Ep. 368: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XXV

So an honor of being here, I've grabbed eight of my favorite First Light ambassadors to test him in a game of Meat Eater Trivia. Joining me is Sam Soulholt, Thomas Crick, Bendettamani Lydia Smith, Tony Peterson, Clay Hayes, Jess Johnson, and Clay Nwcombe. Now we're going to do this since most of you folks are new to the Meat Eater Podcast, We're gonna go around the room. Have you introduced yourself, give a little elevator pitch about what you do. I'm

Thomas Crick. I run a dentical draw with my brother and Nate out of Nebraska. We're an outdoor media company, so you can find us on YouTube at identical draw. His brother looks just like him. That's a good one. Yeah. I'm Jess Johnson. I'm the Government Affairs director for the Wyoming Wildlife Federation. I'm the one hunting and angling lobbyist in the state of Wyoming. UM. I am down in Lander, Wyoming, hunt all over the West, and I'm one of the

Artemis Sportswomen co founders. M My name is Bendada Monty, otherwise known as shed Crazy and uh. I like to pick up horns and party. That's about all I do. You can find me finding on YouTube Instagram under shed Crazy like to have a good time. My name is Tony Peterson and I am a full time met eater employee now who I think most of my job, asides writing articles and filming some stuff, is to keep the lights on for Mark Kenyon so he can go fish every single day of his life and post pictures of

cutthroat trout on Instagram. I think that's my main gig. I'm Sam so Whole. I am a photographer videographer in the hunting industry as well as the co owner of public Land Teas and uh. Anybody listening might know me better as a guy who drove a bus around for a couple of years talking about conservation. I'm Lydia Smith and I'm a full time wildlife artist as well as a hunting guide in the fall. Um, I'm really passionate about archery, l hunting and kind of that's where I

take my passion mostly. Clay Nucom I'm a coon hunter, That's all I do. Clay Hayes, I'm primarily a YouTube content creator. Uh focus non traditional archery, traditional bow hunting, and I also happened to win Season eative alone right on. Yeah, better way to us some up these eight folks is that there's some of my favorite people to follow on Instagram, So you should go give them a follow because it's uh some of the best hunting content you'll find on

that app. Now, Clay Newcombe, you've played trivia before. What's your advice to these seven new man I really hope Steve and Brodie don't listen to this, but the best news that all of us have is Stephen Brodie aren't here, um because they're really good. So, uh, my best advice

to you is go with your gut. Usually that first instinct is right, and then try to be as obscure as you possibly can with spelling and specificity, and usually with a little bit of social tact you can get Spencer to accept the answer and maybe, you know, cover yourself in a mistake that was you know, you didn't really know, but you kind of just were like, uh, bus stagging off, you know, and be like, that's that's

a good read on the game. Yeah, that's my advice. Now, if you're not familiar, this is a ten round quiz show with questions from meat eaters for verticals which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking, and there's a prize. Meat eater will donate five dollars to the conservation organization of the winner's choosing. A previous game of trivia, we have some house keeping to get to. We talked about how to find the star Polaris, which is also known as the North star.

So here's the answer to that question. The North star is the last star in the handle of the Little Dipper, or you can find the pointer stars, which are the outer two stars in the bowl of the Big Dipper. These two stars are called the pointers because they point at the star Pilaris. You how to find that? Hey, Spencer, do you think like, who's who in this room? Is like the the candidate that you think the dark horse candidate. Who do you think is gonna win? I think Clay

Nucom Well, that's a given. That's a given. I think I think this corner over here that the Tony Peterson and are they the old guys? You just got more wisdom, So Tony Peterson, I think would would That's a lot of pressure. Respect to anyone else. Austin is probably pretty tough. Also, on a previous game of trivia, we had a question about what fish produces smurf meat. The answer was link cod, but a few folks wrote in to let me know that camba zone and green ling also sometimes have blue flesh.

