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

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This is a 10 round quiz show with questions from meat eaters for main verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. And there's a prize, meat eater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winner's choosing meat eater trivia, yeah, pretty incredible, huh Spencer? Can I already ask you a question? Yeah, sure. How did you get to be the special guest host? I wrote the script. You put that in the script. Yeah, that's how you become the special, that means I did a poor, I did a poor job of introducing myself. Brody needs to be special, special. Yes. Yeah. Super special. Who's the show Mark? The show is brought to you by one of our favorite beers, Spencer, that is Bushlight. Oh, yeah. We're going to kick off today's episode right, we're going to get right into it. We got a great mail bag 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, what do you, where do you send to trivia at the meateater.com with the subject line mail bag, all right, so you guys ready for the mail bag question? Yes, please. 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 EastGowning has produced some promising white tail signs. The problem, 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 the depth of six feet, when 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 waiters, but at six feet, I would need a snorkel and be soaked. And these suggestions on how to cross this while staying reasonably dry and warm. What would you do, Laura? Ooh, multi-sport day, today you're going to go hunting, fishing, and floating with either a canoe, a kayak, or a pack wrap. Or a paddleboard. Damn. You could stop it. You could stop it up. Yeah. There's some other things that come to mind. Oh. Please, share. Who zipped mine? Trot tire tubes. Just float across. Trot tire. Okay. We also got a way to get soaking wet, though. He said he didn't want to get wet. Oh, he said he didn't want to get wet. The other idea I had was a life jacket. Yeah. And just jump in. See where you go. What was the host of "Wire to Hunt Do?" I would have just bought, like, a brought a canoe. I love the pack wrapped idea. I don't own a pack wrapped, but I've often said that it's worth the investment for this kind of thing. The zipline? I have a friend who owns a piece of land in Iowa who is threatened to put in a zipline to a special stand location for years. 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 about having this spot. Get some used watercraft. Yeah. I bought a foldable kayak a couple of years ago, and I'm a huge fan. It breaks down to be the size of, like, a suitcase. So, even if this dude drives a car, I can fit in the trunk of his car real easy. It's the kind of thing that he could leave, like, hide it under a bush somewhere on the bank. If he's planning to, you know, hunt all week, the first week in November, I think a foldable kayak would be perfect for this job. Yeah, like that Organi style? Yeah, the Oru or some kind of Oru is the main brand that's one I have. You can get them for, like, less than $300 if you wait for, you know, Black Friday, Memorial Day sale, whatever. It seems like the job that he needs to accomplish, that's like the tool for it. Great idea. A friend of ours, her dad bought a prefabricated bridge on the internet. Oh, yeah. B-Y-O-B. Yeah. Bring your own bridge. That's another option. Can only imagine how much that costs. I don't know. Doesn't seem very well built. No. Okay. I've got a little fees or a beast, though, who retrieved his bull elk using a paddleboard. And I think he could do that with his white tail. Yeah. No. That's sweet. That looks like stagnant water, to me. This dude's talking about crossing a river. Yeah. A river runs through it. Just angled, angled. I don't know. You can take the paddleboard. But he wants to stay dry. Rope swing. You can stay dry on a paddleboard. Hot air balloon. Hang lighter. They're long jumping. More of the story, Jason, that there are many options at your disposal. And I would view this, like you said, Randall or Yani, I would view this as a feature. Not a bug. Yeah. This is a good thing. Good idea. That's going to be a harder for people to get there. So, today's episode, there is no Shelby index, of course, or Kylie index in this case with my wife. Wow. 