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Tiny Chickens Invade, But Still I Vote

2012-05-08 · John, Sarah Urist Green · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

Sick with 'tiny chicken disease', John is reminded by Sarah to vote and goes, keeping a promise made after missing the 2000 election, though he doubts his vote matters much because microbes, not voters, drive history.

What is said

00:00:00 — John has tiny chicken disease, caught from the Yeti; a night of snot

  • ★ The description says John voted in the Indiana primaries and will now go back to bed. — 00:00:00 · Indiana
  • ★ For nerdfighters in training, John defines tiny chicken disease: tiny chickens invade your nose and poop snot, which makes you sick. (playful) — 00:00:11
  • ★★ John is sick with 'tiny chicken disease', which the Yeti caught over the weekend; he spent the night swallowing snot and didn't sleep. (playful) — 00:00:21 · Sarah Urist Green

00:00:51 — Sarah calls to remind him to vote; his promise to always vote after missing the 2000 election in Florida

  • ★★ Sarah phones John to remind him to vote. — 00:00:52 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★★ John doesn't want to vote while sick, but after failing to vote in Florida in the 2000 presidential election he promised himself and his country he would always vote. — 00:01:10 · Florida, United States presidential election > «I made a promise to myself and to my country that I would always vote.»

00:01:21 — He doesn't think his vote matters much: Crash Course research says microbes, not voters, are history's most important actors

  • ★★★ John likes voting and is grateful to vote, but doesn't think his vote matters much, and not in the obvious sense that his is one vote among many. (hedged) — 00:01:21
  • ★★★ From his Crash Course research John has become increasingly convinced that the most important actors in human history are microbes, not voters. — 00:01:29 · Crash Course > «the most important actors in human history aren't voters, they're microbes.»

00:01:38 — Wrong polling place, nerdfighting poll workers; he votes: 'I vote. I count.'

  • ★★ John goes to the wrong polling place and has to try again; on the upside he meets two nerdfighting poll workers. (playful) — 00:01:38 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Having voted, John declares 'I vote. I count.': the tiny chickens will win in the end, but until then he is doing his part. (playful) — 00:01:51

00:01:59 — P.S.: Google+ hangout with Hank on the Crash Course channel tomorrow at 3 p.m. Eastern

  • ★★ John and Hank will hang out via Google+ on the Crash Course channel tomorrow at 3 p.m. Eastern; viewers should subscribe to watch. — 00:01:59 · Crash Course

Humor (significant)

  • For nerdfighters-in-training, John explains the old tiny-chicken bit as if it were medicine: tiny chicken disease is — 00:00:18 > «and then they poop snot which makes you sick.»
  • John, sick after the Yeti's cold, describes his night. — 00:00:31 > «I drank like 14 liquid tons of snot.»
  • Dragged out sick to keep his always-vote promise, John reaches the polls. — 00:01:38 > «I went to the wrong polling place.»

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