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The Word - If At First You Don't Secede

Season 4 • 06/09/2008

Putting up a Confederate flag actually fights discrimination against flags.

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00:33

Intro - 6/4/08
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The Democratic primaries are over. Are we positive Canada doesn't get a caucus?
06/04/2008
00:31

Intro - 6/5/08
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Stephen gives advice to college graduates, or at least that's his excuse for showing up at frat parties.
06/05/2008
04:20

The Word - Oh, The Places You'll Stay
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Sure, Gandhi said, ''You must be the change that you want to see in the world," but he also drank his own urine.
06/05/2008
01:38

The Andromeda Strain
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Even during a fictional disaster threatening all of humanity, Stephen is number one!
06/05/2008
06:21

Pat Buchanan
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Pat Buchanan believes World War II was the easiest war to avoid in all of history.
06/05/2008
06:31

Sport Report - Mike Forrester
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Mike Forrester is the man who will bring the Timbersports trophy back to the country that invented recreational deforestation.
06/05/2008
05:32

ThreatDown - Secret Negro Presidents
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John McCain could turn out to be our first straight, white male president.
06/09/2008
00:34

Intro - 6/9/08
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Hillary Clinton concedes defeat in the Democratic Party and then announces she's running as a Republican.
06/09/2008
02:58

Democralypse Now - Hillary Concedes
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Hillary Clinton drops out of the Democratic race and Stephen loses his best frenemy.
06/09/2008
06:13

Philip Weiss
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Stephen asks Philip Weiss if variety in your sexual married life means the missionary position with a bunch of different hats.
06/09/2008
04:29

The Word - If At First You Don't Secede
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Critics claim the Confederate flag is racist, but they're just citizens of the Confederacy's longtime rival, the United States of America.
06/09/2008
02:33

Tickling the Rocks
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Stephen has come up with a way that true patriots can identify each other.
06/10/2008
03:48

The Elitist Menace Among Us
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Stephen could never picture Senator Obama at an Applebee's salad bar, and not just because Applebee's doesn't have a salad bar.
06/10/2008
05:38

Smokin' Pole - Canada's Hockey Theme
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The theme to hockey night in Canada makes everything more exciting, especially American things.
06/10/2008
00:56

New Giant iPhone
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Stephen thought it was a status symbol to pull out an iPhone from your pocket, but that's nothing compared to pulling one out of your U-Haul.
06/10/2008
06:36

Alan Rabinowitz
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Zoologist Alan Rabinowitz almost makes Stephen cry with the story of how he was inspired to save big cats.
06/10/2008
00:32

Intro - 6/10/08
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Stephen questions if Barack Obama is an elitist, takes a look at the top ten beaches of the Arctic, and discusses endangered cats with Alan Rabinowitz.
06/10/2008
05:46

David Hajdu
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David Hajdu talks about a time in America when comics were about crime and vice, like Grand Theft Auto.
06/11/2008
03:59

The Word - U.S. Airweighs
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It's embarrassing enough when your doctor tells you to get on the scale. Now replace your doctor with a ticket agent.
06/11/2008
04:36

Un-American News - U.S. Election Edition
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Barack Obama is being praised by every country with access to word processing technology. Sorry, Estonia, maybe next year.
06/11/2008
00:29

Memorized Script
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Stephen finally recites the entire script, now he's got to start memorizing the next 408 episodes.
06/11/2008
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