From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   8 August 2008 - Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Gaffigan, Mason Jennings.   
   	Started 1:43 am, Eastern Time.   
      
   	Conologue.  Mayor of Detroit sentenced to jail for going to   
   Canada without permission: if the judge has to live in Detroit, the   
   mayor has to live in Detroit.  Video: Japanese folks fleeing smog   
   monster.   
      
   	Max wants to go to the new amusement park in Central Park.  Joel   
   too.  They go without Conan.  They Got The Beat, and a cotton candy wig   
   for Joel.  Joel wins Wild Turkey at Wack-a-Mole; Max breaks his back   
   hugging a mascot.  Joel plays naked.   
      
   	New affiliate: WMBF, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.  Apparently   
   this is for real, as the setup wasn't followed up on.  And let's thank   
   God in person that it's Friday.  Mudslide Martini from TGI Friday's.   
   God goes to Chi-Chis, which closed several years ago.   
      
   Kiefer Sutherland:   
   	Season skipped for writers strike.  Two-hour prequel.  Went to   
   game reserve once.  Director scared by lion seen in telephoto lens.   
   Undercut his Dad for Volvo commercials.  Sees his voice dubbed in   
   foreign languages.  Was scared at 'Finding Nemo'.  Filmed New York City   
   movie in Romania.   
      
   Jim Gaffigan:   
   	Gary, Indiana, where they make bathroom odor.  Friends' homes   
   there smell.  Television way better than reading.  All cities famous for   
   particular foods.  Why did Boston pick beans?  Thought IHOP a dump until   
   he went to Waffle House.   
      
   	- I can't swear that this is completely reliable, but my   
   research makes me conclude that Boston served as a center for making of   
   baked beans for a long while, due to its large amount of molasses   
   importation (New England baked beans depending on dumping a lot of sugar   
   into them to make the beans edible).  So there are references, for   
   example, to the beans and cod (another staple food product imported to   
   Boston) in that famous verse about the Brahmins.  Add in things like the   
   National League team being nicknamed the Beaneaters, apparently to show   
   them as being tough or hinting at their day jobs, and you have Boston   
   and Beans solidly linked around 1900.   
      
   	(I'm skeptical of explanations that go back to the time of the   
   Pilgrims, if they're not going to be accompanied by, like, Benjamin   
   Franklin quotes showing him riffing on the link.)   
      
      
   Mason Jennings:   
   	In The Ever: Your New Man.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)