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October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics

2007-10-06 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Pop culture · conversation qa

Hank answers John's feud topics with his own (cheese over chocolate, sxePhil, Next Generation), urges young Nerdfighters to watch The Goonies as proto-Nerdfighters, and says the real feud is politics: he likes John Edwards and would vote for anyone who puts the environment first.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; Hank plays John's feud video and reacts to his picks (pirates aren't well-trained; Ask a Pirate would be a good show)

  • ★★ Hank plays John's feud video and responds to his picks, agreeing on some and saying pirates aren't even well-trained, though Ask a Pirate would be a good show. (playful) — 00:00:04 · John Green

00:00:45 — Unicorns vs zombies hard to argue; the brothers' earlier Obama-Edwards disagreement over coal

  • ★ Hank suggests unicorns or zombies as a starting point, but notes it is hard to argue about something that doesn't exist. (playful) — 00:00:45
  • ★★★ Hank recalls the brothers' Obama-Edwards argument: Brotherhood 2.0 hasn't endorsed a candidate because Obama 'has a problem with coal', which apparently doesn't bother John. — 00:00:45 · Barack Obama, Brotherhood 2.0, John Green

00:01:12 — New feud items: cheese or chocolate, sxePhil or What the Buck, Star Trek TOS or TNG, Kung Fu

  • ★★ Hank offers new feud items with his picks: cheese over chocolate (more kinds of cheese), sxePhil over What the Buck, and Star Trek: The Next Generation over the Original Series. (playful) — 00:01:12

00:01:41 — Huey Lewis; Neverending Story or Goonies; the Goonies as the original Nerdfighters; young Nerdfighters should watch it

  • ★★ Hank suggests the Goonies may have been the original Nerdfighters, running through the gang: the inventor kid, Mikey, Mouth, Chunk and Sloth. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:41 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ Hank urges young Nerdfighters who have never seen The Goonies to rent it: like Harry Potter with pirates in the real world of 1985, about friendship and social-outcast underdogs. — 00:02:11 · Harry Potter, Nerdfighteria

00:02:39 — The real feud: Edwards vs Obama, environment before health care, a vote for anyone who brings in Al Gore; universal health care

  • ★★ Hank says there could be a real feud if John Edwards becomes a more substantial candidate, because he likes Edwards a lot. (hedged) — 00:02:39
  • ★★ Hank enjoys listening to Barack Obama but feels his priorities, though matching Hank's, are in a different order. (hedged) — 00:02:39 · Barack Obama
  • ★★★ Hank argues that really good health care in America won't matter much if we can't feed ourselves because we've poisoned the Earth. — 00:02:39
  • ★★★ Hank says he would vote for anyone, of any party, who brings Al Gore into the cabinet as chief of environmental affairs and climate research. — 00:03:08
  • ★★ Hank says universal health care would be the way to anger John in a feud (wording partly unclear). (playful) — 00:03:08 · John Green

00:03:33 — Brotherhood2.com and the forum down for a server move; walk with Katherine; sign-off

Humor (significant)

  • Reacting to John's ninjas-over-pirates pick. — 00:00:04 > «Pirates aren't even well-trained.»
  • Hank explains why Obama's coal problem doesn't bother John, recalling John's feelings about outside. — 00:00:45 > «Maybe it's because outside doesn't have the kind of influence over you that outside should have.»
  • Choosing between two YouTube shows for the feud. — 00:01:12 > «I'm just more in Sexy a private person's demographic, I think.»
  • Hank offers Kung Fu versus its sequel series as a feud topic. — 00:01:12 > «if you said Kung Fu the Legend Continues, then we would actually have a feud on our hands.»

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