Ep. 869: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCXIV

Summary

The MeatEater Podcast — Ep. 869: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCXIV (April 29, 2026)

Overview

This episode of The MeatEater Podcast centers around the beloved “MeatEater Trivia” game show, hosted by Spencer Newharth, where a rotating crew of MeatEater regulars and guests compete in a 10-round quiz focusing on hunting, fishing, conservation, cooking, and general outdoorsmanship. The prize for the winner is a $500 donation to the conservation organization of their choice, and a listener-submitted trivia question earns a generous First Lite gift card for the week’s top enthusiast. The episode is infused with humor, friendly competition, tangential banter about true crime podcasts and chicken husbandry, and a few memorable stories from the outdoors.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Meet the Game Players & Special Guest (03:04–05:45)

• Host & Contestants Introduced: Spencer leads with Giannis, Brody, Randall, Jordan Sillers, Marge, and Roman.
• Guest Plug: Canadian Texan Jordan Sillers is on to promote Season 2 of his true crime podcast “Blood Trails,” which focuses on crime cases involving hunters and anglers.
  • Notable moment: Jordan describes visiting Moose Creek to get a feel for a case location, revealing fresh perspective on an unsolved murder there.
  • Quote: “My perception of the campsite was that it was kind of... a bunch of other campsites around… But the campsite itself is actually like four miles in. So this guy went intentionally to this campsite, which is where he ended up murdering another guy.” (04:26 – Jordan Sillers)
• Podcast Crossover Appeal: Both “MeatEater Trivia” and “Blood Trails” are praised for appealing beyond their core audience, with spouses and non-true-crime fans tuning in.

2. Pre-Game Banter: Haircuts, True Crime, and Farewells (05:46–12:40)

• Light-hearted banter about haircuts, aging, and ponytails — including references to Jerry Seinfeld and Sean Penn’s military styles.
• Discussion of “true crime podcast” gender stereotypes and playful teasing among the regulars.
• Roman’s Farewell: The crew bids a fond “farewell” to contestant Roman, who is stepping away from regular appearances.
• Listener feedback celebrated — someone finally got a perfect game thanks to a tricky question about boating accidents.

3. Prize Update & Housekeeping (11:06–12:27)

• The long-standing prize (a signed board game) for the weekly listener question winner is replaced by a $150 First Lite gift card, streamlining distribution.
• Quote: “Now you’re going to get a $150 First Lite gift card. Everyone’s going to be happier because of it.” (11:51 – Spencer)

4. The Trivia Game Begins! (12:55–54:08)

Format: Ten questions spanning cooking, hunting, fishing, conservation, and more. Panelists write down and reveal their answers in real-time.

Highlights & Memorable Moments

• Cooking: The Runza Origins (Nebraska) [13:05–15:29]

  • Amused reactions to Nebraska’s signature meat-filled pastry.
  • Quote: “The Runza is Nebraska’s version of a pierogi. It’s a baked sleeve of dough that’s often stuffed with meat and cabbage.” (15:19 – Spencer)

• Hunting: ‘Big Green’ Gun Brand [16:14–16:59]

  • Remington’s famous green branding is universally known among hunters.

• Fishing: Fiberglass Rods [18:43–20:16]

  • Material science quiz — rods made of fiberglass are heavier and less sensitive than graphite, but affordable and flexible.

• Woodsmanship: Debris After Logging [21:57–24:00]

  • The word “Slash,” doubling as a logging term and the famed Guns N’ Roses guitarist at #105 on the Rolling Stone list.
  • Quote: “Slash has a mulch-like quality...providing nutrients and protein for plants and animals on the forest floor.” (24:08 – Spencer)

• Wildlife: Daddy Long Legs Myths Busted [25:42–29:16]

  • Listener-submitted question settled the debate: harvestmen are ‘Daddy Long Legs,’ but myths about their venom are dispelled.
  • Humorous detour: crew finds a sex toy during a range clean-up, lightening the mood.

• Hunting: Divers and Dabblers [34:43–38:49]

  • Ducks are divided into “divers” and “dabblers”—panel discussion includes birds’ feeding strategies and accidental eagle encounters at Yanni’s homestead.
  • Quote: “Dabblers feed by tipping their body... Their diet is less animal focused, consisting more of vegetation, tubers, and seeds.” (38:25 – Spencer)

• Outdoors: ‘Call of the Wild’ Authorship [39:04–41:56]

  • Classic novel confirmed: Jack London is the author.

• Conservation: Blue Flesh in California Hogs [41:59–43:50]

  • Blue or purple pig meat indicates ingestion of rodenticide—public safety warning for hunters.
  • Quote: “The pig trapper who discovered it said the meat reminded him of a blue slushy.” (43:12 – Spencer)

• Wildlife Documentaries: Meerkat Manor [44:49–49:15]

  • Animal Planet’s “Meerkat Manor” eludes most panelists except Brody, who aces it thanks to childhood TV memories.

• Geography: St. Mary’s River [50:22–53:36]

  • The river flows from Lake Superior to Lake Huron—a tricky finale settles the perfect game contenders.

Running Score Highlights

• At the halfway point: Roman, Jordan, and Marge have 1 point; Randall, Brody, and Giannis (Yanni) are tied in the lead with perfect scores (30:24).
• The game remains competitive until Brody secures a perfect 10/10, narrowly beating Giannis.

5. Winner, Donation, and Wrap-Up (53:36–end)

• Brody wins the game with a perfect score.
• The $1,000 donation is directed to Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters: “the fight ain’t over yet.” (54:08 – Brody)
• The episode ends on a light note, promising the return of “The Wives of MeatEater Trivia” next week.

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Notable Quotes

• On mass appeal of MeatEater content:
  “This is the only show that my spouse will listen to with me… I see that all the time with Blood Trails as well. It has some real mass appeal that goes beyond your traditional MeatEater audience.” (05:13 – Spencer)

• On outdoors clean-ups:
  “It’s a good reminder that folks of all types have access to our public lands. And folks of all types just leave them completely trashed.” (27:54 – Yanni)

• On raising birds:
  “I don’t hate them… I have 12 birds outside my house and six birds inside my house.” (35:38 – Yanni)

• On memorable wrong answers:
  “Now you’re going to get a $150 First Lite gift card. Everyone’s going to be happier because of it.” (11:51 – Spencer)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 03:04 – Start of trivia, intros, and special guest segment
• 05:33 – True crime, gender, and podcast appeal
• 11:06 – Listener prize update
• 12:41 – Trivia game officially begins
• 15:29 – Runza/food culture explanation
• 18:43 – Fiberglass rod discussion
• 24:00 – “Slash” woodsmanship/rockstar tangent
• 29:02 – Halfway point scoreboard
• 34:43 – Ducks: divers vs. dabblers
• 38:38 – Bird rescue and eagle attack stories
• 41:20 – “Call of the Wild” authorship
• 43:50 – Blue meat in CA feral pig warning
• 44:49 – Meerkat Manor documentary
• 50:02 – Final question, Brody’s perfect game
• 54:08 – Winner declares conservation donation
• 54:27 – Episode ends

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Episode Takeaways

• MeatEater Trivia shines for its mix of competitive banter, deeply informative questions, and approachable humor.
• Outdoor knowledge spans everything from culinary traditions and wildlife conservation to pop culture and geography.
• The team’s camaraderie and storytelling create an inclusive vibe—both for seasoned outdoors people and casual listeners.
• The show doubles as a platform for raising conservation funds and promoting the intersection of outdoor life and stewardship.

