Ep. 888: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCXX

Summary

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The MeatEater Podcast

Episode 888: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCXX
Host: Spencer Newarth
Date: June 10, 2026
Theme: A special trivia episode where conservation always wins — with a cast of regulars and new faces, tackling challenging and hilarious questions spanning hunting, fishing, conservation, cooking, and wildlife. Winner earns a $500 donation to a conservation org of their choice.

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Episode Overview

This episode of MeatEater is another installment of the beloved “MeatEater Trivia,” a recurring special where a lively group of MeatEater staff and guests compete in a customized outdoor-themed quiz. This episode is marked by plenty of jokes, deep knowledge, and engaging digressions, with Randall achieving an almost perfect score and ultimately winning a $500 donation to Outdoor Mentors. The show is full of camaraderie, competitive banter, and fascinating facts about the natural world.

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Cast of Characters

• Host: Spencer Newarth
• Contestants: Randall, Seth, Max, Nate, Alyssa, Omar Lopez (first-time contestant, associate producer)
• Phil: The engineer (manages sound effects, scoreboard)
• Frequent shout-outs: Steve Rinella, John Hayes, Brody, Katie, Yani

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Key Sections & Discussion Points

Introduction of Omar Lopez (02:39–03:20)

• Omar's debut: New associate producer, describes his role as “almost a glorified travel agent. But loving it.”
• Self-assessed trivia strengths: “Cooking. Dead last. Hunting first, conservation second, fishing third.” (03:15)

Light-Hearted Banter:

• Talk about a broken deer mount in Omar's office and other failed taxidermy escapades (03:32–05:11)
• Nate describes a disastrous DIY boiling:

  “I walk out there...there’s just flames coming out of the deer skull’s eyes." (04:46)

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Mailbag: Favorite Wildlife Sights While Hunting (05:17–07:55)

Listener question from Jesse Vanderhaden:
“What is something that the crew enjoys seeing while hunting that isn’t their intended game animal?”

Highlights:

• Nate: “I love hearing owls in the tree stand.” (05:51)
• Seth: “I like seeing rare stuff...a wolverine comes running by or something.” (05:54)
• Spencer: “Rocks and mushrooms are my favorite things to see that are not game animals...found some dinosaur bones and petrified wood while mule deer hunting.” (06:31)
• Randall: “Old tarnished shell casings.” (07:18)
• Alyssa: “Finding sheds while you’re hunting.” (07:51)

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Trivia Game Begins (08:50)

Scoreboard Note:

• The “Shelby index” for the day is 4.5: nine correct answers should win (08:50)

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Trivia Rounds & Memorable Moments

Round 1: Fishing (09:57)

Q: Which of these lakes is biggest by surface area: Okeechobee, Flathead, Champlain, or Kentucky?

• Correct Answer: Lake Okeechobee (10:40)
• Fun Fact: Okeechobee is America’s 9th biggest lake at 730 sq mi.

Round 2: Conservation (11:14)

Q: Which agency, known as the “Long Blue Line,” cleans up coastal oil spills and the Great Lakes?

• Correct Answer: Coast Guard (14:25)
• Memorable exchange:
  • Seth: “The long blue line thing makes me want to...put down some police agency.” (13:47)
  • Nate, on the Coast Guard: “I love when the Coast Guard jumps like narco subs. Everything else I don’t care about.” (14:51)

Round 3: Wildlife (16:12)

Q: North Carolina has more species of this animal (examples: dwarf water dog, lesser siren) than any other state.

• Correct Answer: Salamander (19:11)
• Fun Fact: North Carolina boasts 64 species of salamander. The Great Smoky Mountains = “salamander capital of the world.” (19:12)

Round 4: Hunting (20:17)

Q: What weapon originated with 16th-century French hunters attaching daggers to musket barrels for boar?

• Correct Answer: Bayonet (22:06)
• Notable moments:
  • Host: “If we were a Monty Python film and someone...stabbed somebody with a bayonet, that’s what sound it would make.” (22:25)

Round 5: Public Lands (24:01)

Q: St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix make up which US territory home to the 28th National Park?

• Correct Answer: U.S. Virgin Islands (25:47)
• Fact: Virgin Islands National Park preserves about 60% of St. John.

Halftime Scoreboard:

“Max and Omar have three. Good job, Omar. And Randall...perfect game with five points.” (26:43)

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Round 6: Cooking (30:45)

Q: This sweet and sour condiment in Chinese-American cuisine is named after the bird it’s traditionally served with.

• Correct Answer: Duck Sauce (33:02)
• Alyssa (correct contestant): “I really hope I’m not—I'll be really embarrassed.” (32:34)
• Flavor Fact: Duck sauce = orange jelly made with plums/apricots/peaches—served with egg rolls, crab rangoons, and originally for Peking duck.

Round 7: Hunting (34:20)

Q: New Mexico’s ______ missile range has given out oryx tags since 1974.

• Correct Answer: White Sands (36:12)
• Trivia: White Sands Missile Range = largest free-ranging oryx herd in North America.

Round 8: Biology (37:23)

Q: Name four of the five vital organs in a mammal.

• Correct Answers: Brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys (40:03)
• Joke: “You don’t need two kidneys.” (40:19)

Scoreboard Update:

“Max is in last place with three points… still holding onto that perfect game is Dr. Randall with eight points.” (41:02)

Round 9: Natural History (41:21)

Q: In 2025, a YouTuber was arrested after visiting North _____ Island to give a Diet Coke to the protected tribe.

• Correct Answer: Sentinel (45:07)
• Spencer: “I think Jake Paul Island would just have a Diet Coke factory out there.” (45:26)
• Fact: North Sentinel Island is home to the highly protected, uncontacted Sentilese people.

Round 10: Vocabulary/Natural History (48:00)

Q: This nine-letter word refers to any large, thick-skinned, non-ruminant mammal (notably elephants, rhinos, hippos).

