Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
10/19/2023

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 October 19, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Rufus_T_Firetween jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW FIRESIGN CHAT TIME **
** THE FIRESIGN CHAT HAS MOVED TO 7PM -9PM EASTERN **
The Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starts at 7pm Eastern this evening.
Warm-up music now begins around 6:40pm Eastern.
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 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 5:15 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 strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, October 19, 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 stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging Rufus_T_Firetween by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?"
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 7pm Eastern this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 6:40pm Eastern
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 – YES-TORMATO
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)'
||||||||| Catherwood leads DJTweeny in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| 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 Deputy Dang gets out at 8:00 PM.
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
Deputy Dang: Howdy DJ!
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Bob's Dad steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Bob's Dad: Dang, Tween
Bob's Dad: Have a grape
DJTweeny: Hey Dad
Deputy Dang: Howdy Bob's Dad!
Bob's Dad: I keep finding more Naomi Klein interviews. Not sure if Deputy Doppelganger will be a 2 or 3 parter
||||||||| 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 Merlyn falls out at 8:00 PM.
DJTweeny: Hey Meylyn
Bob's Dad: Hi Merl
DJTweeny: *Merlyn
Deputy Dang: Howdy Merlyn!
Merlyn: Hey all
Bob's Dad: I had my 6th Covid vaccine yesterday along with a flu shot. Feeling rather sick today, as the doctor warned could happen.
DJTweeny (
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Direct readout - Doctor Memory."
DJTweeny: I won't touch those with a 10 foot pole
Deputy Dang: Unhappy macnam!
||||||||| 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 enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: Firesign Theatre's DEAR FRIENDS
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 DEAR FRIENDS at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=df-rv'
Bob's Dad: A Lot of Work went into this new collage,which you'll hear in the 2nd hour.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging johanamadeusmyjetski by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
Bob's Dad: Jammy
johanamadeusmyjetski: hullo!
DJTweeny: Hi johan
johanamadeusmyjetski: hi Kurt!
Merlyn: hey JAM
johanamadeusmyjetski: hi Merlyn
DJTweeny: "If it's good enough for Walt Disney, it's good enough for my john..."
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It goes in - it must come out."
DJTweeny: rather ironic, considering how much money Proctor has made from doing Disney characters ;)
johanamadeusmyjetski: right you are, catherwood!
||||||||| Catherwood strides alongside johanamadeusmyjetski and yells "oh, fuck off johanamadeusmyjetski!"
johanamadeusmyjetski: as you say...
johanamadeusmyjetski: 😆
Bob's Dad: You'll hear an altered version of this in the 2nd hour.
Deputy Dang: How did you know I'll be altered in the 2nd hour?
Bob's Dad: do your best
johanamadeusmyjetski: yeah, that's what *i* was wondering, too!
johanamadeusmyjetski: a boot-licker from way back...
Bob's Dad: you can make liquor from boots?
johanamadeusmyjetski: when you're in a Union prison camp, you find yourself able to do all sorts of things that were unimaginable just minutes earlier...
Bob's Dad: my uncle raised chinchillas
Bob's Dad: https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/death_takes_a_holiday.mp3
Bob's Dad: That's a collage I made about that.
Bob's Dad: The Firesigns seemed to have a thing about everyone having the same name. Billville, for example
Bob's Dad: This will be in my collage, about medical misinformation
johanamadeusmyjetski: i remember the early infommercials on late night tv for chinchilla farming opportunities.
Bob's Dad: They also loved the Japanese male name Hideo
johanamadeusmyjetski: so similar to the english word 'hideous', perhaps?
Bob's Dad: of course
Bob's Dad: this is one of my favourite firesign bits
Bob's Dad: new ken burns series about bison.
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging llanwydd by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
llanwydd: anybody home or is it just us?
johanamadeusmyjetski: hi Llan!
llanwydd: I love ken burns documentaries
johanamadeusmyjetski: i'll have to be going home soon meself
llanwydd: especially the civil was and baseball
Bob's Dad: hi llan
llanwydd: where you going home to johan?
llanwydd: hey dad
llanwydd: I remember
johanamadeusmyjetski: i'm practically there now
llanwydd: ead Friends was the album to mellow out to
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They never come up into the hills."
llanwydd: dear
Bob's Dad: Dear Fiends?
Bob's Dad: I first heard Dwarf when I was driving through the hills in lA where my parents lived.
DJTweeny: Hi llan
Bob's Dad: They never come up into the hills really struck me.
Bob's Dad: I was very impressed by use of bricks in Denver.
johanamadeusmyjetski: g'nite dear friends, gotta run!
Bob's Dad: by jammy
Bob's Dad: make sure and listen to my new collage in the archives
johanamadeusmyjetski: will try
Bob's Dad: its called Deputy Doppelganger
Bob's Dad: they were reading from Germinal, a 19th century French novel which I had read not long before DF came out.
Bob's Dad: they were constantly blending stuff from what they read in these shows.
||||||||| 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..
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Be sure to join me (Kurt in Austin) for my live RADIO FREE ROADKILL show from 7-9pm Eastern 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: ** 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
Bob's Dad: indeed, it's a very eclectic show, Tweeny
||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing — Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “DEPUTY DOPPELGANGER”
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'
Bob's Dad: He's 10 years older than Naomi so if he'd been wanting to interview her his whole life, that would be hard to do.
Bob's Dad: underlined the fuck out of it, edited
Bob's Dad: this is the alteration i mentioned
Rufus_T_Firetween: Bob's Dad: He's 10 years older than Naomi so if he'd been wanting to interview her his whole life, that would be hard to do. << yeah, was wondering about that lol
Bob's Dad: i had a doppelganger in my class in the 1st grade. i've told that story often enough.
Bob's Dad: his name was Billy Katt and he later became famous. Me, not so much.
||||||||| It's 12:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johanamadeusmyjetski - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Bob's Dad: We looked so much alike even his mother confused us.
Bob's Dad: i wonder if lennon was on heroin when he wrote this
Bob's Dad: i wonder what charles shultz thought of that song.
Bob's Dad: i think she's the most important Canadian thinker since McLuhan
Rufus_T_Firetween: The Medium Is The Message
Bob's Dad: Is anyone else still here?
Deputy Dang: I'm still here
Bob's Dad: good
Bob's Dad: I've been to the top of the highest bldg in Vegas. Minor league restauarant but great view
||||||||| 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'
Deputy Dang: It has reminded me of being in Oklahoma or Utah. So much flat land.
Deputy Dang: With "nearby" mountains that provides relief.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, everybody… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation…
Bob's Dad: Part 2 next week
Deputy Dang: This was excellent. Thank you Cat. Thank you Kurt.
Merlyn: nite all
||||||||| "Hey Merlyn!" ... Merlyn turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 8:00 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Deputy Dang: Goodnight all!
Bob's Dad: glaD you enjoyed it, dang
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Bob's Dad scurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| Deputy Dang says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Deputy Dang exits at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs DJTweeny by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "llanwydd should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as llanwydd enters and sits on the divan.
||||||||| It's 3:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - 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:
Bob's Dad
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
johanamadeusmyjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
Rufus_T_Firetween

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
www.kurtericson.net/txroadkill/roadkillshow
https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/death_takes_a_holiday.mp3
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=df-rv
https://www.kurtericson.net/cat