[Brody Henderson]

For the new year, specifically getting prepped for Nashville nwtf.

[Spencer New Arth]

I believe a couple of you folks will be joining us down there, but be our second year down there at the convention. And I mean it was awesome last year. The foot traffic was unbelievable. And I think just the quality of folks down there, I mean there's have never been to a trade show with nicer people walking, walking through the booth. So I think we all came home with brave reviews of NWTF and Nashville. Yanni, you loved it down there, right?

[Giannis Brody]

I like listening to turkey calls.

[Spencer New Arth]

So you like talking to the Southerners too about turkeys?

[Giannis Brody]

Oh, yeah. There. They like their turkey hunt. They're good at it.

[Spencer New Arth]

Yep. So you can come see First Light at nwtf. You can come see Giannis, me, Clay, some of the other crew members. We'll be there about one month from now. I think it's Presidents Day weekend.

[Giannis Brody]

Are you going to tell us we're going to host weekend party?

[Spencer New Arth]

We will have some details about that. What's going to happen? We have. We have a party that NWTF is. Have having.

[Giannis Brody]

Yes.

[Spencer New Arth]

Their second one ever. We're hosting it for the second time. There's going to be some trivia there. I think there might be some storytelling that happens. There's going to be an owl hoot contest.

[Giannis Brody]

You're 100% sure about that?

[Spencer New Arth]

No. But if we just put it out there.

[Giannis Brody]

Yeah.

[Spencer New Arth]

Who's going to tell us? No.

[Giannis Brody]

Maybe the universe will make it happen.

[Spencer New Arth]

Clay Newcombe is going to be in charge of that.

[Giannis Brody]

Yeah. Voice only. Yeah. Nothing against the guys that do it really well with the calls, but I went and sat in twice now to listen to them call. They're all really good. They almost all sound the same because they're all so good with their long owl hooting tubes. And I think bringing back the voice, owl hoot would be a real hit. And when you're down there, you're gonna hear some people that say, sound like owls. If you close your eyes and just imagine being in the woods.

[Brody Henderson]

You ever seen anyone call an owl in?

[Giannis Brody]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know who did it to the point where it got annoying was Guy Zuck. Remember him? Do you ever meet him at. In Michigan?

[Spencer New Arth]

Well, what was an owl's response?

[Giannis Brody]

Oh, my gosh, it's ridiculous. Not only one owl, but we're out there listening for turkeys, and I'm like, guy, bust out that badass barred owl call you got and, like, get a turkey to gobble. He's like, I don't do it. I'm like, why not? Oh, because it'll attract a bunch of owls. They're territorial. And I'm like, bullshit. You know, what are you talking about? He's like, okay. You know, does his thing.

[Spencer New Arth]

That's pretty good.

[Giannis Brody]

And I mean, it was good. Couple minutes go by and there's two, maybe a third one like A. Like 2 above us. Literally just come in another one 100 yards away and. And they are going bananas to the point you couldn't hear a gobble if there was. If it was 50 yards away, hammering. They're just on top of us just, you know, doing all their crazy sounds and guys like, see?

[Spencer New Arth]

Told you. Too good.

[Giannis Brody]

Yeah, too good. So he doesn't. He didn't do them anymore.

[Spencer New Arth]

You guys were doing owl hoots on the live tour. Do you know what city had the best representation of owl hoots? Randall Yanni.

[Giannis Brody]

I would say that it was either Fayetteville, Arkansas, or.

[Randall]

It was not. Generally speaking, it was not a proud showing.

[Giannis Brody]

Yeah. Overall. Yeah, Clay.

[Randall]

Oh, yeah.

[Spencer New Arth]

Regionally, I think I thought you would be impressed.

[Randall]

In the South, Clay's confidence.

[Giannis Brody]

It was better than when we've done our other tours on the west coast or just across the middle of the United States. But I just don't know if we. Our. Our show attracts the people that can make the best owl hoots.

[Spencer New Arth]

That's a challenge from Giannis. What. What other city? It sounded like they were going to come up with a.

[Randall]

There were a couple outstanding hooters. I'm trying to think of where we.

[Giannis Brody]

Started in Birmingham, right?

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Giannis Brody]

And we were definitely let down there.

[Randall]

Yeah, the guy.

[Giannis Brody]

But then the next Stop in Memphis.

[Randall]

Nashville had two good finalists.

[Giannis Brody]

Yeah.

[Randall]

But we were never in a situation where we had like eight good ones to choose from.

[Spencer New Arth]

Okay.

[Randall]

It was always fairly obvious who the finalists were.

[Giannis Brody]

Yeah, you can, you can definitely tell the regions where they're doing it more because that Alabama, Tennessee, and we had, you know, when you're there, people are driving from all those surrounding states. Right. So you always have Mississippians in there and whatever. Once we got into Texas, it just dropped off the cliff. Like those folks, like aren't. Aren't owl hooters at all.