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. She wouldn't look at this as fun to do after dinner. No. And she's also, she's sick. And one of my kids is sick. So no. No index. No Kylie index. So you guys. Take a guess. Yes. How would she do, you think? She would do great. Yeah. It would be great. I almost got the wrong one then. She knows it all. But I will tell you, I was told that was too hard last time around, so I tried to be easier. No Kylie index. I like that. But I do think that the first question people will think that's not the case. So listen past the first question, everybody. Yeah. It's going to get better. Yes. I promise. Hit the drop. Look, I need to know what I stand to win everything. How's that just tend to win everything. All right, so question number one. And this is our listener question of the day, right out of the gate. It's a special listener question of the day because I actually got to spend time with this listener just a couple of days ago and he brought me a little something which will be part of this question. Oh. So our special listener today is John Stewart, the topic for this first question is natural history. Okay. Natural history. It's a multiple choice question. Here we go. I'm going to put it up on the screen for you to wait until Spencer starts reading the question. Okay. And then I do a really cool transition. Only the YouTube audiences. Yeah. Okay. 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 musk ofite, b, calcite, c, quartz, or d gypsum? And for those who are listening and can't see this, it is a foresighted, shiny, kind of crystalline, let me lick that thing. You may not like this. Can we hit key handed down here? Sure. Okay. Hand down. 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? I know one up there that it's not musk ofite, calcite, quartz, or gypsum. In this duck. Well, no clues. Sorry, no clues. Okay. Yeah. Spencer, do you feel confident? No. This was your wish I did. This was your softball. I know. I don't think I'm going to get it. So when Yani hosted all of his questions were softballs of Brody. And I thought that it would be polite to give the usual host the softball. Thank you. I don't think that's polite, but try to help out my buddy Spencer. Wow. You're going to do that. Yeah. So no matter how you break the sucker, it will always break into something similar to this. A rhombus-type shape. Give me a hammer. Yeah. We had to ask that nobody tests that theory because this came all the way from a very exotic location. Oh, it's exotic. Not necessarily that just happens to be that we're this one is how locally exotic. So does anybody have an answer that they're ready to go with? How are we doing here? Oh, yeah. Oh, stick with it. What the heck. Yeah. Okay. Everybody good? All right. And says Muscovite, Janice's Quartz, Omar Quartz, Spencer, Gypsum, Laura Quartz, Corey Quartz. The correct answer is Kelsite. Mmm. - Zero percent. - This is Kelsey starting with a zero percenter. - Anybody's game. - So, if anyone was paying attention to our auction house of Auditi's this summer, we auctioned off a truck. Steve's dad's shitty old truck full of bad ass 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, had got this question that I've always wanted you guys to ask and I will give you the sample to take to the shelf. So, Kelsey, interestingly relevant to us that hunt and do stuff with optics. Kelsey has perfect, rumble-heedral cleavage resulting in this distinct slanted cube appearance. Due to its ability to split light into two rays, transparent Kelsey, such as this piece of Iceland's spar was once a critical natural component in early scientific and optical instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and maybe even early gun sites. - Ooh, so, pretty interesting stuff. Little piece of calcite right here for you. - 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 trip, your question." - It was a wonderful gift that I very much appreciated. - Should let me lick it. - Uh-huh, sorry buddy. Question number two, the topic is hunting. In the iconic hunting-themed song titled "Fred Bear," performed by Ted Nugent, name one of the animal species that Fred Bear claims will cleanse the soul if you tangle with it. - Man, I can only remember the chorus right now. - All right, iconic hunting-themed song called "Fred Bear." Has everybody heard the song? - Sure. - Yeah. All right. - Laura, have you heard it? - Uh-uh, no. - Yeah, sorry, Laura. - It's all right. - This is not my game. The 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 it all, this song was requested by my son. That was perfect timing. We just saw some nice white-tailed bucks in a field and Everett's like, "Dad, let's listen to Fred Bear." (laughing) Is that a hint? - I don't think my kids have ever heard that song. I like to play that for "Nable" in the way home. - You should. - Classic. It's a part of our hunting season rotation with the kids. They like "Fred Bear." They like the "Turtie Point" buck. (laughing) Hunt and Fish and Love, Love and Every Day. - Classic. - Buck fever. - It's a little bit more-- - I don't know Buck fever. - Deep cup. - This is an album that Rhett Akkins and some guys from like the real tree crew put together. Michael Wadell was like a bone collector album or something. It was actually a good song. - What about "Nuck" if you buck? (laughing) - The kids haven't heard that one yet. All right, are