Ep. 550: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CXI

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Spencer Neuharth

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 Steve Cal, Clay, Randall, Chili, Ryan Thompson, and Marco Gill. Ryan and Marco, this is your first time on the show. Tell folks what you're doing here. This is Ryan Rt.

Ryan Thompson

I'm the tour manager for the Meat Eater live tour that we're currently rolling through. That's right. This episode is live to you from the Meat Eater live tour. We're currently sitting in the Wilma Theater in Missoula, Montana, waiting to take the stage for our 7th of ten shows. Marco, how'd you get wrapped up in this deal?

Spencer Neuharth

Well, I normally tour with bands here. I'm a promoter rep for AEG, just helping out Ryan here, making sure the shows go smooth. Steve made an observation the other night that we're now more banned than we are anything on this tour at this point. I don't remember making that. You told somebody, you're like, we're now more.

It was at the Anaheim show where Steve's buddy joined us and he said we're now mostly banned around here. You must be thinking someone else. I mean, I feel like we're. I feel like me and Phil are a band. It's like Merle Haggard and, you know, Merle Haggard's harmonica player.

Randall Williams

Hey, what does that mean? Marco's middle name is Elvis. Yeah, I told you, drew a clay. I know. I mean, Marco, Elvis.

Steven Rinella

Marco was born in the Bronx. Born in the Bronx. What else do we know about Marco? Well, I know he's gonna get beat bad right now. Oh, it's gonna be awful, man.

Spencer Neuharth

It's gonna be pretty bad. Marco, how do you feel about your chances at meat eater trivia? Not good, but I'm happy to be here. Okay, but just think about. Think about his.

Steven Rinella

Think about how self confident he is just to walk in the room knowing you're just gonna get spanked. Do you know what I mean? Smile on his face. Ignorance is bliss. Smile on his face.

He doesn't care. Marco joined the band about halfway through the tour. What do you call that fancy instrument you play? It's a little cajones, little box drum. Steve was very impressed yesterday by the music you had coming out of that thing.

He's got a little box you sit on. It looks like an apple crate, and, dude, it's like a whole drum set. Yeah. If I was the drum industry, I'd be intimidated by that box, because why buy drums when you get that little box? Need a box, man?

It's box and a beat. It's called a what? It's called a cajon. C a j o n. Comes from flamenco music.

That's where it originated from. It's just used to accompany dance performances. Got it. You can throw him a bone. You wouldn't even know where to start.

Spencer Neuharth

I thought about it, but then I didn't. Something music related pulled it out of the game. RT, how you think you're gonna do at trivia today? He'll do good. Fair to Midland.

Randall Williams

Okay. No, he's gonna do good. All right, good. This is a ten round quiz show with questions from meat eaters. Four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking.

Spencer Neuharth

And there is a prize. Meat eater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winner's choosing. Clay, how you holding up on the tour so far? Man? It's a lot of fun.

Clay Newcomb

It's taxing. I just feel like this is my new life. It's just like. I don't know. It's just like I sleep on a bus.

I talk to my family on a phone. I play music. Phil observed this morning that he's at about 62%. Oh, really? Yeah.

Spencer Neuharth

Could you put a number on it. Clay, man, I'm running, like 83. Oh, that's pretty good. Okay. Feel pretty good.

Good for you, Clay. Now, on the tour, we've been polling our audience each night and using that data as part of a live game show. So nearly 1500 people have taken our survey. Here are five things we've learned so far. When it comes to believing in Bigfoot, Boise was the most likely to believe in Bigfoot, with 36% of audience members saying they think he's real.

Sacramento was the least likely to believe in Bigfoot at 29%. And in between them was San Diego at 34%. You recognize that's people being cute. Explain.

Steven Rinella

They're just being cute. They're out at night, they're having fun. They're putting down cute answers. If you know that, though, then why don't you answer more accurately? Cause I don't know how cute they're like, it's hard to anticipate how cute they are being.

Randall Williams

Okay. But, you know, they're being some level. Yeah. They don't act like that percentage of people doesn't actually believe that. I'll tell you, it's an anonymous survey they're taking.

Spencer Neuharth

I don't know who's answering what. It just goes into a big pot. But Steve is convinced they're trying to manipulate the results. No, I think that's part of the game. They're just being cute.

Cal

It's definitely part of the game. But what Steve's saying is if you were to, there you go, put a gun to those people's heads and say. Hey, I was envisioning just that scenario. Is that the new game we play? It'd be good.

Randall Williams

Yeah. Okay, I got a game. Yeah. Do a survey, like, then put a gun to their head and do it again. Now, when it comes to wanting Grizzly.

Steven Rinella

A survey with a gun to your head. When it comes to who you really voting for, when it comes to wanting grizzly bears in their home state, San Diego and Salt Lake had very different responses. 49% of Salt Lake outdoorsmen said they wish grizzlies were in Utah, compared to 73% of San Diego outdoorsmen saying they wish grizzlies were in California. Yeah. Lot tougher crowd in San Diego.

Spencer Neuharth

In what way? Cause they can, they can hack it. They can hack a little risk. Proxy got a lot of military there. So they're like, we had tons of veterans and tons of military in San Diego, and they're not scared of bears.

Steven Rinella

Well, and then you get Salt Lake City and they're scared. I thought it was because the bears would, even if they were in California, they'd go nowhere near San Diego. So they felt comfortable saying they could come in. But I think it has to do with the California having an affinity for grizzlies because of, it's like they're, you know, on their flag and it's state animal. State animal.

