The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 872: Game On, Wives! MeatEater Trivia CCXV

Episode Date: May 6, 2026

Shelby Huber guest hosts MeatEater Trivia with Katie Finch, Kelsey Morris, Sydney Williams, Carrie Henderson, Sara Calkins, Adrienne Taylor, and Alex Barta. 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.

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This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from meat eaters for verticals, hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. And there is a prize. meat eater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winners choosing. So let's go around and get to know all our lovely ladies here. Katie, do you want to begin? Sure, I'm Katie Finch. Married to Steve. Married to Steve Ronella, married for 18 years. 18 years.

This July, it'll be 18 years together for 20. So it feels like a long time. But in many ways, like no time is past at all. Cute. Kelsey? Kelsey Morris. I am married to Seth Morris. We have a two-month-old baby who's out there, so half my brain is in the other room. And yeah. Kelsey's feeling confident. New mom, new mom confidence. Yep, new mom energy. Mom brain. My name is Alex Barta. I am married to Max Barta. And I will also claim pregnancy brain due with our first child. in July, so any time I tank, I will be blaming it.

Meet your mama. Good excuse. Yes. Carrie Henderson, married to Brody for 20 years this fall. I know. Been a long time. I've got old mom brain running around with all these scheduled activities and everything else.

So I think that's what I'm blaming on. Yeah, the boys. Yes, exactly. I'm Adrienne. I'm married to Phil. And you can also blame your two boys. I'll blame them, yeah. They're upstairs right now.

It's their fault. I'm Sydney married to Randall. We don't have any kids, so I have no excuse when this goes right. But three beautiful dogs. Beautiful dogs. Yes. And chickens. A lot of chickens.

Which are beautiful, too, by the way. Some of them, yeah. Yeah, not all of them. And reigning champ. Oh, yes. The belt is in Sydney's possession. Yeah. We should get an actual, like, a belt buckle.

Wouldn't that be so cute? Thank you. That's a really good idea. And last but not least. Sarah Culkins, married to Corey. And, yeah, we have a kid, too. He's almost eight out there, probably eating all the snacks and hoping to play ping pong. I heard he's an aspiring author writing books about your dog. Yes, he's on his third book.

He's hoping I will publish it and sell it at local yard sales. That's honestly so cute. Oh, my gosh. I'll be his first customer. Okay. Get signed by it. He just wants a dollar per book. Reasonable.

Very affordable. Start and small. Yeah. All right. Well, before we jump into some questions, I wanted to share a stat with you, ladies. The last wives and girlfriends show, episode 576, for those at home, is the most viewed episode of meat eater trivia in the last two years. Suck it, boys. Yes.

It did 168% better than the average episode of trivia on YouTube. So 168% that's a big, a big improvement. What would they do without us? It's important for us to support small content creators like our husbands. Yeah. All right. It also had some record-breaking amount of comments, and I believe Sarah and Sydney wanted to share a few of their favorite. I did not write any down.

We just took about it in the car. You're never supposed to read the comments, you guys. I know. They were overwhelmingly not horrible. Oh, good. Really? Like, hey, warning at home, overwhelmingly not horrible. That's the bar.

What was the, like, theme? We're loud. Yeah. Oh, wow. I mean, we're also not experienced podcasters. True. Now we are. Yeah.

I can read a couple that I found especially funny. Sticky Ricky said that he thinks he likes us more than our husbands. And I just want to point that out. But I agree. I think we're pretty great. And I would say the overwhelming majority thinks that Shelby is a cutie. And I also agree with that. True.

And then, I mean, there's some negative naysayers. Like, I had to turn this episode down. Well, Philip Hartman. Sorry. I don't feel bad. I'm going to turn it up, you know. But no, they were mostly really fun. But, yeah, definitely some comments about some cackling.

But sticky ricky, you get a shout out. A whole coven in here. Yes. Coven of cuties. Yeah. Agreed. Sarah's reading your comments, so be nice, folks. Sydney, did you have anything else you wanted to add?

No. I don't remember any of the other ones. But I was like, oh, these are not that bad. Well, good. If you're feeling inspired later, then you bring them up. Okay. Well, I think we're ready to play trivia. So play the drop, Phil.

Oh, hello. Look, I need to know what I stand to win everything. How's that? Just tend to win everything. Oh, cute. Does it sound like that anymore? All right. Question one, as always is multiple choice.

We're starting out a little easier. The topic is hunting. Of these dog names, which was the most popular in 2025? And your options are Duke, Loki, Roscoe, and Marley. Of these four, which was the most popular in 2025? Duke, Loki, Roscoe, or Marley? Do we write it out or say A, B, C, or D? Write it out, please.

Okay. I don't like this one because it's completely, I guessing. Oh, yeah, for sure. Does anybody know a Duke, Loki, Rasko, or Marley? None in the room. I don't know. A Marley. Nope, that's a kid.

I'm wrong. Never mind. We're looking like most of us have already got a guess. I don't. No, okay. Adrian, hurry up. Adrian, you won the first year, right? I did.

Okay. And I have to say, since the last time, too, Sydney and I played trivia at the Mali with Bill and Randall, whatever. We have a little help. We won. Hey. So the meat eater wives champs. So you've been practicing.

One time. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We ready to reveal? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Sarah says Roscoe. Sydney says Duke.

