Ep. 833: 2026 MeatEater Trivia Tournament, Round 1

This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Welcome to Meat Eaters 12 and 26, presented by Moultrie Mobile and OnX Maps. 12 of Meat Eaters' biggest and baddest hunts from the last year released throughout 2026. These are long-form episodes, so you get more of what you love. The first one up is my baited bear hunt in Manitoba. If you've ever wondered what a baited bear hunt is like, you'll love this episode. My favorite part was watching a younger bear spend an hour trying to figure out how to get a creatively hung beaver carcass down from a tree. Check it out now on Meat Eater's YouTube channel and be on the lookout for more 12 and 26 in the coming months. It's a Meat Eater podcast. Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newarth, and today we're joined by Steve, Giannis, Randall, Brody, Seth, and Corey. This is episode one of the fourth annual Meat Eater Trivia Championship. The competition will span three episodes. Whoever has the most points after 30 questions will be declared the newest Meat Eater Trivia Champion. I answered my own question. When Phil had that little tissy, the listeners won't be able to, you know. We had a false start on Meteor Trivia. When Phil was having that tissy, I answered my own question. You need to write your name down on your board. At this point, he knows. I put like big Steve on there. It's because this way you get three episodes out of the championship. We get three episodes out of the championship. That's right. Yeah, a whole month of content. I would prefer if you put your name on the whiteboard. I'm just more efficient. Steve. Yeah. Steve, we had to pause the story he was telling before the mics turned on because it seemed too good to not be recorded. Steve got an angry text from his wife. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Which I get often. Is that where it all started? Was with the text? No, it started. So if I was going to tell the story, it would be this. Okay. It'd be like we're having an exceptionally mild winter. Mm-hmm. I've extended my, we've been catching some coyotes and some foxes. and they are I don't know if this is the function of the mild winter I have never seen fleas ever I mean have you ever seen fleas like what you're seeing what you've seen never seen fleas like this so bad well so bad that I cut my hand so I had to have my story is out of order so bad that we were skinning one and I had my shop vac running to shop vac fleas. I'm skinning one in my garage. I'm skinning a coyote in my garage. My protocol normally is I would like bring them into the garage, quickly skin them, bag them, throw them in the freezer because the freezer will kill the fleas and then pull them out, flush them, stretch them. so my kid distracts me i'm in the garage working and my kid pokes his nose in the garage says hey dad whatever and i looked up and and cut myself good and got 10 stitches across back my thumb it's actually your kid's fault yeah yeah distracted me um i keep you know i try to tell him that too much but i honestly i don't even know how i don't know how i did it it is i'm joking about his being his fault he said something and i'm like talking to him and not paying attention cut my hand so here i leave a a half-skinned coyote hanging there all day when i'm skinning i like to put my i put a one piece uh it's like a knockoff carhartt one piece like a walls yeah zip up one piece with got it's got cuffs on it cover all cover all latex gloves right so like a hazmat suit yeah do it i'll throw i'll hang it up outside whatever you know and i try to do some management, tick management, flea management. I wasn't when this happened. I was being quick about it. And then it hung there all day because my wife had to take me to the emergency room to get stitched up. So then I get home, then I gotta get my neighbor to help me because I can't pull on anything. So then that night, I'm laying there in bed. See, this is the part my wife doesn't know. This is my favorite part of the story. She doesn't listen to the show. She doesn't know this. This is the funny part. So I'm laying there that night, and I'm hurting. And I'm laying there, and I can feel those sons of bitches, like, up in my hair and stuff. And I'm not, like, a big shower guy. I'm not always running around taking showers for no reason, you know. But I'm laying there in bed next to my beautiful wife. And I'm like, yeah, I'm going to take a shower. It's just, like, so, you know, like, no one gets in bed, right? Like, no one gets in bed. and he lays there a while and then like is going to go take a shower. Yeah. And when you said this. It doesn't even like click with it. She doesn't even think to be like, why in the world? She's probably like, oh, he got hurt. Whatever. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. So I put my hand in a sandwich bag, you know, my cut in the sandwich bag, and I'm in there washing up. I never mentioned it. Well, I'm aware that I'm like getting, I'm worried I got a lot of flea bites, but I'm thinking it's just on me, you know, so what we're laughing about. So I get these all the time. Stuff of this nature. She sends me a text. I wish I could find one from when we were messing with these skunks. It was like the same basic text. And how many days or hours later was this text sent you? Several days. Several days since you were laying in bed with fleas. Yeah. And you know what? It wound up being like it kind of blew over. She says. Escaped. She says, I am at tennis and can't figure out why my ankles are so itchy. I have small itchy bumps on both ankles if you brought fleas into our house because of the things you trapped you need to figure that out like before work I am not going to live like this that's a good threat but you know as the guys are pointing out like how many years have you been