I'll tell you another thing. We had a ton of spear fishermen in San Diego, so they're already used to the dealing with the mental stress of great whites. Okay. Tons of spearfish met show they're used to the mental stress of dealing with great whites. And they're like, okay, a bear, big deal.

Spencer Neuharth

I'm with RT. I think. I think it could also be that people in very urban places really don't have to deal with the consequences of it. And people in very urban places may be thinking of something else. When you say bears in the state, have you been?

Randall Williams

Yeah. They're like, yeah, man, I don't know if I need, I already have to do a lot of pop bears. I don't know if I need a grizzly bear throwing. Now, when it comes to largemouth bass, we learned that about half of the anglers in Mesa and Sacramento have eaten 155 percent in sacrament in the Sacramento audience have eaten a largemouth, and 58% of mesa anglers have eaten a largemouth. Is that what you about expected?

Clay Newcomb

I didn't have any context for that question. Okay, what if we asked, like, saying. How many people in here have eaten a hamburger? Then I'd be like, well, it'd be 100%, I think. Yeah.

Randall Williams

So. But I knew that the question, I knew it was like, oh, wait a minute. People don't eat large mouth bass. There must be something here. This is not a gimme.

Clay Newcomb

So I didn't have a lot of context for it. Clay, when was the last time you ate a largemouth bass? I mean, we. Most of the fish that I'm catching and eating in Arkansas would be catfish and crappie stuff that people give me. That's been a while since I've eaten bass.

Steven Rinella

But no one brings you bass play? No. You wouldn't think it's weird, though, if they did either? Not at all. Okay.

Spencer Neuharth

Not taboo. Near neck of the woods. No. Now, when it comes to America's most popular big game animal, we learned that 24% of folks at the Anaheim show have killed a whitetail, which is about twice as many as I expected. Were you guys surprised by that number?

24% of them killed the whitetail. No. You thought that was. That was on, right on brand. I think I had a higher number.

Okay, what if we asked that question in Arkansas? Oh, of sportsmen? I mean, it would be a hundred percent. 100% of them. No.

Randall Williams

Okay. There'S not gonna be a hundred percent. Well, but, but just like the people that took the survey, if you had a room full of people that bought tickets to meet eater live. I mean, you know what 100% means, right? Well, but, I mean, I'm just saying it'd be 98, I think 98%.

Spencer Neuharth

He's being a little. I read Cal put the. And then Cal held the pistol to his head, and there he comes out with 98. And finally, the last notable thing we learned is that Clay Newcomb knows his fellow hunters and anglers best. Of the six survey game shows so far, he's won three of them.

Clay, what do you think makes you so good at the show? You're just a man of the people. Well, Steve. Steve is unwilling to play the game.

Clay Newcomb

I know that people are trying to be cute, and I'm kind of. Kind of an underground social scientist in a way. Okay. So I'm, like, reading the room. I have them bring the lights up so I can look in people's eyes.

Steven Rinella

Sure. And I listen to that Aussie wind podcast, the magician. Okay. So I kind of know what's up. Clay's a mentalist.

Randall Williams

Yeah. Clayton not only wins, but he dominates, too. So just. Well, mental people. Clay.

Spencer Neuharth

Now, the Shelby index for today's show is a three, so our winner should get six 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.

Randall Williams

How's that? You just tend to win everything.

Speaker A

Game on, suckers. How's the Shelby index holding up these days? Pretty accurate. Is it? Yeah.

Spencer Neuharth

Yeah, we'll look at it again, but it was just a few months ago we visited, and it was pretty dang close. Question one. This will be multiple choice, and the topic is fishing. Which of these lures has caught the most world record fish? Is it spoons, crankbaits, poppers, or jigs?

Which of these lures has caught the most world record fish? Spoons, crankbaits, poppers, or jigs?

Randall Williams

Hmm. Dude, I might go out on a limb here. Okay, Marco, do you fish at all? They shaking his head no. Okay, he's gonna put down that drum he's got.

Spencer Neuharth

Which of these lures has caught the most world record fish? Huh? Spoons, crankbaits, poppers, jigs? Now, Randall, I gotta hold my board up here like this to block, so I can't. I'm not well.

Chili

I can see you in the looking the giant mirror. No, I just don't want to look at yours. I'm trying to. It's very honest. I'm putting down what I put down.

Randall Williams

Okay. And he's going out on a limb. He declared, is everybody ready, Randall? Yes. Go ahead and reveal your answers.

Spencer Neuharth

We have Steve saying poppers, cut to our go. Sure, go ahead. What do you got? Cause I think all the saltwater stuff, dude. Marco sang jigs, rt sang spoons.

Randall sang spoons. Chili sang jigs, Cal sang spoons. Clay sang spoons. The correct answer is jigs. Marco got it right.

According to the IGFA record books, jigs have caught over 1000 world records. Thats nearly five times as many as second place, which are spoons. After that, plastic worms, crankbaits, spinners, swim baits and poppers. Well, Marco's got a perfect game. Wow, Marco, I wasn't thinking about the sheer.

Clay Newcomb

How can you have a. I'll explain. Thousand records. Like, how many records are there? Brown bullheads, yellow head, a lot of fresh water.

Spencer Neuharth

They track every fish in the world. Yeah, I should put that down. Question two. White perch, yellow perch, the turf perch. Go ahead.

Randall Williams

How. How long can you go? You think? Question two. The topic is gear, headquartered in Vermont, this legendary company says, quote, at our core, we are a fly fishing and wing shooting brand.

