Ep. 404: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XLII

conservation and cooking, and there is a prize. Meat Eater will donate five hundred dollars to the conservation organization of the winners choosing and each week here on Meat Eater Trivia we reveal a new stat This week we're looking at what I considered to be the worst game of trivia we've ever played, which is based on player performance. In episode two eight seven, which was our second ever

game of trivia, Steve one with four correct answers. In second place was a tie between Karen Clay and Janice with two correct answers. The average score in episode two eighties seven was two and we actually had five questions were not a single person got the right answer. Now, not blaming the competitors for this poor performance. I'm blaming myself. I simply made that round too hard and have corrected for it. And the Shelby index on that one, well, that was before we had it, so I don't I

don't recall what it was. But in the forty five episodes since we've had zero games where the winner got four correct answers and just two games where the winner got five, you should ask this question that everyone missed and see if we got smarter. You know, I've thought about it, but the problem is some folks weren't here

for that episode. Other ones were, so I've I've considered the idea, but I thought it would be uh well one, I don't think it'd be real fun for the audience, and too I think would be on film saying like not part of the game, just to warm things up. What do you what do you feel? What are you shooting for? What do you feel is the perfect winnings seven or eight? I'm very satisfied if it's between six

and nine. If somebody gets a ten, which has happened three times, I may be made that round too easy. If somebody gets a five, I made it too different. I got ten twice, so six to nine. I think is the sweet spot. I've done my job. Well, if that's the winning score, we have some housekeeping to get to before we play today's game. On episode that was that was a stat. That was a stat the worst

trivia game ever? Four correct answers one a stat like normber, your stats wouldn't have involved some sort of math and stuff. That's like an observation. We were are Our stat compiling is going through a major overhaul right now. We're gonna have some great stats coming up the next few months. But I'll be honest with intern to like keep track of stats. No, No, but that wasn't a stack. They're like,

that was a factoid. Yes, is like a trend. Factoid is being kind as the observation one time someone got four. You'll have to settle for an observation on this episode. We've got some good stuff coming in the future now. An episode three two, I asked what state has the most mountains with an elevation of fourteen thousand feet? Bro, you're gonna have some feedback on this housekeeping that doesn't directly pertend to you, but I'm gonna ask you to hold it until the end. Okay, Now, when I read

the answers. Stephen Corin gave me hell about how I pronounced the state where Denver is the capital. Play the clip, Phil, go ahead and review your answers. We have steeves like. The more I think about it, He's saying Colorado, Meggie sang Alaska, Corey saying Colorado, Hayden saying Colorado. Chess, you're saying Colorado, Marge saying Colorado, and Corin saying Colorado. They got it. The correct answer is Colorado. Can you maybe when you go through the edit, Phil, can you maybe

have him say Colorado. Here, Here's here's one you can use Colorado. Got it? Just feel it, you know what I mean? Of course, yeah, I'll do that well. In ten, Channel nine and b C News covered this very subject. They interviewed Rich Sandoval, a linguist from Metro State University in Denver, who said there are five common pronunciations, but two are the most popular. Play the clip, Phil, but the dominant pronunciations highlight Colorado's clash between natives and newcomers.

Locals will say, well, of course it's Colorado. That's how I've always said that I grew up with Colorado. That's that's what we say. It sounds right. It's our state. We have the right to decide and and to tell you how to say. You're the new ones, right. Newcomers are more likely to hew closer to the Spanish pronunciation colorado. You don't say avocado, right, so it should be colorado

like avocado, like tostado right. Sandoval says that's a larger trend in language practiced by people who think they're better educated. He sees this shoeazing out, but the most recent native one. I don't know if the Colorado thing will ever disappear, because it is a marker of insider status. But at the same time, for the those locals who fashion themselves as being highly educated and that kind of thing, there's going to be some pressure on them to say Colorado.