• Correct Answer: Pachyderm (50:15)
• Randall’s Clue: “If I had a real problem with my skin being too thick, what sort of doctor would I see?” (49:19)
• Fact: The term “pachyderm” is obsolete in taxonomy but is still commonly used.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Omar (on his hunting trophy): “It is, but he's broken. He fell off the wall.” (03:29)
• Nate (on taxidermy disaster): “There’s just flames coming out of the deer skull’s eyes.” (04:46)
• Randall (comparing old cartridge finds): “I like finding old tarnished cases.” (07:29)
• Spencer (on natural treasures): “I found some dinosaur bones and petrified wood while mule deer hunting.” (06:31)
• Randall (on cuisine): “I don’t think about cuisines as being ranked. I mean, I love it.” (31:57)
• Seth (on thick-skinned mammals): “I saw the first three letters of the word on Randall's board, and I still can't come up with the rest." (49:13)

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Final Results & Donation (51:05)

• Winner: Randall, 9 correct answers (Shelby Index on the nose)
• Randall’s Chosen Org: Outdoor Mentors

  “They're pairing kids with adults who will get them outside; expanding into 40 different states.” (51:11)

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Timestamps — Important Segments

| Segment | Time | |----------------------------------------------|---------| | Omar’s introduction | 02:39 | | Wildlife “seen while hunting” discussion | 05:17 | | Trivia game explanation | 08:50 | | R1 (Fishing – Largest Lake) | 09:57 | | R2 (Conservation – Oil Spills) | 11:14 | | R3 (Wildlife – Salamander) | 16:12 | | R4 (Hunting – Bayonet) | 20:17 | | R5 (Public Lands – Virgin Islands) | 24:01 | | Halftime scoreboard | 26:43 | | R6 (Cooking – Duck Sauce) | 30:45 | | R7 (Hunting – White Sands) | 34:20 | | R8 (Biology – Vital Organs) | 37:23 | | R9 (Natural History – North Sentinel Island) | 41:21 | | R10 (Vocabulary – Pachyderm) | 48:00 | | Winner + Donation | 51:05 |

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For Further Listening

• The next round of trivia for even more banter and brain teasers!
• Send your questions to [e-mail] for a chance to feature on-air.

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Tone: Down-to-earth, irreverent, humorous, and loaded with deep knowledge about the outdoors—just like a campfire chat with a group of expert, slightly competitive friends.

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Transcript

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[Nate]

It's a media podcast.

[Spencer Newarth]

Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newarth, and today we're joined by Randall, Seth, Max, Nate Alyssa, and Omar Lopez. Omar, this is your first time on the show. Tell folks what you do here at Meat Eater.

[Omar Lopez]

Associate producer and meat eater.

[Spencer Newarth]

What does that mean?

[Randall]

He's still figuring it out.

[Omar Lopez]

Still figuring it out. Started May 11, but it seems like almost a glorified travel agent. But loving it.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, okay. Strengths and weaknesses when it comes to meat eater trivia. Hunting, fishing, conservation, cooking. What do you. You think?

[Omar Lopez]

Cooking. Dead last. Hunting first, conservation second. What was the third?

[Spencer Newarth]

Fishing.

[Omar Lopez]

Fishing.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, we'll put fishing third in Omar's slack profile picture. He's got a big old velvet buck.

[Omar Lopez]

First one ever.

[Max]

Oh, it's in his office too.

[Omar Lopez]

It is, but he's broken. He fell off the wall.

[Nate]

Happens.

[Spencer Newarth]

Were you there when it happened?

[Omar Lopez]

No, I was gone. And then my roommate's gonna like, dude, you're gonna be pissed, but your deer fell off the wall.

[Spencer Newarth]

And I'm like, no, he did.

[Omar Lopez]

So he's been broken for like a year. Two years almost.

[Randall]

But he's got a plan to get it fixed.

[Omar Lopez]

Yeah, we have a plan.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, what's the plan?

[Omar Lopez]

Hayes.

[Randall]

John Hayes.

[Nate]

Oh, dude, I got a. I'll ask. Well, yeah, I got some bucks I need fixed up too.

[Spencer Newarth]

What'd you bring?

[Nate]

It's a failed taxidermy.

[Randall]

Not the firebucks.

[Nate]

You can't get this.

[Seth]

Both firebucks.

[Nate]

Well, at least one of the firebucks.

[Spencer Newarth]

That looks like an artistic choice.

[Nate]

Well, that's the good one. You haven't seen the bad one.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay, yeah, Nate has a deer skull that looks like it was set on fire.

[Nate]

I actually, the other day I wasn't in here and you guys had a DIY taxidermy question. I'm telling him that dude who wrote in do maceration, it's you. You can't mess it up.

[Max]

That's what Yani's about these days.

[Nate]

You can mess up boiling, I promise.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, it has some good evidence of it. This is a ten round quiz show with questions.

[Seth]

Boiling it so hard.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, tell what happened real quick. You ran out of wine?

[Nate]

No, I. I had a. I had a turkey. What's the. Like a turkey fryer. Fryer. Thank you. And has a 15 minute cut off. I tried to bypass the 15 minute cutoff because every 15 minutes I was going out there.

[Randall]

Yep.

[Spencer Newarth]

I remember Little government Nate.

[Nate]

It didn't work. And so, like every 15 minutes I kept going out there. We start a movie. I'm like this will be the last run. It'll go 15 minutes and be done two hours later. I walk out there. It finally bypassed the cutoff. There's no water in the bucket. The bottom's melted out and there's just flames coming out of the deer skull's eyes. Yeah. And so one of them's fine and one, I mean they're both bad, but

[Spencer Newarth]

it's a one of a kind mount.

[Nate]

Well, there's two of them. Just one of them's real, bro. So I need it fixed. All right.

[Spencer Newarth]

This is a 10 round quiz show with questions from meat eaters. Four verticals which are hunting, fishing, conservation and cooking. There is a prize. Meat eater will donate 500 to the Conservation organization of the winner's choosing. We have a mailbag question today. Send your mailbag question to trivia the Meater.com if you have something you want the crew to answer. This is from Jesse Vanderhaden. I'm a first generation hunter and I'm wondering what is something that the crew enjoys to see while hunting that isn't their intended game animal?

[Max]

So it has to be an animal sunrise something.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, sunrises. There you go.

[Nate]

I love hearing owls in the tree stand.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, that's true. That's a good one.

[Seth]

Yeah, I like seeing rare stuff. Like if you're, if you're in Pennsylvania deer hunting, like a fisher comes running by or like if you're in Alaska and a wolverine comes running by or something.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah. Any small mammals.

[Nate]

You know what I hate?

[Seth]

Some this rare armadillos.

[Spencer Newarth]

Why do you hate armadillo?

[Nate]

They sound identical to a deer. But you cannot find them until they're like right under you.

[Max]

I was going to say just a combine. Harvesting wheat.

[Nate]

Oh, yeah.

[Max]

It just brings me back to fall and. Yeah, but you totally waterfall food all over the place.

[Spencer Newarth]

I would say rocks and mushrooms are my favorite things to see that are not game animal. It is predictable. Yeah. This year, antelope hunting in Montana, I found gypsum for the first time. Not a rare thing, but I've like never seen it before out in the wild. And then in South Dakota I found some dinosaur bones and petrified wood while mule deer hunting. And then early fall, there's like some good foraging to be had. Some of my favorite mushrooms, chicken in the woods and oysters. And then this year in Idaho I found an apple tree that just had like the most delicious biggest apples on a mountain in Idaho.

[Nate]

That's awesome.

[Spencer Newarth]

That was very exciting.

[Seth]

Did you set up and hunt that apple tree?

[Spencer Newarth]

I I hunted near it. Did not kill anything by it, but it was like something that clearly everything in the neighborhood was interested in.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Any other answers for Jesse on things you like to see while you're hunting?

