The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 856: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCX

Episode Date: April 1, 2026

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Max Barta, Cory Calkins, Nate Mason, and Laura Mascari.  Connect with MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and YouTube Clips Subscribe to MeatEater Podcast Network on YouTube Shop Trivia MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. O'hoi, turkey hunters. Turkey Week is on now at the Meat Eater store. To help you get ready this spring, we've rounded up some of our favorite gear for chasing goblers from Miriams out west to hard goblin Easterns.

We've got brand new meat eater logo wear and seasonings, turkey calls from Phelps, camo from First Light, decoys from DSD, packs and accessories from FHF gear, and a whole lot more. Select products are up to 20% off. From the field to the kitchen, everything you need this spring is all in one place. We've also teamed up with First Light to create the ultimate spring turkey giveaway worth over $13,000.

From now until Sunday, you get double entries for every $25 spent. That's 20 entries for every $25 spent at the meat eater store. com. Check it out now through April 5th at store. dot the meat eater.com. Welcome to meat eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newhart, and today we're joined by Janice, Brody, Randall, Max, Laura, Corey, and Nate. This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from meat eaters' four verticals, which are hunting,

fishing, conservation, and cooking, and there's a prize. Meadee will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winners choosing. For the last few stats of the week, we looked at player performance by category in 2025. As a reminder, Janice leads in hunting, where he gets 80% of questions, correct. Brody leads in fishing, where he gets 72% of questions, correct. This week, we'll look at conservation. Any guesses as to who leads the conservation category? Randall, Brody.

Randall, unanimous, Randall and Randall is correct. Okay. Why did you say that? Because you win all the categories. Here are the results. Not hunting. Steve is the fifth best getting 53% of questions, correct? Then it's Nate at 56%.

Nate, aren't you proud of that? 3% better than Steve. Yonis at 58%, Brody at 67% and Randall at 72%. Holy cow. That's a gap. Randall is the most consistent player across categories with his worst category being 68% and his best being 72. How about that? You'd think I'd win more games then.

What's your worst category? It must have been fishing at 68%. Does that mean you have like a not even dispersion of categories in the average game? Cooking has the least representation in the game. So like Brody's fishing excellence outweighed. hunting fishing conservation are all very equal. Those all have about the same size pool of questions. And then cooking is probably 40%.

I would like to request more cooking questions, Spencer, because I second. I am better at cooking. We already used all the good cooking ones. Let's just stick to the basis. I have a great cooking one in the docket. This week we have a foraging and a cooking. Oh.

You'll have a chance in two different spots. So Randall, 72%. I still feel like we're underrepresented then. It's only 20%. Well, there's other, besides like the four tent poles, you know, we have like woodmanship, gear, wildlife, biology, ecology, natural history. So it's not- What do you call the group of like when you talk about movies and popular culture? We'll have one of those today, Yanni, and I believe that falls under conservation.

Oh, great. Bullshit. But I can't wait to hear it. Spencer. Love it. For housekeeping today, we're going to talk about Turkey Week. We are a couple of days into Turkey Week here at Meat Eater. Yannis, tell folks what that's all about.

I can tell you, Max and I just got back from Texas. We started our turkey season off pretty good. We're in the same spot. Are they gobbling good for you? Yeah, they definitely were. Not, I mean, on the limb, they definitely were, but it seemed like the first couple hours was hit or miss. How many dead turkey? between the two of you.

I shot one. I shot two. That makes three, Spencer. One and a half for our stats a week. No, we had just, Jesse Griffiths and I hosted a sweepstakes hunt for the National Wild Turkey Federation. Seems like you're doing a little more hunting

than hosting there and you shot two of them. You know, it's funny. You're not the first person to say that, Brody? No, it just so happened that they, the, Holly was the gal that won. She brought her husband Zendell with her. They wanted to hunt together. And we figured four was a crowd.

And so Jesse took him the first morning. I happened to shoot a bird the first morning. And then I hunted with him the second morning. And Holly shot a bird that day. And so did Jesse. And then Zendell and I doubled in the ninth inning. Technically, we were only supposed to hunt through Thursday evening. But we, Wendell didn't have a bird yet.

So we went out Friday morning. That's awesome. And, yeah, we had a heck of a hunt. I'll save that for another. Good start to turkey season. Oh, it's awesome. But yeah, Turkey Week is here at Meat Eater. I think the most exciting part about Turkey Week for me

is this awesome ultimate turkey giveaway that our buddy Cody Dinsmore has put together over from First Light. If you're interested in submitting your name to win this, you need to go to the Meat Eater store. It's important to go to the store. If you just go to the meat eater.com, going to be kind of hard to find how to get there. Go to the store.

Sorry, my phone, my... Brody was making eyes around the room. I was looking for prestige. That was my dings. Yeah. My wife is cussing over text. She's not much of a cuss or something. Let's be wrong.

Too much time turkey, honey, already. Probably. But yeah, the ultimate turkey giveaway, like I said, you can sign up at the store, at the media. You can also sign up at first light. Logan Dove actually told me there's four different pages where you can sign up. So if you do a little bit of searching, you'll find it. But let me tell you about this ultimate turkey giveaway.

Starting off, there's a Texas Rio Grande Turkey Hunt that's being donated by bird dog outfitters. It's in the hill country. Three days, three hunters, five Tom's total. So not everybody gets to shoot two, but two of you get to shoot two. Or you could just go by yourself. That sounds like last week, not everybody shot two, right? Exactly. I was very fortunate.

