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

Episode Date: September 14, 2022

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia at the First Lite flagship store in Hailey, ID with Clay Newcomb, Clay Hayes, Thomas Krick, Jess Johnson, Ben Dettamanti, Tony Peterson, Sam Soholt, and Lydia Smith. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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without cell phone service as a special offer. You can get a free three months to try out OnX if you visit onxmaps.com slash meat. It's a meat-eater podcast. Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newarth, and today we're joined by eight special guests, which also happen to be eight people who have never played Meat Eater Trivia before. Well, I'm sorry, seven people, plus we have Clay Newcomb, who has not only played, but he's won.

That's right. Now, this episode is being recorded at the First Light Hootenanny in the First Light flagship store. So in honor of being here, I've grabbed eight of my favorite First Light ambassadors to test them in a game of meat eater trivia. Joining me is Sam Soholt, Thomas Crick, Ben Dedimani, Lydia Smith, Tony Peterson, Clay Hayes, Jess Johnson, and Clay Newcomb. Now, we're going to do this since most of you folks are new to the Meat Eater podcast.

We're going to go around the room and have you introduce yourself, give a little elevator pitch about what you do. I'm Thomas Crick. I run Identical Draw with my brother 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. I am down in Lander, Wyoming, hunt all over the West. And I'm one of the Artemis Sportswomen co-founders. My name is Ben Dedamonte, otherwise known as Shed Crazy. And I uh, I like to pick up horns and party. That's about all I do. You can find me on YouTube, Instagram under Shed Crazy. I like to have a good time. My name is Tony Peterson and I am a full-time meat eater employee now who I think most of my job besides 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 Soholt. I am a photographer videographer in the hunting industry as well as the co-owner of Public Land Tees and anybody listening might know me better as a guy who drove a bus around for a couple 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. I'm really passionate about archery elk hunting, and kind of that's where I take my passion mostly. Clay Newcomb. I'm a coon hunter. That's all I do. Clay Hayes. I'm primarily a YouTube content creator

focusing on traditional archery traditional bow hunting and i also happen to win season eight of alone right on yeah a better way to uh sum up these eight folks is that they're 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 new, you've played trivia before. What's your advice to these seven newcomers? You know, I think, man, I really hope Steve and Brody don't listen to this, but the best news that all of us have is Steve and Brody aren't here because they're really good. So 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, Spastaganov? You know, and be like. That's a good read on the game. Yeah. That's my advice. Now, if you're not familiar, this is a 10-round quiz show with questions from meat eaters

for Verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. And there's a prize. This meat eater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winner's choosing. Now, in a previous game of trivia, we have some housekeeping 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 Polaris.

So now you know how to find that. Hey, Spencer, do you think, like, who in this room is, like, the candidate that you think, the dark horse candidate? Who do you think is going to win? I think Clay Newcomb. Well, aside from me, that's a given. That's a given. I think this corner over here, the Tony Peterson.

The old guys. Are they the old guys? Ouch. Okay, ouch. Isn't Steve's rule that the oldest guys are the best? Yeah, you just got more wisdom. So Tony Peterson, I think, would they the old guys? Okay. Isn't Steve's rule that the oldest guys are the best guys? Yeah, you just got more wisdom. So Tony Peterson, I think, would be. That's who I was going to say.

That's a lot of pressure, man. No disrespect to anyone else. Jess is probably pretty tough. Also on a previous Game of Trivia, we had a question about what fish produces Smurf meat. The answer was lingcod, but a few folks wrote in to let me know that cambizone and greenling also sometimes have blue flesh.

The question, though, was specific to the nickname smurfmeat, which is almost exclusively used to describe lingcod. Now, I understand why there'd be some confusion, and if you did say the cabazon or the greenling, 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 on to meat-eater trivia. Play the drop, Phil. Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that? You stand to win everything.

Game on, suckers! Question one. The topic is woodsmanship, and this will be multiple choice. This first great question comes to us from John Schlesinger. If you have a question you think is right for MeatEater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at themeateater.com. According to Utah State University, what type of firewood burns the hottest? Is it box elder, mulberry, Osage orange, or white ash?

Again, according to Utah State University, what type of firewood burns the hottest? Is it box elder, mulberry, Osage orange, or white ash? We had some quick answers in the room from uh that's a good question crick 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 osage orange the other thing you can do is you can take cues from people based on anything they say that's why when you 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. Like, Clay just confirmed. His confidence gave you the answer. His confidence confirmed my confidence. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Thomas saying, oh, sage orange. Jess saying, ash. Ben saying, oh, sage orange. Tony saying saying Ash, Ben saying Osage Orange, Tony

saying Osage Orange, Sam saying Box Elder, Lydia saying Box Elder, Clay Newcomb saying Osage Orange, Clay Hay saying Osage Orange. The correct answer is Osage Orange. Right. Yes. Room did pretty well. On the board baby. Osage Orange burns 32.9 million BTUs per cord of wood. Unsurprisingly, it's also one of the heaviest types of wood in North America. Other woods that burn nearly as hot as Osage Orange include apple, beech, black locust, honey locust, and white oak. It also makes a fine self-bow. I've had it melt like the metal thing that you put firewood on, like in your in-home fireplace. Really burning Osage orange?