The question, though, was specific to the nickname smurf meat, which is almost exclusively used to describe b lincod. Now I understand why there'd be some confusion. And if you did say the cab is on or the green ling, I would accept those answers, but no one in our show did, so it didn't change the outcome of the game. With that, we are onto meat Eat Trivia, play the drop, Phil, Look, I need to know what I stay under wind everything, How's that just tend to win everything. Question one. The

topic is woodsmanship and this will be multiple choice. This first great question comes to us from John Schlessinger. If you have a question you think is right for Meat Eat Trivia, you can send it to trivia at the meadeater dot com. According to Utah State University, what type of firewood burns the hottest? Is it box elder mulberry O, sage orange or white ash? Again, according to Utah State University, what type of firewood burns the hottest? Is it box

elder mulberry O, sage orange or white ash. We had some quick answers in the room from It's a good question, Rick and Clay Hayes. Clay, you were writing before I even gave the choices. You think you know this one? Yeah, I'm pretty confident, very confident. Again, your choices are box elder mulberry O sage is You can take cues from people based on anything they say. That's why when you're in the court they say, you know, like don't say

a word, don't make eye contact with people. By Clay just confirmed his confidence gave them confidence confirmed by confidence. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Thomas saying, oh say Gerange, Jess saying, ash Ben saying, oh say ge Orange, Tony saying, oh say George, Sam saying box elder Lydia saying box elder Clay, Newcomb saying, oh say geornge Clay Hey saying, oh say George. The

correct answer is oh say gerange. Room did pretty well on the ballard baby, Oh say George burns thirty two point nine million bt us per cord of wood. Unsurprisingly, it's also one of the heaviest types of wood in North America. Other woods that burned nearly as hot as oh say George include apple beach, black locust, honey locusts, and white oak. Also makes a fine self bow. I've had it. I've had a melt like the middle thing that you put firewood on, like in your in home fireplace,

just freaking took it out. Do you think a lot of people are burning o sage orange though? No? Do you know I've got a ton of sae geornge on my property and it makes incredible fence posts. Get you through them long Arkansas winners. I don't burn it. I don't burn it for for for heat. If you're gonna burn it, you need to burn it sparingly with other wood because it will melt your fireplace. Question to the

topic is hunting What? Nineteen eighty four video game developed by Nintendo allows players to shoot ducks, clay pigeons, and their own hunting dog. Again what? Nineteen eight four video game developed by Nintendo allows players to shoot ducks, clay pigeons, and their own hunting dog. Some quick answers in the room again, Clay nucom did you have a video game system growing up? Man? There was one in my house, but I was not a video game I was always the one that was mad at friends and brothers for

playing all the time. Tony, it feels like it's in your wheelhouse. You know it? You this one? Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tom saying big buck hunter, Jets saying I've never played a video game in my life, outside, Ben saying duck hunt, Tony saying duck hunt, Sam saying duck hunt. Lydia without an answer. I was going to say buck hunt, but yeah, buck hunt. Clay Newcomb says duck hunt, and Clay Hey says duck Hunter. The correct answer is duck Hunt.

I'm not going to give it to you, Clay Hayes duck Hunter. It's not with what Clay didn't just kind of did like that scribble out the end. I had to erase the er I had it on there, but I got it. Hey, that's pretty tough Spencer. I mean, I would be voting to give it to him, but I don't think we're gonna. I think we gotta keep with duck Hunt. Duck Hunt sold over twenty eight million copies worldwide. The game doesn't technically have an ending, but

it does stop. If you beat level you'll advance to level zero, where the ducks cannot be shot and the dog laughs at you on a loop. It's described as a glitched out nightmare that will eventually cause the system to restart. Wow, fill the engineer, you're are gaming expert here? Did you ever get into duck Hunt at all? That was a little before my time, But um, you know they've sorry more shots. Yeah, I gotta I gotta milk of while I can. But um, but yeah, I've played

dot com before. Question three The topic is fishing. This next great question comes to us via Anna go lightly if you have a question you think is right for Meat Eater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at the meat eat dot com. There are seven gar species in North America. I need you to name three of them. Again, there are seven gar species in North America, looking for

you to name three. I think this is going to be dependent on if you grew up or living gark tree, which I think a good portion of our room does not. Where would you describe by guard Country? Idn't mean anything that's not the Rocky Mountains? Probably this is, this is, and you got seven to choose from. I'm just looking for three. Only right down three. If you write down four, you're gonna get it wrong. I wouldn't say I grew up in our country, but I shot a whole bunch

of them on the river growing up. That's Guard Country. That counts all right? Does anybody know that they have this right? I feel real confident, old man Tony. I don't think I'm even the oldest one here. Guys, does everybody have three answers written down? I'm nervous about. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tom saying long nose alligator, silver just saying guard one, two Guard three,