[Spencer New Arth]

Well, NWTF calls. They're probably using electronic calls all the time. Could be nwtf, Valentine's weekend in Nashville. You can come show Yanni and Clay your best owl hoot. All right. This is a 10 round quiz show with questions for meat eaters. Four verticals which are hunting, fishing, conservation and cooking. There is a prize. Meat eater will donate $500 to the Conservation organization. Of the winners choosing, we have an IFAQ this week. It's from Matt Obardo. I enjoyed Nate as the guest host. How would Nate grade his performance on a scale of negative 5 to 5, which is a throwback to Nate. Nate thinks that that's how things should be scored instead of 0 to 10. So Nate, 0 or negative 5 to 5.

[Nate]

I do think we should use negative 5 to 5 for roasts. It would help with the scoring. I don't know if my performance was that good. I think we just had a great room.

[Spencer New Arth]

Oh, wow. I good hosting. You just did by passing off, you know, being very humble.

[Nate]

Well, I'm not known for that. So cool. But shouldn't the.

[Brody Henderson]

The contestants be the one to grade?

[Nate]

Let's see that. We'll say five y Spencer being like a four and a half or a five.

[Spencer New Arth]

Oh, wow. Thank you.

[Brody Henderson]

I wouldn't give him that.

[Nate]

Kenyon was probably. I would put Ken at Kenyon at like a negative two and a half or three.

[Giannis Brody]

As a contestant or a host?

[Brody Henderson]

As a host, I'd give you a. She did pretty good.

[Giannis Brody]

A two.

[Nate]

I'll take that.

[Spencer New Arth]

Randall observed the comments were very positive.

[Randall]

The comments were very positive. I thought you did a great job not being flustered by a lively room. I mean, we began the episode by just sort of antagonizing you for two minutes straight.

[Nate]

I did deserve that.

[Randall]

And I thought, you know, the questions were good. There weren't any like Steve stomping his feet about the veracity of any of your answers. You know, the one thing I think was just the Napoleon dynamite clue ruined the Whole.

[Giannis Brody]

Yeah, that was tough. Here's the thing that brought you down.

[Brody Henderson]

I muttered the actor's name.

[Spencer New Arth]

Yeah.

[Randall]

But nobody got it.

[Brody Henderson]

Started it.

[Randall]

But nobody got it.

[Brody Henderson]

I'm just saying, like, you started that ball rolling down the hill.

[Nate]

I. I have a little pushback there. If you were like, if Spencer did that, it would be wrong. But it's baked in because I'm a jabroni host. It had to happen.

[Spencer New Arth]

No. Right.

[Randall]

I got home.

[Giannis Brody]

Plus, it seems kind of bitter to.

[Brody Henderson]

Be mad about that when you won.

[Randall]

I'm just trying to give him some constructive feedback. I got home and Sydney was like, I listen to trivia. Holy shit. I can't believe he did that with Napoleon Dynamite.

[Nate]

That said, I don't think I will do that again.

[Spencer New Arth]

That's great.

[Nate]

So you learn.

[Randall]

Yeah, exactly.

[Nate]

Nobody's perfect.

[Spencer New Arth]

That's why he gave himself a two, not. Not a five, I thought.

[Randall]

All in all, though, I think for like a debut as a host of trivia, I think it's probably. I would call it a smashing success.

[Spencer New Arth]

There you go. Rand Randall pointed out there was one comment that said, I don't even like Nate, but he did a good job.

[Brody Henderson]

Nice.

[Spencer New Arth]

Even your haters accept it.

[Nate]

Well, I don't. Yeah, but you won him over. Listen, dude, I. It's a testament to the Lord Almighty that I'm this palatable, so. I hear you.

[Spencer New Arth]

We have some housekeeping. On a previous episode of Trivia, we had a question about the four letter organ at the base of a bird's esophagus, where food is stored before entering the stomach. The correct answer was crop. But about a dozen folks wrote in saying crop should also be correct. And I agree with them. It's a four letter word. And Merriam Webster has it defined as, quote, the crop of a bird or insect. So if you said craw for that question, then go ahead and give yourself the point. Crop.

[Brody Henderson]

Or I just thought that was people like Clay saying it wrong.

[Spencer New Arth]

No, that. That Merriam Webster says it's. It's literally the crop of a bird. So.

[Giannis Brody]

And how do they spell it? Cr.

[Spencer New Arth]

A W. Is that where like a.

[Nate]

Stick in my craw comes from?

[Spencer New Arth]

I don't know.

[Randall]

Probably stick in a bird.

[Spencer New Arth]

All right, the Shelby index for today is a three and a half, so our winner should get seven correct answers. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil. Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that?

[Nate]

You stand to win everything.

[Spencer New Arth]

Game on, suckers. Question 1. The topic is hunting. And this is multiple choice. What does it cost to enter an animal into the Boone and Crockett or Pope and Young record books? Is it $0, $20, $40, or $60?

