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Speaker 1: Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. There is a prize. Meat Eater will donate $ 500 to the conservation organization of the winner’s choosing. I’m your host, Spencer Newarth, and today we’re joined by Brody, Randall, Seth, Laura, Corey, Nate, and Logan. This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from Meadeater’s four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. Meadeater Trivia is brought to you by one of my favorite beers, Bush Light. Bush Light, head for the mountains. All right, we are starting today’s episode with a mailbag question. If you have a question you want the crew to answer, then send your question with the subject line mailbag to trivia at themeadeater.com. This is probably the toughest one we’ve gotten so far.
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Speaker 2: It’s not tough.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Let me tell you about it, audience.
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Speaker 2: I think it is.
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Speaker 1: This is from Josh in Illinois. My mother, who is in poor health, recently moved into my wife and I’s place that is really only big enough for the two of us. Hunting season here in Illinois is right around the corner. I’ve been picking it back up here in my mid-20s after around a decade of not having the ability to do it much. My mother is staunchly against hunting. She can’t stand the idea of killing, quote, innocent animals for anything other than pure last resort survival purposes. In fact, years ago, I came home with a squirrel I had killed, and she didn’t talk to me for a week. All that to say, while I am prepared to debate the topic, and obviously I am right, she’s not in good health, and I’d rather not rock the boat at such a sensitive time. How would you approach either talking to her about the topic or… sneaking out before the sun several days a week this fall.
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Speaker 3: Send her to a vegan nursing home.
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Speaker 2: Okay. My house, my rules. Okay.
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Speaker 1: I’d encourage you to ask your wife how she feels, because if it’s two-on-one, tough odds, but if you.
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Speaker 4: Two are together, then I think it’s fine.
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Speaker 5: So he’s in his mid-20s.
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Speaker 1: He says mid-20s. This is his mom.
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Speaker 2: To be clear.
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Speaker 5: But did he grow up with her when they hunted? Did his dad hunt?
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Speaker 1: He says he’s been out of the game for a decade. So I don’t know. I assume this isn’t like a household thing.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I would ask her if she eats meat and then kind of like bring up the ethical question there.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn’t get into debates with my mother who’s in ill health. I agree. I would either make it invisible to her or I would take a season off. It’s your mother. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think the right answer here is to lie.
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Speaker 2: Brody, it’s your mother.
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Speaker 1: The right answers to lie.
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Speaker 3: My mom ate game meat. She didn’t have a problem with it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: You just tell her you’re really low on money and that this actually is a survival situation.
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Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: Uh-huh. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: She might write you a check as well. It’s a win-win.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I just watch every single crime movie you can find where someone hides evidence of violence. You know, like I’d buy a lot of drop cloths for the garage.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Bleach.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. I just become very clinical in my cleanup. And I don’t know, if she sleeps late, maybe you go out for an early hunt. If she goes to bed early, maybe you hunt the evening.
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Speaker 4: It could be like a fun little game.
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Speaker 1: Like, what can I hide from mom?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: It’s one of my favorite games of my life.
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Speaker 2: She’s really bad at it, but nonetheless.
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Speaker 1: I think you just gotta lie to mom. She doesn’t know where you’re going. You kill a deer, maybe there’s a buddy’s house you can hang it in his garage to take care of it. I understand, though, you don’t want to make your mom sad in the last months of her life. Assuming that’s what’s going on here.
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Speaker 2: You don’t want to get into arguments around the dinner table with your mother and.
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Speaker 1: Ill health while eating a deer.
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Speaker 2: Let’s keep, let’s keep the things in perspective.
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Speaker 1: And everybody, she’s eating dinner.
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Speaker 2: Everybody remembers the quiet thrill of flushing a few cigarette butts down the toilet when they were 15, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, Josh must be the golden child. If mom is living with him. Um, so I think he can kind of guilt free hunting. Um, Sorry about that, Josh.
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Speaker 2: That’s a tough one. That’s a heavy question. Heavy one to begin with.
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Speaker 1: All right, some housekeeping. In a previous episode, I had a question about the homophone that is organic material and soil and a Middle Eastern dip. The correct answer was hummus, which is spelled with one M or two. But as about a dozen listeners pointed out, and Randall, I was wrong in calling it a homophone. Apparently the two M dip is pronounced hummus and the one M soil is pronounced hummus. Humus, similar to how you pronounce human. My bad, but the whole room got it right, so it won’t affect the outcome of the game. Giannis was still the big winner. Randall, you would have caught on to that if you would have been in the room for that episode, I take it.
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Speaker 2: I think so, yeah.
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Speaker 4: Humus.