married? yeah be like yeah you are I thought I was in bad shape I thought I was going to be in a lot of trouble and we had this happen before and she had already forgotten about it so I'm like referencing the last time this happened if you remember I said it's like some mosquitoes get in your house you get bit but it's not like it's not that way for the rest of your life it's just for like whatever period of time they're in the house so I'm like they're here like last time she's like what do you mean last time I'm like, the last time you freaked out about the flea bites. So is a flea infestation, is that like not a thing? Like when you get, like when you have bed bugs, right? Like you get them and then they get in your program and like all of a sudden you have to make big changes, right? I have never found, well think of when you're hunting cottontails. Yeah. When you're hunting cottontails. Yeah. You can't go hunting cottontails without getting your wrist bit up. But you don't then have them in your house. That's what I was telling her. Because she like right away starts doing internet research. They could, you know, about all their like magical capabilities. And I'm like, dude, it's not like that. It's already over. Can I tell you something that you're not going to want to hear? Uh-oh. Sure. My old man who's been in the pest control industry for a long time has seen some infestation. Of fleas. Of fleas in people's houses. but they're like carpets crawling with oh really yeah don't tell her that but especially when you got a dog they can breathe yeah we got the thing yeah it's it's always in houses that have a lot of animals well the last time i got busted i left a kyle on the floor of the garage and had to run off to work so our dogs out there like associating with it yeah and the text message then the first text messages, what's wrong with our dog? And I play it dumb. I don't know. Could be anything. And then she starts putting together, you know, there's got to be a court. Like, if there's a coyote in the garage and they're always full of fleas, as you like to point out, and our dog now has fleas, don't act like you don't know what's going on. What's the current status of the flea situation? They're gone. Okay. Did she change the bedding out? All right. Do you give the dog some flea and tick every once in a while? She takes care of all that. I'm assuming she does. Problem solved. She's a very responsible dog owner. Miraculous. Yeah. Good story. There's no way our dog doesn't have that because it has things it doesn't need. It has everything it needs. See, Kelsey, we don't give our dog flea and tick unless we have to. Don't you just bathe them to get them off? Well, yeah. I don't know what they do. I honestly don't know. So I'm always worried about giving that dog fleas. Seth declared that we should see Steve's pickup. It's still flea infested. Is that still the case? Yeah, the bag. Oh, sure. I don't know. Go lay back there. I'm already planning on pressure washing. My neighbor gave me a real heavy wool felt carpet pad that I like to have back there. But I'm going to pressure wash that. Mother liquor. Is your neighbor feeling better about our little situation that we had? Oh, yeah. I haven't talked to him about that. He got a little mad at me and Yanni. All right. Another story for another episode. For the sad of the week this week. I still haven't told him what you told me. So he's still mad. For the sad of the week this week. Yes, he's still mad at us. Let's recap last year's tournament, which was also a three-episode series. Randall won with 26 points, followed by Steve with 24 and Brody with 22. Randall had a wire-to-wire victory leading after episode one and two before winning the whole thing in episode three. Let's get some predictions. Who do you think will be this year's champion? We asked Doug Duren on last year's episode. He thinks it's going to be Brody or Randall this year. That's stupid. Why doesn't he think of me? He said you'll probably argue your way into a top finisher, but he doesn't think if you have to come by it on your own accord with just providing correct answers that you can do it. Doug's. Oh, Doug. Bubbly Doug one being so bubbly there. Corey, who do you think is going to win this year? Oh, I'd have to put my money on Brody. Brody, okay. Why didn't you look at Randall when he said Brody? He's trying to get me out. Oh, that's what you're doing. I got him in my skin. Do you have it in you or are you going to win it this year? I mean, I don't know. I'd have to wait until the game's over. All right, Brody. Brody's been on a heater as of late, really crushing Randall whenever the two of them are in the room at the same time. Brody, is that going to carry over? I'm keeping my mouth shut. Spencer, you know the questions. I know the questions. And so I think that you have a pretty good idea about how I will fare. These questions are more core to me, Dieter. Sometimes I go to the edge of our universe to make a topic work. That's music to my ears. I think for these 30 questions, you've just got to be a pure, knowledgeable, outdoorsman to win. So that's what it's going to take. Seth, that means you could win it all, right? One that can identify a mountain lion track compared to a wolf track. You know what I used to say? Because Yanni skied a bunch, he wasn't a true outdoorsman. Is he now a true outdoorsman because he spends all winter chasing lions? He's becoming a true outdoorsman. And there's no snow. So I'm still doing it. Thanks to global climate change, Yanni is a true outdoorsman. Randall, Yanni, any predictions? in this year's tournament. 