Adrian Loki. Carrie Marley. Alex Duke. Kelsey Marley. Katie Marley. And the answer is Duke. Yes, Duke came in at 15th, while Marley was 38th, Loki was 72nd, Roscoe was 89th, and the top five boy dog names were Max, Hank, Teddy, Cooper, and Gus.

The top girl names, Luna, Bella, Daisy, Lucy, and Ruby. So you got a Max and a Ruby at home. I have this thing where I've only ever dated men with dog names. I won't name them all, but very much so, dog names. So is Baby going to be on this list as well? A little Luna It's standby. It's a source of this.

Like, who was counting that? Spencer. I don't know. Spencer asked the board of all the names were. Spencer did a survey. Yeah, this is also assuming people registered their dog games. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know where.

I don't know. Sketchy question. That's all I said. You know what? I'll ask him to cite his sources next time. You are married to Steve. I mean, yeah. It was him. I'm sure I'd have an issue with us.

Yeah, all question issues, you can go pick a fight with him afterwards. I will be on your side. Question two. Topic is public lands. The National Park Service says your first stop should be in this building. Quote, where park rangers are available to answer questions and help you get oriented. The National Park Service says this should be your first stop. We're looking for the name of the building. where park rangers are available to answer questions and help you get oriented. Anyone been to a national park lately? Yes. Ooh, where'd you go?

Well, last summer, we took the boys on a trip to, like, the Badlands and the Black Hills. So we did a lot of parks. Badlands are so underrated. They're so cool. I love them. I think we're going to go there in a month. I need to pick your brain. Yeah.

Yeah. Good time to go before it gets too hot. Yeah, yeah. All right. Did you do a wall drug and? We did. Oh, so fun. The best. Oh, Finley wants to go back. It's like, I don't know that we're going to take another trip just to go to Waldraud. I will take him. Okay. Yeah. I love that. He thought it was the coolest place. Yes. Free ice water. Free ice water. So good. All right. Is everyone ready to reveal? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We got Sarah Stain, visitor center, Sydney Visitor Center, Adrian Visitor Center. Carrie Visitor Center, Alex Ranger Station, Kelsey Visitor Center, Katie, the Visitor Center. Katie, the visitor center.

The room did very well. It is the visitor's center. I thought immense panic. I've had on Ranger Station first. Yeah. You can't overthink it. No, visitor center feels like a cop-out answer. Right. Like, are you sure?

That felt wrong. To be fair, Spencer specifically put in here not accepting Ranger Station. Oh, so double wrong, Alex. Spencer and I think is a negative point. Oh, my word. The Visitors Center have gift shops, museums, shuttles, scenic overlooks, Rangers, bathrooms, and Wi-Fi. The rustic look that's often associated with these structures is known as parkitecture.

But they briefly deviated from the traditional architecture in the 60s when they embraced mid-century modern designs. But this shift was somewhat unpopular. Critics called it egregiously contemporary. And I believe Phil has some examples of some mid-century modernism for us. I believe this is the Jackson Center at Mount Rainier National Park. This one was built in 1966, but later demolished in 2009. So that one is sadly no longer. I was scrolling through all of them when you were reading Sydney or Shelby, sorry.

Great. Well, we got one from Petrified Forest. Oh, sure. We can go through them again. Oh, yeah, that one's the one from Petrified Forest National Park in 63. This one's from the Wright Brothers National Memorial, which I feel how appropriate. That one looks perfect. And then this one is from the Great Smoky Mountains.

This one is Klingman's Dome, which I think also looks pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. Anyone bend to any of these? I've been to that one. Oh, cool. I think of right brothers. Nice.

All right. Room did pretty well there. So we're on to question three, and the topic is wildlife. And this is our listener question of the week, which was one by Danica Baker. So thank you for sending in this great question, Danica. You're going to get $150 First Light Gift card. So if you want a chance to win the listener question of the week, send your questions to trivia at the meat eater.com. Naker, which comes from mollusks, is more commonly known as blank of blank.

Huh? So I have always heard this word pronounced as knacker, but we looked it up and it's Naker. And it comes from mollis. It's more commonly known. Any hints? This is multiple choice, right? There might be some in the room. Hints.

I don't know. I'm not on me, but I'm looking around. I was going to give hints, but now I'm competitive. Oh, wait. I'm completely changing my answer. I feel like you just saw something. If I get this right, it's a total guess. I don't actually see any, so I don't think that was a good hint.

No, that helped me because what I wrote down was stupid. And now I think I know the answer. Stupid. Maker, which comes from mollusks, is more commonly known as Blank of Blank. We got a really stumped room here. I think Adrian, Katie, Kelsey, you guys have answers. Oh, Carrie has one too. I've got it.

Okay, Sydney. So we're waiting on Sarah and Alex. Blank of blank. Maker from mollusks. And you said you've used this word before, so it's something you've talked about before? you had a different pronunciation for it? You're familiar with this. Yes.

Got it. I would bet we all own a little bit of it somewhere. My guess. It's not on time. Oh, good guess. Ooh, I shouldn't be given him. Is it better to make a dumb guess than no guess? Okay.

Okay. Okay. I'm making a guess. Everyone's writing something down. We're getting guesses. Sarah is not confident. I'm going to feel bad if mine's wrong. Are you ready to reveal?

Oh, God. This is dumb. This is going to be in the comments, guys. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Sarah. Oh, my God. Mother of Pearl, Mother of Pearl, Mother Pearl, the rest of the room. God, it's sorry, Sarah.

