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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 Giannis, Brody, Randall, Brianna… Laura and Dane, this is a 10-round quiz show with questions from Meat Eaters 4 Verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. Meat Eater Trivia is brought to you by one of my favorite beers, Bush Light. Bush Light, head for the mountains. All right, we’re starting today with a mailbag question. If you have a question you want the trivia crew to answer, then send your question with the subject line mailbag to trivia at themeatteater.com. All right, this is a long one. It’s from Levi from Fort Collins. I wasn’t raised in a sportsman’s family, but over the last two years, I’ve picked up archery elk hunting and have really come to love it. The one thing I haven’t found, however, is anyone to enjoy it with. It seems like so much of hunting is meant to be shared the successes and failures, the stories around the campfire, and even the whole lot of nothing that happens on an elk hunt. I can handle and even appreciate a couple of days and nights away from my wife, kids, and folks in general. But as a pretty social person, I often find myself wishing I had someone there to hunt with and talk to. So I’m looking for some advice on how to deal with the loneliness of solo hunting for extended periods. Yanni just got home from how many days?
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Speaker 2: So he’s not looking for a way to find a hunting partner. He’s just looking for a way to battle the loneliness.
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Speaker 3: Which is great.
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Speaker 1: It sounds like Levi is hoping a hunting partner comes around someday. I’m guessing that’s the ideal scenario. But for now, he’s accepted. He’s just going to be by himself out there.
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Speaker 3: Get through the lonely, boring patches.
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Speaker 4: That’s hard for him.
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Speaker 1: Yanni just got home from a 20-day elk hunt, right? You and one cameraman, right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn’t solo.
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Speaker 1: Come on. But if you were solo, how would you kill that time on 20 days?
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Speaker 2: Certainly reading material I think is a great way to go.
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Speaker 1: Small paperbacks. That’s what they were made for.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, or just these days download it to your phone.
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Speaker 2: I actually, even with having a camera guy with me the whole time, I read a couple volumes of John Eberhardt’s new DIY Whitetail books.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 1: So you were looking for elk.
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Speaker 6: A couple volumes.
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Speaker 1: And reading about whitetails.
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Speaker 5: Wow.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it’s a three-volume set.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 7: The one that just came out.
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Speaker 5: So you read two-thirds of it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: That’s nice.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, large print, short books, it’s not too hard to do.
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Speaker 2: What else would I do to kill it? Probably find a spot with some cell service, call home every now and then.
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Speaker 1: Yanni’s just telling you to be on your phone more out there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, and stay busy.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 4: You know, take naps.
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Speaker 3: Stay busy by taking naps.
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Speaker 4: Well, you do both.
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Speaker 1: There you go. What other advice do we have for Levi?
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Speaker 3: Man, go into town once in a while.
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Speaker 1: There you go.
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Speaker 3: Get a burger, whatever.
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Speaker 5: Talk to some weirdos.
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Speaker 8: There’s no, like, I don’t know, like, if he’s hunting, like, a week at a time alone or whatever, but, like, I mean, unless you’re more than, I don’t know, three, four hours away from home, you can hunt for a couple days and go home and go back.
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Speaker 3: You know, archery season’s long.
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Speaker 5: Not with these gas prices.
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Speaker 3: True.
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Speaker 1: Most places, you’re within, like, 30 minutes of a bar that serves burgers. bush light and burgers and you go in there and you’ll meet some locals, you’ll meet some other hunters. Maybe you’ll meet a landowner, the right landowner. I like Brody’s advice. Go into town, have a bush light and a burger. What else we got for Levi? Randall?
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Speaker 9: Just bring a big book. Just bring a big book that you wouldn’t read under any other circumstances.
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Speaker 5: It’s the only thing you have.
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Speaker 10: Like mind games or like puzzles, like a Sudoku puzzle.
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Speaker 1: There you go.
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Speaker 9: Sudoku, whatever.
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Speaker 1: If that passes the time.
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Speaker 9: One thing I find myself doing is revisiting all of the choices I’ve made in my life.
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Speaker 1: That’s nice.
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Speaker 3: That can make a hunt longer.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Just evaluating what the decisions I made and how they’ve led to where I am now.
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Speaker 8: If all the elk are hanging out on private, just walk down there across that ranch and talk to the rancher.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Go to the meedeater.com slash games. We have games three days a week. You can play crosswords, word search, meedeater wordle. That could keep you busy.
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Speaker 10: Deck of cards i play cribbage with friends when there’s more than one of us i don’t think you can play it alone.
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Speaker 1: But solitaire exists for a reason.
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Speaker 10: There’s one one man card games.
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Speaker 1: All right good luck levi uh play games be on your phone more take naps read a book that’s our advice all right uh now we want to talk about whitetail week it’s whitetail week here at me deeter yanni tell folks what that means Whitetail Week.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all things whitetail going on right now at the website and all the content that we’re putting out this week is all whitetail related. It’s literally coming out of our ears to go into your ears. Maybe your eyes. But one of the highlights of Whitetail Week is that we have the ultimate whitetail giveaway.
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Speaker 1: The highlight.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, which is just a crazy prize package with the main chunk of it being a guided hunt with Mark Canyon and Jordan Budd on Jordan Budd’s place in Nebraska.
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Speaker 4: So if you want more details about that, go.
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Speaker 2: To the Meat Eaters store and you can check out all the Whitetail gear we got. And like I said, all the content that we got coming out this week to get y’all fired up for Whitetail Hunt.