[Giannis Brody]

I like the question. I like the question.

[Spencer New Arth]

What does it cost to enter an animal into the Boone and Crockett or Pope and Young record books?

[Giannis Brody]

I never killed one big enough to have to find out.

[Spencer New Arth]

$0, $20, $40 or $60? Has anybody gone through the process of entering anything?

[Giannis Brody]

Yeah, but not that big.

[Brody Henderson]

That one you killed with Cal.

[Spencer New Arth]

Really? Seven hunters in the room who have never gone through the Pope and Young or Boone and Crockett process. What does it cost to enter an animal? $0, $20, $40 or $60. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says 20. Logan says it's free. Randall free. Corey, $40. Giannis $60. Brody, $20.

[Randall]

All over.

[Spencer New Arth]

Every answer was represented. The correct answer is $40. Just who got it? Cory. Cory got that one right. Although it's free to have an animal scored, it does cost you to have an animal entered in their record books. But Bun and Crocket does not charge the $40 fee to its official measures. Museums, state agencies, or other nonprofits. Question 2. The topic is fishing. This next great question is via Stu McKissack. This type of salmon is a landlocked sockeye and shares its name with a Canadian beer.

[Brody Henderson]

I feel like we've had this question three times.

[Nate]

Still don't know.

[Randall]

So you said that in the flavor text for the last question, you said that they don't charge for state agencies.

[Brody Henderson]

In fact, I might ask this question.

[Randall]

So in some situations, the cost is zero.

[Spencer New Arth]

We're not going to give it to you if you said free, but it is free if you're an official measure, like Clay Newcomb. Oh, this type of salmon.

[Brody Henderson]

Is that why Clay's always saying, like 171 and 1516.

[Spencer New Arth]

He's an official measure? That's right. This type of salmon is a landlocked sockeye and shares its name with a Canadian beer. We have a confident room. Logan, do you have this one right? Is everybody ready?

[Giannis Brody]

I drank some of this beer in Canada as a 19 year old.

[Spencer New Arth]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Chinook. The rest in the room says Kokanee Bud, the good name for beer.

[Nate]

Dude, I don't fish or drink beer.

[Brody Henderson]

There's got to be a Chinook beer, I bet up in Alaska.

[Spencer New Arth]

Kokanee Beer was created in Creston, British Columbia, in 1962, and is named after the nearby Kokanee Glacier. Their website says, quote, kokanee is British Columbia in a bottle offering a crisp, glacier fresh taste. I've never had one. What's your review of it? Giannis, what's your review from another. I've never have.

[Giannis Brody]

It's been decades, but I would just put it in the class of, you know, the Budweisers and Molson's and other mass produced.

[Spencer New Arth]

Randall, what do you think of a coconut?

[Phil the Engineer]

I would, I would.

[Randall]

I associate it with like a Rainier, way better regional, easy drinking beer.

[Spencer New Arth]

Okay.

[Giannis Brody]

The only reason I got that, Brody, was because it was.

[Brody Henderson]

It was on a podcast.

[Giannis Brody]

You.

[Spencer New Arth]

You.

[Giannis Brody]

You talked about it.

[Brody Henderson]

I don't know if it was a trivia or just regular podcast, but like I said, we've had.

[Randall]

I think Spencer appreciate you. I have enough confidence in Spencer that he wouldn't repeat a question.

[Spencer New Arth]

Question 3. The topic is woodsmanship. Outdoor content creator Luke Nichols told his 15 million subscribers in May 2025 that he was done posting videos to this YouTube channel. Outdoor content creator Luke Nichols told his 15 million subscribers in May 2015 that he was done posting videos to THIS YouTube channel. Nate and Randall and Corey and Giannis all seem confident they already have an answer. Brody is joining them. Logan has a blank.

[Brody Henderson]

Yeah, bummed I even know it.

[Giannis Brody]

Useless knowledge.

[Spencer New Arth]

Yes. This is question three. Outdoor content creator Luke Nichols told his 15 million subscribers in May 2025 that he was done posting videos to this YouTube channel.

[Giannis Brody]

And I like how he dropped it under woodsmanship. A little bit of a stress.

[Spencer New Arth]

He's doing a lot of woodsmanship out there to 15 million people.

[Giannis Brody]

But the category should just be. Don't you have like a media category when you talk about movies?

[Spencer New Arth]

No, just fold it under whatever's most.

[Randall]

I would say that unfortunately that's probably the place where most people have learned woodsmanship in the last three years.

[Spencer New Arth]

It's quite popular, unfortunately.

[Brody Henderson]

I mean, as far as influencers go, the guy.

[Spencer New Arth]

I mean, has anybody watched his stuff?

[Nate]

Yeah, I've never watched his stuff. I just looked at a list of all his, like, videos, and his most popular video is a nerf war video.

[Spencer New Arth]

Okay.