You just got to wear your Janus Patelus mask and you'll be fine. You got to be in the right place at the right time. There is a Benelli 12-gauge, Super Black Eagle, first-light gift card. A little combo from Sig Sauer, which, listen, those image-stabilized binocchio. They're not great for everything, but you know where they are just absolutely perfect. Where at? They're at.

They're light. You can just get them into a pocket of your turkey vest. Yeah, and just one-handed, it's super stable. You can tell exactly how long those spurs are before you shoot. Yeah, you can do a little Spencer. You can gauge the trophy quality of those gobbler. How many beards. Along with that from Sig, there's a Romeo X-Pro, a whole flock.

of DSD decoys, a magpole DACA kit. There's some TSS turkey ammunition from... How do you pronounce the company? Migra? I use that on the 4-10 stuff and it was like lethal. Hammered them? I like it. A whole package of Phelps game calls, a pair of Christie Boot,

Krispeet boots, three muletry, edge three trail cameras. You know what you can do on those things now? They have a smart capture thing where if you turn it on and then you just tell it, only take a picture of deer and turkeys. And that is really cut down in all of the

leaf photos. No more magpies. Yeah, it's pretty slick. I mean, it's not perfect, but it's doing pretty good. A couple of case knives, FHF Bino harness. There's still more. He keeps going. And Onyx Premium Elite

membership for a year. Mountain Nobs gift card. It's a lot. It's over $13,000 in value. For one person to win? Yeah. Wow. You could come into this owning zero pieces of turkey gear.

Win the sweepstakes and you'd be set for the rest of your life. You'd be totally decked out and you'd be going on a turkey hunt. Yeah. And knocking the old Rio. Just don't go with you honest because they'll shoot them right out underneath you. Now, one of the ways that you can get 10 extra entries is for every $25 you spend at first light, you get those 10 extra. Yeah, so you can just go here and sign up one time, you get one entry. If you go and spend $25 bucks, you get 10 more.

But during Turkey Week, it's actually double entries. And so until April 5th, for every $25 bucks you spend, your name goes in the pot 20 times. Max, Miss, if you were trying to up your rods and you were going to drop a little money at first light for Turkey Week, what would you be buying? Number one, tree line turkey vest. Okay. I never used to be a vest turkey guy. Like I used to keep all the stuff in my pockets and it was all cluttered and unorganized. Tree Line turkey vest, game changer.

Next couple of things, I'm a big fan of the Brambler gaiters. I just don't like my feet getting wet, pants getting wet. So I wear those. Keep the ticks out a little bit too. Any part of the country you'd be wearing those gators. Yeah, I wore them in Texas. I'll wear them up in Montana everywhere. It just helps keep your boots.

dry and clean and ticks out. And then one thing I think a lot of turkey hunters sometimes forget and lose is just a neck gator too. First Light makes the arrow wool neck gator. Pick up two or three of those and you'll be set for the season. Speaking of net gators, I wore the approach today this week that has the built-in face mask. And I like that one because it sits off your face a little bit more than the net gator. So it's not quite as tight, a little bit cooler.

What are you smirking about? Randall has something to say. Oh, get a look at these guys. Did you, you, are, freaking... You're honest, did you cut your little, little... Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, for my cigarettes. Oh.

I don't want to have to drop my mask down and have my smoke, you know? I'm sitting out there. You probably don't even have to do it anyway. You can probably still inhale through that thing. You're right, you're right. But I like to feel the filter between my... First, I should just make that a standard feature for all the smokers. Are you really smoking if you don't feel that paper?

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So besides the giveaway, a bunch of turkey content on the website, I even wrote a couple articles. Tony's got one out there right now. It says how to figure out how to cut through all the gobbler gibberish and figure out what you really need to know to talk to Turkey. So anything Tony writes, I think you should read and learn something. Yanni worked really hard on his articles last week. He was sweating it.

Yeah. And then Randall put in basically the prompts to AI, which then promptly wrote an article better than the one I had spent a day on. But he went with his own. Oh, good. Of course. That one didn't have personality. Screw AI.

No, it kind of did, because he even prompted it, like, said it to write it like Yonis. And it did. Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, you can get that content at theemeter.com. You can learn more about the turkey week sweepstakes at store. Themeeder.com. It's happening right now.

All right, the Shelby Index for today is a four. So our winners should get eight correct answers. And with that, we're on to the game. Oh, we're here for you. Trivia, I forgot. You're going to need to close that laptop. Look, I need to know while I stand to win everything. Just tend to win everything.

Question one, the topic is wildlife. This first great question is via Zach Johnson, and it will be multiple choice. Which of these animals is monogamous? Is it garter snake, bison, or sandhill crane? Which of these animals is monogamous? One of them is, three of them are not. Is it garter snake, bison, Orca, or Sandhill Crane?

A quick and confident room. I really like Turkey Week Max. This is a good Max. He is chipper. He's very happy, but also I like when Max gets serious about stuff. Like when you brought up the shot, Max is just like to be, that kills. That kills good.

This is a good Max. If I had to deliver some bad news to Max, do it during Turkey Week. I would do it during Turkey Week. I would like to see more Max in front of the camera, as we all would, I think. So if you're out there in the meat eater world, you agree with me right in, because we need a little pressure. You just ruined my happy Max.

