Ep. 865: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCXIII

Summary

The MeatEater Podcast — Episode 865: “Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCXIII”

Date: April 22, 2026
Host: Spencer Newharth
Guests: Brody, Nate, John, Marge, Logan, Maxwell
Format: 10-round trivia focused on hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. Winner’s prize: $500 charity donation.

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Episode Overview

This edition of the MeatEater Podcast is another lively and competitive round of MeatEater Trivia. Host Spencer Newharth leads a rotating panel of familiar MeatEater personalities through a 10-question quiz show, with topics spanning hunting, fishing, conservation, and wild foods. As always, the episode is filled with camaraderie, playful banter, surprising facts, and a hearty dose of good-natured competition. The stakes are real: the winner gets to direct a $500 donation to their conservation organization of choice.

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Key Themes & Structure

• Trivia as edutainment: Outdoor education through friendly competition.
• Community participation: Listener-submitted questions and mailbag.
• Outdoor camaraderie: Expert knowledge mixed with anecdotes and humor.
• Highlighting conservation: Prize donation to a conservation foundation.

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Mailbag & Cold Open (03:28–12:00)

Elk Judging Field Tips

• Listener Q (03:44): “Any tips for judging the difference between a 330 and a 360 bull elk?”
  • Jason Phelps: “Every bull is put together so differently that it's hard to judge them off a quick visualization. Look for a standard 6-point base: 15” tine length, 50” beams, 40” spread, 60” mass—adds up to a 350. Adjust from there. Start by checking for 6 points, then judge the frame.”
  • Giannis Putelis: “Quick and dirty: mass, width, and beam on a mature bull average 200 inches. On a 6-point, multiply average tine length by 10, then add 200.”
    • “For example, 15 times 10 is 150, plus 200 — that’s 350 inches.”
  • Brody (06:18): “I'm never going to use formulas or a calculator. Just look for long main beams and long third and fourth points. That fourth should be pushing 20-24 inches for a great bull.”
  • Maxwell’s humor (07:25): “If you pull up the gun and start doing one of these [miming scope movement], it’s probably pretty big.”
  • General consensus: There’s no perfectly quick way to eyeball; experience matters.

Phil as Hypothetical Contestant (08:48)

• Phil is challenged about his trivia skills:
  • “I think I'd crush cooking. Hunting would be abysmal; fishing possibly worse. Maybe mountain men or geography.” (08:54)
  • Phil has absorbed lots of info since 2019 but wonders how much he’s actually retained (09:20).

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Highlighted Trivia Questions & Answers

1. Smoking Fish — Best Wood (12:11)

• Q: “According to Outdoor Life, what is universally the best wood for smoking fish? (Mesquite, Hickory, Pecan, or Alder)”
• Correct A: Alder
• Brody (14:52): “Anything in the fruit tree arena is good for sweeter and milder [flavors] versus the heavy-duty smoke of hickory or mesquite.”
• Spencer (15:04): “Mesquite and hickory is like taking a sledgehammer; alder, oak, apple, or cherry is like using a paintbrush.”
• Notable moment: Most contestants defaulted to hickory, but Brody and Maxwell nailed alder.

2. Most Produced Shotgun in History (15:18)

• Q: “According to Rock Island Auction Co., the Mossberg _____ is the most produced shotgun.”
• Correct A: 500
• Spencer (17:48): “There have been 12 million Mossberg 500s made, about 1 million more than the Remington 870.”
• Discussion: Maxwell surprised himself by incorrectly answering Remington 870; Brody was certain on Mossberg 500.

3. Invasive Eurasian Dove (18:37)

• Q: “The invasive Eurasian _____ dove is identified by a black neck stripe.”
• Correct A: Collared
• Info: Introduced from Bahamas escapees in 1974, now widespread, outcompete mourning/white-winged doves.
• Brody/Maxwell: “You could probably walk outside and find one of these in 30 seconds.” (19:45)

4. Horse Measurement Unit (25:30)

• Q: “This unit, equal to 4 inches, measures horse height to the withers.”
• Correct A: Hand
• Spencer (28:18): “4-inch unit is roughly the distance between your pinky and thumb; goes back to ancient Egypt. Average horse is ~15 hands tall.”

5. Livestock-toothed Fish (28:43)

• Q: “This ten-letter saltwater fish is named for its teeth, which resemble livestock’s.”
• Correct A: Sheepshead
• Brody: “Sheepshead’s teeth let them crush crabs, oysters, barnacles. New teeth replace old.”
• Anecdote: In the Midwest, “sheephead” can mean freshwater drum, but only the saltwater species has those teeth.

6. Whitetail Buck Hoax (34:01)

• Q: “The Mitch _____ buck, believed to be a hoax, had 30-inch main beams and spread.”
• Correct A: Rompola
• Story: In 1998, Michigan’s Mitch Rompola claimed a world-record whitetail (216”), never entered for official scoring; debate lingers, majority of hunters (83%) polled believe it’s a hoax.
• Brody: “Steve’s dream project is a movie about this story.” (34:32)

7. Galápagos Location (39:44)

• Q: “What ocean are the Galápagos Islands in?”
• Correct A: Pacific
• Spencer (42:11): “Galapagos is 600 miles west of South America, consists of 13 main islands; home to 188 species labeled as threatened.”

8. Bunny Boots’ Other Name (47:13)

• Q: “Bunny boots, issued in the Korean war, are also known by this cartoony name.”
• Correct A: Mickey Mouse boots
• Brody: “I only knew them as [Mickey Mouse boots].” (47:44)
• Spencer: “Extreme cold vapor barrier boots, down to -60°F; army surplus bunny boots ~$100.”

9. Whale Filter Plates (51:11)

• Q: “This six-letter word describes bristly plates some whales have instead of teeth.”
• Correct A: Baleen
• Fact: Baleen is made of keratin (also in hair and nails). Blue whales can eat 35,000 lbs of krill per day.

10. Boating Accidents by Month (55:52)

• Q: “2023 data: What month has the fourth-most boating accidents?”
• Correct A: May
• Order: July (most), Aug, June, May (4th), Sept (5th).
• Insight: Winter months have deadlier (not more frequent) accidents due to conditions.
• **Brody missed this, losing a perfect game; Nate got it right.

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Scoreboard & Outcomes

Standings (After Question 10)

• Brody: 9/10 (Winner)
• Nate: 5/10 (Second place)
• Rest: Logan, Max, and Marge trailed with 1–2 correct each.