[Randall]

Shell casings.

[Spencer Newarth]

Old ones from, like, yesterday.

[Randall]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Still smoking. 36 case in the ground.

[Spencer Newarth]

You don't want to find one, like, next to a gut pile or something.

[Randall]

No, but I like finding old tarnished cases.

[Spencer Newarth]

Seth has a way cool.

[Randall]

Especially like you're.

[Spencer Newarth]

I feel like you found an old cartridge that barely exists.

[Seth]

Yeah, I. It's. I mean, it's old to the point where I can't even, like, can't read the find how old it is. There is no head stamp on it. Oh, just like an old dream. Old straight wall.

[Alyssa]

Finding sheds while you're hunting.

[Max]

Oh, that's true.

[Spencer Newarth]

All right, we have some housekeeping. Today on the Wives episode of Trivia, we had a question about the most popular dog names for 2025 out of Duke, Loki, Roscoe, and Marley D. Was the most common on the show. Katie was asking for a source, and then the other night, while having a nice family dinner at Steve's house, she brought it up again. So I'm here today to give Katie that context. That data came from two sources, the American Kennel Club and the Rover app, which both placed Duke above the other three.

[Randall]

Wow.

[Spencer Newarth]

You can quit losing sleep.

[Max]

Well, what's number one, Katie?

[Spencer Newarth]

Number one? I don't remember. What was it? Luna, I think, is, like, number one for a girl. Well, I was thinking for, like, boy and dog. And then the other one that was up there was. I think Ruby and Max are, like, both in the top 10.

[Omar Lopez]

So you're.

[Spencer Newarth]

You're doing it, Max.

[Max]

That's. That's what I wanted.

[Spencer Newarth]

Max. Dog is Ruby. Yeah.

[Randall]

And his real name is Max.

[Seth]

And Max is Max

[Spencer Newarth]

at the Shelby index for the day is a four and a half, so our winner should get nine correct answers. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil. Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that? Game on, suckers. Question 1. The topic is fishing. This will be multiple choices. Which of these lakes is biggest? Is it Lake Okeechobee, Flathead Lake, Lake Champlain, or Kentucky Lake? Starting off with Omar's third best category. Which of these lakes is biggest? Okeechobee, Flathead, Champlain, Kentucky. This is measuring by the surface area square miles.

[Omar Lopez]

Do I just go whenever now?

[Max]

No.

[Omar Lopez]

No.

[Spencer Newarth]

Show us which of these lakes is biggest. Okeechobee. Flathead Champ, that's a great question.

[Seth]

This is a great question.

[Spencer Newarth]

Thank you.

[Omar Lopez]

You feel like that's gonna win this one?

[Nate]

No, I total guess. I think. I don't know. What would be interesting is biggest lake by volume.

[Spencer Newarth]

That would be very interesting. Is everybody ready?

[Max]

Yeah, I'm not.

[Spencer Newarth]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth Okeechobee. Randall Okeechobee. Omar Okeechobee. Nate Champlain. Max. Okeechobee. Alyssa Flathead. The correct answer is Lake Okeechobee did well.

[Randall]

That's a good guess.

[Nate]

It's a great lake, dude.

[Spencer Newarth]

At 730 square miles, Lake Okeechobee is the ninth biggest lake in America. That's followed by Lake champlain at in 13th at 490 square miles. Kentucky Lake in 25th at 250 square miles. And Flathead Lake in 30th at 192 square miles. So Okeechobee twice. No, not. It's like 50% bigger.

[Randall]

Omar's one for one on trivia right now.

[Nate]

Oh, yeah.

[Randall]

He's never gotten one wrong question to.

[Spencer Newarth]

The topic is conservation. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Scott Prel for sending this great question. Scott is going to get a 150 first light gift card.

[Seth]

Chair is so bad.

[Spencer Newarth]

You want a chance to win the listener question of the week? Then send your question to trivia. Meat eater dot com. Who's got the bad chair? I do.

[Max]

I fixed it. I fixed it so I'm not rocking. It used to be like this.

[Randall]

I thought you're trying to call in birds.

[Seth]

We'll have a WD40 party.

[Max]

I stop. Sorry, Phil.

[Spencer Newarth]

This federal agency, which is known as the Long Blue Line, is responsible for cleaning up oil spills in coastal waters and the Great Lakes. Gosh. And the topic is conservation. This federal agency, which is known as the Long Blue Line, is responsible for cleaning up oil spills in coastal waters and the Great Lakes. The room looks stumped.

[Seth]

The Long Blue Line.

[Max]

Hmm.

[Spencer Newarth]

Seth came up with an answer. Do you like your answer, Seth?

[Seth]

I mean, it's pretty mid, I feel like. Makes sense.

[Spencer Newarth]

This federal agency, which is known as the Long Blue Line, is responsible for cleaning up oil spills in coastal waters in the Great Lakes. Nate, do you have an answer?

[Nate]

Yeah, but I don't think it's right.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Max]

Yeah, I don't look at one either.

[Spencer Newarth]

Randall is trying to gut check with Seth.

[Seth]

No.

[Spencer Newarth]

Alyssa, do you have this one right?

[Alyssa]

No.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. May I have a 0% maybe?

[Alyssa]

Every time I say no. It's right. So I'm just gonna say no every time.

[Nate]

What's that? Oh, there's one.

[Spencer Newarth]

This federal agency, which is known as the Long Blue Line, is responsible for cleaning up oil spills, the waters and the Great Lakes.

[Max]

Whose fob is that? I asked that last time.

[Spencer Newarth]

You know what? It's been here for months. At this point, they don't need it.

[Seth]

Yeah, we should see if it works.

[Spencer Newarth]

Random key fob in the room.

[Seth]

We could sell it at the auction. House of oddities. Oh, wow. Someone can get into this. Someone will have access to this office.

[Spencer Newarth]

Maybe.

[Alyssa]

Please.

[Seth]

HR doesn't like that.

[Randall]

Well, I really don't like my answers for this question.

[Spencer Newarth]

Which is what?

[Randall]

I don't know.

[Max]

I wish it said long orange line.

[Seth]

The Long blue line thing makes me want to. I don't like to put down some police agency.

[Spencer Newarth]

What if it was the Long Orange line?

[Max]

That would be my answer.

[Seth]

Oh.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. Is everybody ready?

[Alyssa]

That's what I have, too. That's not right.

[Spencer Newarth]

Randall, are you ready?

[Seth]

I think we're all ready since Max is just showing it.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth says deq, Departmental quality. Randall. Coast Guard. Omar, without an answer. Nate. Epa. Max, Coast Guard. Alyssa, Coast Guard.

[Max]

I don't think it's coke.

[Spencer Newarth]

Guard. The correct answer is the Coast Guard. Got that?

[Max]

I did not know that.

[Alyssa]

That seemed too obvious.