I'm not looking at him. His face just turned. I'm not looking at it. But I figured out a way to his heart to get his heart in front of the camera. Because he's like, when are we going to go? going to hunt to see Jay Scott in Mexico for Gould's turn. And I was like, well, Max, as long as you get in front of the camera, you can come along anytime. Again, which of these animals is monogamous?

I did a little self-filming in Texas. So that's also coming out this turkey week. Gardner snake, bison, orca, sandhill crane. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Sandhill Crane, Laura and Randall. The whole room says Sandhill Crane. The whole room got it right. The correct answer is Sandhill Crane.

Did Shelby get that one right? She did. Yes, she got that one right. Sand Hill Cranes begin breeding at age two or three, but some won't start until they're age four or five. Both parents help with incubating the eggs and raising the chicks. Marriages can last for as long as 30 years. Divorce is very rare, but sometimes it happens if the duo is unable to successfully raise

young. Or if Randall shoots one of them. Listen, in our happy little valley where I live, the neighbors have been watching this pair. They think the entire time they've lived there, which is almost 15 years. And the pair has never been able to raise a single cult to, what do you call it, flighthood? To be able to escape predators. We watch them for like a month and then eventually there's no baby. Damn.

They're on divorce watch then. Maybe. Yeah, they just got they just came back to town like in the last week and it's lovely I like when it's a quiet evening and listening to them squawking. It's great. It's make or break season for them then. They're going to stay together. I know I'm going to go to the neighbors and say look I think I know how to help this along but I don't know if they're going to be into like Predator Watch. But hey, it depends on your goals you know. Question two. The topic is hunting. This brand calls itself quote America's master

gunmaker and has a logo that features a T over top of C. This brand calls itself America's master gunmaker and has a logo that features a few more clues in that a T over top a C. I hope

Brody doesn't win today. What's that? Nothing. This brand calls itself America's master gunmaker and has a logo that features a T over top a seat. If you're watching this on YouTube,

you'll notice we are in a new studio. I got a... Figuratively speaking. Yeah, Steve was in here 15 minutes before we hit record, hanging stuff up, and we're not done. So it looks, the walls are a little bare. Okay.

What color would you call that, though? You know, it was kind of a mistake to have it pretty close to some first light colors, because Randall is almost just sinking into the wall right now. But it's not quite the same shade. Tarmac. I actually. like it the way that it's not cluttered like it was. I like it

not cluttered too. Well cluttered's better for sound and it's better for the camera so so we won't do that. I think we should just do more it should just be all hides. Dude I'm it's been a long day. Close. I know. America's Master Gunmaker that has a logo that features a T over top of C go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Colt. Laura without an answer. Randall says Thompson Center. Corey says Thompson. I mean, To Turkey. Yanni says Thompson Center, Max, and Brody say Thompson Center. The correct answer is Thompson Center.

Not a competition, Yanni. Thompson Center. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What's up? Does Corey get it or not? No, he does not. That's only half the answer. Whoa, whoa, Mr. Muscle guy. Thompson's Center. That's rich. From last week? Do you guys think Corey should get that point for having time? No. Your Prince Island muscles or whatever? No. Oh, yeah. Dude, I'm just saying, man.

Now, Brody, when four out of seven people get it correct, that's like the perfect trivia question. So you thought it was too easy. I did. I'd say it was just right. Thompson Center was founded in 1965 by Ken Thompson and Warren Center. In 1970, they created the Hawkin muzzleloader. According to the NRA, the gun was so popular that it helped launch a muzzleloader hunting revolution in America. All right, everybody, if you're getting fired up for spring turkey season, you're going to want to hear this.

Man, I'm telling you. I'm fired up. Well, anyway, right now we're running the ultimate spring turkey giveaway, and it's packed with over $13,000 in prizes, including an incredible turkey hunting experience, gear from Sig, a shotgun from Bonelli, a $1,000 gift card from First Light, and a whole big pile of gear from other partner brands.

One lucky winner is going to receive a spring 2007 Rio Grande Turkey Hunt in the Texas Hill Country for you and two of your buddies or family members. Brought to you by Bird Dog. And during the giveaway, the more you spend at First Light, Phelps game calls, FHF gear in the Me Eater store,

the more entries you'll earn for a chance to win the entire prize package. Getting entered is easy. Just head over to the First Light contest page at firstlight.com. Fill out the entry form in your inn. Remember, for every 25 bucks you spend, you get 10 additional entries.

One winner will be selected. to win the whole damn prize pack. But don't wait around. The giveaway ends one minute before midnight on Monday, April 13th, 2026. So you got all day that day. But it ends right before midnight. Gobble, gobble, gobble.

Question three, the topic is foraging. Burdock is commonly referred to as wild blank because of its elephant ear leaves that resemble this garden perennial. The room is. stumped. Burdock is commonly referred to as wild blank because of its elephant ear leaves

that resemble this garden perennial. Brody, the only player to put marker to wipe for. But look at what he's doing now. He doesn't love what he wrote. Oh, wow. That was nice, Max. I was looking at your face.

For those, for those not watching, Max is rubbing his whiteboard on our podcast table here. It's the new Phelps. That's going to be a favorite among the audio-only listeners. Maxwell Podcast Studio Call. Stop it. Yeah, we've had enough, Max. Burdock is commonly referred to as wild blank because of its elephant ear leaves that resemble this garden perennial.

