Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
06/01/2023

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 June 01, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| RedPillTweeny bounds in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| It's 6:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Rufus_T_Firetween coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 7:30 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
||||||||| 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, June 01, 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 stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'Bottles', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bottles - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (8:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'DJTweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
||||||||| DJTweeny leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Funfun Town.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and DJTweeny waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Tweeny inside, makes a note of the time (8:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| 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
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – THE BAND-MUSIC FROM BIG PINK
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)'
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: hey tween
DJTweeny: allo vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: never heard this album before
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: I know it is considered iconic
Rufus_T_Firetween: One of my old favorites
Rufus_T_Firetween: Excellent organ work
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: my favorite of theirs in the basement tapes
Rufus_T_Firetween: and not Hammond, which is a surprise to some people, but a Lowery
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: is
DJTweeny: Hey johan
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: hey JAM
johan amadeus myjetski: hullo!
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: the organ reminds me somewhat of strawbs
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Bottles jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
Tweeny: Music from Big Pink - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_from_Big_Pink
Tweeny: Hey Bottles
johan amadeus myjetski: the lowery instead of a hammond doesn't surprise me. garth hudson was a particularly well informed musician, would likely have appreciated the differences.
johan amadeus myjetski: hiyas, bottles!
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Buzzy and Bunny K. jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
DJTweeny: The Krumbhungers have arrived
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Oy vey! Bunny's dancing up a storm with the alien chief!
DJTweeny: lol
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: what does oy vey mean?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
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)'
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Bottles again', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
johan amadeus myjetski: hallo buzz und bunny!
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: I know its a catholic expression
Buzzy and Bunny K.: I'm gruntled and hibited to be here! Which is a sequitor for being combobulated
Buzzy and Bunny K.: I thin it means "Tastes like bacon!"
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: lol
Bottles again: Love The Band
johan amadeus myjetski: vtf - it's a jewish expression, means oh my or oh god or some such
Bottles again: And Garth Hudson
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Train's comin' through - right now!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Buzzy and Bunny K.: rightie-O professor!
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: oh? I thought it was catholic. I remember the expression oy vey maria, wasnt it?
Buzzy and Bunny K.: haha!
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Regina, Ava Maria, go insane and out of your miind
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Direct readout - Doctor Memory."
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Proctor & Bergman on NPR “Hubble Trouble"
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 Firesign Theatre's new web site at >> https://www.firesigntheatre.com'
johan amadeus myjetski: aus dem wiki: "Oy vey" is a Yiddish phrase that expresses dismay, frustration, or grief. Its Hebrew equivalent is "oy vavoy". The phrase is borrowed from Yiddish, from "oy", an interjection expressing surprise or dismay, and "vey", an interjection expressing distress or grief.
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Cat, I was once on "the Takeaway" with john Hockenberry
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Proctor & Bergman on NPR “Hubble Trouble"
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 Firesign Theatre's new web site at >> https://www.firesigntheatre.com'
Buzzy and Bunny K.: so, oy gevalt?
DJTweeny: Cat may not join us this evening
Buzzy and Bunny K.: aha
DJTweeny: He told me he was going to some sort of Zen shindig
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: so I didnt hear it in the confessional
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and announces "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: Howdy, Pardners!
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: hey beet
Bottles again: Hi Beet and everyone
DJTweeny: yo Beet
Buzzy and Bunny K.: We've got the beet!
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Merlyn into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
johan amadeus myjetski: hello beet!
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: is cat not feeling well tonight?
johan amadeus myjetski: hi merl!
Bottles again: Merlyn! What ho, Mate?
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Bora dda Myrddin!
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: hi merlyn
Merlyn: hey all
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: hey some
Beet: Hey, lan, Dr Tween, Dr Bottles, Buzzy, J.A.M. Merl.
DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn
Buzzy and Bunny K.: NBA finals on now
Beet: I was always very fond of Auntie Matter.
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: lol
Bottles again: I heard it as Annie Matter.
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: auntie m
johan amadeus myjetski: this is really very clever, intellectual humor. the guys are on top of their game here!
Bottles again: But you're right, Auntie Annie Matter.
Beet: So THAT was Dorothy's ant's real name!
Beet: aunt's
johan amadeus myjetski: if you had the school spirit, you'd stay focused on Alma Mater
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: a mater much later
johan amadeus myjetski: & lave annie matter alone!