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Next week: The much-awaited “Wives of MeatEater Trivia” episode returns!

Transcript

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[Spencer]

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 Giannis, Brody, Randall, Jordan, Marge and Roman. This is a 10 round quiz show with questions from meat eaters. Four verticals which are hunting, fishing, conservation, cooking. There is a prize. Meat eater will donate 500 to the Conservation organization of the winner's choosing. Jordan Sillers, our favorite Canadian Texan in town.

[Jordan Sillers]

That's right.

[Spencer]

What are you doing here?

[Jordan Sillers]

I am here to talk about Blood Trails.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Jordan Sillers]

We got a new season of Blood Trails coming out. The first two episodes are out. The second episode dropped today. So you can go listen to those if you missed it from last season. Blood Trails is a true crime podcast about hunters and anglers. So we have an entire first season you can go listen to if you missed it from last season. We also got a chance to go out and do some kind of on the ground filming. Yesterday we went down to the Moose Creek area just south of Bozeman here, where one of the, one of the cases we're covering this season, the incident happened down there.

[Spencer]

So some on the ground reporting.

[Jordan Sillers]

That's right. We were able to go down and just kind of see the area, see, see what it was like. And yeah, I got some good insight from that.

[Spencer]

Did your perspective change on anything being there in person?

[Jordan Sillers]

You know, it did a little bit. So the story is about a camper who was killed by a stranger, a guy he didn't know. And the story is that the perpetrator kind of walked into his camp and he was invited in to share some drinks. Just kind of have a good time. And my perception of the campsite was that it was kind of. There's a bunch of other campsites around. You know, the guy just kind of pulled off the road and there he was. But the campsite itself is actually like four miles in. So this guy went intentionally to this campsite, which is where he ended up murdering another. Another guy. So, yeah, it was, it was good to be up there.

[Spencer]

What episode is that? One?

[Jordan Sillers]

This is gonna be episode seven.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Jordan Sillers]

Season two.

[Spencer]

All right. One of my favorite compliments that I get Jordan about trivia is people will say, this is the only show that my spouse will listen to with me. Usually it's a man saying that about their wife. I see that all the time with blood trails as well. It has, like, some real mass appeal that goes beyond your traditional meat eater audience. So well done.

[Jordan Sillers]

Yeah, thank you. I get that a lot. I get. You know, I tried to get my wife to listen to meat eater stuff, and this is what she listens to. What I also get that I really appreciate is I'm not a big true crime guy, but I like this.

[Spencer]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Jordan Sillers]

So that. That feels good. That makes me feel good ins.

[Spencer]

I bet that's a lot of folks in our, like, core audience.

[Jordan Sillers]

Y. Yep, exactly.

[Randall]

The ladies love true crime.

[Spencer]

Right?

[Randall]

That's a fact, Margie.

[Spencer]

No.

[Yanni]

You're saying, no, this lady don't.

[Marge]

I'm just saying I don't.

[Randall]

Oh, well, you didn't say that. You're shaking your head no. You need to say yes. Yana, you're correct. Most of the ladies love true crime. I myself am a hater.

[Marge]

I was mis. Misleading.

[Spencer]

I. Y.

[Brody]

Your typical lady.

[Randall]

All the ladies in my universe are true crime listeners, and they've listened to blood trails.

[Marge]

I mean, I like blood trails, but I'm not, like, a true crime junkie.

[Yanni]

You know, whenever we get in Sydney's car and it connects to her phone, I'm not sure if I'm gonna hear, like, Charlie Crockett or. Then the husband was murdered.

[Brody]

Keeps you on your toes.

[Yanni]

Yeah, I know.

[Spencer]

She's fantasizing about that.

[Yanni]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Brody asked if we could talk about Yanni's haircut before I did. Randall did. I'm sorry.

[Yanni]

I spent the whole day with Yanni, and he had a hood on.

[Spencer]

He rolled in with his hood up

[Yanni]

because we were freezing.

[Randall]

Yeah, we were outside, so I didn't

[Yanni]

get a good look at this bad boy. Yeah, we're on the range. The wind was blowing, the snow was flying. But I didn't get a good look at this.

[Brody]

It's a very salt and pepper military look.

[Randall]

I stole this line from Katie Finch, Steve's wife, when Steve recently got a cut. She's like, you're a little too like Sean Penn from one battle after another. So when I went into the barbershop, I'm like, look, dude, don't make it so high and tight that I get that Sean Penn from one battle after another look. And obviously, Colonel Yanni, I'm a little

[Yanni]

too close to that.

[Randall]

The way. The way that I Look at it. It's like, in a week, it'll be longer and it'll be fine.

[Yanni]

When I go to get my hair cut at long last time to tell him, give me, like, an early Jerry Seinfeld.

[Brody]

Listen, do you have a plan, or are you just going by a deal?

[Yanni]

I don't have a plan.

[Randall]

No, listen, my. This is. This is serendipitous because my barber just saw Jerry Seinfeld in Vegas last weekend, who's down there for his birthday. Saw a couple shows and. And Seinfeld's one of them, and he said however old he is, he's, like, well into his 70s now, and he said he just killed it. So maybe it's homage to the. The great comedian Seinfeld. You should do that.

[Brody]

Yeah, I think you ought to. Yeah, it's like, go long enough to get a real ponytail going around.

[Spencer]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Yanni]

I mean, the thing is, I kept the sides trimmed for a while so I can't get the whole.

[Spencer]

Oh, you got.

[Yanni]

But I can't pull. I can't pull the sides back into the pony.

[Brody]

That's okay.

[Spencer]

You'd be a better historian if you had a ponytail.

[Yanni]

I had. I had a ponytail. Don't do it through a lot of grad school.

[Randall]

You're gonna have to move to, like, Santa Fe or something if you start wearing your hair in a ponytail.

[Yanni]

Is that a shot at Dan Flores?

[Brody]

He's in Bozeman. What are you talking about?