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Speaker 2: Humus.
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Speaker 1: Damn it. Sounded like an idiot. Also, an announcement. I will be coming to the Minnesota Meat Eater Store on October 22nd for Meat Eater Trivia. The event will run from 6 to 8 p.m., The grand prize is a $ 1, 000 gift card to the Minnesota meat eater store. Teams of up to four can compete, but solo players are also welcome. Spots are limited and you need to sign up. When we did this at the Milwaukee store, we were sold out in less than 48 hours. So act fast. It costs $ 10 per person. And at the end of the game, all of that money will be donated to a conservation organization of the winner’s choosing. If you want to play, go to TheMeatEater.com slash events to register. That is October 22nd at the Minneapolis Meat Eater store.
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Speaker 3: When are we going to do a team trivia?
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Speaker 2: When are we going to win $ 1, 000 gift cards?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: That’s the first thing I thought of.
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Speaker 1: It’s a good idea, Brody. We’ve only done teams when it’s like ganging up on Randall or ganging up on Brody.
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Speaker 2: We could introduce some teams. We all love those games.
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Speaker 1: We do love those.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: The Shelby Index for today is a five, so I’m putting us on perfect score alert. 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 to everything.
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Speaker 2: How’s that?
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Speaker 4: You stand to win everything.
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Speaker 1: Game on, suckers! Question one, the topic is hunting. And as always, this will be multiple choice. When did California ban mountain lion hunting? Was it 1980, 1990, 2000, or 2010? When did California ban mountain lion hunting? 1980, 1990, 2000, or 2010? Randall, without choices, how close do you think you would have gotten? You were picking up your board pretty fast. I thought you just knew this one.
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Speaker 2: No. No, I didn’t. Okay. I could have gotten… I’m still not sure of my answer.
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Speaker 1: Just an educated guess. When did California ban mountain lion hunting?
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Speaker 2: 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010.
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Speaker 1: Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura says 2010.
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Speaker 2: Logan, 2010.
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Speaker 1: Seth, 2000. Randall, 2010.
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Speaker 4: Corey, 2010. Nate, 1990.
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Speaker 1: Brody, 1990. The correct answer is 1990.
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Speaker 4: Let’s go, baby.
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Speaker 1: Just Nate and Brody got that one right. California went from having a bounty on mountain lions to closing mountain lion seasons in just nine years. Here’s that timeline. Until 1963, the state paid hunters to kill cougars. From 1963 to 1970, the state allowed year-round mountain lion hunting with no bag limits. Then California made mountain lion seasons for 1970 and 1971. In 1972, they put a moratorium on lion hunting. Then in 1990, by a vote of 52% to 48%, California voters passed Proposition 117 to outlaw mountain lion hunting. Question two, the topic is woodsmanship. The Bureau of Land Management defines this nine-letter type of camping as, quote, Camping on public lands away from developed recreational facilities. BLM defines this nine-letter type of camping as camping on public lands away from developed recreational facilities.
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Speaker 4: You know what you do for teams?
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Speaker 1: What could we do?
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Speaker 4: You could do it by, like, pursuit. Like, Laura’s, like, a bird hunter.
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Speaker 2: You know?
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Speaker 4: Logan’s a bow hunter. Seth’s a fisherman.
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Speaker 1: So you want to put the anglers together or you want to put an angler with a big game hunter with a dog owner?
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Speaker 2: I think you got to mix them up.
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Speaker 4: No, I think you specialize and see who knows more about other stuff.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 5: I feel like Seth’s got more diversity than just fishing.
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Speaker 4: Well, what do you think yourself as?
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Speaker 2: Trapper. Seth this morning was checking his fantasy fishing standings when I walked into the office at 7.50 a.m. He has a team of eight professional anglers.
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Speaker 1: Fantasy sports boy.
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Speaker 2: He was doing really well, except he forgot to submit his picks. Five. He forgot to submit his picks when he went up to Alaska to go fishing, so he lost that week’s fantasy fishing, and it really hurt him in the overall standing. So I would… Yeah. I think the shoe fits.
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Speaker 1: Fishing interrupted his fishing. Why are you here at.
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Speaker 2: 7.50 a.m.? Because I have too much to do.
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Speaker 1: Okay. The BLM defines this nine-letter type of camping as camping on public lands. away from developed recreational facilities. Is Brody Henderson stumped?
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Speaker 3: Dude, I have a word that I know is right, and it’s not nine.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 3: It’s not nine letters.
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Speaker 1: I had to dig deep for this one. Corey, did you find the answer? I mean, I’m sure.
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Speaker 4: This is the only type of camping I do.