[Spencer Newarth]

For oil spills in inland waters, the Environmental Protection Agency leads cleanup efforts. But for coastal and Great Lakes spills, it goes to the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard has a unique set of responsibilities, including enforcing federal fishing laws, rescuing stranded marine mammals, and leading search and rescue efforts on the ocean. Nate, Long Blue Line. You didn't know that was the Coast Guard?

[Nate]

Dude, the Coast Guard's the least. Okay, let me. Let me put it this way. I love when the Coast Guard jumps like narco subs. Okay, Everything else I don't care about.

[Max]

Okay, Not.

[Randall]

What about rescuing stranded fishermen and things of that nature?

[Spencer Newarth]

Saving people? Cleaning up oil spill.

[Nate]

Dude. Cool.

[Alyssa]

Hopefully you never need them one day.

[Max]

I love the Coast Guard that's in the Coast Guard.

[Spencer Newarth]

Fish.

[Randall]

I wouldn't have gotten there without Long Blue Line.

[Spencer Newarth]

That was a hint.

[Randall]

That was the only thing that you know. I would also like to point out that I did write Coast Guard down before Max showed his board.

[Max]

That's okay. No, no one accused you.

[Randall]

No, I was thinking you show your board to me.

[Nate]

Except for our boys at Drifter Hydration, I've never met a Coastie that I really like.

[Max]

Oh, you got to meet my buddy

[Spencer Newarth]

at times of war, they roll up under the Navy. They become a question.

[Max]

I don't know. I was.

[Spencer Newarth]

I was thinking that if, like, I

[Nate]

comes to it, I doubt that my question is unlikely.

[Randall]

Is it technically an agency?

[Spencer Newarth]

It is an agency. There's like, what is the five branches of the military? Six if you count space.

[Nate]

Seven if you count the postal service.

[Spencer Newarth]

But then the Coast Guard is its own thing.

[Randall]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

All right, we're on to question three.

[Randall]

Shout out to Charles Pauley.

[Seth]

Fight wars.

[Spencer Newarth]

The topic is this next great question is via Jason Marshall.

[Randall]

He's a coast guardman.

[Spencer Newarth]

North Carolina has more species of this animal than any other state, with some examples being the dwarf water dog and lesser siren. What? North Carolina has more species of this animal than any other state, with some examples being the dwarf water dog and lesser siren. For how specific you need to be. If you thought it was catfish, you would put catfish. You wouldn't put, like, channel catfish or just fish. You'd put catfish.

[Nate]

Ah, dude, I'm sucking today.

[Randall]

My chair is squeaking now.

[Max]

Wharfed water dog. That's bad.

[Seth]

Listeners, please send your complaints to Randall Williams.

[Nate]

I also.

[Randall]

I also think that most of the chairs I sit in squeak, so maybe it's. It's more of a groan than a squeak. It might have to do something with carrying capacity rather than lubrication.

[Max]

Oh, Randall, don't do that to yourself.

[Spencer Newarth]

The chairs love to see you coming, Randall.

[Seth]

They do.

[Spencer Newarth]

They're cheering if they're cold.

[Randall]

If they're cold, they love it.

[Seth]

They're cheering.

[Spencer Newarth]

North Carolina has more species of this animal than any other state, with some examples being the dwarf water dog and lesser siren. Randall, do you like your answer?

[Max]

Eh.

[Spencer Newarth]

Over two. Nate, do you like your answer?

[Nate]

No, Absolutely not.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Max]

Over two, Nate.

[Nate]

You know what? I do like those guys who wrote in dude, shout out to Kyle and Max.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, yeah, Nate ran in. Somebody wrote an email to triviator.com I

[Nate]

ran into some trivia fans out in the wild. These. These dudes drove 28 hours straight from Virginia to Montana just hunt turkeys. And Max shot a stud of a turkey. Huge spurs, biggest spur. I mean, I haven't seen a lot of turkeys, but they were big maram spurs, no beer. Like the dinkiest little tiny millimeter beard you've ever seen in your life.

[Spencer Newarth]

They met Nate, and it occurred to them later that he was Nate from Trivia.

[Max]

That's cool.

[Spencer Newarth]

What, you told them you worked at fhf?

[Nate]

Yep.

[Seth]

Okay.

[Randall]

They didn't pick that up from the vibes that you Were the.

[Nate]

Nate, you know what I loved about this email? I loved that they said he was also. We didn't realize we had met a trivia champion.

[Randall]

Oh, wow.

[Nate]

It made me feel real good. Thanks guys.

[Spencer Newarth]

Again. Question three. Wildlife. North Carolina has more species of this animal than any other state, with some examples being the dwarf water dog and lesser siren.

[Nate]

Although I don't deserve that title today.

[Spencer Newarth]

Is everybody ready for letting you down? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth says frog. Randall. Salamander. Omar, Catfish. Nate, snail. Max. Songbird. Alyssa. Seagull. We have a correct answer in the room. Randall. Got it. It is salamander. Wow.

[Randall]

Water dogs.

[Spencer Newarth]

North Carolina boasts 64 species of salamander, with Great Smoky Mountains national park earning the title of salamander capital of the world. The animals thrive there thanks to the region's moisture rich rainforest like climate. The state was also largely untouched by glaciers during the last ice age, which gave salamanders extra time to evolve, adapt and diversify. There we have a picture of their newest salamander. This salamander, number 64. It's a Carolina sandhills salamander. Scientists have known about it since the 60s, but it wasn't until recent genetic work that showed that it is its own species.

[Max]

Is that four toes or five toes?

[Spencer Newarth]

I don't. I don't know how many toes. I think it's like three on the front. You can have some whiskers.

[Randall]

Got two on the front.

[Spencer Newarth]

Such a pretty little.

[Randall]

I call those toes, not whiskers.

[Spencer Newarth]

They almost look close as well. Like that would be something Seth would have in his tackle box.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Randall]

Oh yeah. It looks like it came out of a mold.

[Spencer Newarth]

It does.

[Seth]

Throw that on a Carolina rig set

[Spencer Newarth]

hook in North Carolina. Yeah, Carolina rig. Carolina sandhill salamander.

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[Spencer Newarth]

Question 4. The topic is hunting. The earliest example of this weapon is from 16th century French hunters who attached daggers to musket barrels to protect themselves from wild boar.

[Nate]

Thanks, Spencer. I needed this.

[Spencer Newarth]

Hey, Nate's back in it. The earliest example of this weapon is from 16th century French hunters who attached daggers to musket barrels to protect themselves from wild boar.

[Nate]

Done some training with these weapons.

[Randall]

Oh, Nate, come on, man.

[Seth]

That's a weapon, dude.

[Nate]

I listened to trivia today on the way in and you were dishing out hints left and right.

[Randall]

Wow, was I?

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Seth]

What trivia was it?

[Nate]

I don't know. The one where Brody won.

[Randall]

I was doing everything other than getting the questions correct.