Ben saying alligator, blue and needle nos. Tony say, short nose, long nose alligator, Sam saying alligator, Lydia saying alligator and eastern. Clay Newcomb saying long nose alligator, spotted gar, Clay Hey saying long nose alligator, snaggletooth. What's that one saying snuggle tooth? Okay, the seven species are alligator, long nose, short nose, spotted Florida, Tropical, and Cuban. So we had a couple of people to get it right Florida. I'm so mad at didn't we do?

We have Tony Peterson and Clay Nucomb got it. I'm gonna make an argument for the snaggle tooth because unless we're going with Latin names and pretty much make up a common name, this is a that snaggle tooth. That's a very common name in uh Milton, Florida. You hear people call him snaggletooth gar. Of course, hold on, you can't just make up nicknames. The largest of the seven

car species is the alligator gar. Although there now only found in the Deep South in Mexico, their historic range extends all the way into states like Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky. They've also been introduced to water bodies in California. I was at the um Wonders of Wildlife Museum in Springfield, Missouri a couple of weeks ago, and they have this like world class aquarium system that you walk through and you're like in the water. It feels like with and

they have alligator guard. That's I mean, I bet it's six ft long and you know, ten inch ten inches diameter. I mean, just they're incredible animals, dinosaurs. Yeah, I would love for those things to live in like Indiana again, aligator gar be fun question for the topic is foraging. What commonly foraged plant was declared the King of vegetables by King Louis? Again? What commonly foraged plant was declared

the King of vegetables by King Louis the fourteenth. Nobody knew this one, it appears, so everyone's just gonna be taking an educated guess. King Louis the fourteen declared commonly fortaged plant the king of vegetables. As per usual, a straight guess? Is anybody confident they got this one? M good, go ahead and reveal your answers. We have tom is saying asparagus, Just saying asparagus, Ben saying mushrooms, Tony saying asparagus, Sam so Old saying wild onion, Lydia saying radish, Clay

Nucomb saying mushrooms. Clay hayes without an answer. The correct answer vegetable a mushroom. Yeah, probably know. We don't know what King Louis knew. The correct answer is asparagus. Got it, stinky pas. The French brought the first asparagus to America sometime around the sixteen fifties. It escaped cultivation in here sometime in the early eighteen hundreds and became commercially grown in the eighteen sixties. Hm. King Louis love that stuff.

There's even a rumor that he had an asparagus fleet that he would send out like around Europe to just find him asparagus. Wow, that's how much he liked it, The King of Vegetables, Clay, You got an asparagus growing at home? Yeah, we do. Misty grows asparagus, she does. It's a quirky little plant, but it's good. We just pick it off up off the side of the road where I live. Borrow ditches and wyoming asparagus. Some hot

tips here for foraging. It's the fast, that's what I got. Hey, I didn't realize that it could be forged, wildly forged. I didn't know that. This is news to me. Where you think it came from? I don't know, man, Where does everything come from? Grocery store? Wild? It was the base of an asparagus called where it grows out? Is that a crown? Crown? Is that why called the crown? I doubt it, but I like it all right. Question five will get a scoreboard update from Phil after this.

The topic is gear. What do you call the measurement that's taken between a bowstring and the deepest part of the grip? Again, what do you call the measurement that's taken between a bowstring and the deepest part of the grip. A few folks knew this one right off the bat. Still have some people thinking. Again, it's the measurement that's taken between a bowstring and the deepest part of the grip. The Clays look like they know it, both of you. I looked at his Arkansas the answer right off him.