[Marge]

Yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot of ponytails, and, man.

[Yanni]

No, I don't think I can do the paint. But I just. I wanted to grow my hair out long to hide the bald spot that's becoming increasingly prominent in the back of my head.

[Brody]

There's only one way to hide it, Randall. That's shave it all off.

[Yanni]

Well, I thought I was doing a pretty good job, and then I saw the last two minutes of the Buck Hunter video, and Phil caught a particularly gruesome angle of my scal.

[Brody]

If your whole head is bald, art takes sacrifice.

[Spencer]

Blood Trail Season 2 is out right now.

[Brody]

Hold on.

[Yanni]

Spencer.

[Spencer]

What's up?

[Brody]

Let's drag this out longer. I got two things.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Brody]

First is everyone should be saying farewell to Roman.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Yanni]

Friend of the program, contestant extraordinaire, Roman.

[Spencer]

Roman.

[Yanni]

Thank you.

[Brody]

We've loved having you on here.

[Marge]

Miss you already.

[Brody]

Miss you already. The second is I'm going to read this to you, Spencer. Oh, that final question on trivia this week. Last week was horseshit. I did guess correctly. Between May and September and scored my first game. First perfect game ever.

[Spencer]

Oh, good for that person. Hell, yeah. I think it was a good question if you had a 5050 chance at it. Yanni, I don't think you were there, Randall. You weren't there.

[Marge]

I was there.

[Spencer]

It was. What month has the fourth most boating accuracy?

[Yanni]

I liked it.

[Randall]

Yeah.

[Jordan Sillers]

The fourth most.

[Spencer]

Fourth month. I don't want to be too easy.

[Yanni]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Yanni, do you have a guess? What month has the fourth most boating accident?

[Randall]

September.

[Spencer]

No, that's what I guess. May too wrong. All right, we have some housekeeping.

[Marge]

Memorial Day weekend.

[Brody]

Memorial Day, Yeah.

[Spencer]

Since the beginning of the show, our prize for the listener question of the week, it's been a signed board game with a $25 value. Assuming our lowly signatures are worth nothing. This process of getting games shipped to us and signing them, then shipping. Shipping them to you has created all kinds of logistical problems. Roman is largely responsible for making sure it happens and avoiding those logistical problems. But there's an especially tight bottleneck when it comes to getting the autographs, as I often go months without seeing your favorite crew members like Clay and Mark and Brent. This has made for a very slow distribution of prizes. Well, today that is be to going to change because our new Prize is a $150 first light gift card for the listener question of the week.

[Yanni]

My goodness.

[Spencer]

Winners will receive those digitally within days of their episode airing. This is going into action immediately. So your prize is now worth more and getting delivered quicker.

[Marge]

Wow.

[Brody]

Are you kind of sad that your game got.

[Spencer]

No, no.

[Randall]

It was.

[Spencer]

It was like. It was pretty dang annoying to deal with.

[Brody]

And.

[Spencer]

And Roman dealt with a lot of it too, because, like, this person sends me the question. Maybe it's been in my inbox since 2022, and now I decide to use it. It's our listener question of the week. Now. Roman reaches back out to them. They might be dead. They may not listen to the show anymore. And now it goes three months without them seeing that email and getting back to us. By that time, the board games are gone. It's. It's just like, been as annoying as it is for us. It's even more annoying for the people who actually win these prizes. Now you're going to get a $150 first like gift card. Everyone's going to be happier because of it.

[Yanni]

I really hate the idea of someone passing into the great unknown and not. And not thinking that their questions were good enough when in fact they were.

[Marge]

I agree.

[Yanni]

Well, that's haunting.

[Spencer]

That just means don't go dying on us.

[Randall]

You could get a pair of new pair of first lights. Now I got some crackle in my headphones. Phil,

[Yanni]

break earlier.

[Randall]

You could get a new pair of gravel or granite field pants. First light with that.

[Spencer]

Gift card, shirts.

[Marge]

Wow.

[Spencer]

All kinds of recommendations for you, company man. All right, the Shelby index today is a four. So our winner should get eight correct answers. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil.

[Yanni]

Look, I need to know what I stand to win.

[Spencer]

Everything. How's that?

[Yanni]

You stand to win everything.

[Spencer]

Game on, suckers.

[Randall]

Roman, you feel like this could be your first win?

[Yanni]

I don't even want to think about it.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Randall]

Nervous? Yeah. You can do it.

[Spencer]

Question 1. The topic is cooking. This first great question is via Hayden hall, and as always, it will be multiple choice. The Runza, which Food and Wine magazine says is, quote, the best tasting hot pocket you've ever had, is this state's most iconic dish. Is it Oklahoma, Nevada, Nebraska or West Virginia?

[Randall]

Ha ha.

[Spencer]

The Runza, which Food and Wine magazine says is the best tasting hot pocket you've ever had, is this state's most iconic dish. You have four choices.

[Randall]

I only had to write down two letters.

[Spencer]

Nevada, Nebraska, West Virginia.

[Randall]

I wouldn't say that.

[Jordan Sillers]

Huh?

[Yanni]

I wouldn't.

[Brody]

Wouldn't say what?

[Randall]

Ask that question to me.

[Spencer]

Sure.

[Randall]

You know.

[Brody]

How do you know what I'm asking?

[Randall]

I just think I know, and I feel like it's a tip.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Randall]

But go ahead.

[Brody]

No, no.

[Spencer]

You can ask him after.

[Brody]

No, no. We'll see if Giannis can read mine.

[Spencer]

Roman, do you have this one right?

[Yanni]

I'm feeling decent about it.

[Spencer]

Okay. The Runza, which Food and Wine magazine says is the best tasting hot pot we've ever had, is this state's most iconic dish. Oklahoma, Nevada, Nebraska, West Virginia. Yanni and Brody. Confident. Our other four players.

[Brody]

I don't really have a good reason to be kind of a reason, but I don't know if it's a good reason to be confident.

[Yanni]

I haven't the faintest idea.

[Jordan Sillers]

I have no idea. Zero ideas.

[Spencer]

Well, maybe after this, you need to try one of these best tasting Hot Pockets.

[Yanni]

Yeah, I haven't had a Hot Pocket in a while. I'd like to just.

[Randall]

Oh, I love me a good Runza.

[Yanni]

I'd love to just have a Hot Pocket.

[Spencer]

Is everybody ready?

[Randall]

You'd love a Runza.

[Spencer]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Roman. Oklahoma. Jordan. Oklahoma. Randall. Nebraska. Marge. Oklahoma. Yanni. Nebraska. Brody. Nebraska. The correct answer is Nebraska. The Runza is Nebraska's version of a pierogi. It's a baked sleeve of dough that's often stuffed with meat and cabbage. The dish is so popular that the state birthed a fast food chain simply called runza, which has 90 locations across five states. To learn how to make a wild game version, go see Jenny Win Wheatley's recipe on Themeater.com called Venison Runzas.