It just freaking took it out. Do you think a lot of people are burning Osage orange, though? No. Only if they don't know what it is. You know, I've got a ton of Osage orange on my property, and it makes incredible fence posts. Get you through them long Arkansas winters. I don't burn it.

I don't burn it for heat. If you're going to burn it, you need to burn it sparingly with other wood because it will melt your fireplace. Wow. Wow. Question two, the topic is hunting. What 1984 video game developed by Nintendo allows players to shoot ducks, clay pigeons, and their own hunting dog?

Again, what 1984 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 Newcomb, did you have a video game system growing up? Man, there was one in my house, but I was not a video gamer. 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?

Yeah, I knew this one. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tom saying, Big Buck Hunter. Jeff saying, I've never played a video game in my life. I went outside. Oh, good answer, Jeff. Ben saying, Duck Hunt. Tony saying, Duck Hunt. Sam. I went outside. Oh, good answer, Jeff. Ben saying duck hunt. Tony saying duck hunt.

Sam saying duck hunt. Lydia without an answer. I was going to say buck hunt, but I, yeah. Lydia says buck hunt. Clay Newcomb says duck hunt. And Clay Hayes says duck hunter. The correct answer is duck hunt. I'm not going to give it to you, Clay Hayes.

Duck hunter is not the same game. I should have went with what Clay did and just kind of did like that. Yeah, I kind of had a little scribble at the end of mine. 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 going to. I think we've got to keep with Duck Hunt. Duck Hunt has sold over 28 million copies worldwide. The game doesn't technically have an ending, but it does stop. If you beat level 99, you'll advance to level 0, 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. Phil the Engineer, you're our gaming expert here. Did you ever get into Duck Hunt at all? That was a little before my time, but you know, they've... Sorry. More shots at Tony. Yeah, I gotta milk it while I can, but yeah, I've played Duck Hunt before. Question three. The topic is fishing. This next great question comes to us via Anna Golightly. If you have a question you think is right for Meat Eater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at themeateater.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 live in gar country, which I think a good portion of our room does not. Where would you describe it? By gar country, I'd mean anything that's not the Rocky Mountains, probably.

Again, you got seven to choose from. I'm just looking for three. Only write down three. If you write down four, you're going to get it wrong. I wouldn't say I grew up in Gar Country, but I shot a whole bunch of them on the river growing up. That's Gar Country. That counts? Yep.

Does anybody know that they have this right? I feel real confident I do. Old man Tony. I don't think I'm even the oldest one here. Screw you guys. Does everybody have three answers written down? I'm nervous about my turn.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tom saying long nose, alligator, silver. Jess saying gar one, gar two, gar three. Ben saying alligator, blue, and needle nose. Tony saying short nose, long nose, alligator. Sam saying alligator. Lydia saying alligator and eastern. Clay Newcomb saying long nose, alligator, spotted gar.

Clay Hay saying long nose, alligator, snaggletooth? What's that one say? Snuggletooth? Exactly. Snuggletooth. Okay. The seven species are alligator, long nose, short nose, spotted, Florida, tropical, and Cuban. So we had a couple people get it right.

I was going to say Florida. I'm so mad I didn't. Do we have Tony Peterson and Clay Newcomb got it? I'm going to make an argument for the snaggletooth because unless we're going with Latin names, I can pretty much make up a common name. That snaggletooth, that's a very common name

in Milton, Florida. You hear people call them snaggletooth gar? Of course. Wait, hold on. You can't just make up nicknames the largest of the seven gar species is the alligator gar although they're 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 Wonders of Wildlife Museum in Springfield, Missouri a couple weeks ago,

and they have this world-class aquarium system that you walk through and you're in the water, it feels like. And they have alligator gar that's, I mean, I bet it's six foot long and, you know, 10 inches diameter. I mean, they're incredible animals. Dinosaurs. Yeah. I would love for those things to live in, like, Indiana again. Alligator gardens. Yeah.

It'd be fun. Question four, the topic is foraging. What commonly foraged plant was declared the king of vegetables by King Louis XIV. Again, what commonly foraged plant was declared the king of vegetables by King Louis XIV? Nobody knew this one, it appears, so everyone's just going to be taking

an educated guess. Gang, King Louis XIV declared this commonly foraged plant the king of vegetables. As per usual, a straight guess. Is anybody confident they got this one? No?

