The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 539: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CVI

Episode Date: April 3, 2024

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Brad Floeter, Clair Overby, Mary Gibson, Cody Dinsmoor, Michael Rietveld, Logan Williamson, and Keith Anspach. 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, Michael, Keith, Mary, Claire, Cody, Logan, and Brad. This is normally a 10-round quiz show with questions from Meat Eaters 4 Verticals, but today, because we're at the First Light store in Haley, we're bringing back the meat pole game.

This is a test of how much you know about your fellow hunters and anglers. Now, I have some high hopes for some of our First Light players today, especially those that deal with customers all the time. You should be really in tune with what meat eater listeners have going on

in their world. Keith, you feel okay about your customers? He asks them what they think about Bigfoot? Keith, do you? You know, they just want to tell me all about it, honestly. Cody's a Bigfoot connoisseur of the group. Really? Yeah.

I mean, I don't remember how it happened, but it did happen. Ended up talking for 45 minutes, not doing any work, but talking about Bigfoot on the phone with a customer. Okay. In the end, he's like, do you have these in XXXXL? That's the kind of customer service you'll get here at First Light. You call to ask about the Uncle Pogrid jacket, and Cody might entertain you for 45 minutes with Bigfoot stories.

Yeah, I'm your guy. Absolutely. What's the biggest sock you make? Now, between games, we just finished another game. The Logan and Claire smack talk has continued. Claire declared, Logan, that you were condescending when you guys play trivia together,

so it was very satisfying for her to beat you that last game. I would agree with that. Okay. I would also like to point out that when this new format aired a couple weeks ago uh she didn't like it at all people don't like it but as you were explaining the rules she was nodding and smiling like i think she's riding a little high right now okay wow the uh the claire

and logan rivalry continues people don't like the format right still because you haven't fine-tuned it yet i wouldn't say that you've addressed my primary problem yeah okay and then the scoring is did you fix that is it not so complicated we've simplified the scoring as well um and you know uh people are gonna have to like it because this is what we're gonna do on the live tour that's right up this spring if you're coming to the live tour uh and are part of the audience, you are going to be part of the group that is surveyed that night. So we're going to bring this similar concept to each city and we're going to learn about those folks that are sitting

in those chairs and what their personal experiences and personal tastes are when it comes to the outdoors. Yeah, meaning when you come in, when you come into the live shows, not run through the dates in a minute, when you come into the live shows, there's going to dates a minute, when you come into the live shows, there's going to be a code, right?

There's a code you hit on your phone. So we can survey every person there. It's not like Spencer has to go talk to them all out in front of the Bigfoot booth. I'm joking. We're not going to have a Bigfoot booth there. But that was the inside joke. Anyways, you can hit a code and take a survey.

So when we play the survey game, when the audience plays the survey game at the end of the show, you're being surveyed about the people next to you. Yeah. Like people here tonight. What percent of people here tonight? Blank. Yeah, we'll see what Steve thinks about our audience at each show.

Maybe it'll be insulting. Maybe he'll be very flattering. Yeah, but you'll be able to look around you and be like, I don't know what the hell these people think. And that's how the survey show would go. Can I hit the dates? Yeah, yeah. We'll be doing this.

Mesa, Arizona, which is one of those places where it's like, I mean, it's kind of Phoenix. Mesa, Arizona, Mesa Art Center April 23 San Diego California the Balboa Theater April 24 Anaheim California the Grove of Anaheim April 25

then I go spearfishing with my buddy Greg and then we do Sacramento at the Crest Theater April and then we do sacramento at the crest theater april 27th then we go to salt lake city utah the union event center april what am i on now april 29th that's another day off i'm gonna try to hunt turkeys that day boise idaho the egyptian theater theater tuesday april 30 then my old hometown missoula at the wilma theater may 1st i got a million stories about the wilma which i'll tell at the wilma spokane washington on may 2nd the ben crosby theater portland oregon revolution hall may 4 and wrapping up in Tacoma, Washington

at Pantages Theater May 5. So we're bringing this game to you guys. There's other parts of the show as well. There'll be a lot going on. This is one of those elements. Sometimes it feels like more rings than just three. Are we getting that