We'll see what happens in the future. Now, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Now. Sandoval went on to say that it's not his job as a linguist to decide which version is right. He's more interested in why people think they're right. So you could use the version that me and the locals use colorado, or you could use the version that Steve and elitist tourists use Colorado now normally I feel like Spencer says a lot of words wrong, but I think he's got it right here. Okay, now, Brodie,

what are your bona fides on this subject? Well? I lived there forever? How how long it's forever? Over twenty years over and during that twenty years you were often guiding folks from oddest state, right, Yeah, So what would you say the local said versus what you would hear. It's something I ever paid any attention to be like. It was not like, oh that's wrong. Like if Steve said Colorado, I don't even know that it would. What's John Denver say Rocky Moon Colorado? No, not, Yes, let's

play the Rocky Mountain. This is a big area of contention with Oregon as well. I can tell you from the East coast. If you say Oregon, Illinois and Missouri Oregon is wrong. What about that Flying Burrito Brothers song that hey, Colorado, it's not so long there? That's that's a famous I think that whatever John Denver says goes, and if you play that, I'll I'll go with that. Next episode we will find out how John Denver suthink he might say it like the locals. Man he was.

I ran in him one time in a bar and Jackson, wy, wow, was he hammered? Oh yeah, you know he passed away to plane plane wreck off Big Sir him in the Big Bopper he guid big Sir he died in a plane wreck him and uh buddy Buddy Holly. Yeah. Well, all kinds of people. So the Ted Stevens, I think I don't know that person, Jose, And with that water onto the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil, Look, I need to know what I staying to win everything.

I'm saying, just tend to win everything. Suckers. I was gonna change that to suck it, Brodie, that'd be improper. Question one. The topic is conservation, and as always, this is multiple choice, and this first great question comes to us via Riley Nelson. If you have a question you think is right for Meat Eat to trivia, you can send it to trivia at the meat eater dot com. What famous writer son once served as a fishing game commissioner in Idaho? Is it Ernest Hemingway, Dr Seuss, Charles Dickens,

or William Faulkner. Brody knew before I even gave the choices. What famous writer's son once served as a fishing game commissioner in Idaho? Your choices are Ernest Hemingway, Dr Seuss, Charles Dickens, or William Faulkner. This person's son served as a fishing game commissioner in Idaho. Is anybody else as confident as Brody is? No? No? Could you read it one more time? Ernest Hemingway, Dr Seuss, Charles Dickens, or William Faulkner, Steve, how confident you feeling? I mean, I'm

not not that confident? And now I'm rattled for the whole game because Brody looked all cocky. He may not even know it, he was just doing that the optics does everybody cocky? It's now I'm rattled for the whole game. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying Hemingway, Logan sang, Faulkner, Hayden saying Dr Seuss, Brodie sang Hemingway, Alyssa saying, Faulkner, Krinn sang Hemingway. She talked. She crossed out the other three choices, and she wrote out Corey

sang Hemingway and said saying Hemingway. The correct answer is Ernest Hemingway. It seemed too obvious. He shot himself there. Yeah, he lived in Jack Hadley Hemingway was a fly fisherman and novelist, just like his dad. Ernest Jack served as an Idaho Fish and Game commissioner from nineteen seventy one to seventy seven. He was instrumental in introducing catch and release regulations on some of the state's best trout waters. I think his granddaughter might live here. His his grandson

writes children's books. Now, how do you know that? Yeah, years ago here in town, I had a girlfriend who hung out with like a grand kid or something like that. I remember he had um zebra hide rug. I was pretty jealous of. Question to the topic is cooking. Maine is famous for this type of hot dog, which shares its name with a saltwater fish. Maine is famous for this type of hot dog, which shares its name with a saltwater fish. Brody with the quickest answer in the room, Brody,

do you know this one? I'm se okay. Maine is famous for this type of hot dog, which shares its name with a saltwater fish. Logan also had a quick answer, you know that Logan's got it. The rest of the room is pretty stumped. We get the Shelby index. Oh I'm sorry. The Shelby index for this game of trivia is a three, so our winner should get six. It's a tougher batch of questions, Steve, how you doing? Not good man? I mean I got that last one. Do you have a saltwater fish written down? See? I got

something totally stupid written down. Hayden scribbling? Is it? Is it like? Is the saltwater? Is it like a vernacular for the saltwater fish? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying red, Logan saying red snapper, Hayden saying kipper, Brody saying red snapper. List is saying hell abit, Karen saying corn dog, Corey sang cod dog, Seth saying red fish. The correct answer is red snapper. Got it?