Yanni has now come up with an answer. Yanni, do you like your answer? Not really. Okay. Does it have elephant ear leaves? Is it a garden perennial? Yes. Okay.

Burdock is commonly referred to as wild blank because of its elephant ear leaves that resemble this garden perennial. Players slowly locking in their answers, but nobody seems to love what they wrote. Oh man, I remember running around the woods calling it. Which woods? Back in the old days. Back in the neighborhood woodlock. The old day woods.

ye old woodlot. One little woodlot that seemed like it was the size of Montana back then. It was probably like two acres. Burdock is commonly referred to as wild blank because of its elephant ear leaves that resemble this garden perennial. Is everybody ready? Are you okay, Nate? No.

Dude, I had a big old test this morning, so I'm pretty tired. Okay. Is everybody ready? Hold on. I'm changing. I ate a sonora hot dog covered in steak about 15. minutes ago, so I'm also tired. Yanni making a last second change.

Yanni is good. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says tulip. Hey. Without an answer, Randall says rhubarb. Corey says tulip. Rubarb. Yanni says parsnip. Max says onions.

Brody says rhubarb. I had rhubarb. The correct answer is rhubarb. Brody and Randall. Got that one right. Although Burdock looks like rhubarb, it doesn't taste like it. The flavor of its edible taproot is

described as nutty or earthy often compared to celery or artichoke. Ideally, it's harvested before flowering in its first or second year of growth. It's found across the continent growing in disturbed areas like pastures, parks, and ditches. There's a canal that

runs by my neighborhood that has a prolific amount of burdock. I'm going to harvest some this year. I think we should call it dish rhubarb. Ditch rhubarb, that's good. I feel like that's better. Ditch barb Question four The topic is fishing

What is the color Of a boat's starboard Sidelight Oh It's either one or two What is the color Of a boat's starboard Sidelight

A lot of quick answers Do you have this one right Captain Randall Yes We're gonna have to take away Your captains Your expired It's expired

Long expired If you don't get this one Is it still in your wallet? no it's actually it's like a passport book oh yeah Corey do you have this one right I'm 50 50 50 okay we're gonna take away your expired fishing guide license oh no you don't need to know this crap and all want to row a boat down the river brodie do you have this one it's nice to know what it's just not out at night enough to like have headlames before and you don't know if the boat's coming color of a boat's starboard

sidelight. Oh, I better actually play a set. I wonder if we should technically be using Mm. I wonder if we should technically be using right something. Is this something

you should be saying on mic? I can hear you. I can't hear you. Get around question four. You're going to need to bleep that on. The topic is fishing. Nah. What is the color of a boat's

starboard side light? Maxwell, you ready? No. How many Hick one, man? How many colors could there possibly be? I'm trying to be.

Broi Javv At least three I'm called on Ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers Nate says green Laura says red Randall says green

Corey Red yanni green Max what did you Green Okay Brody Red Red port return The correct answer is green

I think half the room Got that one right When standing inside of a boat And looking forward The port side is on your left, the left light is red, the starboard side is on your right, the right side is green.

Each color is supposed to form a 112 degree arc of light that's visible to approaching vessels. And Phil has a diagram for us of the different lights that you would see. Running lights is just a good way to get caught doing something you're not supposed to be doing.

Still recording. Good advice from Brody. Question five, the topic is conservation. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Nate Murphy. For sending this great question, Nate is going to get a board game signed by the crew. If you want a chance to win the listener question of the week, then send your question to trivia at the meat eater.com. In fisheries management, what does the acronym Y-O-Y stand for that indicates a fish is a juvenile? In fisheries management, what does the acronym Y-O-Y stand for that indicates a fish is a juvenile?

in aisle. Brody and Nate quick to answer. Nate, do you have this one right? No, I mean, maybe. I don't know. Okay. You just wanted to get it over with. Yeah, dude. I got to go pee on more deodorant. Nate's kind of mailed this one in. Jeez. Starting. Nate.

One for four. Smile. Thank you. You're just like Yeah, it's turkey week, Nate. Dude, I know. I know. Test's over. I'm just tired. Drained. What kind of test was this? PMP exam.

Let me give a PSA to all the people on Reddit. It's not that hard. Why he's so tired? Well, taking the test is draining, but the prep for it, people are like, oh, I studied for four months, hours every day. What is? What is that? I studied. I was just, I was going to ask the same thing.

People on Reddit. I don't know what PNP is. It's like, you know how when you're in high school, you take like the SAT or the ACT to get in college? This is like a test armed. nerds take when they're getting out of the army to get a job. Oh. But I just waited a long time. Project management professional?

That's the one. To get a job with the army? No, no, like to, because you don't have like a real resume coming out of Army. So guys are like, what do I put on my resume? You take this random test and hopefully it does something. But Nate, you have a job. That's a great point, Randall. So you're not playing out of spending around here very long.

I am. Well, that's the thing is I am. But I have, we'll talk about it offline. Okay. No, I know. You explained this to me last week. I'm just giving you a hard time. Thank you.

What does the acronym Y-O-Y stand for? A little disappointed in you, Max. That indicates a fish is a juvenile. Don't, oh. You can't write it now. That was kind of mean, Yani. Yanni showed the right answer to Max. I saw one word, but I don't have any of those words, so I'm good.