Beet: She prefers to be alone.
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Almost forgot- Phil says hello, He's rather busy these days.
johan amadeus myjetski: we ALL prefer she be alone!
Beet: cool
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bottles - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Phil
Buzzy and Bunny K.: I reminded him that without us he would be just a very talented satirist and voice artist
Rufus_T_Firetween: Did Phil see his shadow? Will there be 6 more weeks of comedy?
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Moderately Ginchy', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Haha, sort of. My lips are sealed. don't mind the mess!
DJTweeny: Hi Ginchy
johan amadeus myjetski: are they telling us that the funway is now IN SPACE?!
Beet: Hey, Ginch.
johan amadeus myjetski: hi ModG
Moderately Ginchy: Hi DJ, JAM, Beet!
Beet: We can spend all of our FREE TIME in the space funway.
johan amadeus myjetski: i have to spend for something that's free... hmmm....
Beet: Interesting, isn't it?
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: hi ginchy
Moderately Ginchy: Wow... their accent sounds just like one of my profs from collge
johan amadeus myjetski: veeeerry iinteresting!
Moderately Ginchy: Hiya vft
Bottles again: Hello Ginchy.
Moderately Ginchy: Evening, Bottles
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Not Ed', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
johan amadeus myjetski: i've been spending time with a new paint-by-monochrome kit
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Don't worry about the flies, we won't weigh 'em!"
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Not!
DJTweeny: Hey Not Ed
Not Ed: Merlyn, Beet, Bottles (a), B&dBK, vf...etc. (?), Tweeny/DJTweeny, Rufus and Ginchy, waz real?
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Did you bring Joe?
Beet: Hi, Not.
Not Ed: Hey
DJTweeny: George HW Bush's economic policy - "A thousands pints of light..."
Merlyn: hey Not
Moderately Ginchy: Waz Real? Well, I think we're charged with delivering some eyes
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Get on it and do it every day!"
DJTweeny: *thousand
Beet: Hey, Not, are you related to Auntie Matter?
johan amadeus myjetski: "no new taxis"
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Pints of Bud Light?
DJTweeny: yy johan
Not Ed: Well the eyes have it
DJTweeny: kneed my rips
Buzzy and Bunny K.: I hear it's free now
Moderately Ginchy: *lol* Not
||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing — Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “EAT TWICE”
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 COLLAGE ARCHIVE AT >> https://www.kurtericson.net/cat'
Beet: That was fun.
Moderately Ginchy: eat twice, cut once
Moderately Ginchy: This is like Zork
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Decode your answer now."
Moderately Ginchy: lol
DJTweeny: I'm wanting to move the chat show to 6pm Central so I can get to bed earlier. Anybody have a problem with that?
Moderately Ginchy: So, 4 Pacific?
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: no problem here
DJTweeny: Would 2 hours earlier be OK?
Moderately Ginchy: I'd still come
Moderately Ginchy: Well, I'd be here
DJTweeny: OK, I'll suggest it to the Program Director at RFD unless someone has an issue
johan amadeus myjetski: no problem here. it'll take a little time to break the old habit & establish the new
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: I will be a half hour late because I have to watch jeopardy
Beet: I would have to miss part of it.
Merlyn: right
DJTweeny: It would be the same time frame as my Tuesday show
DJTweeny: OK with you Merlyn?
DJTweeny: I could pre-record the show and have RFD play it if you want to stay in the same time slot
Merlyn: sure
DJTweeny: but I need to get to bed earlier these days
DJTweeny: OK
johan amadeus myjetski: i'd gladly pay you on tuesday for bamhurger today...
DJTweeny: hamburgler?
johan amadeus myjetski: lol!
johan amadeus myjetski: that's the deal Wimpy always wantedto make on the old popeye cartoons
Moderately Ginchy: So, what time then?
Rufus_T_Firetween: yep
Not Ed: J. Wellington Wimpy
johan amadeus myjetski: does anybody know what time it is?
Rufus_T_Firetween: 6pm Central instead of 8pm, but I have to clear it with the RFD Program Director first
Moderately Ginchy: okay
Not Ed: I think it's 14
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'll make announcements if we're changing
Not Ed: thanks Ruf
Moderately Ginchy: what is this we're hearing about Kudzu?