we all set here, guys? - Yeah. - All right, Randall says Grizzly Bear, Yannis Grizzly, Omar Grizzly Spencer, white-tailed Laura, white-tailed Cory, white-tailed. - That's funny. - What team's? - Acceptable, acceptable answers are Grizzly Bear, Polar Bear, Brown Bear. - Yes. - Oh. - 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. With 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 wanna 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." He'll cleanse the soul. - Oh, yeah. - Yeah, you wouldn't tangle with a white-tailed. - Yeah. (laughing) - That's just gonna cause anxiety. It's not gonna cleanse the soul. - If you 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? - The reason I started waiting until Spencer would read the question before I'd switch to the next slide is 'cause 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. (laughing) - 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. Anybody know this? Like for sure. - I think I do. - I feel better about my answer now. I hope to be honest. - All right, well, all the answers in? - Yep. - Randall. - Just sir. - We've got the ivory billed woodpecker from Randall. Yannis says the ivory. Omar says the dodo. Spencer's got the ivory bill. Laura's got the passenger pigeon. Cory's got the ivory billed woodpecker. The correct answer is ivory billed woodpecker. That is the largest woodpecker species in 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 forced habitat caused massive population declines in the 1800s, with many thinking they are 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. Hmm. Maybe they saw squatch instead. Hmm. I think that name was because when people would see them, they were so stunning. They'd be like, "My Lord, good God." That would sound how they got that name. Yep. This isn't the sort of the gunfighters. [LAUGHTER] You're the name of the son of a match. Oh, my Lord. Good boy, Zach. You guys have all seen pilliated woodpeckers? Yeah. Yeah. So this is supposed to be that on steroids. So that would have been-- What about our meat on them? Probably right. Speaking of meat, I ate woodchuck. When I visited the listener, question, submitter, John. Tell me, woodchuck nuggets. Damn. He's showing off. Yeah. Very good. Has anybody eaten woodchuck? No. Mm-hmm. Chuck nuggets. That was how he teased the trip as I was coming, you know, plating it out. He was like, you're going to really want to get here. Where do you chuck nuggets? Mm-hmm. [LAUGHTER] Mark had-- He was right. --after that. Do you dip in anything? Huh? Did you dip them in anything? We had, like, sriracha, some kind of, like, Chick-fil-A sauce, some stuff like that. Mm-hmm. It was great. And that's a perfect segue into the next question. Question number four, the topic is cooking. All right. Catch it. God, that was good. That was a great segue. Well done. What plan? What is-- 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 mixed brand? What do you call a meal of fish to be cooked and eaten and 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 ahead and get this. I've never had a proper blank, but I have used the batter, which I enjoy. I've never actually had a proper. Oh, it's J. Siemens feed me. Oh, I know. I know these in a row. I know I feel like I should go up there, just in one of these with J. Boy, that was heaven on earth. This is good stuff. On dry land. This is really good stuff. This is a good question. Does everybody have an answer or Laura still? I know he's got a couple of questions already, but I'm surprised that we haven't had. Just shows you. The world of hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking trivia is big, rich, endless. Mark Kenney always asks me, how long I'm going to do this podcast for? And I tell him till we run out of questions. Or until you forget the ones that you've asked. Yeah. [LAUGHTER] I see Nile. Laura? No. You're going to toss the towel? I can't. All right, let's see what you guys got. Randall says, shore lunch. Yani, shore lunch. Omar, catching, cook, Spencer, shore lunch. Laura's got nothing. And Corey says, catching, cook. The correct answer is shore lunch. Sorry, guys. In shore lunch, as far as I'm concerned, is the best part of any catching 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 go up there for a week. And every day I have shore lunch. And as many folks do, we fish all morning. We 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, oh. But of course, shore lunch is pretty popular. Shore launch is like the Coca-Cola of fish batter. - Yeah. just like you walked, it's, it's just fine. It's good. It's not bad. It's like a Coca-Cola. If you walked into like a Cabellus and you wanted to buy fish, badder, I think this would have the most real estate on the shelf. Yeah. Well, hold on a second. What about J. Seaman's brand? Catch and cook. Yeah, I was going to say I still feel like this is the most popular ubiquitous term. It's not what I call it. I agree with you. Catch and cook is delicious. Yeah. 