Spencer Neuharth

The topic is gear, headquartered in Vermont. This legendary company says, quote, at our core, we are a fly fishing and wing shooting brand. Marco, who made that drum? You got what brand? Yeah, tycoon.

Steven Rinella

Might be it. Did. Did you come up with an answer? Cal, you got this one right. Randall, you got this one right.

Yeah, I got it right. I got it right. I would have had that last one right, too, if I had to start thinking the wrong thing. How about you, RT? You got this one right?

Ryan Thompson

I do. All right. About half the room is quite confident. Headquartered in Vermont, this legendary company says, at our core, we are a fly fishing and wing shooting brand. Legendary.

Steven Rinella

Like, like. Like this legendary animal. That's just my little superlative. Is it wrong to think that you can cover more water with a spoon than you can a jig.

Randall Williams

Like the. Mac water of the spoon, don't you think? I think you can vertical the same amount of water you could horizontally. It's. It's all the dinky fish, dude.

Steven Rinella

All came up. See, I was going mahe. Steve Galaxy brained it. Dog tooth tuna. Yeah, yeah.

Giant Spencer's going, like, I don't know, just everything. Yeah. Crappie line class, does everybody have an answer for the company that says, at our core, we are a fly fishing and wing shooting brand. Clay, you got an answer? I have an answer.

Spencer Neuharth

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying Orvis, Marco saying. Ben and Jerry's. Ben and Jerry's. Rt.

And then Randall and Chili and Cal sang. Orvis Clay says Filson. The correct answer is Orvis. The room did very well. Charles Orvis founded the company nearly 170 years ago in Manchester, Vermont.

Although the brand is best known for their fly fishing gear, they also sell shotguns, knives, dog beds and more. Orvis has been privately owned since 1965 and today they employ over 1500 people. Question three. The topic is excellent conservation record, too. Oh, what do they do?

Cal

Everything from stream bank restoration to advocacy work with a bunch of rough grouse society pheasants forever. They do do a lot. That's why they're a legendary company. Steve, question three. The topic is conservation.

Spencer Neuharth

Dictionary.com defines this nine letter word as, quote, a person who hunts for food or for profit without regard to the rules of sport. This is question three. Dictionary.com defines this nine letter word as a person who hunts for food or for profit without regard to the rules of sport.

Randall, you got this one. Mmm. I'm what I'm thinking. Read it again. Read it again.

Steven Rinella

Cuz I'm not getting the right letter count here. Dictionary.com defines this nine letter word as a person who hunts for food or for profit without regard to the rules of sport.

Spencer Neuharth

Nobody appears to be confident. I don't know how to spell it. Well, I won't hold that against. See, if you got the right answer. You could be a letter or two off, Clay.

Randall Williams

That's. That's just fine. I'm a terrible speller. Okay, nine letter word we're looking for is everybody doing little hangman etches on their board? Okay, Randall, I got one answer.

Steven Rinella

Randall, I've got one coming in at eight. I've got nine letters. Okay, Randall may be the only one who gets this right. I'm not quite sure this is how I would define it, but. Well, this is how dictionary.com defines.

Randall Williams

That's right. The. The definition is a person who hunts for food or for profit without regard to the rules of sport. It's a nine letter word and the topic is conservation. I'm trying to think of one of my friends who's got nine letters in their name.

Yeah.

Spencer Neuharth

This is a stumper. Randall may be the only one who has it. Are we gonna. When we hear it, gonna go like, oh, shoot. Not gonna tell you that.

Clay Newcomb

Clay, are we gonna go? I've never heard that word before. Not sure if. If my answer is correct. Everybody's gonna go.

Chili

It's kind of that questioning. Oh, dictionary.com. But I don't know if I have the right answer. Do the others give up yet? Nine letters.

Spencer Neuharth

Steve, you have nine letter answers. I got a seven. I got an eight. Okay, I got a ten. Make it plural.

Clay Newcomb

Just put an s on the end of it. But it's singular, right? A person. That's right. It's a sing.

Randall Williams

There's. This isn't a plural answer. I'm not. Not trying to trick you. If your ten letter one is plural, you could just hack that s off.

Spencer Neuharth

Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve without an answer. Marco saying trophy men. Rt saying.

What's that say? Rt says sellsword. Randall sang pot hunter. Chili sang robin Hood. Cal sang long hunter.

Clay sang substance, subsistence. Subsistence. Oh, Randall got it. The correct answer is pot hunter. No way.

Randall Williams

Pot hunter. So, Clay, what was your reaction when you heard pots for food? I just. What? Said for food or for profit without regard to rules of.

Clay Newcomb

I didn't know there was such definition around. Where'd you go to find that? Dictionary calm. Like, who cares about dictionary calm? How does that change for.

Steven Rinella

Nothing cares about it. But it's not even like you're just drawn from be. Like according to some AI generated b's I found. Mmm. This blankety blank.

Spencer Neuharth

I have to assign it to somebody. So that authoritative. Fine. Take, I think. Go to Miriam's right now on your little computer.

Steven Rinella

Go to Miriam's right now. Or any. Like, any dictionary. That's a dictionary. Go.

No, go to the Oxford English Dictionary. O. Ed. Okay, which one is it? Which Oxford English dictionary?

And type in pot hunter, please. Okay. We're working on this, and it's gonna tell you. Not a word. No, it'll have definition.

It'll have its earliest usage, too. It would have helped if you would. Have said this is a colloquial term or something. Like. I was looking for, like a.

Clay Newcomb

I was thinking of, like, a more concrete term. We gave you the. Well, I gave you the definition, and Randall got it. So. He's a doctor.

