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Ep. 952: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCXL

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Mark Kenyon guest hosts MeatEater Trivia with Spencer Neuharth, Janis Putelis, Randall Williams, Cory Calkins, Omar Lopez, and Laura Mascari.

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00:00:10 Speaker 1: Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I am your special guest host, Mark Kenyon, and this week I am joined by Randall, Giannis, Omar, Spencer, Laura, and Corey. This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from MeatEater's four main verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. And there's a prize. MeatEater will donate $ 500 to the conservation organization of the winners choosing MeatEater trivia. Yeah, pretty incredible, huh, Spencer? 00:00:41 Speaker 2: Can I already ask you a question? 00:00:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, sure. 00:00:43 Speaker 2: How did you get to be the special guest host? 00:00:47 Speaker 1: I wrote the script. 00:00:47 Speaker 3: You put that in the script. That's how you become the special. 00:00:51 Speaker 2: I did a poor job of introducing myself. 00:00:54 Speaker 3: Brody needs to be special. Super special. 00:00:58 Speaker 1: Who's the show brought to you by? The show is brought to you by one of our favorite beers, Spencer. That is Bush Light. Bush Light, head for the mountains. We're going to kick off today's episode. We're going to get right into it. We've got a great mailbag question for you today. And if you, a listener, have a question you want us, the trivia crew, to answer, you can send your question over to the, where did he send it to? Trivia at TheMeatEater.com with the subject line, mailbag. 00:01:26 Speaker 2: All right. 00:01:27 Speaker 1: So you guys ready for the mailbag question? 00:01:28 Speaker 3: Yes, please. 00:01:29 Speaker 1: It is from Jace. Jace is from Wisconsin. And he says, I quote, on my commute to and from the office, there's a really convenient piece of public that e-scouting has produced some promising whitetail signs. 00:01:40 Speaker 2: The problem? 00:01:41 Speaker 1: There's a river that runs between the parking and the promising spots and limits access to two-thirds of the parcel. This river is a true river. On average, it flows with a depth of six feet, and it's pretty wide. According to Onyx, it measures more than 20 yards across. If I was 10 feet tall, I'd buy a pair of waders, but at six feet, I would need to snorkel and be soaked. Any suggestions on how to cross this while staying reasonably dry and warm? What would you do, Laura? 00:02:09 Speaker 3: Ooh, multi-sport day. 00:02:10 Speaker 1: Today, you're going to go hunting, fishing, and floating with either a canoe, a kayak, or. 00:02:16 Speaker 2: A pack raft. 00:02:17 Speaker 1: Or a paddle board. 00:02:18 Speaker 2: Damn. Nailed it. 00:02:19 Speaker 1: You could stuff it up, yeah. 00:02:22 Speaker 4: There's some other things that come to mind. 00:02:23 Speaker 2: Oh, please share. Truck tire tubes. 00:02:29 Speaker 1: Just float across. 00:02:30 Speaker 5: That's another way to get soaking wet, though. 00:02:34 Speaker 2: He said he didn't want to get wet. Oh, he said he didn't want to get wet. 00:02:36 Speaker 1: The other idea I had was a life jacket. 00:02:38 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:02:39 Speaker 1: And just jump in. See where you go. What would the host of Wired to Hunt do? I would have just bought like a, I brought a canoe. I love the packraft idea. I don't own a packraft, but I've often said that it's worth the investment for this kind of thing. Zipline? I have a friend who owns a piece of land in Iowa who was threatened to put in a zipline. to a special stand location for years. 00:03:02 Speaker 5: I think the big thing here is that the fella shouldn't take this as a bad thing. If he's got a sweet spot that has this extra hurdle, a lot of lazy folks aren't going to go and hunt there, and he should be excited. 00:03:15 Speaker 2: About having this spot. 00:03:16 Speaker 4: Get some used watercraft. 00:03:19 Speaker 3: I bought a foldable kayak a couple years ago, and I'm a huge fan. It breaks down to be the size of a suitcase, and so even if this dude drives a car, it can fit in the trunk of his car real easy. It's the kind of thing that he could leave, hide it under a bush somewhere on the bank if he's planning to hunt all week, the first week in November. I think a foldable kayak would be perfect for this job. 00:03:40 Speaker 1: Is that like that origami style? Yes. Is it like Oru or something like that? 00:03:43 Speaker 3: Oru is the main brand. That's the one I have. You can get them for less than $ 300 if you wait for Black Friday, Memorial Day sale, whatever. It seems like the job that he needs to accomplish, that's the tool for it. 00:03:57 Speaker 1: Great idea. 00:03:58 Speaker 4: A friend of ours, her dad bought a prefabricated bridge on the internet. 00:04:04 Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. 00:04:04 Speaker 2: BYOB. 00:04:05 Speaker 1: Yeah. Bring your own bridge. That's another option. Can only imagine how much that costs. 00:04:10 Speaker 4: I don't know. It doesn't seem very well built. 00:04:12 Speaker 1: No. 00:04:13 Speaker 2: Okay. 00:04:14 Speaker 1: I've got a buddy who retrieved his bull elk using a paddle board, and I think he could do that with his whitetail. 00:04:22 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:04:22 Speaker 1: Wow. 00:04:23 Speaker 3: That looks like stagnant water to me. This dude's talking about crossing a river. 00:04:27 Speaker 1: A river runs through it. 00:04:29 Speaker 2: You can take a paddleboard down a river. Rope swing. 00:04:33 Speaker 3: Hot air balloon. Long jumping. 00:04:37 Speaker 1: Moral of the story, Jace, is that there are many options at your disposal. And I would view this, like you said, Randall, or Yanni, I would view this as a feature, not a bug. This is a good thing. That's going to be harder for people to get there. So, today's episode, uh, There's no Shelby Index, of course, or Kylie Index in this case with my wife. 00:04:57 Speaker 2: Why not? 00:04:58 Speaker 1: Well, because I've been gone all of the last week on various hunting and other work trips. And so if I were to ask my wife for a favor right now, I would probably get kicked. So she was not going to be doing this. 00:05:07 Speaker 2: She wouldn't look at this as something fun to do after dinner. 