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 con-ending. Sorry, Corey. Yeah. I'm not going to get it. Yeah, I like Marcus. Stick and do his guns. Yeah, good for you. Sure lunch. Fine, catch and cook, wherever fish. You could have a sandwich. She's always their soul. It's delicious. We had a shore lunch yesterday. There wasn't fish involved in that. That's true. Question number five. Next. Keep her moving. That big fish. I'm giving myself a half. I need it. I'm going to throw you another bone, though, Corey. Maybe you got a chance here. Oh, the topic's fishing. I know. Fly fishing. All right. But not fly fishing. Sorry. Oh, well, maybe 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 big ballpoint pen. And typically as a unique side to side shimmying action, is it drifts down through the water column? What is it? What year 96? Taking me back. What revolutionary bass fishing lure, made out of soft plastic, looks like a big ballpoint pen, and slides side to side as it drifts down. Spencer, what do you know? I think I would say I'm 75 percent chance. I will say this is probably I feel like the Midwestern folks, the southern folks will probably do better on this bass boy. Yeah. Yeah. Is everybody honest? No, no, give me at least two minutes. I think the pen was part of the production of this. They were like, I should turn that thing into a lure. Huh. I don't think I have the right answer. Hmm. Everybody bit Yani is in. You guys already have an answer? Wow. Oh, Omar. No. Omar doesn't have one either. Omar, can you think of any bass fishing lure? I can. Okay. Well, Gary, I'm a moto. You can only you can only chew so long when your mouth is empty. You know, I just don't have a lot to go with here. Lori, you have the answer? I don't know. I just invented it. You know, I'd like to say it again. I think you're still chewing on it. I'm like, I don't, nothing to chew here. Just go with what I know. Go with what you know. That's that's almost as good as a fresh set of eyes always shape like a big ballpoint pen. No, I didn't say that. Yeah. Get it said that. It's a soft plastic. You know what that is, right? In the bass fishing game. Are you being pedantic? What are you? I don't know what that word means. I'm just trying to figure out what that I'm just trying to figure out what what does that mean, Randall? I was asking Mark. Oh, you're looking while looking at Yannis. Oh, yes, I know what that is, Mark. Oh gosh. I'll write something down. Philke, this was a all-time favorite of mine. Say it and then really see, I was kind of still bass fishing in 96. Well, you're heyday. Yeah, they used this where you grew up for sure. I'm sure. Yeah, my neighbor Kevin Van Dam probably slamming them with this lure. You tried of Kalamazoo, right? Yep. And Derek Jeter. They produced two great Americans and good cereal. And now Yannis Patelis. This is that one. I'll tell you isn't Kellogg's there. No matter what's the name of it. Sorry, Alex. That's where Rob Van Dam is from. The best wrestler to ever bless the ring. What's the name of the minor league hockey? Name some more Michigan places. I'll tell you who's from there. Went K-Wings. All right, Yannis. We'll Ferrell's character. Let's get something out there. What do you got? Randall says the sinko. Yannis is the band-o. Omar, you did it. That's the sinko. Yeah. Spencer Sinko. Laura Pasbrimer, like you said Gary. Yeah, when you said the Gary, I'm out. I'm like, wow, because that's who makes the sinko. I had a. This is good era of bass vision in me. There you go. Since done. So the sinko 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, I'm a moto was designing this lure. He started with the basic profile of the big 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. It's got this little kind of the ends of the big pen on either side. Just do this little jiggle as a kind of like a pendulum swings down through the water. Do you have a photo? 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 and preg nation distributed evenly throughout the body of the lure. So there you go. There's a sinko on the screen. You could take that to any bass lake in North America and you'll catch something. Not Montana. When we had that little retreat thing, I fished with that sanko for like an hour. A lot of guys, that's their slump buster, wacky regga sanko. Yeah. So I'll catch you a bass. So a wacky rig would be taking your big hook and hook and it kind of right to the middle. And then that would be like a weightless wacky rig. Or you could Texas rig it, which should be going to the top with a sliding bullet sinker on top. Weedless. 