Spencer Neuharth

Oxford English dictionary makes me have a subscription, Steve, so we're gonna have to.

Will Mariam satisfy you? Okay, sure. We'll try that out.

Steven Rinella

Here we go. Merriam Webster defines pothunter as a person who hunts for game. Who hunts game for food or profit without following the rules of sport. It's like three words different than dictionary.com quote s definition. And what are the other?

Cal

Was long Hunter in there too? Long hunter. Ten letters. And it's. We're going for the exact definition, not.

Steven Rinella

The way he feels. Do you count the apostrophe? So, Steve, do we. Do we respect Merriam Webster or they. They're on the.

Spencer Neuharth

Okay. All right. It's a. We're calling that one a valid question, I think. Question four.

The topic is hunting. This potential Donald Trump running mate wrote in her book that she killed a 14 month old hunting dog for having, quote, and aggressive personality. Straight from the headlines. Oh, there's a. There's a little hint, Randall.

Chili

Oh, come on. This potential Donald Trump running mate wrote in her book that she killed a 14 month old hunting dog for having an aggressive personality. This is question four. Randall has it. Chili seems like he has it.

Spencer Neuharth

Cal, you have it, right? Steve, you have it, right? Go ahead, buddy. Okay, Clay, how we doing over here? Uh, I got it.

Randall Williams

Okay. What are you. What are we snickering about, Cal? Oh, the justification of, like, why it's in the book is. The justification of why it's in the book is.

Cal

Is funny to me. Yeah, there's a little bit of stuff. If I can do this could lead to a crunch, you know? I can. Yeah, exactly.

Spencer Neuharth

Is everybody ready? I'll buy that. I don't pass the buck. Is everybody ready? Yep.

Clay, go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying no. Marco saying Nikki Haley. Dude, Nikki Haley and Trump are way on the outs, man. Rt saying Marco Randall sang gnome.

Chili sang gnome. Cal sang gnome. Clay saying SD gov gnome. They got it. The correct answer is Christy nome.

This story comes from Nome's new book, which the Guardian obtained a copy of last week. Nome tells of a young, wire haired pointer named Cricket who she took pheasant hunting one fall day. Nome said the dog was untrainable in that it chased up birds before the hunters could get to them. After the hunt, Nome was driving home when she stopped to chat with a neighbor. That's when cricket got out of its kennel and killed the family's chickens.

Nome then went home and led the dog to a gravel pit, where she killed it once the story broke. The Guardian has reported that Trump's campaign now views it as impossible that she could be his running mate. What? Dude, I'm telling you, what the Guardian reported with the hell is going on, that's not. That's ridiculous, dude.

They think it makes her unelectable. No, it does not. That makes me like her even more. I already like her. She killed a 14 month old hunting dog.

Steven Rinella

Yeah, people need to do more of that. There's a lot of dogs out there flushing birds way too far out. There's probably some steps in between. I think. What would have been the.

Clay Newcomb

Difference of her taking it to the. To the vet and having him put it down. No, no, I'm not saying, you know. What this means for Ronnie Bames political prospects. If that kills your political.

Cal

What it means is she's not, you know, she gave up on training a dog is one way to look at it, which would be very negative. No, cuz if you'd look into that dog soul, she said she looked jump, said she hated. But there was another piece of information in there that in my mind does justify it. And it's the fact that the dog tried to bite her when she tried to get it from chasing the chickens. And then you, you know, it becomes very tricky.

It's like getting rid of a bad mule, right? Like it bucked everybody off. But now I'm gonna try to sell it cuz I can't have it around because it bucks everybody off. But how do you give some a liability to the next person? Same deal with a dog who bites things.

Steven Rinella

She did the right thing. Yeah, but I think it's a thing to be like, it's untrainable according to who. I think there's the thing too, though. Like there's a lot of people that enter the political sphere that like the posture about their blue collar agricultural upbringings. That's a real issue right now in politics.

There's like, recently I was reading about another politician who talked about growing up on the family farm, right. And be like, no, you didn't. Your parents were academics. They owned a little piece of property where the mom raised, like, prized show horses. You didn't like grow up on a farm, you didn't grow up there.

Cal

Or I made a couple of billion dollars and bought a big ass ranch in Montana, and now I'm a big ass rancher in Montana. Talking about how I ranch in Montana. Sure. And this gal who could this gnome like legit came from what she says she came from, and this demonstrates even more. She also killed the family goat that day.

Randall Williams

They had a goat that she didn't. Love and he was stinky. I didn't pick up that it was. It was a twofer. But that one she had to deliver two shots to because the first one didn't kill it.

Steven Rinella

Listen, when you take a trip to the gravel pit and you maximize it, okay, going all the way out there, I got. No, listen, I think the campaign, I think the Trump campaign would be foolish not to pick her up. Question five, the topic in the go cooking. No question. Was she at the top of the list?

Spencer Neuharth

Yeah. Really? Yeah. I didn't I didn't know. The guardian says that.

Steven Rinella

Well, I don't know. No one knows. But, I mean, it's. It's pundits. Pundits feel that she was at the top of the list.

But, I mean, no, you know, there's one person that knows, and they haven't said. Question five. The topic is cooking confit. Steak frite and tartar sauce are this country's cuisine.

Spencer Neuharth

How would you say it? Confi. Confi. Steak frite and tartar sauce are this country's cuisine. Marco's gonna bang this one, dude.

Steven Rinella

Okay, Marco's in the running, man. We'll get a scoreboard. Haley, like, do this. Haley. They were at each other's throat.