[Brody]

The Runzas I've had are not like pierogies.

[Randall]

No, not at all.

[Spencer]

Oh, how would you describe it?

[Brody]

It's more like bread around meat rather than like a, like a. Yeah, it's

[Randall]

a baby type deal baked deal versus a pierogi. Something that you would have to either boil or fry in a pan to prepare.

[Spencer]

Sure. I also wouldn't say it's super close to a hot pocket either, but like.

[Randall]

Well, it's closer to a hot pocket. Hold it in your hand.

[Yanni]

It looks like a sandwich at the, like a sloppy joe that the bread melted together.

[Brody]

Anyway, our dear friend Pat Hoffman, his. His wife Kathy makes some delicious.

[Spencer]

Oh, Nebraska.

[Brody]

Oh yeah. Yes.

[Spencer]

And I think that's like one of the iconic foods you can get.

[Brody]

They always make a showing at the kids deer youth camp.

[Spencer]

Very popular question to the topic is hunting. This gun brand is nicknamed Big Green because of their green colored branding, packaging and logo. Jordan and Randall, quick to answer this one. This gun brand is nicknamed Big Green because of their green colored branding, packaging and logo. Randall, did you know that they were called Bing Green or are you just using the green colored branding, packaging and logo?

[Yanni]

I've heard. Yeah, I've heard it before.

[Spencer]

How about you, Jordan?

[Jordan Sillers]

Yeah, I've heard it.

[Spencer]

Gun brand nickname.

[Brody]

I haven't.

[Spencer]

Big Green because of their green colored branding, packaging and logo. Brody, do you have this one right?

[Brody]

Well, we'll find out.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Brody]

I, I mean green.

[Spencer]

Yanni, you've clearly had a Runza before. Give us a review.

[Randall]

Yeah, the ones I had looked similar to the picture that you. The most recent ones were from Kathy Hoffman and I forget, did hers have cabbage in them or is it just

[Brody]

like might have been onion, burger, cheese, maybe a little bit of cheese.

[Spencer]

She's.

[Brody]

I've had multiple versions of hers and she does them different.

[Randall]

But yeah, I love.

[Brody]

They're good, they're filling.

[Spencer]

I enjoy the fast food version just because I'm like, I'm like I'm doing Nebraska's culture while I'm here driving through shadow.

[Brody]

They're a great pre make for like deer camp. Exactly right. Because you don't got to worry about.

[Randall]

Yeah, they travel real well.

[Yanni]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

The version of that where I grew up is a Fleischkikla. And I love a Fleischkikla. And it's very similar to a runza.

[Yanni]

That's a beautiful word.

[Spencer]

It's a deeply German word.

[Jordan Sillers]

You know what it means?

[Spencer]

I don't know. Baked bread.

[Yanni]

Fleisch, I guess. Meat.

[Spencer]

Yeah. This gun brand is nicknamed Big Green because of their green colored branding, packaging and logo. Is everybody ready?

[Randall]

I hope so.

[Spencer]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Roman, Remington, Jordan Remington, Randall Remington, Marge without an answer. Yanni and Brody say Remington. They got it. The correct answer is Remington. The green that Remington uses is a dark green that's often likened to John Deere green. The color is heavily featured on packaging for their guns and ammo. The brand has embraced the nickname and even has a series of gun cabinets that are known as the big Green gun safes. Question 3. The topic is fishing. Mystery tackle box says rods made of this 10 letter material are quote, highly flexible and heavier than graphite, but also less expensive and weaker.

[Yanni]

I just picture that, that nice box of corlock sitting on the shelf. Deer's worst nightmare.

[Brody]

Back in the old days when cor locks are like $14 a box.

[Yanni]

Take me back.

[Spencer]

Yep, as I feel like back in the old days, if you were to look in the ammo aisle, it would be mostly green of just mostly.

[Yanni]

Yeah, green and yellow.

[Spencer]

Mystery tackle box says rods made of this 10 letter material are highly flexible and heavier than graphite, but also less sensitive and weaker.

[Randall]

I put four of those, I believe 165s, maybe 180s into the first bull elk I ever shot at. The actually second bull elk I ever shot at most likely. Also I put one of those in the first bullock that I shot at which I did not recover. Okay, the second one I recovered, but I just felt like with where those holes were in it that it should not have taken four shots. It should not have gone so far. And since that day I wrote them off.

[Yanni]

I killed my first mule deer. Antelope killed a shire smoose and I think my first black bear with corlocks.

[Spencer]

My guess would be that was my first decade of hunting. Yeah, Corlocks. Oh, Mystery tackle. They were available rods made of this, but you don't shoot. Material are highly flexible and heavier than graphite, but also less sensitive and weaker.

[Randall]

Come on, fly gal.

[Marge]

It's hard.

[Yanni]

She's just doing the tipped. Coro came out a year or two ago.

[Brody]

Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of whitetails are still killed by those Coro.

[Yanni]

Oh yeah.

[Randall]

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Spencer]

Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answer, Roman. Without an answer, Jordan says carbon fiber. Randall, fiberglass. Marge fiberglass. Yanni and Brody, fiberglass. The correct answer is fiberglass. Fiberglass was the most popular fishing rod material until graphite hit the market in the late 1960s. Fiberglass is still one of the most commonly used materials today, especially on slow and medium action rods. Some anglers prefer the delayed loading that comes with a fiberglass rod, which gives fish more of a chance to take the bait. Question for the topic is woodsmanship. This next great question is via Christy Holmes. This word which also refers to Rolling Stones 105th best guitarist of all time is defined as, quote, logging debris left in the forest after a harvest. Didn't even need to finish the question for Randall. He just knows the Rolling Stone list of best guitarists so well. This word which also refers to Rolling Stones 105th best guitarist of all time is defined as logging debris left in the forest after a harvest.

[Yanni]

With hair like this, I'm an honorary guitarist.

[Spencer]

Yeah. You look like you could play a mean solo.

[Yanni]

Oh, until you look at my fingers.

[Spencer]

Oh, what's wrong with your fingers?

[Yanni]

I just feel like they're blocky and not very. I don't have a lot of dexterity.

[Spencer]

Too sausagey for a guitar.

[Yanni]

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I have hard time with buttons and stuff.

[Spencer]

Brody has now arrived at an answer. Do you think it's right, Brody?

[Brody]

100% it's right.

[Spencer]

Okay. This word which also refers to Rolling Stones 105th best guitarist of all time is defined as logging debris left in the forest after a harvest. Rolling Stone went to number 250 when they were making that list of greatest guitarists. What a passionate group.

