A Firesign Chat
01/13/2022




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||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:32 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for January 13, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Outside, the 3:00 PM uptown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Rufus_T_Firetween coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween enters at 3:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Hat Pack Annex.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
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||||||||| It's 2:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and announces "Presenting 'Rufus_T_Firetween', just granted probation at 3:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies DJTweeny in through the front door at 3:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected)
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||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected)
128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – CHICK COREA ELEKTRIC BAND-INSIDE OUT
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
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||||||||| Catherwood escorts Kelraith in through the front door at 3:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
DJTweeny: Hi Kelraith
Kelraith: if work calls,..... im not here
Rufus_T_Firetween: "Where there's smoke, there's work..."
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Kelraith: yup
||||||||| Catherwood ushers llanwydd inside, makes a note of the time (3:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
llanwydd: howdy
DJTweeny: Hey llan
DJTweeny: Going to be near 80 here tomorrow, but back to the cold after that
llanwydd: that texas weather is really crazy
DJTweeny: yeah, it has huge swings
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
DJTweeny: midwest one day, florida the next
llanwydd: if you dont like the weather, wait a minute
DJTweeny: indeed
llanwydd: well it was moderately cool here today
||||||||| Beet waltzes in at 3:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Beet: Alittle cool jazz on a Thursday evening. Hello all!
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Cease inside, makes a note of the time (3:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
llanwydd: hi beet
llanwydd: he cease
llanwydd: I mean hi
Beet: Howdy Mr Llan
Beet: Evening Dr Cease
Cease: Hi chatters
Cease: Hi Chick
llanwydd: return to never
Beet: How is Dr Tween tonight?
DJTweeny: allo Cease, Beet
DJTweeny: Doing well, thanks
DJTweeny: was just saying that it's going to be near 80 here tomorrow
Beet: Very glad to hear it. 80 degrees tomorrow? Wow.
DJTweeny: great scooter-riding weather
DJTweeny: and yourself, Beet?
llanwydd: any rtf people on this recording?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
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Cease: It was 10C here today. That;s really warm for winter.
llanwydd: any others I mean
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski enters at 3:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Hat Pack Annex.
Beet: Everything is good. We have had mid 50's for a couple of days.
llanwydd: Hey JAM
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, January 13, 2022 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Cease: Jammy
Beet: Howdy JAM
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
DJTweeny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_Corea_Elektric_Band
DJTweeny: Hey Johan
llanwydd: thanks for the link
johan amadeus myjetski: howdy all!
llanwydd: fantastic
Beet: Good question
Cease: Climate control. How prophetic
||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!"
Beet: I'm ready.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies A Chat Name in through the front door at 3:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about TWO PLACES at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=hcyb-ln
Cease: Ralph Williams was a big deal in those days.
johan amadeus myjetski: climate control - how prophylactic
Beet: Hi Chat.
Cease: He had dealerships in quite a few cities.
DJTweeny: lol Johan
Cease: And he was a guest on Johnny Carson
Cease: Hi Name
llanwydd: welcome, ACN
Beet: I love Proctor.
A Chat Name: i'm a rules follower
DJTweeny: Hi Chat Name
Nmae!
||||||||| "Happy" Harry Cox pops in and say "I was right! Everything I knew WAS wrong! You CAN get "Profiles in Barbecue Sauce", chock full of meaty Firesign scripts!"
Cease: Thus, quite a few people would have appreciated Proctor's immitation of him
johan amadeus myjetski: Yo Name!
Cease: Just had my first sip of alcohol this year.
Beet: How was it?
llanwydd: I listened to this with a guy from los angeles and asked him if it sounded like the real ralph williams
||||||||| "Happy" Harry Cox pops in and say "I was right! Everything I knew WAS wrong! You CAN get "Profiles in Barbecue Sauce", chock full of meaty Firesign scripts!"
llanwydd: he said not exactly
Cease: Rather diluted. I had some sangria sitting in the fridge since december. thought i should get rid of it.
Beet: We had Ralph in Houston. When I first heard Proctor, I thought he had the frenetic delivery down pat
johan amadeus myjetski: back in chat in four minutes
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease: Just had my first sip of alcohol this year. << No Sangria until now??
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
Cease: i think you can find ralph on youtube
Cease: proctor posted that he was going to do dry january at the beginning of the year so i thought i'd join him.
Cease: i have more energy, both physical and mental. a good thing.
Beet: He kind of capturs the fun of a first ride in a new car.