Tuesday off? Are we getting that Tuesday off to come see the show? Yes. You hear that, guys? Clay. Can't go back on that now. Clay Newcomb, who's going to every show, he's bringing his guitar, and he's going to, on the last leg of the tour, Chester the divester, I almost did his old, I still have him in

my phone, I don't even want to say it. My kids are always like, what's up? It's a person that messes everything up but chester the divester chester the midwester i think that's what he is right now because he was chester the investor when he got into bitcoin yeah he was chester the divester when he got out of bitcoin now he's chester the Midwester. He did the opening act at the last leg, but Clay himself is getting up and singing a tune every night for the new tour.

It's going to be special. Yeah. Now here's how this game works. I surveyed 600 meat eater listeners and asked them questions about personal experiences and personal preferences. Your job is to predict their answers. There will be one round per player with a 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 are in the form of percentages. 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 predict if the real answer is higher or lower the guesser will receive points based on how close they get to the real answer and the other players will

receive points based on if they correctly choose higher or lower steve you're the only one who's done this before do you have any tips for your competitors i got a tip for you okay i think that all players should write down the number they think it is. We'll try that at some point. Today, we're doing the higher or lower version. Now, before we play, we'll do a practice round to make sure everyone is comfortable with the format. For the practice round, Steve is going to be the guesser. That means Steve will provide an answer, and after he's done so, everyone else will predict if the real answer is higher or lower than Steve's answer.

Steve, what percentage of Americans have called the police because of a neighbor? This wasn't part of my polling. This is some Pew research. So it's what percentage of Americans have called the police because of a neighbor? Think out loud here. Have you ever think out loud? Yeah. Have you ever called the police?

Dude, listen. I don't want to tell it right now. I will tell you a crazy-ass story about calling the police. Okay. You're not going to do it now. Has a neighbor ever called the police because of you?

Two calling... No. Well, I don't know. Two police callings. It's the wildest story. But I don't want to tell it on the air. My guess is going to be 30 because people live a long time. So Steve's answer is 30. Now, everyone else, you need to think about if the real answer is higher or lower than that. Like my neighbors are making too much noise.

My neighbors are fighting out in the street. Sure. Parked in the wrong spot. 30. 30. Does everyone know? 16. Now, if you think it's higher than that, you'll raise the green paddle.

And if you think it's lower than that, you'll raise the red paddle. 16. Is everybody ready? Raise your paddles. We have Brad going higher, higher, higher, lower, higher, higher, higher. The real answer is 23%.

So only one of you. So I want to stick with my original answer at 30. Okay. Steve, yeah. I want to tell my story so bad. Is it a time issue? Is it like a legality issue? No, it's a real sensitivity issue

It's a sensitivity issue Our audience is titillated but there's no payoff here Steve is not going to tell you the story He might tell it on the live tour though Maybe, maybe in Missoula It is a Missoula story.

You're going to have it right by the Wilma. Uh-huh. There's your tease. Buy a ticket to the Missoula show. Now, the scoring will be in the description of this episode. You can refer to that. But if you're right on the nose, you'd get 20 points. If you're 5 off, you're 15.

10 off, 10 points. And if you correctly predict higher or lower, you get 5 points. Now, before we get started, let's talk a bit of strategy. As a reminder, this is polling data of my survey from 600 meat eater listeners. These are not just some yahoos outside of a Kenosha Sears. Next, your best opportunity to score points is by doing a great job when you're the guesser. You can earn up to 20 points as the guesser while everyone else can only get five points by correctly answering higher or lower so your one opportunity as the guesser is very important and just like with every other episode of meat eater trivia there's five hundred dollars on the line our winner will get

to choose where the five hundred dollar donation goes is everybody ready yeah i got another little thing for you okay let's hear it isn't it in golf you're trying to get a low score? That's right. So if you do what I'm saying, everybody picks the number. But you're chasing a low score. There you go. So your number off from reality is your score. Steve is on to something.

