A Firesign Chat
03/30/2023




Archive

||||||||| 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 March 30, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Rufus T Firetween close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the Aviary.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 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
visit Firesign's *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 8:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 30, 2023 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" -- then he looks around at the empty room, looks at his watch, and mumbles "...am I early?"
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Rufus T Firetween by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| Catherwood ushers johan amadeus myjetski in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| 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)
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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johan amadeus myjetski: DO NOT TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES!
Rufus T Firetween: Evenin' Johan
johan amadeus myjetski: hey hey hey!
johan amadeus myjetski: this warm up music had me at hello..
Rufus T Firetween: some Mike Oldfield :)
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: warm up music – MIKE OLDFIELD - CRISIS
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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johan amadeus myjetski: this is what miami vice would have sounded like if mike oldfield had done the music instead og jan hammer...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's DJ Tweeny, just back from Hellmouth."
||||||||| Catherwood leads Tweeny in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Tweeny: Interesting possibility, although I really do like Jan Hammer
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Merlyn jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Cease', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
||||||||| Catherwood leads llanwydd into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
llanwydd: hi folks
johan amadeus myjetski: hello llan!
Cease: hi gang
johan amadeus myjetski: felicitations, Cease!
Cease: we're gonna listen to one of my old plays tonight. phil austin starring as Neal Cassidy.
DJ Tweeny: Hi llan, Cease
Cease: nexr week wil be premiere of new play but this conncection is not woreknig so will sign off for a few minures
Merlyn: hey all
||||||||| Cease leaves at 8:00 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..."
DJ Tweeny: Hey Merlyn
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging cat 2 by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
johan amadeus myjetski: hi merlyn
DJ Tweeny: wb cat
cat 2: aha
cat 2: i remember when there was a lot of music like this
llanwydd: oldfield must have started new age
llanwydd: invented it I mean
Rufus T Firetween: His Tublar Bells of course became the soundtrack to The Exorcist, and that was what, early 70s?
llanwydd: I can think of none before tubular bells
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Mister policeman, what makes America great?"
Rufus T Firetween: So yeah he's been at it for a while
llanwydd: I listened to hergest ridge a few days ago. it was pretty nice
johan amadeus myjetski: ui also listened to Hergest a few days ago, for the first time in many years
||||||||| Cease enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Chapeau Manger.
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Deputy Dang into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
Cease: hi dang
johan amadeus myjetski: DD!
Merlyn: hey DD
Deputy Dang: Howdy Pardners!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Close the door, and the light stays on!"
DJ Tweeny: This is from Dear Friends Too
Deputy Dang: What's new on the funway?
DJ Tweeny: Howdy Deputy
llanwydd: fresh chef! lol
DJ Tweeny: yep
DJ Tweeny: The Fresh Chef
johan amadeus myjetski: many non-conformists are taking off their shoes...
DJ Tweeny: one of Doc's choices from the Dear Friends series :)
Deputy Dang: for Industry?
johan amadeus myjetski: they don't seem very industrious to me, but perhaps
llanwydd: nippon cadet 62 is in the original script of anythynge You Want To
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It goes in - it must come out."
Cease: doc did a good job in assembling that
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Proctor & Bergman's PROCTOR BERGMAN REPORT
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(this performance has not been released)
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Cease: i dont know how many episodes there were. i asked taylor but he hasn't gotten back to me
Cease: i know the lads constantly put out stuff
cat 2: they liked that name
DJ Tweeny: Sounds like this was meant to be an extension of TV or Not TV
DJ Tweeny: same characters
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Zen Cosmos, just back from Elmertown."
DJ Tweeny: Hi Zen
cat 2: kind of, eh? taylolr will tell us
Cease: hi zenny
Merlyn: hi zen
johan amadeus myjetski: hi zen!
Cease: the firesifgns Loved doing indian accents
DJ Tweeny: The Beatles made Indian 'hip'
Zen Cosmos: hey...
DJ Tweeny: The Maharishi and all...
Cease: kind of
johan amadeus myjetski: when was this recorded?
Cease: plowed
Cease: duringt watergate so, 73?
johan amadeus myjetski: Roger Wilco is a great character name
llanwydd: so is roger dodger
johan amadeus myjetski: i would have loved to have heard this in 73
Zen Cosmos: getting ready to attend NorwesCon, easter weekend, anyone else go to cons post pandemic?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from Firesign Theatre's Live At The Magic Mushroom
“A SHADOW MOVES UPON A LAND”
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
Check out THE MUSHROOM PLAYS at >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
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Deputy Dang: I went to FreeFlo, in Orlando, earlier this month. It's a rather small conference and just 2.5 days long.
DJ Tweeny: too bad this is such horrible quality, because it's a great bit
DJ Tweeny: They should have recorded it in the studio
DJ Tweeny: would have made a great addition to Pass The Indian, please
Cease: this is my favourite firesign play
Cease: pass the indian is part of this
johan amadeus myjetski: indeed DJT!
Rufus T Firetween: Ah, OK
Rufus T Firetween: Didn't recall that
johan amadeus myjetski: did you call it the first time? it's kinda hard to recall something when you don't call it the first time
johan amadeus myjetski: back in a bit...
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'Bunnyboy', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Bunnyboy: -30- for 45!
Bunnyboy: Lo dere
Cease: hi bun
DJ Tweeny: Hey Bunny
Bunnyboy: Hiya cat!
Merlyn: hey bon
Bunnyboy: Whut? MERLYN?!? Greets!
Bunnyboy: How ya doin’?
Merlyn: hey
DJ Tweeny: Merlyn has rejoined us :-)
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
currently playing – from Phil Austin's Tales Of The Old Detective
“C. WILLIAM BOB HEEBLEHAUSER: A PROFILE”
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
Check out OLD DETECTIVE at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=totod-rv
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Bunnyboy: Excellent! Hail and well met!
Merlyn: i am fisablr
Merlyn: i am disabled
Merlyn: right side
Cease: but still well abled
Bunnyboy: But you’re here! That’s wonderful!
Merlyn: yes
Bunnyboy: This has been my first time back, in a while. What are the odds?
Bunnyboy: Is the Ossman/Proctor radio show today or tomorrow?
Cease: next ;week
Bunnyboy: Ah. Thanks.
Bunnyboy: MSNBC hasn’t cut fo commercial since this afternoon.
Cease: we dont get that channel hee
Cease: here
Bunnyboy: Sorry bout that? You have Peacock up there?
Cease: bo
Cease: no
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about “TALES OF THE OLD DETECTIVE” at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=totod-ln
Bunnyboy: Zo Bo
Bunnyboy: Well, foo.
DJ Tweeny: Sure hope the new store finds a source for the old albums
DJ Tweeny: 'cause last time I checked they got nuttin' since Laugh.com stoped making/selling albums for them
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It goes in - it must come out."
DJ Tweeny: *stopped
Bunnyboy: Seems like that would be a Sony and Rhino handshake.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They had to come from small towns with strange names."
DJ Tweeny: firesigntheatre.com has none of the old stuff :(
Merlyn: yep
DJ Tweeny: which is why I am still using Doc/Merlyn's old firesigntheatrelegacy.com links to promote them
Bunnyboy: Good on you, Tweeny!
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
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: from the Box Of Danger collection
“BACK FROM THE SHADOWS”
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
check out BOX OF DANGER at >> https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook
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||||||||| 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 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanwydd: I saw something about the name regnad on jeopardy tonight. so it must be some kindof french
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and intones "Presenting 'TDHworth', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Cease: new character enter?
Bunnyboy: “Pardon me, do you have any Frayed Regnad?”
Bunnyboy: Hiya, TDHworth!
llanwydd: I am a frayed not
DJ Tweeny: Hi TDHworth, first time here?
Cease: you gotta be old to be frayed
Bunnyboy: I ain’t frayed uh nuthin’!…
Bunnyboy: ‘Ceptin crickets and owls…
Cease: TDH? Do I know you from Vegas?
