The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 894: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCXXII

Episode Date: June 24, 2026

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Randall Williams, Seth Morris, Max Barta, Cory Calkins, Maggie Smith, and Logan Dove. Enjoy Mountain Dew, an American Original. 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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organization of the winner's choosing. All right, we have a mailbag question today. If you have a mailbag question, send it to trivia at the meat eater.com with the subject line mailbag and the crew maybe answer it on a future episode. This is from Chuck Jennings. He says, I'm moving this summer and am looking to buy my first gun cabinet. It's pretty overwhelming and a big investment. Do you have any brands or features you recommend looking for any advice?

Thoughts from the crew? just make sure it's big enough. Big enough. Yeah, I would say the number one thing is that gun safe, gun cabinet ratings are a lot like sleeping bags or tents and that if it says it's rated for 20 guns, you're probably only getting 10 of them in there.

20 guns is like if they're all 22s without any optics and you don't keep any optics or any ammo or the other things that gun safes tend to collect. So over shop, if Chuck has 12 guns, he's looking to protect, maybe look for a 24 gun cabinet, gun safe. Here's a question for you. Yes.

Gun cabinet or gun safe? He says gun cabinet. My guess is he's using it interchangeably. Max pointed this out earlier when I told them this is a question would be answering. A gun cabinet is like a wooden thing with glass doors. You can break into it real easy. It could be metal. Okay.

A gun cabinet. It wouldn't be fireproof. Is that how you would define it? That's how I would define it. Like if you buy a metal locker, yes. I would call that a gun. Like when I'm stack on.

Yeah, exactly. Like, it's like a steel box with a door. Doesn't have a fire rating, doesn't have a flood rating. And it's not heavy as sin. He says cabinet. My guess is he's in the market for a cabinet or a safe. So when you're giving Chuck your advice, Randall, either one. What do you have for Chuck?

Man, I just think for the amount of money it's spent on a gun safe, you could buy a few guns that you wouldn't mind getting stolen. Oh, okay. That's good perspective, actually. I'll be honest. I've never imagined myself owning a gun safe just based on the sticker price. Okay. They're not cheap as Chuck says. So those of you that own gun safes, more power to you.

I don't have a lot of sentimental attachment to my firearms, not to say that I'm looking to lose them in a fire or a home invasion, but I just, there's, it would take a lot for me to think, like, here's where I want to dump all this cash. Sure. Um, on the other hand, people can't move safes. Uh, my buddy had a guy, or he had a crew of teens, roll a gun locker full of guns out of his house. Wow. Uh, and to the back of a Honda cord, you couldn't have done that with a gun safe. Did he get the gun cabinet back? No, he got one of the guns back. I think I've told the story before. He got one of the guns back

when it was released from, uh, the evidence hold in a homicide trial. but most of the guns probably went into he was told that most of them probably went into a body of water because they were so obscure damn yeah like just like who's gonna commit a crime with a 9 3 by 72

you know um I don't know I just I gun lockers like buy them big because not only do you want to fit the guns in there you don't want to have to move guns around to get a gun out yeah that's super right it's just the whole thing is bad

I would say if he says he's moving, right? He's moving. So I think he's waiting until the move happens to figure out. Yeah, he wants to like make sure it fits in his space. I was going to say maybe in his new house, he has like a closet or something that you can lock up and have like a little gun room. Sure. Rather than a gun cabinet. Yeah, I think Hornity is making components where you can build.

You can like frame in. I love that. A little locker into your closet and then put the door on it. I believe Hornet he's doing that. But that's probably what I would do. Yeah. My friend now who had the locker stolen, he has a space under his stairs that he's made into a safe. Yeah, I have what you would define as a cabinet or a locker.

If a fire comes through my house, I don't think, like, my guns are going to be in the top 25 things I'm thinking about, you know, after it's all set and Donna Wall's happening. So I'm just, like, taking that risk that if a flutter or fire happens, my guns are gone. Corey, Max, any advice for Chuck? And don't lose those keys. To have to break into it. That'd be no fun. I'm still hung up on the safe versus cabinet thing. When I think of cabinet, I'm thinking of at my lakehouse.

It's like the guns are presented really nicely, you know. But a glass has like a scene is like are safe in the kitchen here. You know, it's locked. You have to put multiple codes in there. We don't have a safe in the kitchen here. I also don't have a lake house. No, but that's what I'm saying Like when I think of cabinet

I think of like really nice elegant wood So here's here's one that I have when it comes This stuff is I have a I have a Cabinet in my closet But then I also just want to have a separate cabinet in my garage for guns That are just going in and out of my truck all the time Okay Because I end up just leaving a lot of guns laying around

Sure I thought that was going to be your dummy cabinet No no No right now the dummy cabinet is just just like a rifle on my reloading bench, a rifle sitting on top of my drawers, a rifle laying on a folding table. But I'd like to have two, one for the in and out, and one for like the shotguns that I bring out once a year.