We hadn't. He did not get it. We had Logan and Brody get it right for I don't get it, just for red no. No, no, well, well think about it. That's the thing. People call them red snapper, red them too. I was actually thinking the same and reds Well, I got called red hots, as well as that I don't know, I've heard that Brody had it. The red Snapper name is based on the hot dogs neon appearance, which comes from food coloring, and the audible snap that happens with

every bite, which comes from the natural casings. If you want to learn how to make these delicious sausages, then go to the meat eater dot com and check out Wade Trunk's recipe called Venison red Snapper hot Dogs. Body mine used to be really into sharkoo tree and sausage making. We made hot dogs together a couple of times, and he was saying, the biggest challenge with making a home hot dog is the snap. Check out, Like, so, how you know it's the density in which is packed? He said, Like,

you can't get the snap. Do you like red snappers? M hmmm, I don't know. I mean, I've had plenty of hot dogs that were died real red. I don't know if that's it. Well, I'll tell you one thing, I don't feel like sitting here watching Brody win again. Question three. There were only two questions in the topic haunting. This next great question comes to as via Matthew Stewart. If you have a question. You think it's right. For meat Eater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at

the meat eater dot com. Represented by the symbol W on the periodic table. This element is commonly used in shotgun pellets for turkey hunters. Represented by the symbol W on the periodic table. This element is commonly used in shotgun pellets for turkey hunters. A lot of thinking going on in the room. Folks are picturing a periodic table in their head. You got this one, seth, No, I just wrote down. Okay, a medal that's used in turkey

shot represented by the symbol W. Brody, you know this one. Okay, No, but but he knows turkey shells. Does everyone have an answer? You can narrow it down. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying tungsten, Logan saying tungsten, tungsten, tungsten, Melyssa saying lead, Coren saying tungsten, tungsten, tungsten. They got it.

The correct answer is tungsten. Other shotgun pellet elements include lead, which is represented by PB on the periodic table, bismuth which is represented by b I, and copper, which is represented by SEU. The advantage of shooting tungsten is that it's extremely heavy and creates better penetration. Our favorite turkey loads are Federal Premiums third degree, which gives a portion of their sales from these shells to the National Wild

Turkey Federation. Question for the topic is public lands? Named two of the four states that contain the Mojave Desert? Named two of the four states that contained the Mojabbi Desert. Brody with a very quick answer, The perfect game is canna continue? I imagine we'll see looking for two of the four states that contained the Mojabbi Desert. That was kind of It's kind of a softball, right there, bro Who was it? Jed Jed Smith? What about him? I'll

talk about it afterwards. Does he ever relation to softballs or the Mojabi Desert? We'll talk. Does everybody have an answer? Looking for two of the four states? If we list three, don't you get it wrong? If you list three, that's what happens. Let's see you list fifty. Go ahead and

reveal your answers. We have Steve saying California, Nevada, Logan saying Colorado, Arizona, Hayden saying Arizona, Nevada, Brody saying Nevada, California, Alyssa saying New Mexico, Arizona, Karin saying California, Nevada, Corey, California, Nevada, Seth saying California, Arizona. The four states are California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. So most of the room got it. A few folks, though, H had some other states that weren't listed. The name Mojave means beside the water in the Mojave

Tribes native language. The desert is home to species of mammals and two thirty species of birds. The Mohave is twenty million acres, with most of it being located in California. Now, Brodie, what do you got? Steve will tell the story better than me. Let's hear it's Steve. You mean that he was the first year All American to arrive to California by an overland travels through. They had a hell of time through the Mohave Desert, sucking on rocks for to

like get liquid, So try to get yourself. Didn't need like make it to a monastery or something in California. Then they confiscated as beavers and yeah, all kinds of trouble. Question five, the topic is fishing. What dictator had carp his favorite food stocked in the moats around his palace? What dictator had carp his favorite food stocked in the moats around his palace? Nobody with an answer quite yet.