It is Mother of Pearl. I am very happy for my friends in the room. Naker is the strong iridescent substance that's found on the inner shell of oysters, mussels and abalone's. It's the same material that actual pearls are made of. Mother of Pearl is commonly used in art, jewelry, buttons, musical instruments, furniture, and cosmetics.

I have a lot of Naker, Naker jewelry. And that's the only context in which I've ever heard this word. I went through a face, a mother of pearl face. I had like a lot, like furniture even. Oh, wow. It was a little much. Like a chair? Like a table.

Oh, like, I've seen the buttons, like, and how they make them with, like, the drill press. It was probably fake now that I'm pretty. I don't know. It'd be a lot. It was a lot. It was like $100, so it was definitely. That's a plastic. It's a dupe.

I was in college. It was fake. So there's a bag of these things in my house, I think. Oh. Being saved up. Is that something that I'm doing? receive in the future some gift made of this? I mean, that would be cool.

Send it to me. I'll make you something. Like I said, I want to make buttons out of it. Okay. Wind chimes. I don't know what else. It would be cool on like a light. We'll see.

And just a general note, a little closer to the microphones for everybody. Oh, thank you. I'm saying that with love. We're not. We're trying not to be loud, Phil. We feel the love. We had so many comments about being loud before. I'm asking you to please be louder.

Okay. All right. On to question four. The topic is gear. Oh, boy. Carhart says their logo is inspired by this 10-letter word, which is also known as the horn of plenty. Ooh, Sydney and Adrian were on it. I didn't even finish saying it and they were writing it.

Oh, I think I spelled it right because it is 10 letters. Spelling does not matter. I mean, if you have nine letters and it's the same word, I'm not even going to count. Carhart says their logo is inspired by this 10-letter word, which is also known as the horn of Flenty. Does every one of these boards say suck at somebody on the back? It's whiteboard both sides. It started with suck at Brody, and it kind of started a trend. There's a suck at Randall over there.

Yeah, suck at Randall. That one. You should switch. We go that way. Ten letter word. Who's chili? Oh, chili. Oh, chili.

It's ten letter word? It is a ten letter word. Also known as the horn of plenty. Spelling is questionable for me. I can't spell either. You're good. All right, are we ready to reveal? Go ahead and reveal.

Sarah says Cornucopia. Sydney Cornucopia. Adrian Cornucopia. Carrie with a question mark. Alex Cornucopia. Kelsey also with a question mark Katie cornucopia. The room did very well.

It is cornucopia. Carhart says their cornucopia logo is supposed to make you think of America's heartland, which I think is accurate. I had a whole cornucopia lesson in school. I don't know. South Dakota, who knows? Yeah. Yeah.

For like Thanksgiving? I know that's what I get around. Thanksgiving time. Yeah, the whole like pilgrims. Nina Pinta, Santa Maria thing. It was introduced in 1967 and prior to that it was a red heart with a blue train car which was referred to as the car in the heart logo and that is what that looked like what phil is showing right here i like the

original it's it's definitely got like a throwback vibe it's a little busy are they're a little busy car in the heart logo funny any car heart fans i feel like i have like every color car heart beanie oh yeah totally and they kind of slowly rise up your head right they They do not wash necessarily well. Yeah. I wish that I could wear those, the overalls. Because they're so cute. No, they just, it's not a good look on me.

They're cute. Debatable. Does anyone here have Carhart overall? I love. I love all overalls. Oh. Yeah. The family's outfitted in them.

Yeah. There you go. Yeah. I didn't know there were two T's. Oh. I just found that out. It's probably doesn't matter in this game. So it doesn't matter.

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Rinella cut is an easy to use cut for beginning callers who just want to start making good turkey noises and getting action. All right. Question five, after this, we'll get a scoreboard update since we're halfway through the game already. The topic for question five is conservation. This was America's first national monument, which the Park Service describes an astounding rock that looms over the Wyoming prairie.

Oh, shit. It's not pride rock. Oh, man. I mean, maybe. This was a part of our vacation last year. Oh. Oh, I bet it was. Oh, okay.

Adrian knows it. Say it again, say it again. Yeah, this was America's first national monument, which the Park Service describes as an astounding rock that looms over the Wyoming prairie. An astounding rock. I'd say that's an accurate description. Okay.

It's astounding. If you're wrong, we're going to cackle. These are the kinds of subtle hints that Brody would start throwing a fit over. But I said that we went through the Black Hills. I did not say anything about White House. I'm looking out for you. You gotta stop. I don't care.

I don't play this game. I don't listen to this podcast. I can show all day every day. America's first national monument. We all got guesses. We got something down. No. All right.

This is going to redeem me for not getting the dog one right. I almost wrote down Duke. We got Sarah thinking. She's got kind of a stink. Katie, are you still thinking? Okay. Katie is still thinking. Was it the high?

of your trip, Adrian? It was a highlight. It was really hot when we were there. That checks out. The boys loved it. Okay. This is on my list. I've never been.

You know, I've never been either. I've driven past. I've been like within 20 minutes so many times. I've never actually gone. It's worth going. It's cool. Like my monument, I think is in a different. Same.

I think I think we're the same. Okay. I'm going to put one down just in case. Okay. If I hadn't been there, I probably wouldn't know the answer. Fair. So. Okay.