[Randall]

I'm kind of surprised. So far down, but then there's been a lot of good rock and roll.

[Yanni]

Yeah, there's a lot of people that have played guitar pretty good.

[Randall]

I wonder how many non rock and roll is were on that list.

[Yanni]

I don't know. I mean, who's not a rock and roll list in some respect?

[Brody]

That's right.

[Yanni]

You know, well, classical guitarist.

[Randall]

I would say that if there was say some very blues centric musician on that list that they maybe would fall into that category instead of like a real rocker.

[Yanni]

I said, I said something stupid and take that back again.

[Spencer]

The topic is woodsmanship. This word which also refers to Rolling Stones 100.

[Randall]

He doesn't like it when he sets us up to go off on these Tangents.

[Yanni]

And then we do such a cleverly written question. We're just. We're sort of just. You're bouncing in the.

[Spencer]

I just need to interject with the question again. No, no, you're good to finish.

[Brody]

The hint made it harder for me.

[Randall]

Yeah.

[Brody]

You know what I mean? I agree. If I just got the second part,

[Spencer]

I've been like, okay, Marge, do you have this one right? Jordan, do you have this one right? Roman has.

[Yanni]

Roman, you're a rocker through and through.

[Randall]

I had to get over my anger at Spencer first to then think clearly enough to figure out what the name of the debt of the.

[Marge]

I feel like I know this wood on the ground.

[Yanni]

Oh, you for sure know this.

[Marge]

Grasp it. Too tired.

[Brody]

Do we have an audio clip?

[Spencer]

We do not.

[Yanni]

It's not Prince because I think he's much higher than 105.

[Spencer]

Is everybody ready? Carlos, go ahead and reveal your answers. Roman and Jordan, without an answer, Randall says slash. Marge, without an answer, Yanni and Brody say slash. They got it. The correct answer is slash. Slash has a mulch like quality providing nutrients and protein for plants and animals on the forest floor. That's of course the. The physical woody slash. It's also often used by loggers to create trails for heavy equipment which avoids soil damage. The Rolling Stones says Slash is the guitar hero and does his best work in Sweet Child of Mine. Welcome to the jungle in Paradise City.

[Brody]

I just added Paradise City to my Hard Run playlist.

[Spencer]

It's a good one, keeps you pumped up. And he's only 105. Imagine what the next 104.

[Marge]

It reminds me when he made that shirt that we couldn't release. And then we filmed that great ad with Sam and Hillary.

[Spencer]

Oh yeah, and I wore that shirt a lot.

[Marge]

Never could never release.

[Spencer]

Damn intellectual property laws. Question 5. The topic is wildlife. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Justin Fay. We're sending this great question. Justin is going to get a 151st light gift card. If you want a chance to win the listener question of the week, then send your question to trivia atthemeat eater.com.

[Randall]

check out the new pants.

[Spencer]

Justin Harvestman, which are an arachnid, are more commonly known by this three word name. Bless America. Harvestmen, which are an arachnid. Or more commonly known by this three word name. Randall now doing some scribbling as he makes direct eye contact with Yanni

[Brody]

trying

[Yanni]

to throw him off.

[Spencer]

Uh huh.

[Yanni]

Oh,

[Spencer]

Jordan Sillers, do you have this one right?

[Jordan Sillers]

I thought I did, but the Arachnid is throwing me.

[Yanni]

Oh, I hate arachnid.

[Spencer]

Spooky. Me too.

[Yanni]

We found a big old spider on our range cleanup yesterday for Earth Day.

[Spencer]

Hmm. Also some other unique items.

[Brody]

Yes.

[Spencer]

I found a drone. Randall found a sex toy. A sex toy?

[Randall]

I don't think it's fine to say dildo on the air.

[Yanni]

Okay.

[Randall]

Come on. It's weird that it was out at the gun room.

[Spencer]

Randall couldn't determine.

[Brody]

I don't know. I mean, he said afterwards, it's a dildo. It's like, could show up anywhere. I feel like, is it weird that

[Yanni]

first T shirt, ladies and gentlemen.

[Brody]

I mean, like, I don't.

[Jordan Sillers]

I'm not.

[Yanni]

Like, I'm thinking we're at a gun range.

[Brody]

Why is this thing here?

[Yanni]

I did take home about seven nice pieces of OSB and T. Post usable.

[Randall]

OSB oh, yeah.

[Yanni]

Cut sharp, right angles and not a hole in it.

[Spencer]

Really?

[Yanni]

Yeah. You just got to get out there past 100 yards. A lot of those pieces of bus

[Brody]

beer where people are unwilling to walk down to get their stuff.

[Yanni]

I'll check my zero and then stretch it out.

[Spencer]

The dildo was at, like, the 50 yard spot, right? That was pretty close. Yeah.

[Yanni]

Yeah, it was. By. There were a lot of broken clays. I have to imagine at one point it was flying in the air.

[Brody]

That's what I was gonna say. Clay pigeon launcher. Makes sense.

[Yanni]

Yeah. There are also just a good variety of beverages that have been shot to pieces. Everything from a real highbrow IPA to a monster energy drink.

[Spencer]

Yeah. To just, you know, some sparkling water. Energy booze, liquid death.

[Yanni]

Yeah. Just. It's a good reminder that folks of all types have access to our public lands. And folks of all types just leave them completely trashed.

[Randall]

So I appreciate you guys going out there. I was bummed I couldn't make it.

[Marge]

Me too.

[Yanni]

It looked good when we drove past today. I mean, there's. You'd need. You'd need an excavator to actually clean that place up. But it looks a lot better. Just like the scrap wood is gone. The pallets are gone.

[Brody]

At least I'll point out that this is. We clean it. Did a cleanup there. Was it last year.

[Yanni]

Yeah.

[Brody]

And a big section of that state land still got closed to shooting because people were treating it so bad.

[Yanni]

Oh, it's. It's horrible. I mean, I. I was thinking. I was thinking about it yesterday, and I was like, man, if any other user group out there left a piece of public land looking like that, all we would do is like, if bird watchers left behind broken beer bottles and plastic and all this shit, all we would talk about is how awful. Birdwatchers. Yeah, you know, it's like Harvestman preaching the choir here. Sorry about that.

[Spencer]

Which are interacted are more commonly known by this three word name. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Roman. Without an answer, Jordan Sillers. Without an answer, Randall says Daddy Long Legs.

[Marge]

Not gonna show my Marge.