00:05:10 Speaker 5: No. 00:05:11 Speaker 1: And she's also, she's sick and one of my kids is sick. So no. 00:05:15 Speaker 2: No Index. 00:05:16 Speaker 1: No Kylie Index. 00:05:16 Speaker 2: So you guys, take a guess. 00:05:18 Speaker 3: How would she do, you think? 00:05:21 Speaker 1: She would do great. 00:05:22 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:05:22 Speaker 6: Nice. 00:05:22 Speaker 1: She would do great. 00:05:23 Speaker 2: There you go. Good answer. 00:05:26 Speaker 1: I almost got the wrong one there. She knows it all. But I will tell you, I was told I was too hard last time around, so I tried to be easier. 00:05:34 Speaker 2: Okay. I like that. 00:05:36 Speaker 1: But I do think that the first question, people will think that's not the case. 00:05:41 Speaker 4: So listen past the first question, everybody. 00:05:44 Speaker 2: It's going to get better. Mark promises. 00:05:46 Speaker 1: I promise. So Phil, hit the drop. Oh. 00:05:51 Speaker 3: Look, I need to know what I stand to win. 00:05:54 Speaker 4: Everything. 00:05:56 Speaker 1: How's that? You stand to win everything. 00:06:05 Speaker 2: Game on, suckers! 00:06:07 Speaker 1: Alright, so question number one. And this is our listener question of the day, right out the gate. It's a special listener question of the day because I actually got to spend time with this listener. Just a couple days ago, and he brought me a little something, which will be part of this question. So our special listener today is Jon Stewart. The topic for this first question is natural history. Natural history, it's a multiple choice question. Here we go. You're going to put it up on the screen for me? 00:06:39 Speaker 6: I usually wait until Spencer starts reading the question, and then I do a really cool transition that only the YouTube audience sees. 00:06:44 Speaker 2: Oh, okay. 00:06:45 Speaker 1: Well, then we're just going to go with it. Yeah. No matter how this mineral sample is shattered or broken, and I'm holding this piece of mineral in my hand right now, if you were watching on camera, no matter how this is shattered or broken, it will naturally split into smaller slanted rhombus shapes. Is it A, muscovite, B, calcite, C, quartz, or D, gypsum? And for those who are listening and can't see this, it is a four-sided... shiny, kind of crystalline. 00:07:19 Speaker 3: Let me lick that thing. 00:07:20 Speaker 1: You may not lick this. 00:07:22 Speaker 3: Can we hand it down here? 00:07:23 Speaker 1: Sure. Be very careful. This is a special sample. I'll tell you more about it soon. I'll read this again. No matter how this mineral is shattered or broken, so you could say rock, mineral, it will naturally split into smaller slanted rhombus shapes. What is it? 00:07:47 Speaker 2: I know one up there that it's not. 00:07:50 Speaker 1: Muscovite, calcite, quartz, or gypsum? Well, no clues, sorry. No clues. Spencer, do you feel confident? No. 00:08:02 Speaker 3: No, I wish I did. 00:08:03 Speaker 1: This was your softball. 00:08:05 Speaker 3: I know. This is the category with Spencer, and I don't think I'm going to get it. 00:08:09 Speaker 1: So when Yanni hosted, all of his questions were softballs of Brody? And I thought that it would be polite to give the usual host the softball. 00:08:17 Speaker 3: Thank you. 00:08:17 Speaker 2: I don't think that's polite, but. 00:08:19 Speaker 1: I'm trying to help out my buddy Spencer. Yeah, so no matter how you break this sucker, it will always break into something similar to this. A rhombus-type shape. 00:08:30 Speaker 4: Give me a hammer. 00:08:31 Speaker 1: He did ask. Nobody tests that theory. Because this came all the way from a very exotic location. 00:08:38 Speaker 3: Oh, it's exotic. 00:08:41 Speaker 1: Hmm. 00:08:42 Speaker 2: Now I have to change my answer. Not necessarily. 00:08:45 Speaker 1: That just happens to be where this one is. How locally exotic was it? So, does anybody have an answer that they're ready to go with? How are we doing here? 00:08:53 Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. I'll stick with it. What the heck? 00:08:56 Speaker 1: Yeah, same. Okay, everybody good? All right. Randall says, Muscovite, Giannis' Quartz, Omar Quartz, Spencer, Gypsum, Laura Quartz, Corey Quartz. The correct answer is... calcite zero percent this is calcite starting with a zero percenter anybody's game so uh if anyone was paying attention to our auction house of oddities this uh summer we auctioned off a truck steve's dad's shitty old truck full of badass hunting gear the winner of that truck is john stewart and i delivered him that truck this past weekend And so in our conversations, he said, hey, I've got this question that I've always wanted you guys to ask, and I will give you the sample to take to the show. So calcite, interestingly relevant to us that hunt and do stuff with optics. Calcite has perfect rhombohedral cleavage, resulting in this distinct slanted cube appearance. Due to its ability to split light into two rays, transparent calcite, such as this piece of Iceland's Ooh, cool. So... Pretty interesting stuff. A little piece of calcite right here for you. 00:10:14 Speaker 5: What a little present that was for you. Last weekend, you're probably in the hot seat. You don't have all your questions written out, and you roll over there, and this guy's like, hey, here's everything you need for a great trivia question. 00:10:27 Speaker 1: It was a wonderful gift that I very much appreciated. 00:10:30 Speaker 3: Should have let me lick it. 00:10:31 Speaker 1: Sorry about that. Question number two. The topic is hunting. In the iconic hunting-themed song titled Fredbear, performed by Ted Nugent, name one of the animal species that Fredbear claims will cleanse the soul if you tangle with it. Man, I can only remember the chorus right now. 00:10:54 Speaker 4: All right. 00:10:55 Speaker 1: Iconic hunting-themed song called Fredbear. Has everybody heard the song? Sure. Yeah. All right. Laura, have you heard it? 00:11:04 Speaker 5: No. 00:11:05 Speaker 1: Sorry, Laura. 00:11:06 Speaker 2: It's all right. 