All right. We all have guesses. You're just saying that to make us feel like that. No, I really wouldn't. Let's reveal those answers. Sarah says devil's tower. Sydney Devil's Tower. Adrian Devil's Tower.

Oh my gosh. Oh, Katie says Loki. But everyone else got Devil's Tower. Yay. Across the table. High five. Nice work. Wow.

Scientists aren't totally sure how Devil's Tower was formed. The most agreed upon theory is that 50 million years ago, magma located two miles underground, formed the pillar, which was then later exposed by erosion. But the Lakota have a different origin story for it. They say that the seven sisters climbed a small butte to escape a group of hungry bears. And as the bears got close, the earth shook and groaned until a tiny hill turned into an enormous tower. The bears continued to climb and slide down backwards, which gave the Butte its ribbed appearance. Eventually, the bears were buried alive by falling rocks and the seven sisters escaped.

Oh, yeah. Very cool. I like it. And now, time for a scoreboard update. Okay. See where we're sitting. It is indeed. It's a pretty tight game. You're all doing well. We've got Sarah, Carrie, Kelsey, and Katie are all tied up with three points apiece. Coming up next to Alex and Adrian, four points. And the reigning champ is still raining. Randall would be proud. I'm surprised he's not pressing his face against the glass right now, trying to get a peek in. But it's Sydney. She's got five points and a perfect game. Perfect game. If you get a perfect game, they double the donation. Oh, really? Be thinking about where that money goes, Sydney. The only one with no mom brain going on.

I know. Yeah, not fair. It's a thing. It's science now. That's great. All right. On to question six, which is woodsmanship. This nine-letter word is defined as a plant such as a cactus in which the leaves and stem are thick and can store a lot of water. I really appreciate when you say how many letters are in the answer. It's a good little, it gives you somewhere to start. Yes. Quote, a plant such as a cactus in which the leaves and stem are thick

and can store a lot of water. Nine letters. Is the woodsmanship strong? In this room? No. No. It is today. Oh, I was getting out of it.

She was confident for like half a second. I was confident about Ranger Station too. I'm feeling competitive and so I like seeing that Sydney has written anything down yet because I think I'm going to catch her. That's huge. Yeah. That's huge. Sydney does look stumped. Oh, I'm studying.

I know you can get this. So we just need to run the clock out really fast. Oh, okay. Everyone else gets a tumpty down fast. I have no idea. Watch me be wrong, too, Adri. I feel like that, I know this for sure. I feel like I'm right, and I feel like you also wrote it down really fast.

I think you're also written. Okay, I appreciate you. Yes. Yeah, what's the show be indexed on this. Okay, I'm going to count again. I got seven, but this one, this one pissed me off. Okay. Okay.

I don't like that. I'm going to know it as soon as it said, and I'm going to be so mad. Oh, that's, Airstream has been haunting me. Oh, that was bad. I went back and studied. I saw one of those on the way here, and I thought of you, specifically. I saw them every day, like constantly after that, because it was this time of year-ish, I think. People were getting out their campers and, like, there was one parked next to me when I got to work the next day.

There was one behind me when I was going home. They were everywhere. And I was like, I knew this. Subliminal. Yeah. So everybody have a guess, except Sarah. I'm just going to get. I can't wait to know the answer when it said.

Go ahead and review. your answers, folks. Sarah's question mark. Yes. Sydney, hydrophil, Adrian succulent, Carrie, succulent, Alex succulent,

Kelsey succulent, Kelsey succulent. What is it? Crucifference? Perciperin. I'm broccoli. Oh, that's about it. Same.

Succulin is the correct answer. I have several friends to work. Good job. Sorry, I got lost in the shuffle there on the last few contestants. Kelsey, did you get that one? Yes.

Okay, and Katie? Yes. No. Although technically all cacti are succulents, hobbyists tend to put them into different groups, like jade, aloe vera, snake plants, agave, and string of pearls are some of the most popular. They are drought-resistant plants that thrive in places where do and mist are the only moisture.

I'm personally a jade girlie. I have like one mama jade with like a dozen little babies all over the house. Is anyone else a succulent collector? Can't keep them alive. I kill everybody. They're tricky. Because I want to water them. Yeah.

They almost, they like thrive on neglect. Yeah. You know, they're really. I had one in my office and like the bottom. I don't know what it was, but like the leaves at the bottom got all dry and crispy. So I was like, I'll just pick those off. And the whole thing died. Apparently those are structurally important.

Don't pick off the dead things at the bottom. All right. On to question seven. And the topic is hunting. Our episode of trivia Could have shared the same name As this Netflix drama Which critics called

A risque soap that turns bad behavior Into highly bingable fun Oh my gosh What? Alex Lowe No, I know Oh, okay It took a second to click, but

This is a hunt Hunting's the genre? That's what you're telling me? Loosely. All right. Our episode of trivia Could have the same name as this Netflix drama, which critics

called a risque soap that turns bad behavior and it's a highly bingeable fun. Has anybody seen this? Yes. Oh, I've sensed it for sure. Is it worth it? Yeah.

Okay. I have no idea. Adrian is so stumped. I only know about this from the SNL like send up of it. I think Corey got excited that I was going to watch it and then

is this recent? I'm sure he did. Yeah, it was like the doc last year. This is about. God, I don't ever go on Netflix anymore. Okay, hold on. We got to think. It is a Netflix drama.