Spencer Neuharth

No way she's getting the nod. I like her. This is ladies five.

Steven Rinella

I'm ready. I'm ready for him. I'm ready for him. What about. What about Arkansas's governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders?

Spencer Neuharth

Did she go to the coon rally. That you guys did? She was not there. Okay, yeah. This is question five.

Cone feet, steak frite and tartar sauce. Are this country's cuisine. Oh, wait. Is this being filmed? This is being filmed.

Would you just make a bad gesture? No, it's. Everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying France.

Marco saying France. Marco. I forgot to answer.

Steven Rinella

Unless you're gonna write down France, it's too late. Been hiding that trick up his sleeve. Busy about. I forfeit. If France is the answer, I'll forget.

Spencer Neuharth

What were you gonna say, you think? Well, I was thinking about a european country, but.

Everybody says France. Everybody got it right except for Clay. Aloof. I wanted to wait till we. I pretty much cheated the system the last time.

Clay Newcomb

I wasn't gonna say anything till I already got the point. Okay, I don't know if you noticed. But I wrote in and a bunch of scribbles. Yeah, I saw that. I knew it was a South Dakota governor.

Chili

I saw that on your board. And I was like, I can't believe. That Spencer read that. I know. So I can.

Cal

I can't just put French as his answer. How did he have gnome? He wrote SD Gu, and then with a little, like, a snake. Are you gonna accept that? Well, it's already been accepted.

Randall Williams

I did. I did that. What did he do? I wrote French. I don't think that's wrong.

Spencer Neuharth

Is French a country? I think you're not a country. No, it's not, because here's the problem. Senegal, they. French is their national language.

Steven Rinella

Okay? Quebec. You ever heard of Quebec. When he says French, is it Quebec? Randall, were you thinking of Quebec?

Randall Williams

Did you think. No. You can't ask someone what they're thinking of. Well, I was thinking of jigs. Why don't you.

Spencer Neuharth

French dishes are french onion soup, chocolate souffle crepes, and creme bru. Creme brulee. You can get some of these recipes on themeateater.com, like Jenny Gwynne Wheatley's duck frite and Wade Trung's duck confit. Phil, we are halfway through the game of trivia. I'm going to read us a leaderboard update.

In last place, we have clay with one singular point, and he had to cheat to get it even. Wait a minute. I didn't cheat to get Christine o. I had another point. Well, okay, you didn't get Orvis, you didn't get Jiggs, you didn't get pod hunter.

So you have 1.1 point. That's a really painful way to do that.

Steven Rinella

Next up, with two points, maybe y'all. Could give me the French. I mean. I mean, I did. Next up, with two points, we have Marco and Rt.

Spencer Neuharth

Marco's beating me. Marco is. He's got way more points than you. Twice as many, to be exact. He knows twice as much as Clay about this.

Steven Rinella

This area of inquiry. With three points, we have Steve and Cal. And in first place, with four points, are Randall and Chili. Wow. Points.

Spencer Neuharth

Wow. Chili, have you won before? Now I know why Chili tried to stab me in the back by pointing out the French. France. No, I've never won.

Actually, to date, I have the most correct answers. Like, I've only ever had four ever. Right? Wow. Not gonna mess with your perfect game.

And he declared he gets one more right each game. So it went like two, three, four. And so he said. He told me before today, he's getting five correct answers at a minimum. At a minimum.

Randall Williams

At a minimum. Okay. This is fantastic. I'll tell you guys something about Chili that'll surprise you. Yeah, you don't need to, but go ahead if you feel inclined.

Spencer Neuharth

Question six. Wait a minute. Topic. You're not gonna do it.

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Spencer Neuharth

The topic is public lands. No, the topic is cinema. Public lands. Let's be honest about it. Part of the 1997 film Dante's Peak was shot on this mountain that the movie is based on Dante's mouth.

Randall, do you have a correct answer, or are you just guessing? Pierce Brosnan? I'm not. Well, you're handing out hints here to the room. I don't think.

That's not confirming or denying people that. Get scalded in the creek. You're just handing out all sorts of hints. The most badass suburban build ever. I just assumed.

Chili

Well, maybe I'm making too many assumptions. Randall has now provided two hints to the room. Part of the 1997 film Dante's Peak was shot on this mountain that the movie is based on. Randall, do you love that movie? You don't have to keep giving details if you don't want.

Randall Williams

You could just. It's been a real. It's been a while. There's a. There's another film that was released at the same time.

Spencer Neuharth

Well, he's just gonna keep going. That one. I think it's a weirder movie because. I have no idea. Okay.

Steven Rinella

I'm gathering. Cause it's public lands. I'm gathering it's not the Matterhorn or something.

Clay Newcomb

Well, I don't want to. Yeah, I don't wear Steve's heads at. Then we should just. But leave alone part of the 1997 film Dante's Peak was shot on this mountain that the movie is based on. Here's as though Randall is the only one who's coming.

Steven Rinella

It's. You say this is bucketed under what public land? I don't know. I don't know that my answer is correct. Okay.

Chili

I know the film. Mm hmm. Arty, are you familiar. Familiar with this movie? I am.

Randall Williams

Okay. But I know you have the answer. I have an answer. Okay. I couldn't have told you that the film was filmed at this place.

Hmm. Marco, I have three answers. Okay. It was filmed one place. That's the question says.

Spencer Neuharth

That's right. Part of the 1997 film Dante's Peak was shot on this mountain that the movie is based on. Based on and shot there. Mm hmm. Rt.