30 questions. I know the desired outcome. You'd win. Yes. I think Giannis is going to be a top contender this year. What is the winner again? Well, the winner we'll get to make, just like last year, we're banking all the money to the end. It's going to be a $2,000 donation after episode three. But that could be influenced if somebody throws a perfect game. For example, if we have someone who hits it right on the nose, if we do go to overtime, which has not happened in the Meat Eater Trivia Tournament history. So $2,000 is the donation. Plus we have the plaque that will get their name on it. My name's still on it. What do you got? Because I cut it, skin and something. They put me on an antibiotic for tularemia. Okay. And I'm sitting there and I'm kind of trying to argue with them, you know. I'm like, come on. And Katie, who's already annoyed, she's like, by what position do you think you're in that you're debating? I'm surprised that's the one they would go for. Well, I know. That's what I was kind of want. Rabbit fever, right? I was kind of want, that was my argument. I was kind of like, why that? Yeah. Like rabbit, I said, you ever heard of rabbit fever? She's like, no. I'm like, why? Neither of the doctors All right Like last year and I said a donation that will be banked until the end I had all these questions fact checked by Maggie Hodlow our director of web content so I'm confident that Steve won't do any arguing today it wouldn't be a it wouldn't be like a factual issue it would be like a wording issue sure well Maggie was also okay with these alright the Shelby Index for this episode is a 5 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. Everything. How's that? Just tend to win everything. Randall sounds nervous. You look great in that hat, Randall. Thank you. Question one. The topic is fishing, and this is multiple choice. Which of these rivers is longest? Is it Rio Grande, Ohio River, Columbia River, or Tennessee River? Which is longest? Rio Grande, Ohio, Columbia, Tennessee. Nobody has wrote down an answer yet. You just got to be a regular old good outdoorsman and have really good geography skills. That's right. I think they go hand in hand. Which of these rivers is longest? Rio Grande, Ohio, Columbia, Tennessee. Still have six blank whiteboards in the room. Randall and Steve coming up with their answers. Steve writing in a manner that ensures nobody can cheat off him. Which is longest? Rio Grande, Ohio River, Columbia River, Tennessee River. Nobody knew this right off the bat Six educated guesses in the room I think we're waiting on Brody I got something written down Everybody ready? Corey? Go ahead and reveal your answers Seth and Giannis say Rio Grande Randall, Columbia Corey crossed out Rio Grande said Columbia Steve says Columbia Brody, Rio Grande The room is split The correct answer is the Rio Grande. Stop it. Right off the bat. Right off the bat. At 1,800 miles, the Rio Grande is the fourth longest river in America. I was going to put that down. The Columbia is seventh at 1,200 miles. The Ohio is tenth at 1,000 miles. And the Tennessee is twelfth at 900 miles. So the Rio Grande trumps the Columbia by 600 miles. It says it right in the name. That's right. That's why I knew it was one of those two. Me too. Question two. The topic is biology. This four-letter word is defined as, quote, an insect in the stage of development after it has been a larva and before it becomes an adult. Ooh, good fly fisherman question here. Four-letter word is defined as an insect in the stage of development after it has been a larva and before it becomes an adult. Steve and Brody and Randall and Giannis now have their answers. You boys have this one right? I hope so. Got a four-letter word that makes sense. Seth's going to write B-U-G-G. Four-letter word is defined as an insect in the stage of development after it has been a larva and before it becomes an adult. I don't remember the last game of trivia Steve was on where he didn't just make fun of Seth for most of the episode. completely uncalled for it. I'm okay with it. You could just write that down, Seth. Corey, do you have an answer? Man, I do. I'm going to be really embarrassed if I get it wrong. Let me see what you got. Yeah, as an ex-fly fishing guide. I like questions that would be like in a sixth grade biology class, and I feel like this is one of them. Oh, yeah, my daughter is a freshman now, the oldest one. She's already talking and learning and studying about stuff. I'm like, yeah, I wasn't paying attention back then when they taught it to me. I didn't retain it. And I'm telling her, I'm like, you're already becoming smarter than your old man. Good job. Now you get a second chance. You can just absorb some of that knowledge. You're right. I could. I could apply myself like that. But she studies a lot harder than I do. Seth, are you ready? I think. I don't know. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth says, pup. Giannis. Pupay. Pupay. Giannis Randall. The whole room says pupa. The whole room got it right. We'll give it to him. The correct answer is pupa. Insects that enter a pupa form are those that are undergoing metamorphosis. It's French. Such as butterflies, moths, lacewings, houseflies, and ladybugs. During this stage, the insect is immobile and protected by a hard covering. It's at this point when the insect develops its wings, legs, and sexual organs. Welcome to Meat Eaters 12 and 26 presented by Moultrie Mobile and OnX Maps, 12 of Meat Eaters' biggest and baddest hunts from the last year released throughout 2026. These are long-form episodes so you get more of what you love. The first one up is my baited bear hunt in Manitoba. If you've ever wondered what a baited bear hunt is like, you'll Love this episode. My favorite part was watching a younger bear spend an hour trying to figure out how to get a creatively hung beaver carcass down from a tree. Check it out now on Meat Eater's YouTube channel and be on the lookout for more 12 and 26 in the coming months. Question three, the topic is hunting. This three volt battery, which is the most commonly used battery in range finders, has a name that combines two letters with a number. said to buy one the other day. Corey locks in his answer first. Didn't even need to finish the question. He added, this three volt battery, which is the most commonly used battery in range finders, has a name that combines two letters with a number. Go get your gut, Brody. I did. Yeah, don't change it now. Steve, do you have this one right? Yeah, I'm pretty close. Pretty close. He's got a couple letters. I don't think this is a pupae pupa situation. Yeah, you're going to have to dead nuts nail it. This 3-volt battery, which is the most commonly used battery in rangefinders, has a name that combines two letters with a number. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answer, Seth, without an answer. Giannis says CR2. Randall, CR24. Corey, CR2. Steve, CR125 Brody No, CR123 123 Brody, CR2032 What? The correct answer The correct answer is CR2 So Giannis and Corey I like it with CR123 Because you're talking about this Because some range finders run on the CR123 And some run on that little smaller one Most commonly used battery rangefinders. Come on. There's a picture of it. The CR123 is the SteriPen battery. Yes. Now, if you accepted Pupae for Pupa, CR24 in a game where a spelling doesn't know it seems pretty close. No, we're not going to give it to you. This is the most commonly used battery in rangefinders. You should take a point away from him. I've got a rangefinder that runs on a coin battery. Well, that's what pisses me off. Oh, it's a bunch of me. A C-R-2. Yeah, you're right. I actually did not think about it. I don't think I've seen a rangefinder with a C-R-123 in it. The C stands for lithium chemistry. The R stands for round, which is its shape. And the 2 is the number it is in the manufacturer series. C-R-2 batteries look like smaller version of D batteries. Their most common uses are digital cameras, flashlights, and rangefinders, as well as security systems and medical equipment. Phil has a picture of one of them up there right now. Thanks, Bill. That is a CR2. Question four. The topic is public lands. Aaron Ralston cut off his right arm in 2003 while trapped in Blue John Canyon in this state. We're looking for the name of the state. Dang. Aaron Ralston cut off his right arm in 2003 while trapped in Blue John Canyon in this state. Brody, Steve, Randall already have their answers. I was at Brody's house last night for a minute, and his son had to do a report in school. And one of his examples or subjects was Aaron Rawson. And we talked about this little event last night. Serendipity. But the state that he cut his arm off in was not mentioned. Brody, did you need your son having that subject come up? You just knew this without that. No. Steve, you have this one right? Aaron Ralston cut off his right arm in 2000. I thought I knew the last one. While trapped in Blue John Canyon. Steve should have been there for that discussion last night because it was about when you go on adventures and you have to overcome risks and adversity. What were other examples given besides Aaron Ralston? Did he? He had to do like eight or ten different ones. Wow. All right. Is everybody ready? go ahead and reveal your answers. He's ready to see if he got it right. Seth says Arizona. Giannis and Randall and Corey and Steve and Brody say Utah. They got it. The correct answer is Utah. You almost put it. My brain is splitting in half. The accident happened on the border of Canyonlands National Park in southeast Utah. Ralston was solo canyoneering when an 800-pound boulder was dislodged and crushed his right hand against the canyon wall. After five days of being trapped, he noticed his arm was starting to decompose due to a lack of circulation, and that's when he decided he needed to cut it off. So he broke his arm and then used a multi-tool knife and pliers to cut his skin and tendons. He then hiked six miles before encountering a family from the Netherlands who called for help. Phil has a picture that he's going to show us. This picture was taken after the accident. You're about to see Aaron's blood that was left on the canyon wall and border. this is your last chance to look away if you don't want to see it all right phil let's see that picture damn uh that that was taken by a crew of 13 federal employees who went there to move the boulder so that's his arm in there yep uh so they had to move the boulder it took uh 13 people uh a hydraulic jack a winch uh and uh you can still see the blood there after this picture was taken They said you could see the blood in the canyon for years afterwards. His memoir is, isn't it between a rock and a hard place? I think so. And then he had the movie. 127 Hours with James Franco. Yeah, it's a great airplane fare. That's a good endorsement. Brody gave me a little tidbit that you didn't mention. And the reason it took so long for anyone to notice that he was gone or to find where he was even at. To tell folks where he was. well and the day before he went there he had climbed mount sopress in colorado and literally walked off the mountain which is a pretty big feat like it's not like just a little hike did that and then literally jumped in his car and drove to the to the uh desert without saying nothing he didn't tell folks yeah where he was going to be there's a good lesson again you might have said and i just wasn't paying attention but he was just in there and all of a sudden this boulder just comes crashing down he's in the wrong place i saw that it said he dislodged it but I don't know what that means, what his involvement was. Use it as a handhold. I don't know. Question five. The topic is conservation. The Stop Aquatic Blank campaign that targets anglers and boaters was created by the Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force in 2002. I don't want to hear how much. I know. We'll get a scoreboard update from Phil the