The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 906: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCXXVI

Episode Date: July 22, 2026

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Cory Calkins, Nate Mason, Maggie Smith, Sarah Delaney, Cade McParland, Alyssa Smith, and Jake Wallace. 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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an amazing gear package that includes a new rifle or bow along with great supporting gear. The winner will pick their rifle package or archery package. For every $25 spent, you get 10 additional entries. The sign-ups end, July 26 at Phelps game calls.com. Welcome to Meadeter Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newark. And today we're joined by a room full of Gibronies. We've got Alyssa, Cade, Corey, Marge, Nate, and Jake Wallace and Sarah.

Jake, this is your first time on the show. Tell folks what you do here at Meadeer. Yeah, I'm the wholesale and retail marketing manager for Meat Eater. What's that mean? And FHF and DSD when they need help. So I help out a lot of our dealers. So Shields and some of the mom and pops. But a big part of my job right now is rolling up the new store

into dinah or Minneapolis location and I get the other locations dialed in for the meat eater store. Very excited. That one's going to open in August. August. Yep. August 15th. Great state of Minnesota. What are your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to meat eater trivia, hunting, fishing, conservation cooking? I think hunting's good, conservation strong. Depending on where you steer the ship, though, if you get too deep into fishing or somewhere else, it's going to be rough. Okay. You and Nate will get along. Gary Seas. This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from Meadeer's four verticals, which again are hunting, fishing, fishing, conservation, and cooking. There is a prize. Meadeter will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winner's choosing. And Meadeer trivia is brought to you by one of my favorite beers, Bush Light, Bush Light, head for the mountains. All right, we have a mailbag question today. If you have a question you want the crew to answer, send your question to trivia at the meadeter.com with the subject line mailbag. This is from Andrew Robinson. What's the most unique or gross wild game that you've eaten?

What do we got? I got one. I shot a, I gut shot at dough one time and found it the next morning, super sad, but we skin it out. And when we were pulling the skin off the back, that silver skin on the backstrap just came right off.

And I touched it, and my finger just went through the backstrap. And so we tried to eat it. You can imagine it didn't taste very good. What did it taste like? Just, yeah, just like. Bad.

I mean, imagine like licking the inside of your stomach. Okay. That's what it tastes like. All right. I'll think about that. Other unique or gross wild game in the room. What do we got? I got a long list of unique shit.

Mm-hmm. So part of my plate. Marge's there for all the episodes. So bobcat, cute, crow, coyote, skunk. Mm-hmm. I also had alligator here. I've had walrus and I've had seal. That's a unique list.

It's going to be hard to beat Marge. I think Alligators definitely. It's a finicky one. I shot like a 10 footer a couple years ago. We tried like everything to make that thing taste good. And there's a reason why they fry it. Like you got to grind it, put it in chili or give it a little love for sure. I've never been turned off by the taste of alligator, but the texture is always pretty tough.

Yeah. And if you get away from the tail, like the front legs and the back legs, it's grainy to say the least. Anything else, Jake, besides Gator that has been hard to swallow? I tried to eat starlings once Starlings? Yeah My father-in-law has a giant mulberry tree Okay And so I'd go under there and shoot them with 22

And felt guilty for my pile And I gave it a try And there's a reason There's a reason why there's a billion of those things Rolling around Other other answers in the room I had some Russian clients last year And they wanted to make

Like their traditional Russian Like fish head soup Oh And the lady Like the head lady apparently she was like the bill dance of Russia she was like pro-fisherman falls off a lot I love that no

no no never fell out but she's like nope I don't need any help I don't need she's raped up all her own stuff anyway they make the suit by like boiling fish heads whole salmon carcasses in there just pick all the meat off but she would eat the boiled heads after they've cooled off and they're just all

freaking coagulated oh man if you can imagine the head of a bucks silver salmon just with a big type and It's all bulbous. Yeah, she just started the nose and work her way back and just cartilage, teeth, everything. Did you take a bite? I got suckered into it. She's like, everyone in Russia does it.

And I was like, oh, well, you know, just being polite. Took a big old chomp, and everyone started laughing. I was like, I just got suckered into that. Even the other guides were in on it. That's no good. As Marge said, during the pardon my plate days, we had a lot of unique things. The two worse, though, were the skunk and the goldfish. And you might be like, well, goldfish, it's not a wild game.

They're now found in 49 of 50 states. You know, they're more widespread than the white-tailed deer. But skunk and goldfish, there's no need. No reason to try to eat one of those. Skunk was so bad. It was bad. Tasted like it, like it smelled. And it was so dark.

Yeah. So if you got a nose, you don't need to try skunk. Any other answers for Andrew before we move on? I had some ha-harl, not hot Carl. It's a putrefied shark in Iceland. Oh. Oh, yeah. Gross.

Yeah. Yeah. Miser. Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot. We had a podcast guest in the old office. We had the whale. I forgot about that.

Yeah. That's where the walrus was. What was your review of the fermented whale? It was not my favorite. Okay. Yeah, it was a little hard to get down. But fever. I don't know how unique that is, but fever.

In this office, it's not unique. Yes. But, you know, globally, there's not a lot of folks. eating that. So that's that one works. All right, for housekeeping today, we've had a few listeners tell us that their podcasts are cutting out partway through meat eater shows. Phil is here to help. Phil. What do you got? I hope I'm here to help. So you may have heard that podcasts are TV shows now. And in the spirit of that, Apple has a video feature on their on their app. And we started putting our meat eater shows on Apple podcast as video. But the thing that happens when we do that is that

the file sizes are 20 times larger than the MP3s that we used to do. If you're on Spotify or a different platform, you're probably not running into this issue because you're still only downloading the audio file. But if you are on Apple Podcasts and either have bad cell service or not enough room on your phone or the show is skipping around, there is a really annoying solution that will remain annoying until some iOS update in the future. You can download audio only on Apple Podcast. podcasts, but you can only do it if automatic downloads are turned on.

I'm a manual downloader, and a lot of you are as well. But to reduce the file size, the only way to change that is to go to the show settings. If you go to the Meteor podcast, like podcast page in your podcast app, you go to the upper right hand corner. There's an ellipsies there, three dots. You click on that, go to show settings. Scroll down to automatic downloads, and you can turn that on.

and there's some, you can turn it on, like to only download the most recent episode, or the most recent five or whatever, however you want to do it. And then right below that, it'll say download audio only, or it'll say download video, and that's set to off.

I don't know why it only works with automatic downloads on Apple Podcasts. That seems like an insane oversight. Send your complaints to at Tim Cook. But until if there's a future iOS update, the only way to download audio only and reduce those file sizes, is to turn on automatic downloads and set download video to off.

And if that changes in the future, we'll update you here, I guess. Okay, Phil to the rescue. Thank you, Phil. The Shelby Index for today is a five. So we're putting us on perfect score alert. With that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil. Right here.

Look, I need. Signs really bright. Wow. Wow. Just tend to win everything. Cumblasses. Question one, the topic is cooking. This first great question is via Brian Courser.

Which of these is not considered one of the big six foodborne illnesses? Is it botulism, salmonella, ecoli, or norovirus? This is from the USDA. They have compiled what they call the big six foodborne illnesses. So it's three of these. A part of the big six, one of them is not. not is it botulism, salmonella, ecoli, or norovirus.

Way to stick with some current events. Yes. And just I want to add one more thing onto the last, sorry to change topics here, Spencer, but just to add one more thing. I'm sure a lot of people are like, well, why are you doing this if there's so many tech issues and it's not working? And just to be transparent company man here, it's honestly, it's been good for our shows. So a lot, we have new audiences that are fighting the shows because Apple is

pushing their video stuff more. So, you know, I don't know if you've heard it's hard to run a media company in the year 2026 and we got to do what we got to do. And as a consumer, I like having the video feed in the podcast. It's a fun option. We're going to get it figured out. Again, which of these is not considered one of the big six foodborne illnesses, botulism, cell manila, e coli, norovirus?

Is everybody ready? Let's do it. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Corey and Alyssa and Sarah and Cade say norovirus. Marge says, what's it say? Morovius. Norovirus. Nate, norovirus.

Jake, norovirus. The whole room got it. Wrong. Oh, no. The correct answer is botched. I was literally like how much the problem is in that. Dude, that's a classic gibroni move right there. According to the USDA, the Big Six, foodborne,

illnesses are salmonella, typhoid, chigella, e coli, norovirus, and hepatitis A. Only about 150 Americans get botulism each year with a quarter of those being from contaminated food. The most common way to get botulism is from food, from food is by eating canned goods that were improperly preserved. But don't you die if you get botulism? I think it's a serious thing to get. I had it in there. But it's just not common. Again, only 150 people get it and only about a quarter of those are from food. So it's like a, it's an occurrence thing, not a like serious thing? I think it's in our universe a lot more because we just work a lot with preserving meat.

It's most common when you're trying to preserve meat because it doesn't have acid, so you need to use a pressure canter. That's why everyone thought that had to be one of the big six. Question two, the topic is hunting. Salmonella's fake. This term is defined as, quote, a psychological and neurological condition in archery. where anxiety over hitting the bullseye causes a breakdown in the shot process. Dude, I got it bad. Okay.

We'll hear more from Nate about that after the answer is revealed. Maybe that's how you fix it, Nate. That's why you got shot that dough, huh? Yeah, no, there's a different reason I got shot that though. This term is defined as a psychological and neurological condition in archery where anxiety overhitting the bullseye causes a breakdown in the shot process. Is it, are you doing, are you throwing a, us easy drubroney questions uh i i try to get the shelby index to a five and we achieved that uh so that

our jabronies can have a fun high scoring game dude that botulism one my wife will not eat canned or meat because of that oh yeah but you tell you that's dead only 150 people and a quarter of those are from uh food she will think that she will undoubtedly be one of the 150 people again we're on question to the tabigus hunting this term is defined as a psychological and neurological condition in archery where anxiety over hitting the bullseye causes a breakdown in the shot process. Is everybody ready? Sure. Go ahead and reveal your answers.

Corey says Buck fever. Alyssa says trigger finger. Sarah, target paralysis. Cade, target panic. Marge, buck fever. Nate, target panic. Jake, target panic. The correct answer is target panic.

I think we had three of our gibroni. these, get that one right. Target panic can cause flinching, freezing, or misfiring. It's estimated that 90% of archers have experienced it at some point. For tips on dealing with this issue, go read Mark Kenyon's article on the meat eater.com called How to Fix Target Panic in three steps. I shot 4-H archery grown up and my instructor. So we shot the Vegas three-spot targets. And if we would, if we flinched at all when we were shooting our bell hunter with the McKinney, He would hit us in the back of the thighs. Oh, with an arrow.

Nice. Did that fix it? Oh yeah. He fixed it. Really. Nate, what does target panic look like for you? Oh, just absolute sadness. Yeah.

Terrible shooting. Yeah. The most common way I would experience is just like, you kind of don't even know what's going to happen, but like you just like flinch like Kade was describing and they're like, what's going on? My brain wasn't communicating with my body to, weird sensation. Yeah, I need you to come by my house and whip me in the mornings. Yeah, he's aluminum

arrows too, not the carbon morning. Damn. Had some old school learning. Question three, the topic is outdoors. This next great question is via Nolan Plowchek. What month does daylight savings time end? Oh, very topical.

Very, very topical. What month does daylight savings time end? This is not a trick question. The answer isn't like no month is when it ends. It's one of our 12 months. What month does daylight savings time end? I'm from Arizona.

Is anybody confident in this one? Corey? Yeah, I finally got one right. Okay. I'm struggling when it starts and when it ends. That's what I'm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know.

What month does daylight savings time end? Alyssa, do you have this one right? I'm struggling with. I know the two months, but. the room is waffling. Does anybody know they have this one? No. A lot of maybes in the room. What month does daylight savings time end?

I can't remember when it starts. I mean, I don't know which one is which. Yeah, that's kind of mind. And I'm confused on the months. And your phone just switches for you. What do you got to worry about anymore? Dude, I'm just trying to think. Might not be a problem.

The microwave. Yeah, when I'm deer hunting and like it's cool and you can get out of the work and then it's cool. That's how I'm relating it to. Is that the thing? I can't remember. Is everybody ready? Lots of hints today. Go ahead and reveal your answers.

Corey says November. Alyssa, October. Sarah, April. Cade, March. March, December. Nate, September. Jake, November. There is a correct answer in the room.

It's November. I think we had Corey and Jake. Get that one right. And Kate, if he wouldn't have crossed it out. Keep thinking like you can highlight savings time begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. This year those dates fall on March 8th and November 1st. Earlier this month, the House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight savings time permanent. Next, it will head to the Senate and then to President Trump.

Trump has signed that he will sign the bill if it makes it to his desk, calling it the act a quote, very nice win for the Republican Party. And as Nate talked about, it affects your deer hunting in fall. There was one thing I cared about in college as far as like getting me to write an email to a politician and it was to get them to end daylight savings or keep it so that, you know, the sun was rising later because the bars stay open the same amount. So when the bar is open till 2 a.m., I'm going to be there till 2 a.m., but now I have to get up an hour earlier when the clocks change. That got me to write some emails.

And here we are like 13 years later. Maybe it's going to pay off. I read something where they tried it in a couple states, like northern states, and they ended up rolling it back because, like, kids walking to school, there were, like, incidents with cars and kids were having to, like, use flashlights to get to school in the morning. If you've seen some of the maps, we're going to be, like, in the most affected area. We're going to have sunrises after 9 a.m. for a period. Not a lot of the country will experience that, but we'll be in, like, this small minority of people. It hasn't Arizona never has adopted daylight savings. Arizona, I think the Navajo Nation does. It can get very confront. confusing over there. But yeah, I think Arizona doesn't participate at all.

Question four, the topic is woodsmanship. This 10-letter word is defined as, quote, a trail with a sharp zigzagging route used to safely ascend or descend steep hills. The room has their mojo back. This 10-letter word is defined as a trail with a sharp zigzagging route used to safely ascend or descend steep hills when you're hiking up in like northern New England none of the trails have these they just go up

yeah so you're looking at like there's a shortcut you know I would rather just go straight up it just kind of pisses me off and then when you're yeah I'm like let's just get it over with like all like the AT and Maine is all

just like not a not one of the I almost said it not one of these inside just get her done Marge is someone who takes a shortcut then they have to put the sign up later saying don't take the shortcut yeah gotta stay on this thing 10-letter word is defined as a trail with a sharp zigzagging route used to safely ascend or descend steep hills so you're saying that this is more of a western theme just i have encountered them

more in the west than i ever did outies is everybody ready go ahead and reveal your answers Corey switchback Alyssa switchback The whole room says switchback The whole room got it right The correct answer is switchback Switchbacks are designed to make trails More gradual when in a steep area

Ancient humans use them too Popular hiking trails in Canyonlands National Park and the Columbia River Gorge that feature dozens of switchbacks Follow historical travel routes That Native Americans used first Question 5 The topic is fishing

This next great question is via Clayton Hines. This man who has hosted an ABC talk show since 2003 owns a luxury fly fishing lodge in Idaho. The room is stumped. This man who has hosted an ABC talk show since 2003 owns a luxury fly fishing lodge in Idaho. This is question five.

We'll get a scoreboard update from Phil the Engineer after this. Spencer, I was at a wedding recently. And, you know, it was later in the night people had some drinks and this guy walked up to me I think he finally like had the courage to come talk to me because he recognized me from meat eater and he goes,

you're really bad at trivia. Oh, no. Did you tell him like, oh, I had no idea? At first I was like, man, I'm just like as in Moab, Utah, just wasn't like thinking about it. And I was like, what is he talking to about? And then I was like, oh, me. Yes, I am.

Correct. Thank you for. What a kind person. So I appreciate being included in the Gibronies. I think he would too. This man who has hosted an ABC talk show since 2003 owns a luxury fly fishing lodge in Idaho. I think Nate is the only person who likes his answer. I like it.

Cori to have this one right. I have an ABC talk show host that I almost took fishing once. Oh, okay. Well, there's a guy. He canceled on. Dude, I think we got me. He canceled on you. So if he owns a fishing lodge,

he better treat his guides better. Okay. What a revelation from Corey's past life as a fly fishing guide. Was it a past life? Still living in it, brother. That's more my problem. What's a talk show? Is it like news?

Like Good Morning America or like. Oh, okay. That kind of thing. This man who has hosted an ABC talk show since 2003 owns a luxury fly fishing lodge in Idaho. Jerry Springer. Mori. He's got around like from the 90s.

I know, I know. Is everybody ready? Also, do you consider that a talk show? No. Hey, the audience talks. I think we're waiting on Sarah and Alyssa. My answer is making me laugh. That's fine on the good sign.

Sarah, do you give up? I'm going to take what I have and I'm going to write it. fly fishing extraordinary over there. I'm not in the luxury fly fishing notch tax brand. I would have preferred a different network. This would have been better. Go ahead and reveal your answers.

Corey says Jimmy Kimmel. Alyssa, Tucker Carlson. Sarah, Al Roker. Cade, Matt Lauer. Marge, Jimmy Kimmel. Nate, Tom Brocah. Jake, Brian Gumble. The correct answer?

is Jimmy Kimmel. Corey and March. Got that one right. I didn't notice. Kimmel bought the South Fork Lodge near Swan Valley, Idaho in 2020 for an estimated $8 million. Their website brags of, quote, top-notch service, unmatched amenities, and unexpectedly fine dining.

Kimmel is an avid fly angler and a board member of the Conservation Group American Rivers. is a picture that he posted on Facebook in 2018. He said he caught that cutthroat 30 miles deep in the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana. That could have been with you, Corey. That could have been you holding that camera. Ding. Phil, halfway through the game of trivia,

scoreboard update. Rat. It's a pretty good game we got going on. Sarah and Alyssa, holding it down with one point. Cade, Maggie, and Nate. I'll have two points apiece. Tied up in first place are Corey and newbie Jake.

I know. The botulism thing's going to haunt me. Oh, terribly. Nobody calls a target panic. Get Bell, pure fiber internet with craved Netflix and Disney Plus from $94 a month. Price guaranteed for two years on internet with a two-year term and auto pay credit. Visit bell.ca for details and to check availability. Bell, connection is everything.

Well, it's here, folks, the 2026 meat eater auction. House of Oddities is back and open for bids now. This year's auction features eyebrow raising outdoor gear donated by the meat eater crew, employees and friends of the brand, including Steve's dad's shitty old truck full of badass hunting gear, the Honda Outboard Motor from Doss Boat Season 3, Clay Newcomb's Alaskan Wetsuit Bearhide, fly fishing memorabilia from the personal collection of Lefty Cray and more.

The auction house kicks off July 8th and runs for two weeks with one, 100% of proceeds going to our land access initiative, which to date has helped fund new public land acquisitions, such as the recent 200-acre Tuckertown acquisition in North Carolina, the 328-acre Wildcat Bend acquisition in Montana, and the 215-acre Shilohan Project in Maine. Visit the meat eater.com slash auction to place your bids now, get your hands on some meat eater history, and become a meaningful part of our next public land access. campaign. Question six, the topic is conservation.

The conservation group dedicated to this 843-acre park calls it, quote, one of the most iconic green spaces in the world featuring a zoo, museum, and carousel. Marge and Nate and Cade, all at their whiteboards. The conservation group dedicated to this 843-acre park calls it one of a few. of the most iconic green spaces in the world featuring a zoo, museum, and carousel. Are we naming the park or the park? The park, name the park, not the conservation group.

That's why I was kind of like. Marge did that fan at that wedding tell you that he liked your drawings, though? You know, no. He must not be watching the show, just a listener. Otherwise, he would know the beautiful artwork you come up with your chanter. It's a great opener. Hi, nice to meet you.

You're terrible. No, there was no high, nice. nice to meet you. It was just, you're terrible. Straight from the throat. The conservation group dedicated to this 843 acre park calls at one of the most iconic green spaces in the world featuring a zoo, museum, and carousel.

We've got high hopes for a tiebreaker today, Spencer. We have been on a long drought here at meat eater trivia for tiebreakers, but today could be the day. Kay, do you have this one right? Oh, I'm pretty confident. Have you been to this point? place. I have been to this place. Okay. Nate, do you like your answer? Have you been to this place?

Marge, do you like your answer? I like my answer. Have you been to this 843-acre park? No. No. Okay. There's some helping out the rest of the room if you know the travels of Cade, Nate, and Marge. Is everybody ready? Going to wait for Sarah. Put that marker down and we'll flip over the whiteboards. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Corey says Jurassic Park. Lincoln Park. Central Park. No, that Lincoln Park is a park. Sarah, Lincoln Park.

Chicago. Cade, Central Park. Marge, Central Park. Nate, Central Park. Jake, Central Park. The correct answer is Central Park. That was a dark. Yeah, Nate.

I was between those two. I know. People are surprised. More than 4,000 species of plants and animals call Central Park home, including a new type of centipede that was discovered there in 2000. and three.

The park allows catch and release fishing with rods that you can rent for free at the Discovery Center. The only fish you're not supposed to release is the northern snakehead, which was first detected there in 2013. Question seven, the topic is wildlife. Ricky Tiki Tavi is this type of animal, which also happens to be a bicycle brand. Wait, Ricky Tiki Tavi happens to be a bass bicycle brand. is this type of animal. So this type of animal also happens to be a bicycle brand. Cade, what were you doing in Central Park?

Just taking in the grand sites of New York City. Just visiting, being a well-rounded person. That's right. Okay. I went to that toy store from the movie Big. Played on the piano. Oh, wow. Ricky Tiki Tabi is this type of animal,

which also happens to be a bicycle brand. Does anybody know who Ricky Tiki Tiki Tavi is? Yes. I think so. Sarah, do you have this one right? I got it. Marge, do you have this one right? I got it.

Nate, now has got it. I think. Nate, you know who Ricky Tiki Tavi is? No idea. Oh, but I pulled out a bicycle brand that is an animal. Okay. Nice. I think.

That's good. I know. I think now I'm like, is this a bicycle brand? Marge, are you using the clue about the bike brand or Ricky Tiki? Tiki Tavi. The bike brand. I know Ricky Tiki Tappy. I just can't picture it.

Is that like a children's book? Not going to tell you right now. Rikiki Tiki Tappy. I think it's a cartoon. Is this type of animal, which also happens to be a bicycle brand. God, I'm doubting myself. My flavor text doesn't have anything about Ricky Tiki Tappy, but I knew that Phil could tell us all about Riky Tappy. I could tell you a tiny bit.

Okay. Is everybody ready? Does that have something to do with Halo? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Corey says, Mungoose. I'll listen without an answer. Sarah and Cade and Marge and Nate

and Jake say Mungoose. They got it. The correct answer is Mungoose. Phil, please tell us about Ricky Tiki Tiki Tappy. Oh, I don't know a lot about him, but he's, I mean, I think the character's like 100 years old, but it's a mongoose that was created by the same guy who wrote the Jungle Book. And it's like a, from a collection of Shagie.

short stories, but I couldn't tell you anything about the stories or about Ricky Tiki Tiki Tiki Tavi. There are about 30 species of mongoose that are found across Africa, Asia, and Europe. They are most famous for their audacious attacks on cobras, which they eat. Mongooses are not entirely immune to snake venom, but they are highly resistant to it. Question eight. What do you got? Modified, all-trained vehicles in the Halo series. Okay.

Bill, you certainly knew that one, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Your ghost, your banshee? Mungai. Question eight, the topic is hunting. This next great question is our listener question of the week, which was won by Truman Danielson for sending this great question.

Truman 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. According to hunter ed.com, the five basic parts of a shotgun shell are the case. pellets, blank, gunpowder, and primer. Throwing a bone to shotgun guy over there. Well, Sarah's not too shabby over there. But she also wasn't a professional shotgun shooter.

That's not a professional shotgun shooter. According to hunter ed.com, the five basic parts of a shotgun shell are the case, pellet, blank, gunpowder, and primer. Truman Danielson sounds like a rich guy already. You shouldn't send him to the gift card. He sounds like someone that knows a whole lot about shotguns. Yeah, Truman, that's kind of an old one of those fancy ones. Yeah, and then he's sending us something that's, you know, like skeet adjacent also.

Yeah, yeah. You got a big fancy shotgun? Okay, Truman. I have two of them. Yeah. But that came through him through. But that guy fished by Kimmel means. Jake, it's your first time, and I'm sorry I have to tell you this on camera,

but you've got your cell phone right under the mic there and we're getting some interference. Sorry. The first time it happened is just a warning. The second time you get fired. Take away a point. Minus one point. Well, Alyssa, notes that on my file, please. Yeah.

According to hunter ed.com, the five basic parts of a shotgun shell are the case, pellets, blank, gunpowder, and primer. Nate, are you aware that in a week, the remastered Halo campaign comes out? They remade the first Halo with all new graphics and modern stuff. Dude, I had no idea. Are we going to play a legendary run together? I would love to. I have it.

I've been so, Battlefield was the most recent one, six, which is coming out. Yes. It got me so close to buying. I've Impulse bought three video game systems in my life, and I almost did it a fourth time. I recently got served a video of the, uh, Halo, like, sound effects guys making those sound effects back in the day. And the, the ward hog was just like the one guy's Honda Civic. They had a bad muffler on it. And they're like, yeah, that sounds kind of like, you know, a badass vehicle from another planet.

Running riot Does everybody have an answer for the five basic parts of a shotgun show? Case pellets blank gunpowder primer Go ahead and reveal your answers Corey says Wad Alyssa Steele Sarah and Cade and Marge and Nate and Jake

Say Wad I was on the turkey episode I know The correct answer is Wad The Wad separates the shot from the The job of the wad is to create a gas seal to propel the shot down the barrel, protect the inside of the barrel from damage, and shape the shot pattern after leaving the muzzle.

The vast majority of wads are made of plastic, but traditional materials include fiber, felt, paper, and cardboard. It's the most important carbox. Did our punk gun have a wad in it? It did. Our modern one, yes, had a pretty traditional wad in it. But we had found out that, like, the OG shell that it came with, that wad was probably made of cardboard,

which is a little terrifying because holding one of those things is like a stick of dynamite in your hand and that their cardboard is inside like doing a very important job I mean the first time we fired that thing I think we all like stood very far away so terrified then we got brave all right Phil we got two questions left

give us a scoreboard update oh that looks like overtime oh we'll see Jake's gotta slip up but we got Alyssa with two Sarah has three four way tie for I guess second I don't I don't I I messed that up all the time.

Corey, Cade, Maggie, and Nate all have five points. And then Jake is one point ahead with six. Maybe Jake is not a Groni after all. Don't put that on me, Spencer. Don't put that on me. Question nine, the topic is fishing. Who wrote Moby Dick? Looks like Nate could tie him up here.

Hey, yo. Who wrote Moby Dick? My big reader. It's just a last name. I know it. Last name will work. I just don't. Really?

I respect the Jeopardy rules. You can come up with the last name. It's on my shelf. It's the one I'm reading next. I have not read this book, but I looked at the audiobook, and it's like 24 hours long. My goodness. Who wrote Moby Dick? Sarah, you got the last name of this person?

I think so, yeah. Could have a three-erg tie going into... Question 10. Bad language. Has anybody read this book? No. Read a few chapters. It's terrible.

And then stopped? Yeah, it's a long one. That was enough of that. Who wrote Moby Dick? Obviously, that's how I felt about the artist. Fishing, one of the most famous bushing books of all time. And the alien, I was like, none of that. Is it Moby Dick a whale?

Yeah. How are we fishing? I mean, they used to fish for it. They're not fish. They're like, thank you. The topic is whaling. There you go. We talk about some fishing after this.

I'm just excited. How about what type of whale? Double points. We've done that. Double points aren't going to happen. Double points aren't going to happen. Man, I got a halo reference and a mean girl's reference in this episode.

Is everybody ready? It's going to be. so upsetting. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Corey says Williams. Alyssa without an answer Sarah says Melville. Cade Dickens, Marge Hemingway, Nate,

Herman Melville. And Jake says Dickinson. The correct answer is Herman Melville. Hey-yo. Just had to read. The girl arts, baby. Going old man in the sea for you there. Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick in 1851.

The book took him 18 months to complete. He relied on his experience as a sailor and whaler of which he spent three years doing. Melville said his literary influences were Shakespeare and of the Bible and that Moby Dick's ending is based on the real life whale ship Essex. Here's a correct answer review so far. One was botulism. Two, target panic. Three, November. Four, switchback. Five, Jimmy Kimmel. Six. Central Park. Seven, Mungoose. Eight, Wad. Nine. Hermann. Melville, Phil, scoreboard update. All right, we caught that. Nate busted out the library card and tied it up. He's tied up with Jake. They both have six points.

Behind them are Maggie, Cade, and Corey with five. Here is question 10. The topic is natural history. Great. This 10-letter word is defined as, quote, a hard, fired clay, brownish, red in color when unglazed that is used for pottery, and as a material for sculpture.

Sarah, who is not in the running to win, first to come up with the answer. You could tie it, right? Oh, I got her. Sarah, if you guys got wrong. Oh, March has it right. No, Sarah's, Sarah can't tie it. The only people who can are Corey, Kate, and Maggie.

This is natural history. It is natural history. This 10-letter word is defined as a hard-fired clay, you son of a brownish-red in color when unglazed that is used for pottery and as a material. for sculpture. Let's just flip them over now. So yeah, yeah, yeah.

If Jake or Nate can get this one right. Yeah. This is, my liberal arts education is really benefiting. Not in there. Yeah. Dude, one time I made this really cool clay elephant in like 10th grade pottery or eighth grade, whatever.

And then I got a 340 Weatherby and I shot it. And my mom was livid. She was like, that's the only thing you ever made in school that I cared about. Yeah, I mean, that was even better than being worthy of the fridge. She was putting that someplace. It was in the China cabinet.

Wow. That's what I should have known. I'm siding with your mom. Yeah, the head could come off and everything. Oh, I made one of those too. Yeah, but it didn't turn out the way you think it's going to turn out. This 10-letter word is defined as a hard-fired clay, brownish, red in color, and unglazed that is used for pottery and as a material for sculpture.

Phil, remind me who can tie Nate and Jake. Corey, Cade and Maggie I'll have five points. Okay, Corey, do you have this one right? Yep. Cade, do you have this one right? Highly confident. March, do you have this one right?

Wow. Okay, no, we could have five-way time. This is so far off my radar. No. Okay, Jake and Nate are the least confident players in the room right now. Give me just a minute. Just a minute.

No. Should we get a countdown time over. I should have been rushed up on my pottery. It took ceramics too. It's terrible. Wow. took serenics. What an advantage. When they finish the Jeopardy theme song, we're going to flip over the life.

Start over real quick. Start from top. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Corey and Alyssa and Sarah and Kade and Marge say Terracotta. Nate and Jake without answers. The correct answer is Terracotta. The earliest known use of a type of terracotta is from 26,000 BC. A four-inch sculpture from that era depicting a nude woman was discovered in the Czech Republic in 1924.

It's believed that the figurine is a symbol of fertility and that it originally had four feathers attached to it. Here is a picture of a butcher the pronunciation. That is the Venus of Dolny Vista Nancy. How big is that? Four inches. It's 28,000 years old. All right, we are heading to overtime. Play the drop bill.

And this is maybe the biggest overtime in meat eater trivia history. We have everybody, I think, except for Sarah and Alyssa, but they're going to play along as well. Because if somebody gets it right on the nose, meat eater is going to add an extra $100 donation to today's game. All right, the tie breaking topic is hunting. This is a numerical question. whoever is closest would be the winner. How many days is the average gestation period for white-tailed deer? Hmm.

Have you not done this question already? On episode one, we did an elk, but we have never done white-tailed deer. Okay, I thought so. I was looking like two or three on that. 240 episodes ago, we had an elk gestation period question. Today we are talking about white-tailed deer. How many days is the average gestation? station period for White Tailed

Deer. You want a days number? Days, that's right. Not hours, not months. Days. Five players in the running today to be the winner. Cade representing the entire

Meat Eater Store Boys crew. Marge, have you ever won Meat Eater Trivia? Have you ever been in overtime? No, I did Ty onus one time. Okay. Or second. Okay.

Today it could be a real victory. Nate, you've got a couple Ws. Corey, you're actually the King Jabroni. That's right. Right now. And Jake, this is his first episode. How many days is the average gestation period for white-tailed deer? Come on.

Nate has a blank whiteboard. It's been doing a lot of math over there. See that selfless act right there? Nobody cares. It's so violent. Marge, are you doing math or are you drawing? I am doing math. Okay.

Corey, do you like your answer? Kate, are you close? I feel pretty good. If I get this, they're probably going to shut the store down. Corey, doing some more writing. Now, Nate, revisiting his answer. Is everybody ready? No.

How many days is the average gestation period for white-tailed deer? Great question. Everybody ready? Sure. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Alyssa says 273. Sarah says 275. Our five players left.

We have Corey saying 198. Cade 215. Marge 200. Alyssa, 23. Excuse me, Nate, 213. Jake 185. One of you is two days off from the correct answer.

The correct answer is 202 days Mars! Got it! Only 48 hours from the correct answer. Well done, March.

This data is from a study that observed 89 white-tailed do's. 202 days is roughly six and a half months. That means if a dough is bread on November 10th, she'll give birth on May 31st. All right, Marge, as the winner, you get to choose, and we're going to say that's right on the nose because 202 to 200, that's the same thing. Marge, what are you going to do with that $600 donation today?

Sportsman's for the boundary waters. There's a lot of stuff going on up there. Do you know anybody in the area affected by the wildfires right now? You know, I need to check in with our old gear manager, Carl, because his family owns an outfitter, a canoe outfitter up in Ily, so I'm not quite sure. Well done, Marge. First victory, $600 donation, go into a good cause. Well done, Jabronis.

Nice. High-level episode. Join us next week for more meat eater trivia. The only game show where conservation always wins. Thanks, Spencer. I can tell my friend's husband a son. Yeah. Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he's the host.

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