Notable Scores and Format Twists

• Brody flirted with a perfect game until the final question.
  • “I wish someone would give Nate a run for second place!” (51:50)

Prize Donation (59:22)

• Nate’s Pick: $500 to The Station Foundation Hunt Track—supports wounded or transitioning Tier 1 military vets learning to hunt from scratch.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On judging elk size: “Long ass main beam and long third and fourth points—that’s what I would look for.” – Brody (06:18)
• On trivia categories: “There’s a part of me that wants to say Star Wars and tiki drinks, but those are deep oceans.” – Phil (10:26)
• On choosing wood for fish: “Mesquite and hickory is like taking a sledgehammer ... alder or apple is like a paintbrush.” – Spencer (15:04)
• On dove IDs: “A rock dove is a pigeon.” – Spencer (21:02)
• Banter: “If you pull up the gun and start doing one of these, it’s probably pretty big.” – Maxwell (07:25)
• On horse measurement: “Hands go back to ancient Egypt—3.7 inches for a hand, 4.25 for a fist.” – Spencer (28:18)
• Consolation prize rules: “Whoever finishes second gets to pick the donation.” – Brody (33:53)
• Rompola buck lore: “Steve’s dream project is a movie about this.” – Brody (34:32)
• On bunny boots: “I only knew them as Mickey Mouse boots.” – Brody (47:44)
• Boating accident logic: “It’s just like which holiday do people get more drunk during? That’s the question!” – Nate (57:22)

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Timestamps for Notable Segments

• Mailbag & Q&A: 03:28–12:00
• Game Start: 12:11
• Trivia Highlights: Best wood for smoking fish (12:11), Most produced shotgun (15:18), Invasive dove ID (18:37), Measuring horses (25:30), Sheepshead fish (28:43), Rompola buck (34:01), Galápagos Islands’ ocean (39:44), Bunny boots/Mickey Mouse boots (47:13), Whale baleen (51:11), Boating accidents by month (55:52)
• Final Score/Charity Pick: 59:22

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Episode Takeaways

• Education as entertainment: The episode cleverly imparts practical knowledge and fun factoids about the outdoors—sometimes trivial, sometimes profound.
• Friendly competition: The cast’s camaraderie and mutual respect make for an engaging listen, with plenty of inside jokes and good-spirited teasing.
• Conservation heart: Every episode reaffirms MeatEater’s motto: “Conservation always wins.”

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For Newcomers

If you haven’t caught a MeatEater Trivia episode before, this is an excellent entry point—an accessible mix of field wisdom, laughter, and the outdoorsman’s version of “Jeopardy!” Each question offers not only a challenge but a learning moment, and the crew’s banter guarantees you’ll be entertained while you learn.

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Next time: Join the crew for more stories, more strange facts, and more opportunities for conservation to “always win.”

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[Spencer]

It's a meat eater podcast. Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host Spencer Newharth and today we're joined by Brody, Nate, John, Marge Logan, and am I missing anyone? Maxwell.

[Maxwell]

Maxwell, I'm here.

[Spencer]

This is a 10 round quiz show with questions from Meat Eater's four verticals which are hunting, fishing, conservation and cooking. There is a prize. Meat eater will donate $500 to the Conservation organization of the winner's choosing. All right, we have a couple mailbag questions today. Again we're going to start doing more of this instead of the IFAQS that are just about trivia. So send your questions to triviator.com if you would like the crew to answer them. This first one is from Matthew Meshke. I'm from North Dakota and just drew a once in a lifetime elk tag. I'm 25 and this will be my first elk hunt. Do you guys have any advice on judging elk? Let's say a 330 inch bull compared to a 360. Thanks. I am not the guy to answer this, but we work with some people who are the people to give you a good answer. The first one here is Jason Phelps. He says every bull is put together so differently that it's hard to judge them off of just a quick visualization. He's saying it's hard to tell the difference between a 330 and a 360 just from a glance. He goes on to say that you need to do some studying and he says start with the base on a standard six point ball. If you have 15 inch tine length, 50 inch beams, 40 inch spread and 60 inches of mass, you have a 350 inch bowl, then you can deduct and add on from there. He said you just. First you want to check that there's six points, then the frame, then see how it's all put together. So that's, that's what Phelps says. Basically there is no quick way to field judge Giannis Putelis. Here's what he says. Here's a quick and dirty way to field judge bull elk. On big mature bulls, the average mass, width and main beam length will be about 200 inches. And then here's where the math starts. The last thing to score then is the tine length. On a six point bull, if you take the average length of the tines and multiply by 10 since he has 10 scorable points and then add that to 200, you'll get a good field judgment. For example, if you have a bull that has an average tine length of 15 inches, I'd guess I'm looking at a 350 inch bull. The math breaks down. 15 times 10 is 150 plus 200. That equals 350. If every point is pushing or exceeding 20 inches, then you're looking at a 400 inch bull. My buddy Jay Scott has done a lot of content on YouTube and Instagram about field judging. He also has an app called Horn Score that will teach you how and help you field judge elk. Yanni says he'd recommend both. Brody, do you have anything to add?

[Brody]

Yeah, like, I'm never going to be the kind of person that's going to walk around with those kind of math formulas or like a calculator. Like I get it. Like I just feel like you're gonna know when you're looking at a giant number one. But what I would look for in simpler terms than what those guys described is a long ass main beam and long third and fourth points. Like tall third. Like that. Especially that fourth one. If it's like 20, 24 inches, you're looking at a really good bull.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Brody]

Um, but whoever said it, Phelps, like the difference between a 3:30 and a 3:60s. Like not that much.

[Spencer]

He's saying you need to study it. Yeah, even, even when you study it, it's not a guarantee.

[Brody]

10 or 15 inches, that could be air. If you're just looking at one that's wide and one that's narrow. You know, so long main beams long, real long third and fourth is what I would look at first. Like as a general impression.

[Spencer]

Anyone else in the room have some input from Matthew on how to field judge giant elk?

[Nate]

I like Max's.

[Spencer]

Yeah. What was Max's input?

[Maxwell]

If you pull up the gun and start doing one of these, it's probably pretty big.

[Spencer]

Did you write this question, Max? Somebody from North Dakota do a very good elk tag.

[Maxwell]

I wonder where is he from or if I know him. What's his first name? Matt.

[Spencer]

Matthew Meshke, but Maxwell, also from North Dakota, and drew a good elk tag this year. So we're good enough.

[Maxwell]

Oh, yeah. But not in North Dakota.

[Spencer]

No, no, no.

[Maxwell]

Did you know non residents can't hunt in North Dakota elk?

[Spencer]

Yeah, well, I guess I. I assumed that same way in South Dakota, and I feel like they manage similar. Yeah, I. Again, I'm. I'm not an elk killer in the room, but I spent some time around big elk and like, Yellowstone, specifically. The first thing that always jumps out to me, I'm like, oh, my God, that's a big bull. Is. It's whale tails. If it's got, like, really big whale tails, I'm like, oh, I'm. I'm looking at a giant bull right now. Like, long or with just both. Like, it's like, oh, my goodness. Those. Those are.

[Brody]

There's some space that comes into that. Like, long fourth point, you know.

[Spencer]

Any other input from Matthew Logan? What was your input?

[Logan]

I mean, I've personally never killed a bull elk, so I mean, it sounds like he's in a similar situation where

[Spencer]

this is his first once in a lifetime tag.

[Logan]

Yeah, once in a lifetime. But, yeah, don't go home not filling your tag. So I wouldn't. I wouldn't be too concerned.

[Spencer]

Good advice about that. We have another mailbag question. This would be the last one from Joshua Fowler. If Phil played along with trivia, what would he score? We. More episodes with Phil playing Phil?

[Marge]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

How would you.

[Phil]

Do you think I would do?

[Brody]

All right.

[Phil]

I think I've said before that I would. I think I'd crush cooking.

[Maxwell]

I don't.

[Phil]

I don't mean to, like, talk myself up. I feel like I know. I know most of the cooking questions. Everything else would be. I mean, hunting would be abysmal. Fishing would be possibly worse. But I think I'd do okay in conservation or some of your weird, more esoteric categories like mountain men or geography,

[Brody]

whatever you call for a non hunter. Phil has absorbed a lot of information in the last as much as eight years. How long have you worked here, Phil?