We'll work it out for live. Today we're doing the ping pong score. Steve is on to something. Yeah. Working out for life, too. Today, we're doing the ping pong battles. Okay. Play the drop, Phil. Look, I need to know what I stand to win to everything. How's that? You just tend to win everything. Game on, suckers!

Question one, this will be for Brad. Brad, what percentage of anglers said they've lied about the size of a fish before? Oh, man. The question was, have you ever lied about the size of a fish? They had to say yes or no. So what percentage of anglers said they've lied about the size of a fish before? I mean, I feel like everyone's guilty of exaggerating a little bit. Okay. Is that yourself included, you're saying?

I just think every fisherman, you know. How many fishermen admit it? Yeah, there's an interesting honesty play at work here. I'm assuming that these people are going to be honest here with Spencer's poll since it's anonymous. It is anonymous when they're answering. So they're just lying to themselves. Did they call my kid?

What would your kid's answer be? Every time he looks in the water. It's like, you see, I'm like, are you sure? Because I just looked down there so brad what percentage of anglers said they've lied about the size of a fish before i'm gonna go relatively high i'm gonna say like 85 85 everyone else will now decide if the real answer is higher or lower than 85 is everybody ready raise your paddles we have claire saying higher mary saying lower michael saying lower cody saying higher logan saying higher

keith saying lower steve saying lower the correct answer was 42 percent They're lying. So they're just lying. They're lying to themselves. They're caught a web of lies. You're interviewing compulsive liars. That's a good baseline question to start with. There you go. According to a 2023 survey of American adults, the average person lies two times per day.

The study found that about 40% of people lie on their resumes and 90% of people lie in And fishermen. And fishermen. They even lie about their lies. How do you lie on your dating profile? You don't actually like long walks on the beach? Who has a dating profile? Who has a dating profile in here right now? No one's admitting it?

Okay. I'm on Hinge. Find me. If you're in Haley, you can find Cody on Hinge. Cody, how would you lie? How would you lie about your profile? I don't lie on my profile.

Oh, he doesn't lie. Okay. You're on it, but you don't lie. He's part of the 10% he says. I got some dog photos on there, though. You don't do fish pictures? No. Because I've been told you want to do like you kind of chilling

and then you doing what you love. That's what you're told but i got married before this was even a thing so i got no i've never done i'm just doing my best i don't even know i'm either okay the the fish pick is divisive though like you know there are like two trains of thought it's like you have it out there so then the girl just like knows what you are and then there's other liar yeah yeah the two schools yeah you lie about the size of the fish in your fish picture yeah then later when you do get together and you're in trouble for fishing all the time you'd be like dude i should have known for you back to my by profile exactly it was all me fishing yeah that

was just a that was just a representation of what I do. As advertised. When you come to Haley, then, you come to the First Light store, and then you also download Hinge, and you'll find Cody there with his fish and dog pictures. But not lying. It's under your name. That's your name.

You put your mileage where you want to like travel to i'm around like 15 miles so okay that was question one question two is for claire claire what percentage of outdoorsmen said they'd rather own 30 acres of water instead of 10 acres of land hold on say that again? Think out loud here, Claire. Which one of those would you pick? 30 acres of water, 10 acres of land. I would pick 10 acres of land. But I'm not a big, I mean, if you own 30 acres of water, you have your own little lake.

And 30 acres is pretty big. You could have a boat on that. So what percentage of outdoorsmen said they'd rather own 30 acres of water instead of 10 acres of land? I think it's probably big with our audience because our audience is a lot of lake fishermen. I'm not a big lake fisherman so i would not pick this myself but it's higher than 50 so i'm gonna go with like 72 percent okay claire's saying 72 percent lower paddle 72 percent of outdoorsmen would rather own 30 acres of water instead of 10 acres of land does everybody have have their paddle ready? Go ahead and raise your paddles.