Tony Peterson knew it. Ben looks like he knew it. I'm second guessing big time. Now does everybody have an answer? I just drew something. Drop might work. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Thomas without an answer, Jess saying draw length, Ben saying brace height, Tony saying brace heights, Sam saying brace height, Lydia without an answer, and the Clay saying brace height. They got it. The answer is brace site. So my argument here is is that not

also at full draw a measurement from bowstring to middle. No. No, that's what I second guessed on when I heard the question reread. But in Jenny, this is where if you were Steve or Brody, you throw hold on a minute and Spencer is good. He doesn't usually bend. In general, the shorter the brace height, the faster the bow, and the less forgiving it is. But the longer the brace height, the slower the bow, and the more forgiving it is.

Most long bows and recurves have a brace site around eight inches, while most flagship compounds are typically closer to six. We are halfway through the game of trivia. Fill the engineer give us a scoreboard update. We'll do yet to make it appearance on the board. Zero points. We have Lydia with one point, Jess with two points apiece. We have Clay h Sam and Thomas, and then Ben has three points. Clay Newcomb has four points and in first place. I'm not going to call him old man because he seems.

We have Tony Peterson with five pitching a perfect game. Tony, the pressure is on, well done. How certain are you that score? I thought me and Tony were tired. You got asparagus and I didn't, But you missed one that I got. Do you take? He doesn't miss? Okay, not like Kenyan. Sorry I couldn't have Question six. The topic is turkeys. This next great question comes to is via Jacob Collins. If you have a question you think is it for meat Eat Trivia, You can send it to

trivia at the meat Eator dot com. Michael Vick is this college's most famous alumni whose mascot is a male turkey. Michael Vick is this college's most famous alumni whose mascot is a male turkey. Famous or infamous, either one both apply. Nobody knew this one right off the bat. Again, we're looking for where Michael Vick went to college because their mascot is a male turkey. I don't even know who Michael Vick is. That's not gonna help you very much then,

and I still don't have it. That is their hint. A male turkey, a male tour must be an obscure college. What region of the country is it in? Not giving any hints. Their mascot, though, is a male turkey Clay? You know any colleges? I mean, I'm trying to even just guess. I don't even have an educated guess. Does everybody have an answer? Who's gonna come up with one? This might break the perfect game. Go ahead and reveal

your answers. We have Tom is saying Scranton just without an answer, Ben saying West Virginia, Tony saying Auburn, Sam saying what's that? Say? University Lydia without an answer, and the Clays without an answer. That was a rough one. The answer is Virginia Tech was in the wrong Virginia. Virginia Tech's current mascot is the Hokey, but they used to be known as the Gobblers. In the early nineteen hundreds of the university actually had a live Tom Turkey

as its mascot. It was trained to gobble on command, and it once got in a fight with another team's bulldog. What's the command that makes it goggle like a card or slamming or something like yeah, yeah, exactly and command yeah trained, best trained. So now now they're the hokeys, but their mascot that they have on the sidelines is

still a big male turkey. Question seven. The topic is Public Lands, America's largest Native American reservation, consists of sixteen million acres that are spread across Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. What is it get any? Topic is public Lands, America's largest Native American reservation consists of sixteen million acres that are spread across Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. What is it? Is this gonna get you on the board? Jess get a quick answer? It seemed like it's a quick guest.

Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tom saying Cherokee, Jess saying Navajo, Ben saying Navajo, Tony saying Apache, Sam without an answer, Lydia, Lydia saying Navajo, Newcomb saying Navajo Nation, and hey, he's saying Navaho. The correct answer is the Navajo Nation reservation. If you just said, Navajo, I'll give it to you. So the room did pretty well.