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Speaker 3: The answer you’re looking for is… in my head somewhere, but I don’t have it.
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Speaker 1: Is everybody ready?
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Speaker 3: And I’m going to fight this one.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura and Logan and Seth and Randall say dispersed. Corey says primitive. Nate, dispersed. Brody, boondocking. The correct answer is dispersed.
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Speaker 2: Look it up.
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Speaker 3: See if boondocking is one.
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Speaker 1: But it’s not nine letters.
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 1: Dispersed camping is anytime you camp somewhere that’s not a campground. This term is used by the BLM, Forest Service, National Park Service, and many state agencies. According to a 2026 survey, dispersed camping is now the most popular camping style in America ahead of traditional campgrounds for the first time ever.
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Speaker 2: Which makes dispersed camping not quite as dispersed.
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Speaker 3: Not quite as cool.
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Speaker 1: Not as fun anymore. Everybody’s doing it. Question three, the topic is conservation. This conservation group which sells lifetime memberships for dogs is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. The room is stumped. This conservation group, which sells lifetime memberships for dogs is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. Nate and Logan locked in their answers and Brody.
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Speaker 5: Did someone restain this table? It’s like the same table, but it’s just.
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Speaker 1: No, it’s a different table.
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Speaker 4: No way.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Nathaniel.
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Speaker 6: We painted the walls a few months ago.
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Speaker 1: That’s it. Nathaniel and his wife stained it, and Nate said it was a thirsty table. How many coats you put on here?
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Speaker 4: Three. Three of gel stain and three of poly, so six total.
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Speaker 3: Was your wife wearing a mask?
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Speaker 4: No, she was coaching me. She didn’t actually come.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I gotcha.
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Speaker 1: She stood in the other room and watched through the window.
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Speaker 4: No, every now and then I’d be like, I’m dizzy.
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Speaker 1: She’s concerned about your future heir.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 4: No, I’ve been doing all her staining projects recently.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: When you said Nathaniel, I was like, who is that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: We’ll never know.
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Speaker 4: Is that actually your full name?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Who’s this sophisticated man? We don’t know.
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Speaker 4: Too pretentious. We don’t use that.
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Speaker 1: This conservation group, which sells lifetime memberships for dogs, is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura says, Pheasants Forever. Logan, Ducks Unlimited. Seth, Pheasants Forever. Randall, Rough Grouse Society. Corey, Pheasants Forever. Nate, Ducks Unlimited. Brody, Pheasants Unlimited. The correct answer is Pheasants Forever or Quail Forever. The Pheasants Forever dog life membership is $ 500, and it comes with a Yeti dog bowl and framed certificate. That is half the price that it costs for a human life membership, which comes with a Yeti go box, framed certificate, and calendar. Pheasants Forever says that more membership equals more habitat, more birds, and more public access. So bang for the buck a human lifetime membership. You know, humans live a.
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Speaker 2: Lot longer than dogs. Lifetime membership for a dog. Depending on what the annual is, you might be better off.
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Speaker 1: There is no annual membership. It’s a lifetime or nothing. So you got to get it when you’re a puppy.
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Speaker 5: Does your dog need a membership?
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Speaker 1: Doesn’t need one, but it’s good.
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Speaker 4: I think Max gets them.
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Speaker 1: Max also buys duck stamps for his dog.
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Speaker 4: That’s what it is. That’s what I was thinking of.
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Speaker 1: Question four of the topic is cooking. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Mike Batson for sending this great question. Mike is going to get a $ 150 First Light gift card. If you want a chance to win the listener question of the week, then send your question to trivia at themeateater.com. This nine-letter word refers to a Cajun cooking technique where fish is dipped in melted butter, coated in bold spices, and seared in a hot pan to build a dark crust. Corey and Randall were racing, and Corey is the winner. It’s not a race. This nine-letter word refers to a Cajun cooking technique where fish is dipped in melted butter, coated in bold spices, and seared in a hot pan to build a dark crust.
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Speaker 5: This is like one of my dad’s two dishes that he cooks. He doesn’t do much cooking.
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Speaker 1: So is he good at it? Yeah, it’s pretty good.
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Speaker 4: We do it with salmon.
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Speaker 2: Good job, dad.
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Speaker 1: I feel like salmon is not a popular way to… This is not a popular way to make salmon. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: It tastes pretty good, though.
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Speaker 2: The last meal I ate with my grandfather at a restaurant, and he got really mad because they blackened the salmon. Okay.
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Speaker 1: When he’s like you burned this oh really and.
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Speaker 2: Then sweet roger yeah cool way to just keep the answer away oh fuck i.