We good? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Thomas saying asparagus. Jess saying asparagus. Ben saying mushrooms. Tony saying asparagus. Sam Soholt saying wild onion. Lydia saying radish. Clay Newcomb saying mushrooms. Tony saying asparagus. Sam Soholt saying wild onion. Lydia saying radish.

Clay Newcomb saying mushrooms. Clay Hayes without an answer. The correct answer. Wait, is that a vegetable? A mushroom? Ah, yeah. Probably. We don't know what King Louie knew.

The correct answer is asparagus. Ooh, wow. Good job, Jess. Got it. Wow. Stinky peas. The French brought the first asparagus to America sometime around the 1650s. It escaped cultivation here sometime in the early 1800s

and became commercially grown in the 1860s. King Louis loved 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 any 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 uh up off the side of the road where i live really it goes well borrow ditches in Wyoming of asparagus.

Wow. Some hot tips here for foraging. It's the fastest. That's what got me. I didn't realize that it could be foraged, wildly foraged. I didn't know that. This is news to me. Where do you think it came from? I don't know, man.

Grocery store. Where does everything come from? Grocery store. The wild. What is the base of an asparagus called where it grows out of? Is that a crown? A crown. Is that why it's called a crown?

I doubt it, but I like it. All right. Run to question five. We 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 bow. 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 height. Sam saying brace height. Lydia without an answer. Diagram. And the Clays saying brace height. They got it. The answer is brace height. 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 re-read, but in general... This is where if you were Steve or Brody, you'd throw a fit. No, hold on a minute. You'd throw a fit and Spencer's good though. He, hold on a minute. You'd throw a fit, and Spencer's good.

He doesn't usually bend any. 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 longbows and recurves have a brace height around 8 inches, while most flagship compounds are typically closer to 6. We are halfway through the game of trivia. Phil the Engineer, give us a scoreboard update.

Will do. Yet to make an 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 scary. We have Tony Peterson with five. Pitching a perfect game, Tony. Wow. The pressure's on. Well done. Now, how certain are you of that score?

I thought me and Tony were tied. You got asparagus and I didn't, but you missed one that I got. Do you take bribes? No. He doesn't miss. Okay. Not like Kenyon. Sorry, I couldn't help it.

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trivia at themeateater.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 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 i don't either that's not gonna help you very much then I do and I still don't have it That is their hint A male turkey It must be an obscure college What region of the country is it in? The strutters

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 going to come up with one? This might break the perfect game.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Thomas saying Scranton. Jess without an answer. Ben saying West Virginia. Tony saying Auburn. Sam saying, what's that say? Cloaca University. Cloaca University. Lydia without an answer, Ben saying West Virginia. Tony saying Auburn. Sam saying, what's that say? Cloaca University. Cloaca University.

Lydia without an answer, and the Clays without an answer. That was a rough one. The answer is Virginia Tech. Ooh, I was close. I was in the wrong Virginia. Virginia Tech's current mascot is the Hokie, but they used to be known as the Gobblers. In the early 1900s, 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 car door slamming or something? Probably like, yeah, yeah, exactly. Hen clone command, yeah.

Best trained turkey. So now they're the Hokies, 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 16

million acres that are spread across Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. What is it? Again, the topic is public lands. America's largest Native American reservation consists of 16 million acres that are spread across Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. What is it?

Is this going to get you on the board, Jess? Get a quick answer, it seemed like. It's a quick guess. Okay. 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 saying Navajo. Newcomb saying Navajo Nation. And Hayes saying Navajo. The correct answer is the Navajo Nation Reservation. If you just said Navajo, I'll give it to you.

Yes. So the room did pretty well. We're tied. Okay. Looking at Phil. We all know, Clay. 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 watch them i didn't see that coming 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 watching, they score and I'm watching the TV and they didn't give them the point and then bang, it pops up like, okay, they did now. What does this have to do with the...

I'm tired of you. Oh, okay. Now the Navajo Nation is four times larger than the next biggest reservation. Its total acreage is even bigger than 10 U.S. states and unlike most reservations, it's actually grown significantly over than the next biggest reservation, its total acreage is even bigger than 10 U.S. states. And unlike most reservations,

it's actually grown significantly over the last 150 years. Question eight, we'll get another scoreboard update after this. The topic is cooking. 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? I thought you would know this one.

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. Me too. I was real confident for about two seconds. Yep, that's how it goes.

Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tom saying umami. Jess saying acid. Ben saying bland. Tony saying spicy. Sam saying spicy. Lydia saying savory.

Newcomb saying savory. And Hayes saying, what's that say? Good? Good? Good. Good. Good. The correct answer is savory or umami. Catching up, guys.

That is savory. I'm going to contest my own 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, kimchi, and green tea.