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Speaker 4: What do I need to do to win that?
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Speaker 2: You just have to enter. You’re going to have to give us your name and your email, I think, Randall. But they’re not going to let you win.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can just go enter, or for every $ 25 you spend, you get 20 additional entries instead of 10 for this week. The giveaway goes now through October 12th. $ 23, 000 in prizes we have, with the big one being that guided hunt at Jordan Budd’s place. Whitetail Week happening right now. All right, we now have some housekeeping on a previous episode. I had a question about which of these world record bass is biggest between meanmouth bass, rock bass, white bass, and spotted bass. The correct answer was meanmouth bass with the world record weight of eight and a half pounds. And in the flavor text, I said how the spotted bass world record is two and a half pounds. Well, a whole bunch of listeners wrote in telling me I was wrong and multiple said that they themselves have caught spotted bass bigger than that. Here’s what those listeners are missing. Two years ago, The International Game Fish Association, the definitive record keeper of world record fish, made an announcement that spotted bass records are changing due to new science. Here is part of that press release. Quote, the IGFA is pleased to announce significant updates to bass record categories based on the latest scientific findings. These changes rooted in comprehensive research and conservation efforts. underscore the IGFA’s commitment to maintaining accurate and current records for game fish species, ensuring a thriving future for the sport. The research highlighted several key findings, particularly concerning the spotted bass and its close relative, the Alabama bass. The study confirmed that many records previously attributed to spotted bass were in fact Alabama bass. Consequently, the IGFA has corrected these records to reflect accurate species identification. End of quote. So with these revised records, the spotted bass world record is a two and a half pound fish that was caught in Texas. And the Alabama bass world record is an 11 pound fish that was caught in California. That 11 pounder used to be the world record spotted bass until 2024 research showed that it wasn’t actually a spotted bass at all. And all that means that the eight and a half pound world record mean mouth is bigger than the other records mentioned in the question.
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Speaker 8: Wow.
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Speaker 1: So there we go.
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Speaker 4: So take that.
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Speaker 1: It was the most feedback I’ve ever gotten on a single question. Is that right? Probably the meanest feedback. Yeah. I’m not going to be mean to these listeners. I’m not going to call them dumb. I’m not going to call them idiots. I’m not going to call them ignorant.
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Speaker 4: I will.
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Speaker 1: They were calling me. But there you go.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was really controversial.
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Speaker 1: A lot of feedback. People were even mean to Seth. And just because Seth didn’t question me hard enough, they were like, how did Seth?
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Speaker 5: Monsters.
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Speaker 1: Not just punch him in the face when he gave that inaccurate information.
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Speaker 9: I figured there was some explanation for it, but I also figured everybody else, there were enough people angry that there was more to it than that.
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Speaker 1: So close the book.
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Speaker 5: Boy, this is fascinating. All right.
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Speaker 1: The Shelby index for today is a four. So our winner should get eight correct answers. And with that, we’re onto the game of trivia.
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Speaker 4: Play the drop, Phil.
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Speaker 1: Look, I need to know what I stand to win to everything.
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Speaker 5: Poor Seth. How’s that? It’s time to win everything.
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Speaker 4: Game on, suckers!
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Speaker 1: Question one, the topic is hunting. And this will be multiple choice. Which of these states has the highest wild turkey population? Is it Virginia, Oklahoma, Idaho, or Maine? Of those states… Which has the most wild turkeys? Virginia, Oklahoma, Idaho, Maine. No quick answers on this one. Question one. Which of these states has the highest wild turkey population? Virginia, Oklahoma, Idaho, Maine. Brianna, Brody, Randall. Laura all locked in their answers. Yanni still thinking. Virginia, Oklahoma, Idaho, or Maine. Is everybody ready?
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Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead and reveal your answers. Brianna says Maine, Laura, Virginia, Randall, Virginia, Dane, Idaho, Yanni, Virginia, Brody, Virginia. The correct answer is Virginia. The room did well. It’s estimated that there are 180,000 turkeys in Virginia, 140,000 in Oklahoma, 70,000 in Maine and 50,000 in Idaho. The counties with the highest density of turkeys in Virginia are mostly located along the Chesapeake Bay in the eastern part of the state. There’s a map showing turkey density for Virginia. Seems like every turkey in that state is drinking out of the James River or the Potomac River or the Chesapeake Bay. All right, we’re on to question two. The topic is fishing. This next great question is via Corey Betancourt. Michael has Fredo executed while fishing on Lake Tahoe. In this 1974 Oscar-winning sequel. Randall and Brody got it. Your other four players don’t know it. Michael has Fredo executed.
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Speaker 3: It’s one of the most famous scenes in Hollywood history.
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Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 4: There’s a hint. In history.
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Speaker 3: In history. Like, I’m not lying.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, he’s not wrong.
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Speaker 5: You want the sequel.
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Speaker 1: You should tell me the sequel. Yeah. Michael has Fredo executed while fishing on Lake Tahoe. in this 1974 Oscar-winning sequel? Brody and Randall. Very quick to answer. Brody gave a heavy hint, and now Yanni’s come up with his answer. Did Brody’s feedback help you there?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: Okay. No.
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Speaker 7: This seems like a generational thing. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Brianna’s calling everybody else old.
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Speaker 5: We’re a real cinema fly.
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Speaker 1: I agree.