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Speaker 3: Thought that was intentional i really thought it was it wasn’t gonna call it out we’re gonna.
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Speaker 2: Need to bleep all that out phil yeah.
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Speaker 1: Wow did you hear what i wasn’t.
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Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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Speaker 1: If you hadn’t said anything.
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Speaker 2: Can we bleep all that out? That was a bad showing. That was a bad showing.
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Speaker 4: He’s got a lot on his mind.
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Speaker 1: I couldn’t even focus on the rest of your story. What happened? He got served a salmon.
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Speaker 4: In this style.
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Speaker 2: And he was mad.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 3: It’s okay.
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Speaker 1: You can say it again. We tried. Oh, now we got it. Nice.
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Speaker 2: We tried. We tried to like. Talk him down, but he was very mad.
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Speaker 1: Oh, man, there’s some angry people out there right now. Is that what killed him?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 1: Is everybody ready?
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Speaker 2: Don’t joke about that, Spencer.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have the whole room saying blackened. How’d they know it? The correct answer is blackened. I’m off my game.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, everybody. That’s really embarrassing.
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Speaker 6: That’s great.
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Speaker 4: That’s fine.
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Speaker 1: This cooking technique was introduced in New Orleans in the early 1980s. Blackened redfish became so popular that it caused state and federal agencies to alter fishing regulations. In the Gulf, commercial redfish harvest spiked from 2.7 million pounds in 1980 to 8.3 million pounds in 1986. To learn how to make it, check out Danielle Pruitt’s recipe on TheMeatEater.com called Blackened Fish Tacos with Corn Salsa.
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Speaker 5: Wow.
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Speaker 1: There’s a picture of Danielle’s tacos.
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Speaker 6: Jeez.
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Speaker 4: Yum.
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Speaker 1: Oh. Where at, Seth?
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Speaker 2: Picture boy. That’s a pretty picture there. I think so.
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Speaker 1: We’ll say that was Seth Morris’ handiwork. What if it’s not Seth? I thought Danielle took her own photos.
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Speaker 4: Oh, is that in your cookbook?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, did you shoot the cookbook?
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Speaker 5: I’m pretty sure I’ve taken photos of her making that same thing, though.
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Speaker 2: No, that’s not my photo.
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Speaker 4: You can say what it is.
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Speaker 1: On that table, too. We are on to question five. The topic is public lands. This next great question is via Greg Knutson. What does WPA stand for? As in the land managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. WPA. What does that stand for? We are referring to the land that’s managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service. Nate locks in his answer. Do you have this one right, Nate?
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Speaker 2: I feel good. I could be wrong.
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Speaker 1: How about you, Randall? Would you like to tell folks what it is?
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Speaker 2: I feel pretty good, but I’ve been showing my ass already on this episode a little bit, so I’m not going to make any bold predictions here.
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Speaker 1: Corey and Seth and Brody now putting down their whiteboards. What does WPA stand for?
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Speaker 4: My first job at Meteor was WPA.
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Speaker 3: Same here.
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Speaker 2: Oh!
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Speaker 1: Wilderness Production Assistant? Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 4: Okay. That’s not the answer, though, guys.
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Speaker 1: You made me nervous, Randall, when you did that. Taste of your own medicine. What does WPA stand for?
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Speaker 3: Yep, good old days of lugging batteries around and making sandwiches for Steve and complaining about your sandwich.
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Speaker 4: Sandwiches are just never quite right.
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Speaker 1: Corey, are you ready?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura says wilderness. Prevention area. Logan, wetland protected area. Seth, wildlife protection area. Randall, waterfowl production area. Corey, wildlife protection area. Nate, wildlife protection area. Brody, waterfowl production area. We have a correct answer in the room.
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Speaker 2: That’s right.
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Speaker 1: It’s Waterfowl Production Area. Randall and Brody.
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Speaker 2: See if I had been confident. Got that one right. Like Nate.
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Speaker 4: Big duck guys. Big duck guys.
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Speaker 1: WPAs are small natural wetlands and grasslands that provide breeding and nesting habitat for millions of birds. There are about 3 million acres of WPAs with the vast majority located inside the prairie pothole region. The funding to preserve these areas largely comes from duck stamp sales. And now it’s time for our Can-Am question of the week. Thanks to Can-Am, you get some bonus trivia in this week’s episode. This does not count towards your score. It’s just for break. rights. Here’s the question. The topic is gear. The five letters you’ll find on most four-wheel drive ATV gear selectors are P, R, N, blank, and blank. Randall, who’s an expert at making bopping noises over there, knew it right away.