We have Mary saying lower. Michael saying lower. Everybody is saying lower. Everybody was right. The correct answer was 19%. Damn. 19% would rather have the 30 acres of water instead of the 10 acres of land. According to data from Texas, the average price of an acre of land is $2,500, while

the average price of an acre of surface water is $4,500. That means in Texas, the 30-acre lake would be worth about $100,000 more than the 10 acres of land. So, I mean, economically, if you were... Sure. People are paying that much more for... Well, how many private 30-acre lakes are there out there? Not many.

You're talking about down there, you're talking about some volatile shoreline, too, man. Some more folks want the 10 acres of land, though. Question three, this is for Mary. Mary, what percentage of outdoorsmen said they're currently subscribed to an outdoor magazine? Are you subscribed to any outdoor magazines?

I don't need to. My husband has a magazine collection that is epic. Really? What is he subscribed to? Oh, all the hunting magazines. So he sends off those little cards that fall out of the magazines. He just buys them. Can I say this? He's a magazine

whore. Okay. You did. So Mary, what percentage of outdoorsmen said they're currently subscribed to an outdoor magazine? I'm going to say 65%. 65%.

Everyone else, you have your paddles ready. Raise your paddles. Subscribed. Everybody is... What are you going with, Logan? Everyone is saying lower, except for Logan is saying higher. The correct answer is 38%. So everybody except Logan got that one right.

A 2017 study found that 41% of American adults are subscribed to a newspaper or magazine. And a 2023 study found that there are now more magazines today than ever before, despite readership being at an all-time low. Huh. I want to get a cross-draw bandolier for these paddles. There you go. They sit like that dude and battle the buster Scruggs. He wears his pistols real high. Maybe,

uh, maybe we should like have a gear company that can make that kind of thing. Paddle holder for Steve. We're on to question four. This is for Michael. Michael, what percentage of outdoorsman said they'd rather own a knife that never dulls instead of waders that never leak? Hmm.

So you get two choices. You could either have a knife that never dulls or waders that never leak. What percentage of outdoorsmen said they'd rather own the knife instead of the waders? Which one would you pick? Oh, come on. I'd go knife. I'd go knife. Never dulls. Dude, listen, sharpening a knife is a lot quicker than patching waders.

Yeah, but I'm also thinking how many people are actually running waders, right? So of the 600, what are they? Well, yeah, but you're not doing what you want. You're supposed to be thinking about what they want. Yeah. Yeah, but what about the people who don't even use waders? Yeah. 600 meat eater listeners

were surveyed for this and they were asked if they'd rather have the knife that never dulls or the waders that never leak. 500 whitetail hunters, right? They're not using waders. Okay. So I'm going to go 67%. He's saying 67% would rather have the knife that never dulls instead of

the waders that never leak. Is everybody with their paddles ready? Go ahead and raise your paddles. We have Cody saying lower, Logan saying lower, Keith saying higher, Steve saying lower, Brad saying higher, Claire and Mary saying lower. The correct answer is 69%. You were only 2% off.

That is our best guess yet. I was going to say 69, but it felt like it wasn't appropriate, so I dulled it down to 2. For being within 5 points, then, you will get 15 points. Well done, Michael. Steve, you're still convinced that you'd rather have the waiters than never leak, though. You're a beaver trapper, though.

Oh, yeah, because I like sharpening knives. I hate fixing waiters according to a 2023 study americans are the most obsessive about sharp knives it found that the united states has 35 percent of the global knife sharpening market with the number expected to rise in the coming years they said the key factors in america's knife sharpening interests are the popularity of cooking shows and the increase of preparing meals at home during the pandemic. So 69% would rather have the knife than never dolls.