00:11:06 Speaker 4: This is not my game. 00:11:08 Speaker 1: Name one of the animals that Fred Bear claims will cleanse the soul if you tangle with it. We were driving the kids to school this morning, and without me prompting at all, this song was requested by my son. That's beautiful. That was perfect timing. We just saw some nice whitetail bucks in a field, and Everett's like, Dad, let's listen to Fred Bear. 00:11:33 Speaker 2: Is that a hint there? I don't think my, uh, kids have ever heard that song. 00:11:39 Speaker 5: I'll have to play that for Mabel on the way home. 00:11:43 Speaker 1: You should. Classic. It's a part of our like hunting season rotation with the kids. They like Fred bear. They like the 30 point buck, um, hunting, fishing, loving, loving every day. Buck fever. It's a little bit more. 00:12:00 Speaker 6: I don't know. 00:12:00 Speaker 2: Buck fever. 00:12:01 Speaker 1: Deep cut. There's an album that, uh, Rhett Atkins and some guys from the Realtree crew put together. Michael Waddell. It was like a Bone Collector album or something. It was actually a good song. What about Nuck If You Buck? The kids haven't heard that one yet. Alright, are we all set here, guys? Alright, Randall. Says Grizzly Bear, Giannis Grizzly, Omar Grizzly, Spencer Whitetail, Laura Whitetail, Corey Whitetail. 00:12:30 Speaker 2: That's funny. 00:12:32 Speaker 1: Acceptable answers are Grizzly Bear, Polar Bear, Brown Bear. 00:12:35 Speaker 2: Yes. 00:12:37 Speaker 1: Fred Bear, the song, was included on Ted Nugent's Spirit of the Wild album, which he released in 1995. It's, of course, an ode to Fred Bear, the famous bow hunter and bow maker. At the very end of that song, about seven plus minutes in, you hear an actual recording of Fred. And what he says in full, quote, he says, if some of our teenage thrill seekers really want to go out and get a thrill, let them go up into the Northwest and tangle with the grizzly bear, the polar bear, and the brown bear. It'll cleanse the soul. Wow. Yeah, you wouldn't tangle with a whitetail. 00:13:09 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:13:12 Speaker 1: That's just going to cause anxiety. It's not going to cleanse the soul. If he wanted to, he would. Question number three. The topic is wildlife. This North American bird, believed to be extinct since the mid-20th century, but still rumored to exist in places like Louisiana and Arkansas, is known as the Lord God Bird. What is it? 00:13:41 Speaker 6: The reason I started waiting until Spencer would read the question before I'd switch to the next slide is because a lot of the times I would switch to it. Spencer would say, like, question six. I'd switch to it, and then Steve would be like, you know, and then he'd jump in, and then the question would be on the screen, and everyone would read it, and I'd have to jump back, which is, it's not much of a problem now that Steve quit the company and doesn't play trivia anymore. 00:14:01 Speaker 1: Here's the question again. This North American bird, believed to be extinct since the mid-20th century, but still rumored to exist in places like Louisiana and Arkansas, is known as the Lord God Bird. 00:14:15 Speaker 2: Okay. 00:14:17 Speaker 1: Anybody know this, like, for sure? 00:14:19 Speaker 3: I think I do. 00:14:20 Speaker 4: I feel better about my answer now. 00:14:22 Speaker 3: I looked at Giannis'.. 00:14:25 Speaker 1: All right. Well, all the answers in? Yep. Randall? 00:14:28 Speaker 6: Yes, sir. 00:14:30 Speaker 1: We've got the ivory-billed woodpecker from Randall. Giannis' is the ivory. Omar's is the dodo. Spencer's got the ivory bill. Laura's got the passenger pigeon. Corey's got the ivory-billed woodpecker. The correct answer is ivory-billed woodpecker. That is the largest woodpecker species north of Mexico, the third largest in the world. And it was just kind of widely marveled at by many people, including actually Theodore Roosevelt when he was on a hunting trip down in Louisiana. I think on that bear hunting trip, he wrote about how impressive this bird was. But widespread destruction of their old growth forest habitat caused massive population declines in the 1800s, with many thinking they were extinct by, like I said, the middle of the 20th century. But in 2004, a kayaker in Arkansas saw what he believed to be an ivory bill in a cypress swamp. And this kicked off this mad frenzy of scientists and naturalists hunting for the remaining members of the species. The teams searched more than 523,000 acres across eight different states. Many still believe that it is out there, but there was never definitive evidence found. 00:15:42 Speaker 2: Maybe they saw Sasquatch instead. 00:15:43 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:15:45 Speaker 3: I think that name was because when people would see them, they were so stunning. They'd be like, my lord, good god. That was how they got that name. 00:15:52 Speaker 1: Is this an episode of the Gunfighters? 00:15:57 Speaker 6: You damn son of a bitch. 00:16:00 Speaker 2: My lord. 00:16:02 Speaker 1: You guys have all seen Pileated Woodpeckers? So this is supposed to be that on steroids. Tough bird. 00:16:09 Speaker 3: A lot of meat on them. 00:16:12 Speaker 1: Speaking of meat, I ate woodchuck. when I visited the listener question submitter, John. He got me woodchuck nuggets. 00:16:19 Speaker 2: Damn. He was showing off. 00:16:21 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:16:22 Speaker 3: Very good. 00:16:23 Speaker 1: Has anybody eaten woodchuck? 00:16:25 Speaker 2: No. 00:16:26 Speaker 1: Chuck nuggets. That was how he, like, teased the trip as I was coming, you know, planning it out. He's like, you're going to really want to get here. We're going to eat chuck nuggets. 00:16:35 Speaker 2: And he was right. 00:16:37 Speaker 3: Do you dip him in anything? 00:16:41 Speaker 1: Did you dip them in anything? We had like sriracha, some kind of like Chick-fil-A sauce, some stuff like that. It was great. And that's a perfect segue into the next question. Question number four, the topic is cooking. 00:16:54 Speaker 3: All right, ketchup. 00:16:56 Speaker 1: God, that was good. That was a great segue. 00:16:58 Speaker 3: Well done. 00:17:01 Speaker 1: What is the popularly used name for a meal of fish to be cooked and eaten on land immediately after leaving the water? which is also the name of a breading and batter mix brand. What do you call a meal of fish to be cooked and eaten immediately upon leaving the water? What would you call it? And it's also the name of a brand. Man, I'm going to go with my gut on this one. 00:17:30 Speaker 5: I've never had a proper blank, but I have used the batter, which I enjoy. 