Did you watch this movie in high school? What year was it? 1997. Yep. Okay.

Ryan Thompson

And I think I remember the name of the other one as well that Randall's referencing. But I was that, again, random. That would be too much of a hater. Can you read both mine? You know the one I'm talking about?

Chili

No one. No one likes that movie. I felt like this was a real, real hit in. In this neck of the woods. Hmm.

Spencer Neuharth

All right, 1997. I was one years old, by the way. Okay. Wow. All right, is everybody ready?

Clay Newcomb

When I was in high school and got a class and wasn't doing very good, I doodled. So I'm just kind of, like, working on my name up here. Okay. Yeah, he drew us a spoon before. It was a big hit around that area.

Randall Williams

Wow. Steve is sussing out all the hints you guys are handing out. I got nothing, dude. Okay, is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers.

Spencer Neuharth

I can't even tell what you crossed. I wrote I crossed out El Capitan, which is more like a face than I wrote Denali. Okay, we have Marco saying Mount Rainier. Rt saying Mount St. Helens.

Randall saying Mount St. Helens. Oh, that makes sense. Chili sang Mount Rainier. Cal sang lolo.

Clay saying mountain rainy. I saw you change your answer. Mount Rainy. Let me see how he's got a spell. Well.

Steven Rinella

Let me see about.

Spencer Neuharth

The correct answer is Mount St. Helens. We have, of course, because it's all. Smokey and Randall road infrastructure. Was it that he was volcano?

Steven Rinella

Was it that they were up there when it blew? Is that what it was movie stars. Piers Brosnan plays a USGS scientist who's monitoring a dormant volcano in Washington. Rotten Tomatoes ranked it as the 41st best disaster movie of all time, losing out to films such as Sharknado. Sharknado two, Sharknado three, Sharknado five, and snakes.

Cal

A natural disaster. Isn't the town. That wasn't it. Wallace? Wallace.

Steven Rinella

That's. Yeah. Isn't it the 25th anniversary? No, it's the something anniversary. May 18.

Randall Williams

I don't know. The great burn, was it 83, that blue. 19. Eight. Oh, I know it's May 18, but.

Chili

Yeah, I lost that on a tiebreaker, I think in one of the first. Games that I played, Randall handed out so many hints there, I thought more folks would have got it, you know. The talking about springs and it's gets. Oh, yeah. And the old.

Randall Williams

They're not gonna make it through. And grandma gets out. Yeah. No, no. So there's that.

Chili

Yeah, I was talking about at the beginning. There's, like, some skinny dippers that go to a hot spring, but it's hotter than it should be, and so they. What's. What's the other volcano movie? Volcano.

Randall Williams

Okay. And they get boiled to death. Yeah, I think they find them there. They find these people boiled in the hot spring, and they're like, oh, something. Is going on with the geothermal.

It's classic. Like, he's the authority, and he's reading everything, and nobody believes him. Yeah, crazy. And he finds a love interest after his last partner died because they were escaping a volcano. And magma rot comes through the roof of the pickup and just decapitates her.

Spencer Neuharth

So that's why. Previous wife. His previous wife. And then he finds new love in a similar situation. You know, he's a real cowboy of the USGS world.

Chili

I really wanted to be a volcano scientist after that. Volcanologist, you're always around erupting volcanoes. Question. Took her head right off top of the truck. It didn't take her head off, but it, like, went through her brains.

Spencer Neuharth

Something like that, yeah. Question seven. The topic is hunting. What does the ten in Ruger 1022 represent? This is question.

Clay Newcomb

So this says sentence. I don't know. I mean, it depends what you think the answer is. What does the ten in Ruger 1022 represent? The topic is hunting.

Spencer Neuharth

This is question seven.

Cal, you knew the movie, but you didn't know it was Mount St. Helens? I was just thinking, like, infrastructure, which. So Mount Mount St. Helens and Mount Baker and Mount Rainier were all three of my top choices.

Oh, Randall said he saw you cross. Cross. St. Helens off. Right.

Chili

No, Chile. Chile. Right answer. And he changed it. And then I thought maybe you might just be doing something Montana local.

Cal

Classic case of once you overthink these things, you're screwed. Phil, if I wasn't out, like, living on that bus and everything, I think. You'D be doing well, I would have got that. Right. And part of the movie was filmed there.

Spencer Neuharth

We're on question seven. What does volcano? Was that Tommy Lee Jones?

Randall Williams

All right. Phil was a Dante's Pete kind of guy. So when his wife gets killed, is it like a back. Is it a back flash? No, I think that's how the movie starts.

Yeah. Killed through the head. Yeah. It establishes his kind of, like, cowboy, you know? Like.

Cal

Like the rogue agent. Right. Like, oh, you should. You got too close. It's one of those, you know, you're.

Randall Williams

Yeah. The plot is both man versus nature and also man against bureaucracy and also finding love. Yeah. He bummed that his wife got killed. Was.

Spencer Neuharth

I think it, like, makes him a little disinterested in the whole thing. He, like, loses a little passion. He's Jakin. Mm hmm. When his wife gets killed.

Randall Williams

Yeah. You should just turn it on for you. We got a few hours today to kill. I'm not going to watch it. Spencer, would you look up who stars in volcano?

Chili

And if that was also a 1997. Release, you know, real quick, I'll tell. You, at the very least, we could watch the scene where the wife gets killed. It seems like you. You've clinked, you clung on.

Steven Rinella

I would like to see that. Here's the thing I do, though, and I think that the world be better place if more people did this. It's Tommy Lee Jones and Ann H. I knew. Did I not say Tommy Lee Jones?