Now, as a reminder, Steve had noticed in the past that in this game it seemed like an inverse, the leaderboard, than the typical game of meat-eater trivia, right? Because Corinne took a thorough victory the first time we played this. Yep, she can't play trivia. Well, she can, but yeah, Corinne's shaking her head not as well. Phil, give us a leaderboard update. All right, we have got Logan and Claire with five points apiece.

Coming up next are Cody and Mary who have 10. We've got Steve and Brad with 15. Keith with 20. And first place is Michael. He's got 30 points. Well done, Michael. Well done, Michael. Hey folks, exciting news for those who live or hunt in Canada. And boy, my goodness do we hear from the Canadians whenever we do a raffle or a sweepstakes.

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Cody, what percentage of dog owners said their dog is actually their best friend? Are you a dog owner? I am, yeah. Okay. Is your dog your best friend? Absolutely. Okay. So what percentage of dog owners said their dog is actually their best friend?

87%. 87%. Every dog owner out there, basically, says their dog is their best friend. All right, is everybody else ready with their paddles? Raise your paddles. We have lower, lower, lower. Everybody says lower.

Everybody was right. The correct answer was 47%. was 47 not looking good for dogs 47 of dog owners said their dog is actually their best friend a 2022 survey found that 69 of people say their dog is their best friend meaning outdoorsmen are less likely than the average american to consider their dog their best friend because there outdoorsmen are less likely than the average American to consider their dog their best friend. Because there's a thing you're measuring there. Do you know what I mean? Because they're looking for

performance in a specific pursuit. Keep going. Well, just the dog has more chances to fail. If the dog's only job is to hang around the house, how can it screw that up? Interesting point, Steve. But it's still got to be their best friend.

I know, but you're going to take it out. It's going to piss you off. You're going to not like it anymore. Maybe the bond is stronger. And a home dog is just home. Okay. He's not going to piss anybody off.

Maybe the bond is stronger with outdoors. Apparently not, though. The survey shows that. No, I'm just going by it. Now that I know the number, I'm trying to think my way into it. That same survey found

that 72% of Americans say bringing home their dog was one of the best days of their life and that 42% of Americans say their dog goes to the salon more than they do. Who else is a dog owner in here? Are your dogs your best friends? If you had to say yes or no, best friend.

I think the way that that question was worded, like if someone asked me, is your dog your best friend? I'd be hundred percent and then if they said think about it is your dog really your best friend i might start to feel bad about it it was worded is it actually your best friend yeah mary michael is your dog your best friend hands down yeah but i think that people don't want to admit they don don't have human friends. Okay. Michael has found a much deeper level to the game. I think if I owned your dog, Michael,

that'd be my best friend as well. One of the best behaved pups. We're up to Logan. Logan, this is question six. What percentage of outdoorsmen said they'd rather eat a rare burger instead of a well-done burger? So they were given two choices. Would you rather eat a rare burger instead of a well-done burger. So they were given two choices.

Would you rather eat a rare burger or would you rather eat a well-done burger? What percentage of outdoorsmen said they'd rather eat a rare burger instead of a well-done burger? Which one would you choose? I was always taught that you need to be safe with burger and it like medium at at the least right make sure that anything on the insides we literally just had an argument about this okay

this rivalry goes much deeper than I thought what was your dad sat you down no I think it I feel like it was one of the kitchen shows. As you get older, you're going to encounter burgers. Claire Logan, what was the argument you two just had about burger doneness? You might be put in uncomfortable situations where friends are trying to give you rare burgers. I want you to remember. Just say no. Someone may have felt that my elk burgers were a little overdone. Oh, okay.

Who was it? Oh, it was Claire. Okay. And your response was what? They were perfect. Just how you're supposed to cook them. So, Logan, what percentage of outdoorsmen said they'd rather eat a rare burger instead of a well-done burger?

I'm going to say 54% would rather have a rare burger than the well-done. 54%. Are our other players ready? Raise your paddles. We have Keith saying higher. Steve saying higher. Brad saying lower. Claire saying higher. Mary and Michael and Cody saying lower.