Rufus_T_Firetween: good to hear, Cease
Cease: after i finish the dregs of the sangria, i won't have any thing else until feb.
llanwydd: this guy from LA said williams was one of two famous car salesmen in california and the other one was a Cal Somebody. dont remember the last name
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
Beet: We very much need a happy, healthy Cease.
Cease: Cal Worthington. Firesign parodied him too.
Cease: did comercials with his dog.
llanwydd: thanks cat. that was driving me crazy
Cease: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=cal+worthington+commercials&atb=v174-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0HJALwCNbco
llanwydd: thanks
Cease: i should say "dog"
Beet: I just heard when he said "pup tents" a dog barked.
llanwydd: you did say dog
johan amadeus myjetski: oh the OLD doctor
Cease: if you look at the commercial, you'll see what i mean.
Cease: i remember one cal commercial where his "dog" spot was a hippo
llanwydd: lol
llanwydd: my friend sang the jingle. come see cal, come see cal, come see cal
johan amadeus myjetski: their razor wit is genius on one side & madness on the other. sheer brilliance
llanwydd: I remember he also said the two big comedy groups in california were FST and The Committee
Cease: proctor and ossman are stilll alive and brilliant.
llanwydd: cool observation, JAM. very true
Cease: Commitee was in Frisco.
llanwydd: I have never heard TC
johan amadeus myjetski: how could i forget just how good this album is
Rufus_T_Firetween: the whole of the opening quadrilogy is amazing
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about TWO PLACES at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=hcyb-ln
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Lulu', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 3:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
llanwydd: Hi Lulu
Cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Committee_(improv_group)
Beet: Howdy Miss Lulu
DJTweeny: Hey Lulu
Cease: Hey. It's Lulu!
johan amadeus myjetski: hi lulu
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
Lulu: What ho, Mateys!
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
DJTweeny: Arrrr, drink a pint with stinkin' Orloff
||||||||| Gusts of wind blow in from outside and the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of helicopter blades is heard as Happy Panditt's chopper lands on the lawn and bottles plummets into the garden at 3:00 PM.
DJTweeny: Hi bottles, been a while
Beet: Hi bottles.
johan amadeus myjetski: hiyas, bottles!
llanwydd: bottles?
Cease: Bottles!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about TWO PLACES at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=hcyb-ln
bottles: That's what you guys always say.
DJTweeny: haha
Cease: Petty soon I'd drink anything
bottles: Not insane you know.
johan amadeus myjetski: that's your story and i'm sticking to it...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - THE FIRESIGN THEATRE LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - Paperback Book + DVD-ROM Disc >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
||||||||| At 3:00 PM, Lulu runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'Lulu', just granted probation at 3:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
johan amadeus myjetski: ya gotta make the journey out & in, eh, lulu?
bottles: Just leave a couple of bombers on the side table. I'm going to get an ice cream too.
Rufus_T_Firetween: catherwood, leave some bombers on the side table
||||||||| Catherwood steps over to Rufus_T_Firetween and mumbles "My ears are burning..."
Beet: A Moody Blues quote.
Cease: bombers for bottles
johan amadeus myjetski: JBStoner & a B-52
bottles: Is Timothy Leary dead?
Beet: He's just outside
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Lulu: Is this last week's chat, or where?
johan amadeus myjetski: no no no he's outside looking in
bottles: Astral Plane eh?
Cease: b-52 coffee is excellent. i don't like coffee, but i love a good b-52
Cease: the past,the present and future, lili
llanwydd: if that was a serious question, bottles, leary died about ten years ago
johan amadeus myjetski: did anyone get the 'couple of bombers' ?
Lulu: Oh good, just in time for words from Our Dear Ford.
johan amadeus myjetski: in the year of our Ford
bottles: We need a football president
Cease: i'm reading How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollon now. Had a lot to say about Leary
Lulu: A brief message from the gospel of John Gort.
johan amadeus myjetski: yea, lulu!
llanwydd: who is john gort
llanwydd: reminds me of a line from ayn rand
bottles: and here we are
llanwydd: wherever you go, there you are
bottles: there are two of everything
llanwydd: I believe that
johan amadeus myjetski: except me. hey wait a minute!
Beet: Been watching a bunch of film noir movies recently. Good stuff.
llanwydd: I think I have seen all the classic noir
johan amadeus myjetski: such as, beet?
Lulu: John Gort is an alias for John Galt.
bottles: out cast woman-living a life apart
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
llanwydd: sounded like it lulu
||||||||| Tweeny enters at 3:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Hat Pack Annex.
Lulu: Tho everyone knew her as Nancy.
llanwydd: lol
Beet: The Naked City, Obsession, The Asphalt Jungle, etc.