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Speaker 3: It would be sad if you guys haven’t seen it. That’s for sure. Like, Phil would be really mad at you.
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Speaker 7: Oh, wow.
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Speaker 1: I think. Phil, is that true?
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Speaker 4: Oh, I don’t want to disappoint Phil.
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Speaker 1: Phil looks furious over there.
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Speaker 7: Can’t see it. There’s steam.
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Speaker 9: I’m just torn on which one.
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Speaker 1: Michael has Fredo executed while fishing on Lake Tahoe in this 1974 Oscar-winning sequel.
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Speaker 5: Not really. Not really.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 4: This is Josh again.
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Speaker 5: All I can think about right now is Dune.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Dune 3. I haven’t seen Dune 1 or 2 yet.
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Speaker 1: But you read the books, though.
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Speaker 5: I just read the books.
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Speaker 1: Big book boy.
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Speaker 9: All I can think about is sequels right now. There’s so many Dune books.
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Speaker 1: Phil, have you read the books and seen the movies?
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Speaker 7: Only seen the movies. I started Dune in high school, and it was just too esoteric and funky for me at the time. I think if I gave it a shot now, I’d.
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Speaker 5: Enjoy it more. I think it’s right in your Q zone.
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Speaker 7: It’s a pretty narrow key zone, but it’s deep.
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Speaker 1: Michael has Fredo executed while fishing on Lake Tahoe in this 1974 Oscar-winning sequel. Do our other three players give up? Yeah, I do.
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Speaker 10: My wife always gives me a hard time that I fall asleep during movies, and this is about the only time.
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Speaker 5: It hurts me.
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Speaker 1: You think this movie’s been on at your house before?
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Speaker 10: He wouldn’t know.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I wouldn’t know.
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Speaker 10: I’ve watched the first 15 minutes of it, maybe.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead and reveal your answers. Rihanna and Laura without an answer. Randall, Godfather 2. Dane without an answer. Yanni and Brody, The Godfather 2. They got it. The correct answer is The Godfather Part 2. Prior to Fredo’s execution, Fredo tells his nephew that he wants to show him his secret fishing trick that he learned as a boy in Brooklyn. Fredo says that if you recite a Hail Mary every time you cast your line, you’re sure to catch a fish. But Fredo’s nephew is pulled from the boat by his dad, Michael, before leaving the dock. This is so that Fredo can be alone with Al, his soon-to-be assassin. Then on the water, while Fredo is fishing and praying, Al kills him. Question three, the topic is wildlife. The blank salamander, which is named after its stripes, is the state amphibian of Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, and Wyoming. Brody, quick to answer again. The blank salamander, which is named after its stripes, is the state amphibian of Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, and Wyoming.
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Speaker 3: We had one of these crawl across our porch one night when I was back in Colorado.
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Speaker 1: Oh. Real treat every time I get to see one of these things. It’s really tickled.
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Speaker 2: It’s always surprising because when you see, like any salamander, you’re usually.
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Speaker 5: Like, what are you doing here?
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Speaker 4: This is Colorado.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: The arid west.
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Speaker 1: The blank salamander, which is named after its stripes, is the state amphibian of Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, and Wyoming. Randall doesn’t seem to know the salamanders.
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Speaker 5: No, I don’t.
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Speaker 1: Rihanna, do you have this one right?
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Speaker 10: I think I went with one type of stripes, and I think.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 10: I’m doubting myself.
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Speaker 1: Laura, do you have this one right?
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 2: No, I don’t.
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Speaker 1: Dane, do you know your salamanders?
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Speaker 10: I don’t know if it’s right, but I’m thinking of animals that also have stripes.
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Speaker 1: Makes sense.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 1: The blank salamander, which is named after its stripes, is the state amphibian of Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, and Wyoming.
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Speaker 4: Randall’s trying to get inside of my head.
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Speaker 1: Is it working? Are you in there, Randall?
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Speaker 5: I’m going to reverse inception you.
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Speaker 1: Randall was telling me that you boys had hot dogs for lunch.
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Speaker 4: We did.
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Speaker 1: Randall said they were too big. Well, they’re too big to eat two for lunch.
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Speaker 4: Oh, okay. I only had one.
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Speaker 9: Got it.
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Speaker 4: I’m feeling pretty good.
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Speaker 1: I didn’t hear that part.
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Speaker 5: I had two.
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Speaker 9: I’m not feeling very good.
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Speaker 10: You got an edge up on them then.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh. I don’t know what really prompted it.
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Speaker 2: No I do know It’s Randall It’s like I was never really a hot dog eater But kind of hanging out with Randall I’ve become more of a hot dog eater Like that 20 day hunt I was just on I bet you the crew and I We probably ate close.
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Speaker 1: To 100 hot dogs And Randall wasn’t even there That’s just a symptom of hanging out with him It.
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Speaker 9: Is a great camp meal Bear hunting in the spring I’ll just put my grill on my tailgate And you just grill as many hot dogs as you want They’re practically.
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Speaker 1: Free You’re losing money by not eating them.
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Speaker 10: Have you ever done one in Jetboil?
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Like putting them in a thermos.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Keep them hot.
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Speaker 6: Do you drink the dog water after?
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 5: No, he’s not a pervert.
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Speaker 1: Randall, do you have your salad, man?
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Speaker 5: Isn’t that a Limp Bizkit album? Don’t they have something about the heart?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, we should probably stop talking about it.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 4: Is everybody ready?