[Phil]

Since 2019. And I've heard every episode of the Meat Eater podcast, some of them multiple times, but I don't know how much of that I've actually retained. It would be a good test.

[Spencer]

You keep track today and see how you would do on this episode. If we had Phil's four verticals, if this was his brand, Phil Eater, what would the four verticals be?

[Phil]

Oh, man. Well, I think video games would be my best category. Anything before 1995 would be spotty. I do okay, though. I'd say like the 1990s and early 2000s Seattle Mariners. That's. I think I do really well there.

[Spencer]

Is that the team that won like

[Phil]

how 100 some games in 2001, they. They tied the record for having 162 wins.

[Spencer]

162 games.

[Brody]

Was he already gone at that point? Phil?

[Phil]

No, he was still there in the, in the mid-90s, but he was. He was gone by the time they tied the record for games. Here's a whiteboard for you. Oh, thank you.

[Spencer]

Most wins was 116.

[Phil]

116. Yeah.

[Brody]

Ye.

[Spencer]

Okay, so we video games, early 2000s Mariners, two more categories.

[Phil]

Yeah, I'd say like music. I think I do pretty well.

[Spencer]

Tiki drinks.

[Phil]

Well, here's the thing. There's a part of me that wants to say like Star wars and tiki drinks, but those are deep oceans and people, I think people would call me a poser and say that I'm putting up rookie numbers there. And then I'd say let's just stick with meat eater cooking as the fourth one.

[Spencer]

Oh, wow. Okay. Good for Phil.

[Phil]

There we go.

[Spencer]

You'll do okay. On today's episode, we have some housekeeping to get to before we play. On a previous episode of Trivia, I had a question about the seven letter chemical that M44 bombs spray in the face of coyotes. The correct answer was cyanide. And in the flavor text, I again referenced how they explode in the coyote's face. But Jay wrote in to say that this isn't quite accurate. He pointed out that cyanide is housed in a plastic capsule that's sealed with wax. When the spring, when the spring loaded plunger is triggered, it forces the solid cyanide out of the capsule and directly into the mouth of the coyote. There is no explosion and no cloud of cyanide. The emailer points out that I'm using jargon from anti hunting propaganda by incorrectly referring to it as an explosion or a cyanide cloud. You know what, Jay? I think you're right that it's important to be accurate with those things. So there is no cloud of cyanide. There is no bomb like explosion for those. It is a capsule that's deploying into the coyote's mouth. All right, the Shelby index for today is a four. So our winners should get eight correct answers. That's possible. 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.

[Maxwell]

Everything.

[Spencer]

How's that?

[Nate]

You stand to win everything.

[Spencer]

Game on, suckers. Question 1. The topic is Phil's vertical cooking. No. And this will be multiple choice. According to Outdoor Life, blank is, quote, universally the best wood for fish. Is it mesquite, hickory, pecan, or. Alderman, Europe.

[Nate]

You're a pecan guy.

[Spencer]

According to Outdoor Life, blank is universally the best wood for fish.

[Brody]

The best for what, like bonking them on the head or like smoking them?

[Spencer]

I think they're referring to smoking universally the best wood for fish. Your four choices. Hickory pecan alder. Just all fish.

[Brody]

Turkey hunting. But he doesn't know much about smoking fish, does he?

[Logan]

Smoky meats.

[Spencer]

According to Outdoor Life, this is universally the best wood for fish. Mesquite, hickory pecan alder.

[Maxwell]

I'm trying to think. When I buy those wood pellets, it says, like.

[Spencer]

It's got the graph on the back,

[Maxwell]

and it says, like, what it's good for.

[Spencer]

Yep, it's a good place to start. Brody, do you have this one right?

[Brody]

I have what should be the right answer.

[Spencer]

Oh, okay. That's a good way to put it.

[Maxwell]

According to Brody.

[Logan]

Henderson.

[Spencer]

Logan, have you smoked any fish?

[Logan]

Yeah, I smoke a lot of trout.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Logan]

But I kind of just use whatever pellets I have.

[Spencer]

Whatever's handy. John, how about you?

[Nate]

Same exact thing.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Nate]

Nate, fish smoker, not a big fish guy.

[Spencer]

Marge, smoking fish? No, no, Maxwell. Smoking fish.

[Maxwell]

Occasionally the salmon. Like on a cedar plank, I guess, with heather.

[Spencer]

There you go. You were observing.

[Maxwell]

What kind of wood did you use there?

[Spencer]

Hey, your four choices for the universally best wood for fish. Mesquite, hickory, pecan alder. Is everybody ready?

[Maxwell]

Yeah, I think so.

[Spencer]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says hickory. Logan? Hickory. Marge? Hickory. And she drew us a nice dead fish that's getting smoked. John? Hickory. Maxwell Alder. Brody, Alder. The correct answer is Alderman. Got that one right. Tasting table. Bradley. Smokers, Global Seafood Seafoods and others agree that alder is the top choice for smoking fish. They say it produces a mild, delicate, sweet smoke that enhances a fish's flavor instead of overpowering it. After alderwood, the next most popular choices for seafood are oak, apple, and cherry.

[Maxwell]

Beautiful, bro.

[Spencer]

Do you have any other input on choosing wood for Smoking fish.

[Brody]

I would say anything like, in the fruit tree arena is good for, like, sweeter and milder versus, like, heavy duty smoke flavor like hickory or mesquite.

[Spencer]

Yeah, I've seen it described as, like, mesquite. And hickory is like taking a sledgehammer to something while, like, an alder or an oak or an apple or a cherry is like a paintbrush to something. And so you're looking to do the paintbrush when you're doing fish.

[Marge]

You learn something new every day rather

[Spencer]

than hitting it with a sledgehammer. Question 2. The topic is hunting. This next great question is via David Rayom. According to Rock Island Auction Company, the Mossberg Blank is, quote, the most produced shotgun in history. Nate and Max had their answers before I finished the question. According to Rock Island Auction Company, the Mossberg Blank is the most produced shotgun in history.

[Nate]

I'm surprised by this.

[Spencer]

Yeah, I feel like there's another gun you jump to as, like, oh, that's the most produced one. And we can get into the stats after this, but I think that one's not far behind.

[Nate]

That's what I shot my turkey with on Wednesday.

[Spencer]

Oh, good.

[Maxwell]

Really?

[Spencer]

That's like.

[Brody]

You're gonna be real disappointed with your answer, Max.

[Maxwell]

Really?

[Spencer]

Wow. Okay. Too late to.

[Maxwell]

I wonder if we have the same one, man.

[Phil]

Tell them how you really feel, Bruno.

[Spencer]

According to Rock Island Auction Company, the Mossberg Blank is the most produced shotgun.

[Nate]

Oh, I'm trying to think.

[Spencer]

In history.

[Nate]

No, if this gets real ticky tacky, I'm gonna be pissed.

[Spencer]

Okay. Nate is now unsure of his answer. I just know between Brody and Max, I would feel like Max has a deeper knowledge of shotgun. So I'm excited to see what you guys have for your answers.

[Maxwell]

I mean, I can't.

[Brody]

Got it right.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Brody]

Like, 100%.

[Nate]

Wow.

[Spencer]

Okay. Is it just not a Mossberg that he wrote down, or did he write down a Mossberg?

[Brody]

It's not a Mossberg.

[Spencer]

All right, buddy.