Engineer after this. I'll do it where I had it real loud, right? The Stop Aquatic Blank campaign that targets anglers and boaters was created by the Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force in 2002. And that three-word quote, Stop Aquatic Blank, has an exclamation point at the end of it. I'm going to try my old joke out. Suss can write B-U-G-G-S. You're not going to tell us how many letters are in that word. Not telling you how many letters. Stop Aquatic Blank campaign that targets anglers and boaters was created by the Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force in 2002. Yanni, waffling on an answer. Do you have a guess, Yanni? Yeah, I've got two written down. Waffling Yanni Seth do you have this one right I don know pretty educated guess Randall revisiting his whiteboard do you have this one right? If I was revisiting my whiteboard Spencer do you really think I'd be his face isn't red he looks very confident no I have two I'm going back and forth between here okay I'm ready. You have yours locked in. Corey, are you ready? No. His brain split. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth says invasives. Giannis says hitchhikers. Randall says invasives. Corey says spread. Steve and Brody say hitchhikers. The correct answer is hitchhikers. I think half of the room got that one right. Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers is responsible for the aggressive signage around boat launches and fishing areas that tell you to clean, drain, and dry. And if you're an angler, they also ask that you dispose, which means putting unwanted bait in the trash instead of in the water. All right, we are one-sixth. You know, they give you that little passport for your boat and you probably lose it. Sure. Is that what it says on there? What? Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers? It says hitchhikers on there? Yeah, all the signs say hitchhikers. All the signs. They give you a little passport for your boat. All I ever see is the clean, drain, dry thing. Stop aquatic hitchhikers. All right, well, one-sixth of the way through the tournament. Phil, give us a scoreboard update. At halftime in round one. Oh, Jesus. Wow. We are at Seth and Randall with two points. See, I said you had. Yanni's over there turning a new one. I didn't even know. Steve and Corey have three points apiece. Brody Henderson has four. And the only person matching the Shelby index currently and with a perfect game is Giannis Poutella's five points. This is fun. Oh, and Shelby rolled a 10? No, she rolled a five. Oh, yeah. Gianni, geez. What question are we on? We're going to question six. Gianni's kind of a creeper over there. Not a creeper, but like a sleeper or whatever. Yeah. Both. Sleeper creeper. Question six, the topic is hunting. Just over there kind of quietly kicking ass. This condition causes ringing in your ears and is defined as, quote, the perception of sound when no actual external noise is present. Oh, darn it. We've got five confident players and Corey. Yeah. This condition causes ringing in your ears. Oh, Brody, I spoke too soon. Four confident players and Corey and Brody. This condition causes ringing in your ears and is defined as the perception of sound external noise is present. We'll give you a point for it. I had it so bad the other night I couldn't sleep. Really? Did it wake you up or just not let you go to sleep? It just wouldn't let me go to sleep. The folks in this room have made me very good about ear protection because of their experience with this. this condition causes ringing in your ears like with my kids i pounded into and is defined as the perception of sound when no actual external noise is present you know he's not a hunter but is really good at good with about it with construction equipment and stuff yeah and is and is so good about it that it sort of inspires you to be good about it but it's uh travis barton when you're hanging out with him in his shop i mean it's like he's gonna go pick up a phillips screwdriver he He probably got that in the fire department, too. Oh, yeah. A lot of equipment. I'm sure. Because they just run around, you know, they drive with them on and stuff. So he probably just became used to doing it. Yeah. But I mean, like, he's like a guy where you're like, ah, it's just one cut. And he's like, yep. No, it's not going to pop in. Like, it's just one of those things. Do you have a really dumb answer? I have a really dumb answer. Let me see what you got. Yeah. I think I got the first letter. It's the only thing I don't know. You ever heard of that? I fail, too, on that. Nope. Is everybody ready? Okay. Go ahead and reveal your answers. You could have written that for every word. That's what I meant. Seth, Giannis, Randall say tinnitus. Corey, appulation. It depends on what part of the region you're from. Steve, tinnitus. Can I tell you a good tinnitus story? I sit there talking to a doctor. The correct answer is tinnitus. I'm talking to a doctor and he keeps saying tinnitus. Tinnitus. I'm like, is that how you say that? He goes, I don't know how you say it. Good for that doctor. Tinnitus affects about 20% of people and is more common in older adults. It is typically caused by age-related hearing loss, an ear injury, or a circulatory problem. Mayo Clinic says those who are exposed to heavy equipment, chainsaws, or firearms are the most likely demographic to have tinnitus. I would do anything to go back in time and protect my ears, man. Question seven. The topic is fishing. This fishing brand with a cartoony name is best known for the Castmaster and Little Cleo. This fishing brand with a cartoony name is best known for the Castmaster and Little Cleo. Seth has his answer. He's the only one. One of my favorites. Okay. One of those lures or the brand itself makes? Well, for ice fishing, the Castmaster. But the brand as a whole. This fishing