00:17:36 Speaker 2: I've never actually had a proper... I had Jay Siemens feed me three of these in a row. 00:17:42 Speaker 1: I know. 00:17:43 Speaker 2: I feel like I should go up there just to have one of these with Jay. 00:17:45 Speaker 4: Boy, that was heaven on earth. 00:17:47 Speaker 1: This is good stuff. 00:17:48 Speaker 4: On dry land. 00:17:49 Speaker 1: This is really good stuff. 00:17:50 Speaker 3: This is a good question. 00:17:51 Speaker 1: Does everybody have an answer or Laura still? 00:17:53 Speaker 5: I know he's got a couple of questions already that I'm surprised that we haven't had. Just shows you the world of hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking trivia is big. 00:18:03 Speaker 2: Rich. 00:18:04 Speaker 1: Rich. 00:18:05 Speaker 3: Mark Kenyon's always asking me how long I'm going to do this podcast for, and I tell him until we run out of questions. 00:18:10 Speaker 4: Or until you forget the ones that you've asked. 00:18:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, that could happen. 00:18:14 Speaker 2: Senile. 00:18:18 Speaker 1: Laura? 00:18:19 Speaker 5: No. 00:18:20 Speaker 1: You're going to toss the towel? 00:18:21 Speaker 2: I can't. 00:18:22 Speaker 1: All right, let's see what you guys got. Randall says Shore Lunch. Yanni, Shore Lunch. Omar, Catch and Cook. Spencer, Shore Lunch. Laura's got nothing. And Corey says Catch and Cook. The correct answer is Shore Lunch. Ah. Sorry, guys. And shore lunch, as far as I'm concerned, is the best part of any catch and kill fishing trip. This is a huge part of my upbringing as far as our walleye and pike fishing trips up in northern Michigan and Canada. We'd go up there for a week and every day have shore lunch. And as many folks do, we'd fish all morning, we'd catch a mess of walleye, pull off at a rocky island, heat up some oil, and have the best fresh fish you could ever imagine. Now, our family was a Drake's. batter family. 00:19:05 Speaker 3: Oh. 00:19:07 Speaker 1: But of course, Shore Lunch is pretty popular. 00:19:09 Speaker 3: Shore Lunch is like the Coca-Cola of fish batter. 00:19:12 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:19:12 Speaker 3: Do you like it? It's just fine. It's good. It's not bad. It's like a Coca-Cola. If you walked into like a Cabela's and you wanted to buy fish batter, I think this would have the most real estate on the shelf. 00:19:23 Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, hold on a second. 00:19:26 Speaker 2: Uh-oh. 00:19:26 Speaker 1: What about Jay Seaman's brand, Catch and Cook? 00:19:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to say. 00:19:30 Speaker 1: I still feel like this is the most popular ubiquitous term. 00:19:34 Speaker 3: Hmm. It's not what I call it. I agree with you, Corey. 00:19:39 Speaker 2: Catch and cook is delicious. 00:19:41 Speaker 1: But you could catch and cook anywhere. You could catch and cook, and I could do that back at home. This is on the water immediately. Hot ending. 00:19:50 Speaker 2: Corey. 00:19:51 Speaker 1: Not going to get it. 00:19:52 Speaker 6: I like Mark just sticking to his guns. 00:19:54 Speaker 3: Yeah. Good for you. 00:19:55 Speaker 4: Find, catch, and cook wherever. 00:19:57 Speaker 1: Fish seasonings are sold. It's delicious. We had a shore lunch yesterday. There wasn't fish involved in that. 00:20:03 Speaker 3: That's true. 00:20:05 Speaker 1: Question number five. Next. Keep her moving. 00:20:07 Speaker 4: Except for that big fish I got earlier. 00:20:08 Speaker 2: I'm giving myself a half a point. 00:20:09 Speaker 1: You need it. I'm going to throw you another bone though, Corey. Maybe you've got a chance here. The topic's fishing. 00:20:14 Speaker 3: Fly fishing. 00:20:15 Speaker 1: But not fly fishing, sorry. 00:20:18 Speaker 2: Well, maybe. 00:20:18 Speaker 1: I guess I shouldn't say that. It's fishing. This revolutionary at the time bass fishing lure, first released in 1996, is made out of soft plastic, shaped like a Bic ballpoint pen, and typically has a unique side-to-side shimmying action as it drifts down through the water column. What is it? 00:20:41 Speaker 3: What year? 00:20:42 Speaker 6: 96. 00:20:42 Speaker 1: Taking me back. What revolutionary bass fishing lure made out of soft plastic looks like a Bic ballpoint pen and slides side to side as it drifts down? 00:20:58 Speaker 2: Spencer. 00:21:00 Speaker 1: What? 00:21:00 Speaker 2: Do you remember? 00:21:01 Speaker 3: I think I would say I'm 75% chance. 00:21:05 Speaker 1: I will say this is.... 00:21:08 Speaker 2: Don't help them. 00:21:10 Speaker 1: I feel like the Midwestern folks, the Southern folks, would probably do better on this. 00:21:14 Speaker 3: Bass boy. 00:21:14 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:21:15 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:21:17 Speaker 1: Is everybody Giannis? 00:21:19 Speaker 2: No, no. Give me at least two minutes. 00:21:21 Speaker 5: Oh, man. 00:21:23 Speaker 4: At least one. 00:21:24 Speaker 3: I think the pen was part of the production of this. They were like, I should turn that thing into a lure. 00:21:30 Speaker 6: Huh. 00:21:30 Speaker 4: I don't think I have the right answer. 00:21:32 Speaker 1: Hmm. Everybody but Yanni is in. You guys already have an answer? Wow. 00:21:39 Speaker 4: Omar, no? 00:21:40 Speaker 2: Omar doesn't have one either. 00:21:42 Speaker 1: Omar, can you think of any bass fishing lure? I can. 00:21:44 Speaker 3: Okay. 00:21:45 Speaker 1: A little Gary Yamamoto. 00:21:47 Speaker 4: You can only chew so long when your mouth is empty, you know? I just don't have a lot to go with here. 00:21:54 Speaker 2: Laura, you have an answer? I don't know. 00:21:57 Speaker 1: I just invented it. 00:21:57 Speaker 2: Can you say it again? I think he's still chewing on it. I'm like, I got nothing to chew here. Just go with what I know. Mm-hmm. 00:22:05 Speaker 6: It's almost as good as a fresh set of eyes. 00:22:08 Speaker 5: Shaped like a Bic ballpoint pen. 00:22:12 Speaker 3: No, I didn't say that. Forget I said that. 00:22:16 Speaker 1: It's a soft plastic. You know what that is, right? In a bass fishing game. 00:22:19 Speaker 4: Are you being pedantic? 00:22:24 Speaker 2: I don't know what that word means. 00:22:25 Speaker 5: I'm just trying to figure out. 00:22:30 Speaker 2: What does that mean, Randall. I was asking Mark. 00:22:34 Speaker 1: While looking at Giannis? 