It might end up being your ears. Critics called it a rest of state. So that turns bad behavior into highly bingeable fun. You're like, you're going to regret that. Does the Netflix have anything to do with hunting? It was just like the name has overlap. I haven't even really matter in order to get the answer. Nice.

job, Sydney. Our episode of trivia could have the same name as this Netflix drama. This episode of trivia, not the show. Our episode. That's what's going wrong. Okay. You got it. You got to guess?

Yeah, I can't think what's called. Do you need to know how many letters in the world? Yes, I do. Uh, all right. I know who's in it. Half points. This isn't the Sydney index or Shelby index. I keep getting your guys names mixed up.

I stand by that. Half points should be allowed. Yeah. It's our show. We get to make the rules. Right? I told Spencer that if there's a disagreement, we're just going to have a democracy. It's not a Spencerocracy. Good. Here's the thing. This is based on a book, and I can describe the cover of the book to you. I cannot tell you what the title is.

Draw the cover. I think you're running out of time. You might have to go with question mark. I think I take the lead if she doesn't get it. She is drawing it. I am. I did this one other time, too. For Airstream. Did I?

Yes. Yeah, you did. It's a classic Maggie Smith technique tries to draw something in lieu of an answer. Maggie's a very talented artist. Oh, she's great, yeah. And we'll judge if Adrian is here in just a second. My title is not even a full thought. Some words I wrote down.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Sarah says the hunting wives, Sydney, hunting wives. The wives hunting party. There's lipstick on the cover and Britney Snow's in it. Britney Snow is in it. The haunting wives from Alex, the haunting wives from Kelsey and haunting wives from Katie.

The room did very well. The haunting wives premiered on Netflix in 2025. It is about an elite click of socialites in East Texas who enjoy hunting. The Guardian says it's about as good as nonsensical television gets. And Variety said it doesn't try to hide its campy personality. Rolling Stones called it a cheesy sex. Sex Fest. And now I have not seen it, but Sarah, you sound like a fan. Is it a cheesy sex fest?

Fan is a fan is kind of a stretch. Lips, got it. Am I going to watch it? Yeah. It's really funny. And it's, it's, it's outrageous and unreal and I love it. Nonsensical, cheesy sex fest. That sounds like a good review to me. I have a stack of shows that I watch during the fall hunting season. Because hunting is year round. But yeah, that's one of the things I stacked up and watched last year. And I thought it was worth it. It's bingeable for sure. Yeah. Sounds just like us. I'm going to argue more in my favor here that. Totally.

Oh, you don't want to say that. Have you watched it? No, I am totally joking. Never watched it. Yeah. I would be careful about it. What was it? Cheesy sex.

Cheesy sex fest. Yeah, nonsensical, campy personality, cheesy sex fest. They're hunting for something. I'm going to say, I think my full spread that I have erased was worth three quarters of a point. Oh. Mo. The least of the words.

And the word. And the word. that question is got to throw it out because we could not call this episode the hunting wives he does not hunt yeah you're exempt actually it's foundational incorrect okay yeah sure all right after this next question we'll get another scoreboard update see where we're sitting this I know who's in the lead oh we've been keeping track in the room let's all just she's got a tally going for a minute well Phil lose his track. I got to keep track.

It's true. They don't trust Phil. It's true. I haven't lost track. You're like it's no big deal. I'm not keeping track at all. It's just for fun. I do telly tell.

I encourage players to keep track because I do make mistakes. I mean, it's very, very uncommon. But it happens. All right. Question eight and the topic is cooking. This one is more true to cooking than the last hunting question. Nori is dried blank. That's used in Japanese cuisine.

A lot of confidence. folks. The room looked super confident. Everyone's writing or already got an answer to him. I feel like that was a softball. He's given us. He's given us a few. That's okay, because I got it wrong. What? I don't know. I just

I don't know. Brain fart. I know. No good excuse. I would put this in Marshall's top five favorite foods. Oh. If I have it, if I got it right, I mean, now I'm going to. Well, everyone has an answer. We can go ahead and reveal. Everyone got it right. The answer is seaweed.

Good job, folks. What did you say? Yeah, we buy it by the case. Oh my gosh. You can get packs of it at Costco. Yeah. We sprinkle it over his salmon and he makes his own little sushi rolls with it. Wow.

What an adventurous little eater? Shelby, what did you say? Oh, I was just like, I know what it's called and I was like stomping my feet around and, you know, like throwing a fit. And I was like, what is it? Yeah. So I didn't say anything. Nori is made from a species of red algae that's harvested off the coast of Japan, and it's commonly used in sushi, rice bowls, salads, and miso soup.

Humans started eating it as a paste about 1,300 years ago, with the dried sheets not being invented until the year 1750. Interesting. Any other Nori fans in the room? Love it. Yeah, and they make flavored ones too. Oh. Little sheets.

Amazing. Lovely. Okay, scoreboard update. Let's get to it. It's tight. Oh, boy. Very tight. Katie and Sarah have five points.

Adrian, Kelsey, and Carrie have six points apiece. And now with a tie game in first place are Sydney and Alex with seven points. Let's do it. I know. Let's do it. There's still in it. There's still two questions left. So Katie, Sarah, you are not out of this yet.

You could totally come back here. We've got this. We've got it. We should have sat next to each other. Sarah is not feeling confident. I'm confident for you. You got this. I'm just happy I got one right. So, don't know right.