brand with a cartoony name is best known for the Castmaster and Little Cleo. You got it, Yanni? No. Seth, maybe. I'm going to need a while. Good. He gets this one right. Oh, a cartoony name, fishing brand. Mm-hmm. Now, this is a fishing question. There you go. Nothing to do with the NBA. No sports involved. No logit, no geography. This is a good old fishing question. I bet you would have got this immediately if you wouldn't have put cartoony in there. Oh, okay. I'll just forget I said that part. This fishing brand with a name is best known for the Castmaster and Little Cleo. That's right. They have a name. That's funny. Brody do you own some Castmasters and Little Cleo We used to use Little Cleos for Salmon and Lake Erie I don't use them around here So there's a lot of Castmaster and Little Cleo ownership In this room but only Seth Is confident that he has it When we go down to Baha I buy Castmasters dude This could ruin the perfect game For Giannis This is question seven. What is the adjective cartoony? This fishing brand with a cartoony name is best known for the Castmaster and Little Cleo. Phil, would you say that's a cartoony name? Oh, totally. I thought that was very clever. Totally. Totally cartoony. Phil says it's clever. Randall, do you have this one right? I'm not sure. Okay. Is it a cartoony name you have? Yes. Okay. I think so. Fishing brand with a cartoony name is best known for the Castmaster and Little Cleo. I think that's plenty of time, Spencer. I tend to agree with you, Seth. Oh. Are you other four going to give up? I just got to come up with one. Going to give up. The Castmaster and Little Cleo. Do you give up? Giannis writing down a cartoony name It's not cartoony at all My name, what I wrote down Yeah Well, at least I wrote down something Do you have it, Randall? I'm not sure Okay Randall kind of needs this one to hang around You're telling me, Spencer You're telling me Brody now has an answer Brody, you like your answer Okay, he just gives up Steve, you give up No, I got some, but it's not right. Yanni, do you give up? Go ahead and reveal your answer. Seth says Acme. Yannis, Meps, Randall, Daredevil, Corey, Ugly Stick, Steve, Daredevil, Brody. Wile E. Coyote's brand of choice. The correct answer. Ian Frazier wrote a piece one time. It was a lawsuit when Wile E. Coyote sued Acme. Oh. How did that end? It was Coyote v. Acme. And there's a movie coming out. It was like the whole script. There's a movie coming out based on that. Oh, the most option. That's cool. Acme Tackle Company was founded in 1952 by two brothers, one of which held the Rhode Island state record for a nine pound largemouth bass. Warner Brothers made the Acme name famous in the 1930s as the brand that provides faulty equipment for Wile E. Coyote. They chose the name Acme because it was a popular generic business name at the time, which got your company better placement towards the front of phone books. yeah i don't think i knew of this fishing brand until now no i wouldn't have got that you could give me all day and i wouldn't know yeah question me all week question eight the topic and i wouldn't come up with that is cooking welcome to meat eaters 12 and 26 presented by moultrie mobile and on x maps 12 of meat eaters biggest and baddest hunts from the last year released throughout 2026. These are long form episodes so you get more of what you love. The first one up is my baited bear hunt in Manitoba. If you've ever wondered what a baited bear hunt is like, you'll love this episode. My favorite part was watching a younger bear spend an hour trying to figure out how to get a creatively hung beaver carcass down from a tree. Check it out now on Meat Eater's YouTube channel and be on the lookout for more 12 and 26 in the coming months. This next great question is via Aaron Shelton. This six-letter word is defined as, quote, a fish, especially a herring, that has been cured by splitting, salting, drying, and smoking. Six-letter word is defined as a fish, especially a herring, that has been cured by splitting, salting, drying, and smoking. Steve, do you have this one right? Anchovy. Randall do you have this one right? I think so Six letter word A fish especially a herring that has been cured by splitting Salting, drying, and smoking This is question eight We'll get another scoreboard update from Phil the engineer after this I can fucking count better than you Oh What do you mean count? Six letters Let me see I'm not letting you look I'm not gonna change it You asked to see mine It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen six letter word I don't know what he said oh wait six letter word is defined as what I said was I could count better than you in what I said I wasn't paying attention to the six letter thing a fish especially a herring that has been cured by splitting salt and drying and smoking lesson learned for Steve well you did tell me you can count better Randall do you have this one right I don't know and we'll get a scoreboard update that hat too tight that's yeah I'll be honest it's not comfortable do you know what Charles Portis' novel True Grit a guy says someone has an injury can't remember if he gets bit by a snake and he says it's swelled up tighter than Dick's hat band What does that mean? That's a good trivia question for you. His hat's too tight. And what? Tighter than Dick's hat band. Yeah. And there's no character named Dick? No, not that I can think of. I don't know if you ever read that novel. There was a character named Labeef, though. Laboof. No, they call him Labeef in a movie. Labeef. Six-letter word, a fish, especially a herring, that has been cured by splitting, sucking, drying, and smoking. He's everybody ready. Dude, I don't have anything. Yanni can't find a six-letter word. Brody, you need to put a credit, like a thanks to. I will. I owe it all to Steve. Corey, do you have this one right? I'm like 62% confident. Yannis, do you give up? Yeah, I'm going to have to give up. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth, without an answer. Yannis, without an answer. Randall says Kipper. Corey says Pickle. Steve and Brody say Kipper. They got it. The correct answer is Kipper. K-I-P-P-E-R. That's also what I looked at, bro. What did he write? He had Kippered. Well, I know. Like a Kippered snack? Oh, sure. Kippered. Would you give it to him or not? We'd give it to him. Even though it was A letters? Yeah. It would cause some drama, I'm certain. Kippers are traditionally served as a breakfast item in the UK but are more popular as a canned snack in the United States this word can be used as a verb kippering which just means that you salt something and air dry it. The USDA even provides a definition for kippered beef, which they say is a less dry version of beef jerky. Yeah, that's what had me confused was I was thinking about the verb. Kippered. Kippered herring. He talks about a guy trying to have a plan to kill cattle. and inject the cattle's vascular system with brine, thinking he could figure out how to preserve whole cattle. Didn't work. Kipper it. All right, Phil, give us the scoreboard. He's going to Kipper the whole thing. He's going to Kipper the whole thing. Oh, I haven't. Oh. Drop two. Oh, man, I'm creeping up. I'm tiptoeing up on old Yanni. Corey's holding on to last place with three points. Seth and Randall are up next with four points apiece. We're tiptoeing on old Steve. Then comes Steven Brody with five, and Giannis doesn't have the perfect game anymore, but he's still in first place with six points. Two questions left in that episode. Two questions to go. Anybody's game. Question nine. The topic is conservation. Are there sub-winners? Did you cover this? No. Just one big winner. One big winner. We would count, say, Seth wins this episode. He gets a win in the tally book. Oh, he does? He will. So there is a sub-winner. There is a sub-winner. I thought you meant a third, fourth place. No. Question nine. The topic is conservation. This 2,000-mile pipeline, which shares its name with a beer, carries oil from Alberta to Texas. Oh. Brody and Randall and Seth and Corey have their answers. Steve and Giannis do not. Give me a second. This 2,000-mile pipeline, which shares its name with a beer, carries oil from Alberta to Texas. Steve, do you like your answer? Yeah. Okay. Yanni, you like your answer? I got an answer. I'm going to stick with it unless something pops in my head. You could go six for six here. I think the beer clue is a bit much. 2,000 mile pipeline, which shares its name with a beer, carries oil from Alberta to Texas. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth says Keystone. Yannis says Canadian. That's a big stumble for Yannis there. Randall, Corey, Steve, Brody, Keystone. The correct answer is the Keystone Pipeline. The Keystone Pipeline was commissioned by TransCanada in 2010, with the third phase being completed in 2016. It carries about 600,000 barrels across eight states and three provinces each day. A fourth phase of the pipeline, called the Keystone XL, was paused by Obama in 2015, then resurrected by Trump in 2016, and then paused by Biden in 2021. Trump said in 2025 that he'd like to revive the Keystone XL, but the company in charge of it has reportedly moved on from the idea. Phil has a picture of it there showing us its current route. If the XL were to be completed someday, which their website doesn't even exist for it anymore. So I think that is a sign that would be the green pipeline that you see there. Everything else is already done. All right, Phil, give us another scoreboard update before we do question 10 and wrap up episode one. Yanni's slip-up there made the game more interesting. Yes, for sure. Very interesting. Tightening up. Dropped three in a row. Because everyone got a point except for Giannis. So now we've got Corey with four, Seth and Randall with five, and all tied up with six points apiece are Yanni, Steve, and Brody. There's no need for like a tiebreaker. We will do. If it comes down to a tiebreaker after episode three, there's going to be three tiebreakers to see who our champion is. At the end of this, there's no need for one. No tiebreaker at the end of episode one or two. You don't give out any prize money? No. Do you have two questions? Do you have all the other questions selected already? I have 24 of the 30 written. Okay. So I have six to go. I don't need to ask. The second question is, does anybody have to go anywhere after this? So we could just play straight through. No, episode two is tomorrow. You're going to have to go home, wash off the fleas, and come back. I never thought of that. Let's see. you can still just do it on one shebang and then break it up to get your show that yeah you just don't want to do it that way did well someone's schedule in this room didn't allow for that so I could get tired here's the correct answer of you so far one was the Rio Grand to pupa three CR to battery for Utah is where Aaron Ralston cut off his arm five is stop aquatic hitchhikers six tinnitus seven Acme Tackle Company, 8 Kipper, 9 Keystone Pipeline. Here's question 10. And this last great question is via Cole Wagner. A blank cord is a single row of firewood that's four feet high and eight feet wide, making it about one-third the size of a full cord. Oh, Steve has told us about this. I got a lot to say on this subject. A blank cord is a single row of firewood that's four feet high and eight feet wide, making it about one-third the size of a full cord. Steve knows it. Seth, do you have this one right? I think so. Dude, I'm like that torridist dude. Yanni's like that hair, man. Do you know what I'm saying? No, what do you say? Maybe we'll decide that after the third game. I know you've said this to me. This is one of the main things I