If I don't spell it right, is that I'm gonna start taking away points when folks ask if they need to spell it right. You never have to spell it right unless I say you do, which has happened one time in the history of mediator trivia. So no, Hayden, spell it right, Steve, how you feel about this but not bad? Okay? Does that make sense? Brody has the perfect game going? I feel okay. I don't think I got it, but I don't think Brody got it. Okay, A lot to be racing, Seth without an answer, Seth,

can you just write down a dictator? Yeah, but I ain't gonna be the right one. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Don't say mine unless it's right. I don't want people to think that I put that down. We have Logan saying, what's that say? Logan? Kim jong Ill, Brodi saying Henry the Eighth elictit without an answer, Krin saying pulpop Corey saying Hugo Chavez seth without an answer, and we will say Steve, Steve said Saddam Hussein. Steve got it. Let's hear Rourke Denver told me about a

lot about catching the carp. That's so when they were in Baghdad, he told me a lot about catching the carp around the palace, and he said a lot of guys where it was like game on, Like a lot of dudes were like sweet, I could finally fish the carp and it didn't matter what they would catch. They just called them Saddam's bass over there, like there was a number of different species, a lot of it was different types of car, but everyone just called him Saddam's bass.

Eric Maddox, the army interrogator who tracked down Saddam, said that his love of fish is actually what got him caught. Here's what happened. Maddox talked to Saddam's chef, who told him that grilled carp was the dictator's favorite meal. Maddox then got intel that Saddam had a personal pond stocked with carp, which Maddox went to at the pond, Maddox interview a fisherman who told him where Saddam's bodyguard was hiding. That bodyguard led him to Saddam's bunker and the rest

is history. Spider Hole. Remember that, ladies and gentlemen, we got him. If you have a picture of you catching uh Saddam's bass, send it to me. I'll post on Instagram. I'd like to see that. Oh you well, there's and I think in ros book there's a picture of Rourke with one of Saddam's bass. Could you tell what it was? Specifically, Phil, We're halfway through the game of trivia. This is a scoreboard update. You have to make it on the board.

Solicita smith zero points. We got annual reviews coming up better because Logan and Hayden have two points apiece, and then we have Seth, Corey and Karin with three points. Yeah, and at your first place are Brody Henderson and Stephen Ronella. Don't worry sensors not giving me the answers this time, Stephen, let's be looking over my shoulder. Question six. The topic is conservation. This is our on X listener question of the Week, which was won by Sean Doherty for sending

this great question. Sean is going to get a one year premium subscription to on X If you want a chance to win our listener question of the week and send it to trivia at the meat Eater dot com. That comes load with all of Spencer's waypoint not this winner. Now sometimes referred to as toy deer. This is the only subspecies of whitetail that's listed as federally endangered in America. Brody and Steve in a competition for who can write the answer the fastest and call it a tie. Sometimes

referred to as toy deer. This is the only subspecies of whitetail that's listed as federally endangered in America. Hey, don't you know this? I'm having like the same problem that I had with Hemingway being the author. It seems too obvious. Can't well? I thought you're gonna say that problem where you get it wrong. I'm also Brody, did Saddam cross your mind? Not? No, No, Steve got it? Barren Square, he didn't, He didn't got it? Does everybody

an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying keys dear, Logan saying keys, dear, Hayden saying coves dear, CU's deer, CU's deer, Brodi's saying keys, elictit without an answer, Karn without an answer, Corey saying CU's deer, and Seth saying keys white tail. They got it. The correct answer is key, dear. So you thought that we were wait CU's dear. Yeah, but people were as hunting

cuse deer. I thought there might be like some little population in like some corner wherever where they were like these ones are regionally regal, Jacob, We didn't know what the hell we were talking about. The key deer used to range across the floor to keys, but is now only found on a few islands. They also have the smallest I don't know what the names are the islands.