Yeah, I'm good. Okay, question nine. Topic is fishing. And this great question comes to us via Leland Hart. Thanks, Leland. You send in a lot of questions. American Shad belonged to this fish family, whose bones inspired a V-shaped pattern

that's similar to Chevron. American Shad belonged to this fish family. whose bones inspired a V-shaped pattern that's similar to Chevron. Can you give an example of a fish family? Yeah, what is a fish family? Like a type of fish. No, nope. No, I cannot.

Ask anyone else in this building, I'm sure they can. Not me. I've never thought about fish families. I think I do. No idea. Can you tell me in what area of like warm water or cold water that Shad live? Girl, I don't write these questions. I don't know, nothing.

But what you could tell us is the number of letters in the answer. Yeah. Can we do that? That is half of the questions. That's fair. How are Alex and Sydney feeling there? I'm ready. I have a word.

I have a word. I don't know if it's a family, but. Right? That's family. Who wrote this question? Spencer, of course. Not me. American Shad belongs to this.

It's actually Leland Hart. Oh, yeah. Leelitt. Thank you. No judgment. I just don't have an answer. I think there's a lure called a Shad wrap. Right.

I mean, I've seen Shad. And that's what I'm thinking of. Here or in the Midwest is my question. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. It's bones inspired a V-shaped pattern that's similar to Chevron. Okay. Yeah.

Sarah's getting something down. Sydney, are you comfortable? No, not at all. Okay. Zero percent. Are you? No. No.

Cool. All right. We got something down. Reveal your answers. Sarah says bass. Sydney says carp. Adrian Trout. Carrie.

Salmon. I'm making words up. You could have told me that was a family. Does it sound scientific? Absolutely. That's what I'm going for. Alex says Pike. Kelsey says bait fish.

Katie says salmon. This is a zero percent. the correct answer is herring. Like, herringbone. I was going to write herringbone and I was like, that's not a fish. That was a hint. Like a herringbone pattern.

Yeah, I liked salmenoid. Salmanoid does sound like it should be a pattern. Yeah, thank you. I like that none of us put the same answer. Yeah. No. Carrie and Katie were close, but herring are small oily fish that travel

in large schools, serving as prey for everything from humpback whales to bald eagles to sea lions. Herringbone is a V-shaped pattern that's common in fabrics and flooring. It creates a zigzag look that is said to resemble a fiscis skeleton. And Phil has a picture of the difference between Chevron and Herringbone. So, you know, Herringbone, if you have some extra money for laying floor, Chevron, if you have some extra money in, like, 2012 for a band-o top.

Haven't seen Chevron in a hot minute. And a chunky necklace. Yes, one of those from Jay Crew, if you're. if you're up to it. Uh-huh. I've seen those coming back. Yeah. Those like giant.

Never again. Heavy. What are we talking about? All right. So since that was question nine, we only have one left. Sorry for the folks who I think are out of them. We'll do a little correct answer review here. So number one was Duke.

Number two was visitor center. Three, Mother of Pearl. Question four was cornucopia. Five, Devil's Tower. Six, succulent. Seven. The hunting wives. seaweed, nine herring. And we will get a final scoreboard update before the final question.

Well, we went from a 100%er, which was a wash, and then a zero percenter, which was also a wash. So everyone is in the same spot. Same spot. It comes down to Sydney, Alex, who have seven points, but Carrie Kelsey and Adrian are still in the game with six. Let's go for a five-way tie. Okay. So Spencer does have two tiebreaker questions. Okay. Just in case. That would be very exciting. I'm rooting for Carrie Kelsey. and Adrian. Nice. You guys. Alex and Sydney, you gotta throw it. No chance.

Katie, we're just done. After you said how competitive you were feeling. Yeah. Because I want to be a part of the end. But if we get to the tiebreaker, if someone gets it right on the nose, I think there is donation money. Don't quote me on that. Yes, there is. We add a 100. If someone gets a perfect game, it's a $1,000 donation.

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Question 10. Topic is wildlife. This is the world's largest land-dwelling arthropod, which is named after the fruit that it eats. What's an arthropod? No hints. Adrian, you're in there. The world's largest land-dwelling arthropod. You know, Katie, at least we're not in contention.

There's a relief. There's no stress on us. This is the world's largest land-dwelling arthropod, which, is named after the fruit that it eats. Okay, which means that they don't all live on land. Keep working it out aloud here. Nobody looks confident. Kelsey's writing.

Carrie, you have an answer. I have an answer. How confident are you? I'm going to go 50-50, I think. Is an arthropod a type of saminoid? It is. Okay. That helps.

Well, actually, I can make it up because if I've, No rules. Yeah, exactly. So it could be. Does anyone else have an answer or even a thought, Kelsey, you have an answer? I'm not confident. I'm not confident. I can't think of any fruit-oriented, named animal other than fruit bat, and that's not going to be it.

This was the third one I got wrong, succulent, norie, and this one. They told me there were three that were questionable. And I don't think that the hunting wives was a questionable one for him. I thought you, yeah, I thought you were going to get that. one just from osmosis of pop culture. I mean, it was there. I don't think that helped at all. I have no, I've never seen Zootopia, but.

He was like, you should just watch Zootopia. You'll be fine. Corey just wanted to watch Zootopia. I mean, honestly, not like for a very quick study session. Like, yeah, not, not that advice. Is that like to help with this question in particular? I've never seen Zootopia. I cannot tell you if there are any arthropods.