The correct answer is 56%. Well done, Logan. Only two points off. So everyone who said higher got that one right. A 2019 YouGov study found that well done is the preferred way to eat burgers. Their survey of 1200 Americans found that 40% prefer a well-done burger with 20% choosing medium well and 17% choosing medium. They also found that women are about 20% more likely to order a well-done burger than men. Does that have the political demographics like the steak one does? Yes, we talked about that before with steak doneness. It showed that Republicans are more likely to order rare and Democrats are more likely to order well done than vice versa.

We are on to question seven. This is for Keith, and we will get a scoreboard update after this. Keith, what percentage of anglers said they think they're a better angler than the average angler? Just another fisherman line so what percentage of anglers said they think they're a better angler than the average angler and the question to be clear it said do you think you're a better angler than the average angler so what percentage of them said yes uh you gotta you gotta vote with the angler on this one. I'm thinking like 72% think they're better than most anglers. 72% of anglers.

So you ask them, do you identify as an angler? Yes, it's for anglers only. And then it says, do you think you're a better angler than the average angler? And Keith, what was your answer? 72. 72% is everybody else ready? Go ahead and raise your paddles. We have Steve saying lower, Brad saying higher,

Claire, Mary, and Michael saying lower, Cody and Logan saying lower as well. The correct answer was 42%, so everyone who said lower got that one right. Showed that that was a pretty honest group. Only 42% of them thought they were a better angler than the average angler must have been a different group from my question that's right yeah dude i'm definitely better than the average angler now a 2018 study asked 3 000 americans if

they think they're smarter than the average american they found that 65 percent of people think they're smarter than average with men more likely than women to have that belief. The researchers concluded that, quote, the tendency to overrate one's abilities may be a staple feature of human psychology. That's right. So 65% of people think they're smarter than the average person. They should come on and play Meat Eater Trivia and humble them real quick. Phil, give us a scoreboard update.

We have one question left, which will be for Steve, and then we get to the bonus round. Sure thing. Cody has 15 points. Brad, Claire, and Mary all have 20 points apiece. Logan, Keith, and Steve have 30 points, and in first place is Michael. He's got 40 points now.

Michael in first. Steve, here is your chance to pick up some ground. What percentage of hunters said they'd rather have a bull elk tag for Yellowstone National Park instead of $10,000? So they were given the choice for those two things. Said you can either have a bull elk tag for yellowstone or ten thousand dollars what percentage of those hunters said they'd rather have that bull elk tag you don't need these boards do you you don't need not yet i'm gonna hold this board the whole damn time you will for the next question so you've been prepared. So, Steve, which one of those would you choose?

The bull elk tag for Yellowstone or the $10,000? I would really want the bull tag, but symbolically, because I just don't like national parks. Okay. Because you can't hunt them. Mm-hmm. So, I think there should be like very limited hunting like the yellowstone super tag sure uh so for that symbolic victory i don't want

to do it but i'm trying to think what most people would think because i don't think most people would pay 10 grand to go elk hunt well they're not you're not getting paid that amount you either choose no would pay oh sure and when you're essentially doing that you're taking the option to have 10 grand you're like basically handing the 10 grand over but i'm still gonna say 80 80 70 now what happened there was steve said 80 i think we had michael who and then steve immediately lowered it 10 i Oh, no, I can go with my original. No, no, no. Whatever you like. Does anyone else want to try to change Steve's answer?

No, I didn't change it because of that. Just saying it made me think about it. Okay, so Steve is saying 70%. 70%. 70%. Is everybody ready? Raise your paddles. We have Brad saying lower, lower, lower, lower. lower, lower.

Everybody says lower except for Keith. Keith says higher. The correct answer was 58%. So everybody except for Keith got that one right. Does that do me any good on getting points? No, you got to be within 10. It's not good enough. Elk get poached in Yellowstone more than you'd think.