Cease: Saw this a few days ago: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10687506/
llanwydd: I guess I missed Obsession
bottles: see ya fellow kids!
Beet: I'm going down a list of best 100 film noirs.
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
johan amadeus myjetski: been on a bogart binge myself: big sleep, casabllanca, maltese falcon
johan amadeus myjetski: bye, bottles!
Beet: g'nite bottles
Cease: saw maltese falcon for the first time last month.
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Cease: by bottles
llanwydd: TMF is my favorite bogart
johan amadeus myjetski: D.O.A. another good one
llanwydd: DOA was a pretty short film
Cease: my fave is sierra madre
Lulu: Don't Bogart THIS joint, Lieutenant!
johan amadeus myjetski: wow Cease!
Beet: I'm only picking the ones that are black and white and made before 1950.
johan amadeus myjetski: could you stake a fellow american to a meal?
Cease: they guy who wrote Sierra Madre, B. Traven. Very intriguing guy
Lulu: The Bogart Maltese Falcon is the best, but there are 2 others
Beet: 2 other what?
llanwydd: I didnt like the one with bette davis
johan amadeus myjetski: the only Bette Davis i like is Now Voyager
Lulu: One made in the thirties was the same name, but the other one was called The Devil Is A lady, or some name to avoid lawsuits, I guess.
johan amadeus myjetski: You mean Petrified Forest
llanwydd: the first BD film I ever saw was The Nanny. that one is still my favorite
johan amadeus myjetski: Catherwood, give everyone a startle
||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone a startle.
Lulu: But Bogart's MF is my alltime favorite film - aside from the one with Porgy and Mudhead. What's it called??
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
llanwydd: the chocolate malted falcon
Beet: HGigh School Madness
Beet: High
Lulu: "High School Madness".
Lulu: You Beat me to it, Beet.
Beet: I mispelled, though. Iloose a point for that.
Lulu: 😁
Lulu: I love this emoji - my friend said it looks like Constipation
||||||||| It's 9:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| bottles - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
johan amadeus myjetski: the Constipation of the United Snakes?
Lulu: Uh - uh - I must unclog this Logjam
Beet: I didn't know there was an emoji for constipation!
johan amadeus myjetski: out for a naked lunch?
Lulu: It isn't clear whether it's a smile or a grimace. 😁
Beet: before or after
Lulu: I get a BANG outa life!
johan amadeus myjetski: unless b4 is what you're after
Beet: it's the best way.
Lulu: I obviously had too much coffee
Tweeny: Nice Nasi Goring ref, Lulu :)
Tweeny: Erzat's Brother's coffee?
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
Lulu: Espresso Myself
Rufus_T_Firetween: johan amadeus myjetski: unless b4 is what you're after << I'd rather have a b3
johan amadeus myjetski: chocolate nmalted falcons
johan amadeus myjetski: hammond organ transplants
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about TWO PLACES at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=hcyb-ln
Lulu: Exactly, Johan
Rufus_T_Firetween: johan amadeus myjetski: hammond organ transplants << from pigs?
Lulu: Pigs In Space?
johan amadeus myjetski: pigs or the placenta of the female gibbon
Rufus_T_Firetween: one of those gibbon guitars?
Lulu: I HAVE to get a new tuner - with one channel blown, I only get half the voices.
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's your speaker cables Lulu
johan amadeus myjetski: yes, like billy gibbon played
Rufus_T_Firetween: has nothing to do with receiving the signal
Rufus_T_Firetween: you said your headphones worked
||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!"
Lulu: Sadly no, Rufus. Hard panning in the '60s was a mistake.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show. If you'd like to make a small contribution to help with the server fees, there's a PayPal link to donate here >> http://dishnuts.net
Lulu: Today I listened to Jefferson Airplane with a missing bass. 😱
Rufus_T_Firetween: There's no 'tuner' for internet radio. Either you have the stream or you don't
Beet: Fabulous album.
johan amadeus myjetski: hard panning in the 60s because so few had a grub stake, even fewer a grub...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “Scratched Up Firesign” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
Cease: There you are, Lulu
Rufus_T_Firetween: Lulu: Today I listened to Jefferson Airplane with a missing bass. << No Hot Tuna either?
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: My voice is really deteriorating
Rufus_T_Firetween: nah, you're fine :)
Cease: Well, not necessarily in order.
Lulu: Lili do who??
Cease: you should be able to hear your play properly
Cease: bombing? good.
Lulu: YesNo, the bombing isn't good, but the actualities giving Louise Lang less to read on the news is god.