[Nate]

Yeah, that was a tough one.

[Randall]

I don't know how many good hints I Could give out when I just choked that one away.

[Spencer Newarth]

A few hints. Nate says he's trained with it and Seth said it's hard to spell.

[Omar Lopez]

What's your background, Nate?

[Nate]

Infantry.

[Omar Lopez]

Okay, I'm confident on my answer then.

[Nate]

Not Coast Guard.

[Spencer Newarth]

The earliest example of this weapon is from 16th century French hunters who attached daggers to musket barrels to protect themselves from wild boar.

[Max]

Connor's going to be so mad at me because I know.

[Spencer Newarth]

I don't.

[Randall]

Yeah, he's probably got some old junk.

[Seth]

I know Sandy does.

[Alyssa]

Yes, I know for a fact.

[Randall]

Yeah, I think I've seen those at the Livingston Range.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Randall]

I think it's also the name of a very good restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, that's a good name for a restaurant. It's like sort of ambiguous, but I'd like to eat there.

[Randall]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Maxwell, are you ready?

[Max]

I can't think of it. It's on the tip of my tongue,

[Alyssa]

but draw a picture of it.

[Spencer Newarth]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth. Bayonet. Randall, Bayonet. Omar, Bayonet. Nate, Bayonet. Max, Shank. Alyssa. Without an answer.

[Seth]

I mean the correct answer, it's like a rifle shank.

[Spencer Newarth]

Now, Phil, what's going on back there?

[Max]

Sound effects.

[Seth]

Tambourine, Phil.

[Spencer Newarth]

That was the bayonet sound effect.

[Nate]

Phil.

[Randall]

Stack of tambourines.

[Spencer Newarth]

If we were a Monty Python film and someone. If Nate stabbed somebody with a bayonet, that's what sound it would make.

[Randall]

I don't think I've owned a bayonet since I sold an old SKS and I can't remember where I sold it.

[Alyssa]

We have World War II ones that are.

[Spencer Newarth]

When I worked at Dunham Sports, which is like a Midwest. Midwest small sporting goods store. We would sell those. Were they like Yugoslavian assault rifles?

[Randall]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

89 out of you go SKS.

[Randall]

Did you get them packed in Cosmoline? Mine was covered in.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh like just like that liquid.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

And yes.

[Randall]

I spent like days in my parents kitchen just boiling parts from this rifle to get all the Cosmoline out.

[Spencer Newarth]

That was probably like the last 89 gun that was sold.

[Seth]

I know kids will never get to enjoy that.

[Randall]

No, I really loved it until one time it was. It just started like I pulled the trigger and it just ripped off the whole.

[Nate]

The old chain magazine.

[Randall]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Nate, tell us about junkyard though. Stabbing stuff.

[Nate]

We had a whole course and we had to run around and there's like all these dummies set up and you had to. Basically you passed. If you screamed loud,

[Spencer Newarth]

you must be doing it right.

[Nate]

It was so fun. Yeah.

[Seth]

Dude.

[Randall]

Seth, we should get a couple old Yugos and box of steel cased, one Wolf.762ammunition.

[Spencer Newarth]

Could you hunt with those things?

[Seth]

Sounds fun.

[Randall]

No, I just bought it at a gun show.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, I know, but, like, could you. If you. I suppose you go, yeah, you could go.

[Randall]

I don't know why you could. Well, I mean, in Ohio. In Ohio, we were limited to shotguns at that time.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Randall]

But, yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Early bayonets were made of metal, wood, and bone. The hunters would stab wounded game with them, sometimes to put the animal out of its misery and other times out of self defense. Early versions were called plug bayonets because they were jammed inside the barrel of the gun. Question five. The topic is public lands. St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix make up this territory that's home to America's 28th National Park.

[Max]

Wow.

[Seth]

Everyone seems so confident.

[Spencer Newarth]

Seth just had to sit there and watch Nate, Alyssa, and Max quickly write something. St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix make up this territory that's home to America's 28th national park.

[Seth]

St. Croix makes a great fishing rod.

[Randall]

My brain was in old Europe when you began this question. It was in a gloomy monastery, and then we ended up in a warm, sunny beach.

[Spencer Newarth]

That's a very different St. Croix. That St. Croix is what, on, like, the Minnesota, Wisconsin border? Is that right?

[Max]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

This St. Croix is a few thousand miles from there.

[Seth]

This St. Croix?

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Nate]

Okay.

[Spencer Newarth]

It's not in Wisconsin.

[Max]

You change it back to the board.

[Spencer Newarth]

We'll get a scoreboard update. And Phil the engineer after this. St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix make up this territory that's home to America's 28th national park. Max, comparing up over there?

[Nate]

Yeah, just checking.

[Spencer Newarth]

I'd like to compare. Does everybody agree?

[Nate]

Show you mine.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Max]

All right.

[Spencer Newarth]

Wow. We now have four players who have seen each other's answers, and they all like what they have down.

[Seth]

Let me see yours, Randall.

[Max]

Randall's sweating it now.

[Spencer Newarth]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth says Smoky Mountains. The rest of the room says the U.S. virgin Islands. They got it. The correct answer is the Virgin Island. Jeez. Virgin Islands national park is located on St. John, preserving about 60% of the island and a portion of the ocean. The land was donated by Lawrence Rockefeller to the National Park Service under the cont. Under the condition that it would never be developed. The park gets about 400,000 visitors each year, which is more than some parks in South Carolina, Texas, and California. Its main attraction is its beaches and coral reefs. Also its donkeys. It has some donkeys that you might encounter. Dang donkey on the beach there. All right, Phil, we're halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard update.

[Seth]

Everyone's doing fairly well, but I will say that you can kind of see a Brody sized hole in the scoreboard here. We've got Seth.

[Randall]

I don't see a problem.

[Seth]

Nate, Alyssa, they all have two points apiece. Max and Omar have three. Good job, Omar. And Randall. He's got a perfect game with five points.

[Max]

Are you sure?

[Seth]

I'm fairly certain.

[Randall]

I'm positive.

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[Spencer Newarth]

the topic is cooking salamander. You can go Question 6 the topic is cooking this sweet and sour condiment which is popular in Chinese American cuisine is named after the bird that it's traditionally served with. Alyssa says she ooh, knows this one. This sweet and sour condiment which is popular in Chinese American cuisine is is named after the bird that it's traditionally served with. I'm the only one in this Alyssa one out of six players.

[Omar Lopez]

Can I find that Panda Express?

[Alyssa]

Not going to give you anything.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, good for you Alyssa. She has a lot of valuable.

[Seth]

Yeah. So I'm guessing it's not going to be sweet and sour sauce.

[Spencer Newarth]

I would not accept. I would not accept that answer.