Everybody you're ready. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says, young of year. Let's go. Laura says year over year, Randall, young of the year. Corey, year over year. Yanni, Young of the Year, Max, Year of

Yearling, Brody, Young of the Year. The correct answer is Young of the Year. Should I add that. Let's go. Young of the Year is a catch-all term that refers to fish that are in their first year of life. Biologists do Y-O-Y surveys during the

spring and summer to assess the success or failure of that spawning cycle. This data is collected for both saltwater and freshwater fish and can impact regulations. Bill, we're halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard update. I suppose we are.

Here at halftime, we've got Corey and Laura on the board with one point apiece. Randall. Nate and Max are tied up with three. Yannis and Brody have four points each, and in first place with a perfect game. Yes, that's right. It's Dr. Randall Williams. A turkey week perfect game.

Could it be? Boy, that would be huge. The second half is always tough, Randall. Question six, the topic. I've been starting. out pretty slowly in the past few weeks. This bids well. Question six, the topic is ecology.

This next great question is via J. Rose. Cultivate and propagate are synonyms for this nine-letter word that's defined as, quote, to cause a seed to start growing. Cultivate and propagate are synonyms for this nine-letter word that's defined as to cause a seed to start growing. What was that wow about? I'm actually just, I suck at spelling and, Are you impressed with yourself here? Yeah. Oh, okay, Max did it.

It's nine letters. Usually it's like one or two more or one or two less. I'll as well give yourself an extra point for that. Max was just hoping for seven to 11 letters. Randall's thinking. The perfect game for Randall. Or he's messing with us. He's hanging in jeopardy.

No, by his face. He doesn't have it. No, look at my face getting red. I can feel it getting red. We should probably ramp this one up. Yeah, it stands out nicely against our new paint job in here. Cultivate and propagate are synonyms for this nine-letter word that's defined as to cause a seed to start growing. The reason I felt like you should have the last one is you hear young of the year a lot and bird hunt.

We have six players who like their answer and then Randall. No, yeah. Corey, do you have this one right? Maybe. You're going to hate me. Quit flashing that thing around, man. Max is so proud. He's a drunk gobbler over here with his correct answer.

You could see in the reflection of the window. Oh, wow. That could unlock something new in here. We'll give Randy a few more seconds. Cultivate and propagate. Oh, sure. Just give them all the time in the world. Synonyms for this nine-letter word that's defined as to cause a seed to start growing.

He's like a Tom's head when it changes colors. Thanks a man. We're not. beyond red we're entering the white face. Oh God. Gould in color to the right color at the right time. Yeah. Oh, God.

Randall, do you give up? Right before his head explodes. Before Max shoots him. No, it would be honest. I'm not going to shoot Randolph. Randall. No. Do you give up?

He's a good guy, you guys. Be nice. Hey, don't show him. Oh, well, this happens. Or he's getting a little loose with the whiteboard over there. Go ahead and reveal your answers. The whole room says germinate besides Randall. The correct answer is germinate.

Germination is the process where a seed wakes up from dormancy and sprouts into a new plant. This is triggered by water, oxygen, and temperature. Typically, when a seed germinates, it begins to swell, then it ruptures, then a root emerges, then a shoot emerges. He's pulling out his phone. What are you looking for? Am I? Cultivate and propagate, I understand,

is like, I cultivated this. Okay. If you were to look at synonyms. If a seed germinates, are you saying that seed cultivated? But a synonym's not necessarily an exact matching definition.

No, it is. That's exactly what it is. That's exactly what it is. Phil? Something similar. What are we talking about here? I would agree with you,

but I'm not a scholar. This is, This is, if you go to like thesaurus.com, it'll give you like 15, you know, examples of synonyms for germinate. Give us the definition of synonyms. A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word. No, that's not the same. Nearly. So when you say germinate, it talks about what it talks about a seed growing, cultivate to prepare or prepare for the use of raising of crops to foster the growth of.

fostering the growth of something isn't the same as something growing. Listen, those are both listening as soon. You should end this episode now. You're going to get destroyed. But I think, no, because you're going to get destroyed. I think Randall does have a point. Phil has, but to germinate a seed is to what? What?

If you just cultivate a seed. Propagate. You definitely, it's definitely, it's like preperating. You are germinating, or the seed is germinating. Are you germinating a seed? What? What? These are verbs.

No, the seed itself is germinating. So the seed is germinating. The seed does not cultivate anything. No, you're cultivating. You're doing that yourself. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. Baseballs fly when you hit them. I hit the ball.

The ball flies. When you cultivate something, it germinates. Do we respect Merriam Webster in this room? I would say yes, we do. They list both of those as synonyms. Merrims start germinate. Or shit. Question seven.

You better be careful after this game is over, Spencer. I feel like he's going to find you and kick you right. Synonyms for cultivate are promote, nurture, foster, nourish. German A. Again, Merriam-Webster. Is it a one-way street or a two-way street? Because he says they're synonyms for his word. It's a roundabout.

Not necessarily the other way. You know what I'm saying? But do you understand what I'm saying here? Yeah, I do. subject. The other six players got it right though. If you use the word in the sentence, you can't have the same subject, then it's not a synonym. Question seven. Phil knows. Phil knows I'm correct. Okay. That's why I wrote down gardening. Because cultivating is more like gardening than it is germany. I can garden. I can cultivate. A seed cannot garden. You take this germany. You take this germany. This is insane. You're insane right now. I actually think this is the most intellectually bankrupt question

an answer you've ever asked on this show. What about the revolver one? That was just dumb. Shats fired. This is wild. I think Randall still has a nice lead. Going into question seven. I'm catching up.