Randall Williams

You did. God, give her an extra point. Yeah. Yep. And Heche, I wouldn't have.

Chili

I wouldn't have gotten. Is it hesh? That sounds french. I'm trusting Phil. Steve.

Randall Williams

What? What do you do that more folks need to do? Oh, if someone says, like, oh, you should listen to him. You should listen to that musician. You should watch a movie.

Steven Rinella

You should read that book instead of grin after them. I'll go. To be honest, I'm not gonna do that. Do you know what I mean? Just like.

Like the stress levels go to everybody. The stress levels go down for everybody. Yeah. You do longer have that chore on your. You know, to be honest with you, I'm never going to read that book.

It's everybody ready? Everybody walks away. I would prefer not to does everybody. Have an answer for the ten in Ruger 1022? Yeah, I got it.

Spencer Neuharth

Go ahead and reveal your answer. We have Steve saying magazine capacity. Marco saying millimeter. Rt saying gauge. Randall saying ten round Rotary magazine.

Chili saying mill. Cal saying ten rounds. Clay saying ten round magazine. The correct answer is ten rounds of ammo. The room did very well.

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What are they doing for the line? They make all kinds of, like. They make these, like, souped up 1022 components. You can actually. They make really souped up 1022 components being actually assembled pretty much the whole damn gun out of, like, super souped up components.

Steven Rinella

There's nice, man. I'm a. I'm a big 1022 man. Like, if I could. If I could take two firearms.

Clay Newcomb

I mean, aside from it being a 22, like, you couldn't really use them. Big game. I'd grab my 1022, man. I just feel like it's an extension of my body. If I remember correctly, in that article of Jordan Stillers, you said that was your favorite 22 to shoot.

Randall Williams

Yep. I used to comment that, like, the commonality amongst our neighborhood. Like, if you went from house to house to house and found the things that gelled everybody together, it'd be the big chill soundtrack and arugula. 1022. Question eight.

Spencer Neuharth

The topic is fishing. If you cross the state fish of Wisconsin with the state fish of North Dakota, you'll get this hybrid. Coming back. Coming back. Steve is feeling confident.

If you cross the state fish of Wisconsin with the state fish of North Dakota, you'll get this hybrid. I'm coming back. How long do I got to come. Back, Phil, this is question eight. Okay.

Steven Rinella

You got it, Randall? I think so. Who's winning right now? We'll get a scoreboard update after this. Phil, when was volcano made?

Spencer Neuharth

This is a volcano episode. Can I do a side bet and get a point? If I say that Marco doesn't have it and he doesn't, can I get an extra point? I think the odds on that, Randall. I was actually a geology major at the University of Montana for a short window and was kicking ass and then got to the class that I wanted to take the most, which was volcanoes and earthquakes.

Cal

And I was like, you know, nerding out on all this geology stuff on the high of also doing very well academically. And I got into that class, and just every day could not fathom, like, the professor's job was to make volcanoes and earthquakes the most boring, hated subject on the planet. I couldn't. I never got through it. And you were done after that?

I was done after that. Okay, does everybody have an answer for the state fish of Wisconsin with the state fish of North Dakota that creates this hybrid? Mm hmm. I'm on a hot streak. Go ahead and reveal your answers.

Spencer Neuharth

We have Steve saying tiger muskie, Marco saying the cheese curd, Sam, Rt, and Randall say tiger muskie. Chili says sturgeon, Cal says tiger muskie. Clay says hybrid striper. The correct answer is tiger musk. I think we need.

Steven Rinella

I don't know anything.

Spencer Neuharth

He quit playing once he got his five correct answers. No, I only got four. You jinxed it by bringing that up. And now I need one more. Wisconsin made the musky their state fish in 1955, and North Dakota made the pike their state fish in 1969.

Tiger muskie are rare in nature because they're sterile, and pike tend to spawn earlier than musky. Tiger Muskie are found in about 40 states. Phil, we have two questions left. We are now going to get a leaderboard update. In last place are Marco and Clay.

With two points. We're going to have a race to see which one of you knows more about hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking with two questions. Next up, with four points, we have chili and our tea. Four points for Chili and RT. Next up, with five points are Cal and Steve.

They have five, and Randall is running away with it. He has seven correct answers. Randall. If Randall gets his next question right, it is all over. Think about if Randall wasn't here.

Steven Rinella

It'd be like a, like, neck. Neck. And Randall's the only one that hasn't been sleeping on a tour bus. Oh, you're right. This is a lot of truth.

Chili

I'm like Mark Wahlberg in the movie Rockstar when he joins the. The band, as the band has already been a band for a long time. Phil's the only one who got. What year did that movie start? Randall?

96. I think it's a great. It's a good one. The band steel dragon. The soundtrack is excellent.

Spencer Neuharth

Question nine. The topic is cooking. Native to Africa. This is the third most commonly eaten fish in the world. Yeah, Bob, do me any good is cooking.

If Randall gets this right, the game is over. He sealed the victory. The topic is cooking native to Africa. This is the third most commonly eaten fish in the world. I'm now more invested in the race between Marco and Clay.

Clay, do you have this one right? You know this one? No. No, he doesn't. Okay.

Randall Williams

This is. He's got a chance. He says.

Cal

I cannot. I know native fish to Africa. I can't imagine how it can be the third most consumed fish in the world. That's right. Yeah.

Spencer Neuharth

Third most eaten fish in the world. That's measured by weight. Is everybody ready? Do you got it, Randall? Yes, I think so.