[Maxwell]

No.

[Spencer]

What gun am I thinking? We're gonna give our other.

[Brody]

What Spencer was talking about a little bit longer.

[Nate]

Hey, no, no, no, no. You gotta stop over there, brother.

[Spencer]

According.

[Nate]

He got the first one right.

[Spencer]

Island Auction Company, The Mossberg Blank is the most produced shotgun in.

[Nate]

All right, let's flip these Bad Larry's large.

[Spencer]

John Logan. How you doing?

[Marge]

I'm not answering.

[Spencer]

Yeah, I mean, I guess I keep thinking.

[Nate]

I keep think that I have owned.

[Brody]

All right, all right, well, that's fine. Everyone's got their answer.

[Spencer]

Johnny, give up and down, man. Go ahead and reveal your Answers. Nate says Osberg 500. Logan says 12 gauge. Marge drew us a strutting turkey trying to John without an answer. Max says the Remington 870. Brody says the Mossberg 500. Brody. Who knows more about shotguns? Oh, the correct answer, Spencer said, is the Mossberg 500.

[Maxwell]

Why did I say 870?

[Spencer]

There have been 12 million Mossberg 500s made, which is about 1 million more than the second place Remington 870. That's created by Carl Benson in 1961 with the user base in mind being hunters. But the pump action shotgun was quickly adopted by law enforcement and military, which raised its popularity as one of the world's most used guns.

[Nate]

We had 870s in the armory, not five hundreds.

[Spencer]

I. I think it probably varies.

[Maxwell]

I'm right on.

[Spencer]

What?

[Nate]

Well, I'm just saying the military, like, I thought it was gonna be the opposite of that.

[Maxwell]

Gosh, Yeah, I had 870 in my mind. I was like, yep, it's got to be it.

[Spencer]

Do you own a Mossberg 500?

[Maxwell]

No.

[Spencer]

No, I don't.

[Maxwell]

Or an 870?

[Spencer]

Oh, wow, he's a fancy. You don't go with one or two on the most made shotgun?

[Maxwell]

No.

[Spencer]

Question three. The topic is conservation. The invasive Eurasian blank dove is easily identified by a black stripe that sits on the bird's neck. Nate and Brody already have their answer. Max is joining them. The invasive Eurasian blank dove is easily identified by a black stripe that sits on the bird's neck.

[Logan]

Man, my last name is dove. This is disappointing that I don't know the answer to this.

[Spencer]

We'll educate you all about doves after this.

[Nate]

Cousin Eurasian.

[Spencer]

The invasive open season Eurasian blank dove is easily identified by a black stripe that sits on the bird's neck.

[Brody]

Sometimes I have to get the old red rider for these things when they're in my garden.

[Spencer]

Yeah. Max, do you know this one?

[Maxwell]

I would hope so.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Brody]

That's right, Max. Good job.

[Spencer]

Max is back on track.

[Phil]

And Spencer, I've gone through the questions. The fill index is also a four today.

[Spencer]

Oh, okay.

[Nate]

Great.

[Spencer]

I like that. Marge, do you have this one right?

[Marge]

No.

[Spencer]

John, how about you?

[Nate]

I think so.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Brody]

I bet you could walk out this door and go outside and find one of these things in like 30 seconds.

[Spencer]

I think so.

[Maxwell]

Yeah.

[Nate]

You could also find a moose in about 30 seconds.

[Brody]

I heard.

[Spencer]

Yeah, I heard that today.

[Logan]

Oh, was that in the like actual pond back there?

[Maxwell]

Is that Parker over here?

[Logan]

Oh, okay.

[Maxwell]

But some. I don't know who it was, but someone told me that the moose Was

[Nate]

walking around like, our dude, how are your chicks doing? I want a chick update there.

[Maxwell]

I think I'm 99.9% sure there's a hen nesting in our hen house.

[Brody]

You need to swim out there and take a look.

[Spencer]

I don't need to swim.

[Maxwell]

So, yeah, the Drake is just like, using the pond and like the hen's nowhere to be found and like you can't confirm it in the hen house, but it's like there's a little bump in there that I think it's a little baby bump. Little hen mallard.

[Spencer]

So one more time, we're on question three. The topic is conservation. The invasive Eurasian blank dove is easily identified by a black stripe that sits on the bird's neck. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says rock. Oh, Logan. Morning, Marge. Morning. John Collard. Maxwell. Collared. Brody. Collared. The correct answer is collard.

[Nate]

What was I thinking?

[Spencer]

Eurasian collared.

[Maxwell]

I don't think you were.

[Brody]

You know what a rock dove is?

[Spencer]

It's a pigeon.

[Marge]

Pigeon.

[Maxwell]

That's it.

[Nate]

Dang.

[Spencer]

The Eurasian collared dove is native to Africa, Europe and Asia. It made its way into the United States after some escaped from captivity in the Bahamas in 1974. They are taller and heavier than the native mourning dove and white winged dove and are easily identified by the black stripe that forms a semicircle on the back of their neck. Most states allow unregulated hunting for collared doves as they out compete native birds for food and nesting sites. As Brody said, you'll. You'll find them in the Gallatin Valley here, as I think probably potentially all

[Maxwell]

50 states and all times a year too. It doesn't matter. Usually morning doves pitch it south like in the fall, but like, Eurasian doves are here all winter long.

[Marge]

Do they taste good?

[Brody]

Tastes like a dove.

[Spencer]

Yeah, I think if you did a Pepsi Challenge, you wouldn't know the difference is my guess. Now, the other day at my bird feeder in my backyard, I had a white winged dove, which was very exciting because those are typically found in the Southwest. They're a desert bird and it's kind of uncommon for them to make it up this far north. White winged Doug.

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[Spencer]

for the topic is woodsmanship. This unit of measurement, which is the equivalent of 4 inches, quantifies the distance between the ground and a horse's withers. Nate has his answer. Max says he's got it. This unit of measurement, which is the equivalent of 4 inches, quantifies the distance between the ground and a horse's withers.

[Maxwell]

I think

[Nate]

I don't know any other that would fall into this category for some reason.

[Maxwell]

I have a reason why I put this answer down, but I don't know where it came from.

[Nate]

I do too.

[Brody]

You know, Nate, I don't think you get enough credit for being one of the most well dressed people at mediator.

[Spencer]

You know, what did I tell you this morning?

[Maxwell]

Thank you. What did I tell you this morning?

[Nate]

Thanks a lot.

[Brody]

Rarely, usually I get a T shirt.

[Spencer]

Yeah. He also got complimented. We were filming something down in the kitchen earlier and he walked by letting his dog out, and Nick Glenn complimented him.

[Nate]

That's very sweet.

[Spencer]

And then Nate said that he wore this to church yesterday and he didn't want to fold it up, say it was his Monday outfit.

[Nate]

I laid it on the ground. I think Chip slept on it last night. And then I put it back on this morning.

[Phil]

I did discover that I have a

[Nate]

hole right in my crotch, though, in this. So don't look now.

[Spencer]

They're too holy for church.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

This unit of measurement, which is the equivalent of 4 inches, quantifies the distance between the ground and a horse's withers. I was making some smoked salsa down in the kitchen. We taste tested it beforehand. Give us a review, somebody, so that people want to go watch the video of it when it comes out in a few days.

[Nate]

It was delicious.

[Maxwell]

I thought it was great.

[Logan]

So good. Spicy.