Bunnyboy: I gotta feed the troup, and watch Lawrence O’Donnell snark it up. Cheers!
Cease: Next week, we hear my new play Vegas Egypt
Bunnyboy: Yay!
Cease: Hope you join us then, Bunny
Bunnyboy: I hope so, too! Take care, all!
Merlyn: bye bunny
Cease: bye
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| TDHworth - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: next up, my play Neal Amid,rigfht, tweeny?
||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing - Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “NEAL AMID”
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
CHECK OUT CAT’S PLAYS AT >> http://seemreal.com/
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Rufus T Firetween: answer your question?
Rufus T Firetween: :)
Cease: this is a good play
Rufus T Firetween: It's very well done
Cease: excellent production by peter stenshoel and acting by phil austin
Rufus T Firetween: even FST-level production
johan amadeus myjetski: very stream of consciousness, very hip. imo.
Cease: yeah
johan amadeus myjetski: experiencing a creator's favorite creation is always a special treat
Cease: i love this play
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I think we're all Bozos on this bus."
cat 2: thanks
johan amadeus myjetski: this is *very* high production values
Cease: i love how the sounds blend together
Cease: jammy, they all do
johan amadeus myjetski: i've heard you do clever dialogue before, but this is a different level altogether
Merlyn: yep
||||||||| It's 2:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bunnyboy - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Rufus T Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Rufus T Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s play CAST at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#PLAYS
Rufus T Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/
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/
Cease: there aren't many of them,but they're all good
Cease: one week ago, i was just getting back from vegas
johan amadeus myjetski: there all great
Cease: i think so too, jammy
Cease: so i want to write more great plays
Cease: thanks to new trip to vegas, i am filled with ideas
llanwydd: great stuff, cat
Cease: the idea is to create new great stuff all the time, while I stil have time
Rufus T Firetween: a laudable goal, Cease
Cease: llan, you will hear ourself here next week when we premiere the new play
Rufus T Firetween: looking forward to it Cease :)
johan amadeus myjetski: as they say in the music biz, this is all killer, no filler
Rufus T Firetween: haha
johan amadeus myjetski: a new play on the way? hey, hey!
Cease: next wsek, jammy
Cease: tween and llan are in it
Cease: i think it's good. i hope you do too
johan amadeus myjetski: i look forward to next weel!
johan amadeus myjetski: week
Rufus T Firetween: You said you need somebody to do a British accent for a George Harrison character. Not sure I can do the job, but I'd very much like to at least audition.
Cease: it's been a long time in production and it's really long. hope you like it
Cease: 'm a lnog way from my Ukeainain play. want tro have it done by next year
Rufus T Firetween: OK
johan amadeus myjetski: a conversation with sdgar cayce- what a mind blowing concept!
Cease: thanks, jammy
||||||||| 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
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johan amadeus myjetski: wish you had a cadre of actors like wells'mercury players
Cease: realy
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What about my pickle?"
johan amadeus myjetski: a lass?
johan amadeus myjetski: tend to your of dilly, catherwood!
||||||||| Catherwood walks alongside johan amadeus myjetski and queries "Someone mention my name?"
Cease: we do wha we can
johan amadeus myjetski: wonderful wonderful!
johan amadeus myjetski: thanks all!
llanwydd: fantastic
johan amadeus myjetski: love love love to all!
Merlyn: nite
Cease: thanks, llan
Cease: off we drfift
llanwydd: dying to hear your new play, cat
Cease: neszt thurs, llan. starring YOU
||||||||| cat 2 rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
llanwydd: nytol
||||||||| Merlyn rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, llanwydd runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
Rufus T Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 3:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 4:30 AM, 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 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:
Bunnyboy
cat 2
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJ Tweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
Rufus T Firetween
Tweeny
Zen Cosmos
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=totod-ln
http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#PLAYS
http://kurtericson.net/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
http://seemreal.com/
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=totod-rv
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
http://www.seemreal.com
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber



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