Steven Rinella

Damn it, damn it. Damn it's everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying tilapia. Oh.

Spencer Neuharth

Marco saying tilapia. Rt says perch. Randall says tilapia chili. Without an answer. Cal sang tiger fish.

Clay sang tilapia. Hey, listen, Marco and I had coffee this morning, and I gave him, like, I wish somebody had been recording it. It was like a compelling spiel on the north american model. I think it, like, zapped all of my knowledge. I got a square with you, though.

Steven Rinella

I didn't think you'd have it, so I told him what it was. Oh, dirty, dirty cheater. Oh. The correct answer is tilapia. Well, isn't tilapia a type of perch?

Yeah, Nile Perch. That's what I was gonna bring up. The integrity of this game. Rt if you want to watch. I'm not sure.

But I wouldn't give it to him. Yeah. I'm not in the running, but I. Notice I put down Nile Perch. You did put down.

Spencer Neuharth

And both of them. The only fish ahead of tilapia on the worldwide consumption list are tuna and salmon. After tilapia on the list are alaskan pollock, cod, and catfish. It's believed that tilapia were the second fish in the world to be raised in aquaculture, with tilapia farming starting about 1000 years after carp farming. Wow.

Steven Rinella

You know, I was in. I was in the highlands in Luzon island, like, in the Philippines. Okay. And they have these big terraced. They have these terraced rice gardens, rice beds, and part of their crop rotation is to flood it and raise tilapia in it.

So when it's, like, out of production, it becomes a tilapia pond, even though they're not native there. But that's what they use now. Out of production becomes a tilapia pond. Then you, like, fertilizes. When did aquaculture start in the Philippines and the hawaiian islands?

Cal

Because that started a long time ago. I don't know. I think it said carp was like 3500 years ago or something like that. Tilapia came about a thousand years after that. Randall has wrapped up the victory, but we have one question left.

Randall Williams

We'll finish the game. Randall. The topic is conservation. How many of California's national parks are named after a plant? Come on, dude.

Spencer Neuharth

What don't you like about this one, Steve? This is nothing you gotta know about California. How many of California's national parks are named after a plant? This will not change the outcome of the game. Randall has secured the victory.

He has eight points right now. How many of California's national parks are named after a plant? Do you all like how I kind of made my name look like a wave? I didn't notice that, but I do like that. Is it because we're by the wave here in Missoula?

Steven Rinella

I don't think it looks like a wave. I am bored with this question. Play is searching for praise. He's like, well, I can't get the. Question, but look at my artwork.

Randall Williams

Yep. That's it. I mean, okay. Uh huh. How many of California's national parks are named after a plant?

Spencer Neuharth

Does everybody have an answer? Yep. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying one, Marco saying four. Rt says three.

Randall saying two. Chili, four. Cal, one clay, two. I want to go with two even though I wrote one. Okay.

Steven Rinella

Because there's probably two. One of you. There's redwoods. Somebody has the correct answer in this room. Only one of us.

Spencer Neuharth

The correct answer is three. Rt got it right. Can you guys name all three of them? Joshua Tree. Oh, sequoia, oh, redwood.

Ryan Thompson

Or that's Parker monument. That's the three of them. You got them. See, I wasn't thinking of that. California has nine national parks with three of those being named after a plant.

Spencer Neuharth

Those are Redwood National Park, Sequoia National park, and Joshua Tree National Park. Joshua Tree is the most popular, ranked 9th on the list of the most visited national parks in the nation. Randall is our winner with eight correct answers. Randall, where is the $500 donation from meat eater going to go? The $500 is going to go to the Mayfly project, which, that's a new.

One, I think teaches foster kids and. Foster care how to fly fish and about the world of conservation. Why can't they go jigging? Why can't they vertical jig? Catch some world records.

Chili

There might be another project out there that comes from Josh Merkel. That's project lead head to. What's the organization? One more time. The Mayfly Project.

Spencer Neuharth

$500 going their way. If you have an organization that you'd like me to donate to. Wow. Randall wins so much, I thought he's gonna have his own conservation. Do you win so much that people come to you looking for the.

Chili

I've got two more in the hopper here. This guy emailed me about my hat. He wanted. This is a Missoula Osprey minor league baseball team hat before they changed the paddleheads. And he emailed to ask how he can get an osprey to get.

Steven Rinella

While I got you. Yeah. He was like, while I got you. Next time you win, think of the Mayfly project. Check out the website.

All joking aside, I do think they should. I mean, I applaud the mission.

Chili

But spin and tackle. Well, kids should have. Yeah. You know, teach kid to fish. Right?

Steven Rinella

Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. Feed him for a lifetime. Well done. Randall.

Spencer Neuharth

How guilty do you feel about rolling in here after sleeping in a nice bed last night? Freshened up in these folks? I compare it to the NBA playoffs like I came in after some rest. You guys have been grinding it out. Seven game series.

Ryan Thompson

Are you saying you somehow earned a buy in the first round? Yeah, somehow. Yeah. I'm unproven, but it worked. You should have been on the bus last night.

Spencer Neuharth

We had Steve trying to make NBA comparisons to members of the crew and what they were doing on the stage. He said we were slam dunking in all night. Did anybody else get up in the. Middle of the night, hit the head and note the increase in smell? Oh, it was wicked last night.

Steven Rinella

So bad at daybreak. It was wicked. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Randall, daybreak, the bus has some fumes and, oh, that. Maybe that gave you a much better advantage than we know.

Chili

Are they biological or petrochemical? You'll find out soon. Join us next time for more meat eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins.

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