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 sinko just. No one has ever done that before. Just ripping it along that. It's a good idea. I was ridden some saltwater tactics, you know, but I had a trailer hook. So did it crush. Oh, yeah, definitely. I bet. Oh, she could still trespass without a guilty conscience. Phil, now you just don't feel guilty at all when you do it. Can we get a scoreboard up to it? I'd love to see where things stand. We got a spread here. Wow. Laura is not on the board as of yet. She has zero points. Cory has one and a half and a half. Sure. Sure. Catch and cook. Spencer, Yannis and Omar are tied up with three and Randall's in first place with four points. Keep going. Huh? Anybody's game. Anybody's game. Whether your season's already open or you're still counting down the days, the meat eater store has what you need to get ready. We're talking first light. F-H-F, six-hour, mulchery, felps. The brands we actually run in the field. Plus brand new T's hoodies and hats that just dropped with more drop in every month. Also, check out our new meat eater grocery game bags. These game bags are ultra light, breathable nylon. They cool your meat fast and keep it clean from the kill site to the cooler. They got reflective trim on them so you can keep working after dark and find your bags and if you got them hanging way up in the tree in the middle of the night. And once you've got meat and the cooler, we've got you covered there too. Seasonings, cookbooks, and knives to cook up everything you bring home to check it all out head to the meateaterstore.com. All right. This one I feel like should be in the wheelhouse for a number of people. The topic is hunting and I might have changed the question. Phil, I don't remember which version I gave you so we're going to find out. Okay, cool. 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, the Deer Report, name one of the top three states with the highest white tail buck harvest for the 2024 hunting season. This is the most recent data. What give me one of the top three white tail 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. Thank you. You're welcome. One of the top three states for white tail buck harvest according to the 2026 National Deer Association Deer Report. You guys feel pretty confident. Everybody's got an answer except for Spencer. I'm just trying to show off and write down all three and then I just picked up my actual answer. You're okay. I wondered about that. Is that allowed? No. Because what if you just wrote? I'm pick. I'm sure you guys have to certainly want to raise 32 states down. Okay. Steve will often do that, but that's just to show like if he is wrong, he's hoping that you can see that he was close. Like he almost got it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's see what you got. Please reveal. Randall says Texas. Janus Wisconsin. Holmars says Iowa. Spencer says Wisconsin, but he's also throwing some show off moves there. Loris is Michigan and Corey says Wisconsin. Acceptable answers would be Texas, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin. Mark, tell people what I had here. You had all three Spencer through a perfect game right there. But you circled number. - Free of those. - Thank you. - Okay, so I was just showing off. - No, who do you think's number one? - Everything's good. - Wisconsin. - Wisconsin. - And then PA and then Texas. That would be my guess. - Oh, Wisconsin. - Texas. - Texas. - I'm gonna go, yeah, Texas. - Texas, Texas, Texas, Laura. - Pennsylvania. - Pennsylvania, of course. - Of course we go. - All right, number one is Texas. By orders of magnitude, Texas killed 425,529 bucks. During that most recent year, the runners-up, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and my homestay of Michigan, were all less than half of that total. - Wow. - Yeah. - Texas also tops the charts for antler list deer with 411,480 harvested. So they're killing a lot. - Texas is also 10 times the size of those other states. - Big place. - That factored into my calculus. - Yeah, the element boys probably killed 100 of them year in 2024, that variable could be. I wouldn't put a past them. - 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 dumb state is. - Not a dumb state, I love it. Too much driving through it though. - I got another state question for you. - Oh, great. - Yay. - Number seven, 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 of your kids go on under? - They frequently go under two of them. - Oh. - Is it the largest? - I can't tell you that. - I hope it's not my home state. - No, I won't be. - Where did you grow up? - They don't care about wildlife. - 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. - Oh yeah, underpass, yep. 