Moderately Ginchy: Which album?
Moderately Ginchy: So no Cat tonight?
Not Ed: Eat or Be Eaten
Moderately Ginchy: Thanks, Not
johan amadeus myjetski: aggressive, invasive, kudzu grows faster than you can cut it out
Not Ed: Yo
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let me hear it for me!"
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Eat or be eaten had 2 versions
Moderately Ginchy: Yeah, met someone from the South who told me that. Crazy. Republican plants.
Not Ed: I used to make computer games which is why I love this extra : )
Buzzy and Bunny K.: I saw a kudzu zine in the shape of a house no longer there
Moderately Ginchy: wow
Buzzy and Bunny K.: North Carolina
Not Ed: yikes
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600"
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Deputy Dang by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "How does he make his voice do that?"
Beet: T swa many large fields covered in the stuff in North Carolina.
Not Ed: Catherwood get everyone a plate of chicken fried kudzu
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a plate of chicken fried kudzu.
johan amadeus myjetski: vino bros reminds me of that woman - chemist who made chapagne out of cheap wine & seven-up...
Deputy Dang: I'm one of them Andmm
johan amadeus myjetski: North Carolina has a lot of kudzu, but nothing like Alabama...
Not Ed loves squirrel squares!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right."
johan amadeus myjetski: near Birmingham, i saw an entire woodes coveredin kudzu.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Duluth? Bucko, you can get Tierra del Fuego!"
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: I live in florida and I have neer seen kudzu
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Go Betty Jo!
johan amadeus myjetski: Bialovsky is my kind of Betty Jo...
Moderately Ginchy: It's all over TN... first time I saw it was when traveling there
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Won't spurt like the hosers!"
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: never, I mean
Bottles again: I gotta go - trying to do some new tech stuff, and gotta focus. Adios.
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Bottles again!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: night bottles again
johan amadeus myjetski: yep, ModG, they actually began planting it to stop erosion, which it did quickly, then went on to take over everything like a B-grade 50s scifi!
Beet: 'Bye, Bottles.
johan amadeus myjetski: nitey-nite bottles!
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Right- good plan. Bye Bottles!
Moderately Ginchy: Bye Bottles
Moderately Ginchy: Wow... didn't know it was purposely done in TN
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Everywhere- came from overseas
Buzzy and Bunny K.: stowaway on a tramp steamer
johan amadeus myjetski: all west TN was eroding into the Mississippi river - they had to dio something...
Moderately Ginchy: huh... have to tell my TN friends
Moderately Ginchy: I know they fear it
johan amadeus myjetski: I lived in TN for many years
Moderately Ginchy: Beautiful state.
Buzzy and Bunny K.: she lives in a house, high upon a ridge, jst a half a mile from the Mississippi bridge
johan amadeus myjetski: my uncle took the message & he wrote it on the wall
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Open up, your door knocker fell off!"
Buzzy and Bunny K.: There ya go!
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Time for the book of me!
johan amadeus myjetski: book 'em, danno!
Moderately Ginchy: So, is Cat here tonight under another name?
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: I have been in TN only once. the airport in memphis
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “EAT TWICE” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
Buzzy and Bunny K.: So is this piece where Qanon got the dea Kennedy is coming back?
Moderately Ginchy: I was wondering the same, Bunny
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "How does he make his voice do that?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Well, RFK, Jr. is coming back ;)
Buzzy and Bunny K.: you can fool all the fools most of the time...
Rufus_T_Firetween: I wish him well in his challenge for the Presidency
johan amadeus myjetski: sounds like fabulous thunderbirds
Beet: I'm a big fan of Mr. Kennedy.
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Wish we coul post photos on here
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let me hear it for me!"
johan amadeus myjetski: But then you'd want to post short videos...
Buzzy and Bunny K.: haha, and then Birth of a nation
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
Not Ed: good collage (thanks Cat wherever U R)
Rufus_T_Firetween: Join us on Tuesdays :)
johan amadeus myjetski: good job, Cat! Great collage!
Moderately Ginchy: So Tuesdays 4 Pacific
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cat's not here, man...
Not Ed: tues 4 pac? wow
Moderately Ginchy: Yes, thanks Cat! I came here to hang with him and he doesnt seem to be here
johan amadeus myjetski: Cat?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah Ginchy, as soon as I clear it with the RFD Program Director
Beet: Nice little plug, Tween.