No, you think he'd be fighting like this if he had the lead? Yes, I do. There's an alternate definition for germinate. Uh-oh. Let's hear it. No, I still don't. It turns out he agrees with himself on this one.

Question seven, the topic is conservation. You know what I'm saying. Randall's going to quit. I was thinking of agriculture. I was thinking of gardening, farming, because cultivating and propagating are things you do to seeds. They were never walked out. But you weren't thinking about germinate.

Let's just keep going. I mean, what a specific definition to cause a seed to start growing. Wow. Jerminate. Question seven. The topic is. conservation. This TV secret agent who worked cases saving wolves, golden eagles, and black rhinos is best known for his resourcefulness and mullet. No. We're going to pick it up after we write down

this TV secret agent who worked cases saving wolves, golden eagles and black rhinos is best known for his resourcefulness and mullet. I think but now that I read it again, I'm kind of questioning. Brody and Nate both have an answer. What would you like to discuss on that last one, Yanni? Well, I need to write down an answer first. I'd like to discuss the definition of a mullet, Spencer. Well, and secret agent. This TV secret agent.

I don't know if I have this right anymore. Worked cases saving wolves, golden eagles, and black rhinos is best known for his resourcefulness and mullet. Now Randall's right. I don't think that's okay. Let me, hey. I just don't do a little swappy, swappy. Ready? I don't think he was a secret agent.

A secret agent? I don't care. It's the first thing I thought of. I'm in the same boat first thing. I like your answer. Brody, do you have this one right? The first qualifiers thrown me off. Brody, the only player who likes his answer.

Yeah. I like Nate's answer. Do you see Brody's answer? No, I don't want to. I'm not going to show anyone my answer. All right. I feel like it's dangerous. Nope.

I should have this. Show it to me. You know what? Randall, I can't change my question. He says the definition is a seed to grow. Oh, you know what? We should call you one.

Just by that definition. It's not right. Yes, you are germinating the seed. I know. There's a key detail in there that would make your answer wrong. I know. You are causing the seed. When the seed grows is the seed geron.

And we were terminating. Key detail. Unless Spencer, like, really mess this question. Unless he's doing one of those, like, flavor town things. Yeah, I mean, I think it can maybe be applied both ways. If I'm proper. You guys are still arguing about that. I think that the seed can't cultivate itself.

That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's my whole argument. But I'm saying that you can germinate the seed and the seed can germinate itself. And you can also cultivate it. I can germinate a seed. Okay. That's all I was, that's all I was asking for.

Because it says in this question, to cause a seed. My argument is that if we're using his question as the source of all original truth. Man, your ass is kind of a question like this in a long time. And it was, what is six divided by seven? It was like a 90%er for the room. Yeah. If the question had said, here's where I think of the question, if the question had said like, this nine-letter word, That's a synonym with sprout or whatever

Is a seed growing But I've turned over a new leaf I don't argue about questions anymore Yeah Since of this episode down Again question seven This TV secret agent Who worked cases saving wolves

Golden Eagles and black rhinos Is best known for his resourcefulness And mullet Is everybody ready Go ahead and reveal your answers Nate says Ace Ventura Laura, without an answer, Randall says, McGiver.

Corey, Ace Ventura, Yanni, McGiver, Max, Joe Dirt, Brody, McGiver. The correct answer is McGiver. I almost wrote down McGruber, but then I realized that was the guy. I'm coming back.

She was too embarrassed to show the answer. Ace Ventura is a pet detective. I know. I can think of anyone else. And I honestly, it's been so long since I see McGiver. I didn't know that he was a special agent. I didn't know that he was a special agent. I'm going to give him.

McGiver, he said he told me that. was wrong. Dude, you shouldn't trust me. They give lower that point, Phil. Yeah, you're going to lower the point? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt. McGiver ran from 1985 to 1992 and got a reboot in

2016. He is a secret agent who uses unconventional tools for genius level problem solving. McGiver refuses to carry a gun, instead arming himself with a Swiss Army knife, duct tape, matches, paper clips, and chewing gum. At an unspecified point in the

series, he becomes a vegetarian and starts working cases that involve endangered species. Here is a trailer for episode 19 from season three, where McGiver reunites with an ex-girlfriend who is a park ranger. They spend the episode battling grisly poachers and rekindling their flame. Play it, Phil. You didn't just expect to fly back into my life after three years, did you? Somebody's been on this trail since we came through.

Who'd be a ranger track? You and I closed the book a long time ago. I wouldn't have come at all. If you told me about Sam. What are you doing with me? I haven't been it. Do you mind telling me what you're doing here? Park service.

Oh, we're getting out of here together. Shots a Ranger, Ed. What do you mean? We're out of it. What would you say if I made it a little longer? I'd say you had a chance once. At least let me help. But we're going to have to get moving. Three. Go on, shoot. You're going to hang me out to dry anyway.

We go in and we finish them both in all that time. Never seen it. No. Brody, Yanni, did you boys watch McGiver when it was on TV? Oh, I'm sure I watched it a handful of times. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Did you love McGiver?

Yeah. That's darker than I... I don't remember. I don't remember. Is that the reboot or is that from... No, that was in season three, episode 19, so that must have been like 1988. I don't remember the whole, like, wildlife TV in a new year's.

Wildlife Savior. Before you were born. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, his resourcefulness, right? That's what everybody loved. Yeah, he could, like, create a stick of dynamite.