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 a known house 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. - That's amazing. They're talking about trying to put one of these, heading up to Big Sky. - Yep. - Oh, yep. That's a massive, that's a massive area of wildlife collisions there. - In the canyon? - 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 underpasses. - I've got some suggestions. - Yeah. - I've really always had to be married. - He's have to be married with like, you know, big fences and 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. - That is the downside of this, is that you've got the fences. Does everybody have an answer? - Yep. - All right, let's reveal. - Go ahead reveal your answer. - Randall says Wyoming. - Yani says California, Omar says Colorado. Spencer, Colorado. Laura, Wyoming, Cory, Michigan. - Question mark. - The correct answer is Colorado. - Oh. - Nice to be done Omar. All right, so get this. - Don't laugh at my answer. - By one measure, an estimated one million to two million crashes between motor vehicles and large animals, such as deer occur every year in the United States. One to two 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. Ooh, yeah. 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. Well, it's right outside LA. Yeah, so we're not talking about it for a while. Very expensive, but if you're preventing all these deer from getting hit and wrecking up cars, probably pencil out there's bears on 90. Well, the cool thing about these is that you've got like different angles of support. You have people who just care about human safety and then there's a wildlife conservation site. And then insurance agencies like it because it reduces car damage. So it's a win-win-win. Moving on, question number eight. We're going international, my friends. The topic is fishing. Here we go. Name one of the countries in which Taiman, the largest member of the Saminid family, can be found. Name at least one of the countries in which Taiman can be found. This is a fish that is the largest member of the Saminid family. Cory's very happy about this one. Cory. Wrong continent. 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 meatier film. Jason Taiman. That's chat later. All right. This would be a good one. Has anybody seen one of these? Do we know what it looks like? I hate one. No, you-- Sure lunch. Where? When you get to-- I can't tell if he's supposed to tell you. You really did? Now I think he did eat one. That's amazing. The whole wolf fish. OK, so Randall knows what's up. Have you seen pictures? The rest of you? Yeah. Of me eating it? No. Yeah. So photographic. Everybody in? All right, that was fast. Let's reveal. Randall, Slovenia, Janus Mongolia, Omar, Mexico, Spencer, Russia, Laura Peru, Cory, Mongolia. The correct answers did not include Slovenia according to my research. Oh. Correct answers are-- Australia. --the Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Japan, Korea, or Mongolia. Is this not the same as the Huken? No. Sorry about that. Oh, no. I was trying to get fancy. I'd just screwed myself up. Yeah, because the China Russia, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, or Kazakhstan, that's too bad. Give yourself a half point. Oh, he's going to Google. No, no, it's fine. Yeah, Google it. Shut up, Spencer. [LAUGHTER] He can't spell Kazakhstan. Oh, yeah. I'm thinking of something different. They call them this. They call them what? They call them that. Yeah, they're calling them time and when I was over there, interesting. Well, these fish-- Oh, f***ing. As I mentioned. The Danube salmon. And the largest relatives of salmon and trout, they can live over 30 years long. They can reach six 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. Same genus. Yeah, I want a different species. If I go, I'm going to fish a red squirrel pattern. Damn, I thought I was just trying to be-- I'm going to throw a meps. Can we get a scoreboard update? Phil, we're getting close. Yeah, I guess. Look at that. Oh, we've got a game. Oh, Spencer is coming in here towards the end. Oh, I try to get fancy. I love the rock question. [LAUGHTER] Yeah, Google it is one of the best things that's been said. Oh, we've got-- so let's just go to the top players. We've got-- Spencer is now in first place with six. Right behind him are Randall and Yannis with five. Omar has four. Everybody else is putting on a great effort. They're here. Thanks. I woke up this morning. 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? 