Buzzy and Bunny K.: great aircheck
Rufus_T_Firetween: I take music and comedy requests live on Tuesday. Please do join us :)
johan amadeus myjetski: lion down... not me!
Moderately Ginchy: It's like they could see the future issues
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: I am always forgetting tuesday. one of thee days...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: these
Moderately Ginchy: Love both... I'll be there
||||||||| It's 2:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
johan amadeus myjetski: Rufus's tuesday show is tons of fun!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I hate rich people. I hate them and their stupid problems."
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone a bag of hard-boiled eggs and nuts
||||||||| Catherwood hands everyone a bag of hard-boiled eggs and nuts.
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: hard-boiled eggs and nuts! M!
johan amadeus myjetski: "we'll, meet again, don't know where, don't know when, but we'll meet again some sunny day...
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: I remember that line from a laurel and hardy short
Not Ed: they can be a real deal breaker
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** 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 where I play Firesign Theatre and take your music requests - RFR Archives at www.kurtericson.net/txroadkill/roadkillshow
Rufus_T_Firetween: johan can attest that we have a good time :)
Moderately Ginchy: Cool, an archive
Buzzy and Bunny K.: cool, will do
Merlyn: right
Rufus_T_Firetween: 6pm Central/4pm Pacific
johan amadeus myjetski: yepa splendid time is guarenteed for all
Not Ed: I need to get used to it - will keep trying to make it
johan amadeus myjetski: digital crows... hmm... Cox?
johan amadeus myjetski: Hofflaffer?
Moderately Ginchy: Botchko
Moderately Ginchy: ha
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: what are the crows? are they symbolic?
Moderately Ginchy: LOL
johan amadeus myjetski: symboliallical only if everything you know is wrong, right?
Buzzy and Bunny K.: They come with the blue moss
Moderately Ginchy: Okay, I just learned what a kitten hood and I think they're maybe a sex toy?
Buzzy and Bunny K.: bonnaroo!
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: I see two strong influences in EYKiW unless its my imagination. art bell and carlos casteneda.
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Did I mention... once asked Phil how did they spoof Art Bell before he existed?
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: thats funny
johan amadeus myjetski: vft - really the whole new age movement, which was just emerging at that time...
Buzzy and Bunny K.: He did not have a good answer. Did P.O.A. come up with the character?
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: but if I remember right a crowfigures into one of the casteneda books
Moderately Ginchy: Do we know if Cat is okay?
Merlyn: i dony know
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Yes brujos could be crows
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: I don think I have read any caseneda since tales of power
Beet: Loved those books.
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: I loved the artwork on the covers
johan amadeus myjetski: this reminds me of that short story by a woman named Jackson. a modern day sacrifice agri-cult
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: mahalia?
Beet: Janet
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: lol
johan amadeus myjetski: no. i think it was titled "Lottery"
Moderately Ginchy: oh, about stonings
Moderately Ginchy: That's it
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: oh yes. I read that in high school
Moderately Ginchy: Wnder why they had us read that in high school
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: shirley jackson
johan amadeus myjetski: Shirley Jackson. scary as crap
Moderately Ginchy: Thats her
Moderately Ginchy: Definitely dark
johan amadeus myjetski: you ask a good question ModG - why while we were in high school? getting us ready for something in life?
Moderately Ginchy: Well, thanks everyone. I've gotta move mosquitos are biting.
Moderately Ginchy: Yeah, I wondered that, JAM
Beet: Dang mosquitoes.
johan amadeus myjetski: have a good mevement, ModG! Later,
Moderately Ginchy: Like... is this a message for us to prepare for life?
Buzzy and Bunny K.: getting us ready for Ayn Rand?
Moderately Ginchy: Yeah, gonna move inside
Moderately Ginchy: Thanks again!
johan amadeus myjetski: LOL buzz und bunny!
Beet: See you later, Ginch.
Buzzy and Bunny K.: next week, same bat time, same bat station
johan amadeus myjetski: Nite ModG!
johan amadeus myjetski: aloha oi Buzz und Bunny!
Buzzy and Bunny K.: back to work- thanks all-
Beet: Nite, Buzzy.
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: nite b and b
Not Ed: Sorry need to exit stage left
Not Ed: y'all take good care
Rufus_T_Firetween: a revoir Ed
johan amadeus myjetski: nite, not!