00:22:35 Speaker 3: Oh, yes. 00:22:36 Speaker 2: I know what that is, Mark. Oh, gosh. I'll write something down. 00:22:45 Speaker 3: Filky. 00:22:46 Speaker 1: This was an all-time favorite of mine. Really? 00:22:52 Speaker 2: See, I was kind of still bass fishing in 96. A little. 00:22:58 Speaker 3: Bit. 00:22:58 Speaker 1: Yeah, they used this where you grew up. For sure. 00:23:02 Speaker 2: I'm sure. 00:23:03 Speaker 5: Yeah, my neighbor Kevin Van Dam probably is slamming him with this lure. 00:23:08 Speaker 3: The pride of Kalamazoo, right? 00:23:11 Speaker 2: Yep. 00:23:11 Speaker 1: And Derek Jeter. 00:23:13 Speaker 3: They produced two great Americans. 00:23:15 Speaker 1: And good cereal. 00:23:17 Speaker 5: And now Giannis Patel is added to that list. 00:23:20 Speaker 1: Isn't Kellogg's there? 00:23:22 Speaker 2: No, Battle Creek. What's the name of it? Oh, Battle Creek. 00:23:24 Speaker 3: That's where Rob Van Dam is from. The best wrestler to ever bless the ring. 00:23:31 Speaker 2: What's the name of the minor league hockey team in Kalamazoo? 00:23:33 Speaker 1: Name some more Michigan places. 00:23:34 Speaker 3: I'll tell you who's from there. 00:23:35 Speaker 2: The Wings. K-Wings. All right, Yanni. 00:23:39 Speaker 3: Will Ferrell's character. 00:23:40 Speaker 1: Let's get something out there. What do you got? Randall says the Cinco. Yanni says the Banjo Minnow. Omar, you did it. Got the Cinco. Spencer Cinco. Laura, pass, grab her leg. 00:23:50 Speaker 3: You said Gary Yamamoto. 00:23:51 Speaker 1: He's right there. 00:23:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, Omar. 00:23:53 Speaker 1: When you said the Gary Yamamoto, I'm like, wow. Because that's who makes the Cinco. I had a. 00:23:59 Speaker 2: This is. 00:24:00 Speaker 1: Good era of bass fishing in May. Well, there you go. Since done. 00:24:03 Speaker 3: Nice. 00:24:03 Speaker 1: So the Senko has been used for about 30 years now. It's one of the best-selling soft plastic lures of all time. And according to an article on Bassmaster.com, when Gary Yamamoto was designing this lure, he started with the basic profile of the Bic Custom Click Pen and then experimented with some different body lengths, thicknesses, and textures to get the lure to fall weightless at a very specific rate of speed that he wanted while creating just the right amount of action. And it's got this little kind of The ends of the Bic pen on either side just do this little jiggle as a kind of like a pendulum swings down. 00:24:34 Speaker 2: Through the water. Do you have a photo? 00:24:36 Speaker 1: Oh, there it is. There it is. He also wanted a formulation that bass would not just bite, but would hold on to. And so the answer to the hold on to dilemma was a high density salt impregnation distributed evenly throughout the body of the lure. So there you go. There's a Senko on the screen. 00:24:52 Speaker 3: You can take that to any bass lake in North America, and you'll catch something. 00:24:56 Speaker 1: Not Montana. 00:24:57 Speaker 3: When we had that little retreat thing, I fished that Senko for like an hour. 00:25:01 Speaker 2: Nothing. Skill issue. 00:25:03 Speaker 3: A lot of guys, that's their slump buster. Wacky rig of Senko. 00:25:06 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:25:06 Speaker 3: Gonna catch you a bass. 00:25:07 Speaker 1: So a wacky rig would be taking your big hook and hooking it kind of right to the middle. And then that would be like a weightless, wacky rig. Or you could Texas rig it, which would be going to the top with a sliding bullet sinker on top. Weedless. 00:25:18 Speaker 4: We used to, when we were in junior high, we used to sneak onto this pond where we weren't supposed to be. And the bass were just crazy. And I'd have a jitterbug and like 12 inches of line and a Senko just behind the jitterbug. 00:25:32 Speaker 2: Nobody has ever done that before. 00:25:33 Speaker 4: Just ripping it along the edge. 00:25:35 Speaker 6: I know. 00:25:35 Speaker 2: It's a good idea. 00:25:36 Speaker 1: I know. 00:25:36 Speaker 4: I've written some saltwater tactics, you know. 00:25:38 Speaker 1: But I had a trailer hook. 00:25:40 Speaker 6: Uh-huh. 00:25:40 Speaker 2: A pioneer. 00:25:41 Speaker 1: So did it crush? 00:25:42 Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. 00:25:43 Speaker 1: Deadly. 00:25:44 Speaker 6: I bet. 00:25:44 Speaker 4: Wish I could still trespass without a guilty conscience. 00:25:48 Speaker 3: Phil, now you just don't feel guilty at all when you do it. 00:25:51 Speaker 1: Can we get a scoreboard up there? I'd love to see where things stand. We got a spread here. Wow. 00:25:58 Speaker 6: Laura is not on the board as of yet. She has zero points. 00:26:01 Speaker 2: Corey has one. 00:26:02 Speaker 6: And a half. And a half. 00:26:04 Speaker 2: Oh, sure. Sure. Catch and cook. 00:26:07 Speaker 6: Spencer, Giannis, and Omar are tied up with three and Randall's in first place with four points. 00:26:13 Speaker 2: Hmm. 00:26:14 Speaker 3: Hmm. 00:26:17 Speaker 2: Let's keep going. Huh? 00:26:18 Speaker 1: Who do you think? 00:26:20 Speaker 2: Anybody's game. Anybody's game. 00:26:22 Speaker 3: All right. 00:26:25 Speaker 1: This one, I feel like should be in the wheelhouse for a number of people. The topic is hunting and I can't, I might've changed the question, Phil. I don't remember which version I gave you. So, We're going to find out. 00:26:35 Speaker 6: Okay, cool. 00:26:36 Speaker 1: But according to the 2026 National Deer Association Deer Report, okay, I made it easier on the screen, so I'll do that. Okay, according to blah, blah, blah, the Deer Report, name one of the top three states with the highest whitetail buck harvest for the 2024 hunting season. This is the most recent data. Give me one of the top three whitetail states for buck harvest. That's the question. I was originally going to make you pick one of the top two, but I thought... This is better. Yeah. 00:27:10 Speaker 3: Thank you. 00:27:11 Speaker 1: You're welcome. One of the top three states for whitetail buck harvest according to the 2026 National Deer Association Deer Report. You guys feel pretty confident. Everybody's got an answer except for Spencer. 00:27:26 Speaker 3: I'm just trying to show off and write down all three and then just pick my actual answer. 00:27:31 Speaker 1: Okay, I wondered about that. 00:27:32 Speaker 2: Is that allowed? 