[Alyssa]

McDonald's sweet and source

[Max]

I only

[Spencer Newarth]

this sweet and sour condiment which is popular in Chinese American cuisine is named after the bird that it's traditionally served with. Randall word is Chinese food rank just put among all of your cuisines top three.

[Randall]

Oh, I don't know. I just, I I don't know. I don't think about cuisines as being ranked. I mean, I love it.

[Spencer Newarth]

Randall doesn't see color, but if you

[Nate]

had to eat one for the rest of your life.

[Randall]

Indian food.

[Nate]

Yep. Agreed.

[Seth]

Oh, really?

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Wow.

[Nate]

Totally.

[Seth]

Alyssa, just look away.

[Alyssa]

Thank you.

[Nate]

I really.

[Max]

That's not even a.

[Spencer Newarth]

This sweet and sour condiment, which is popular in Chinese American cuisine, is named after the bird.

[Alyssa]

I really hope I'm not. I'll be really embarrassed.

[Seth]

Oh, I hate when that happens. I'm. I'm rooting for you, Alyssa. I hope you're the only one.

[Spencer Newarth]

Nate, do you have this one right?

[Nate]

I've got a good guess, but I could. I could imagine being wrong. Done that a time or two.

[Randall]

Named after the bird or named after a bird dish.

[Spencer Newarth]

Not telling you any anymore.

[Randall]

Okay.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay, is everybody ready?

[Seth]

Yes.

[Omar Lopez]

Yes.

[Spencer Newarth]

Randall, go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth, duck sauce. Randall, duck sauce.

[Max]

No.

[Spencer Newarth]

Omar, Sriracha. Nate, Peking Max, General Sow chicken. Alyssa, duck sauce. The correct answer is duck sauce.

[Max]

I was gonna put.

[Nate]

Are you gonna give me a Peking duck?

[Max]

I don't think so.

[Alyssa]

No.

[Spencer Newarth]

I don't think we will. Yeah, I'm gonna do the flavor text.

[Seth]

No.

[Randall]

Alyssa may even have stress prejudice.

[Spencer Newarth]

Duck sauce is an orange jelly that's made with fruits like plums, apricots, or peaches, combined with sugar, vinegar, ginger, and chili pepper. You'll often see it in packets alongside soy sauce and spicy mustard. It's the American version of sauces served with Peking duck and is most commonly used as a dip for egg rolls and crab rangoons.

[Randall]

I was gonna. I was initially gonna say orange chicken sauce, which, you know, I think it's

[Spencer Newarth]

just orange sauce ducks.

[Omar Lopez]

I was tripped up because I think Sriracha's logo has a animal.

[Seth]

They call it rooster sauces.

[Omar Lopez]

So that's my best guess.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Nate]

It's a good guess.

[Spencer Newarth]

Logic on your side.

[Nate]

I got halfway there.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question 7. The topic is hunting. This next great question is via Sean Doherty. New Mexico's Blank blank missile range has given out oryx tags since 1974.

[Nate]

We've had something like this before.

[Spencer Newarth]

We have talked about New Mexico's. What they refer to, I think, is like, the big three, but we have not covered this specific thing.

[Nate]

This is not going to help me close the gap with Randall.

[Spencer Newarth]

New Mexico Blank Blank range has given out oryx tag since 1974.

[Randall]

Omar, you've probably been here.

[Omar Lopez]

Been here?

[Randall]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

What were you hunting when you were there?

[Omar Lopez]

I wasn't hunting myself, but I was with someone that was hunting orcs.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. Did they fill their tag?

[Randall]

They did.

[Spencer Newarth]

Did they have on range or off?

[Nate]

Off.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. We're not gonna say this person's name.

[Nate]

Is it who I'm thinking of rhyme with A.D. biller.

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[Randall]

I like that guy a lot.

[Spencer Newarth]

And did is. I know on range they have like broken horn, oryx or just regular. Is it the same way off range?

[Omar Lopez]

I have no clue.

[Seth]

I think offering is just an off range. Steve had an off range tag.

[Nate]

Did he fill that one?

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Nate]

I've heard that's a tough hunt.

[Seth]

It was tough. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Omar Lopez]

To the last day.

[Randall]

Yeah.

[Omar Lopez]

For us, tough hunt.

[Spencer Newarth]

But I think success rates are still like north of 35 range for off range.

[Nate]

Really?

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah. Still pretty high.

[Omar Lopez]

And I've heard that meat is some of the best I got.

[Seth]

Summer nosy. I was good. It was so hot. Was it hot on your.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh yeah.

[Seth]

Oh, it's terrible.

[Randall]

Ford killed one and gave me some of the meat and it was delicious.

[Spencer Newarth]

Was it?

[Randall]

It was delicious.

[Nate]

Gerald.

[Seth]

Henry.

[Spencer Newarth]

Is everybody ready? New Mexico's blank blank missile range has given out oryx tags since 1974. Go ahead and reveal your answers. White Sands. White Sands. White Sands. White Sands. Max says Area 51. Alyssa without an answer. The correct answer is the White Sands Missile Range.

[Max]

Yeah, I want to think of it.

[Seth]

Alyssa's blank white board was closer than yours.

[Max]

Give her half a point, Phil.

[Spencer Newarth]

The White Sands missile range is home to North America's largest free ranging oryx population. The herd started from 95 Oryx that were stocked there in the 1960s and and 70s. It's estimated that about 5,000 of them live on the missile range today with another couple thousand living in the surrounding desert. Tags are very hard to draw and run upwards of $1,600 for non residents. Question 8. The topic is biology. Name four of the five vital organs in a mammal. Name four of the five vital Organs in a mammal. This is where Shelby got her. Half point is actually 3/4 point. But that would break the Shelby index. We will get a scoreboard update after this.

[Nate]

What? Define vital

[Spencer Newarth]

In. In my flavor. I'm not gonna tell you anymore. The five vital organs in a mammal.

[Max]

Well, there's only so many.

[Spencer Newarth]

The definition is. When you google vital organs in a mammal, it says these are the five vital organs in a mammal.

[Seth]

It's probably one you need to live.

[Nate]

Yeah, but dude, I'll.

[Seth]

I don't know.

[Spencer Newarth]

How's your list going, Randall? Are you trying to add or eliminate?

[Randall]

I. I'm. Look, I'm trying to think of my Fifth.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Randall]

I have other. I know of other organs, so I guess I'm doing elimination, but I'm trying to add a fifth at the same time.

[Spencer Newarth]

Name four of these five vital organs in a mammal. Maxwell, do you like your answer?

[Max]

No.

[Spencer Newarth]

Now he hates it.

[Seth]

Yes. Yeah, I would say that's the thing.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Oh, oh, we only need four.

[Seth]

Only four. I'd say if you're at five, you don't. It doesn't count.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah, you put five.

[Randall]

Yeah, I was going for five. That was stupid.

[Spencer Newarth]

Omar, do you have your answer?

[Omar Lopez]

I have mine.