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Speaker 4: Oh, this one doesn’t count.
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Speaker 1: This does not count, but you should still try, Seth. Let’s see how much you know about gear. The five letters you’ll find on most four-wheel drive ATV gear selectors are P, R, N, and blank, blank. Randall, could we hear if someone was driving an electric ATV around? What would that sound like? Okay, very good. How about if they were going through water? What would that sound like, you think?
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Speaker 2: Ooh, that’s tough.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that’s pretty good.
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Speaker 2: Sorry to the listeners. Pretty good, yeah.
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Speaker 1: What if the exhaust was broken? What would that one sound like? Yeah, all right. Wow, real jukebox over there.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Five letters you’ll find on most four-wheel drive ATV gear selectors.
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Speaker 2: Phil, what’s that called? Sound effects? What’s that?
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Speaker 5: Foley?
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Speaker 2: Foley, that’s right.
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Speaker 1: Foley artists. We had that as a prior question that nobody got right. P-R-N, blank and blank. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura says D and four. Logan, H-L. Seth, H-L. Randall, H-L. Corey, L-H. Nate, L-H. Brody, D-L. The correct answer is H for high and L for low. I think we had five of our seven players get that right. That was our Can-Am question of the week.
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Speaker 2: Can-Am.
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Speaker 1: To be fair, I don’t.
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Speaker 3: Have a Can-Am sitting in my driveway like some people in this room.
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Speaker 2: Randall.
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Speaker 4: Randall still got it wrong because he had four.
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Speaker 2: High and four low.
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Speaker 1: Shut up, Seth. All right, Phil, give us a scoreboard update. We are halfway through today’s game of trivia.
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Speaker 6: Not as tight as last week, but still pretty tight here at halftime.
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Speaker 2: How is it not as tight as last week?
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Speaker 1: Last week, we had seven players who had three points going into question six.
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Speaker 6: Logan and Corey have two points apiece. Everyone else, Laura, Seth, Randall, Nate, and Brody have three.
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Speaker 1: There will be no perfect game today.
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Speaker 3: Two more only?
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Speaker 2: Or are we halfway?
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Speaker 1: We’re halfway through the game. I thought I got more than that wrong.
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Speaker 6: Send Brody to the vegan nursing house.
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Speaker 3: No, I thought I had way more than that wrong. Huh?
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Speaker 1: Question six. The topic is fishing. President Trump said in an August 2026 Truth Social post that he is, quote, giving serious consideration to changing the name of blank blank to Lake America.
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Speaker 4: Oh, good God.
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Speaker 5: Have you read the news today?
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Speaker 1: I wrote this question yesterday and then Brody sent a text to our news group today. and maybe spoiled this for some folks in the room. President Trump said in an August 2026 Truth Social post that he is giving serious consideration to changing the name of blank, blank to Lake America. Corey, do you have this one right?
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Speaker 3: If this was in a SNL skit, nobody, like, it seems like that’s where it came from.
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Speaker 1: Like he got that idea from an SNL skit. Logan, do you have this one right?
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Speaker 4: I don’t think so.
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Speaker 5: I’m trying to think of unpatriotic names of lakes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, pretend this is an SNL skit then. See what you can come up with.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it’s a joke, right? The whole thing.
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Speaker 1: President Trump is giving serious consideration to changing the name of blank blank to Lake America. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura says Lake Superior. Logan, Lake Michigan. Seth and Randall and Corey… And Nate and Brody say Lake Ontario. They got it. The correct answer is Lake Ontario.
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Speaker 3: Did he not sign an executive order?
00:24:09
Speaker 1: He tweeted about it.
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Speaker 6: No, he signed it.
00:24:11
Speaker 1: Oh, okay. That’s why I sent that text. I only saw the tweet about it yesterday. I hadn’t heard that update.
00:24:16
Speaker 6: It’s dating this episode, but yeah.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: President Trump floated the name change as a retaliatory move in the country’s ongoing trade war with Canada. His reasoning was, quote, we don’t expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer. His last name change from Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America has received mixed adaptation. The federal government, Apple Maps and Google Maps now call it the Gulf of America, while most foreign governments, Encyclopedia Britannica and the Associated Press have stuck with Gulf of Mexico. Some groups like Southwest Airlines and Royal Caribbean Cruises have scrubbed both names from their maps and promotional materials as to not take a side. Question seven, the topic is wildlife. They just don’t label it or they’ll say like the Caribbean seas.
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Speaker 2: It’s just the southwestern Atlantic, the central western Atlantic.