Yeah. I like to know that you're not a gun safe, man. No. The other thing is, I don't have enough room to lock up all of my guns when people with kids come over to our house. So then I spend an inordinate of time hiding them in places above six feet tall. And then you lose that.

And then I can't remember where I put them. That's great. So there's no rat answer. You just got to know your own situation. Any other thoughts for Chuck before we move on? Great question. Good luck, Chuck. Today's episode is brought to you by Mountain Dew.

And thanks to them, you were getting some extra trivia this week. Between questions five and six today, we'll have two bonus questions again. Thanks to our friends of Mountain Dew. All right, the Shelby Index for today is a five, so I'm putting us on perfect score. alert. With that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil. Not going to happen for me today. Look, I need

to know what I stand to win. What is that? Question one, the topic is hunting. This first great question is via Matt Henderson, and as always, it will be multiple choice. If a 4-10 shotgun followed the same naming pattern,

as the 12 and 20 gauge, then what would it be called? Is it the 25.8 gauge, the 40.1 gauge, the 67.5 gauge, or 95.6 gauge. Oh, good. If a 410 shotgun followed the same naming pattern as the 12 and 20 gauge, then what would it be called? the 25.8 gauge 40.1 67.5 95.6

Randall, quick to answers because you didn't because you knew it or because you didn't want to think about it too hard. No, I've known this. Okay. I'm not certain, but it is something that I've

looked into before. We have a 410. Followed the same naming logic is a 12 and 12. 20 gauge, what would it be called? 25.8 gauge, 40.1, 67.5, 95.6. Makes me think about your punt gun episode coming out here any day. No, who, who.

It does come out later this week, and we address this exact thing in that episode. That's what made me think of this. Oh, holy for you there. I've yet to see it. Okay. Max, have you watched it? I haven't, no. We filmed it, though.

I haven't seen it. Get this one right. Oh, yeah. If you watched it. I just took a couple of pictures of it. I still think the video of you and Max pulling the string together. It was very cute.

It was really cute. Did that make it in? Dang it? No, it's not myself. I got cut out of it. We'll do a behind the scene. I know. I shoot four tens all the time.

Is everybody ready? No. Yes. Sure. Maxwell, how many four tens do you own? I only need one. Okay. But how many do you own?

One. I only need one rifle, but I got more than one. Geez. Tell me about it. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth says 25.8. Logan, 67.5.

Randall, 67.5. Marge, 67.5. Corey, 67.5. Maximus, 25.8. The correct answer is 67.5. Dang it. The room did well. I think more out of six.

I think you and I were thinking of the same thing. I always guess on. Can I have that? The wrong answer. A 12-gauge shotgun means it would take 12 solid lead balls the exact size of the barrel's diameter to get one pound. So for a 410, that means it would take 67.5 lead balls that perfectly fit in the barrel to get one pound.

The 410 name. refers to the 0.410 inch bore diameter that the shotgun has. So if you took a lead ball that fit exactly in the end of a 12 gauge, 12 of those would make one pound of lead. Steve talks about this all the time. 67.5. Question two, the topic is fishing. This panfish-inspired name is what bait shops often call small fathead minnows.

This panfish inspired name is what bait shops, often call small fat head minnows. All right, flip your boards, let's go. Minnows or minors? Either one. Depend what size of the maize and dixen you're on. Seth was just talking about getting a vending machine, maybe. And I told me you should put bait.

Put minors in there? Yeah. This panfish-inspired name is what bait shops often call small fathead minnows. I like that vending machine idea, though. It's like an aquarium, and then he's like, How many want? You just drop out of there.

It serves as both an aquarium and a bait shop. These are a real thing, but usually it's like leeches and worms. Oh, yeah. That you're buying out of a bait vending machine. I don't think they have these. I'm thinking more of like a gumball machine, so it looks like a round aquarium. That's good, too. Yeah.

With the little spin. Can fish this goes down? Randall, do you have this one right? No, I sort of thought about this question backwards, and now I'm... Starting from scratch again. Max, do you have this one right? Okay.

Very confident. Didn't even need to finish the question. He had his answer. How do you know this? Because of Wollah, Dan? No, just, I used to buy them all the time in high school. At the lake house, you know? My leghouse with my gun cabinet.

He's a good North Dakota. The sunnies are spawning at the local pond by my house. Oh, okay. It's really cool. I mean, they're all just little dinks, but they're just running around, chasing each other. So aggressive. Yeah.