talk about. This is a pillar of Steve's conversations. If I were running this game, I would have looked at this question and thought, Steve will know this. If I was at a party making small talk, this is something I would be like, I was an employee of C's and I was going to butter him up a little bit. Put this question into the tournament. A blank cord is a single row of firewood that's four feet high and eight feet wide making it about one third the size of a full row. Do you two agree? You don't? You do know what you said. Cecil Woodman. He's majored in forestry. Yeah, but Giannis has been chopping wood all winter. And I've been hanging out with Steve for a dozen years. Not in the biz, dude. He can chop all the wood in the world and never have reason to talk about this. He probably just looks at the pile and he's like, that looks about right. That looks like about the pile I had last year. A blank cord is a single row of firewood that's four feet high and eight feet wide, making it about one third the size of a full cord. If you fill up an 8 foot bed Standard pickup truck With rounds Not split yet You reckon you got over a cord? Full full Yeah because I used to So if you put What's funny is When you load full rounds It looks like you have more air gaps But they're so densely packed That when you split it Go to pack it in Evens out What's that? It evens out? Yeah, it looks like inefficient, but it's efficient to put rounds in there. But it's heavy. But you can carry a full cord in a truck. Oh, yeah. It sagged my three-quarter time more than I thought. But you'd have to have racks on the sides that come up to about the height of the cab. Oh, to get a cord? Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. Well, four feet high. Is everybody ready? I remember a cord of oak was, buddy of mine had it weighted on a scale one time. A cord of oak is like 5,000 pounds or something like that. Corey, you give up? I got an answer. You know, I'll tell you this too, man. Can I tell these guys a little tidbit? Yes. Let's get the answer first. Go ahead and reveal your answer. Seth says face. Giannis says Rick. I got it wrong. Randall says half. You're right. Corey says third. Steve says face. Brody says half. The correct answer is face or a Rick. A Rick. But not spelled like that. You don't say a Rick cord. Spelling doesn't count. A rick of wood is R-I-C-K. Not a rick cord? We're going to give it to Giannis. You wouldn't say a rick cord. A rick of wood is the same measurement as a face cord. A blank cord, a rick cord, is not a thing. If I Google rick cord, I bet I see that. Rick cord is a thing. Google rick cord in quotation marks. Rick cord in quotation marks. Isn't that also the action of stacking wood? I think we're going to give it to Giannis. Dude, you cannot give it to him. It's face cord. That's what I was going to put. If it said a blank, and it's not a row, a rick you sell independently. Here on the spruce, they call it a face cord or rick cord. So there's someone. Timberwolf firewood processing equipment. Call it a rick cord. They call it a rick cord. Well, they're wrong. Let me tell you about the flavor text. Rick cord. A full cord is also four feet high. Seth, you're a wood man. Has anybody ever said you a Rick cord? No. A Rick? We never used Rick either. We never used Rick. A full cord is also four feet high and eight feet wide, but is four feet deep, which usually means it has three rows of wood. A face cord is the same measurement, but with a single row instead of three. A face cord is also known as a Rick of wood. There is a Sheldon cord, which is bigger than a full cord. a stove cord, which is a face cord with shorter logs, and a running cord, which is a long stack of wood that hasn't yet been sorted. So we're going to give it to Yanni for the Rick cord. Dude, that is stupid. Because the Timberwolf Firewood Processing Equipment agrees with him. Why would I not be the person that decides? That was in the firewood business, man. Woodchuckersfirewood.net, they call it a Rick cord as well. R-I-C-K. Wedgers Firewood. You bring in one serious wood man into this room and you say to him, have you ever uttered the word Rick Cord in your life? It's not the same thing. Bill, give us a scoreboard update. We are one third of the way through our fourth annual Meat Eater Trivia Championship. It's a close game. Corey's got four. Randall Williams is next with five. Seth and Brody have six points apiece. and tied for first place. They once ran for the White House on the same ticket. Now they find themselves at odds. Like Trump and Pence. It's Dejan Sputelis and Steven Rinella. Yeah, we're the Trump and Pence of trivia. Can I take my tidbit? Yes, please. Danny's reading this book. He's got this book. It's like about firewood. It's like a Norwegian book or something. The whole subject is firewood. Everything you could ever want to know about firewood. Anyways, in there is something I didn't realize. when you talk about BTUs when they do wood BTUs it's wood by volume so when you rank wood and it's BTUs it's wood by volume if you go wood if it's by weight all wood is the same BTU by weight you follow me? that makes sense because it's the same chemistry oak log would weigh twice as much as whatever So by volume they vary By weight they don't vary I think Osage Orange is like one of the highest B2Us Black locust It means it's like It's not there's something special about the Cellulose Book could be wrong My dad always warned me about books He'd say that's just one man's opinion Alright Trump and Pence tied up Going into episode 2 We'll see you back here for the second part of the Meat Eater Trivia Tournament. Join us next week for more Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. Thanks, Spencer. Horse. Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he's the host. 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