[Nate]

And it's got like 250 million views.

[Spencer New Arth]

I always get served his content through someone else. Like, he didn't post it. Someone else grabbed 45 seconds from one of his videos and then put it out there. Does everyone have an answer for question three?

[Brody Henderson]

I definitely don't have this right.

[Spencer New Arth]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says outdoor boys. Logan says seek one. The rest of the room Says Outdoor Boys. They got it. The correct answer is Outdoor Boys.

[Nate]

I like that. Seek one though.

[Spencer New Arth]

The Outdoor Boys Channel followed Luke and his three sons as they hunted, fished, foraged and camped across Alaska. He called it quits after 11 years and 490 videos, but then dropped three more videos just six months after the announcement. He said the attention was making it hard for his family to live normal lives and that he's unsure if he'll ever return to making content. Question 4.

[Randall]

They always come back.

[Spencer New Arth]

They do. He said. Those other three videos were promised. He promised he would put those out. So he put those out. And then he said, that's it. Now I'm done.

[Randall]

Stem a little more jingle.

[Spencer New Arth]

Question for the topic is conservation. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Tyler Kearney for sending this great question. Tyler is going to get a board game signed by the crew. If you want a chance to win a listener question of the week, then send your question to Trivia atthe meat eater.com. this alliterative term is defined as, quote, the maximum number of species that can sustainably live in a given area. This is question four. Topic is conservation. It's our listener question of the week, which was won by Tyler. This alliterative term is defined as the maximum number of species that can sustainably live in a given.

[Brody Henderson]

There's too much information.

[Spencer New Arth]

A species.

[Brody Henderson]

Made it too easy.

[Spencer New Arth]

Okay, Brody says too easy. Keep talking, Brody. Need a couple more minutes.

[Nate]

You know, I was. When I made all my questions, you told me basically all of them were too hard.

[Spencer New Arth]

Yes.

[Nate]

I thought you were so far off, but I deferred to your experience and you were right. Like, if I'd done my original questions, they would have got, like one right.

[Giannis Brody]

Oh, so you came in with a.

[Brody Henderson]

Perfect game alert, which was total.

[Nate]

Dude, maybe I should get my wife in here and start playing, y', all, cuz she crushed.

[Giannis Brody]

How many did you get right to win?

[Brody Henderson]

Six, seven?

[Nate]

Well, tiebreaker. Tiebreaker.

[Giannis Brody]

Those are hard questions.

[Spencer New Arth]

This alliterative term is defined as the maximum number of species that can sustainably live in a given area.

[Randall]

Yeah, the first half was tough.

[Giannis Brody]

Yes, it's easy to do. I still write harder questions than needed.

[Spencer New Arth]

Corey, do you have this one right? No, I don't think so. Logan, do you have this one right? Not a chance.

[Giannis Brody]

Do you know what alliterative means? Yes, and I know.

[Spencer New Arth]

I know the answer.

[Nate]

It's just usually when alliteration, your tongue keep going.

[Spencer New Arth]

Someone needs help. Yanni, you got this one?

[Giannis Brody]

I believe so.

[Spencer New Arth]

After a brief Pause. He figured it out. Logan, do you give up?

[Brody Henderson]

Yeah, we're calling it.

[Spencer New Arth]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says carrying capacity. Logan. Without an answer. Randall. Carrying capacity. Corey says overabundant. Giannis and Brody say carrying capacity. The correct answer is carrying capacity. Food, water and habitat are the three main things that determine a species carrying capacity. Biologists estimate that the carrying capacity for wolves in yellowstone is about 100. It's believed there are 120 wolves living in the park right now, with their population fluctuating between 80 and 170 in the last 20 years.

[Giannis Brody]

You know what the number one killer of wolves in Yellowstone National Park?

[Spencer New Arth]

Other wolves.

[Giannis Brody]

That is correct.

[Nate]

Nice.

[Giannis Brody]

I always find that to be an interesting.

[Spencer New Arth]

I. I found it interesting. There's only 120 of them there.

[Giannis Brody]

Yeah.

[Spencer New Arth]

I feel like I've seen two dozen of them and I'm like, I can't.

[Brody Henderson]

Have seen shitload of wolves.

[Spencer New Arth]

One fifth of the wolves.

[Brody Henderson]

That's a lot of wolves.

[Spencer New Arth]

That's also a lot of country, a lot of elk, a lot of deer. Question 5. The topic is wildlife. This next great question is via Dylan Bussey. This ten letter fish is a type of goby native to Africa and Australia that's famous for its ability to walk and breathe on land.

[Giannis Brody]

10.

[Spencer New Arth]

The topic is wildlife. This is question five. This 10 letter fish is a type of goby native to Africa and Australia that's famous for its ability to walk and breathe on land. No confident players at the moment. I can see this little mutant animal in my head. We will look at a picture of it after this.

[Giannis Brody]

Damn it. I only got nine letters. Spencer, Same. This one queued up for us.

[Spencer New Arth]

Ten letter fish. It's a type of goby, native to Africa and Australia that's famous for its ability to walk and breathe on land. We have a stumped room. Brody has an answer. Do you like your answer, Brody?

[Brody Henderson]

Oh, yeah, that's right.

[Spencer New Arth]

Okay. You may be the only one. We will get a scoreboard update from Phil the engineer after this. And also look at a picture of this 10 litter fish. It's a type of goby native to Africa and Australia that's famous for its ability to walk and breathe on. Is this the.

[Giannis Brody]

Remember the fishing guy, Joel Noran?

[Brody Henderson]

Oh yeah, I remember him.

[Giannis Brody]

Didn't he own one of these? It's not that that's different, but that fish also can mess around outside of water for a while.

[Spencer New Arth]

Giannis, do you have a 10 litter fish?

[Giannis Brody]

No.

[Spencer New Arth]

Okay. Joel Nor King.

[Giannis Brody]

What? I like that guy. I liked him too.

[Brody Henderson]

It's just. I haven't heard that name.

[Spencer New Arth]

Brody Giddy bringing that up. Brody may be the only one of our six players to get this one.

[Nate]

You striking out right now, Logan.

[Brody Henderson]

I got one.

[Nate]

Nice.

[Giannis Brody]

Just put that out there.

[Spencer New Arth]

We can skip the scoreboard update. Yeah, I'm like 10 letter fish is a type of goby native to Africa and Australia that's famous for its ability to walk and breathe on land. Randall, how you doing down there?

[Randall]

Not great, Spencer.

[Spencer New Arth]

Okay, I think the wrong number of letters. We're probably waiting on you to give up.

[Randall]

Fine, do it.

[Spencer New Arth]

Does everybody give up? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Snakeheads. Logan, Snakeheads. Randall says Mud. Mud Puppy. Corey without an answer. Giannis, Snakehead. Brody, Mud Skipper. The correct answer is Mud Skipper. Nice, Brody got that one right.

[Giannis Brody]

Good job.

[Spencer New Arth]

Well done, Brody. Mud Puppy would not qualify.

[Randall]

Would that it doesn't have the right number. It's probably the same thing.

[Spencer New Arth]

So Mud Skippers will move across land to hunt for insects, crustaceans, find mates and escape predators. They do so by pulling themselves along with their pectoral fins when out of water, they have the unique ability to breathe. By trapping water in their gills and absorbing oxygen through their skin. They spend about as much of their life on land as they do in water. There is a picture of a man that looks like a Pokemon of Mud Skippers.

[Randall]

Yeah, and a mud puppy is not the same thing.

[Spencer New Arth]

Well, it didn't have 10 letters. I know, but I'm just trying to. You were so close.

[Randall]

I'm not asking for a point. I'm just want to know if I'm right.

[Spencer New Arth]

You were flirting with the right answer. I'm going to give it to you, Phil. Let's get a scoreboard update halfway through the game of trivia.

[Brody Henderson]

I haven't heard Phil say a word this whole game.

[Giannis Brody]

Is he back there today? Oh, hey, how's it going? Giannis, good to see you here. At halftime, we've got Logan with one singular point. He's on the board though Nate's got two. Corey, Giannis and Randall are tied up with three points. And with the only correct answer on Mudskipper, it's Brody Henderson in first with four. Anybody's game. Anybody's game.

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[Spencer New Arth]

Question 6 the topic is hunting. This outdoor magazine was created in 1925 and goes by the acronym Fox F G and their shorthand for that is F hyphen F hyphen G. This outdoor magazine was created in 1925 and goes by the acronym FFG.

[Brody Henderson]

Used to love reading this one.

[Giannis Brody]

I live next, not quite next door, a couple doors down from a fella that was an editor of this magazine for quite a while that gave me a first edition Jack o' Connor book that I lent to Steven Rinella at one time. Never got it back and the salt gave it away.

[Spencer New Arth]

Who did he give it to?

[Giannis Brody]

He doesn't even know. It was just taking up space and so he just needed to get rid of it. Yeah, he forgot who owned it. Now I will say he never had.

[Brody Henderson]

A lot of respect for o' Connor's writing.

[Giannis Brody]

Nope. I know that's why they got given.

[Randall]

For your private property.

[Giannis Brody]

Now in Steve's defense, he did give me as a trade, he gave me a Duncan Gilchrist Hunt High, which is also a classic. It's hard to find.

[Spencer New Arth]

But you prefer that Jack o' Connor first edition.

[Giannis Brody]

Well, yeah, I enjoyed. I enjoyed reading that book. It was like, it was like large format. Yep. It was a cool book. It had a bunch of letters. When he used to answer all the letters to the editor in there and he had just. The letters that he had picked out and published in that book had nothing to do. Not all of them. Some of them were hunting. Hunting, fishing. But most of them had nothing to do with hunting and fishing.