[Spencer]

Without an answer. Yanni. Daddy Long Legs. Brody. Daddy Long Legs. The correct answer is Daddy Long Legs. They got it. The name Daddy Long Legs is also sometimes used for crane flies and cellar spiders. It's commonly said that they're incredibly but lack big enough fangs to break human skin. However, almost everything about that lore is wrong. They are not venomous and they do have sizable fangs that are similar to those of a brown recluse. They mostly use those fangs for grasping and chewing, not for defensive bites. For more on this subject, go read my 2019 article on the meat eater.com called Our Daddy Long Legs venomous. Heartfelt. We're halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard.

[Phil]

My seven year old came up to me literally yesterday and gave me that fact. And he was like, hey, dad, did you know? Then I had to break his heart and tell him that's just an urban legend. It's not true.

[Yanni]

Yeah, but I think it's even worse that they have big fangs in his face. Somehow it makes it worse.

[Phil]

It's a story of two distinct groups.

[Spencer]

Here

[Phil]

with one point apiece are Roman, Jordan and Maggie. They're all tied up. And with a perfect game, five points apiece. A Randall, Brody and Giannis.

[Yanni]

General Giannis.

[Spencer]

Wow.

[Yanni]

Lieutenant Colonel.

[Randall]

I thought you missed one.

[Yanni]

No, I was unsure.

[Randall]

Really?

[Brody]

Mad when you question his mad.

[Phil]

Well, that's because I'm never wrong.

[Yanni]

Have I. Have I made a big fuss about anything yet today?

[Randall]

No, he was.

[Spencer]

He wasn't sure about Nebraska, but he got it.

[Randall]

It just really stinks for me.

[Brody]

I need.

[Randall]

I need every. Every little leg I can get up.

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[Spencer]

The topic is hunting. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, the two main types of ducks are divers and blank. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, the two main types of ducks are divers and blank. Looks like this will keep the perfect game going for our three leaders.

[Brody]

I think there's.

[Yanni]

Yeah, well, I hope so.

[Randall]

I feel like there's two answers to this. Are you making that, too?

[Brody]

Yeah, but I don't want to, like, mess it up. Then I'll have to argue with Spencer.

[Spencer]

That's right.

[Marge]

I think so.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Yanni]

It's a question about birds that I sort of have a hunch on. So I'm feeling like I'm on. I'm on. Easy.

[Brody]

You're a bird hater, not a bird lover.

[Spencer]

I don't.

[Yanni]

I don't hate them.

[Brody]

I've. I've seen you express extreme disdain for birds before.

[Yanni]

Where is this coming from?

[Spencer]

He owns more birds than anyone in this house.

[Yanni]

I don't have a lot in common with them, but I will have you know that I have 12 birds outside my house and six birds inside my house.

[Spencer]

And he rescued some plywood.

[Randall]

What kind of bird?

[Yanni]

The smaller chickens inside your house? Well, in the garage.

[Randall]

Oh.

[Yanni]

Just to prevent them from dying.

[Brody]

Being killed or.

[Yanni]

Well, we did have a close call yesterday when a big bird flew in and tried to attack one of our birds.

[Brody]

Exciting.

[Yanni]

And I thought, yeah, we saw all the chickens sprint, and then this eagle flew over the porch. Like, if I had been standing on the porch with a big landing net, like a king salmon landing net with a decent handle, I probably could have grabbed this eagle, which is one of

[Brody]

the most exciting of eagle.

[Yanni]

I think it was a golden eagle. I know they're rare, but it was gigantic.

[Randall]

They're not that rare.

[Yanni]

They're rarer.

[Randall]

Rare.

[Brody]

Yeah.

[Yanni]

Well, that was a trivia question. At one point, I was skeptical.

[Spencer]

Juvenile bald eagles could have been a juvie confused with them.

[Yanni]

Yeah, this thing was giant. And I went out there and I was expecting to find a dead bird. Not that I would have wanted that, Brody. But there were a bunch of feathers. But none of the chickens were injured. So I think, Yeah, I reached out to my neighbor to see if any of his surveillance Cameras have footage of this because I think it would be pretty dramatic. Despite the fact that they're birds.

[Brody]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

The two main types of ducks are divers and blank. Randall also rescued some plywood from the earth day cleanup yesterday that he said he was going to build something nice for his chickens.

[Yanni]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

So real chicken.

[Yanni]

I just think if you have a nice scrap of. I even took home some nice, like 18 to 30 inch lengths of 2 by 4 that were perfectly usable. There were also some really expensive exterior decking, like decking screws that I almost. If I had had a cordless drill, I would have pulled them out because those things are expensive too.

[Spencer]

Is everybody ready? Yeah.

[Yanni]

I think the audience is done with that.

[Randall]

Go ahead and reveal your answers.

[Spencer]

Roman says sitters. Jordan. Dabblers. Randle dabbler. Maggie Marge, Puddle Rihannis. Dabbler. Brody dabbler. The correct answer is dabbler or puddle duck. This division is based on feeding behaviors. Divers descend underwater to eat vegetation, tubers, fish, mollusks, crustaceans, snails, and insects. Examples of divers are canvas max, redheads, buffal heads and golden eye. Dabblers feed by tipping their body in a way that puts their head underwater and butt in the air. Their diet is less animal focused, consisting more of vegetation, tubers, and seeds. Examples of dabblers are mallards, pintails, teal, widgeon, and woodies.

[Randall]

Well, they like to eat some insects, though. Remember how in the eagle when those blue wings and midges would be hatching up? Man, they'd be in those eddies just pac manning them.

[Spencer]

Question 7. Tower rises right next to him.

[Randall]

You don't care. You guys.

[Yanni]

You guys are both like doing the same thing.

[Spencer]

They're doing.

[Yanni]

It looks like a music video. You're both like dancing.

[Spencer]

Question 7. The topic is outdoors. Maybe it's Spencer.

[Brody]

He doesn't like birds. He wasn't impressed by it.

[Spencer]

I like birds. We also have an all company meeting happening shortly here, so I'm trying to keep us on track.

[Yanni]

I feel like we're kind of missing each other tonight. I feel like some people are trying to rush on. Some people are trying to enjoy it and then like vice versa. I just think we need to reset.

[Spencer]

Marge also needs eye drops. I'm looking out for Marge. We need to get her some eye drops. Question seven, Phil, leave all that in. The topic is outdoors. Who wrote the novel the call of the wild? Who wrote the novel the call of the wild?

[Brody]

You couldn't come up with a category, so you just said outdoors for this one.

[Spencer]

Just said outdoors.

[Yanni]

We just Had a fun social media

[Spencer]

post that came up with that was

[Phil]

asking our community about their favorite book

[Spencer]

or what book has impacted their life the most.

[Yanni]

So this was.

[Spencer]

This made an appearance.

[Phil]

A common answer.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Yanni]

I was just reading about this guy the other day. Yeah, yeah.

[Marge]

I have not read.

[Brody]

We didn't know it was a guy, did we?

[Phil]

No.