Lulu: Yes, Cease, I'm trying to record, but I'm not sure if it is. Too many cords. I only know 3 cords.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
SCRATCHED UP FIRESIGN and CHEF ENTREE PLUS CARROTS
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out Cat's Collages at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/
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llanwydd: ivanka putin! LOL
Cease: i got that, lulu. was commenting on it because i liked that.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Scratched Up Radio Theater - https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater
Lulu: Whoa is right!
Cease: when you first appeared on chat, you gave us this.
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Lulu: For thine is the glory hole forever.
Lulu: Shoudn't have opened that door!
johan amadeus myjetski: old toons, selling their sounds...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “Scratched Up Firesign” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
Lulu: What'sall this brewhaha??
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s FST FREE TIME WITH THE CAT MAN broadcasts at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Cease: bear whiz brew, ha ha
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S VIDEOS at >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
Lulu: Suspense, anyone?
Lulu: Like he had just slashed someones throat!
Lulu: In case you lost interest, Leroy, while searching for the mens room, encountered adversity in the face of Madness.
johan amadeus myjetski: i don't need suspenseders, i wear a belt...
Rufus_T_Firetween: *rimshot*
Lulu: I think this 8-track is jammed.
Lulu: And now the Tremeloes with their sleeper, "Silence Is Golden".
Lulu: Followed by The Sounds Of Silence. Or maybe we were interrupted by the Brain Police.
Lulu: Hmmm..I think the problem is in my reception
johan amadeus myjetski: jammed? someone call me?
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Lulu: Oh, jeez - my listen.ehhh.us crashed.
llanwydd: we should have given lulu a grand reception
llanwydd: catherwood...
||||||||| Catherwood strides up to llanwydd and inquires "You called?"
johan amadeus myjetski: grand receptionist?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hopefully this won't be her last collaboration with Cat :)
Lulu: I'm back on 8 track now. My train of thought derailed.
Rufus_T_Firetween: catherwood, please give Lulu a grand reception
||||||||| Catherwood gives lulu a grand reception.
llanwydd: lol
Beet: May you be free of technical difficulties.
llanwydd: your train of thought is on track 8
johan amadeus myjetski: my thought got derailed...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Her equipment has been taken over by The Electrician!
Lulu: Stand your ground, Sophie!
Rufus_T_Firetween: catherwood, please defenstrate The Electrican from Lulu's equipment
||||||||| Catherwood snubs Rufus_T_Firetween
||||||||| It's 10:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Kelraith - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Beet: Who is owned byy a rich industrialist
johan amadeus myjetski: you, me everybody...
Lulu: My stereo is possessed by demons I think.
Beet: or a rich industralist
Lulu: I guess I should exorcise my options
llanwydd: lol
Cease: is that bessie smith?
Beet: brilliant strategy.
Lulu: Yes
Cease: ma rainey?
johan amadeus myjetski: sounded like her
Lulu: Naw it's Bessie.
johan amadeus myjetski: bessie
Cease: right the first time
Rufus_T_Firetween: By any chance, is your stereo model the Devilmaster Googlephonic from Infirmco?
Lulu: I don't recognize this bit..
johan amadeus myjetski: fan a bessie smith, billie holiday's good butbessie - wow!
llanwydd: this is from Give Us a Break
llanwydd: by proctor and bergman
llanwydd: hilarious song
Rufus_T_Firetween: Great bunch of bits
Rufus_T_Firetween: love their faux commercials
Cease: tis
Lulu: Ohhh - I havent heard that! Cool.
Lulu: He shot the WHAT off??
llanwydd: great album. 1979 I think
Lulu: Vocals by Linda and Lili
Rufus_T_Firetween: Give Us A Break - http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=guab-rv
Rufus_T_Firetween: 1978
Lulu: Too many brownies, guys..
Cease: Great voices
Cease: no such thing, lili
Lulu: 😜
llanwydd: I played Lemon Car and a couple of other tracks on my high school radio station when I was a guest dj one time
Lulu: Lemon Car?
Rufus_T_Firetween: cool
llanwydd: lemon car was the song we just heard from give us a break
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
Cease: Fumiyo makes chocolatge mousee all the time. the grand kids love it.
Cease: sounds like the adults in the peanuts cartoons.
Lulu: Ahoy Captain!
llanwydd: a parody of Lemon Tree by Trini Lopez
Lulu: It's their unclear reception, Cease.
johan amadeus myjetski: the electric brownie test
johan amadeus myjetski: did he say 'fox populii'?
Lulu: I believe so.
Lulu: And Radience endears herself to the writhing throng.
Cease: this is oddly hissy
Lulu: And now a cut to the Bigfoot ball game..