[Spencer New Arth]

Oh.

[Giannis Brody]

And so they were the, the kind of. Just the weird crazy stuff that had come in. But he still took the time to write back.

[Brody Henderson]

Wasn't he also a romance writer or something like that?

[Giannis Brody]

Oh, I don't know about that.

[Brody Henderson]

I think he might have.

[Spencer New Arth]

I'd like to read that book, Yanni, if you can just get it back. This outdoor magazine was created in 1925 and goes by the acronym F, F, G. This is question six. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Fish Field Guide. Logan Farmer's Field Guide. Randall. Fur Fish Game. Corey. Fur Fish Game. Giannis. Fur Fish Game. Brody. Fur Fish Game. The correct answer is Fur Fish Game.

[Brody Henderson]

Wonder if Steve O ever get published in for Fish Game.

[Spencer New Arth]

I felt like he wrote something trapping related for them.

[Giannis Brody]

There's a story about my dog and me in that magazine last year. Who wrote that two years ago? Can't remember. They actually took it. They did a podcast, and then they basically made an article from the podcast.

[Spencer New Arth]

Arthur Harding started his first outdoor magazine called Hunter, trader trapper in 1900, where he reported fur prices. But he sold the publication in 1914 due to poor health. When he recovered a decade later, he tried to buy it back, but the new owner wouldn't sell. So Harding purchased a different magazine called Fur News and Outdoor World and changed it to Fur Fish Game. Today they are the last national outdoor magazine that still publishes new issues each month. Question.

[Giannis Brody]

No kidding.

[Spencer New Arth]

And they look the same. Look at one of those covers that look like it did 30 years ago like it did six.

[Giannis Brody]

Man, I'm gonna get a subscription today.

[Spencer New Arth]

There you go.

[Giannis Brody]

Support them.

[Spencer New Arth]

Fur Fish Game. Last one's doing it on a monthly basis. 7. The topic is fishing. Most of America's pollock harvest happens here, which is defined as the northernmost part of the Pacific separating the continents of Asia and North America. Most of America's pollock harvest happens here, which is defined as the northernmost part of the Pacific separating the continents of Asia in North America. We have a confident room on question seven.

[Brody Henderson]

Boy, we had a banner year on pollock a couple years ago at Steve's Shack. You can drop down there without snagging one on every drop for a while.

[Spencer New Arth]

What's the top thing you would do with pollock?

[Brody Henderson]

The bigger ones we'd fillet. The boys wouldn't let him go, so we had to fillet them.

[Spencer New Arth]

But he's using for bait.

[Brody Henderson]

You can send a live one down there for halibut.

[Spencer New Arth]

Okay.

[Giannis Brody]

Oh, you don't save them for personal consumption.

[Brody Henderson]

We kept the bigger one. Just most of them we were catching.

[Spencer New Arth]

Oh, and like the. The imitation crab meat you get, I feel like that that's been slurried once.

[Giannis Brody]

Oh, yeah.

[Spencer New Arth]

It's like comes back in that shape, right?

[Giannis Brody]

Yeah.

[Spencer New Arth]

Most of America's pollock harvest happens here, which is defined as the northernmost part of The Pacific separating the continents of Asia and North America. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have everybody saying Bering Sea. And they got that.

[Brody Henderson]

What Nate said.

[Spencer New Arth]

Oh, what did Nate say? Bering Straight. Bering Sea or Bering Strait? I had it wrote down. I would accept both. He spelled both words wrong, though. B, E, R, I, N, G, S, T, R, A, I, C. Bearing.

[Randall]

Like Vetus bearing.

[Spencer New Arth]

Oh, of course.

[Nate]

Oh, yeah. Now I know.

[Spencer New Arth]

According to Noah, the Bering Sea pollock fishery is the largest single species fishery in the world. It's estimated that fleets bring in 1.5 million tons of pollock from here each year, which is enough to make over 1 billion fish sandwiches. This rich stretch of water is also famous for its salmon, Pacific cod, halibut, snow crab, and king crab. Question 8. The topic is cooking. Butchers use this type of vertical saw with an endless tooth belt to make precise cuts through meat and bone. I need one of these. Last question was a 100. This one has potential for that as well.

[Giannis Brody]

I screwed the pooch on that one.

[Spencer New Arth]

Butchers use this type of vertical saw with an endless tooth belt to make precise cuts through meat and bone. Yeah. Corey is asking for someone to send our office one. So we all have access to. To one of these.

[Giannis Brody]

Yeah. These things, I think, are dangerous. Oh, boy. Dangerous. I don't know if you'd want to have one in an office. No, but you have to sign a waiver before you turn it on, I think so.

[Spencer New Arth]

Is it more dangerous, though, than, like, using the wrong tool to try to do this? Like, if you had a sawzall trying to accomplish.

[Brody Henderson]

I use a sawzall for that stuff all the time.