Didn't watch it again, so. I just mean for like general animal facts. Like, it's a good movie to, Ask me more questions about 90s PBS shows. Please. We have a lot of empty whiteboards. Any, like, even guesses. No.

Alex and Sydney in the lead, both looking kind of distraught. You have an answer? No. Yeah. I know this could bring Kelsey. Kelsey smile. I'm like, okay. Everybody for bail your answers, let's go.

Fruit. The world's largest land-dwelling arthropod, which is named after the fruit that it eats. If I knew what an arthropod was. Yeah, that would help. Yeah. Yeah, that would definitely help. I'm writing words again, and I don't like the words I'm writing. Yeah, I got it.

You could draw a picture of it. I could. Still don't know how many legs it has. Does it have legs? Does it have wings? Does it swim? Does it swim? It's land dwelling.

It's land dwelling. Oh, I know, but that implies that some of them aren't, which. world's largest land-dwelling arthropod. Katie, you have an answer. I have something on my whiteboard. That doesn't sound super confident, but she's got something down, which is better than half the room. So there you go. Oh, maybe, I don't know. I have nothing. I just, I thought of a fruit and an animal. That's all you can ask for at this point. I don't think it's right, but it's an answer. Something. It's pretty good. Sydney is writing, but not confident.

No, she's not. Come on, Sydney. Alex still hasn't even picked up the marker. No. I just realized mine doesn't eat this fruit. It just looks like it. You have time. We're in no rush.

I mean, we've only got, what, three answers. Yeah, the clock timer rarely ever gets to the end and we're almost to the end. You can just cut this out. It's fine. No, we're on video now. Nope. Edit. Edit.

That's your job. You press the sound button and you hit the scissors and it's done. One more time, it's the world's largest land-dwelling arthropod and it is named after the fruit that it eats. The only helpful word in this entire question is fruit. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, land-dwelling rules out whales. Does it?

They get beached. They do. I recently saw a video of some fishermen pulling a beluga whale back into the ocean and it swam off, which I was... Was it eating fruit? It was not. No, I think Baluga eat fish. All right, we get and guess. Oh, Katie's changing hers.

Oh. I just had suck at winners. Oh. Now I'm doing the answer. Oh. Oh, the answer. Katie's got... Do you think you have it?

Inspired. I do. I do think I have it. Wow. This is exciting. That's cool. I feel like it has to be something basic. Why?

Because I got it. I just mean it's not going to be like a leachy bug. You know? It's got to be like an apple. Like a dragon fruit something. Yeah. Keep talking. Alex is like, please, someone.

Sydney, do you have something down? Yeah, but it's not. Give a percentage to your confidence here. Zero. Zero. Oh, okay. So probably. the same. I'm just going to go back to my wrong answer.

All right. We'll give you guys. How long is this timer? I already restarted. We've now set the record for the longest time we've spent on a question. Well, in that case, I want to keep thinking. We'll get there eventually. Let's talk it out. I do have a baseball game

to get to. TikTok. It will last for seven hours, though, Carrie. It's so true. It's so true. Are we feeling? Do we want to just write down a guess? Do it.

All right. Reveal your answers. Sarah just wrote down a question mark. Sydney Apple Badger. Adrian Banana Slug. Carrie Coconut Crab. Alex without an answer. Kelsey Banana Slug.

Katie, a bearded dragon. We do have a correct answer in the road. Is that the coconut crab? That sounds right. The coconut crab. I wanted to write something down. Banana slug was a great guess though But they don't eat bananas, I don't think

They don't think they eat late Job period. That came to me a little bit too late. There were some good guesses, good guesses. I was going to put coconut worm And I was like, gosh, dumb. Half inspired. It was half there. I never even thought of a coconut.

Or a crab. Or a crab. Good for you, Carrie. Did you know what an arthropod was? Pretty confidently. No, I think it was the land the land dwelling,

the land dwelling part of it. Awesome. Well, these hermit crabs are also known as robber crabs or palm thieves. They can grow up to 10 pounds and three feet wide. They have a diverse diet

including birds, rats, other crabs, nuts, seeds, and of course, coconuts. Some historians believe coconut crabs may have eaten

Amelia Earhart after her fatal flight over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. Probably. What's the picture of one? Didn't you draw one? Spencer didn't

provide me with one. Dropping the ball. So I believe that means we have a three-way tie. Oh, it does. Oh, wow. This is so exciting. What's the score? Oh, yeah, we can bring the scores up.

Yeah, I think Carrie, Alex, and Sydney are all tied to seven. Look at how close this was. Isn't this close? We're going to overtime, folks. And Phil, you have an overtime drop. Oh, it's brief. Tiebreaker. Okay, our tie-breaking question will be a numerical one.

Whoever is the closest to the correct answer will be declared the winner. But the whole room should play along because if someone gets it right on the nose, media will add an extra $100 donation to the end of today's game. I should have read the whole script before asking about the donation. So for the tiebreaker question, the topic is woodsmanship. Our strong suit. Yeah, succulents. To be fair, Spencer does have in the script, Woodswomenhip,

Which I thought was pedantic. Yes, it is. This tie-breaker question is via Eric Mills. How many stars make up the big dipper? Oh. Eric. So we are looking at Sydney, Alex, and Carrie here for the win. And everyone else for an extra hundred bucks.