[Marge]

I'd put that on chicken. Not just chips. It was very good. Not just tacos.

[Maxwell]

You outdid yourself, Spencer.

[Spencer]

That video will be up very soon.

[Nate]

I rolled up to the grill expecting to say you were smoking some fish or whatever.

[Spencer]

Turkey.

[Nate]

And it was salsa.

[Brody]

To the meat eater store. Spencer's chilies. Spencer's salsa.

[Logan]

It kind of tastes like hot mama's salsa. I don't know if you've had that

[Maxwell]

one, but it's like, oh, Isn't that from Costco?

[Spencer]

No, it's like around this area.

[Phil]

It's a local Bozeman.

[Logan]

Yeah.

[Maxwell]

What's the one from Costco? That's really good.

[Nate]

Oh, that peach salsa dude is.

[Brody]

It's a little salty, but it's good.

[Spencer]

Is everybody ready for the unit of measurement? Yellow. It's equal to 4 inches. Quantifies the difference.

[Brody]

Don't think so, but maybe.

[Spencer]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says hand. Logan says cap. Marge without an answer. John without an answer. Max says shoulder. Brody says hand. The correct answer is hand. Brody and Nate got that one right.

[Nate]

Tyler Childers.

[Maxwell]

Maybe. That's what I was thinking about.

[Spencer]

This 4 inch unit is roughly the distance between your pinky and thumb when your fingers are held together. The hand measurement goes back to ancient Egypt where a hand was 3.7 inches and a fist was 4.25 inches. On horses, hands refer to the distance between the ground and the top of the shoulders. The average horse is about 15 hands tall, while a tall horse is usually greater than 16.

[Maxwell]

I knew shoulders was in there somewhere.

[Logan]

What are withers?

[Spencer]

Withers would be the top of the shoulders, I believe. Shoot. Question 5. The topic is fishing. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Matthew Smith for sending this great question. Matthew is going to get a board game signed by the crew. If you want a chance to win the listener question of the week, then send your question to triviator.com. this ten letter saltwater fish is named after its teeth that resemble what you'd find in the mouth of livestock. This 10 letter saltwater fish is named after its teeth that resemble what you'd find in the mouth of livestock. The room looks stumped.

[Logan]

Wow.

[Spencer]

Yanni was supposed to be here today. And I expected that Yanni and Brody would immediately have this one right. This ten letter saltwater fish is named after its teeth that resemble what you'd find in the mouth of livestock. But this could be a zero percenter. I gotta read this, Phil, one through five. Which of these would you have right so far in our first five questions?

[Phil]

So this was my toughest stretch here. I think the only one I would have gotten right would have been the cooking one. Number one, Alder smoked salmon is a PNW delicacy.

[Nate]

So of course.

[Spencer]

Come on, Brody, do you have a 10 litter fish?

[Brody]

Yep.

[Spencer]

Nate, do you have a 10 litter fish?

[Nate]

Yeah. I feel like I'm in another tropical type situation.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Maxwell]

Named after its teeth.

[Spencer]

This ten letter saltwater fish is named after its teeth that resemble what you'd find in the mouth of livestock. We will get a scoreboard update from Phil the engineer after this.

[Logan]

I had a nine letter fish and I added one letter. So we'll see how it pans out.

[Spencer]

All right.

[Nate]

It's always a good strategy.

[Phil]

Yeah. Number five. Here was one where I, I. It's one of those ones where you hear the answer and you're like, oh, but I don't think I would have put together. If that's a hint for anybody. I don't think it is.

[Spencer]

10 letter saltwater fish is named after its teeth that resemble what you'd find in the mouth of livestock. Do our other three players give up?

[Marge]

I'm gonna get skunked this game.

[Spencer]

Oh, you got. You got a couple in you. Marge Maxwell, you give up?

[Nate]

If I get this wrong, I'd like to present my case to the jury or judge or whoever.

[Spencer]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says cuttlefish. Logan, sheepshead. Marge without an answer. John without an answer. Max without an answer. Brody. Sheep's head. He got it. The correct answer is beautiful. Sheep's head.

[Maxwell]

Nice work.

[Nate]

You'd find cud in the mouth of livestock.

[Phil]

Nope.

[Spencer]

Is that why they're called cuddle?

[Brody]

I don't think your logics work.

[Nate]

I'm just.

[Marge]

The biggest thing is that cuttlefish aren't fish.

[Spencer]

Mm.

[Nate]

Touche.

[Spencer]

Okay, thank you.

[Nate]

I rest my case.

[Spencer]

The sheepshead range stretches along the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to Brazil. They use those unique teeth to crush and grind shelled animals such as crabs, oysters, and barnacles. New teeth are constantly replacing old teeth that wear down and break. Here's a picture of their mouth. This is why they call them sheepshead.

[Logan]

I thought they were. It was just sheephead.

[Maxwell]

One of these.

[Marge]

That's why I wrote.

[Brody]

I think it's a weirdly different versions of this fish. Well, that there's many fish that have this name, and sometimes you'll hear them called sheephead.

[Spencer]

Freshwater drum. That's one that where I grew up,

[Brody]

there's Atlantic sheep head. There's Pacific sheephead. They don't look anything alike.

[Spencer]

Like, yeah, if you ask somebody where I was growing up, if they, like, what'd you catch today? And they were to catch a freshwater drum, there's like an 80% chance they would say a sheephead. But those drum do not have the teeth like this. So that I think you're like using the external or the. The exterior of the fish to be like, that looks like the head.

[Brody]

Yeah, like growing up In Lake Erie, we considered those things trash fish.

[Logan]

Oh, this is so good. When we went to Florida, we caught a bunch of those. Yeah, it was super fun to fish for. We, like, drop it down this.

[Spencer]

This sheep's head you're talking.

[Maxwell]

Yeah, I caught one on the fly rod.

[Brody]

Oh, these things are very good to eat. Real good to eat.

[Spencer]

All right, we are halfway through.

[Brody]

That's a baby black drum.

[Maxwell]

I'm pretty sure at the stripes and everything.

[Brody]

Look, baby black drum out of stripes.

[Spencer]

Do you remember those teeth, Max?

[Maxwell]

I remember those teeth. All right.

[Spencer]

Black drum, maybe. All right, Phil, halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard up.

[Nate]

Oh, bud.

[Phil]

Here at halftime. Maggie's not on the board yet with zero points. Logan and John have one point a piece. Nate and Max are tied up with two and with a perfect game. He doesn't have a flushed face. Dr. Nipping at his heels today. He's feeling good.

[Brody]

I wish he was here.

[Phil]

He's got five points. Brody Henderson.

[Nate]

Oh, we need, like, a colossal just

[Brody]

to see the sweat pouring down his face.

[Spencer]

Brody could ramp up the earliest victory ever by, like, Question seven. We'll see how this goes.

[Brody]

How about this, people?

[Maxwell]

Let's do it.

[Spencer]

I am all about it.

[Brody]

Finishes second, gets to pick the donation.

[Nate]

Oh, I like it. I like it. Consolation prize. So kind.

[Spencer]

He's not going to give you the window.

[Nate]

No, no.

[Brody]

You can pick who it goes to. So keep playing.

[Spencer]

Question 6. The topic is hunting the Mitch Blank buck, which is widely believed to be a hoax. Measured over 30 inches for its main beams and inside spread. Brody has the perfect game. Finish his answer before I finish the question. The Mitch Blank buck, which is widely believed to be a hoax, measured over 30 inches for which main beams and inside spread.

[Nate]

This is sneaky.

[Brody]

Steve's dream project is to do a big movie about this.

[Maxwell]

I know.

[Nate]

I think I got it then.

[Phil]

Yeah, I was gonna say I thought it was cool. It was a pretty big hint.

[Brody]

That's all right, Phil.

[Phil]

He's moving back to animals today. I'm not worried for you, Brody.

[Maxwell]

Is it that guy?

[Brody]

Well, it's like getting in the right direction. We'll see what Spencer says. Okay, but no.

[Phil]

Doesn't sound like Max knows.

[Spencer]

Got some letters mixed up. Maybe in the wrong place.

[Maxwell]

I thought this.

[Spencer]

The Mitch Blank buck, which is widely believed to be a hoax, measured over 30 inches for its main beams and inside spread. Nate, do you have this one right?

[Nate]

Yeah, I think so.

[Maxwell]

Okay. I thought it was.

[Nate]

You almost got me.

[Spencer]

You sneaky sneak. I don't Think I just told you

[Brody]

you're going in the right direction.

[Maxwell]

I know.

[Spencer]

Trickery.

[Nate]

Then I probably don't have it.

[Spencer]

Okay, yes.

[Nate]

No, I think I got it.

[Spencer]

Steve is obsessed with this story, as I think many hunters from his part of the world are.

[Nate]

Dude, I got some juicy deets on the beady Buck.

[Spencer]

Okay, yeah, we'll talk about it after. It's not Mitch Beatty buck.

[Nate]

No, it's not that.

[Spencer]

The Mitch Blank buck, which is widely believed to be a hoax, measured over 30 inches for its main beams and inside spread. I have heard that you need to be careful what you say about this deer because the family is litigious.

[Brody]

Oh yeah, yeah, It's a good word.

[Spencer]

Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. No, Logan says Letterman. That's a different. That's a famous muley here in Montana. Marge without an answer. John without an answer. Maxwell says Mitch.

[Maxwell]

Paula, I had Ron Paula down.

[Spencer]

Brody says Rompalo. The correct answer is Rampala. Now what do you have there? Show us again. You have R A P. What else? Yeah, I have Mitch Paul.

[Maxwell]

Paul.

[Spencer]

Oh, so close.

[Maxwell]

I thought it was two names. I had Ron Paul.

[Spencer]

Ron Paul. Max's answer is like if we played a game of choice telephone. And he was last.

[Maxwell]

Yeah, most of the time.

[Spencer]

It is Mitch Rala. The Mitch Raala buck was supposedly killed in 1998 in Grand Traverse County, Michigan. It measured over 216in, which topped the world record Milo Hansen buck. But the deer was never officially entered into the Boone and Crockett record books, which added to speculation about the rack's authenticity. A fellow Michigan hunter even publicly offered to give $10,000 to a charity of Raala's choosing for him to get the skull X rayed. But Rampala declined. According to 2006. 2006 polling from Whitetail.com 83% of hunters believe the buck is a hoax.

[Nate]

It just looks like. It looks like the friggin Bigfoot footage.

[Spencer]

We have a picture of the Mitch Rompalo buck here. And Mitch was also known for like killing incredibly, incredibly wide deer out of the same like area in Michigan. That is not known.

[Brody]

No, it's like for big deer.

[Maxwell]

This was pre AI too.

[Spencer]

So yeah, 1998, he had to do some man not pretty bones manual work to Allegedly Spencer.

[Maxwell]

Allegedly.

[Spencer]

Of course, yes. Do you have any, any story for us, Nate, on the beady buck?

[Nate]

Okay, so what's the Beaty buck? The beady buck was the largest atypical until like what, Mufasa was killed or whatever. That one in Illinois. Or Iowa. God, you know what I'm talking about.

[Spencer]

Yes, Luke Brewster.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Nate]

Killed that buck. But that. I was killed real close to my college. Cedarville, Ohio. Shout out. And it was killed right on the edge of this, like, nature preserve that nobody gets to run around in. And giant bucks get grown all the time. So everyone's always talking in that area, like, oh, was it really killed on the edge? Yeah, but we were. We were a party and went down the basement, and there's a life size Beatty buck. What the heck? Whose house is this? And it was John Beatty's house.

[Spencer]

Oh, damn.

[Nate]

His daughter's throwing a party.

[Brody]

Hopefully he's not listening, but that doesn't settle the controversy.

[Nate]

Well, that's how it all got started. We were like, what the heck? And then, yeah, today's point.

[Spencer]

Whenever a really big deer gets killed, it doesn't matter if it's Mitch Rompalo or anybody in the world. There is speculation about how it died and the legality of everything. When Dustin Hough killed his United States record. Typical buck. And I had talked to him that next morning. I told him. I was like, dude, get a game warden to come out today and just, like, verify all of your facts, and then there will be no question as to how any of this went down. And that was one of the first steps he took, just because this. This naturally happens no matter what. Question 7, the topic is conservation. What ocean are the Galapagos Islands located in? What ocean are the Galapagos Islands located in? This is question seven. The topic is conservation.

[Brody]

This is a tough one.

[Spencer]

Oh, dude, this could ruin Brody's game.

[Brody]

It could.

[Spencer]

Maxwell rocking his Minnesota Wild hat today.

[Maxwell]

Big game tonight.

[Spencer]

How they gonna do in the playoffs?

[Maxwell]

Well, they beat the Stars first game, round one. So I have hopes for him. Not high hopes. I just have hopes.

[Spencer]

Okay. What ocean are the Galapagos Islands located in? This. This episode's coming out in a couple days. Maxwell, make us a prediction for the Wild tonight.

[Maxwell]

The Wild win, okay, By a score of 3. 2.

[Spencer]

All right, is everybody ready? No, we've got Max distracted with oceans.

[Maxwell]

I know. I'm trying to name my oceans.

[Spencer]

What ocean are the Galapagos Islands located in?

[Maxwell]

Trying to try my consonants, too.

[Spencer]

Nate, did you change your answer?

[Nate]

No. I should have, though.

[Spencer]

It's not too late.

[Nate]

I know, I know. I'll be more pissed if I change it and get it wrong.

[Spencer]

Marge, do you have this one right?

[Marge]

I think so.

[Spencer]

Okay. She shook her head no and said, I think so.

[Maxwell]

Gosh, why am I. I'm Just blanking.

[Spencer]

Maxwell, we're waiting on you.

[Maxwell]

Yeah, that's fine. We can wait all day.

[Nate]

I'm just recalling Think of a Christmas Song.

[Brody]

I think there's a few you can eliminate pretty quickly, man. But I'm not aware of your, like, grass of geography, so.

[Maxwell]

I know, but I'm just trying to think when one starts and one ends.

[Spencer]

Me and Max.

[Brody]

Think about it.

[Spencer]

Me and Max grew up in the Dakotas. And in western South Dakota, you have the point of inaccessibility, which is the furthest you can be on the continent from saltwater.

[Maxwell]

Wow.

[Spencer]

Me and Max. It's tough going.

[Marge]

It's not the Arctic.

[Spencer]

Okay, thank you.

[Maxwell]

I got that one crossed out, man.

[Spencer]

Couple more seconds here. Max, you good? John, are you good?