[Spencer New Arth]

I do, too, but no, no. Maybe I think this would be.

[Giannis Brody]

Maybe not. But we also don't have a sawzall laying around for everybody just to grab when they want to make these cuts. Yeah.

[Spencer New Arth]

This is question 8. Butchers use this type of vertical.

[Brody Henderson]

When you see a video, someone doing endless toothpick, like, whatever, a shank or something, like from above. It's scary.

[Giannis Brody]

Oh, yeah.

[Spencer New Arth]

Yeah. Is everybody ready?

[Giannis Brody]

I hope so.

[Spencer New Arth]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate and Logan and Randall. Everybody says band saw. Everybody got it correct? No, Brody didn't say soft.

[Giannis Brody]

What?

[Brody Henderson]

What did you.

[Randall]

Giannis, what did you have to change there?

[Giannis Brody]

Oh, I had to add the D. For a long period of my life, I thought that it was just called a band saw. Oh. And then at some point, I realized it's a band saw.

[Spencer New Arth]

I'm sure you would have got it right. Band saws are Built for making clean cuts through frozen meat and bones. Home Depot has tabletop options that start at 300, or you can spend five figures on a standalone commercial version. Phil, let's get a scoreboard update with two questions to go.

[Giannis Brody]

I didn't know they're that cheap. Here at halftime, we've got Logan with three.

[Randall]

It's not halftime, Phil.

[Giannis Brody]

It's not halftime. Thanks, Randall. Appreciate that. Question 8. Nate's got 4. Randall, Corey and Giannis are tied with 6. And still in first place by one point is Brody with 7.

[Spencer New Arth]

Question 9. The topic is conservation. This next great question is via Adele Tabor. This extinct species was also known as thylacine. Oh, boy. Come on, Cory. I'm sorry. I saw online that this is also pronounced thylacine as well. But I hear it, but thylacine more often. It's T, H, Y L A C.

[Giannis Brody]

I, N E. Nate, why do you know this?

[Nate]

Because I like extinct species.

[Spencer New Arth]

Extinct species.

[Nate]

I don't know. I might have some gumption with this question.

[Randall]

Phil, I'm sorry that I stepped on your toes.

[Nate]

Oh, no, that was important.

[Giannis Brody]

I'd much rather have you do it than some schmo in the comments. Comments?

[Nate]

Somebody.

[Randall]

Yeah. If they thought we were halfway through, but someone had seven points, they think we'd change the rules of the game.

[Spencer New Arth]

Yeah.

[Giannis Brody]

A bunch of bumbling fools in here.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Spencer New Arth]

This extinct species is also known as thylacine. Nate is confident. Randall is confident. Brody, say that maybe Giannis.

[Nate]

Oh, he's losing it.

[Spencer New Arth]

Logan with a. I love how Nate.

[Brody Henderson]

Tries to, like, throw his weight around.

[Nate]

Hey, you know, I'm. I'm not going to win. I'm just going to hear talk. Crap, dude.

[Giannis Brody]

There's very little context in this question.

[Spencer New Arth]

Extinct species was also the name of the animal.

[Randall]

I was gonna say that.

[Conspiracy Theories Podcast Host]

Nate.

[Giannis Brody]

What a dick.

[Randall]

But I'm glad you said it.

[Spencer New Arth]

So good to be here in the imposement office.

[Giannis Brody]

Oh, boy. Hey, we'll. I'll take you out to lunch after this loss. Appreciate that, Yanni.

[Randall]

Little team. Little team.

[Spencer New Arth]

Lunch.

[Giannis Brody]

Can I go get some?

[Brody Henderson]

The only time we get a lunch is when Giannis comes in.

[Giannis Brody]

Yeah, hopefully the suits don't listen to trivia for this episode.

[Randall]

Do a little hot beef sandwich.

[Giannis Brody]

They're gonna have a. Val's gonna get a call. Hey, tell us about how many lunches Yanis is buying.

[Spencer New Arth]

How many pizzas?

[Brody Henderson]

She stopped.

[Spencer New Arth]

Brody, how do you feel about your answer? You narrowed it. 50.

[Giannis Brody]

50.

[Spencer New Arth]

Okay.

[Giannis Brody]

Stylus. Seen.

[Spencer New Arth]

What is a thylacine, thylacine or thylacine? This Extinct species is also known as thylacine. What?

[Giannis Brody]

It's got to be related to hunting and fishing. He wouldn't do. He wouldn't. Don't count on it.

[Randall]

It's in the category of animals.

[Spencer New Arth]

The topic was conservation. This extinct species is also known as thylacine. Yeah. Nate is confident. Brody and Randall are maybes.

[Randall]

The rest of the reasonably confident.

[Spencer New Arth]

Meh. Logan, are you ready? Nah. One second. Corey, do you have this one right? No, but I have an answer. Logan. I mean, maybe I'm right. Thylacine.