00:27:33 Speaker 1: No. Because what if you just wrote... I'm circling. 00:27:36 Speaker 2: He has to circle. 00:27:39 Speaker 1: He writes 32 states down. 00:27:40 Speaker 2: Okay. 00:27:41 Speaker 6: Steve will often do that, but that's just to show if he is wrong, he's hoping that you can see that he was close. He almost got it. 00:27:49 Speaker 1: All right. Let's see what you got. Please reveal. Randall says Texas, Giannis, Wisconsin. Omar says Iowa. Spencer says Wisconsin, but he's also throwing some show-off moves there. Laura says Michigan, and Corey says Wisconsin. Acceptable answers would be Texas, Pennsylvania. 00:28:10 Speaker 2: Or Wisconsin. 00:28:11 Speaker 3: Move. 00:28:13 Speaker 1: Mark, tell people what I had here. You had all three. Spencer threw a perfect game right there. But you circled number three on the list. 00:28:20 Speaker 3: Thank you. 00:28:22 Speaker 1: Okay, so who do you think is number one? 00:28:27 Speaker 2: Wisconsin. 00:28:28 Speaker 1: Wisconsin. 00:28:28 Speaker 3: And then PA and then Texas. That would be my guess. 00:28:31 Speaker 2: Wisconsin. Texas. Texas. I'm going to go, yeah, Texas. Texas. 00:28:36 Speaker 1: Randall says Texas. 00:28:36 Speaker 2: Laura? Pennsylvania. 00:28:38 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania, Corey. All right, number one is Texas by orders of magnitude. Texas killed $ 425, 529 during that most recent year. The runners-up, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and my home state of Michigan, were all less than half of that total. 00:28:57 Speaker 2: Wow. 00:28:58 Speaker 1: Yeah. Texas also tops the charts for antlerless deer with 411,480 harvested. So they are killing a lot. 00:29:06 Speaker 5: Texas is also 10 times the size of those other states. 00:29:10 Speaker 1: Big place. 00:29:11 Speaker 4: That factored into my calculus. 00:29:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, the Element boys probably killed 100 of them here in 2024. 00:29:16 Speaker 1: That very well could be. I wouldn't put it past them. 00:29:20 Speaker 3: When I drive to Texas to hunt, when I get to the Texas border, I'm like, damn, I'm only halfway there. That's how big that dump state is. 00:29:28 Speaker 2: Not a dump state. 00:29:28 Speaker 4: I love it. 00:29:29 Speaker 3: Too much driving through it, though. 00:29:31 Speaker 1: I got another state question for you. 00:29:32 Speaker 2: Oh, great. Yay. Number seven. 00:29:35 Speaker 1: The topic is conservation. Which state is home... to the largest animal crossing overpass in North America? Choices are... Up to you, my friend. Top three. What state is home to the largest animal crossing overpass? My kids call them wildlife bridges. They love it when we go underneath them. How many have your kids gone under? They frequently go under two of them. 00:30:09 Speaker 3: Is it the largest? 00:30:11 Speaker 1: I can't tell you that. I hope it's not my home state. 00:30:18 Speaker 2: No, it won't be. Where did you grow up? 00:30:21 Speaker 1: They don't care about wildlife. 00:30:26 Speaker 3: I saw a trail cam picture from one of these recently, but it was the Inverse of it. It's like the under the interstate one that they do. And they would set up cameras and they're just like monitor who's using it or whatever. And there was somebody sleeping in there, probably like an unhoused person. And they had a bear walk through just like 10 yards from them. And they didn't even acknowledge each other. The dude sleeping didn't wake up. Bear didn't look at him. And like nobody would have had known that happened without that trail camera. 00:30:53 Speaker 1: That's amazing. They're talking about trying to put one of these heading up to Big Sky. That's a massive area of wildlife collisions there. 00:31:05 Speaker 4: In the canyon? 00:31:05 Speaker 1: Just before going in, I believe. There's also a big study heading down through Paradise Valley. They've been trying to find where to build some of these over or under passes. I've got some suggestions. 00:31:19 Speaker 3: I feel like these always have to be married with big fences. The drive to Big Sky doesn't seem like the place where you'd like put up a long, big fence to funnel everybody to these overpasses. 00:31:32 Speaker 1: That is the downside of this, is that you've got the fences. Does everybody have an answer? Yep. All right, let's reveal. 00:31:38 Speaker 2: Go ahead and reveal your answer. 00:31:39 Speaker 1: Randall says Wyoming. Yanni says California. Omar says Colorado. Spencer, Colorado. Laura, Wyoming. Corey, Michigan. 00:31:51 Speaker 2: Question mark. 00:31:54 Speaker 1: The correct answer is. 00:31:56 Speaker 2: Colorado. Nicely done, Omar. 00:31:59 Speaker 1: All right, so get this. Don't laugh at my answer. By one measure, an estimated 1 million to 2 million crashes between motor vehicles and large animals, such as deer, occur every year in the United States. 1 to 2 million every single year. And that accounts for approximately 200 human deaths and 26,000 injuries. And on the wildlife side of things, Car collisions are now the single largest source of land-based vertebrate mortality in the nation. 00:32:27 Speaker 3: Ooh. Yeah. 00:32:29 Speaker 1: That said, lots of momentum and research and progress on trying to deal with that. Lots of new projects such as this underway building wildlife overpasses or underpasses, as you were describing, Spencer. That's exciting. This particular project in Colorado... is a wildlife bridge that is 200 feet wide and 209 feet long, crossing six lanes of traffic. The bridge was completed in December 2025. You can see a picture of it right there on the screen. And it's part of a broader set of projects addressing wildlife crossings along an entire 18-mile-long stretch of Interstate 25. And a recent report shows that since these new crossings were established, wildlife collisions are down more than 90%. Wow. So it's working. And now there's another mega project like this underway in California as well. And that might be the new biggest whenever that's completed. What part? 00:33:23 Speaker 6: I think it's right outside of LA. Cal's been talking about it for a while. 00:33:27 Speaker 2: Very expensive. 00:33:28 Speaker 3: But if you're preventing all these deer from getting hit and wrecking up cars. Probably pencil out a few decades. 