[Brody]

No. There you go. Randall just eliminated half the authors in the history of mankind.

[Yanni]

Well, almost all of you have answers already and I'm not gonna come up with one. Is it right? I think you'll come up with one.

[Spencer]

Who wrote all of the Wild?

[Marge]

Sorry.

[Spencer]

Is everybody ready?

[Yanni]

I think you'll know it.

[Spencer]

March. Do you want to come up with an answer or no? Yeah, we'll give her a second here. Who wrote the novel the Call of the Wild? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Roman. Jack London. Jordan. Jack London. Randall. Jack London. Marge. Without an answer. Yanni and Brody. Jack London. The correct answer is Jack London. The Call of the Wild was published in 1903. It's about a 140 pound St Bernard Scotch shepherd dog named Buck who's stolen from his home in California. Buck then winds up in Alaska and Canada working as a sled dog. Eventually he starts socializing with wolves and feels an urge to live in the wilderness. It's been printed in 47 languages with PBS calling it one of the greatest American novels of all time. The Nazis also banned it. That was one of their books that got burned was the Call of the Wild.

[Brody]

Is there a Harrison Ford version of this?

[Yanni]

I was just thinking they heard an

[Brody]

adaptation like eight or nine years ago. I remember when I was watching it.

[Jordan Sillers]

It's good.

[Marge]

Does not spark any interest in me.

[Spencer]

Yeah, but it not good.

[Yanni]

You don't even want to read it. Just to.

[Spencer]

What?

[Yanni]

Why it was banned.

[Spencer]

It's not long, I know, but it's like 150 page book.

[Marge]

I'm good. You guys gave me the summary. That sounds good. That's enough of that.

[Yanni]

White Fang. Yes.

[Brody]

It's like an American classic.

[Marge]

I'm sorry. Topic is I was more into hatchet.

[Yanni]

Good for you for standing your ground too.

[Randall]

Yeah, yeah.

[Spencer]

Marge, don't give in. You don't need peer pressure. Question 8. The topic is conservation.

[Randall]

Just young.

[Spencer]

California officials announced in 2025 that feral hogs with this color meat shouldn't be eaten because it meant that they ingested a rodenticide.

[Randall]

Haha.

[Spencer]

This could change the perfect game that Brody, Johnny and Randall are working on. Question 8.

[Jordan Sillers]

You would. You would know this question if you listened to Cal's Week in Review or read the website.

[Spencer]

That's right.

[Brody]

I remember talking about it.

[Spencer]

Or our newsletters.

[Jordan Sillers]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

California officials announced in 2025 that feral hogs with this color meat shouldn't be eaten because it meant that they ingested a rodenticide. Does anybody besides Jordan think they got this one right?

[Brody]

I think.

[Spencer]

I think so. All right, is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Roman blue. Jordan blue. Randall purple. Marge blue. Yanni blue. Brody blue. They got it. The correct answer is blue or purple.

[Brody]

Purple is bluish red.

[Yanni]

I went with the color that you'd have some question. Is this normal or should I not eat it?

[Spencer]

Wait until you see the picture. The feral hogs had been eating a blue colored pesticide that was intended for ground squirrels. The pig trapper who discovered it said the meat reminded him of a blue slushy. California officials quickly issued a warning for hunters saying to be on the lookout for neon blue flesh in pigs, deer, bear and geese.

[Randall]

That looks like a rocket pipe. I figured it would be like a

[Yanni]

suspicious color, not like a glaring do not ever eat this color.

[Spencer]

Yeah, when I heard that they had blue flesh, I was imagining that I would need to, like, squint to see the blue. But no, this is a full on neon highlighter blue.

[Randall]

But is it actually in the flesh or is it.

[Spencer]

I think it was the fat and the flesh, they said. All right, Phil, scoreboard update. Two questions left.

[Brody]

Oh, man.

[Randall]

Crap.

[Phil]

It's a little bit more spread out now.

[Brody]

We got.

[Yanni]

Sorry for that.

[Phil]

Roman and Maggie.

[Marge]

We're in it.

[Phil]

Have three points.

[Spencer]

That's right.

[Phil]

Jordan is one up with a four, then Randall with his purple. He's down to seven points.

[Spencer]

Shoot.

[Phil]

Giannis and Brody still are holding the perfect games. They've got eight points apiece because we're

[Brody]

both wearing these first light jackets that just.

[Yanni]

What do the dabblers do?

[Spencer]

Justin Faye can get one of those with his gift card. Question 9. The top pick is wildlife. The Animal Planet documentary Meerkat Blank spent 53 episodes following Meerkat families in the Kalahari Desert.

[Randall]

Stumped.

[Spencer]

The room is stumped.

[Randall]

Yeah.

[Brody]

Oh, I just got it.

[Spencer]

The Animal Planet documentary Meerkat Blank.

[Phil]

This is a hit.

[Spencer]

Spent 53 episodes following Meerkat families in the Kalahari Desert. Brody, there was a time in my

[Brody]

life when Animal Planet did a little babysitting for me

[Spencer]

and it helped him get this one right. The Animal Planet documentary Meerkat Blank spent 53 episodes following Meerkat families in the Kalahari Desert. Phil, would you get this one right yes.

[Phil]

Yes, I would.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Brody]

Randall, did you get it?

[Yanni]

Not yet.

[Phil]

There was a commercial for this show that played in the lobby of my local movie theater. Just on. Just on, like, a loop. So it's kind of burned into my head.

[Spencer]

What would be the fill index today, you think?

[Phil]

Oh, I haven't done that yet. Let me figure it out.

[Jordan Sillers]

Take a look.

[Brody]

Sure.

[Spencer]

Roman, do you have this one right?

[Phil]

Not particularly.

[Spencer]

Animal Planet documentary Meerkat Blank spent 53 episodes following Meerkat families in the Kalahari Desert. Brody may be the only one to have the right answer.

[Phil]

This would be a tough show for me, Spencer. I think It'd be a 3, 4 if I was giving myself the benefit of the doubt, but I'm not gonna do that.

[Spencer]

Brody, for the second week in a row, we'll have a perfect game going into question 10. Will Yanni join him? Yeah.

[Brody]

I was sabotaged last time.

[Spencer]

Randall, do you like your answer? No. Do you have any familiarity with this show? Like, can you picture a commercial, an advertisement, the show itself?

[Yanni]

No, I can't. I can't remember the last time I went to a movie theater and I don't watch Animal Planet.

[Spencer]

The Animal Planet documentary Meerkat Blank spent 53 episodes following Meerkat.

[Brody]

Your chickens have names?

[Spencer]

The Kalahari Desert.