Beet: 'Nite, Not
Not Ed: perhaps I'll see yaz on Tuesday
Not Ed: Nite nite!
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: I gotta be gwine two
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh: nest weke
Merlyn: im different
||||||||| New notice: '*** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
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Beet: Good one.
||||||||| vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh 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..."
Rufus_T_Firetween: Merlyn: im different << To paraphrase The Life Of Brian... "I'm not."
Beet: Everybody's leaving.
Rufus_T_Firetween: You know that Cat and I do take requests for future shows, right?
johan amadeus myjetski: im hanging in there with ya Beet!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Tell us what you'd like to hear :)
Beet: Ever faithfull J.A.M.
johan amadeus myjetski: did you know Bell initially thought we should answer the phone by saying"ahoy"?
johan amadeus myjetski: & he made up the word 'hello'
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hoy Hoy
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You first bag will be your last."
johan amadeus myjetski: it's been a while since i listened to In the Next World. how about Next World?
Moderately Ginchy: I didn't know that Rufus
Moderately Ginchy: I really like Bride of Firesign
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'll suggest it to Cat
Moderately Ginchy: B-Roll Booty
Rufus_T_Firetween: That's 2 requests :)
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Offer not good after curfew in sectors R or N."
johan amadeus myjetski: also, if we can't buy FST albums anywhere, perhaps they could put up a bandcamp page. at least we could download their albums
Moderately Ginchy: There are used
Moderately Ginchy: albums
Moderately Ginchy: Wish I could get new vinyl. Would be SO COOL.
Moderately Ginchy: We could do a fundraiser for a pressing. Is that possible? Do they own their rights?
Beet: I have suggested this before, but audio from some of their video releases?
johan amadeus myjetski: catherwood, give everyone an explanation why they never come up into the hills
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone an explanation why they never come up into the hills.
Rufus_T_Firetween: They've got lots of Bandcamp offerings >> ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - BEFORE THEY CHANGED THE WATER – Digital Download >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/beforetheychangedthewater?rq=before%20they%20changed%20the%20water
Rufus_T_Firetween: and check out the store at the new www.firesigntheatre.com store
Moderately Ginchy: Thanks for that Rufus
Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah, the problem is the old albums
||||||||| It's 2:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Buzzy and Bunny K. - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Sony still owns the rights and they can't afford to buy them to offer them digitally :/
Moderately Ginchy: Ah, damn
Moderately Ginchy: Sony is the worst
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And while we're on the subject..."
Moderately Ginchy: I wonder if they could get back rights...
Rufus_T_Firetween: $$$
Moderately Ginchy: the SGA might be of help if they were seeking it
Rufus_T_Firetween: but do check out their new offerings from Bandcamp and www.firesigntheatre.com/store
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - THE FIRESIGN THEATRE LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - Paperback Book + DVD-ROM Disc >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
Moderately Ginchy: Is there a discography that lists ALL of their recordings?
Merlyn: sure
Rufus_T_Firetween: link, Merlyn?
||||||||| 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
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johan amadeus myjetski: for a good screw...*lol*
Moderately Ginchy: I look em up and you guys always tell me something I don't find on the discographies I've seen
Moderately Ginchy: Thanks for making this available!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Visit us Tuesday and make some requests :)
Moderately Ginchy: Will do!
johan amadeus myjetski: i was a Lord Buckley fan.
Moderately Ginchy: nice reconciliation of a conundrum
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Moderately Ginchy: Thank you!
Moderately Ginchy: Thanks Merlyn
Merlyn: nite all
Beet: Enjoyed this. Missed Cat. Good collage, though. Nice to see everyone. Thanks for guiding, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
johan amadeus myjetski: thanks Kurt! Cat! & everybody! your nap will rise again & that's my story!
Moderately Ginchy: Night Beet
Merlyn: thants
Moderately Ginchy: Hope cat is okay
Beet: See ya, Ginch.
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Merlyn!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Moderately Ginchy: The Wheel... cool
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Tweeny is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
||||||||| It's 3:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Moderately Ginchy - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Beet - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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:
Beet
Bottles again
Buzzy and Bunny K.
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
Merlyn
Moderately Ginchy
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
Tweeny
vftgybnhujimokhdgfjgkh

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