They also happened to be the smallest subspecies of white tail in America, with bucks weighing about sixty five pounds and standing just over two ft tall at the shoulder. Their population was lowest in the nineteen fifties, when just twenty five remained, but today there are about one thousand left. M Question seven. The topic is cooking Pike Place Fish Market, which is famous for flying fish is located in what

American city? I think the whole room got Pike Place Fish Market, which is famous for flying fish, is located in what American cities? Everybody have the answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Everybody got it right. The correct answer is Seattle. I'm guessing that will be a more challenging question for our friends in the South and in New England and Midwest. Understandably, so it was easy for

this group of players. The Pike Place Fish Market is world renowned for fishmongers who throw around fish prior to round picking it. The market was near bankruptcy in the late eighties but was saved by after appearing on Good Morning America. Tourists then came from all around to watch fish get hurled around the market, which now attracts ten thousand visitors per day in the summer. Do you ever go watch him abuse those fish, Steve when you live there? No,

I didn't. But my friend, who is a commercial salmon fisherman, um really hates it because he says we handle fish very gently, and he feels that it's like, uh, it's like a black guye in the industry, disrespectful he said. Yeah. He says like, we don't you know when the fish is going to rigor you don't straighten it. We never throw fish. So then you go down there and it's the consumers one chance to look at the process, and

they're throwing fish around. He wasn't like it. You sure certainly wouldn't see people tossing animals around for fun, right dead ones could chickens? Yeah, I could see chicken. I'm not saying that I hold my buddy's viewpoint. I'm saying that was my buddy's viewpoint. On Ron Lady question eight, the topic is deer camp. Now this is a visual question. If you want to see what the room is seeing, then go to Instagram and check out at Spencer Newhart.

I'll make it my most recent post. What's the category deer camp? I didn't know that was a category. It has been. This is a photo of me from the late nineties with the host of a PBS slapstick comedy show that taught outdoor skills. What was the name of that show? Shut again. This is a photo of me from the late nineties with the host of a PBS slapstick comedy show that taught outdoor skills. What was the name of that show? Corey knew this without even seeing

the photo. That's right, don't show Corey the photo. I kind of want to see now, Stevie. This is like somewhere deep in your brain? Is that right? Oh? Yeah? And I even know one of the words. I think it's um. It's like, I don't want to talk too much about it, but there's like a thing. There's like a It's not like an angel talking to me. It's

like my homunculous a little bit. Well. I mean, last time I was here, I got visited buyout divine intervention, like I got I got information that came from outside of Oh no, I got it wrong though it wasn't I've got no idea. Yeah, don't know. Spencer is such a little cute pie. Again, it's a photo of me from the late nineties with the host of a PBS slapstick comedy show that taught outdoor skills. Corey, is it what you thought it was going to be? Sir? Okay?

Is anybody else as confident? Is Corey? Are we too old to know it? No? Actually, it's in your wheelhouse, like you're your most primed to know this. Nineties that that picture was from the late nineties. Yeah, a little late for me. I mean, oh no, I should know it. I know something about it. Still a great show. Just start with someone. I'll show you mine. Don't say unless it's right. It's Corey the only one who's coming up with an answer. Brodie's List is writing, I have no clue.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Logan without an answer, Hayden saying ranger Ricky without an answer, Alyssa saying antique road show, Korean without an answer, Seth without an answer. I kind of got it right, Steve saying red Scare, red scare, and Corey, who got it right? Said the Red Green Show. I don't think you get it with some kind of like it was red, remember me saying I know part of the name was red. The Red Green Show had three hundred episodes that ran