00:25:06
Speaker 1: Question seven, the topic is wildlife. This five-word business, which refers to its museums as auditoriums, owns unbelievable taxidermy like a cyclops shark, two-headed snake, and blue lobster. The topic is wildlife. This five-word business, which refers to its museums as auditoriums, that’s O-D-D, auditoriums, owns unbelievable taxidermy like a cyclops shark, two-headed snake, and blue lobster. Nate, do you have this one right?
00:25:47
Speaker 4: I got a good guess.
00:25:48
Speaker 1: Five-letter business?
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Speaker 4: That’s the thing that’s there.
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Speaker 1: Excuse me five word business five. Oh five word not five all five word dang five word business No, I still got it so guys he has Auditoriums owns unbelievable taxidermy like a cyclops shark two-headed snake and blue lobster.
00:26:10
Speaker 2: I think I still have it have we thought about adding words to the name of our business.
00:26:14
Speaker 1: I You think how we could get to be a six-word business.
00:26:19
Speaker 2: It’s just impressive when you think about it.
00:26:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, not a lot of five-word businesses out there. So Nate and Brody and Randall, they all think they have it. Laura, Logan, Seth, and Corey appear to be stumped. Five-word business, which refers to its museums as auditoriums, owns unbelievable taxidermy like a cyclops shark, two-headed snake, and blue lobster.
00:26:46
Speaker 5: Wait a minute.
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Speaker 1: Okay. We found it. Corey, do you have this one?
00:26:51
Speaker 6: I’m waiting for Randall to spill the beans.
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Speaker 2: What do you got? Any hints? Tidbits? It’s only one of the few five word businesses I can think of. Any grandpa stories? Not a fan of this.
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Speaker 1: He wasn’t? No. Okay, Laura and Logan disagree. They both liked their answers. We’ll find out who has it.
00:27:20
Speaker 2: Oh, geez.
00:27:21
Speaker 5: Well, I like your answer.
00:27:22
Speaker 3: Two different five-word businesses?
00:27:24
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:27:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, now I know. Okay. That’s the second five-word business I can think of.
00:27:30
Speaker 1: Oh, I don’t even know what it could be. I’m excited to see these. Corey, do you give up? Yeah. I think Marshall would get this. Is it still a thing? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura says, Ripley’s Believe It or Not. Logan, Guinness Book of World Records. Seth, without an answer. Randall says, Ripley, Believe It or Not. Corey, without an answer. Nate, Ripley’s Believe It or Not. Brody, Ripley’s Believe It or Not. The correct answer is Ripley’s Believe It or Not. This feels like Auction House about these. Oh yeah, I mean, I’d love to have the collection of things that they have.
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Speaker 5: Spencer, believe it or not.
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Speaker 1: Ripley’s started as a newspaper cartoon in 1918. By the 1930s, the business was making books, radio programs, and museums. Ripley’s has since expanded into aquariums, mirror mazes, movie theaters, wax museums, mini golf courses, haunted houses, and science centers. Here’s some business ideas for us.
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Speaker 3: Where are these places?
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Speaker 1: All over. I feel like they’ve got dozens of museums in the United States, and then also dozens more worldwide. Auditoriums. And they have an aquarium, I think, in Myrtle Beach and Gatlinburg. We’re on to question eight. The topic is conservation. This next great question is via Nate Powitsky. What tool has Smokey Bear held since 1951?
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Speaker 3: Now this is a question.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
00:29:05
Speaker 1: The room has their mojo back. A lot of quick answers. What tool has Smokey held since 1951? Very quick answers in the room. We’re going to give our audience a chance to think before we flip over the whiteboard. Has anyone ever been to a Ripley’s? Boring.
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Speaker 4: I think I had a book or something. Do they make books?
00:29:27
Speaker 1: They made books. That’s why I think Marshall might know it. I assumed in Marshall’s library he’s got a Ripley’s Believe It or Not book somewhere. No, he’s been into the Guinness Book of World Records recently.
00:29:37
Speaker 2: Nice.
00:29:37
Speaker 1: I’ve been looking at the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records book. Oh, way out of date. What tool has Smokey Bear held since 1951? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Laura saying a shovel. Logan, shovel. Seth, shovel. Randall, shovel. Corey, shovel. Nate, shovel. Brody, shovel. The correct answer is shovel. When Smokey Bear debuted in 1944, he was holding a bucket of water. But a 1951 redesign replaced the pail with a shovel, which he has posed with ever since. Smokey said in a 2020 Facebook post that he carries a shovel so that he can stir and bury his campfires. And there is a very handsome Smokey shirtless holding his shovel.