But in a 2017 TED Talk, Dr. Nicole Garnau argued that there could actually be a sixth basic flavor, which would be fat. So savory or umami is things like mushrooms, Clay. Where would spicy fit in? I thought that was a good answer, Tony I did too I mean, it's kind of cool that I'm ahead of you now

Now that you're winning your body's again That's what Steve does Steve Rinella, if he's winning, he's really courteous If he comes up, he's like, that was a good answer I actually think I know this one It says spicy isn't a flavor, it's a pain sensation 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 you call that. That's a really dumb answer, Tony. Nobody asked you. Hey, Lydia, nobody asked you. No, it's fine. I'm catching up, though. So the five are sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savory or umami. 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 there are only three players left in the game. We have Ben with four points, Tony Peterson with five, and in first place, as he just reminded us,

Clay Newcomb with six. Question nine. The topic is wildlife. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Colton Saugustad. For sending this great question, Colton is going to get a $100 First Light gift card. If you want a chance to win our listener question of the week, you can send your question to trivia at themeatdeater.com. Born between March and May, the babies from this mammal are often referred to as red dogs. Jess.

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 are you feeling about this? Just guessing. Tony Peterson, how do you feeling about this? Just guessing. Tony Peterson, how you feel about this? Not good. Okay. Jess's certainty helped me.

Okay. Gave something away. Who else is in the game? We have Clay and Tony and who? Ben, how you feel about this one? I feel very confident in my complete guess. Okay. Does everybody have an answer?

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tom saying fox, Jeff saying bison, Ben saying beavers, Tony saying otters. Mine's not. Sam without an answer, Lydia saying some mammal born naked,

Newcomb saying prairie dog, and Hayes saying squirrel. The correct answer is bison. Wow. That's awesome is bison. Wow. That's awesome. Good job, Jess. 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. 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. That was my first thought, too. If we were playing poker, you would have won. We are on to our last question.

Give us a scoreboard update, Phil. I don't think anything changed, did it? Nothing changed, but Ben has lost his opportunity to catch up. Let's do a two-point final question. It's between Tony and Clay who have five and six points, respectively. Tony. The last question.

The topic is fishing, and I don't think either one of you have it. This is the last question? This is the final question. So if he gets it wrong and I get it wrong, I still win. That's right. That's how that works.

I'm fighting for a tie now. 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 taken over the last decade. Two of the top five states. Newcomb, how you feeling?

You know, fair. Tony? I'll echo that sentiment. I don't feel that great about this. I like these when it's like 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 and 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.

Newcomb saying California and Florida. And Hayes saying California and Florida, Lydia saying Hawaii and Florida, Newcomb saying California and Florida, and Hayes saying California and Florida. The top five are Florida, Hawaii, South Carolina, North Carolina, and California. Everyone got it right. I think everybody got it. Well done.

Sam and I were the best on that one, though, because we got the first two answers right. Florida overwhelmingly leads the nation in shark attacks with 236 in the last decade. The next closest is Hawaii with 73, South Carolina with 43, North Carolina with 32, and California with 29. Sharks kill one person in America each year, which is half as many people who die because a vending machine falls on them. I know which one's more likely to happen to me. Clay Newcomb is our winner. How many did you get? Seven?

Seven answers? I think so. Well done, Clay. Good job, Clay. Good performance by everybody. I'm still contesting the mushroom-vegetable connection. I just, yeah, it wasn't the best answer. Now what happens next is Clay, as the winner,

gets to choose where the $500 donation goes. So what's it going to be? I'm going Hal for wildlife. What do you like so much about that? Man, I think those guys have given a, 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

the anti-hunting legislation in this country, but Howl for Wildlife's taken a good swing at it. I like them. Jess, as somebody who traffics in that space, you agree you like Howl? Yes. I say yes and because this is what Howl does, where I actually do think that you have to do more than just the Howell. And as a lobbyist, I very rarely ever see petitions ever actually work 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, or they'll get 700 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 43, or whatever it is. And then in your piece, you give a two or three sentence. Don't write a whole book, but a two or three sentences. I'm a local. I'm your constituent. I care very deeply.

That shit 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 Howell 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 750 emails in each of their inboxes. It didn't change anything until 12 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 Howell 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. Now that's our end of the game of trivia, but I'm so stoked on like the first light story. I don't think I did a good enough job last episode of talking about how cool it is. So as our guest, throw some superlatives around about what you like about this place, how neat 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 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 pretty sweet in my opinion great colors 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 that's a very cool store especially for the women out there that are looking to see how things fit like this this is pretty cool. Yeah. 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 it all. You guys 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 going to get a lot of value out of that. Well done. Stoked that it'll be open by the time you hear this episode. And that's it for Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. hey folks exciting news for those who live or hunt in canada you might not be able to join our raffles and sweepstakes and all that because of raffle and sweepstakes law, but hear this.

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