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He met proselytizers who told him they had personally raised people from the dead, or witnessed mass graves come back to life, which Hancock called “hooey and hokum.”

No charges were filed against Burns, a former cattle auctioneer who dismissed criticism over the matter as “old political hooey.”

“It’s a bunch of hooey,” said Faber, 62, who runs an RV park.

But the people who drew it had a ball with the hooey.

It can also justify a lot — not all, but a lot — of the extraneous world-building hooey in Shay Hatten and Michael Finch’s script.