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Speaker 7: Before I have to put an explicit tag on this.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead and reveal your answers. Oh, damn. Rihanna says the zebra salamander. Laura says tiger. Randall, zebra.
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Speaker 4: Dane, tiger.
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Speaker 7: I didn’t even think of tiger.
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Speaker 1: Yanni, tiger.
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Speaker 4: Brody, tiger.
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Speaker 1: The correct answer is the tiger salamander.
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Speaker 5: Chuck, that went up to the dogs.
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Speaker 1: Tiger salamanders are found across the country besides New England. The eastern tiger salamander is the largest land-dwelling salamander on the continent. Growing up to 13 inches long, they spend most of their life underground, only appearing topside after heavy rains or during their breeding migrations. There is a tiger salamander for your viewing pleasure. Yeah, he looks more like a leopard. Some of them have more blotches. Some of them are just solid colors. Some have stripes just like a tiger.
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Speaker 5: I see it on the tail.
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Speaker 1: This one’s more spotted than striped, I’d say. Question four, the topic is woodsmanship. This nine-letter word refers to, quote, a long stretch of unmaintained dirt road that is corrugated by closely spaced ripples. That is a definition I got from the University of New Mexico. This nine-letter word refers to a long stretch of unmaintained dirt road that is corrugated by by closely spaced ripples. And this is question four.
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Speaker 8: That’s a lot of letters.
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Speaker 1: Brianna seems to have it. Been on a lot of these roads. Okay. Brody’s got an answer. Randall and Dane have answers. Yanni’s still playing hangman. Did you come up with it, Yanni?
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Speaker 7: I believe so.
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Speaker 1: Nine-letter word refers to a long stretch of unmaintained dirt road that is corrugated by closely spaced ripples. Yep.
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Speaker 3: Stuff’s dangerous if you go too fast on it.
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Speaker 2: I believe I was doing some driving on said roads in the last couple weeks.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 5: You could give me 150.
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Speaker 9: Opportunities to describe this if I have it right, and I would never come up with that sequence of words.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a unique way to describe this. Laura? Nope.
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Speaker 4: Laura, you know it.
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Speaker 5: I can’t think of what the word is.
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Speaker 1: Nine-letter word refers to a long stretch of unmaintained dirt road that is corrugated by closely spaced ripples.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that’s what you do.
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Speaker 7: That’s how you maintain.
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Speaker 9: I’m digging into my recent experiences in HOA.
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Speaker 1: Board member here okay this is a word that comes up there yeah.
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Speaker 9: They are dangerous the only thing we do i was just in canada and if you go about 40 to 45 miles an hour your back end starts doing that kilometers though yeah i don’t probably like 150 kilometers i don’t know.
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Speaker 4: Is everybody ready.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead and reveal your answers oh The whole room besides Laura says washboard. They got it. The correct answer is washboard. The name comes from the road resembling an old fashioned washboard. The rippling is the result of dry weather and the continuous friction created by tires. When a vehicle hits a small bump or dip, the tire briefly bounces in the air. Then when it lands, it displaces loose dirt to form another bump or dip. This process becomes a repeating cycle that ultimately forms the washboard conditions. Question five, the topic is conservation. This next great question is via Leland Hart. This state is home to the most national forests, including Lassen National Forest and Mendocino National Forest. This state is home to the most national forests, including Lassen National Forest and Mendocino National Forest. Yanni, Brody, Randall all locked in. Laura, do you have this one right? I hope so. Okay, Laura’s got this one as well. Dane joining them. This state has the most national forests. Laura and Yanni, do you guys agree on what the answer is based on that eye contact?
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Speaker 3: Our telepathy?
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you guys have the same thing?
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Speaker 4: I think so.
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Speaker 7: I don’t know. Okay.
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Speaker 1: This state is home to the most national forests, including Lassen National Forest and Mendocino National Forest. Brianna, I’m waiting on you. The rest of the room thinks they have it.
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Speaker 7: I know. Is it like the most area of, or just the most named?
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Speaker 1: Just the most of them.
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Speaker 5: The most numbers of them.
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Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 5: The highest number.
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Speaker 3: Of separate national forests.
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Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. Dane, do you have this one right?
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Speaker 5: 50-50.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead and reveal your answers. Brianna says New Mexico. Laura and Randall say California. Dane says Colorado. Yanni and Brody say California. The correct answer is California. California has 18 national forests, the most in the nation. That’s followed by Idaho with 15, Oregon and Colorado with 11, and Montana with 10. Despite Alaska having just two national forests, it has the most acres of national forests, with one million more than California. All right, we’re halfway through today’s game. Phil, give us a scoreboard update.
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Speaker 7: We’ve got two perfect games running right now between Giannis and Brody. Randall’s one point behind them with four.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was the salamander question.
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Speaker 7: I’m sorry. Laura has three. Dane has two. Brianna has one.
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Speaker 1: Question six, the topic is wildlife. Modern competitors in the Blank Run, which is an illegal automobile race that goes from New York to California, equip their vehicles with thermal scopes to avoid deer.
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Speaker 7: Either copied this question incompletely, Spencer, or you updated it.
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Speaker 1: I did not update it. This was just a… Wrong copy and paste. Modern competitors in the Blank Run, which is an illegal automobile race that goes from New York to California, equip their vehicles with thermal scopes to avoid deer.
00:24:18
Speaker 7: You’re seeing me do work in real time here.