I haven't fished for me. Yeah, I was fishing large mouth this past weekend and the, the bluegill beds were where you were finding the large mouth. Yeah.

Or close by the bluegill beds. I was just in Minnesota and it was like peak bluegill spawned there and they were so wildly aggressive that they would like swim up to my paddle of my kayak and want to fight it despite it being, you know,

10x their size. I went through so many baits this weekend because of the freaking blue blue hills being aggressive. They'll grab a wacky worm. No problem. They'll, like, go after a frog on top water. Panfish-inspired name is what bait shops often call small fat-head minnows.

Is everybody ready? No, hold on. I hope I'm right. We distracted Seth. I should know this. Very embarrassing. I don't fish with minnows hardly ever, though. Pan-fish inspired.

This panfish-inspired name is what bait shops often call small fad-head minnows. Max isn't sure if he has it. No, I'm pretty sure. Okay, pretty sure. Corey, do you like your answer? I love my answer. Okay. Seth, Randall, are you boys ready?

Sure. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth says Brim. Logan, Shiner's. Randall, Cropi Chubb. Marge, without an answer, Corey says Brimos, that's a great name. Maxwell says Cropi.

The correct answer is Cropi Minnows. Really? So I think Max we would give it to But if I give it to Max, then I need to give it to Rand A chub and a minnow is different Mine is closer Why, what did you have? Propy chub

It's a crappy minnow I would say no one gets it I'd say either you both are getting it You're neither one of you are going to get it Here's my thought What do you call the other style of minnow The other minnow That's a little bigger

Badhead Minnow Or I think maybe some of people would call him a walleye minnow if you're in Minnesota or a bass minnow. Let's give it to Max. I would give it to Randall. He was close. Let's give it to Max. Don't give it to me. Okay.

I like that ruling. Maxwell gets that right. They are croppy minnows. Cropy minnows are simply smaller minnows, which are likely females or immature males. Yeah, man. Bate shops will often sort their fat heads into two sizes, with croppy minnows being the shorter of the two. As the name implies, Cropy minnows are small enough to fit in the mouth of Cropy and other panfish.

Here is a picture of a male versus a female fathead minnow on the top. That would be your traditional fathead minnow. And on the bottom would be a croppy minnow. Seth, does that now sound familiar now that you've heard it? No, I never heard. Who likes Creek Chubs? Creek Chubs. That's a good fish.

Rannos like, Max isn't going to win this game. So might as well just give them a point. It's a little insight of Max. Mine was not close. In second thought, I thought, you know, does say minnows in the question. That's kind of what I thought. It was implied it was a minnow. Yeah, so good for you, Max.

Question three, the topic is wildlife. This next great question is via Joshua Banks. Heartwarming. This animal with a colorful name is Africa's longest venomous snake. The room has gone quiet. This animal with a colorful name is, Africa's longest venomous snake. Kind of a bone for somebody who's just...

Seth, you were just over there. But he didn't like it. And he won't go back. He didn't like it. Maybe because of this colorful snake. This animal with a colorful name is Africa's longest venomous snake. Randall, do you have this one right?

I don't know. It's a good of venomous snake in Africa. Does it have a colorful name? that's the question. Could that be open to interpretation? Don't know. No. Marge is doing to me racing.

Corey, do you have this one right? Man, I sure hope so. This animal with a colorful name is Africa's longest venomous snake. Let me ask you a question. No. I'm not going to answer it. What's a question? You can ask if you like.

If it's going to give everyone a hint. I think I'm just going to say. know though. Would a real, would a real hoop head like this answer? I'm not going to give you anything. That's clever. Does that help you? I think I know. I smell what he's stepping in. Yeah. I don't. Oh, and Max. It's a hoop head. What a real hooplehead. What a real hoopel head get this one right. Hupelhead is in Deadwood what they would call maybe if you're going to call someone a really mean name

that started with like an F instead you'd call them a hoopel head in Deadwood the show. What's the meaning? I don't know, just like a silly goose, same thing. You're just calling them something mean, but like in a more western

quirky way. Oh, Mike just got unplugged. Randall right? We won't hear you're unplugged. We won't hear from Randall the rest of the episode now. Come in, Phil. We've got your back. Okay. You can just tighten some connections over there for me.

That'd be great. This animal with a colorful name is Africa's longest venomous snake. Is everybody ready? It's like this. It looks like that. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Set, Black Mamba. Logan, Black Mamba.

Logan, Black Mamba. Marge without an answer. Corey, Black Mamba. Maxwell, without an answer. The correct answer is. is the black mamba. Max has an accurate. I thought it should draw a picture.

Yeah. And as Randall referred to, that it was Kobe Bryant's nickname. Yeah, it throws me off when you use colorful. Colorful in like, if you were in an art store. Yes.

