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October 9th: The Feud Continues

2007-10-10 · Hank · watch on YouTube · US politics & society · conversation qa

Hank objects to John calling Edwards a schmuck: choosing a president is not poker, and only the policies on the cards matter; since he believes the environmental crisis is humanity's biggest problem, he backs Edwards, and he prefers unicorns because zombies exist to kill the living.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting and iMovie-plugin gag; Hank objects to John calling Edwards a schmuck and judging candidates by gut feeling

  • ★★ Hank is upset that John called John Edwards a schmuck: John favors honest discussion yet treats a gut feeling about a candidate as more important than what the candidate plans to do. — 00:00:10 · Barack Obama

00:00:48 — Poker metaphor: the election should not be a game of chance; only what's on the cards (the policies) matters

  • ★★★ Hank does not want the presidential election to be a game of chance like poker, judging who looks confident or bluffing; all he cares about is what is on the cards. — 00:00:48 · United States presidential election

00:01:17 — The environmental crisis as humanity's biggest problem makes Hank an Edwards man

  • ★ Hank says Brotherhood 2.0 cannot cover all the issues in the deck of presidential politics. (playful) — 00:01:17 · Brotherhood 2.0
  • ★★★ Hank tends to believe the environmental crisis is the biggest problem humanity has ever faced, so he favors the candidate with strong environmental policies, John Edwards; he is 'an Edwards man'. (hedged) — 00:01:17 · climate change
  • ★ Hank acknowledges that nerdfighters and everyone else can and will disagree with him on this. — 00:01:17 · Nerdfighteria

00:01:47 — If Edwards loses, the next strongest environmental record; Obama's weaker global warming policy; mock screaming feud; unicorn over zombie in an enchanted forest

  • ★★★ If Edwards loses the primary, Hank will back the next candidate with the strongest environmental record; Obama is up there with good plans but lacks nearly as strong a global warming policy. — 00:01:47 · Barack Obama, climate change
  • ★★ Remembering they are feuding, Hank repeats his point in a shout, then says feuding is not healthy. (playful) — 00:01:47
  • ★★ Hank would rather meet a unicorn than a zombie in an enchanted forest: zombies can only make more undead by killing the living, and he prefers something whose mission is not to kill him. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:47 · unicorn, zombie

00:02:29 — Why unicorns: zombies must kill the living to make more undead; narwhals; feud settled; Edwards-as-zombie joke; sign-off

  • ★ Hank adds that unicorns are a mix of horses and narwhals, and he is a big fan of narwhals. (playful) — 00:02:29 · unicorn

Humor (significant)

  • Holding up playing cards as the issues of presidential politics. — 00:01:17 > «apparently many of them are eights. That's weird.»
  • Mid-argument about Obama's climate policy, Hank remembers the brothers are supposed to be feuding. — 00:01:47 > «Feuding! I forgot. I should be screaming.»
  • Hank explains his fondness for unicorns. — 00:02:29 > «unicorns are a mix between, like, horses and, like, narwhals, and I'm a pretty big fan of narwhals.»
  • Declaring the feud settled, Hank imagines John Edwards as a zombie (wording partly garbled). — 00:02:58 > «I would probably still vote for him.»

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