from to two thousand six. It was about Red Green, the president of the Possum Lodge Men's Club, and his group of friends who always gave sage outdoor advice. This is what one television critics said of the show quote, I think Bob newharten plaid on acid with a chainsaw, and you might come close to getting the essence of what made Red Green so enjoyable. How how did that

encounter end up happening? Oh, he came to I think it was an Ace hardware store in Sioux Falls, which is about an hour where I was from, and I watched every episode of Red Green, so we went to see him. What does that have to do with your camp? It was like it was a show that taught like I'm gonna show you how to take a ceiling fan

and make a boat motor. He would do things like that, or I'm gonna show you how to clean your gun, and then as he's handling the gun, it accidentally goes off that that was like the whole Red Green stick. He'd be very healthfully if you were trying to catch the kind of stuff that happens to deer cameras going off motor boat. We have two questions left. Give us a scoreboard update, uh Alyssa and Hayden. I'm so sorry

but you already no longer in the running. But we have Logan and Karin with four points apiece seven, Corey with five, and Stephen Brody with six. Do you remember we're not identified Hayden as an this is my worst on Friday. It's all about endurance. Here did he get his name now? Corey? Before we move on, did you watch Red Green a lot? No? I never watched a

single episode. Oh but you still knew it? Yeah? I just I think one day I was looking up the Tom Green Show and remember and watch five minutes skits and was like, oh yeah, this is cool, and you know it's stuck in my steel trap of a memory. It's great question. The topic is wildlife. This next great question comes to is via Kevin ramd In. If you have a question you think it's right from Meat Eater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at the meat eater

dot com. What bird is featured on a standard Canadian one dollar coin? What bird is featured on a standard Canadian one dollar coins? It's the quickest answer. I just pulled out Brody Logan with the quick answer. Smather folks, quick Brody. Though it's not real close to Canada. Just you can see Russia from his house. It's harder play like that. It is. It's like it's like when I'm trying to get something done and my kids are screaming. It's a lot like that. I have a feeling he's

still my Get it right, does everybody? Okay, I need a little extra time since Steve was distracting me. Steve, why do you know this one so well? Okay, I'm not telling I'll tell you later. He grew up in Michigan. No, no, Brody m Corey, you know this one? I do you grew up in a state that borders Canada. Yeah, it was like an hour and a half from Canada. Got a lot of these coins as a tip. They don't

work too well. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying loon he nearly erased it on a sweatshirt from celebrating Logan sang falcon Hayden without an answer, Brody saying he's not letting me see it, bald the Eagle. I like that though, that's creative. A list of saying Crane, Karin saying golden eagle, Cordy sang loon, Seth saying osprey. The correct answer is loon. Uh they call it. They

call it looney. Canadian coins and tunis the standard one dollar coin features a loon, which is why it's called a looney. The standard two dollar coin features a polar bear, but Canadians combine the words too and looney to come up with tuny. They're badass. Analysis Spencer, there Fell, we have one question left. Give us a scoreboard update. We have three players left in the game. Corey and Brody have six points and Steve has seven. All comes down

question ten. The topic is hunting. Name one of the three states with the most black bear entries in the Boone and Crockett record Book. Name one of the three states with the most black bear entries in the Boone and Crockett record Book. One more time? Who were the three players left? Phil, Corey, Brody and Steve? And Steve has seven Brody and Corey of six. We need Steve to get this wrong, Brody and Corey to get it right, and we will go to overtime. Cory has never won

a game of trivia. Have you been to overtime before? No? Okay, we could have a first Steve, how confident are you? Okay? Got this one? Maybe? What's the question? Name one of the three states with the most black bear entries in the Boon and Crockett record Book. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve sang Alaska, Logan saying Montana, Hayden sang Maine, Brodie saying Pennsylvania, Alyssa saying Maine, Karin saying Arkansas, Cordy sang North Carolina, Seth

saying Alaska. I do something for bonus. Let's hear it. I think it's Pennsylvania, Alaska, and Maine. North Carolina betches. The three states are Alaska, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Wisconsin by getting that one right and finishes with eight correct answers. Wisconsin has a demanding lead on the rest of the country with eight hundred forty two boone and Crockett Black Bears. Hit me with that again. Wisconsin has a demanding lead with eight hundred forty two boone and Crockett Black Bears.

That's followed by Pennsylvania with four thirty six, Alaska with two forty eight, Minnesota with two forty three, Colorado in North Carolina with two oh eight, in Arizona with one man. I won, but the skin of my teeth? Do you gotta get your bears checked? In Alaska? Well, it depends like teeth, and because I bet you a lot, go on, No not you do you definitely not even depends on what gm you you're in. There's gm us where there's

nothing you need to do. This is why I make Doug During so mad when I say that the Boone and Crockett record book is more about like your culture than it is the big quitters being killed, because Wisconsin also leads the nation and Boone and Crockett entries for white tails, but I doubt that that state solely has the most giant white tails and the most giant black

bears being killed. It's just like in their culture to be entering those things in a book where may not man, there's a lot of hunters entering a lot of animals, so it definitely shows a trend in the in the population of animals. I would agree, but you think, but I think Alaska, you could have so many Boone and Crockett bears that never ever get ready exactly because but in some states, you know, every bear gets killed exactly

like Pennsylvania. Steve wins with eight correct answers. What happens next is he gets to choose where the five hundred dollar donation goes. So what's it gonna be? Uh? Last time I won did the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership this time, however, because we just uh we just we we have at mediator, we have a land Access Initiative fund. We have some news on that right yeah, and we just drained it out, um because we participated in a big public land purchase

a couple of years ago. We did one in Maine. This year we did one in Montana, and uh we just kind of sucked her dry so in to help fill our land Access Initiative fund back up again, I'm gonna donate my winnings this time on this distinct occasion of wind, I'm gonna donate it to the meat Eater Land Access Initiative. And what did that most recent purchase get us? What happened with the Montana land access someone else get the super lives it was. It was a

big chunk of land up in near Glacier. It's called what's called Montana Outdoors that mm hmm uh so former timberland that wins up a ton of access to national forest land, but also is a sizeable chunk of land. It will be forever made public um going forward, and it provided great access to stuff it would have been otherwise difficult to access. Now, after the main project, you made a proclamation that nobody from meat eater would step

foot on that piece of ground. Does that same thing standard I said that, Um, I didn't say that I couldn't prevent anyone from doing it, but I bet you that want not being true on this one I could. I would happily say that I would for whatever reason. I would be like, Okay, I won't go there, but I wouldn't want to say that anyone that works you won't go, because I bet you they will. You won't

be mad if Hayden is there next one. I don't know, but I would happily say I would in order for someone to say like, oh, you're just doing it because you blah blah blah, like that it's that it somehow isn't that it somehow motivated by personal desire to you know, like to like that's my favorite spot. So to take all the people's money and put it towards that to reduce the appearance of a conflict of interest, I would readily agree to not stop foot on it. Five dollars

going to Meat Eaters Land Access Initiative. It's probably the first five dollars put in there of the new year. Now, we have some sad news to deliver before we get out of here. About two weeks ago, we lost friend of the show, Ed Newman, at age forty six. Ed is the man who built our Meat Eater Trivia Trophy, Meat Eater Trivia Championship plaque, and Meat Eat or Chili Cookoff Trophy. Ed passed away after an afternoon of hunting, which his family wanted to point out in the obituary

because the outdoors were that important to him. Ed was fantastic to work with. You could tell you he he was incredibly passionate about teaching and all things hunting, fishing, and conservation. Genuinely, there wasn't a person better suited to take on these projects than Ed. So we're thankful we got to know Ed. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and students, and we dedicate this episode of Meat Eat or Trivia to him, the only game show where conservation always wins. Thank you, Ed.