[Giannis Brody]

God, if it's something cool like a saber tooth tiger man would be.

[Spencer New Arth]

There's a. Oh, careful.

[Randall]

Yeah, there's a.

[Giannis Brody]

Tracks. Thylacine.

[Randall]

I should Just wait.

[Nate]

Yeah. Just wait.

[Brody Henderson]

Yeah.

[Spencer New Arth]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Tasmanian tiger. Logan says mammoth. Randall. Tasmanian tiger. Corey, Mammoth. Giannis. Booby. Bluefield. Tasmanian tiger. He crossed out devil. The correct answer is Tasmanian tiger. Randall and Nate and Brody got that one right. What do you have for flavor test?

[Randall]

Oh, I was gonna. I was gonna ask if Willem Dafoe has made a movie in which he hunts one of these.

[Brody Henderson]

That's right.

[Spencer New Arth]

Yes. About that movie. Yeah. Doesn't love the movie. Love to talk about the movie. Most biologists believe Tasmanian tigers went extinct sometime in the 1950s, while others think they might have made it into the 21st century. One of the most optimistic researchers is Barry Brook, a mammal ecologist from the University of Tasmania. He believes there's a 10% chance that the Tasmanian tiger is still alive, but is ready to admit they're extinct if a clear photograph isn't produced by the year 2031. Five years left on the trail, there is a picture of one on our screen that Phil is showing us. That was one of the last remaining ones that I think died in a zoo. All right, here's a correct answer review so far. One was $40 to enter a record book animal 2. Kokanee 3. Outdoor Boys. YouTube channel 4. Carrying capacity 5. Mudskipper. 6. Fur Fish Game magazine. 7, Bering Sea. 8, Band Saw 9, Tasmanian Tiger. Phil, let's do one more scoreboard Update before question 10.

[Giannis Brody]

Let's take a look here at this last scoreboard update. We have Logan still with three points, Nate's got five, and the players left in the game are Corey and Giannis with six. Actually, no, because this is question 10. So it's only down to Randall, who has seven, and Brody, who has eight.

[Spencer New Arth]

If Brody gets this one right, he will be the winner. Question 10. The topic is woodsmanship. Black and honey are the two main types of this tree which shares its name with an insect.

[Giannis Brody]

Cheese.

[Spencer New Arth]

An insect. Brody has it. Nate has it. Giannis has it. Randall, Corey and Logan not as confident. Do you have this one right, Randall?

[Giannis Brody]

Randall's got it?

[Randall]

I think so.

[Spencer New Arth]

Black and honey are the two main types of this tree which shares its name with an insect. This is the final question. If Brody has this right, he will have nine correct answers and the victory.

[Giannis Brody]

There's another honey, the honeysuckle, which I am battling after we made our big all our cuts in Wisconsin.

[Brody Henderson]

I didn't know it grew that far north.

[Giannis Brody]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate]

Is it invasive?

[Giannis Brody]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate]

I didn't know that.

[Giannis Brody]

Yeah, according to. But yeah. Bush honeysuckle, according to the forester, on some neighboring public lands. He thinks that that and garlic mustard are the two existential major threats to forests.

[Spencer New Arth]

We have honeysuckle in our landscaping. We planned this last year and it did the best out of every single thing we put it around. It's crushing it. The pollinators love it, especially the hummingbirds. We had like a two week window where hummingbirds showed up and that was their preferred plant was a honeysuckle.

[Giannis Brody]

And I'm gonna go spend hundreds of dollars and many hours of my time trying to kill it.

[Spencer New Arth]

There you go. Black and honey are the two main types of this tree which shares its name with an insect. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says locus. Logan says walnut. Randall says locus. Corey says maple. Giannis and Brody say locus. The correct answer is locusts. There are about a dozen types of locust trees and shrubs that are native to North America, with most occurring in the south and east. They are popular in landscaping and also planted in old strip mines to help fix nitrogen in the soil.

[Brody Henderson]

I think it might be black locust has one of the highest BTUs for firewood.

[Spencer New Arth]

Like of all of them, they also have. Don't they have the pods that have like the.

[Brody Henderson]

We used to have one in our yard when I was a kid. Yeah, this big. Seed pods. Yeah, we'd play with those things.

[Spencer New Arth]

Honey locust or black locust. All right, Brody is our winner with nine correct answers today he beats Randall by one point. Brody, what are you going to do with your $500 donation?

[Brody Henderson]

Since you guys are headed off to have fun talking turkeys, we'll donate to National Wild Turkey Federation.

[Spencer New Arth]

$500 going to NWTF from Brody and me. Well done, Brody. Join us next week for more meat eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins.

[Giannis Brody]

Thanks, Spencer. Thanks, Spencer.

[Nate]

Thank you?

[Brody Henderson]

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.

[Conspiracy Theories Podcast Host]

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[Spencer New Arth]

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[Phil the Engineer]

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