00:33:34 Speaker 1: Well, the cool thing about these is that you've got different angles of support. You have people who just care about human safety, and then there's the wildlife conservation side. And insurance agencies like it because it reduces car damage. So it's a win-win-win. 00:33:49 Speaker 2: Moving on. 00:33:49 Speaker 1: Question number eight. We're going international, my friends. The topic is fishing. Here we go. Name one of the country's in which Taman, the largest member of the salmonid family, can be found. Name at least one of the countries in which Taman can be found. This is a fish that is the largest member of the salmonid family. Corey's very happy about this one. 00:34:21 Speaker 2: Corey. 00:34:21 Speaker 4: Wrong continent. 00:34:22 Speaker 1: Do you want to fish for these someday? Yeah, sure, let's go. Yes. We've got to figure out a way to do a meat eater film. Chase and Taman. Let's chat later. 00:34:31 Speaker 6: All right. 00:34:33 Speaker 1: This would be a good one. Has anybody seen one of these? Do we know what it looks like? 00:34:36 Speaker 3: I ate one. 00:34:38 Speaker 2: No, you didn't. 00:34:41 Speaker 1: Shore lunch? I can't tell if he's full of shit or not. I can't tell you. You really did? 00:34:48 Speaker 3: Now I think he did eat one. 00:34:49 Speaker 1: That's amazing. 00:34:50 Speaker 3: The old wolf fish. 00:34:52 Speaker 1: Okay, so Randall knows what's up. Have you seen pictures, the rest of you? Of me eating it? 00:34:57 Speaker 2: No. No photographic evidence. 00:35:02 Speaker 1: Everybody in? Alright, that was fast. Let's reveal. Randall, Slovenia, Giannis, Mongolia, Omar, Mexico, Spencer, Russia, Laura, Peru, Corey, Mongolia. The correct answers did not include Slovenia, according to my research. Correct answers would be Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Japan, Korea, or Mongolia. Is this not the same as the hookan? No. Oh, sorry, my friend. 00:35:35 Speaker 2: Oh, no. 00:35:36 Speaker 1: I was trying to get fancy. 00:35:37 Speaker 4: I just screwed myself up. 00:35:39 Speaker 1: Yeah, you could have said China, Russia, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, or Kazakhstan. 00:35:45 Speaker 3: That's too bad. 00:35:46 Speaker 1: Give yourself a half point. 00:35:47 Speaker 3: Oh, he's going to Google. 00:35:47 Speaker 4: No, no, it's fine. 00:35:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, Google it. Shut up, Spencer. 00:35:51 Speaker 1: He can't spell Kazakhstan. 00:35:55 Speaker 4: No, yeah, I'm thinking of something different. 00:35:58 Speaker 1: They call them this. They call them what? They call them that. 00:36:02 Speaker 4: Yeah, they were calling them timon when I was over there. 00:36:04 Speaker 1: Interesting. Well, these fish, as I mentioned, are the largest relatives of salmon and trout. They can live over 30 years long. They can reach 6 feet in length, can be over 100 pounds, and they can be caught on a fly rod, if you can believe it. Popular presentations include the use of really big articulated streamers or smaller foam gurgler-style flies on top. I think both would be a lot of fun. bucket list fish right there. 00:36:32 Speaker 2: Same genus. 00:36:34 Speaker 5: If I go, I'm going to fish a red squirrel pattern. 00:36:38 Speaker 3: Damn, I thought I was just trying to be... I'm going to throw a Meps. 00:36:41 Speaker 1: Can we get a scoreboard update, Phil? We're getting close. 00:36:44 Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess. 00:36:45 Speaker 3: Whoa. 00:36:46 Speaker 2: We've got a game. 00:36:47 Speaker 1: Spencer is coming in here towards the end. I try to get fancy. 00:36:51 Speaker 6: Yeah, Google it is one of the best things that's. 00:37:00 Speaker 2: Been said. 00:37:01 Speaker 6: Let's just go to the top players. Spencer is now in first place with six. Right behind him are Randall and Giannis with five. Omar has four. 00:37:11 Speaker 1: Everybody else is putting in a great effort. 00:37:13 Speaker 6: They're here. 00:37:13 Speaker 2: Thanks. I woke up this morning. 00:37:18 Speaker 1: Question nine. The topic is public lands. Did President Ulysses S. Grant create the first national park, national forest, or national wildlife refuge? Did President Grant create the first national park, national forest, Or Wildlife Refuge. Mmm. 00:37:53 Speaker 5: 33.33 an on chance here for O'Reilly. 00:37:59 Speaker 2: How'd you do, Randall? 00:38:01 Speaker 1: He's got it. 00:38:01 Speaker 2: I got it. 00:38:03 Speaker 3: Mmm. 00:38:03 Speaker 4: Just think about when the first of these was created. 00:38:05 Speaker 1: Ah, ah, ah, come on. 00:38:09 Speaker 4: I'm just explaining how one would think through the question. 00:38:11 Speaker 3: Mmm. 00:38:14 Speaker 1: I'm so mad. You're still mad about the last one? Yeah, I tried to get cutesy. 00:38:19 Speaker 4: They kept calling hookan timon when I was over there. My friend's got a commercial fishing operation and he's getting us timon for dinner. 00:38:31 Speaker 3: So we ate a hookan, not a timon. Well, how did that taste? Tell us about it. 00:38:36 Speaker 4: I don't remember. 00:38:36 Speaker 3: It was delicious. Regale me with all the details. It's delicious. 00:38:41 Speaker 2: It's the bait and switch. 00:38:42 Speaker 1: The old catch and cook. 00:38:44 Speaker 3: The old catch and switch and cook, sure. 00:38:46 Speaker 1: That's stupid. 00:38:50 Speaker 3: What were you going to say if you didn't tell? 00:38:51 Speaker 4: Mongolia. 00:38:52 Speaker 1: Everybody knows Mongolia. I just thought Mongolia was too easy and silly. 00:38:58 Speaker 3: Man. That's the only thing that anybody knows. I know. I know. I was thinking of Arapaima, and I think I still even had the wrong country. Yeah. 00:39:09 Speaker 1: What did you say? 00:39:09 Speaker 3: What did you write down? 00:39:10 Speaker 6: Peru. 00:39:11 Speaker 1: Yeah, I said Mexico. 00:39:13 Speaker 2: Alright, is everybody in? 00:39:16 Speaker 4: One in doubt. 00:39:18 Speaker 1: Reveal your answers. Randall says National Park, Giannis National Forest, Omar Park, Spencer Park, Laura, Wildlife Refuge, Corey, Wildlife Refuge. The correct answer is National Park. Now, Spencer, you thought the first National Park was in Michigan? 00:39:33 Speaker 3: I thought it was an island there, right? 00:39:35 Speaker 2: No. Oh, I thought you were just teasing Mark. 00:39:38 Speaker 3: I thought there was an island there that was the first one. 00:39:40 Speaker 1: Spencer, you got too cute. The correct answer is National Park. The first National Park is Yellowstone National Park right here in our backyard. On March 1st, 1872, President Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law, making it not just America's first, but the world's first national park. That act says in part that the headwaters of the Yellowstone River is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy or sale and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and the enjoyment of the people. You can still see those last words right there over top of the iconic arch at the entranceway to the north part of the park, Giannis. Good for us. 00:40:27 Speaker 2: It's been a while since I've been down there. 00:40:31 Speaker 1: I was on my trip delivering this truck and I got a photo from my wife. The three of them went and did a without dad expedition through Yellowstone, hiked down to a bunch of waterfalls, saw a bunch of big elk. 00:40:45 Speaker 2: Good times. 00:40:47 Speaker 1: All right, it is time for a correct answer review, I'm told, according to this script. Do I have to read their correct answers? 00:40:54 Speaker 2: Yes, please. 00:40:55 Speaker 1: Are you a big listener of the program? Apparently not enough to remember these things. Question number one, the correct answer is calcite. Question number two, you could say grizzly bear, polar bear, or brown bear. Three is ivory-billed woodpecker. Four, shore lunch. Five, a cinco. Six, Texas, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin. Seven, Colorado. Eight would have been China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia, Japan, Korea. 00:41:25 Speaker 3: All those countries. 00:41:26 Speaker 1: So many options, Randall. And number nine, National Park. Scoreboard update, please. Where does that put us? 00:41:33 Speaker 3: Same. 00:41:34 Speaker 1: There we go. 00:41:36 Speaker 6: It's down to Spencer, who was in first place with seven, and Dr. Randall, who has six. 00:41:42 Speaker 1: Okay. I fumbled that one. 00:41:45 Speaker 2: What if Spencer gets it really wrong? Can we give him a negative one? 00:41:49 Speaker 1: I almost wanted to take one off. He just gets one wrong. Question number 10. The topic is hunting. In what decade were elk first reintroduced to the state of Kentucky after being extirpated in the 1800s? And when I say decade, I mean like the 20s, the 30s, 40s, 2020s, whatever. All right, what decade were elk reintroduced to the state of Kentucky? Spencer's confident. 00:42:25 Speaker 3: Oh, no. 00:42:26 Speaker 1: Randall is less so. 00:42:31 Speaker 3: I don't even know where to begin, so I'm just going with my gut. 00:42:33 Speaker 2: Really? 00:42:34 Speaker 1: Really? I was debating whether I was almost going to have the exact year, but then I thought that would be too hard. 00:42:40 Speaker 3: That's nuts, man. 00:42:41 Speaker 1: I thought that would be too hard. But then her judgment came through and I realized, sicko. 00:42:47 Speaker 6: He only changed it about an hour ago. He sent me an email saying, I think this is maybe too hard. I said, yeah, I think so. 00:42:53 Speaker 4: Spencer, what do you have? 00:42:55 Speaker 3: We'll find out. 00:42:55 Speaker 1: I just want to know if we have different answers. Here we go. Let's just show them. Let's just see what we got. 1990s, says Spencer. 1990s, says Randall. 90s for Yanni. 60s, says Omar. 90s for Laura. 40s for Corey. The correct answer is.... 00:43:15 Speaker 2: 90s. 00:43:16 Speaker 1: 1997, to be exact. Elk were returned to Kentucky in multiple waves from 1997 through 2002, during which time more than 1,500 elk were released into the elk restoration zone of eastern Kentucky. They flourished... And by 2001, the state was able to open its first regulated hunting season in modern history. Since then, they've reached like a stable population of 10,000 elk, which is the largest elk population east of the Mississippi. And I just finished reading a really interesting book that spent about a third of its time talking about this story in depth. And it was primarily driven by a handful of individual people, hunters, who thought, hey, elk used to be here. They belong here again. And we're just going to find a way to make it happen. So it's a pretty inspiring example of how any person could really make a big difference. Where did they all come from? They pulled them from, oh gosh. 00:44:07 Speaker 2: The Rockies, right? 00:44:08 Speaker 3: I feel like Yellowstone attributed to some of those eastern states. 00:44:12 Speaker 1: I cannot remember. It was like on the tip of my tongue, but I don't want to say the wrong thing. Read the Beasts of the East by Andrew Moore. That's the book. And I just had him on the Future Wild podcast. A little plug. Very interesting episode. Exploring the fall of... and rise of wildlife in the east. So how much of the eastern wildlife was extirpated or brought crashing down by how some are now recovering. Pretty cool story. That means, though, that Spencer took the cake. 00:44:40 Speaker 2: Congratulations, Spencer. 00:44:44 Speaker 1: Well done. 00:44:46 Speaker 3: I'm going to give to Pheasants Forever. They're the habitat organization. I love that about them, although I don't hunt a lot of pheasants these days. I hunt other things that love the habitat they provide. that it's just like something everybody benefits from, Pheasants Forever. Even if you just like clean water, if that's important to you, Pheasants Forever helps contribute to that. 00:45:06 Speaker 1: Great selection. And I think it's particularly impressive that Spencer won today's episode, even while getting the rock question wrong. 00:45:14 Speaker 2: Yeah, Randall, isn't that impressive? 00:45:15 Speaker 1: Good for me. 00:45:16 Speaker 2: Wow. 00:45:17 Speaker 1: Well done, everybody. And thank you, everyone, for playing. Be sure to join us again next week for more Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation... Always wins. 00:45:28 Speaker 3: All right. 00:45:28 Speaker 1: And Randall sometimes. 00:45:29 Speaker 2: Thanks, Mark. Thank you, Mark. Thanks, Mark. 00:45:32 Speaker 3: Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he's the host. 00:45:35 Speaker 1: Using those smooth, mellow tones, he lays them questions down. 00:45:45 Speaker 3: And he likes taking those two- and three-year-old bucks. 00:45:50 Speaker 4: And he's an avid amateur rock hound.

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