[Spencer Newarth]

Max, do you have your answer?

[Max]

No, I need. I mean, I just need one more.

[Omar Lopez]

Max, think about what, like, time a turkey needs to survive.

[Nate]

Hey, stop throwing out them hints over there.

[Spencer Newarth]

Not a mammal. But it might. It might actually help Max while we kill time for Max Epstein island is.

[Randall]

You can see Little St. John, right?

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah. You can see the writing that to

[Randall]

Seth on National Park.

[Spencer Newarth]

I think they're like 12 miles apart. Yeah. Oh, is that what I saw you doing?

[Seth]

Randall? Didn't want to bring it up, so.

[Randall]

Yeah, I didn't want to bring it up on the podcast, but I did write to Seth Epstein island, and then I wrote Little St. John.

[Spencer Newarth]

Exactly. Or is it St. James? Oh, Little St. James.

[Randall]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth]

You take the Lolita express to Little St. James.

[Randall]

I think it's good that I don't know what it is because I've never been there.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay, exonerated. Name four of the five vital organs in a mammal. Maxwell, how we doing?

[Max]

Yeah, we're good.

[Spencer Newarth]

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth, heart, lung, liver, brain. Randall, brain, heart, lungs, liver. Omar, heart, lungs, brain, kidney. Nate, heart, liver, lungs, kidney. Max, lungs, heart, liver, stomach.

[Max]

Wasn't using my brain.

[Spencer Newarth]

Alyssa. Heart, lungs, brain, kidneys. All right, the five vital organs are brain, heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys. Everybody but Maxwell, you don't need two kidneys. He said he wasn't using at least one.

[Nate]

They're so important, you need. They give you two. What about skin?

[Spencer Newarth]

That's a good point.

[Randall]

You need a skin. That's the biggest organ of the body.

[Seth]

That's true.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah. Not in a mammal, though.

[Max]

Yeah. Okay,

[Spencer Newarth]

these are the five pillars that keep the body of a mammal functioning to. And if any of these organs fail, the organism cannot survive without immediate medical intervention. The non vital organs that a mammal can survive without are the gallbladder, pancreas, stomach, large intestine and appendix. Phil, scoreboard update. Two questions to go.

[Max]

Embarrassing.

[Seth]

Scoreboard update. Maximilian is in last place with three points.

[Randall]

What?

[Seth]

Alyssa and Nate are tied up with four. Seth and Omar have five. And still holding onto that perfect game is Dr. Randall with eight points.

[Spencer Newarth]

He's already won today's episode, so now I'm just going to see if he can double that donation to a thousand dollars.

[Randall]

Let's not put too much pressure on that.

[Spencer Newarth]

Question nine. The topic is natural history. A YouTuber was arrested in 2025 after he visited North Blank island in an attempt to give the highly protected tribe a Diet Coke.

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[Spencer Newarth]

Nate had his answer before I finished the question. A YouTuber was arrested in 2025 after he visited North Blank island in an attempt to give the highly protected tribe a Diet Coke.

[Randall]

Diet Cokes are good.

[Nate]

It's an admirable quest. I feel like if I was those people, I'd like a Diet Coke.

[Seth]

I would like a Mountain Dew.

[Nate]

Oh, company man.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah. Code red. Specifically.

[Randall]

No, no.

[Seth]

Baja Blast.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Nate]

Dude. Imagine giving them a white or game fuel.

[Seth]

I'd give him a Bush Light.

[Spencer Newarth]

Wow. We'd really bring them into the year 2026. Bush Light, Baja Blast, and a Diet Coke.

[Seth]

Fits the island vibes.

[Spencer Newarth]

Randall, are you going to get this one right, man?

[Randall]

I know it. I actually read. I was reading something that referenced this in the last week.

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh.

[Randall]

And I'm just drawing a blank.

[Max]

It's frustrating.

[Spencer Newarth]

Do you know?

[Randall]

It's very frustrating, Especially because conservationals suffer as a result of my inadequacies. Oh, yeah, take that one home with me.

[Spencer Newarth]

Six less turkeys born next year. Randall didn't know what island, and now

[Randall]

I'm hurting Max by doing that, which pains me even more.

[Spencer Newarth]

Give us an update on the. On the hen house out there.

[Max]

I haven't seen the ducks in a week.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay. Where do they go?

[Max]

No idea. The hen and eight ducklings are gone.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Nate]

I saw. I think I saw the hen today. The one that hangs out with the two dudes.

[Max]

That might be a different head. Did you see any ducklings?

[Nate]

No ducklings.

[Max]

I haven't seen ducklings in a week now.

[Spencer Newarth]

They'll sometimes do a double clutch in a year. Right? So maybe she'll come back and. And have batch number two.

[Nate]

Maybe.

[Max]

But, like, it's weird that everything's gone. Like, usually from the nest, they travel from the nest to the water, and once they made it to the water, they stay there and raise the ducklings. But, like, I don't know if you went and found new water or what, but I don't think all of them died.

[Spencer Newarth]

Max is nervous. Keep your eyes out in Bozeman. If you see a Hen with how many?

[Max]

Both of them. Twice a day.

[Spencer Newarth]

Eight ducklings.

[Max]

Right, Eight ducklings and a single hand mallard.

[Spencer Newarth]

If you see a head in South. But yeah, the drake.

[Max]

The drakes are still out there.

[Nate]

I saw three drakes in a hand today.

[Randall]

Yeah.

[Spencer Newarth]

Again, we're on question nine. Topic is natural history. A YouTuber was arrested in 2025 after he visited North Blank island in an attempt to give the highly protected tribe a Diet Coke. Randall, do you have this one right?

[Seth]

No.

[Randall]

No, I don't.

[Nate]

Should I give it to you for conservation?

[Randall]

No. No, then I'd end up as a.

[Max]

I don't even know.

[Randall]

Fraudulent score.

[Spencer Newarth]

Turkeys wouldn't like that either. No, actually, yeah.

[Seth]

More turkeys would probably die.

[Randall]

To the great piles of.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Randall]

Fraud that.

[Spencer Newarth]

Yeah.

[Randall]

Constitute my present existence.

[Spencer Newarth]

The donation needs to be pure of heart.

[Randall]

Yeah.

[Nate]

And don't let. Don't let payback.

[Randall]

I feel like mine might sound like it.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay, go ahead and reveal your answer.

[Randall]

Set.

[Spencer Newarth]

Without an answer, Randall says Easter. Omar says Papua New Guinea. Nate says Sentinel. Max. Without an answer, Alyssa without an answer. The correct answer is you're at Jake Paul Sentinel Island.

[Randall]

Oh yeah.

[Max]

I thought we were looking for the

[Spencer Newarth]

YouTuber, so I put down Jake Paul North.

[Seth]

Jake Paul.

[Spencer Newarth]

North Jake Paul Island.

[Randall]

Max was thinking he needed to find a.