[Phil]

Yes.

[Spencer]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate, Atlantic. Logan, Pacific. Marge, Pacific. John, Indian. Max, Atlantic. Brody. Pacific.

[Brody]

If it's Indian, I'm going to be mad.

[Spencer]

The correct answer.

[Marge]

It's not Indian.

[Spencer]

Is the Pacific Ocean. Brody keeps his perfect game going across.

[Marge]

They're part of Ecuador.

[Logan]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

The Galapagos Islands are located.

[Brody]

You kept going. You'd hit the Indian Ocean if you kept going that way.

[Marge]

I mean, in the. In between China and India is the Indian Ocean.

[Spencer]

The Galapagos Islands are located about 600 miles west of South America. They consist of 13 main islands and six smaller islands. The Galapagos are home to 188 species that are labeled as critically endangered, endangered or threatened.

[Nate]

I was just stuck on Master and Commander. Dude.

[Maxwell]

I was thinking.

[Phil]

I thought they were.

[Nate]

That whole movie was oceans.

[Marge]

Australia. Like, eventually.

[Spencer]

But I was thinking, okay, world traveler March.

[Brody]

The two oceans touch each other.

[Marge]

I mean, all oceans touch each other.

[Brody]

No, they don't. The Arctic Ocean doesn't touch that, like, Southern Ocean.

[Marge]

Of course it does.

[Spencer]

How?

[Maxwell]

All water's connected.

[Marge]

All the ocean is all connected.

[Nate]

He's saying Adjacent question 8.

[Maxwell]

Come on.

[Spencer]

The topic is gear.

[Nate]

He still got it right. He's still whacking all of us.

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[Spencer]

8. The topic is gear. Bunny boots, which are also known by this cartoony name, were created by the US Military during During the Korean War.

[Nate]

N. Dude, I almost bought a pair of these at the thrift store yesterday.

[Spencer]

Oh, that's a good place to find these. Brody, do you have this one right?

[Brody]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Bunny boots, which are also known by this cartoony name were created by the US military during the Korean War.

[Brody]

In fact, I only knew them as.

[Spencer]

Oh, you didn't know what the answer is. Nate, do you own a pair of these then or no. How about you? Have you ever put your feet in bunny boots?

[Brody]

Me?

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Brody]

Yeah.

[Nate]

Ice fishing?

[Spencer]

No, I can't remember.

[Brody]

It was some meat eater thing. Maybe it was ice fishing. I don't know.

[Spencer]

Brody and Nate have it, but it used to be.

[Brody]

I don't know, like I haven't been in the army surplus store in so long, but used to be able to just go pick them up.

[Nate]

Oh, dude, that one. That coming back from Salt Lake is so good. What's that one called?

[Maxwell]

Phil, do you got this one right?

[Phil]

This was one I did not get correct. No, man.

[Maxwell]

Can I call my dad?

[Nate]

Maggie, I feel like you just wear these to work sometimes.

[Phil]

I feel like I've seen that.

[Nate]

No.

[Spencer]

Max, do you think. Do you think your dad owns these? Do you think your father in law owns these?

[Maxwell]

He probably does.

[Spencer]

Okay. He would know what bunny boots are also known as. Yeah. Bunny boots, which are also known by this cartoony name were created by the US military during the Korean war.

[Maxwell]

I'm gonna take a picture and send it to my dad's tv. Gets it.

[Marge]

Nate.

[Nate]

What? Maybe that's what I'm thinking.

[Maxwell]

Bill's in it this time and not Reva.

[Spencer]

This is Max.

[Maxwell]

New trick.

[Spencer]

He likes to phone a friend, but it doesn't count.

[Maxwell]

Well, I just I don't know the answer until they text back.

[Spencer]

Logan, do you have this one right?

[Logan]

I don't think so.

[Spencer]

Okay. They probably have these at the army surplus store in Chicago.

[Maxwell]

My dad's worst text or two, so he's not gonna reply for a while.

[Spencer]

Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Mickey Mouse. Logan, space boots. Marge without an answer. John says Mox. Maxwell without an answer. Brody, Mickey Mouse boots. The correct answer are Ms. Mickey Mouse boots.

[Marge]

We have a picture.

[Spencer]

I don't.

[Brody]

You'll recognize them.

[Spencer]

Yeah, they. Well, I'll describe for you what they look like. Bunny boots are extreme cold vapor barrier boots that are designed to be worn in temps down to negative 60 degrees Fahrenheit. They were also referred to as Mickey Mouse boots due to their oversized appearance that resemble the footwear of the Disney cartoon. Army surplus bunny boot can be purchased for about 100 do. While some commercial brands will sell their own versions that retail for between $200 and $400.

[Brody]

The whole deal is you inflate them. Right.

[Spencer]

I don't know how they're vapor works, but, like, the thing is they have. They had the vapor lock.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

But they're giant boots that are either like pure white, which I think is when it's a bunny boot, or black when it's a Mickey Mouse boot. And Phil has done a great job of producing over there, and he pulled us up a picture.

[Marge]

My fabukis look like those.

[Nate]

Don't know what those are, but they

[Marge]

kind of look like the Alaska company boots that. Seth.

[Spencer]

Those are the Mickey Mouse boots. You're right.

[Marge]

Gotcha.

[Spencer]

And I bet some people call them space boots. Logan. But that. We're not going to count that as a cartoony.

[Logan]

I originally had looney tunes written down.

[Spencer]

All right, Bill, two questions left. Please give us a scoreboard update.

[Phil]

Everyone's on the board now. Maggie and John have one point. Logan and Max tied up with two. Nate's got four now. And Brody, still with a perfect game here in the final stretch, has eight points.

[Spencer]

Question 9. The topic is wildlife. This next great question is via Chris DeVries. This six letter word refers to the bristly plates that some whales have instead of teeth, which they use to filter krill, plankton, and small fish.

[Maxwell]

My.

[Spencer]

Probably the first time in meteor trivia history where we have had two questions about animal teeth.

[Marge]

What if you spell it wrong?

[Spencer]

Oh, if you got everything else right there, Marge, But a letter to is wrong. That's okay. This six letter.

[Maxwell]

Yeah, trust me, it's okay.

[Spencer]

Marge refers to the Bristol plates that some whales have instead of teeth which they use to filter krill, plankton and small fish.

[Maxwell]

I know what we're talking about. This is a whale.

[Nate]

As soon as I hear it, we

[Spencer]

have a picture of those teeth. After this answer is revealed. Brody, is this going to keep the perfect game going?

[Brody]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Brody]

Yeah. I wish someone would give Nate a run for second place.

[Maxwell]

Talk about this, right?

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

You know, good job, Matt. We don't even need to show the picture.

[Maxwell]

It looks like a dragon.

[Spencer]

I hope that Marge1 ups you though

[Marge]

and shows I didn't draw a picture and I just trying to spell.

[Spencer]

Six letter word refers to the bristly plates that some whales have instead of teeth which they use to filter krill, plankton and small fish.

[Maxwell]

Gosh.

[Nate]

Give me a sec. Just give me a sec.

[Spencer]

Nate thinks it's in there somewhere.

[Marge]

Say it out loud and not smell it when we.

[Spencer]

Before we flip over the boards. Marge, you can just say your answer into the mic and if that's right, you'll get the point. Do you think it's in your brain as well, Maxwell?

[Maxwell]

Yeah, 100%.