00:24:20
Speaker 1: Well done, Phil. All right, Brody, you have this one right?
00:24:24
Speaker 3: I think so.
00:24:26
Speaker 1: Randall, you have this one right.
00:24:27
Speaker 6: I think so.
00:24:28
Speaker 1: Yanni just had a phone call, and now he’s going back to his whiteboard.
00:24:32
Speaker 9: There’s a message on Slack asking people to move their trucks.
00:24:37
Speaker 5: Oh, okay. I don’t think it’s any of our trucks, though.
00:24:42
Speaker 1: I parked in a spot that had suspicious amount of space over there. I can move mine after this. Tell them I’ll be out in 30 minutes. Modern competitors in the Blank Run, which is an illegal automobile race that goes from New York to California. equip their vehicles with thermal scopes to avoid deer.
00:25:03
Speaker 7: Kind of bummed out with how many people are using their phones at the table right now. I just want to throw that out there. It’s kind of well-known etiquette for technical reasons and just for a good show for Spencer’s sake.
00:25:12
Speaker 5: Thanks for the.
00:25:12
Speaker 3: Reminder, Phil.
00:25:13
Speaker 1: You’re welcome.
00:25:14
Speaker 5: I haven’t been able to stop using my phone lately.
00:25:17
Speaker 4: Mine’s on do not disturb.
00:25:19
Speaker 5: In bed all night.
00:25:20
Speaker 4: The boss, a.k.a.
00:25:23
Speaker 2: My gal, she was calling. So I had to let her know for deep in trivia. Did we not used to see part of this run come through Colorado at times? You remember that? When there’d be like a bunch of fancy cars in town.
00:25:37
Speaker 3: For a couple of days? I don’t remember that.
00:25:40
Speaker 1: I mean, this isn’t the kind of run that would stop.
00:25:43
Speaker 5: That might have just been plutocrats.
00:25:44
Speaker 10: And usually it’s just one vehicle and no one knows about it until it’s over.
00:25:50
Speaker 4: I actually know a lot about this.
00:25:51
Speaker 6: I’ve never heard about this.
00:25:53
Speaker 1: Okay. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers, Brianna and Laura. Without an answer, the rest of the room says the cannonball run. They got it. The correct answer is the cannonball run.
00:26:06
Speaker 3: One of the greatest movies of all time.
00:26:08
Speaker 9: I used this word in a text message to Corey Calkins yesterday. Okay. I said, if you need me to make a cannonball run up.
00:26:16
Speaker 1: All right. Cannonball runs have been going on since 1914, but didn’t get mainstream attention until the 1981 movie starring Burt Reynolds. The current record for making it from New York to LA, which is the distance of 2,813 miles, was set in 2025. That team of drivers made the journey in 25 hours and 39 minutes with an average speed of 112 miles per hour. In a 2017 record attempt, A cannonball runner struck a whitetail in Illinois that brought their race to an end. Today, most cannonball run vehicles have a passenger using image stabilizer binoculars and a dashboard monitor attached to thermoscopes to identify deer on the road. Cannonball run.
00:27:04
Speaker 4: Question seven.
00:27:05
Speaker 1: The topic is hunting. This man who wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas stole a set of elk antlers from Ernest Hemingway’s home. In 1964. Brody, Yanni, Randall all confidently.
00:27:24
Speaker 3: I was in a bar at the same time as this man one time.
00:27:27
Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
00:27:28
Speaker 1: How’d that go down?
00:27:30
Speaker 6: Good.
00:27:30
Speaker 3: I mean, he kind of holds court. He held court in that spot.
00:27:34
Speaker 5: Did he recognize you?
00:27:35
Speaker 1: No. Oh.
00:27:37
Speaker 3: He would have no reason to recognize me at that time.
00:27:40
Speaker 7: Pulled a gun on him anyway.
00:27:42
Speaker 4: Was this in Fort Collins?
00:27:44
Speaker 7: No.
00:27:44
Speaker 5: No.
00:27:45
Speaker 3: I’ll tell you.
00:27:48
Speaker 1: This man who wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas stole a set of elk antlers from Ernest Hemingway’s home in 1964. Laura, do you have this one right?
00:28:00
Speaker 4: I think so.
00:28:01
Speaker 7: When did.
00:28:03
Speaker 3: Don’t ask yet.
00:28:04
Speaker 5: Yeah. I know what you’re thinking.
00:28:08
Speaker 1: I never read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas stole a set of elk antlers from Ernest Hemingway’s home in 1964. Randall, have you read it?
00:28:19
Speaker 5: No, I haven’t actually. Okay.
00:28:20
Speaker 1: Brody, have you read it?
00:28:21
Speaker 10: Nope.
00:28:22
Speaker 1: No. I was hoping you could tell me if the book or the movie was better.
00:28:25
Speaker 5: Which is weird because we’re both big drug guys.
00:28:28
Speaker 4: I know.
00:28:29
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:28:32
Speaker 3: All kinds of them.
00:28:33
Speaker 4: The movie is great. And then all of a sudden it goes wackadoodle and you’re like, what?
00:28:39
Speaker 1: Is the whole movie not just wackadoodle?
00:28:41
Speaker 2: You’ve seen it? No, I feel like there’s a real turning point. It’s kind of like Escanaba in the Moonlight, where you’re like, okay, I’m tracking, and then you’re like, what?
00:28:48
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:28:49
Speaker 4: Happened.
