Production InfoEdit

Previous Episode Date: June 24, 2009 Season: Episode: 577 Production code: 5086 Next Episode

IntroEdit

Jonesin' for Jonas Bros. "AUDIO1" Sporty Spite "AUDIO2" Stuck In My Crawford "AUDIO3" You snooze, you lose! Unless it's a sleeping contest! This is The Colbert Report! ~ Stephen Colbert June 24, 2009 The Colbert Report

Contents 1 Production Info 2 Intro 3 South Carolina's Troubles 4 SEGMENT3 5 Interview 6 Epilogue 7 Gallery 8 Official Truthy Videos 9 External Tubes 10 Reviews and Comments

South Carolina's TroublesEdit

• Stephen's Mob began chanting "Stephen! Stephen!"

• the love we give him, hits him like a drug
  • making him high as a kite

• late breaking news:
  • political bombshell!

• Dr. Colbert discusses South Carolina, governor Mark Sanford
  • no one knew where he was!

• Sanford was in Buenos Aires
  • the Appalachian Trail is longer than Stephen thought it was

• Stephen didn't know Sanford was capable of doing something interesting

• the pronoun "person" might mean tranny

• Argentinian women are hot for middle-age white Episcopalians

• Stephen blames himself
  • he should have seen it coming
• there were some hints
  • Stephen showed outtakes of his Better Knowing

• Stephen has sympathies for the Tango
  • after coming into contact with Governor Sanford it is now known as one of the dances in the world

SEGMENT3Edit

• buy yourself some peanuts and cracker jacks
  • Stephen's going to take you to his balls game

• The Sport Report
• Soccer
  • sport for fourth graders that foreigners take seriously

• The US team beat Spain
  • we knew we were going to win

• six members of the Iran national team wore green arm bands to
  • not the time to bring politics

• Oakland Raiders logo clear sign of gay marriage

• politics doesn't belong in sports, but religion does

• Tennis
• Wimbledon begins this week

• charges surrounding match-fixing
  • Law & Order: Tennis Integrity Unit

• when to know the match may be fix
  • judge is Vladimir Putin
  • player incinerated by space-based lasers

• Bret Favre-retirement-watching!

• Senior citizens should follow Favre's example
  • find company willing to hire unproductive senior citizen
    • Stephen suggests calling the Minnesota Vikings

InterviewEdit

• Matthew Crawford
  • book: "Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work"
  • philosopher and a mechanic

• neither wears a tie

• people who don't with their hands aren't working

• owns his own motorcycle repair shop

• knowledge work v. manual labor

• Stephen never reads instructions

• some jobs are dumbed down

• in one job he had, he produced crap
  • there was no check on the quality of his work
  • no external standard

• he damaged knowledge itself
  • took it down from the inside

• mechanic
• electrician
• plumber

• no diesel mechanic classes at the universities he attended

• pernicious means bad

• he loved grad school

• his PhD was in political philosophy

EpilogueEdit

• Dr. Colbert declares that ...
  • latitude 37.18
  • and longitude -102.656
    • is the winning coordinates for The Colbert Report's Random GPS Lottery!

• send a photo of yourself geotagged at those coordinates and win a prize
  • photo of Dr. Colbert at an other set of coordinates!

GalleryEdit

Official Truthy VideosEdit

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External TubesEdit

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Reviews and CommentsEdit