Cease: before, or after the brownies, lili?
Lulu: Cease, the studio has a climate system with a blower that runs 24/7.
Lulu: Oh, after the brownies, always.
Cease: not you, my play
Cease: hear it?
Cease: should have done hiss reduction on it before i mixed it.
johan amadeus myjetski: after brownies sounds like the anselmo pederasty case....
Lulu: I just thought the hiss was from the snakes in the grass
Cease: it was from the summer lawn
Lulu: Slitheryn around ya know
Tweeny: the hissing of summer lawns?
Tweeny: ^5 Cease :)
johan amadeus myjetski: love that joni mitchell album!
Tweeny: One of her best, for sure
llanwydd: I like hejira best
Lulu: I like her 1st album, produced by David Crosby
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “Scratched Up Firesign” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
johan amadeus myjetski: ladies of the canyon is my fave from her early stuff
Beet: nothing is so charming as those French-soundind accordians. guilty pleasure.
Beet: sounding
llanwydd: this is another track from give us a break
Beet: There is such a thing as too many carrots.
llanwydd: great
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from Firesign Theatre's LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - “Exorcism In Your Daily Life”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out THE MUSHROOM PLAYS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio
'
johan amadeus myjetski: great canned music!
llanwydd: Ive got a moth attacking my screen. dont know how the hell he got in here
Rufus_T_Firetween: they do that...
Lulu: Got a hatchet, llanwydd?
Rufus_T_Firetween: 'like a mothra to a fame'
Beet: We have stink bugs.
johan amadeus myjetski: eclectic moth to an electric flame.....
Lulu: All that talk about brownies has made me hungry
Rufus_T_Firetween: They really did clean this up
johan amadeus myjetski: stink bugs are pests to apple orchards
Rufus_T_Firetween: all the Mushroom Plays remastered, how cool
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - THE FIRESIGN THEATRE LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - Paperback Book + DVD-ROM Disc >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
Cease: talor did a fantastic job here
Rufus_T_Firetween: Taylor, not Doc?
llanwydd: yes Ive got a hatchett but...
Cease: taylor
||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! **
Thanks to Radio Free Dishnuts, www.dishnuts.net, for providing the streaming server for the simulcast :)
Be sure to join me (Kurt in Austin) for my live RADIO FREE ROADKILL show from 7-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net
Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.net/firesign
'
Cease: as far as i iknow. doc does a lot for firesign too
Rufus_T_Firetween: Good on Taylor, nice job
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
johan amadeus myjetski: great show! tons of nyuks! thanks all!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
llanwydd: sure did
Beet: This was great. Pretty nice showing tonight. Thanks to everyone. Collage a hit, Dr Cease. Thanks for guidance, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
Cease: dwarf next week.
llanwydd: yeah, thanks cat and tween
llanwydd: nite everybody
Lulu: Great show yall!
||||||||| llanwydd leaves at 3:00 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
Cease: we do our best. thanks for your wonderful plays, lulu
johan amadeus myjetski: we all do our best, you succeed, Cease!
Lulu: Our newest play is on at kkrn.org, as we speak.
Cease: my next collage will be python plus firesign
DJTweeny: Great to have another writer of plays here who is a Firesign fan :)
Cease: hope to have ready in 2 weeks, maybe 3
Lulu: OMG Python plus Firesign!! Sounds orgasmic.
Cease: inbdeed, tween.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Lulu: Adios, yall.
Cease: more fun than my 14 part mix of alan curtas's latest with firesign.
Cease: off we fly.
||||||||| Cease leaves to catch the 3:00 PM train to British Columbia.
||||||||| 3:00 PM -- Lulu left for parts unknown.   (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| 3:00 PM: Lulu returns jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Lulu returns: I just looked at the dj's log link, and it has a really cool site that's apparently all in Chinese
||||||||| It's 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Lulu returns says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Lulu returns exits at 3:00 PM.
||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from The Plague
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood walks in wearing his pyjamas, yawns, and mumbles "It's midnight here in New York city"...then he falls over and starts snoring loudly..
||||||||| It's 12:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| A Chat Name - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:31 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."


The Evening's Participants:
A Chat Name
Beet
bottles
Cease
DJTweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
Kelraith
llanwydd
Lulu returns
Lulu
Rufus_T_Firetween
Tweeny
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=hcyb-ln
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
http://kurtericson.net/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=guab-rv
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
http://www.seemreal.com
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=cal+worthington+commercials&atb=v174-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0HJALwCNbco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_Corea_Elektric_Band
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Committee_(improv_group
https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10687506/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber



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