I found seven cases of elk poaching in Park Boundary since 1987. All but one of those cases was solved, with the other six ending with fines, restitution fees, and jail time. The biggest fine was given to two men from Arkansas and Alabama who filmed themselves calling in bulls in Yellowstone and killing them with their bow. They were each fined $15,000 and sentenced to 18 months in jail. But here's, I don't listen, man.

Here's the deal. I would have you go find out how many of those were within a couple hundred yards of ill-defined borders. A few of them were, and then other ones you'd be surprised that they were right off a main road deep in Yellowstone. Got it. Because that's a, I'm not saying they're, I mean, they're deep in yellowstone got it got it because that's a i'm not i'm not saying they're i mean they're wrong like you need to right it's your responsibility it's as wrong as anything yeah i'm just saying you can be in places where you can be in you can lose touch of the sure boundary 58 would rather have that bull elk tag phil can you give us one

more scoreboard update before we do the bonus round yeah we've got cody with 20 keith and steve have 30 oh sorry i skipped i'm going out out of order here sorry guys brad claire and mary all have 25 points apiece logan has 35 michael still in first with 45 now now question nine our bonus question there's a lot of opportunity to pick up ground here so you can go from last place to first place real quick. You will need your whiteboards and your markers for this one. Here's how the bonus round works. I asked 600

hunters for them to rank these states in order of who has the best deer hunters to the worst deer hunters. You need to place them. I asked them to rank these from best deer hunters to worst deer hunters this is different we'll get there you need to place these in the correct order for every one of these you get right you'll receive five points that means the final round is worth 25 points so

you need to rank these states in order of who hunters said have the best deer hunters to the worst deer hunters. Here are your five states. Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, Missouri, Michigan. And I chose these five states because these are the five states that harvest the most deer in America. So our 600 people surveyed were asked to rank these in order of who has the best deer hunters to who has the worst deer hunters. The five states, again, are Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Michigan. For every one of these you get right, you'll get five points. Five states that kill the most deer in America, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Michigan. Steve, how do you feel about your answer?

I think you're the first one to be done. I think I got a lot of them right, man, to be honest with you. All right. To be frank. This was from that same survey of 600 meat eater listeners. Is everybody ready? Brad, you good? Yeah, I just had to erase this.

Logan, Cody, we good? Michael, everyone's ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Brad saying 1. Wisconsin, 2. Missouri, 3. Pennsylvania, 4. Michigan, 5. We have Brad saying one, Wisconsin, two, Missouri, three, Pennsylvania, four, Michigan, five, Texas. Claire saying Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Texas. Mary saying one, Wisconsin, two, Texas, three, Michigan, four, Missouri, five, Pennsylvania outside of texas is going to put texas

as five yeah michael anyone when you survey anybody michael saying wisconsin one missouri two pennsylvania three michigan four texas five cody saying one wisconsin two pennsylvania three texas four missouri five michigan ouch logan saying missouri wisconsin pennsylvania michigan texas keith saying pennsylvania texas wisconsin michigan missouri steve who declared he's going to do well on this, he says Missouri 1, Pennsylvania 2, Wisconsin 3, Michigan 4, Texas 5. Now, Steve, say again what you were saying about Texas. That anyone you called who's not in Texas is going to put Texas as number 5.

Here are the answers. Number 1, Wisconsin. Number 2, Michigan. Number 3, Pennsylvania. number one wisconsin number two michigan number three pennsylvania number four missouri and number five texas we're gonna give phil a second to update the leaderboard wisconsin was overwhelmingly voted the state with the best deer hunters while texas was overwhelmingly voted the state with the worst deer hunters michigan pennsylvania the state with the worst deer hunters. Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Missouri were all in a close race for second. Here are some interesting takeaways. Texas received more last place votes than the other four states combined.

Wisconsin received 35% of all first place votes and Pennsylvania was the most polarizing state with it receiving the second most first-place votes and the second most last-place votes. Does that check out, Steve? Well, it just goes to show how close that was on everything. Okay, that's right. That is Steve's takeaway. Phil, give us our final scoreboard update.