I know the term, like, oh, you're MacGyvering something? Oh, now you know. Yeah. I never knew it was an actual show. I didn't know if you would consider that a mullet. It's like a feathery mullet. Yeah. I like this Parker.

Apparently, I got a mullet right now. I noticed it out of dinner the other day. That was good. It seems like it would be bad for sneaking around. What was the spoof of McGiver? McGrober? The gruber. SNL still does.

They still do it? I think they pull it. Who's the one who does? He's out the show for a while, but they just, they did like a surprise. They did want a few episodes ago with Will Forte as like a guest star. It was pretty fun. All right, everybody, if you're getting fired up for spring turkey season, you're going to want to hear this. Man, I'm telling you, I'm fired up.

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night sky, is seen in retrograde, multiple times each year. Fourth brightest. Fourth brightest. This planet, which is the fourth brightest planet in our sky, is seen in retrograde, multiple times each year. I wish I knew what that meant.

We can talk about it in the flavor text. I don't, never mind. I'm not having any hints. Nate, very quick to answer. The side of the table with Brody, Max, Yanni, and Corey. It's crossing some stuff out, erasing. Yanni, do you have this one right? I don't know. Okay. We'll get a scoreboard up.

I'm writing down a planet that I feel like I've seen a few times over the years. Bill the engineer after this. This planet, which is the fourth brightest planet in our night sky, is seen in retrograde multiple times each year. Corey's got a whole solar system on his board. Max pointed out he has one in nine chance. Does he include the ninth planet? No, he doesn't.

No. Because there's not nine planets. I still have one in nine He's not sure which one I think of one you don't know It ain't the earth This planet which is the Fourth Brightest planet in our

night sky is seen in retrograde Multiple times each year Unless retrograde is somehow like a mirroring And he is talking about Earth Could it be? Laura do you have this one right? Maybe What's the definition of retrograde?

Yeah I don't know. Sorry about the I thought I was like a germinated earlier. Yeah,

I think it was one episode ago, Randall you issued an apology for your attitude. We could just schedule in a new

segment up top that's a Randall apology. If I was you, Phil, I would already start working on the new intro for trivia

and kind of rework what we just saw there into that. That will get. I just thought I was right. Dude, that seems like a great segment for auto too.

And you guys were all making fun of my appearance. during the question, remember that? You guys were all making fun of how my face looks? And he just struck a nerve with me, you know? I'm sorry I made funny, Randall. No, that was actually

very funny, Max. That's the kind of Max I'm hoping for. It's softened the whole thing, actually, believe it or not. Didn't you have to recently read an apology? Yeah, but that wasn't because of an outburst. That was because that was in a bad mood. Oh, there's a difference. Yeah, he's in a

great mood today. Yeah, it's turkey week. I was having a perfect game until then. Is everybody ready? Remember how fun that was? Sure. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Mercury. Laura.

Mercury. Randall, Mercury. Corey, Venus. Yanni, Saturn, Max, Neptune, Brody, Venus. The correct answer is Mercury. Let's go. No. Son of a lot.

Mercury is the fourth brightest planet after Venus, Jupiter, and Mars. You're able to see it with your naked eye around sun, eyes and sunset with it hovering close to the horizon. Retrograde is an optical illusion that makes it appear as though the planet is moving backwards. This phenomenon happens for a few weeks about every four months. Despite no scientific evidence, some believe that mercury and retrograde causes animals to have a chaotic period where they're extra anxious and territorial. I feel like you'll hear about pet owners saying that it must be not like white tail box. But yeah, how come The juries don't cover retrograde.

I mean, that's got to, the drurries. I mean, that's got to affect buck movement just as much as the moon. I find that gobblers are much, but they gobble way more during. I think it's more of an astrology thing. Yeah, dude. If you have like some astrology people. Oh, yeah, they're way into that. They know it.

Yeah, they're like, I knew something was happening in my life. And then I realized it was mercury in retrograde. I got this right because, like, my mom used to say this to justify, like, her doing crazy stuff. Yeah. I wonder if Randall's outbursts are time. I'm going to look that up. While Phil gives us a scoreboard update, we have two questions left. Every two weeks or every week sometimes.

Corey is in last place, two points. Laura and Max have four. Nate has five. Yannis and Bertie have six, and Randall Williams pulled back ahead. He's in first place with seven points after that last question. So we have three retrogrades this year, February 26. to March 20th, so we just missed that window. The next one is June 29 to July 23,

and then October 24 to November 13. My previous outburst was during retrograde. Oh, wow. Wow. That was March 13th. Friday to 13th. But we're going to have an article on the Medea.com this year about how murkier and retrograde affects the whitetail run.

Here's question nine. The topic is cooking. This nine-letter word is defined. as, quote, the empty space between the top of the food or liquid and the underside of the canning lid. Hmm. Geez. Don't know this one, Laura. This nine-letter word is defined as the empty space between the top of the food or liquid and the underside of the canning lid.

Brody very confidently put his redboard down. Oh, yeah, so confident. I love this question. Of the seven players. What are you drawing there, Max? Drawing a can. In the space. Hopefully it comes up with the nine-letter word.