00:30:23
Speaker 2: Odd fit to those pants. Yeah.
00:30:26
Speaker 1: A little too long.
00:30:28
Speaker 2: They’re blousey in the front, but it seems like it fits his body.
00:30:32
Speaker 1: It looks like they’re on backwards.
00:30:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does look like they’re on backwards.
00:30:35
Speaker 1: We’ll figure it out, Smokey. He’s being a.
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Speaker 3: Little critical of a bear wearing.
00:30:41
Speaker 1: A pair of pants.
00:30:42
Speaker 2: He put them on.
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Speaker 1: Two questions left.
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Speaker 6: We’ve got a three-way tie up at the top between Randall, Nate, and Brody. Oh, I shouldn’t have screwed up those questions. Behind them are Laura and Seth with five, Corey with four, and Logan with three.
00:30:58
Speaker 1: Question nine, the topic is hunting. This next great question is via Charlie McDonald. The 300 WSM, which debuted in 2001, stands for Winchester blank Magnum.
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Speaker 2: Randall definitely doesn’t have this.
00:31:15
Speaker 1: Another confident room. The 300 WSM, which debuted in 2001, stands for Winchester blank Magnum.
00:31:25
Speaker 2: When I hosted trivia at the ELR match, some of our questions were we gave people like five different. 30 cal cartridges, and we had people, you had to put them in order of their market debut. Oh, that’s cool. Among one. Among the 30 cows was this. Okay.
00:31:43
Speaker 1: Do you have an opinion you can share on the 300 WSM after this?
00:31:48
Speaker 2: Not firsthand.
00:31:49
Speaker 1: Okay.
00:31:50
Speaker 2: I had, well, I have thoughts, but I’ve never owned one. I owned a barrel.
00:31:55
Speaker 1: Okay, that’s a weird thing.
00:31:56
Speaker 2: I owned an unfired barrel.
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Speaker 3: Janice used one for it.
00:31:59
Speaker 2: And then I sold the action I was going to put it on. And now I got another action like that, and I wish I still had that barrel. It was fat.
00:32:07
Speaker 1: Winchester blank.
00:32:08
Speaker 2: Sold to a guy in Alaska. Shit thing wasn’t cheap.
00:32:11
Speaker 1: Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura says standard. Logan and Seth and Randall and Corey and Nate and Brody say short. The correct answer is short. The WSM family is a series of short action rifle cartridges introduced by Winchester in the early 2000s. These were made to rival traditional long action Magnum ballistics in a short action gun. Of the newly formed cartridges, the 300WSM became the most popular. To see how it stacks up against more conventional rounds, go read Jordan Siller’s article on TheMeatEater.com called Caliber Battle, 30-odd-six Springfield versus 300 Winchester Short Magnum. All right, here’s a correct answer review so far. One was 1990. Two, dispersed camping. Three, pheasants forever. Four, blackened fish. Five, waterfowl production area. Six, Lake Ontario. Seven, Ripley’s Believe It or Not. Eight, Shovel. Nine, Winchester Short Magnum. Phil, scoreboard update.
00:33:21
Speaker 6: Randall, Nate, and Brody all got that one correct, so they’re still tied up. Now with seven points, Seth is just behind them with six.
00:33:28
Speaker 1: Question 10. The topic is fishing.
00:33:31
Speaker 2: Oh, classic, man.
00:33:33
Speaker 4: I knew it.
00:33:36
Speaker 1: Wells catfish have been compared to killer whales because of how they haunt their six-letter prey on the banks of France’s Tarn River. Brody had his answer before I finished the question. If Brody can get this one right and Nate and Randall can get it wrong, he will be today’s victor.
00:33:56
Speaker 4: That Pheasants Forever question’s haunting me.
00:33:59
Speaker 1: Welles catfish have been compared to killer whales because of how they haunt their six-letter prey on the banks of France’s Tarn River. Seth, do you have this one right?
00:34:12
Speaker 4: I don’t know, but I’ve seen a video before.
00:34:15
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:34:16
Speaker 4: I think that’s somehow a hint. Now I know.
00:34:19
Speaker 2: Oh, really?
00:34:20
Speaker 1: No.
00:34:21
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:34:24
Speaker 1: Whales catfish have been compared to killer whales because of how they haunt their six-letter prey on the banks of France’s Tarn River.
00:34:34
Speaker 2: Six-letter prey.
00:34:37
Speaker 1: Seth is watching every move that Randall makes. He’ll be watching you. Every step you take, every breath you make.
00:34:46
Speaker 4: I got to think about it for a second.
00:34:47
Speaker 2: I’ll show you.