33.33 on chance here for Ulysses S. Grant. How'd you do, Randall? He's got it. Oh, I got it. Just think about when the first of these was counted. Come on. I'm just explaining how one would think through the next two. Oh, I'm so mad. You're still mad with the last one? Yeah, I try to get cutesy. Take it. They kept calling hookin' time in when I was over there. And he's like, my friend's got a commercial fishing operation and he's gettin' us time in for dinner. So we ate a hookin' not a time in. - Well, how did that taste? Tell us about it. - I don't remember, it was delicious. Regale me with all the details. This is delicious. - It's the bait and switch. - It's a, you know, catching, you know, catching, switching to the shore. I'm stupid. - What were you gonna say if you didn't mongolia? Everybody knows that mongolia. - I just thought mongolia was too easy to silly. (laughing) - Man, it's the biggest. - That's the only thing that ended up silly. - Oh, I know, I know. - That's a tough one. - And I think I still even had the wrong country. - Yeah. - Yeah. - What did you say? - What did you write down? - Peru. - Yeah, I said Mexico. - Yeah. - All right, everybody, you know, everybody else. Went in doubt. - Reveal your answers. Randall says National Park, Yannis National Forest, Omar Park, Spencer Park, Laura, Wildlife Refuge, Cory Wildlife Refuge. The correct answer is National Park. Now Spencer, you thought the first National Park was in Michigan? - I thought it was in Ireland there, right? - No. - Oh, I thought you were just teasing me. - No, I thought there was an island there that was the first one. - Spencer, you got too cute. 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. And 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, Janice. - Oh, he's mad. - Good for us. - It's been a while since I've been down there. - I was on my trip delivering this truck and I got a photo from my wife that three of them went and did a without dad expedition through Yellowstone, hike down to a bunch of waterfalls. - Nice. - It's all a bunch of big elk. - Nice. - Good times. 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? - Yes. - Yes, please. - All right, so. - You 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 build woodpecker. Four, shore lunch, five, sinko. Six, Texas, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin. Seven, Colorado. Eight would have been China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, all those countries. So many options, Randall. In number nine, national park. Scoreboard update, please. Where does that put us? - Same. - There we go. - It's down to Spencer. He was in first place on seven and Dr. Randall, who had six. Okay, let's follow that one. Well, Spencer gets it really wrong. Can we give him a negative one? - I almost wanted to take one off. If he was getting that in the first national park. - He 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. - Oh, no. - Randall is less so. - I don't even know where to begin. So I'm just going with my gut. - Really? - I was debating whether I was almost going to have the exact year, but then I thought that would be too hard. - That's nuts, man. - Yeah, I thought that'd be too hard. (laughing) But better judgment came through when I was a second. - He only changed it about an hour ago. Send me an email saying, "I think this is maybe too hard." And I said, "Yeah, I think so." - Spencer, what do you have? - We'll find out. - 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 Coria. The correct answer is 90s, 1997 to be exact. Elk will return to Kentucky in multiple waves from 97 through 2002, during which time more than 1500 Elk will release into the Elk Restoration Zone of Eastern Kentucky. They flourished and by 2001, 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's been 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 gonna find a way to make it happen. So it's pretty inspiring example of how any person could really make a big difference. Where did their Elk come from? They pulled them from, oh gosh. - They're Rockies, right? - I felt like Yellowstone attributed to some of those Eastern states. - 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, Laplug. Very interesting episode, exploring the fall and rise of wildlife in the east. So how much of the Eastern wildlife was extrapated or brought crashing down by how some are now recovered? Pretty cool story. - That means though that, what? - Spectrum center. - On the winner. (crowd cheering) - Hey, congratulations, so much. - Thank you. - Very well done. - I'm gonna give to Fezans Forever. They're the Habitat organization. I love that about them. Although I don't haunt a lot of Fezans these days. I haunt other things that love the Habitat. They provide that it's just like something everybody benefits from Fezans Forever. Even if you just like clean water. If that's important to you, Fezans Forever helps contribute to that. - It's a great selection. And I think it's particularly impressive that Spencer won today's episode even while getting the rock question wrong. So, very impressive, good for me. - Wow. - 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 we're conservation always wins. - All right. - Randall sometimes wins. - Oh, thank you very, very far. (upbeat music) - Yeah, Spencer himself Dakota, he's the host. Using those smooth mellow tones, he lays them questions down. (upbeat music) And he likes taking those two and three-year-old bucks. (laughing) And he's an avid amateur rock hound. 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