00:28:50
Speaker 1: Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Brianna without an answer. Laura says Jack London. Randall, Hunter S.
00:28:59
Speaker 5: Thompson.
00:28:59
Speaker 1: Dane without an answer. Yanni and Brody, Hunter S.
00:29:02
Speaker 5: Thompson.
00:29:02
Speaker 1: The correct answer is Hunter S. Thompson.
00:29:05
Speaker 5: To be fair, she said Jack Kerouac.
00:29:06
Speaker 3: When did he die?
00:29:08
Speaker 1: Her board was upside down, so I was just guessing. I’ll tell you in my flavor text here. Thompson was visiting Hemingway’s Ketchum, Idaho home while on assignment for the National Observer. The article was about where Hemingway chose to spend his final years before killing himself in 1961. Thompson’s writing references, quote, a big pair of elk horns over the front door. but he never mentions that he then stole them. Hunter’s wife, Anita, returned the elk rack after Thompson also killed himself in 2005 she said hunter was deeply embarrassed by the theft and hoped to someday quietly place them back in the home the hemingway family was reportedly quote warm grateful and kind of tickled when anita returned the antlers and there is a picture of the hemingway family with the stolen set of elk antlers that Anita returned. I think it was in 2016. So it was 11 years.
00:30:05
Speaker 8: I wonder if Thompson busted that nose.
00:30:07
Speaker 3: Off of there. It was already busted.
00:30:09
Speaker 2: I was going to say classic busted nose on a European.
00:30:15
Speaker 1: So Hemingway killed himself in 61. Thompson was doing the assignment in 64. That’s when he stole them. Thompson killed himself in 2005, and then I think it was 2016 when his wife returned the animals.
00:30:27
Speaker 8: Yeah, he was in the Woody Creek Tavern outside of Aspen one time when I was in there.
00:30:31
Speaker 3: He used to hang out there a lot.
00:30:32
Speaker 1: Question eight.
00:30:34
Speaker 3: You ever been there?
00:30:35
Speaker 5: No.
00:30:36
Speaker 1: Question eight. The topic is woodsmanship. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Sam Padilla for sending this great question. Sam 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 themeadeater.com. This word, which also refers to a turkey’s body part, is defined as, quote, a short ridge or area of high ground that sticks out from the side of a hill or mountain. Randall, quick to answer. Yanni joining in. Brody joining in for question eight. This word, which also refers to a turkey’s body part, is defined as a short ridge or area of high ground that sticks out from the side of a hill or mountain. We’ll get a scoreboard update from Phil after this.
00:31:30
Speaker 7: I’m feeling very uncultured today.
00:31:31
Speaker 1: I don’t think this one’s a matter of culture, Brianna.
00:31:36
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is birds. Just straight birds, man. No interest.
00:31:41
Speaker 1: You know what would make you feel better is to keep telling Randall how old he is, though.
00:31:46
Speaker 5: Not yet. Not yet. Not yet.
00:31:48
Speaker 2: Are you going hunting later or are you just doing casual camo today? Casual camo most days.
00:31:55
Speaker 4: Most days?
00:31:56
Speaker 7: Yeah, I like camo.
00:31:57
Speaker 9: Okay.
00:32:00
Speaker 1: This word.
00:32:01
Speaker 7: Yanni’s judging you.
00:32:01
Speaker 1: Which also refers to a turkey’s body part is defined as a short ridge or area of high ground that sticks out from the side of a hill or mountain.
00:32:10
Speaker 9: By the way, I think we covered this before we started recording but we all are thrilled and welcome the return of Yanni sleeves Yeah program.
00:32:18
Speaker 1: It’s been the first time if you’re listening in your vehicle.
00:32:24
Speaker 9: Just the less skin at trivia the better, yeah General rule also some very white skin. It would be good kind of blinding off of Phil’s I I just felt like we were kind of trending in two different directions. And now I feel like we’re back sort of in the same culture.
00:32:40
Speaker 5: Okay.
00:32:41
Speaker 1: What was the other direction? Folks covering up more?
00:32:43
Speaker 9: No, I was just like wearing sleeves and Yanni was just getting further and further away from that.
00:32:50
Speaker 2: Well, you probably have six or eight months.
00:32:55
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:32:56
Speaker 1: Your streams will cross paths though at some point and then Randall’s going to go sleeveless and Brody.
00:33:01
Speaker 5: Nah, it’s not a good look on me.
00:33:04
Speaker 4: That’s the thing. It’s not a look. It’s comfort.
00:33:08
Speaker 1: It’s a lifestyle.
00:33:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, I’m not at war with my sleeves, man. I don’t feel like they’re hindering comfort.
00:33:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you just haven’t tried sleeveless yet.
00:33:16
Speaker 3: I sure have, and I just don’t think.
00:33:19
Speaker 4: I don’t think. I haven’t seen you ever wear sleeveless.
00:33:22
Speaker 1: This word, which also refers to a turkey’s body part, is defined as a short range or area.
00:33:27
Speaker 5: Did you get it, Brody?
00:33:28
Speaker 1: I’m kind of scared. I don’t know.
00:33:31
Speaker 6: I have a secondary answer.
00:33:33
Speaker 4: I’m scared of your answer or sleeves. I need you to falter here.
00:33:36
Speaker 1: Go ahead and reveal your answers. Brianna says gobble. Laura says comb. Randall says spur. Dane spur. Yanni spur. Brody spur. The correct answer is spur.