How many stars make up the big dipper? Any stargazers in the room? I don't. Not Alex. I'm going to sleep before you can see stars. She's starring it out in early bedtime. Every time there's a meteor shower, Spencer and I go out in the hot tub and try to see some shooting stars. So he's a big, big star boy.

I love looking at the stars. When we go to eastern Montana, we sleep in the truck bed. Oh. Because it's the best guys. So romantic. I love that. Like just life romance. It's cold and, you know, we're tired.

There's a lot of things about it that aren't great. No, it is. It's beautiful and amazing and I love it. The best stargazing I've ever had was Death Valley National Park. That was super cool. Do we all have a guess? Sure. I'm worried that I'm just thinking of like the brightest stars in that constellation and not.

Go with your gut. That's all I can say. Okay, I'm good though. Reveal. Oh, oh, oh. Sarah just changed your answer last minute and put seven. Cindy, seven, Adrian 7, Carrie, eight, Alex seven, Kelsey, seven, Katie, nine. We do have a correct answer.

It's seven! We're tied again, folks! Now it's between Sydney and Alex. Yes, back to the OG frontrunners. This is exciting. I want to be able to come back and get the tiebreaker to get in the leads. We need to do another time. Just this whole second game, actually.

Just keep going. I even drew a picture with seven stars and then I doubted myself. I did the, okay, I did the same thing. I drew the picture and then I put eight and then I was like, no, go with your gut. Oh, me. Yeah, yeah. Extra hundred bucks already on the donation. So that is awesome, guys.

We got multiple people getting it right on the nose and we're onto a second tiebreaker. This is great. I didn't prep the second tiebreaker. I got to do that really quick. I didn't think it was going to happen. We need a minute. Here we go. I need like 10 seconds.

Okay, here we go. I'm good. All right. That was not 10 seconds, but that's okay. The topic for the second tiebreaker is hunting. According to a 22 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Survey, what percentage of hunters have a bachelor's degree or above? Ooh.

This is a percentage. According to a 22 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Survey, what percentage of hunters have a bachelor's degree or above? And, Shelby, I don't mean to like take... take hold of this show, but I'm just going to make, I'm going to make an authoritative decision here and say that if someone gets it right on the money, we're going to add another $100. Oh, hell yes. I actually, I would like to take control back and say $1,000. Let's just add $10,000.

You can talk to accounting. If we're making changes here, I mean, come on. Although if someone gets us right on the money, that is quite impressive. A percentage? Sure. Well, are there decimals involved or is this rounded? Just to round. grounded. Normal percentage. No decimals necessary. According to a 22

US Fish and Wildlife Survey, what percentage of hunters have a bachelor's degree or above? Is this adult hunters? I know. I thought about children. I would assume so. I think that's implied. Yeah. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Survey, I doubt the government is surveying children. They do, I think, count kids hunters because I've seen these surveys. I have to text Spencer. I don't think I won't. I know. My mind did go there.

So I don't know. Everyone looks like they have a guess. Adrian's still writing a little bit. I'm changing mine. I feel bad saying this, but I feel like my first guest was hi. We'll find out. Dropping it to what? Doesn't matter anything answer.

What do you write? I'm not going to tell you. I'll show you a minute. How confident are you? Not very. Alex? No. No.

No. Yeah. Ah, your face looks confident. Okay, good. All right, reveal your answers, folks. Sarah says 34, Sydney says 32, Adrian says 27, Carrie 70, Alex 25, Kelsey 43, Katie 57. We have two that are only 1% away. The answer?

26. 26. What? That makes Alex our winner. What an exciting game. Oh, in sportsmanship. Look at that. 15% have just a bachelor's degree while 11% went to grad school.

The numbers have almost identical for anglers where 27% hold a bachelor's degree or above. So that's 1% more than hunters. Good job. Wow. Nice job. Crushed it. Okay. Alex, as a winner, you get to choose where the donation goes to.

I've always thought of this moment. I would like. Is it $700? It's $700,000. $1 million. Okay, I wanted to insure, okay, that I knew. $700. No, it's not because nobody got it right on the money for this one.

It's $600. It's $600. Thank you for the clarification. Okay, we are going National Wild Turkey Federation and WTF. Yay. That was my story. Awesome. You won.

Tis the season. That is why. Turkey season. Thank you. Boys will be back next week, and you can join them for more media or trivia. The only game show, we're conservation. always wins. Way to go.

Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota. He's the host. Using those smooth, mellow tones, he lays them questions down. And he likes taking those two- and three-year-old bucks. And he's an avid, amateur. Last spring, Clay Newcomb and I

collaborated with Jason Phelps at Phelps game calls in building each of our own favorite turkey diaphragms called Prime Cuts. Now I'm going to tell you, I love mine because it's easy to use. I'm not going to go, I'm not going to win a turkey calling contest. It's just not going to happen. But when I run this call, I get the sounds that gobblers are looking for.

I have a great turkey hunting track record. If you go listen to real turkeys out in the woods, they're not going to win calling contests, right? That's who I listen to. I can make those sounds on my cut. I also hunt with Phelps's cut, and I hunt with Clay's cut because they're all three great cuts. Check out Prime Cuts at Phelpsgamecauls.com. I think you'll be glad you did, and you'll find out that the Steve Rinella cut is an easy-to-use cut for beginning callers who just want to start making good turkey noises and getting action. This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human.