[Spencer]

Okay. He drew it for us and I think his drawing is accurate.

[Maxwell]

Yeah, I erased it. It wasn't my best Picasso work.

[Spencer]

We are now into late April and I don't think we've had a perfect game yet. So Brody is flirting with one.

[Brody]

Really? All year long.

[Spencer]

I think it's. I think we've been in a drought this year of perfect games. Six letter word refers to the bristly plates some whales have instead of teeth which they use to filter plankton and small. About Maxwell, I'm really excited for Brody

[Phil]

to get the question 10.

[Marge]

Hey, Brody, some of these whales cross many oceans.

[Brody]

Some do.

[Spencer]

Is everybody ready? Okay. Marge, you say your answer for us bailing.

[Brody]

Oh, that's right.

[Spencer]

Reveal your answers. Nate says filter Logan. Without an answer. March says one of her three spellings is correct.

[Maxwell]

That's awesome.

[Spencer]

John. Without an answer, Max. Without an answer, Brody says baleen. The correct answer is baleen. B, A, L, E, E, N. Okay, I didn't do that.

[Nate]

I knew it's a type of whale.

[Spencer]

Ah, that's right. There are 14 species of baleen whale which include the blue whale, gray whale and humpback whale. The baleen is made of keratin, which is the same protein that makes up our fingernails and hair. In some species, the baleen can reach 13ft long. During feeding season, blue whales can consume 35,000 pounds of krill per day. There is a picture of what? Max Juros.

[Nate]

Yeah, Baleen, wait.

[Spencer]

In a whale's mouth? I believe that is a humpback.

[Nate]

Are they pushing the water back out and then the krill are getting stuck in their mouth.

[Spencer]

I assume that's what they do.

[Brody]

They suck it in. Close.

[Nate]

Got it out. That's so sick.

[Spencer]

And, yeah, blue whales will do £35,000 of filter feeding a day.

[Maxwell]

A day?

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Nate]

I thought you were gonna say a year.

[Spencer]

During feeding season.

[Nate]

Wow.

[Spencer]

Crazy the ocean has that much.

[Maxwell]

It's always feeding season.

[Spencer]

All right, Phil, one more scoreboard update before we do question 10.

[Maxwell]

I never thought about having a feeding season.

[Spencer]

Breeding season. Feeding season.

[Marge]

I have two points.

[Spencer]

Migration.

[Phil]

John has one point. Maggie has two points. Logan and Max also have two points. Should have lumped them all together. Nate's got four. And Brody has over double the second place player score with this one.

[Nate]

And what if I pass along my winnings from Brody to the third place?

[Spencer]

No, no, no.

[Brody]

I make the rules here, so.

[Spencer]

All right, here's the correct answer. Review so far. One was Alderwood. Two, Mossberg 500. Three, Collared Dove. Four, Hand is how you measure a horse. Five is Sheep's Head. Six, Mitch Rampala. Seven, Pacific Ocean. Eight, Mickey Mouse boots. Nine, Baleen, here is question 10. The topic is fishing. This next great question is via Clay Smith. According to 2023 data, what month has the fourth most boating accidents?

[Phil]

I knew it.

[Spencer]

I am looking for number four. Oh, my God. According to 2023 data, what month has the fourth most boating accident?

[Phil]

You're wild for this one, Spencer.

[Spencer]

And if this.

[Brody]

May.

[Spencer]

I think it's a great question. As soon as you start thinking about it, I think you'll arrive.

[Phil]

Brody, have you tried thinking about it?

[Spencer]

The right answer, Brody. Yeah. And if Brody can get this one right, we will double Today's donation to $1,000 for some lucky conservation group that Nate is going to pick.

[Nate]

Oh, shoot.

[Spencer]

Thousand dollars. Nate, according to 2023 data, what month has. Not one, not two, not three. The fourth most boating accident.

[Nate]

How conservationy does it need? Can it be like, conservation adjacent?

[Spencer]

Sure.

[Maxwell]

Okay.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Maxwell]

Question. Your question or your answer?

[Nate]

My. No, my donation.

[Maxwell]

Oh, okay.

[Spencer]

According to 2023 data, what month has the fourth most boating accident?

[Maxwell]

I'm gonna donate to TSS dot com. Hey, the TSS dude.

[Phil]

You know what?

[Maxwell]

I'm.

[Nate]

No, I can't show you because my answer's on there. No tungsten in that turkey I shot.

[Brody]

No, I mean, okay, I use some form of logic to get there, but

[Nate]

sure, it's Just like which. Which holiday does. Do people get more drunk during?

[Maxwell]

Wow.

[Nate]

That's the question.

[Phil]

No, the fourth most. No.

[Nate]

But yeah.

[Spencer]

Yeah, he's done his proper rankings.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

He's arrived at what he believes to be number four. According to 2023 data. What month changed has the fourth most boating accidents got a 1 in 12th chance here.

[Nate]

I don't think it's December.

[Maxwell]

You never know. It could be December in Texas or on the coast somewhere.

[Spencer]

I think this is one of my favorite questions we've done in a while. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says May. Logan. September. Marge. September.

[Maxwell]

Nice.

[Spencer]

John.

[Maxwell]

June.

[Spencer]

Maxwell. September. Brody. September. Number one is July. Number two is August. Number three. June is June. Number four. September is mayoral day, baby. Nate got that one right. It is May. July is when the most boating accidents take place, with 936 reported in 2023. That's followed by August at 574, June at 561, May at 462, and September 5th place at 368. That's close, Brody. 125 fewer.

[Brody]

If I was asking that question, it would have been in order. List the top three.

[Spencer]

The deadliest months are in the winter, though, which is when the highest percentage of boating action accidents result in a fatality. In January, 29 of accidents had a death, which is about two and a half times higher than July at 12%.

[Maxwell]

Those crazy duck hunters.

[Spencer]

It is those crazy going out when

[Maxwell]

the weather's not good.

[Spencer]

All right, Brody is Today's winner with nine points. But second place, Nate, who got five correct answers, is going to choose where the 500 donation goes. Nate, take a good one.

[Nate]

We're going to donate to the Station foundation, which is a nonprofit that caters towards kind of like tier one military community.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Nate]

And they just started a hunt track where they take super. They take like four tier one vets. Maybe tier two. They take four vets and they run them through the entire process of, like, never having killed anything in your life besides maybe a human to running around with guns or running around with bows and shooting a critter.

[Maxwell]

What's the difference between Tier 1 and Tier 2?

[Nate]

Tier 2 would be like your Navy Seal Ranger Regiment type guys. Tier 1 would be like. No, you don't.

[Maxwell]

I don't know.

[Nate]

That's a good question. Tier one would be like Ranger Reconnaissance Seal Team 6.

[Maxwell]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

What's the name of the place? One more time. The Station.

[Nate]

Station Foundation Hunt track.

[Spencer]

Specifically.

[Nate]

I think we've done a little they do phenomenal work. It's a really small group that they cater to, but it has a huge impact on those guys and we'd love that they get a little more recognition.

[Maxwell]

That's awesome.

[Spencer]

Worthy place to get our $500 donation today. Join us next week for more Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins.

[Maxwell]

Thanks Spencer. Thanks Spencer.

[Spencer]

Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota. He's the host.

[Nate]

Using those smooth, mellow tones, he lays them questions. And he likes taking those two and

[Spencer]

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[Maxwell]

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