This nine-letter word is defined as the empty space between the top of the food or liquid and the underside of the canning lid. We'll get another scoreboard update after this. Find out where we stand going into question 10. What you got in the can there, Matt? Um Berries

No it doesn't look like Barrys Pickle pipe It's chunky for that It's long and stringy Maybe doodles Dillie beans Canned ramen

Oh Sparagus Beans would be good This nine-letter word Is defined as the empty space Between the top of the food or liquid And the underside of the canning lid What a question

I was going to come up What's some scientific name And what a question Scientific word I know. This is my cooking bone. Yeah. There's a time when Yonis was a big canner, too.

He's making canned deer meat all the time. Dang, Yanni. You should have this one. I do like me. I always wanted to be a big. I don't think I've ever heard a name for this. Brody's probably said it to you in the kitchen. I made it to the Shelby Index, so I'm happy.

On Turkey Week. I could be way off, Spencer. I could be wrong. Is anyone else like their answer? Not as off as me? No. No. You've drawn it very well there. I like that.

This nine-letter word is defined as the empty space between the top of the food or liquid and the underside of the canning lid. Is everybody ready? This is question nine. Nine-letter word for question nine, Yanni? Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says negatives. Laura says, what's that say, Laura?

Meniscus. Randall says bean vapor. Corey says empty air. Yanni says uncanned. Max Drew us can. Brody says headspace. Brody got it. The correct answer is

Headspace. If you don't leave enough headspace when canning, you risk liquid seeping through the lid and preventing a good seal. Some general guidelines are to leave a quarter inch of headspace for jellies and jams, a half inch for tomato products and one inch for meat.

Is there in relation to gun headspace there? Should you've gotten that? Not really, but had he connected the two somehow then Randall would have gotten him for sure. I did think about head. Like on a beer, yeah. Here's a correct answer review so far. I'll get five letters, so I made a joke.

One was Sandil Crane, two, Thompson Center, three, rhubarb, four, green, five, Y-O-Y is. young of year. Six, germinate, seven, McGiver, eight, Mercury, nine, headspace. Phil, scoreboard update.

It is down to Janus. He's still in the game with six points, but Randall and Brody are tied up in first with seven. Question 10. The topic is fishing. This next right question is via Kyle Luke's. The Salish Sea consists of the

Strait of Georgia, the Strait of Juan de Fuka, and the blank blank. Bean, the Salish Sea consists of the Strait of Georgia, the straight of Juan de Fuka, and the blank

blank. Randall, do you have this one right? I do. Okay. Brody has a blank whiteboard. I'm feeling pretty good about my answer. Okay. Max is going to beat the Shelby Index. You saw it. I don't. I don't. Yeah, who's one point behind, we need to get this right with Brody and Randall to get it wrong to go to overtime.

But Randall likes his answer. Oh, I hope it's screwed up. Randall, how confident are you have this one? Probably 97 to 98%. The Salish Sea consists of the Strait of Georgia. the straight of Wandae Fuka, and the blank, blank. I don't feel confident anymore. You're on the wrong continent. Yeah, I am too.

Oh, Brody, still conning. You're right, Max? Ah, me. Oh, I just want this so bad. Corey, do you have this one right? It's all I want for Turkey Week. I got a body of water written down. I feel pretty good.

I don't think I'm eligible for the giant sweepstakes. No, I asked Logan Dove and he said, you can play, but you can't win. I was ready to spend all of my money on on entrance. Vests and neck gators. The Salish Sea consists of the

straight of Georgia. I was going to buy at least five. The straight of Juan de Fuca and the blank blank. Nate, do you have this one right? No, I think I'm in the right part of the world. Randall may be the only one to get this one. Oh, no.

I really. hope I got it. I don't have an answer. Do you give up, Brody? Yeah, I give up. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Baltic Sea, Laura, without an answer. Randall says Puget Sound.

Corey says, Indian Ocean. Yanni without an answer. Max says Nile River, Brody without an answer. Randall got it. Correct answer is the Puget Sound. I'm exhausted now. He wins the game. What a dramatic victory.

From Georgia. Eight correct answers. The name Salish. In front of Puget Sound threw me off. You know, if I was going to argue about something, that's what I would argue about. Nobody says, the Puget Sound.

You're past that now. The name Salish C was formerly established in 2009 by the U.S. Board of Geographic names. It is a 6,500 square mile international water body that stretches from British Columbia to Washington.

The Puget Sound refers to only the southernmost water that is often associated with Seattle. Phil has a map there to show you where the Strait of Georgia, Strait of Wanda Fuca and Puget Sound all fall. Where does it say the Puget Sound on that map? Well, it doesn't say the Strait of Georgia. It doesn't say the Olympic Peninsula. The Strait of Wanda Fuca either.

All right, Randall. Eight correct answers. The Turkey Week victory. What are you going to do with that $500 today? Oh, man. It's not going to turkeys. It's tough because I want to give it to conservation groups that I respect, but I also don't think anybody would want to be associated with my behavior from this episode.

So land access. Let's donate this to the National Fish Habitat Partnership. Oh, that's a new one. Okay. Yeah. Are they going to put a stamp of approval on your behavior? I don't know. I don't know.

We'll have to reach out to our friends there. What do you like about them? They just do a lot of habitat work all across the country. It's like an umbrella organization that fosters partnerships for improving and restoring fish habitat. Okay. They probably save a lot of Y-O-Y fish to give you guys good angling in the future. Join us next week. Do they germinate any fish?

What a game. What a game. What a conservation. Always wins. Bye now. Thanks, Spencer. Bye, Randall. Thank you, Spencer.

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