From Meat Eaters World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cowell's Week in Review with Ryan Cal-Cal-A.

Here's Cal.

We say it all the time on this podcast, but have you ever thought about where the phrase

neck of the woods comes from? I ask you to write in to ask Cal at the meat eater.com and tell me

what's happening in your neck of the woods every episode. But why don't I just say your section of the woods or you're part of the woods or

you know where you're currently at? A few minutes on the Google machine tells me that this idiom was coined

by American colonists in the 1600s. Some argued that neck sounds a lot like Algonquin for point

or corner. So your neck of the woods is just your corner of the woods. Others have pointed out that my neck sounds a lot like Algonquin for point or corner. So your neck of the woods is just your

corner of the woods. Others have pointed out that my neck sounds like the German, my neck, which just

means my corner. Same kind of thing. But the consensus seems to be that the word neck was used by

American colonists to describe a narrow strip of woods that when imagined from above would

have looked like the neck of an animal. You might build your house or a group of homes in these

sections of forest, so your neck of the woods was literally the strip of forest you called home.

So there you go. You learn something new every week on Cal's Week in Review.

This week, we've got the hottest fashion trend in the pet world.

I'm talking about dire wolves, plus big bears, breeders, and legislation.

But first, I'm going to tell you about my week.

And my week was interesting as always.

Frankly, been working like a dog trying to figure out if under our watch, we're going to let

our elected representatives sell off our public lands.

I'm not talking about national parks either.

It's a real conversation, gang.

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