Who is the winner? Well, we've got Cody, Keith, and Steve all with 30 points. Mary has 35. Brad and Claire have 40. Logan has 45. And in first place, he's got 60 points. It's Michael. Michael.

What a victory. For Michael. Good job, man. Just a runaway victory. Let's get Michael a microphone over here. Mike, how do you know so much about your fellow hunters and anglers? I don't know. It just kind of went a bit more logical, I think.

Well, a bit more logical than the other seven players. Yeah, arguably. I mean, you know, these Michiganders, you know, the mistake across the lake as we refer to them, from Wisconsin, you know, they think they're good hunters. I thought you didn't poll people outside of Sears and Kenosha. Well, I thought that was a red herring. I thought it actually was people in Kenosha.

Michael, did you put Wisconsin as one? Sure did, yeah. Where'd you put Michigan at? Number four. Okay, number four. He wasn't going with logic there. He just wanted to insult the Michiganders in the room with that one. Yeah.

Well, I don't know. I kind of went, you know, that was a tough one because I almost to get it done arguably in Michigan, I feel like would be a lot more difficult to harvest the deer, to be honest, because of the hunter percentage. But then, you know, Pennsylvania people, they, you know, they really think highly of themselves. And I like thought, all right, how many people in Pennsylvania were on this survey? But then I really got worried if it was more people in Texas on the survey, right? Because it's like, to Steve's point, you don't put themselves at number one. I feel like some of the Texas people, if you get them anonymously, they'll admit,

like, we're probably going to be low on this. No way. There's no way a Texas person ever admits they're lower than you. Well, there is a feeder, you know. I went high in Missouri because they're killing a lot of stomp or bucks in Missouri. So I feel like people are seeing these big bucks out of Missouri and it's not Texas. And so they're thinking that they must be super good at hunting. I don't think Missouri gets people worked up about like.

Yeah, but Wisconsin's putting the most booners on the wall, you know. More than Missouri? It is. Oh, yeah. The number one state. Yeah, the number one state young and yeah and you're always reading about it with all the people with uh you know magazine subscriptions yeah keep rubbing it in michael there you go take your victory well earned all right now michael what happens next is you get to choose with a 500 donation from me deter goes

so what's it gonna be let's do pheasants forever. Pheasants forever. What do we like about them? With your bird dog, is that because your best friend is sitting about six inches away? Yeah, exactly.

Okay. She's staring you down too. She heard pheasant. Yeah. No, just think that they do, you know, really a lot of good programs kind of from coast to coast

and arguably, you know, they cover a lot of the more upland species than just pheasants you know i think that they're mislabeled but uh yeah five hundred dollars going their way and now the uh the logan and claire rivalry has another chapter in it uh claire won the last game logan wins this one so you guys are all i mean to reiterate i don't i don't really like she doesn't like this format of game. You're right. That was

established up front. You got that one. To be fair, Steve, I like the golf idea. That's what we're going to do. We're not doing the golf idea going forward. I think it's going to revolutionize the game. It's going to take a game that so far is unpopular and shoot its popularity up, man. That is what's

going to happen next time we bring this back. By connecting it to golf? No, no, no, no, no. Just shooting for a low score. Well, because then you're guessing a percentage every time. Every time. You'll get a chance. Because it's kind of chicken shit to be waving these paddles around. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. It's like you're not really getting in there and

exposing yourself. And then I feel like there are a few times where someone's right near the number and like, gosh, you just want to guess it with them,

you know? Yep, yep. Going to do it different next time. Thank you for having us at the Haley store. Thanks for coming down, Spencer.

Appreciate it, man. We're going to do this on an annual basis, I think. Come over here and have Steve lose at trivia. And then everyone

cheers for Keith. Like a real, a real hearty cheer when it was declared that Keith got second. I love it, man. I'll take silver any day. Well, people that would like to see me lose, man, should love the paddle game.

There we go. Join us next time for more Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins.