It's America's Fastest Growing Quiz Sensation, it's KNOW YOUR CURRENT EVENTS!
Tonight's categories:
Know Your Current Events
Know Your Cuts of Meat
Know Your Applebee's Menu Items
Know Your Presidential Debate Moderator Charles Gibson
Know Your Mount St. Helens
Know Your Columbus Day Sale at Sears

CONTESTANT #1: Sheila from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Is that near the Great Smokey Mountain National Park? Maybe about an hour and a half away. And how did Chattanooga get its name? She doesn't know. I don't either but I will soon. I quickly do some Googling on the computer under Chattanooga.
Married? Kids? Yes, she's a mom of 3 girls. Dave asks Sheila if she wants to say hello to the kids? She does. Did you "Play the Dave"? Dave looks into the camera and yells, "What are you kids doing up?"
Who is she here with? Her husband Steve. Dave says hello. Steve leans forward and says hello. Dave mumbles, "Ahhhh, don't get up."
Dave hands the category card to Sheila to help her decide on her category. While she's looking, Dave with disappointment and surprise in his voice says to no one in particular about the pretty Sheila, "She's a stay-at-home mom. Turns out she has kids."
#1. "What Applebee's menu item and neighborhood favorite is served in a heaping platter, lightly breaded and fried to perfection?" Answer: "New Crispy Buttermilk Shrimp.
#2. "Which Applebee's menu item would you order if you wanted to heat things up with a sizzling platter of spicy Chipotle chicken?" Answer: "Fajitas con sizzle."

CONTESTANT #2: Sherrilynn of Salt Lake City, Utah. She too is here with her husband. Max, the husband, stands and greets Dave. Dave says, "Why don't you sit down." It's one of those things where you just can't win. Stay seated and Dave will ridicule. Stand up and Dave tells you to sit down. Her category? Know Your Cuts of Meat. She got ‘em right.

During the commercial break, a call went out for the possible need of the Regis Philbin CD. Why? No time to ask . . . . I was off on my search. I thought there may have been one in my office, but before scampering, I made a few calls to see if anybody had one. Many were looking. By the time I got upstairs to my office, a CD was already on the way down. I missed most of the ACT 2.

Billboarding the show, Dave overheard backstage that Minnie Driver and Brian Binnie are dating. And if they get married, she'll be known as Minnie Binnie.

There was a very strange campaign commercial on the TV today. I'm not sure if it was for Bush ticket or for Kerry ticket.

Announcer: (shot of John Edwards) "John Edwards wants your vote, but is he ready to be vice-president? He's spent less than six years in the Senate. He's never held an executive office. And at 51 years of age, he has a youthful, boyish quality --- with lustrous hair, supple skin and compassionate eyes that penetrate directly into your very soul, making you wonder what it might be like to be with a man, if only for one night. Man, that guy is hot. A message from Bush/Cheney 2004."

So what's the Donald got going for him? He's got the fragrance.
DAVE: Who's gonna buy that? Men who want to smell like you?
DONALD: Spray it one and you can get any woman you want.

That reminded me of the old joke: "I can go out with any woman I please. The only problem . . . I don't please any."

We see the Donald Trump doll. It speaks. Dave has some fun with that.

And we get the Donald to play "Trump or Monkey". Being a good sport, Donald Trump agrees to play along. Three head-shot photos, each covered with only the top of hair on their head exposed. One is Donald Trump. The two others are monkeys. Donald closely examines the three. He was playing for keeps. Trump picked the last photo. And it was . . . . . . . DONALD TRUMP! Dang guy got it right.

BRIAN BINNIE: The pilot of the X Prize $10 Million-winning "SpaceShipOne." What were the rules to winning the X Prize?
- the space craft must be privately funded.
- It had to reach an altitude of 61 miles
- It had to carry 3 people, or the weight equivalent.
- Two trips had to be completed within 14 days.

The SpaceShipOne completed the first trip last September 29th. The 2nd, money-winning trip was completed Monday October 4th.
Could this be the beginning of civilian space flight? Perhaps. And what would a trip cost? Brian mumbles something like $200,000. That's a lot of money just to feel the sensation of floating around in a spaceship. In college, I was able to attain that feeling for about $10.

ACT 5: For playing "Trump or Monkey", Donald Trump receives a Hello Deli deli platter. Congratualtions, Donald Trump. You are tonight's winner of "Trump or Monkey." We'll be right back.

MINNIE DRIVER: She has a new CD, "Everything I've Got In My Pocket." This may surprise you but Dave also has a CD coming out . . . . . I'll give you time to think. . . . . . . That's right, Dave has a CD and it's called, "Everything I've Got . . . . . IN MY PANTS!"
From her CD, "Everything I've Got In My Pocket," Minnie Driver performed "Everything I've Got In My Pocket."
Her friends call her 5-Wood.

To close the show, Dave says, "Your most important club in the bag . . . . . the Minnie Driver."

And that was our show for Thursday, October 7, 2004. Wahoo EXTRA!

Have you seen the prison where Martha Stewart will be serving her time? It looks like a State college with a fence around it. I know, I know, she's probably accustomed to a University but that's the way the cookie crumbles. And to avoid crumbling cookies, let them cool before storing.

CHATTANOOGA: It's an area where the Choctaw Indians lived. "Nooga" is an Indian word for "town." Choctaw-nooga became "Chattanooga." At least that's one theory, anyway.

WAHOO ENTERMATION
THE HISTORY OF KIX
Kix, the first "puffed" cereal, was introduced in 1937 by the General Mills cereal company of Golden Valley, Minnesota. It was also known by the name of "Corn Kix" during the 1940s through the 1960s.
History:
Breakfast cereals were originally developed as baked flakes until the 1920s and 1930s, when a new technology of puffing was introduced. Though General Mills did not invent the technology to puff food products, an engineer at the company named Thomas James invented a "puffing gun" by which dough pellets were expanded into different shapes, as opposed to raw materials such as wheat and rice. The first cereal to use the new technology was Kix, created in 1937, as the pellets were expanded into small balls, though later cereals such as Cheerios used the same technology with other shapes.

LOCAL OVER NATIONAL - What local product are you especially proud of that the rest of the country misses out on?
From George Schmidt of Fairview, New Jersey:

MAIL: "Local over National: For the best HOT DOGs outside of Nathan's or Gray's Papaya in NYC cross over the river to Ft. Lee or Little Ferry, NJ to have CALLAHAN'S where they have THE Best Hot Dogs ever!
They have a foot long (and then some) - the skin crunches! My father told me when he was a teenager they used to boil them in beer!

LOCAL OVER NATIONAL:
From Alan Plessinger of Mountain View, California

MAIL: "On the subject of little known local goods that are better than the popular national brands, I live in Northern California, and Kirk's Steakburgers are the best. High quality ground beef cooked over an open fire, with the fumes escaping up through the roof so everyone outside will know how good they are. Then take your burger over to the preparations bar and add your choice of lettuce, tomato, onions, garlic salt, A-One sauce, ketchup, brown mustard, and lotsa other great stuff. Expensive but worth it."

I'm still trying to figure out how Jeter tagged up from third on that line drive to rightfield Wednesday night. I guess he surprised the Twin outfielder, Jacques Jones.

There's not a game Yankee closer Mariano Rivera pitches where he doesn't break at least one bat. And most of the hits off him are little bloops over the infield. If I were a batting coach, I would instruct my hitters to choke up on the bat and use a thick-handled bat.
I really have no idea what I'm talking about. To those who know, does this make any sense?

Every year I consider rooting for the Atlanta Braves in the playoffs . . . . and then I hear that annoying tomahawk chop chant and decide otherwise. And then I consider taking on a secondary rooting interest in the Anaheim Angels, but then I see those annoying noise clappers their fans use and then I decide otherwise. Then I think of rooting for the Twins but with their dome and artificial turf, I find it hard to do so. So I'll be rooting for the Yankees first and then the Red Sox . . . . one of only a few who will. National League: Atlanta is already out. Dodgers? Hmmmm, no. I'm still mad at O'Malley. Cardinals? Good baseball town with a great history. Houston? Yeah, I think I would like to see Bagwell and Biggio make it to the big show. So that's who I'm rooting for: Red Sox/Yankees/Cardinals/Astros. Plus, Clemens pitching against the Yankees or the Red Sox in the World Series would be a lot of fun.

FRIDAY'S CBS MAILBAG
1. From Wally MacButter of Montreal Quebec - "What's the latest juciest (sic) gossip at the Late Show?"
2. From Steve Spracali of Chandler, Arizona - "Dear Dave, Any chance of you appearing in the new "CSI: New York"?
3. From
4. From Nina Duran of San Antonio, Texas - "Dave, What if finding the love of your life meant changing the life that you love?"

Stan Kann - he appeared on the Tonight Show 77 times, one of which was July 5, 1979 with Guest Host David Letterman. www.stankann.com