00:33:49
Speaker 5: What was your second guess, Brody?
00:33:51
Speaker 3: I didn’t have one.
00:33:52
Speaker 5: Didn’t someone say that?
00:33:54
Speaker 1: I did.
00:33:54
Speaker 5: What about snoot?
00:33:57
Speaker 1: I don’t think I’d find that definition.
00:33:59
Speaker 4: I’ve never heard that used as a.
00:34:01
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:34:02
Speaker 6: It’s the reason I didn’t write it.
00:34:04
Speaker 5: It’s a body part on a turkey.
00:34:05
Speaker 6: It is a body part, and it could be.
00:34:07
Speaker 1: You start calling it that. It could not be. And then I’ll ask this question a year from now, and there’ll be two answers.
00:34:12
Speaker 10: It could resemble an area that sticks out from the side of a mountain.
00:34:17
Speaker 4: A spur. I was creeping down the snood, and the buck jumped up.
00:34:23
Speaker 1: A spur usually offers a more gentle way off a mountain, making it a popular place for trails, both human and game. On a topographic map, spurs usually show up as a U or V shape that points away from the mountain and towards the valley. All right, Phil, two questions left. Give us a scoreboard update.
00:34:41
Speaker 7: Randall’s still being haunted by the mythical zebra salamander.
00:34:45
Speaker 5: Shut up.
00:34:47
Speaker 7: He’s one point behind Giannis and Brody, who have eight points. And those are the three players left.
00:34:53
Speaker 1: In the game.
00:34:53
Speaker 5: I got to dig myself out of a hole here.
00:34:56
Speaker 1: Nine. The topic is fishing. What river flows through Niagara Falls?
00:35:06
Speaker 7: Oh, gosh.
00:35:08
Speaker 1: What river flows through Niagara Falls?
00:35:10
Speaker 4: Brody knows it. He grew up in that part of the country.
00:35:14
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:35:15
Speaker 1: And Yanni’s got a blank whiteboard.
00:35:18
Speaker 4: Dang.
00:35:22
Speaker 1: Randall, do you have this one?
00:35:23
Speaker 5: I think so.
00:35:25
Speaker 1: Brody, he has his whiteboard down. Brody, do you have this one?
00:35:28
Speaker 3: Again, I’m scared.
00:35:30
Speaker 1: He put it down pretty softly, which is a measure of his confidence, it seems like. What river flows through Niagara Falls?
00:35:42
Speaker 5: Flows over?
00:35:44
Speaker 1: Over it, yep.
00:35:46
Speaker 5: Through it.
00:35:46
Speaker 7: It’s a grandmother’s house.
00:35:48
Speaker 3: I wonder if anyone’s tried to ride down that thing lately.
00:35:52
Speaker 7: Oh.
00:35:54
Speaker 5: That was a cool moment in culture. Guys are just like, put me in a barrel.
00:36:01
Speaker 3: I’ll give it a shot.
00:36:02
Speaker 5: I wonder if I’ll die.
00:36:05
Speaker 1: What river flows through Niagara Falls? Yanni, do you have an answer?
00:36:10
Speaker 4: I got a couple in my head. You just tell me when I got to write one down.
00:36:15
Speaker 1: I’m running out of time.
00:36:17
Speaker 3: My parents got married at Niagara Falls. It was like a thing back in the day.
00:36:20
Speaker 1: On land or on a boat?
00:36:22
Speaker 3: Oh, I’m sure on land. I don’t think they would have been able to.
00:36:24
Speaker 1: Afford the boat. I mean, I’m just like going off to the office.
00:36:28
Speaker 8: It was like a place to go get married and do your honeymoon back in the day. Maybe they didn’t get married there. I think they had their honeymoon there, maybe. I’ll have to ask my dad.
00:36:38
Speaker 7: I’ll add that to our list of honeymoon destinations.
00:36:41
Speaker 5: You should.
00:36:43
Speaker 7: Bora Bora or.
00:36:48
Speaker 1: Yanni, we’re running out of time. Laura, are you going to come up with a river for us?
00:36:52
Speaker 9: No, I’m not.
00:36:52
Speaker 7: No.
00:36:56
Speaker 1: What river flows through Niagara Falls? This is question nine.
00:37:03
Speaker 5: Yannis.
00:37:06
Speaker 4: I hate writing down a wrong answer.
00:37:08
Speaker 1: Especially when you get that perfect game going. Only once before we’ve had overtime with multiple perfect games. We could see it again today. Brody is snickering.
00:37:18
Speaker 5: Or they could falter.
00:37:19
Speaker 1: We could go to overtime. Triple overtime.
00:37:21
Speaker 4: Brody’s snickering at my wrong answer.
00:37:25
Speaker 3: You got time to rethink that one, Giannis?
00:37:27
Speaker 1: Nope. Gianni?
00:37:33
Speaker 7: Are you ready?
00:37:34
Speaker 1: Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Brianna saying the Niagara. Laura without an answer. Randall, St.
00:37:44
Speaker 5: Lawrence.
00:37:45
Speaker 3: Dane, Hudson.
00:37:47
Speaker 1: Yanni, Detroit. Brody, Niagara. The correct answer is Is the Niagara River. Oh, yes. Man, you had me scared.
00:37:59
Speaker 4: Cody and Brianna.
00:38:00
Speaker 5: There’s no way.
00:38:01
Speaker 6: How often is the answer on the question?
00:38:04
Speaker 1: Try to help it, you guys.
00:38:05
Speaker 3: Did you write that down?
00:38:07
Speaker 7: No.
00:38:07
Speaker 1: The Niagara River is 36 miles long, flowing from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. The upper stretch is known for its walleye, smallmouth, pike, muskie, and perch. The lower stretch is famous for its king salmon, coho salmon, steelhead, lake trout, and brown trout. The river has produced the Ontario record for walleye and the New York record for white bass. All right, here’s a correct answer review so far. One was Virginia. Two, The Godfather, part two. Three, Tiger Salamander. Four, Washboard. Five, California. Six, Cannonball Run. Seven, Hunter S.
00:38:45
Speaker 5: Thompson. Eight, Spurr.
00:38:47
Speaker 1: Nine, Niagara River. Phil, scoreboard update.
00:38:51
Speaker 7: Brody has pulled ahead. He’s got nine points and a perfect game still going into question 10, which I think historically he’s got a pretty good track record on. Just throw that out there. Giannis is one point behind him with eight, and Randall’s got seven.
00:39:06
Speaker 1: Question 10, the topic is cooking. Biloxi, which is located in this state, was known as the seafood capital of the world In the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Randall. He put down his whiteboard quick, but not as quick as Brody, who seems to have the perfect game. He knows it. Biloxi. which is located in this state, was known as the seafood capital of the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
00:39:39
Speaker 4: I like that movie, Biloxi Blues, when I was a kid.
00:39:42
Speaker 1: Oh, not familiar. Maybe that makes this question too easy. I didn’t know a movie existed with this in the title.
00:39:49
Speaker 4: I think it was some kind of a wartime.
00:39:54
Speaker 5: You’re thinking of Memphis Belle?
00:39:56
Speaker 3: No.
00:39:57
Speaker 5: It’s another southern city.
00:39:59
Speaker 3: Phil, can you weigh in here?
00:40:00
Speaker 7: I think you’re thinking of Sleepless in Seattle.
00:40:04
Speaker 5: No, I thought Memphis Belle was actually pretty on the nose. This is wartime, same region.
00:40:10
Speaker 1: Biloxi, which is located in the States, was known as the seafood capital of the world. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
00:40:19
Speaker 4: I better not type in Biloxi.
00:40:21
Speaker 5: Oh, I guess I gave it. It’s going to autofill. I gave a clue, I guess.
00:40:25
Speaker 7: Get your phone out of here. What are you doing?
00:40:27
Speaker 1: Another maybe honeymoon destination.
00:40:29
Speaker 4: Well, pull up the movie for me, Phil.
00:40:31
Speaker 1: Keep this on the list. Is everybody ready?
00:40:36
Speaker 7: Yes.
00:40:36
Speaker 4: Hopefully Brody has it wrong. We’re going to let Brianna write down an answer.
00:40:40
Speaker 3: Come on.
00:40:40
Speaker 4: Wrong for Brody. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
00:40:45
Speaker 1: She’s racing.
00:40:47
Speaker 4: We’re going to get out of her time.
00:40:49
Speaker 1: Go ahead and reveal your answers. Brianna says Washington. Laura, Mississippi. Randall, Mississippi. Dane, Louisiana. Yanni and Brody, Mississippi. The correct answer is Biloxi, Mississippi. Brody got it right. He’s got the perfect game and today’s victory. At the height of Biloxi’s seafood industry in 1902, the town processed 6 million pounds of oysters and 5 million pounds of shrimp. But the Great Depression and both World Wars slowed production and crippled exports, forcing several factories to close. Then hurricanes in the 1960s and 1980s decimated more factories, docks, and nearby oyster beds. And finally, a pivot to legalized gambling in the 90s brought casinos to Biloxi, and changed the city’s economy almost overnight.
00:41:40
Speaker 5: That’s all I could think. That’s the only point of reference.
00:41:42
Speaker 1: You’ve been to Biloxi.
00:41:43
Speaker 5: No, no. I just know that you gamble there.
00:41:45
Speaker 1: A lot of gambling there.
00:41:46
Speaker 2: Matthew Broderick stars 1988 military comedy drama.
00:41:52
Speaker 1: What’s it called?
00:41:52
Speaker 4: Biloxi Blues.
00:41:54
Speaker 1: Biloxi Blues.
00:41:55
Speaker 4: I already told you that part.
00:41:56
Speaker 1: Yanni knew it. Yep. All right, Brody, what are we going to do with the $ 1, 000 donation for a perfect game? I think this is our second, maybe third perfect game of the year. We haven’t had many of them. That means he gets to double the donation from $ 500 to $ 1, 000. What are we going to do with all that money?
00:42:13
Speaker 3: Since it’s Whitetail Week, we’ll do the National Deer Association.
00:42:16
Speaker 4: Oh, good on you. All right.
00:42:18
Speaker 1: $ 1, 000 supporting them whitetails for NDA.
00:42:21
Speaker 4: Big bucks for big bucks.
00:42:23
Speaker 1: Join us next week for more meat eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins.
00:42:27
Speaker 7: Thanks, Spencer.
00:42:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he’s the host.
00:42:32
Speaker 5: Using those smooth, mellow tones, he lays them questions down.
00:42:36
Speaker 10: And he likes taking those two- and three-year-old bucks.
00:42:47
Speaker 3: And he’s an avid amateur rock hound.
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