[Yanni]

Well, yeah. No, they. They don't. One of them has a name. Two of them have names, but one of them. I don't remember which chicken that is. Initially, when we got them, we thought it would be funny to name them all after professional wrestlers. But then it became apparent that we couldn't keep track of which ones were which. Except there's a really goofy one who has this big crest.

[Spencer]

Oh, the Warrior. Is that Warrior?

[Yanni]

No, we called him the Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla.

[Randall]

It's fun.

[Yanni]

And then. And then we just shortened that to the Ayatollah, which is since taken on the.

[Jordan Sillers]

Yeah.

[Randall]

All right.

[Brody]

Much different.

[Yanni]

Much. And it was funny because we. Because there's, like, a picture of me holding that chicken, and it's on. It's on the window at our. Like, one of the food trucks in Livingston. And so someone was like, oh, is that you? And I'm like, yeah, is that your chicken? I'm like, yeah. They're like, what's its name? I'm like, the Ayatollah. And they just, like, their eyes. I was like, no, no, it's after the wrestler. But there is another chicken named the Undertaker, but I don't. I don't know which one that is.

[Brody]

Okay, that went A lot farther than

[Spencer]

I thought it would.

[Randall]

That question we used to game.

[Yanni]

I just feel like the energy is off. Like I just gave that. And Spencer goes, okay,

[Spencer]

I like it, but I don't.

[Randall]

It's much tougher on the kids when you lose them and they're named when they don't have names and like, there's just a little more separation as Sydney refers to them.

[Yanni]

She's like, she's like, you know, the pretty one. I'm like, yeah, yeah.

[Randall]

A lot of times we have so many different breeds in our small flock that a lot of times you can just, just say, you know, the Australor or the Naked Neck or the, you know.

[Yanni]

Yeah, I don't know any of their breeds either.

[Spencer]

The Animal Planet documentary, meerkat Blank.

[Randall]

I think it came to me.

[Spencer]

Oh, is everybody ready?

[Brody]

You have an alliterative answer.

[Randall]

I do.

[Spencer]

Go ahead and get. Roman says wife. Jordan Junction.

[Brody]

I don't think so.

[Spencer]

Randall Nation. Marge Dynasties. Yanni Mansion. Brody Manor. Brody got it.

[Marge]

Yes.

[Spencer]

The correct answer. Now that you say that I. Meerkat Manor.

[Randall]

Son of a Gun. That was close.

[Spencer]

Ran from 2005 to 2008 and then got a BBC revival in 2021. The show told the story of the Whiskers, which is a meerkat family that's part of a long term field study. At the peak of its popularity, it was Animal Planet's most popular show with more than 4 million viewers in the United States. The series received three Emmy nominations. All right, here's a correct answer review. One was Nebraska is Home of the Runza. Two, Remington. Three. Fiberglass. Four, slash. Five. Daddy Long Legs. Six. Dabblers. Seven, Jack London. Eight, Blue Pig Meat. Nine, Meerkat Manor. Phil, scoreboard update.

[Phil]

It's a lot more interesting now. Brody has pulled ahead with nine points, but Giannis hot on his trail with eight. It's between those two players.

[Spencer]

Question 10. The topic is fishing. This last great question is via David Heiser. Either we are going to go to overtime.

[Randall]

He got a chuckle out of that.

[Yanni]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Brody's going to have a perfect game.

[Randall]

Then when he said this question is.

[Yanni]

Or they both get it right.

[Spencer]

Or they could both get it right.

[Yanni]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Damn it.

[Randall]

And I said fishing and I could get it right. He said fishing Casilla.

[Yanni]

And then I'd tie Giannis for seconds.

[Spencer]

Yeah. And he did nail it.

[Randall]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

And it's the second week in a row where Brody has a fishing question at number 10 with a perfect game.

[Brody]

Game is rigged for Brody to win

[Spencer]

the St. Mary's river flows from Lake Superior to this other great lake. The St. Mary's river flows from Lake Superior to this other great la. Randall, very. Excuse me. Brody very quick to answer, but he is staring at his whiteboard sussing out if he has it right or not. Oh, man. The St. Mary's river flows from Lake Superior to this other great lake.

[Brody]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Okay. It's gonna stick with that first answer. Perfect game on the line.

[Yanni]

Now I'm second guessing myself. But then again, it doesn't matter anymore.

[Spencer]

Jordan Sillers, do you have this one right?

[Jordan Sillers]

I have a great lake.

[Spencer]

Okay.

[Jordan Sillers]

I'm very confident that I have one of them.

[Spencer]

While we wait for our players answer, I want to tease that next week is probably our most anticipated show of the year. The wives of meat eater trivia will be returning.

[Brody]

Did you get a hold of my wife? Is she coming?

[Spencer]

The invite has been sent to her inbox. So tbd, we had a few wives who had not responded yet that I had to circle up with today. Randall?

[Yanni]

Yes? Nothing you don't want me to talk about. I was just hoping you didn't want me to talk about my chickens again because I don't feel like that's going well as a segment. I feel like. I feel like I'm over sharing.

[Spencer]

We're gonna get it sponsored.

[Yanni]

You guys are being very, very. You're like distancing yourself from what I'm saying.

[Spencer]

Well, we are seven minutes away from an all company meeting and potentially going to over.

[Marge]

I just don't own chickens, so I can't relate. I mean, but Nick Tapia upstairs, the first time he and his wife bought chickens, they kept him inside in their guest bathroom and it turned on the water in their guest bathroom and flooded their crawl space.

[Spencer]

I did not know that. I love that huge situation.

[Yanni]

He asked me if I wanted his rooster because he said it was really mean and they couldn't have it around the kid. And I was like, no. And then later I said, do you find someone who would take that rooster? He's like, yes, Some guy. And Facebook wanted it right away.

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[Spencer]

The St. Mary's River.

[Randall]

I could see two, two paths that rooster could have taken from.

[Spencer]

Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Roman says Erie. Jordan, Michigan. Randall, Michigan. Marge, Michigan. Yanni, Michigan. Brody. Huron. The correct answer is like Huron got it right.

[Yanni]

Great job giving what I think is

[Spencer]

her first perfect game of 2026. The St. Mary's river starts at Lake Superior's Whitefish bay. Before traveling 75 miles to Lake Huron's North Channel. It forms an international border between the United States and Canada, is a key water body for Cargo Travel. The St. Mary's is a rich fishery known for its walleye, perch, bass, pike and salmon. All right, Brody, thousand dollar donation for having that perfect game. Brody, what are you going to do with all that money?

[Brody]

Let's send it to Sportsman for the Boundary Waters because the fight ain't over yet. So let's give it to them.

[Spencer]

Thousand dollars heading to support. Join us next week for more Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. We got a meeting to go to. Bye now.

[Randall]

Thanks, Spencer.

[Brody]

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.

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