Randall, we lost your mic again. We're just not going to hear. Maybe it's, can you hear me? I'll come over there during the next question and try to finagle. See, colorful, black. It's gone again.

That doesn't mean colorful, though. But it's a color. But it's one color. Colorful implies color. I know. There's kind of some purple. That's a colorful note. The funny thing is, a black mamba's not even black.

They're like olivey or dark green. Am I back, Phil? You're back. Just try not to touch it. I'm not going to touch it at all. Measuring over 14 feet long, the black mamba is second only to the king cobra. as the world's longest venomous snake. It's also one of the planet's fastest snakes,

reaching 12 miles per hour in short bursts. Untreated, humans have a 95% mortality rate when bitten by a black mamba. But if anti-venom is quickly administered, fatality rates drop below 10%. Seth, did you guys see any black mambles? I wish they would have told us that when we're there. It's kind of like if you get bit, you're dead.

Yeah. Yes. I didn't see any because, you know, I was in car too but the dudes in car one saw one didn't they see them

one like going the speed of the car almost? They came around a corner and there was one in the road trying to get get away but then it turned and like came up kind of over the hood of the vehicle

and then scary it did they film it? No no dirt was on the roof of the truck trying to get away as a snake

was coming up over the hood. Max's drawing was pretty good because I think it's like over half their body they can get in the air. Yeah, on the move. Sorry, I erased it. I saw a rattlesnake this weekend. I didn't like that. No, thank you. I don't like snakes. Spooky. Question for the topic is public lands.

It was revealed in a 22 lawsuit that this man's treasure was found in Yellowstone National Park. Last name? Just last name? Last name will suffice. I respect the Jeopardy rules. Two points for both things. when it comes to last name.

It was revealed in a 2022 lawsuit that this man's treasure was found in Yellowstone National Park. God. Fill the engineers now on the scene. What a guy. Yeah. Sounds good. Mess with the other one.

I think the other one was the one that was causing the issue. Yeah. I think it was probably in there because what I did to mess it up is I moved the microphone arm down. So I think Phil fixed it brilliantly. He saw what the issue was and everything's better now.

That's why they call him Phil the engineer. It was revealed in a 2022 lawsuit that this man's treasure was found in Yellowstone National Park. I remember hearing about this, but... You should go watch the dock on it. I did watch the dock and I can't see. Or the meat eater podcast episode. Or read any of the meat eater podcast episode. of my articles. I know. I was like Spencer was obsessed with this for a while. Did you ever go

look for it? Uh, I mildly looked for it. So I, of course you did. They were you like, were you close? Were you close at all? I was close. Yeah. My best guess was that it was by Gardner. Um, I thought it would actually be in the Custer National Forest right outside based on some clues. He talks about, um, the house of Brown. Yeah. And he talks about the river on fire. Yeah, I thought would have been the Boiling River, Yankee Jim Canyon, I thought was part of the solve. We could talk about it after. So I would like kind of plan rock hounding, fishing, hunting trips in the area and, you know, maybe just like look behind the logs or like, you know, walk over to this creek to look at

the stream bed just in case it was there. So I would say I was a hunter of this treasure. Gosh, I can't think of it. I wrote, I then wrote, after it was revealed that it was. found. They didn't reveal the location until a few years later. In the weeks after it was found, I wrote an article on our website saying, these are the four places I think it could be. And one of the four that I named was Yellowstone National Park. So I was satisfied that I had that part. Is everybody ready? It was revealed in a 2022 lawsuit that this man's treasure was found

in Yellowstone National Park. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth says Finn, Logan, Forest Fenn, we'll give it to you, Seth. Randall says, Forest Fenn, Marge without an answer. Corey, Forrest Fenn, Maxwell says Captain Jack Sparrow. The correct answer was Forrest Fenn. Gosh. The hunt started in 2010 after Forest Fenn left a series of clues about his treasure's location in a 24-line poem.

The stash was found by Jack Stuff a decade later in 2020, who spent 25 days scouring, the area before finding the chest. It wasn't until two years later that it was revealed that the treasure was found in Yellowstone, which came out in court documents via a lawsuit against Fenn. Apparently, after the treasure was found, Fenn told a park ranger of its location asking if the spot could handle extra foot traffic from tourists. The park ranger determined that was a bad idea, so no exact location has been revealed. But there's some agreement in the treasure hunting community that it was hidden at nine mile hole on the Madison River.

So you can find nine mile hole in Madison River. It's not that far of a walk. Then you will be in the vicinity of where the Forest Fen treasure was found. And the founder, he said that he used the 24-line poem, but then also there were some media interviews done later by Forest Fen. And it was a clue that was given in one of those media interviews that Jack stuff said he picked up on that no one has. else did, which led him to the trip.

His name's Jack Stuff. St.U-E-F. Google says you pronounce it stuff. I would have guessed it was Stuif. Yeah. But online says stuff. Question five, the topic is conservation. A rhino poacher won this award

in 2019, which is given to those who, quote, improve the gene pool by eliminating themselves from it in an obviously stupid way. the word award is in quotation marks in my question a rhino poacher won this award in 2019 which is given to those who improved the gene pool by eliminating themselves from it in an obviously stupid way

Randall the only player with an answer do you have this right Randall I do I do big fan I've tried hounding jack stuff to just do an interview with us, I don't know, give me five minutes on the phone. He won't do it. He's determined to just, like, be as anonymous as possible. I even bid on some of the treasure. What Jack did is he took everything and he pieced it up into like 200 different things.

The treasure was valued to be worth like $2 million. He then sold it through an auction house. I bid on some of the gold dust that was in the treasure, but came up well, well short of what these sell. How much should he go for? I don't remember now. The gold dust, I think I bid up. to like $100 and I think I don't think anything and they went for less than a grand. Yeah.

So did he get two mill? He went way beyond two mill. Oh, nice. And then he kept a couple pieces for himself. Um, he was fully dedicated. Like he retired. He was, I think only in his late 20s. He quit his job to look, look for the treasure and then he found it.

Gosh, I should have done that. You weren't that far away from. But then I wouldn't be here right now. That's right. Winning that trivia. You have a lake house. I would have a couple of lake house. With a gun cabinet.

A couple really nice gun cabinets. A couple really nice gun cabinets. Really nice for a tape. Again, we're on question five. The topic is conservation. A rhino poacher won this award in 2019, which is given to those who, quote, improve the gene pool by eliminating themselves from it

in an obviously stupid way. I have no idea. Does everybody give up? Yeah. Rino poacher. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Cessa's Darwin Award. Logan.

Charles Darwin. Randall Darwin Award. Marge without an answer, Corey says the Dundees, Max, without an answer. The correct answer is the Darwin Award. So Logan, we'll give that to you. Oh, yeah. Charles Darwin. Wendy Northcutt has been handing out Darwin Awards since 1992. The honor is given to those who show evolution in action by doing something idiotic that results in death or sterilization. One of the five winners in 2019 was a rhino poacher who was trampled by an elephant, then eaten by a lion. 2018 featured a winner who was killed by a bear he tried taking a selfie with, and 2020 had a winner who died while looking for Forest Fend's treasure. The awards are named after Charles Darwin, who's known as the father of evolution. Did the previous question inspire this question?

Yes, how's that for a throwback? That's awesome. Good callback. That's really good. Masterful. All right, we're halfway through to today's game of Trouble. trivia, Phil. It was a scoreboard up to.

March. Everybody is on the board. Max and Maggie, however, only have one point. That's why we share an office. Collective brain. We've got Seth and Corey up next with three points of piece and tied up in first place.

Miranda Williams and hey, it's Logan Dove. Good. Welcome to the leaderboard. Do you know what your high score in a game is, Logan? You have a guess as to what it would be. I think five is like the I've ever got me. And that might have been in like the like the losers bracket.

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Just gear you can count on. Head to firstlight.com. That's F-I-R-S-T-L-I-T-E.com. All right, and now it's time for our Mountain Dew questions. the week. Thanks to Mountain Dew, you get some bonus trivia in this week's episode. This does not count towards your scores just for bragging rights. Here they are. Question one for Mountain Dew's questions of the week. The topic is public lands. Mountain Dew was created in Tennessee, just outside of what national park? We've got this question. And then we've got one more

after this. The Mountain Dew questions of the week. Mountain Dew was created. in Tennessee, just outside of what national park? Does it say on the box? I don't think it says. No, box, no, it doesn't. American do box. Is everybody ready?

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Set says Daniel Boone. Logan, without an answer, Randall says Great Smoky Mountains National Park. March, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Corey and Max say Great Smoky Mountains National Park. They got it. The correct answer is great smoky mountains National Park. I didn't have mountains, but I had great smoky. Close enough. Mountain Dew born just outside. Remember, this doesn't count.

Our second Mountain Dew question of the week. The topic is Mountain Men. What Mountain Man was captured by pirates and the Pawnee before becoming a trapper and its multiple choice? Is it Hugh Glass, Jim Beckworth, or Jim Bridger? This is the Mountain Dew Mountain Man question of the week. What mountain man was captured by pirates and the Pawnee before becoming a trapper? Hugh Glass, Jim Beckworth, or Jim Bridger? I might kill it. You know, I was just kind of assumed, like, a lot of this stuff in parks and recreation was just, like, made up.

But, like, Pawnee Indians are apparently a thing. That's a real thing. And they captured this person. Is everybody ready? Most of the rest of that show is made up. Go ahead. to be clear and reveal your answer set says beckworth logan heu glass randall huge glass marge jim beckworth cori and maxway say hugh glass they got it the correct answer is hugh glass those don't count

and hugh glass lived such an interesting life they described him as the forest uh what the forest gump of mountain men right randall i haven't heard that but it makes sense okay he was just all over the continent doing all kinds of crazy stuff in in the mountain men audio book we described Jim Bridger as the Forrest Gump of the American West. Well, maybe I have that, maybe that's what I'm thinking about. But I think Hugh Glass is maybe a better case. Bridger didn't spend any time with the pirates. I know Bridger's later life, though, he's just involved.

He's like involved in the Mormon Wars and Overland Travel and all that stuff. But yeah, Glass is a real interesting, real interesting case. Those were the Mountain Dew questions of the week. Enjoy the refreshing citrus kick of Mountain Dew. American original tasting great since 48. Look for American do limited time packaging in stores today. I like that rhyme. Question six.

The topic is wildlife. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Adam Smith. For sending this great question, Adam is going to get a $150 first light gift card. If you want a chance to win the listener question of the week, then send your question to trivia at the meat eater.com. This seven-letter gland is defined as, quote, the specialized organ that produces milk in mammals. A couple of new and incoming dads knew about this one. Okay, maybe.

Yeah, maybe. Maxwell, do you have seven letters? Yeah. Okay, he was just at a baby appointment recently. Elbeck. It should help him. Today's question. This seven-letter gland is defined as the specialized organ that produces milk in mammals.

Corey, do you have this one right? I don't think I spelled it correctly, but you're going to get it. Okay. Yeah. Is it that letter? Is everybody ready? It don't matter. Marge, are you drawing something for us?

Where are you writing an answer? I can't tell. Marge doesn't do her. She's drawing, but it's a moo cow. It's not what you guys think. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth, Mamary, Logan, last. Actate, Randall Mammery.

I forgot a large. Mamary. Corey says Mamory, Maxwell, Mamery, the correct answer is mammary gland. Two-A-s like mammal. M-A-M-A-R-Y. Beautiful.

There was three different spellings, I think. Which one did you land on? Was it correct? No, no, it wasn't correct. Mamary glands are what make a mammal, a mammal in most male mammals, the mammary glands are underdeveloped and unused, but some species of bat have males that lactate and produce milk for offspring.

The same phenomenon has been occasionally witnessed in goats. Question seven, the topic is hunting. This next great question is via Nathan Deeson. This man who died at the Battle of Little Bighorn once accidentally shot his horse while hunting bison. This man who died at the Battle of Little Bighorn once accidentally shot his horse while hunting bison

Seth Corey Randall I can't name them all but I'm I'm willing to guess that there were multiple combatants that day that had done this exact thing that you think they shot their horse while hunting bison and they died at the battle of Little Bighorn yeah okay yeah if you could if you could find me some other examples

it's like getting into a fender bender it's fairly common You have experience with this? If you spend your life as an equestrian bison hunter, I feel like at some point you're going to accidentally shoot your horse. And die at the battle of blue-beckhorn. Yeah. You know how some people use horses to hunt antelope?

Mm-hmm. Was that what they were doing? Same thing. Hiding behind the horses. We'll talk about it in the flavor text. It's kind of like when someone bikes and shoots their rifle through the floor of their car. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, shoot a tow-off. But I would guess that this is more common. Hmm. I don't know. I feel like I'd be shooting my horse all the time. Yeah. This man who died at the battle of Little Big Horn.

How often do you accidentally honk your horn? Yeah, Rand will be changing horses like he changes his underwear. Every other week. Every other week. So everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth says Custer. Logan without an answer.

Randall says Custer, Marge without an answer. answer, Corey and Maxwell say General Custer. The correct answer is George Custer, although you could probably find someone else who fits this criteria, and I'll give you that point if you're able to. Custer told the story in his 1887 book, My Life on the Plains. He was riding his favorite horse, Custis Lee, while hunting antelope with his five grayhounds on the Kansas Prairie. The antelope were losing him when Custer spotted a big bison.

He then pursued the bull, and after a three-mile chase, Custer readied his revolver. But just as he pulled the trigger, the buffalo swerved into Custer's horse, sending the bullet right into Custis Lee's head. The horse died instantly, and the bison got away. Here's a picture, Phil has, of General Custer. This was three years before his last stand, this was a bull that he killed by Yellowstone. A whopper of a five-point bull. The anniversary's coming up of the battle. That's your anniversary, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good for you, Seth. Now you'll never forget the battle of that speech. Yeah, that Steve did. Of course. That was pretty funny.

Question eight, the topic is fishing. This dental term refers to the controversial fishing technique where anglers try to swing a leader into the mouth of a salmon that's swimming upstream. Maxwell, Randall, Seth already have their answer. This dental term refers to the controversial fishing technique where anglers try to swing a leader into the mouth of a salmon that's swimming upstream. Randall, have you ever participated in this? Root Canal. Oh, yeah.

You have. Okay. Did you feel okay about it? I mean, I don't, like for Sakai, you really need to do this. The only way? I was never good at it a terrible sock eye fisherman much to my dismay

because they're very tasty but yeah I mean guys that are good at this are just yeah when you see people doing it it's easy to understand like how somebody could be good or bad at it it's a very specific technique can you make that noise again

this dental term refers to the controversial fishing technique where anglers try to swing a leader into the mouth of a salmon that's swimming upstream. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth and Logan and Randall say flossing. I guess.

Marge says flossing. Corey says snagging. Maxwell says flossing. Very different. The correct answer is flossing. Some people consider it snagin though. I mean, that's what I call. Salmon flossing is also known as flipping.

It's where anglers use a. a weighted leader that's drifted through the path of sockeye salmon. When it works, the current pulls the line through the fish's mouth until the hook reaches its jaw. Fish caught while flossing aren't biting the hook. Instead, it's more like snagging them in the mouth. Flossing is illegal in Washington, Oregon, California, and Idaho, but Alaska does allow it. I thought they put a bead there too. And the fish like goes for the bead and then.

I don't think there's any illusion. No, they're not pursuing a bait. They're not really going for it at all. You're literally trying to just get them in front of the gill plate. Yeah. Okay. Like the line is like kind of literally passing through their mind, right? Yeah, until the hook reaches that.

Yeah, because Salki really, I mean, it's hard to say because I've had, I've caught Sokkeye on like big plugs before that they actually hit. But for the most part, the conventional wisdom is that they're not going to bite anything. Again, like almost the entire PNW says, no, you cannot do that. But Alaska allows it. I feel like you see videos. We're due to like as close as Max is to Logan away. Yeah, and they're flossing in a river. All right, we have two questions left.

Phil, give us a scoreboard update. Come back, baby. Standings have changed a bit. Marge has three points. Max has four. And we have Logan and Corey tied up with five. Logan seems like as tied his previous high score. Hell yeah, Logan.

I think we should count those Mountain Dew questions. We didn't count them. Seth has pulled ahead with, he's got six points, and then Dr. Randall is in first place with seven. Seth's going for a back-to-back win after a poorly officiated game of trivia last week. That was a great game. Well, there's some doubts. Question nine, the topic is gear. This next great question is via Brian Nisley.

Jim Crumley sold the tree bark camel pattern to this brand in 2000. Jim Crumley sold the tree bark camo pattern to this brand in 2000. Max is making eyes at Seth. Do you two like your answers? I don't know. Let's see here, Seth. I'll show you when he says, flip them. Randall, do you have this one right?

I don't know. Seth seems to like his... Seth, do you have this one right? I'm in the neighborhood. I think I'm 50-50. Okay, this could even things. Yeah, I just thought of one right. Seth gets it right and Randall gets it wrong.

I'm in the neighborhood. Jeez. Jim Crumley sold the tree bark camel pattern to this brand in 2000. Oh, which one? Oh, Jim Crumley. I thought you said Jim Brumley. It's all a very valuable context. Which is, yeah, which is who.

Jim Crumley seems like a man who would invent the tree bark camel pattern. That's a great name. Old Crumley. O' Man Crumley. I think I'm gonna go old man crumley I hope a guy named jir crumley cashed out and retired after this is everybody ready if you're still alive go ahead and reveal your answers set says realtree Logan deep timber randle mossy oak marge mossy oak cordy moccie moccke maxwell realtree the correct answer bottom land's been around for longer than that is mossy oak no

I think we had three of our players. That's what I was thinking too. Yeah, Bottomland's been around for longer than that. I thought Mossioch is around for a lot. Or it's Hoss Outdoors. Hoss Outdoors owns real tree. Excuse me, Hoss Outdoors owns Mossioch.

Moss Oak bought the Treebark Camopet. Are they talking about Bottomland there? No, they're different, but if you look at, Phil's going to pull up a picture here of tree bark, it looks exactly like Bottomlands. This came out first. Jim Crumley invented the famous

tree bark camel pattern in 1979. He felt that nothing on the market was brown enough or gray enough to blend in with the forest in fall. So he created tree bark, which became the first commercially produced hunting camo. When the pattern showed up in a 1983 Cabellas catalog, Crumley was no longer able to keep up with demand. It became one of the most popular camos of the 80s and 90s, with Mossioch acquiring it in 2000. So it looks very much like Bottomlands.

Bottomlands came out second. That's what I was thinking of. So that is the tree bark green, I believe. This is the real tree pattern. Oh, okay. That is not tree bark. This is the OG tree bark. There was also a tree bark green, I think, that had some leaves in it that looked a lot like that.

Phil, can you go back to the question for a second? What's the matter? Okay, I just, classic me. I just read the question around. Yeah. All right, here's a correct answer review so far. One was a 67.5 gauge shotgun. Two, croppy minnows.

Three, black mamba. Four, Forest Fenn. Five, Darwin Awards. Six, mammary gland. Seven, George Custer. Eight, flossing. Nine, mossy oak. Phil.

Scoreboard update. Randall has locked it in. He's got eight points with only one question left. The next person, people behind him, are Seth and Corey. They have six. Logan's still at five, going for his PB. You know, I don't know if there's a way to look that up, but I might have gotten more than five. I think you have, man.

It's got to be six. I feel like you're more of a dark horse than you think. Thanks, Randall. Question 10, the topic is cooking. Fatty fish, such as salmon, are high in this nine-letter hormone that's nicknamed the, quote, hormone of darkness because it helps your body get ready for sleep. Ooh. Fatty fish such as salmon are high.

in this nine-letter hormone that's nicknamed the hormone of darkness because it helps your body get ready for sleep. Randall, do you have this one right? I think so. Okay. I think so. Rest of the room is doing some hangman on their whiteboards. Seth, do you have this one right? I think so.

Okay. But also, I might not. I don't know. It's a good question. I'm just trying to beat Corey at this point. Yeah, you are. Corey, do you have this one right? I don't know.

Fatty fish, such as salmon, are high in this nine-letter hormone that's nicknamed the hormone of darkness because it helps your body get ready for sleep. I'll be my nickname in high school. The hormone of darkness sounds way tougher than what I'm thinking. That's insane. I'm the hormone of darkness. Yeah. That one sounds more figurative than literal, but in this case, it's literal. I've had like three different answers on my board.

Excited to hear what they all could be. Max, I am in the foremost darkness. Having a serious hot flash. Put my nine letters on the whiteboard or forever something. Logan, do you have this one right? I think so. Okay. Logan PB.

March, do you have this one right? I have good guess. What did you doodle for us down there? A hang man. All right. Is everybody ready? Oh, sure. Go ahead and reveal your answers.

Seth, Melatonin. Logan, melatonin. Mandel, Melatonin, Marge, Melatonin, Corey, Trifan, Maxwell, magnesium. The correct answer is melatonin. Shoot. Yes. Melatonin is stimulated by darkness and suppressed by light. Its levels begin to rise in the evening, peak overnight, and fall in the morning.

Melatonin doesn't force you to sleep, but it does tell your body that it's time to rest, besides salmon. Other foods high in melatonin are pistachios. walnuts, bananas, milk, eggs, and sardines.

So, Maxwell, you shouldn't be having your sardine egg and milk lunch anymore. No. Otherwise,

that's why my magnesium. Or my magnesium. But good thing I got this mountain dude. He's probably that eggs are a breakfast. Mm,

big egg. Yeah, big egg like Randall down there. Yeah. Big egg, yeah. Yeah. That's true.

Big egg. Max, if you and I share a brain cell, I think we won. Yeah, that's true. And the Mountain Dew questions we would have won for you. I did well on this show. I did beat my office.

Okay. Well done. Today's winner is Randall. He got nine correct answers. I don't come to win. Some people tried to give me a tenth point. We tried to give you the perfect game, but you wouldn't take the crappy chub minnow.

In hindsight, I wish I'd taken that. Not to give extra money to conservation, but just for bookkeeping purposes. Just for your ego. Just to keep track of my... I might start calling you that, Cropy Chub. All right, Cropy Chub, what are you going to do with that $500 donation today? Let's give the $500 to the Western Habitat Foundation.

Oh, I think that's a new one on the show. What do we like about them? I think I've given money to them before. They do... Remind us to their mission. Every year, they do projects on public lands to improve habitat. A bunch of these in recent... They've done stuff in North Dakota and New Mexico, but in recent years...

Been going out to Fort Peck and pulling fence from the CMR, just old abandoned fence that impedes wildlife movement. So I was out there this past weekend and got to spend some quality time out in some beautiful country. And it's just very classic boots on the ground conservation work. Well done, Randall, $500. Nice, Randall. Thanks, guys.

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