We're tided. Okay, let's look at them. So when I and so the last multiple many years we've been at these, my son plays basketball, and the biggest pet peeve of my life is like peewee basketball scorekeepers, Like I watched

them game because they get it wrong. I mean it's like we just scored three points and you gave it to the other team, Like I am untrustworthy of scorekeepers, Like I watch NBA games and I'm like watching they like score and I'm like watching the TV like they didn't give him the point and then bang it pops up, like okay they did. Now, what does this have to do with the I'm tired you not? The Navajo Nation

is four times larger than the next biggest reservation. It's total acreage is even big than ten US states, and unlike most reservations, it's actually grown significantly over the last one fifty years. Question eight will get another scoreboard update after this. The topic is cooking. The five basic tastes of food are sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and blank. Getting The five basic tastes of food are sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and blank looking for the fifth basic taste? Can you

read those again? Why is this so confusing? Here are four of the five basic tastes sweet, sour, salty, bitter, So I'm looking for the fifth one. Quick answers, some non answers so far I'm second guessing mine. Now, I was real confident for about two seconds that it does. Everybody have an answer, Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tom saying o mommy, Jess saying acid, Ben saying bland, Tony saying spicy, Sam saying spicy, Lydia saying savory,

Nwcom saying savory, and Hayes saying what's that? Say? Good? Good, good good. The correct answer is savory or umammy thing here? What flavor is savory? Well here it is. Foods that are said to have a savory or umami flavor include seafood, red meat, aged cheese, seaweed, soy food, mushrooms, tomatoes, kim chi,

and green tea. But in a Ted talk, Dr Nicole gar Now argued that there could actually be a sixth basic flavor, which would be fat so savory or mommy is things like mushrooms Clay, where would spicy fit in? I thought that was a good answer, Tony. I mean it's it's kind of cool. Steve Ronella if he's if he's winning, he's really courteous to think about it. I actually think I know this one is a lot of spicy. Isn't a flavor. It's a lot of things can be

sweet and spicy or savory and spicy. Yeah, so I don't think spicy is more of a type of whatever answer to nobody. Nobody asked you are sweet? So our salty, bitter and savory or mommy Phil give us a scoreboard update. We have two questions left. That's right, everyone's on the board now, which is great congratulations, but they're only three players left in the game. We have been with four points, Tony Peterson with five and in first place. As he

just reminded us, Clean Nucombe with six. Question nine, the topic is wildlife. This is our listener Question of the Week, which was won by Colton Sagastad for sending this great question. Colton is going to get a one hundred dollar first Like gift card. If you want a chance to win our Listener Question of the Week, you can send your question to trivia at the metro dot com. Born between March and May, the babies from this mammal are often

referred to as red dogs. Just born between March and May, the babies from this mammal are often referred to as red dogs. Jess knew this one right away, but the rest of the room not as fast. Clay, how you feeling about this? Just guess? Tony Peterson, how you feel about this? Not good? Jess's certainty helped me. Okay, gave something away. Who else is in the game? We have Clay, An, Tony,

and who man? How you feel about this one? I feel very confident in my complete guests, everybody have an answer. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tom saying fox, Jets saying bison, Ben saying beavers, Tony saying otters, Sam without an answer, Lydia saying some mammal born naked, Nukerom saying prairie dog, and Heyes saying squirrel. The correct answer is bison. Just red dogs get their name from their

orangish red color and size. The moniker no longer applies after a few months, because that's when their hair starts to change to a dark brown and their characteristic shoulder hump and horns begin to grow. I just want to say I didn't give so much away, did I? Well, I just thought Wyoming prairie dog. That's what I thought. Wrong. If we're playing poker, you would have one. We are onto our last question. Give us a scoreboard update, Phil,

I don't think anything changed, did it? Uh? Nothing changed, but Ben has lost his opportunity to catch up. Let's do two point final questions. It's between Tony and Clay, who have five and six points respectively to the last question. The topic is fishing, and I don't think this either one of the last question. This is the final question. So if he gets it wrong and I get wrong, I still win. That's right, that's how that works. I'm playing for a tie. No, I don't think either one

of you have an advantage here though. Name two of the top five states with the most shark attacks. Again, I am looking for two of the top five states for the most shark attacks, and this is looking at data taking over the last decade. Two of the top five states. NUKEM. How you feeling you know? Fair Tony? Uh, I'll echo that sentiment. I don't I don't feel that great about this. I mean, I like these. When it's like give give some of the top five. You can

use some reasoning skills sometimes. Does everybody have an answer looking for two states? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tom saying Florida in North Carolina, Jess saying California and Florida, Ben saying South Carolina and Florida, Tony saying Florida and South Carolina, Sam saying Hawaii and Florida, Lydia saying Hawaii and Florida. Newcom saying California and Florida. In Hay saying California and Florida. The top five are Florida, Hawaii,

South Carolina, North Carolina, and California. And then everybody got it. Well done. Sam and I were the best on that one there because we got the first two answers. Florida overwhelmingly leads the nation in shark attacks, with two hundred thirty six in the last decade. The next closest is Hawaii with seventy three, South Carolina with forty three, North

Carolina with thirty two, in California with twenty nine. Sharks kill one person in America each year, which is half as many people who die because they vending machine falls on them. I know which one is more likely to happen to me. Clay Nucombe is our winner. How many get seven? Seven? Well done Clay, good performance by everybody. I'm still contesting the mushroom vegetable connection. I just yeah,

it was it wasn't the best answer. Now what happens next is Clay as the winner, gets to choose where the five dollar donation goes. So what's it gonna be? I'm going How for Wildlife? What do you like so much about that? Man? I think those guys have given a it's it's not the full solution, but they've put a a good solution to influencing legislation anti hunting legislation

all over the country. They do a good job of rallying people to get emails into important people's inboxes, and we've seen that work and it is one of the most it's you know, it's I think it's such a complex answer for how to combat anti hunting legislation in this country, but How for wild Life's taken a good swing at it. I like them, jess As somebody who traffics in that space you agree, you like how yes, I say yes, and because this is what how does where?

I actually do think that you have to do more than just the howl and UM. As a lobbyist, I very rarely ever see petitions ever actually work, UM if they're not like accompanied by real life stories from people that are on the ground. So a lot of legislators will get these big petitions in their inbox. Wh they'll get seven emails saying all the same thing, and that all goes into one folder and then it goes into

the trash can. But the email that they get that has a subject line that says please vote no because and you put the subject line you say vote no on House Bill forty three or whatever it is. And then in your piece you give a two or three sentence. Don't write a whole book, but two or three sentences. I'm a local, I'm your constituent. I care very deeply that ship changes votes. So what do you do if you're not a part of the state and you can't write that email? I mean that's where how is good?

If you're not a part of the state. It's good that they see that there's a lot of eyes on them from outside I was fighting a bill this last year that had seven and fifty emails in each of their inboxes. It didn't change anything until twelve people physically showed up and talked, and we still lost it. But they weren't listening until people showed up in person. Hunters need to get your asses to the Capitol and be there in person. So how does a good job, But

it's not the whole job. Yeah, it does a great job getting the information out there. Fantastic job. Yeah, that's our end of the game of trivia. But I'm so stoked on like the first light store here, I don't think I did a good enough job last episode of talking about how cool is so as our guests throw some superlatives around about what you like about the place, how need it is, why you'd swing in if you were within like an hour here, I'd come up and

see this place. I like the feel of it. Just as soon as you walk in there's a wall tent set up. I mean, it's just that's a cool building. Nice vibes. Yeah, I feel like the decorations definitely resonate with you a lot more like versus regular shops you're around, you're looking at things that you do and that you wear. And it's pretty sweet in my opinion. Great color is

great setup, it's organized, it's awesome. I think just the advantage of having every piece here to be able to touch and feel and try on is is a big win. It's pretty very cool store, especially for the women out there that are looking to see how things fit. Like this is pretty cool? Is it? Is? It? Literally every piece like it's everything that is sold by First Lights in here. That's awesome. I didn't think you'd be able

to fit at all. He has done it. Yeah, it's one thing to look at it all on a website, but then when you can actually walk around and feel the fabrics and stuff, I have a feeling a lot of people are gonna get a lot of value out of that well done so that it will be open by the time you hear this episode. And that's it for me. Eat Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins.