The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 523: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia C

Episode Date: February 21, 2024

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Mark Kenyon, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Chester Floyd, Seth Morris, and Corinne Schneider. Connect with MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Trivia MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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without cell phone service as a special offer. You can get a free three months to try out OnX if you visit onxmaps.com slash meat. Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newarth, and today we're joined by Steve, Yanni, Brody, Randall, Corinne, Seth, Chester, and Mark. This is normally a 10-round quiz show with questions from Meat Eaters 4 Verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking.

But today's game will be a bit different different because this is our 100th episode. Thank you. Steve, when we started this and did our first round of trivia way back in 2021, did you think this concept had 100 episodes in it? Oh, definitely. You did? Mm-hmm. I don't know if you remember, but the first day we walked in, we were going to do this.

Did I say something otherwise the first day? No, you were incredibly optimistic, like intimidatingly. So, um, you're like, no, what is this thing we're doing today?

And I was like, well, we're going to like play trivia with you guys. And, uh, you know, I'm hosting, you guys have the provide the answers and stuff and,

explained it a bit to you. You're like, give me an example question. So I gave you an example question. You're like, we should make a board game about this. Oh, so you were way too optimistic, uh, based on one question bit to you. You're like, give me an example question. So I gave you an example question. You're like, we should make a board game about this. Oh. So you were way too optimistic based on one question I gave you.

And now we've made a board game and here we are on episode 100. Now for today's episode, we're not playing trivia. Instead, we'll be playing a game that I'm referring to as the meat pole, like P-O-L-L instead of P-O-L-E. This is a test of how much you know about your fellow hunters and anglers. I surveyed 250 outdoorsmen who are meat eater employees and meat eater listeners. They were asked questions about personal experiences and personal preferences. Your job is to predict their answers.

Here's how the game works. There will be one round per player. That means for today's game, there will be eight normal rounds with one bonus round at the end. Each player will take a turn as the guesser. When it's your turn to be the guesser, you'll answer a question

that's related to my polling data. All answers will be in the form of percentages. Then, after the guesser has provided their number, our other players will predict if the real answer is higher or lower. The guesser will receive points based on how close they are to the real answer, and the other players will receive points based on if they correctly choose higher or lower. I know this sounds complicated because it's new. I was going to say, maybe do that little thing you did.

We will. We have two practice rounds. I know this sounds complicated because it's new. Yeah, it does. I was going to say, maybe do that little thing you did. We will. We have two practice rounds. I know this sounds complicated because it's new. It's really not, though. I promise they'll catch on right away. The hardest part of the game is actually scorekeeping, which Phil is doing for you. And for our players at home, you can check out the description of this podcast episode for how scorekeeping works. You'll find all the information you need there.

Now, before we play, we're going to do two test runs to make sure everyone is comfortable with this concept. These do not count. These are simply practice rounds. Okay. Now for the first practice round, Yanni will be the guesser. That means Yannis will provide the answer. And after he's done so, everyone else will predict if the real answer is higher or lower than yannis's answer so yanni is the guesser for this question here's your question yanni what percentage of americans think the moon landing was faked so now you'll think out loud here but it's not one percentage of americans because you one percent of survey those surveys i'm giving you an example of some real like Pew research.

Oh, so this isn't from Europe. This is not part, no. This is specifically to Americans. Yanni, think out loud. Talk us through your answer, how you're going to arrive at your number, and then you'll write down your number for the whole room to see. So your question is, what percentage of Americans think the moon landing was faked? I know it's a thing. I've heard of it, but I still think

that it's a very small number. Uh-huh. So small that it might not even be a whole percent. Yeah, I know what I'm writing down. So, Yanni, go ahead. Go ahead and write down your number for what you think. Based on that, I'm going to go with three.

Do we need a decimal? No, just a whole number. Three percent. Three percent. So we now know Yanni's number is three percent. He will have written it on his whiteboard. Everyone else in the room, the other seven players, will say if they think the real answer is higher or lower than three percent.

What if everyone were to answer 50 percent? And he said it. But you'll find that the questions aren't necessarily meant to split an audience. I'm going to dominate this. I'm predicting that I'm going to dominate this. Steve knows his fellow hunters and anglers well. So higher or lower, go ahead and reveal your answer.

We have Chester saying lower than 3%. Brody saying higher. You can't't do arrows Randall saying higher Seth saying higher Corinne saying higher Steve saying higher the correct answer is 11 percent uh so nearly everybody correctly predicted which direction the real answer would be as far as Yanni's part of this game, he said 3%. He was eight points off of the correct answer. That would be worth seven points in how this scoring works.

The scoring, if you nail it, if you nail it right on the nose, so say the answer is 50 and you say 50, that's 15 points that you get. If you're one off, that's 14. If you're two off, that's 13. Three off 50 that's 15 points that you get if you're one off that's 14 if you're two off that's 13 three off that's 12 this goes all the way to 10 if you were 10 off of the correct answer that's worth five points for everybody else who predict who uh correctly said higher you get five points good luck phil what if you're like i'm already sucking at this too then you then you

don't get points if you're more than 10 off if you're 11 off I'm already sucking at this, too? Then you don't get points. If you're more than 10 off, if you're 11 off of the real answer, that's worth zero. You have to be within 10. Isn't it weird that we haven't been back to the moon, though, in like 50 years? I was going to say, whatever. That number, and every time, how hard it is. Yeah. Because you have- Sounds like a couple folks think the moon landing was fake.

Because there's some atmosphere. There's a lot of questions. Okay, we're going to do a second practice round. A lot of people are asking questions. We're doing a second practice round. It's okay, Mark. It's okay. Steve will be the guesser on this one. That means Steve will provide an answer, and after he's done so,

everyone else will say if the real answer is higher or lower. Oh, I'm up. This is a second practice round, okay? We're not to the real game yet again and this is not my polling this is like pew research here you go steve what percentage of american adults have tiktok this is as of 2020 what's an adult uh someone over 18 18 yeah what what you know you're not sure about that. Well, I don't think they would have some weirder definition. What percentage of Americans over 18 have TikTok? If you'd like to word it that way, I think we'll arrive at the same outcome. What percentage of American adults have TikTok?

Would you like to talk us through how you were arriving at your answer? No. Or are you just going to play quiet? Okay. Steve, go ahead and reveal your answer. He is saying 20%. So now everyone else say higher or lower

than 20%. Steve is the guesser so he came up with the number. Our other seven players are writing down if they think the real answer is higher or lower than 20. I'm assuming we should hide our boards when we're doing that. Yeah, sure. When we're playing the real game, go ahead and hide your boards.

Now go ahead and show your answers. We have Chester saying higher. Brody saying higher. Mark saying higher. Randall saying lower. Seth saying higher. Corinne saying higher. Yanni saying higher.

The correct answer is 54%. Steve was 34% off. People need to get a hobby. You must be wrong about what an adult is. How many people in this room have TikTok? Steve was 34% off. People need to get a hobby. You must be wrong about what an adult is. How many people in this room have TikTok? It's illegal. In Montana, isn't it?

No, they never got that. You don't have TikTok, Phil? Two people. So this room is low. That's not true. 54% of adults. I think that's adults between 18 and 34. 18 and 19.

Uh-huh. Well, those are still, okay. Good thing is it doesn't count because that was just a practice round. Clay Newcomb has a TikTok. He's very good at TikTok. I don't think the folks who work at MeatEater are necessarily a direct reflection of a lot of the American public. Okay. Now, before we get started, let's talk a bit of strategy. As a reminder, this data is based on my survey of 250 Meat Eater employees and listeners.

That broke down to about 50 Meat Eater employees and 200 listeners, if that helps inform your answers at all. These were not just some yahoos I grabbed outside of a Sears in Kenosha. Now, next, your best opportunity to score points is by doing a great job when you're the guesser. You can earn up to 15 points as the guesser, while everyone else can only earn five points by correctly answering higher or lower. So your one opportunity as the guesser is very important. Your other best chance at scoring a lot of points is in the bonus round at the end. I'll explain those rules when we get to it. Also, if you're playing along at home and want to see how you stack up against the room,

then randomly pick a number between one and eight. That number will be when it's your turn to be the guesser for every other round. Just base your higher or lower answers off of the guesser on the podcast for keeping score. Again, check out the description of this podcast episode

so you know what everything is worth. And just like with every other episode of Meat Eater Trivia, there's $500 on the line. Our winner will get to choose where the conservation donation goes. What do you got, Brody? That's what I was going to ask. I was going to ask if you're doing something special.

$500. The special part, which Steve didn't care for, explain, Steve, why you don't think this is a good concept for episode 100. Well, he's commemorating the 100th episode by doing something different and i said if you were if you hit your 50th wedding anniversary you wouldn't go on a date with another lady and if you went to the 100th anniversary of the big mac burger celebration it wouldn't be like uh and we're serving quarter pounders. You following?

Yeah, I follow you. I could go on. Sure. My rebuttal would be I'm so confident in this concept that this will become more a regular part. You're not confident. Well, he didn't like the TikTok question. Okay, he didn't like the TikTok question. No, it wasn't that.

I think it's too complicated for people. No, it's very simple. Very, very simple. I promise. Everybody ready? People like things like... Play the drop, Phil. Oh, geez.

Oh, here we go. Look, I need to know what I say. I thought we'd have a fresh drop. Yeah. That was disappointing. It's time to change everything. Game on, suckers. We're going to go clockwise around the room.

We'll start to my left here. Up first is Chester. He will be the guesser on question one. Chester the guesser. Chester the guesser. Here you go, Chester. That's it. The question you'll be answering is what percentage of anglers would rather fly fish than ice fish?

Chester, that is the number you need to come up with. Now, when I did my polling data. In all of the U.S. No, no, no, no. This is based on my 250 people I polled. And if a question says for anglers, I identified, I said, only if you identify as an angler. So if Phil, if Phil took this survey and he didn't say, you know, he doesn't think he's a fisherman, he wouldn't answer this question. So Chester, it's what percentage of anglers would rather fly fish than ice fish?

I'm writing down higher. I don't even know what he said. Chester, walk us through how you're going to arrive at your answer. One more time. These folks that you polled were in our organization? Okay. 250 people. 50 of them were meat eater employees.

200 of them were meat eater listeners. Gotcha. All right. What percentage of anglers would rather fly fish than ice fish? When in doubt, aim right for the middle. I think since there is, I'm going to say more people would rather ice fish. Okay. Because they're meat-eater listeners. It's asperish. That. Because they're meat eater listeners.

If it were the office, I would definitely say people might rather fly fish because it's very attainable to us. I would throw in that we're in the northern tier. We are in the northern tier. In the middle of ice fishing season. In the middle of ice fishing season. In the middle of ice fishing season. So they could have just got burned on the ice or they could have just had a hot day.

Don't be blinded by your own biases, Chester. We've had a terrible ice season, Chester. Which can make people nostalgic. And they might say what Steve recently said, which is, I quit ice fishing. I am going to say 20% of people would rather fly fish than ice fish.

20% everyone else needs to predict if the real answer is higher or lower than 20%. Here's the question one last time. What percentage of anglers would rather fly fish than ice fish? Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Brody saying higher. Mark saying higher. Randall saying higher.

The entire room said higher. The entire room is right. The correct answer was 61%. Holy cow. 41% off from the right answer. A 2011 U.S. Fish and Wildlife study found that about 2 million people ice fish each year compared to 5 million people

who fly fish. So those numbers aren't too off of my polling when it came to fly fishing versus ice fishing preference. What do you got, Randall? I think if we do this again, we should have like two paddles

instead of riding higher or lower. I think it'd be way more fun if you were like me. Because it wouldn't be that. You wouldn't need that many paddles. Right, right. Dude, ping pong. You have the red and the green side.

You just flip them around. And the next time you do this, you know what you should have done? You really missed an opportunity. Okay, what do we got? Well, the once every seven-year survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service survey came out, I would have done this whole show based off of that brand new survey data.

We're just doing the polling data for this from our 250 people. That's what I would have done. But you also don't like when there's any potential for someone outside of a Sears in Kenosha answering these questions. I don't think it was in Sears in Kenosha because all of them would have said Ice Fishing.

We're on to question two. That might be the line of the year. This will be for Brody. Brody, what percentage... Just like I can tell you where you didn't do that poll. Sears in Kenosha. brody is now the guesser brody what percentage of outdoorsmen would rather get attacked by an alligator than a mountain lion what percentage of outdoorsmen would rather get attacked by an alligator than a mountain lion that's a good question now the u the U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service study did not address this specific data. No, it would have been like, you spent how much on a reel? Brody, talk us through what you're thinking. There's not much to it. I just think less people would rather

get attacked by an alligator than more. Okay. What percentage of outdoorsmen would rather get attacked by an alligator than more. Okay. What percentage of outdoorsmen would rather get attacked by an alligator than a mountain lion? Well, here's the deal. Mm-hmm. Back when I got attacked by a mountain lion, you're probably not going to get that bad a kill. Okay. Gator. Gator, you're in trouble.

Okay. And then all them infection sets in. Uh-huh. I might even make my answer a little lower. I'm talking to you now. He's going to death roll you. You're getting a limb ripped off. And he's going to bury you under a log, a rotten log.

I don't know if people are considering all this. They were simply asked, would you rather be attacked by an alligator or a mountain lion? Prod ads picking at your future flesh. Brody, go ahead and reveal your answer. We have Brody saying 25%. The other seven people in the room now will write down if they think the real answer is higher or lower than 25%. So what percentage of outdoorsmen would rather get attacked by an alligator than a mountain lion? This means that 25% would prefer an alligator, 75%.

No, I don't think that's what you wrote. That's correct. That's what he's saying. Hold on. He's saying 25% would prefer a gator. Yes, that's what the question asked. What percentage of outdoorsmen would rather get attacked by an alligator than a mountain lion? Brody's saying 25%. What if I feel like he's kind of got it right on the money there?

You gotta pick either way and that's why it's great. Just write dead nuts. It's very important for you to It's very important for you to do a good job as the guesser because you can really throw off the rest of the room. If you say you're right on, you can split the vote the rest of the way. Who knows if I've done a good job? I know. I'm just

explaining why. Here's where Brody messed up. Okay. I can split the vote the rest of the way. Who knows if I've done a good job? I know. I'm just explaining why. Here's where Brody messed up. Okay. I can't wait to hear this. Well, you're not thinking about how they're thinking. Okay. Is everybody ready? Classic beginner's mistake. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Again, they're deciding it's higher or lower

than 25%. We have Chester saying higher. Mark saying higher. Randall saying higher. Seth saying lower. Corinne and Yanni and Steve all saying higher. The correct answer is 31%. He was only six percentage points away. Everyone else in the room correctly said higher except for Seth.

Now, for being six off, Brody, you got nine points. Well done. Nicely done. According to the Florida Museum, there's a 4.3 fatality rate when it comes to gator attacks. And according to a 2011 study from the USGS, there's a 14.5% fatality rate when it comes to cougar attacks. Despite this data. Hit me with that again. 4.3% fatality rate for it comes to cougar attacks despite this data hit me that again 4.3 percent fatality rate for gators 14.5 percent fatality rate when it comes to cougars now despite this data my polling showed that people would strongly prefer to be attacked by

a mountain lion what do you think of that steve yeah because i would get him by the upper and lower jaw. Which one? The gator? No, lion. Okay. We're up to Mark, obviously. You're not going to do that to a gator. I feel like people survive gator attacks because the gator just bites your arm, does the twisty thing, and swims away. You could do it with a gator.

Gators might just be more careless and haphazard in their attacks. They're kind of like, they start attacking you, and I've seen footage of it. It looks like they forgot that they're attacking you. But a gator... Also, they'll just look off in another direction. That's the thing. I would rather be killed by a mountain lion because of the humiliation of being killed by a lower life form.

They have very poor opening. They can't open with a lot of force. Yeah, it'd be hard to probably be killed by a five-foot gator or something like that. Those aren't going to be lethal, I don't think. Me and Corinne are on to a podcast guest. He's written two books investigating black bear

attacks. And he's into sumo wrestling. Okay. What are you going to talk to him about? Does he sumo wrestle bears? The minute I saw sumo, I was in. But the bear thing is the main thing we'll talk about, but I'm going to touch on sumos. So 31% of outdoorsmen said they'd rather be attacked by a gator

than a mountain lion. Would you rather be attacked by a sumo wrestler or a bear? We're on to question three. This is for Mark Canyon. Mark, what percentage of outdoorsmen Have fallen out of a boat? That includes me Okay, so it's the meat eater audience

And our crew There's a lot of people that do a lot of stuff in the water So I'm going to say it's a pretty high percentage I'm going to put it down higher What percentage of outdoorsmen have fallen out of a boat? Okay This one's going to be hard What percentage of outdoorsmen have fallen out of a boat? Okay. This one's going to be hard. Mark's shirt really brings two shirt

ideas together. Brings together two very popular shirt ideas. It's a shacket. Well, sometimes you'd be like, I was going to wear a flannel. And the other half of the day, I'm like, I'm going to wear my hoodie. How do you know that that little white V in there isn't connected to that shirt, too? There's like three shirts all in one. That'd be incredible.

It's like the Bozeman uniform that Mark has. I'm buying. He's like, flannel, hoodie? How about my flannel hoodie? Yeah, man. There's a thing called decision fatigue where you just have too many decisions to make throughout the day and then you get bad. So I'm just going to stick with the same thing.

Get five of those? 60%. Mark says 60%. The other seven players will now decide if the real answer is higher or lower than 60%. Is the t-shirt built in? It is not. No, it's not built in. That's a good idea, Yanni.

What percentage of outdoorsmen have fallen on a big boat? It's actually like a cravat. You just tuck it. It's a separate car. You just tuck it in. It's like a dickie. Chester, do you have an answer? Business idea.

I'm just waiting on Chester. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Chester saying lower than 60%. Brody saying higher. Randall saying higher. Seth saying higher. Randall saying higher. Seth saying lower. Corinne saying higher. Yanni saying higher.

Steve saying higher. The correct answer was 46%. He was 14% off. I think we had Seth and Chester correctly predicted that it would be lower there. You ain't living if you're not falling out of a boat. I'm surprised by that. Who in this room has fallen out of a boat? Everyone but

everybody. Are you counting when your boat, like a canoe, flips? Does the boat need to stay upright? No. I think any kind of thing. Like a flip is falling out of a boat. People might have been confused when you asked me that question.

The question was, have you fallen out of a boat? I think it's pretty straightforward. No, because I can picture they're picturing falling out of a boat which remains upright. Steve is telling the 250 of you who took this poll that you are wrong. Do paddle boards count?

Here's a video I took in 2014 when I worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. We were setting gill nets for paddle fish in South Dakota's White River when the boat hit shore and threw the other biologist into the water. Play the clip, Phil. Oh, man. I was the one who did not fall out of the boat there. Nicely done. That's some turbid water, too.

Swift water rescue. Yeah, you had your camera ready. You didn't say anything. You were just waiting for it. Yeah, not even a chuckle. I thought you just saw the chuckle there. It was kind of serious for a second. A little chuckle.

We saved. That was a treat. Thank you, Spencer. That was question three. Did you call that guy? I did not survey him. We're on to question four. This is for Randall. Randall.

What percentage of hunters said they'd rather kill a Boone and Crockett elk than a Boone and Crockett whitetail? This game's starting to catch. This is a tough one. I'm getting into this game. said they'd rather kill a Boone and Crockett elk than a Boone and Crockett whitetail? Ooh. This game's starting to catch. This is a tough one. I'm getting into this game. This was also not in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. No, I get it. No, I get it.

No, I get it. I get it. All right. What percentage of hunters said they'd rather kill a Boone and Crockett elk than a Boone and Crockett whitetail? Walk us through your thinking here, Randall. I mean, I don't know that sort of the average person who doesn't live in the West envisions a Boone and Crockett elk versus just a big bull.

Whitetails are very popular. They have a lot of cachet. They're so measured. Yeah. Remember talking about moose? This guy's been hunting moose 20 years. You tell them what your moose score, they wouldn't know what the hell you're talking about. Yeah.

Yeah. The trick is elk are so aspirational. This is what would you rather kill? So what percentage of hunters said they'd rather kill a Boone and Crockett elk than a Boone and Crockett whitetail? And again, the question was for hunters. If Phil took this survey and he doesn't identify as a hunter, then he didn't answer this question. We already know

that more would rather kill the elk. Well, I mean, you don't know if Randall knows that. The question says that. The percentages are not reflected because the last question, remember we had 31% would rather get attacked by gators. What question says that? Well, it could be... The percentages are not reflected. The question doesn't say that. Because the last question, remember, we had 31%. The gator question.

Put something down. Let's keep moving. Let's say... Oh, jeez. Randall, what percentage of hunters said they'd rather kill a Boone and Crocodile than a Boone and Crocodile? White tail. I'm going to say 47%.

47%, Spencer. 47% would rather kill a Boone and Crockett elk than a Boone and Crockett whitetail. Our other seven players are now writing down if they think the real answer is higher or lower than 47%. Yanni thinking real hard. I think they just want to kill an elk. But they want to kill a big one. There's certain things like with pronghorn, very few people run around. And when someone's like, they're going to tell you, they're going to be like, I got a 17-inch. You'll be like, holy cow, that's big.

And that's probably as far as they'll ever take it. That's probably as far as they'll ever measure it. Is everybody ready? People are going to be like, I want to get a six-point bull or something. But what if you getting a Boone and Crockett whitetail means that you're better than, to yourself, better than all the people who have hunted whitetail? I don't understand. Because more people hunt whitetail. Oh, I got you.

So if that... You could also think of it Are they being offered a trip To kill a Boone and Crockett elk He would have put that in there Would you rather kill a Boone and Crockett elk Or a Boone and Crockett elk Go ahead and reveal your answers We have Chester saying higher, Brody saying lower

Mark saying lower, Seth saying lower Corinne saying higher, Gianna saying lower Steve saying lower The correct answer is 72%. What? Oh, you know why? Because he doesn't want to go elk hunting. Yeah, that's what I was thinking with the trip.

I feel like everyone in this room would probably say elk, I assume. No. No. White tail all day. Okay, so two of you said boon and crocodile. They're saying like... They're saying that would then mean that I got to go on a really good elk hunt.

Sure. The boon and crocodile part might not matter. It's all part of the thinking of it. Would you rather kill an elk? No, I'm back to not liking it. You're making that mistake you mentioned earlier. That was Steve. I'm back to not liking the game. I've been told that that was my A big elk is a big elk. You're making that mistake. You mentioned earlier, Steve. I'm back to not liking the game. I've been told that that was my best chance at scoring a lot of points

in this game. There are 18,000 whitetails in the Boone and Crockett record book compared to 3,000 elk. That 3,000 figure is counting American elk, Thule elk, and Roosevelt elk. Hit me with that again. 18 and 3? 18 and 3. Phil, we're halfway through this game.

Give us a scoreboard update. These numbers are going to sound a little funny. Yeah, let's see. I mean, it's pretty close. We've got, let's see, Steve, Giannis, Seth, Randall, and Mark all have 10 points. And then coming up next, we've got Brody with 14, and tied in first place are Chester and Corinne with 15 points.

What? Wow. I love this style of game. Whole new type of winner. We're at the question five. Corinne hasn't even gone yet. I know, but like, Corinne usually gets her teeth kicked in that trivia, man. But she knows what's in people's hearts, man.

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anglers have hooked someone else while fishing? Oh, man. What percentage of anglers have hooked someone else while fishing? Again, this question was only for anglers. Yeah. Can I tell a quick story? I was fishing steelhead one time at the 6th Street Dam in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

And you kind of wade out on these rocks. And sort of like whoever whoever gets there earliest and wades out farthest is the winner because there's this big trough in the middle and all the fish pass up this trough so i'm out there and then if someone else is out there you just get as close as you possibly feel comfortable getting so that you can fish that right but i was out on the perch and there's a guy doing just what i would have done to him which is get as close as you possibly get and at one point he says hey what's your name buddy and i said steve he goes well steve i think i snagged

your waders have any one of you been hooked yeah Yeah. Multiple times. Man, this is tough because if you're talking to anglers that have spent a lifetime of fishing, probably everyone's done it. But if you're talking to people who have just done it, like fished a couple times. 250 meat eater employees. Yeah, people have fished like twice a year. Kylie Archer snagged me in the cheek when I've been working here for one month. It's great. Maybe I should change my answer then.

Seth, what is your answer? Ah, man. Can I change? No, I'll stick with it. Okay. What'd you got? I have 41%. Seth says 41% or other seven players will now decide if the real answer is higher or

lower than 41%. I don't know. Is everybody ready? Everyone but Mark was quick to answer. Seems like this room has a good track record of hooking other folks. Is everybody ready? There's probably people that have hooked others' clothing, but not... That's what I'm wondering.

Same thing on this one. I snagged a little girl from right top of the head one time. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Like if you said identify the top of that person's head. Yeah. Exact top. That's where I got her. Not off to the left, not off to the right.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Chester saying higher than 41%. Brody saying higher. Mark saying higher. Randall saying higher. Corinester saying higher than 41%. Brody saying higher. Mark saying higher. Randall saying higher. Corinne saying higher. Yanni saying lower. Steve saying lower.

That would have been in 1999 in Rocky Creek. Not far from here. The correct answer is 49%. Did I get it? You did not get it. Higher was The correct answer is 49%. Oh, did I get it? You did not get it. Higher was the correct answer. Seth was 8 off of the correct answer, which means he gets 7 points.

Well done. Very good. Good job, Seth. I would have been really close had I done the whitetail bull elk answer for this question. Pat Durkin interviewed... I'm not sure that helps, Reinald. Pat Durkin interviewed a Wisconsin doctor who removed hundreds of fish hooks from anglers in his career. He told

Durk that musky anglers are the most humble victims, but that most fishermen are very embarrassed. Here's a quote from that doctor. Experienced guys are humiliated. They tell us over and over how they've been fishing for years and how they've never had this happen before,

and it's seldom their fault. They usually blame their buddy, the wind, or a rogue wave. To read Pat's full story, go to TheMeatEater.com and check out his article called Human Catch and Release, Tales and Tips for Unhooking Anglers. See that scar right there? Yes. That's from a hook.

From yourself or someone else? I got myself. Hmm. That's from a hook. From yourself or someone else? I got myself. Taught you a lesson. I got my thumb right there once too. A one-op musky hook. There's two in there and they made that big slit to get them back out. It had in my friend's house when I was a little kid and his ma looked at it and she said, you better go show your ma that.

She didn't want to deal with it. We're on to question six. This is for Corinne. Corinne will be the guesser. What percentage of outdoorsmen said they'd rather win a $50,000 boat than a $50,000 pickup? Talking about a great boat or a used truck?

It's like this though, man. You already got a truck. Exactly. Yeah. You guys are helping out Corinne. And it's like if you go to your spouse and say, hey, I'm going to buy a really expensive boat, $50,000 boat. That's like a lot of people are going to get shot down. But you already got a truck. But how many people want maybe a better truck instead of a boat because they don't want a boat?

The way trucks are now? The pricing, yeah. You're going to wind up with a boat that would otherwise give you a real pain in the ass to get your hands on. That's true. We're in inflation time. I don't know why I'm telling you this. She could probably put the game away here with a real solid guess. What percentage of outdoorsmen said they'd rather win a $50,000 boat than a $50,000 pickup.

Maybe I should be contrarian. Maybe they're trying to trick you, Corinne, since they know you're in the lead. How many outdoorsmen are afraid of the water? Yeah, they could have been afraid of the water. This is our audience. And maybe a truck is just more useful, so they'd rather have another truck. How practical is that? I'm not doing well today, but I can tell you why.

Listen, she's in the lead. You need to pipe it down. I know. I should be listening to her. Corinne. With this question, like if you don't identify as an angler, do people still answer? For outdoorsmen.

So, Corinne, what percentage of outdoorsmen said they'd rather win a $50,000 boat than a $50,000 pickup? If you change it to $500,000. You have your answer, Corinne. Go ahead and reveal your answer. We have Corinne saying 33%. So everyone else now identify if the real answer is higher or lower than 33%.

Is everybody ready? I mean, all pickups cost 50 grand or more these days, right? What percentage of outdoorsmen said they'd rather win a $50,000 boat than a $50,000 pickup? Even like a Tacoma is close to that. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Chester saying higher than 20. Higher all the way around.

What did you say? Higher than 30. Everybody says higher. Everybody's wrong. The correct answer was 27%. Corinne. Man, Corinne. Corinne was only six off, which means she is awarded nine points.

She knows what's in people's hearts. From now on, when I got to find out what people think about stuff, I'm just going to ask Corinne. There you go. Insight check. I'll be like, what's everybody want for dinner tonight, Corinne? She'll be like, pasta. Damn it, I was going to make tacos.

What will people think of this tattoo, Corinne? A 2021 article from Action Water Sports said that new boats have a 30% depreciation in value at the five-year mark. And a 2021 article from Motor Trend said that new pickups are the exact same with a 30% depreciation in value at the five-year mark. So either one of those choices would be worth $35,000 by the year 2029. We're on to question seven. This is for Yanni. Yanni, what percentage of hunters have inherited a gun?

What percentage of hunters have inherited a gun? What are you thinking here, Yanni? How many guns have you inherited in your days? That would include inheriting one from a friend Or does it have to be like passed down You don't mean like a hand me down

The question for the 250 Polled was have you inherited a gun That implies death to me in my boat I don't think so I think it would be if your father Passed a gun on from your late grandfather So there could be a live-to-live transferal.

I think you guys can all have your own definition of inheritance. Well, then you'd be like, did you inherit it from your grandfather or get it from your father? No, I think that'd be inheriting from your grandfather. It's a family inheritance. I feel like that's how I would explain it to somebody.

If my grandpa gave me something. He dies, okay? My grandpa dies, my grandma says, he always wanted you to have this gold coin. Then I give it to Randall. Would he say that he inherited it? Yeah, but that's not the example that was being used. He would say he got it. It was grandfather

to father to child. I'm simply pointing out the distinction between a grandfather handing on a gun and then the middle man sort of giving it up before he leaves the earth versus your dad going out and buying a gun that doesn't shoot for shit and then giving it to you two years later. My boy has

possession of his great-grandfather's 1903 Springfield. I think... Did he inherit that? I don't know. Because his uncle Is that right? His uncle

handed it to him. And he was not close to death. I would say he inherited it. He inherited that gun. Very healthy uncle. No underlying condition. Hands him the gun. Says you'd appreciate this and hands it to him.

Did he inherit it? Yes. So the question was what percentage of hunters have inherited a gun? Yanni says 20% for his answer. So our other seven players need to say if the real answer is higher or lower than 20% What percentage of hunters have inherited a gun? Is everybody ready? Suck this game. Go ahead

It'd be kind of embarrassing if you- No leave that there, that's fine Be kind of embarrassing if you were to happen to declare yourself being great at this game, too, right beforehand. We have Chester saying higher than 20%. Brody saying higher. Mark saying higher. Randall saying lower. Seth saying higher. Corinne saying higher.

Steve saying lower. The correct answer is 72%. Oh, my God. Anyone who said higher is correct. 72% of hunters have inherited a gun. How many people in here have inherited a gun? Not by my depth. Several.

Yeah, the four. About 72%. I legit inherited mine, man. Within the will? No, they died and we took it. Very legit. I'm not sure that's inheritance either. A 2017 study...

They weren't there to stop us. A 2017 study from the Pew Research Center found that 30% of American adults own a gun. Of the 70% who don't own a gun, slightly more than half said they could see themselves owning a gun in the future.

Phil, we have one question left. Give us a leaderboard update. I'm doing some quick math here. Give me a sec. That's a great line of questioning. Could you see yourself in the future blank? Yeah. Yeah, why not?

All right, here we go. Have you ever had a triple long John Donut? Have you ever flown a plane? No, but I could see myself having one in the future. Tied up in last place are Stephen Rinella and Giannis Koutelis with 10 points. Next, we've got Randall with 15. It's like inverse. It's inverse to trivia expertise

Seth has 22 Brody has 24 Chet has 25 And did I do Mark yet? Mark's got 20, sorry You've got 20 Mark And in first place by, I don't know, a pretty wide margin Is Corinne with 34 points

Hell yeah, Corinne We got question 8 and then the bonus round Question 8 is for Steve by, I don't know, a pretty wide margin is Corinne with 34 points. Well, yeah, Corinne. We got question eight and then the bonus round. Question eight is for Steve. Steve, what percentage of outdoorsmen think Bigfoot is real? Steve, if you had to go around this room and look at folks, what would you say? How many people in here do you think believe in Bigfoot?

Zero. Zero. Zero. Okay. We can find out the answer after. For now, though, you need to figure out what these 250 people said. What percentage of outdoorsmen think Bigfoot is real? Steve. I saw you, but you know where a Bigfoot nest is.

Smelled it. No, my body smelled it. Steve came up with his answer he says 9% 9% of outdoorsmen think Bigfoot is real he's very eager to come up with that answer now he doesn't like it

this is one of those questions where it's like how many think Bigfoot's real or are they answering the question how many think it's funny to respond in a survey I know the irony because people ironically like Bigfoot I got an 8 down to a 9 real or are they answering the question, how many think it's funny to respond in a survey? I don't know. The irony. Because people ironically like Bigfoot. I got an eight down, not a nine. Steve says eight. If you put a gun to their head.

You other seven, do you think the real answer is higher or lower than 8%? It's really how much credit you want to give these outdoorsmen. Is everybody ready? No. Could you picture in the future thinking this is real? Higher or lower than 8%?

Dagan and Rez, go ahead. There's no way I can earn 24 points on this question. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Chester saying lower than 8%. Brody saying higher. Mark saying lower. Randall saying lower. Seth saying lower.

Corinne saying higher. Yanni saying higher. Mark saying lower. Randall saying lower. Seth saying lower. Corinne saying higher. Yanni saying lower. The correct answer is 19%. I think we had Brody and Corinne. Steve just lost five points by changing his answer. Steve took himself out of the running for having five points. He did. You were 11 off instead of 10.

That's the cutoff. I would have just got some points. You would have gotten five points there, but he insisted. That is wild. Yeah, I don't know who you're polling. I just told you many a times who I was polling, your listeners and your colleagues. How many percent of meat-eater employees? Can I see?

Yeah, can I take a little pull-out about who it was? Who are these people specifically? A 2020 study from Civic Science found that 11% of Americans believe in Bigfoot, which means that outdoorsmen are more likely than the average American to believe in Sasquatch. That Civic

Science poll also found a correlation between household income and believing in Bigfoot. They learned that the less money you make, the more likely you are to think Bigfoot is real. No. Their data showed that 43% of adults who make less than $50,000 per year think Bigfoot is real, and 15% of adults who make more than $100,000 a year

think Bigfoot is real. So the less money you make, the more likely you are to believe in Bigfoot. Who in here believes in Bigfoot? Boy, if I was broke, I'd change the way I think. I'd be like, that's the problem. I'd be second-guessing myself. I'll tell you what, I found out what it is. It's not my job.

Phil, give us one last scoreboard update before we do the bonus round. Yeah, Giannis and Steve still have 10 points. And then we've got Randall with 15, Mark with 20, Chet with 25, Brody with 29. Oh, sorry, Seth's got 27. And then Corinne, 39 points now. Wow, Corinne. The bonus round is worth of a lot of points, though, so this could all change. Here's how the bonus question works.

I asked 250 outdoorsmen for them to rank these animals from best tasting to worst tasting. You need to place them in the correct order. For every one of these you get right, you'll receive five points. That means this final round is worth a max of 25 points. So here you go. Rank these in order of what outdoorsman said is the best tasting animal to the worst tasting animal. Feral hog, white tail, squirrel, black bear, wild turkey. Sorry, best to worst? Best to worst. This is what our 250 people said.

So your best tasting animal will be number one. The fifth best tasting animal will be number five. Five choices are feral hog, white tail, squirrel, black bear, and wild turkey. For each one of these, you correctly place in the right spot. You'll be awarded five points. Oh, Seth, I screwed up. You don't have 27. You have 22. I just wanted to clarify. Thanks, Phil. Yeah, you're welcome. Appreciate that. Spencer, I wrote my top two really big, and so the rest are abbreviated, and they kind of go in a triangular shape. You'd hate to erase and waste any ink.

No, I wrote the names, and I just have the numbers next to names. I didn't rearrange them, did I? Okay, yeah, we'll figure it out. Unless I can steal Corinne's points in this round, I don't think there's much hope. Well, you can get 25, so anybody who is within 25 of Corinne or 24.

What do you got, Corinne? Because Corinne could potentially get all five wrong, and one of you could get all five right. I guess I do have 15, right, Phil? Yes, you do. This is going to take a little bit for Phil to keep up with scorekeeping, so we'll have to take our time. Yeah, you're kind of, kind of, kind of. This is almost to take a little bit for Phil to keep up with scorekeeping. So we'll have to take our time.

Yeah, you're excited now. You're kind of, kind of, kind of. This is almost anybody's game. But Corinne would just have to get one in the right spot. Someone else, you know, Randall, there's other players here who are closer to Corinne. Well, they're all playing from their own perspective and I'm playing from mine. Is everybody ready? You have these ranked one through five.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Chester saying one whitetail, two wild turkey, three squirrel, four feral hog, five black bear. Brody saying the exact same thing. Mark saying one

whitetail, two turkey, three hog, four squirrel, five black bear. Randall saying whitetail one, turkey two, hog three, squirrel four, black bear five. Good eyes. Seth saying whitetail one, turkey two, squirrel three, black bear four, hog five. Me and Seth have the exact same answer. Corinne saying Turkey 1, Whitetail 2, Squirrel 3, Black Bear 4, Hog 5. Yanni saying Whitetail 1, Turkey 2, Hog 3, Squirrel 4, Black Bear 5.

No, wait, this is not my personal feelings. Steve saying White Tail 1, Wild Turkey 2, Squirrel 3, Black Bear 4, Hog 5. What kind is? That is my personal. We have a few of you who got it right on the nose. The correct ranking is one, whitetail. Two, wild turkey. Three, squirrel. Four, black bear.

Five, feral hog. 25 points right here. Steve and Seth are going to do a clean sweep there. They've got 25 points. Corinne, who is in the lead, has three of them correct. She's got 15. Brody and Chester, you guys both got three

each. They got 15. Marcus, how'd you do? Marcus got two of them right. Randall, how'd you do? Two of them right. Phil? I don't know how he's going to get out ahead. Well, I just knew I didn't get it perfect, so I didn't count up. Phil, when you're ready, you can go ahead and tell us the score from worst to best.

Take your time, Phil. I'm doing this the old-fashioned way with pen and paper. Get it right, Phil. In last place, Giannis Putellis. He with 20 points. Giannis does not know his fellow outdoorsman very well. Next up, we've got Randall Williams with 25 points. Neither does Randall.

Coming up next, Mark Kenyon has 30 points. Nice. I really jumped up in the ranking. Steven Rinella has 35 points. Not far enough. Chester Floyd has 35 points. Not far enough. Chester Floyd has 40 points. Brody Henderson has 44 points. And who do you think won between Seth and Corinne?

It had to be Corinne, right? I hope it's Corinne or else this is a mean trick. Corinne wins with 54 points. Seth had 47. Well done, Corinne or else this is a mean trick Corinne wins with 54 points Seth had 47 Well done Corinne Corinne that's why she produces The number one hunting and fishing podcast In the world

She knows hunters and anglers that well Good job Corinne Thanks Corinne this is like your first trivia victory It's my first real victory because the last time I won they gave you the answers how that still is like

in your head sort of a win there's an asterisk it's still losing her head as like kind of a win how about this is this a real win Steve or is this kind of a win that about this is this a real win steve or is this kind of a legit win yeah that surprises me she knows outdoors all through not a fluke either just all through down the line well done corinne corinne you get to choose what do you want i want to know how

you know corinne how she feel how she thinks that she did so well um you mean like my my rationale or my reasoning? Yeah. Yeah, why do you know more about hunters and anglers than Steve and Yanni? I mean, I wouldn't say that, but I don't know. It was just like an intuition. I wasn't, for most of the answers, I was pretty certain. Hit me with the truck one. She was only six points off. Yeah, hit me with the truck one.

What are people thinking? I think that a lot more people, even if they have a nice truck already, potentially, wouldn't mind a second one for free for 50 grand as opposed to a boat. What's utility?

They'd use it more than using a boat. What's the thing you use 300 days a year? I take the emotional aspect out of that Now I'm starting to think that my logic was convoluted And then I wanted to cut it like one third They'll get something they wouldn't normally They would get something that would be otherwise Out of reach

I think I'd get the truck and then sell my old one Make some money One of my favorite things about Corinne is how she Psychologizes like everybody she meets. If I complain about something, she'll be like, well, it's obvious that person has just a deep-seated hatred for their father.

And their older brother had to step in while they were growing up. You can really see it in their eyes. Corinne, you get to choose where the $500 donation from MeatEater goes. What's it going to be? Let's make it the Rough Grouse Society

once more because that's where I donated last time. I didn't actually win. Nice and clean. And we don't donate to them as regularly. That's a good reason.

What do we think of the meat poll concept? Would you play this again? You okay with that? I like it. I like that it gives people a chance who aren't Randall, Brody, Steve. I'd have to know a little more about the polling to really get comfortable.

What more would help you? Well, I would like to know if out of 50 Meteor employees, is there one that really believes in Bigfoot? if you said like if you were saying yes if you if you said sort of like randomly generated names from a list compiled in such and such way right i just get more comfortable with it than i would be if i'm not really sure who you're talking about how you selected them is there data out there like to know like roughly how many people intentionally lie or give the wrong answer on but there's 250 of them that are being pulled so they can't you know one person um trying to mess with the data can't do a very good job if you had a national database of um in some states you can just get it if you had a of, if you just said hunting and fishing, hunting and or fishing license holders in America,

and I surveyed 250 randomly generated holders of valid hunting and or fishing licenses in America, I'd be more comfortable with the game. Why? Because I'd feel like it was more randomized leading to a greater general representation. Steve didn't win. And

I think I'd be more apt to play if you actually pulled people out of a Kenosha parking lot. We'll do that. We'll be at a Sears near you soon if you live in Kenosha. Join us next time for more meat eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. Hey folks, exciting news for those who live or hunt in Canada.

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