[Nate]

Just worried about his.

[Randall]

He needed to look up the Papa New Guinea YouTube account. He's missing out on all the good stuff.

[Spencer Newarth]

I think Jake Paul island would just have a Diet Coke factory out there.

[Max]

Probably.

[Spencer Newarth]

The Sentilese are one of the world's last uncontacted peoples with only a handful of outsiders visiting them. In modern history, it's estimated that the population of the 23 square mile island is. Is between 100 and 200. The Indian government enforces a strict 5 mile exclusion zone around the island, which is for the tribe safety and public safety. Besides the YouTuber, the last person to visit the island was a Christian missionary in 2018 who was killed and buried on the beach.

[Randall]

That's the YouTuber that I can see in my head.

[Spencer Newarth]

I don't know the guy's name.

[Max]

It wasn't Jake Paul.

[Spencer Newarth]

No. He had a long last name with a lot of vowels that look like it would be on the back of a hockey jersey. If that helps you out at all. No, we're now looking at a picture or something or of five of the members of North.

[Nate]

They gotta be like. I don't mean this in a.

[Randall]

Like, then don't say but like how

[Nate]

are they not super inbred?

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, genetic maybe.

[Nate]

Like the genetic bottleneck is real tight.

[Spencer Newarth]

I think they, they believe the populations fluctuated between like 30 and 500. And they'll go and check on them sometimes after a hurricane rolls through just to try to be like, are they okay? Are they. Are they doing all right? But it's still a lot of.

[Max]

But it's not like they would take the help, would they?

[Nate]

Well, see, that's what's so interesting.

[Spencer Newarth]

I think they had one positive experience with some anthropologists back in like the 70s who went there and they gifted them coconuts and I think they gifted them a pig maybe and that went okay. But then there were some other bad relations where they took some members of the island away. Those people died before the boat even landed. And it's just like soured things ever since. All right, here's a correct answer review so far. One was Lake Okeechobee. Two, Coast Guard the three Salamander. Four, Bayonet. Five, Virgin Islands. Six, Duck Sauce. Seven, White Sands Missile Range. Eight was Brain, Heart, Lungs, Liver, Kidneys. Nine was Sentinel Phil, Scoreboard update.

[Seth]

Well, Randall still has a victory, but 100% thanks to Spencer jinxing it. He has lost the perfect game.

[Max]

Literally.

[Randall]

That's right.

[Spencer Newarth]

Seth Omar and nate playing for second place. Here's question 10. This next great question is via Andrew Green. This nine letter word is defined as, quote, any large, thick skinned, non ruminant mammal, most notably elephants, rhinos and hippos.

[Nate]

This is such a good question via Andrew Green.

[Spencer Newarth]

This nine letter word is defined as any large, thick skinned, non ruminant mammal, most notably elephants, rhinos and hippos.

[Nate]

I've heard this, but I don't have it.

[Spencer Newarth]

Randall, do you have this one right?

[Randall]

Yes.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Randall]

Yes.

[Spencer Newarth]

Big zoo boy. I'd be disappointed if you guys now I have.

[Randall]

Now I have a real issue with North Sentinel Island.

[Spencer Newarth]

Who's a big zoo boy?

[Randall]

They're on my list.

[Spencer Newarth]

Zoo boy. Nine letter word defined as any large, thick skinned, non ruminant mammal, most notably elephants, rhinos and hippos. Randall may be the only player who even comes up with an answer.

[Randall]

Come on, guys, you know this.

[Nate]

I did.

[Spencer Newarth]

It's there.

[Nate]

It's in the back of my.

[Seth]

I'm gonna take a swag and say they probably don't. I don't know it really, it's.

[Nate]

Dude, we need to do a tiebreaker. If second place doesn't get decided on, give clues.

[Spencer Newarth]

Last one, everybody.

[Nate]

We should start getting some clues.

[Spencer Newarth]

Everybody go ahead, give him a clue. How? I don't know how you'd Give a clue on this one, Randall.

[Seth]

It's hard to spell. I saw the first three letters of the word on Randall's board, and I

[Spencer Newarth]

still can't come over, tell the rest

[Randall]

of the room, if I had a real. If I had a real problem with my skin being too thick, what sort of doctor would I see?

[Spencer Newarth]

Oh, okay.

[Randall]

And then if, you know, the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs that have a really thick skull. Oh, yeah, I think. Phil, can you look that up?

[Seth]

Oh, I got it.

[Nate]

I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it.

[Spencer Newarth]

The first three letters, which were what, Randall? What were the first three letters?

[Randall]

I don't want to give that sounds.

[Seth]

I don't want to give that crossing a line.

[Randall]

Could you look up the dinosaur?

[Seth]

Well, there are several, but I think. Yeah, I know what you're. You're talking about.

[Randall]

Yeah, I think that's the right name for it.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Randall]

But I feel like I've just been reading too much.

[Seth]

Randall, you are correct.

[Randall]

In the Jurassic park universe, did you

[Nate]

give that in a weird order?

[Randall]

Yeah.

[Nate]

Okay, cool. I'm in it.

[Spencer Newarth]

Is everybody ready?

[Nate]

I got the sounds.

[Randall]

Maybe put her there.

[Nate]

Thanks, dog.

[Max]

Come on.

[Spencer Newarth]

Alyssa wants to get into that second place conversation.

[Randall]

ZooBoy podcast coming out. Spring of 2027.

[Spencer Newarth]

Go ahead and reveal your answer. Seth, without an answer, Randall says pachyderm. Omar, without an answer. Nate, he got it. Pachyderm. Max, without an answer. Alyssa, without an answer. The correct answer is pachyderm. I had P, A, C, H, Y, D, E, R, M. I knew somebody

[Randall]

had that in there.

[Spencer Newarth]

Pachyderm is derived from the Greek word pachydermis, which translates to thick skinned. This is an obsolete term with modern genetic studies placing them in different animal orders. Pachyderm is considered an artificial classification, but still a popular one. All right, Phil, he is showing us the scoreboard. Randall is today's winner with nine correct answers. He got the Shelby index right on the nose. Randall, what are we gonna do with that 500 donation?

[Randall]

Let's send this to the organization Outdoor Mentors.

[Spencer Newarth]

Okay.

[Randall]

Steve at Outdoor Mentors just recently wrote into us to update them on what they're doing, but they're pairing kids with adults who will get them outside, and they're expanding into 40 different states. And so let's send this money there and get some more kids out in the woods and on the water.

[Spencer Newarth]

$500. That could buy a lot of fishing rods, maybe a couple guns.

[Randall]

And if you'd rather have a thousand dollars versus five hundred, you can thank the good people of North Sentinel Island.

[Spencer Newarth]

Join us next week for more Meat Eater trivia. The only game show where conservation Good

[Nate]

job Randall yeah Spence from South Dakota.

[Seth]

He's the host.

[Nate]

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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