00:34:50
Speaker 1: Six-letter prey on the banks of France’s Tarn River. Do you have an answer, Randall?
00:34:59
Speaker 2: Not yet. I mean, I’m thinking of things that live by rivers.
00:35:05
Speaker 1: Okay. Corey thinks he has it right now. I do.
00:35:08
Speaker 4: I got less pressure against me, though.
00:35:09
Speaker 1: Nate needs to get this to stay even with Brody. Nate, do you have an answer?
00:35:14
Speaker 4: I got an answer, but I don’t like it.
00:35:15
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:35:16
Speaker 1: It’s a six-letter answer.
00:35:18
Speaker 2: Is it singular?
00:35:19
Speaker 1: Not giving you any more hints. Whale’s catfish have been compared to killer whales because of how they hunt their six-letter prey on the banks of France’s Tarn River. Brody’s in great spirits over here. He’s doing a little jig.
00:35:33
Speaker 6: Maybe I got it wrong.
00:35:34
Speaker 3: Maybe I’m way off. But I’ll go down knowing I’m an angler unlike Nate.
00:35:42
Speaker 4: You got me.
00:35:44
Speaker 1: How’s it looking over there, Seth?
00:35:46
Speaker 2: It’s not great.
00:35:47
Speaker 4: He should be.
00:35:47
Speaker 2: Turning red at any moment.
00:35:49
Speaker 4: Okay.
00:35:50
Speaker 2: No, I don’t care.
00:35:51
Speaker 1: Is everybody ready?
00:35:55
Speaker 4: Give me like 10 seconds.
00:35:56
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:35:57
Speaker 1: Laura, do you have this one right? No.
00:36:00
Speaker 4: I’m pulling for you, Randall.
00:36:01
Speaker 1: Boy, it’s been a while.
00:36:02
Speaker 3: Since that number 10 fishing question came through for me.
00:36:07
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:36:08
Speaker 2: The tough thing is I’ve been thinking about whales a lot. I actually saw some at a fish market.
00:36:14
Speaker 1: A whale’s catfish?
00:36:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, some smaller ones. Okay. Two and three footers.
00:36:18
Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
00:36:19
Speaker 2: But I’ve been thinking about them a lot.
00:36:21
Speaker 1: Hmm. Do you give up now?
00:36:26
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:36:27
Speaker 3: Nate?
00:36:29
Speaker 1: Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura, without an answer, Logan says shrimp. Seth says pigeon. Randall, rabbit. Corey, salmon. Nate, turtle. Brody, pigeon. The correct answer is pigeon. Oh. Brody got that one right, making him today’s big winner with eight correct answers. And Seth, he’s going to tie for second place. You said you’d tie me today. Yeah.
00:36:58
Speaker 2: Remember that?
00:36:58
Speaker 4: I knew this was rigged.
00:36:59
Speaker 2: It was a good job.
00:37:00
Speaker 1: Growing up to nine feet long and 300 pounds, the Wells catfish is Europe’s biggest freshwater fish. They are native to Eastern Europe and Western Asia, but have been introduced to waters across both continents. Wells were put in the Tarn River in the early 1980s, and have been flourishing there ever since. That unique population is famous for hunting pigeons on shore. The catfish will wait in shallow water, then propel themselves onto dry land to grab a pigeon before slithering back into the river. A 2011 study filmed 54 of these encounters, of which 28% were successful. This type of Welsh catfish behavior has rarely been seen elsewhere. So 28% of the time when one of those things goes for a pigeon on dry land, they eat that pigeon.
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Speaker 2: I knew it was a bird, but I just couldn’t think of a six-letter bird. I was going through ducklings and ducks. Yeah, because I told you I couldn’t think of a six-letter bird. Would I should have put down a five-letter bird?
00:38:00
Speaker 1: All right, Brody is today’s winner. Eight correct answers.
00:38:02
Speaker 5: Do you think there’s any correlation between the heat in this room and like the angstiness?
00:38:06
Speaker 1: There might be.
00:38:07
Speaker 2: No, it has to do with deadlines.
00:38:10
Speaker 1: Brody, $ 500 donation. What’s it going to be?
00:38:13
Speaker 3: Oh, let’s go to Pheasants Unlimited.
00:38:16
Speaker 1: I mean, Pheasants Forever. Pheasants Forever, PF. $ 500 could buy you a lifetime dog membership. Join us next week for more meat eater trivia. The only game show where conservation always wins. Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he’s the host. Using those smooth, mellow tones, he lays them questions down. And he likes taking those two- and three-year-old bucks.
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Speaker 3: And he’s an avid amateur rock hound.
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