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March 30th: Manliness!

2007-03-30 · Hank, Joel · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

Consoling himself after sending John an email he regrets, Hank joins his hunter friend Joel for a venison dinner and plays up the evening's stereotypical manliness, while noting women could do the same things and that hunting is normal in Montana.

What is said

00:00:00 — Regret over the email to John; off to hunter friend Joel's for a venison dinner; a deer head in the garden

  • ★★ Hank says he can't believe he sent John that email; he tried to do something nice and this is what happens. (playful) — 00:00:10
  • ★★ To console himself, Hank goes to his friend Joel's house: Joel, a hunter and fisherman with dogs and guns, has invited Hank and Katherine to a venison steak dinner. (playful) — 00:00:10 · Katherine Green

00:00:48 — Cowboy-song montage; Joel opens a beer with an elk antler: peak manliness

  • ★★ After Joel opens a beer bottle with an elk antler, Hank says the evening packed in so much manliness that it can't get much more manly. (playful) — 00:01:18

00:01:57 — Caveat on stereotypical manliness; Joel describes the young deer they are eating

  • ★★ Hank adds he is not saying a woman couldn't do all those things, because absolutely they could; it was only stereotypically manly. — 00:01:57
  • ★ Asked about the meat at dinner, Joel says it mixes two kinds of small young deer (species names unclear in the audio). — 00:01:57

00:02:41 — Joel on the ecology of shooting young deer; the meat is tender; manliness quotient raised; Montana hunting; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank relays that Joel, whom he calls an ecological scientist, discussed hunting ethics and ecology off camera: it is healthier for a herd to lose its younger animals. — 00:02:41
  • ★ Hank jokes that what really makes the difference is that young deer taste a lot better; the meat is tender and flavorful. (playful) (hedged) — 00:02:41
  • ★★ Hank tells a viewer he hopes the viewer is satisfied that Brotherhood 2.0's manliness quotient has increased substantially. (playful) — 00:03:16 · Brotherhood 2.0
  • ★★ Hank tells viewers disturbed by the images that he lives in Montana, where people have guns and shoot animals; that's how things are done there. — 00:03:16 · Montana

Humor (significant)

  • Hank finds a deer head being used to fertilize Joel's garden. — 00:00:10 > «I wonder if there's any other deer parts in here.»
  • Joel opens a beer with an elk antler after curling and drinking beer. — 00:01:18 > «I really don't think that you can get much more manly than that.»
  • Joel explains culling young deer is healthier for the herd. — 00:02:41 > «the young ones taste a heck of a lot better.»
  • Hank addresses a viewer, telling him the dinner has made the channel manlier. — 00:03:16 > «the manliness quotient for Brotherhood 2.0 has increased substantially.»

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