||||||||| 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 April 25, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| 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 Tweeny plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM. ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM “Sesame Mucho” “Freek for a Week” “The Sword and the Stoned” “Twenty Years Behind the Whale” Listen to the 256k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2 or the 16k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1 This show is archived at www.kurtericson.net/firesign / Cat’s collage archive is at www.kurtericson.net/cat' ||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Tweeny!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on... ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 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 enters with Deputy Dang close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the sitting room. ||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and announces "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. Beet: Howdy, Folks! ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Deputy Dang: Howdy Beet! Beet: Here I am standing on the blue line talking to myself again. Beet: Hi, friend Deputy. ||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "JZip should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as JZip enters and sits on the couch. ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Cease in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. Beet: Just us again. Beet: Hi, Vease. Beet: Cease Cease: Vease? Sounds like a lubricant Cease: Made of vegetables Beet: You make things run smoother. Cease: Hey here's Jzip. Is he hip like a trip? Cease: You know, I'll be in Spain 2 weeks from today? Beet: Hi, JZip JZip: I'm more flip than trip these days. Beet: Where will you start when you get there, Cease? Deputy Dang: How is your Vegas recovery going? Cease: I arrive in Madrid on Friday (day change). Then fly to Bilbao on Sunday for 2 days, then 4 days in Donestia, then 2 days in Logrono, then 2 more days in Madrid. Cease: Dang. Thankts for asking. It took me 5 weeks to no longer be in pain from twistred leg. Doc prescribed some ointment and exercise and they seem to have workd. But, 5 weeks to recover is along time, eh? Cease: I hope nothing debilitating happens to me in Spain Beet: Are food considerations determining where you will visit? Cease: Precidely, Beet. Did you hear my play Vegas/Egypt? https://seemreal.com/seemreal-selections.html Cease: The quest I refer to there is being continued in Spain. Cease: When my wife and i were last in Spain together in 2002, we had some awesome basque food in Barcelona so I've wanted to go there and eat pintxos since then Beet: Haven't yet. Looks interesting. I will listen later tonight. Thanks. Cease:Tweeny and chatter Llan are in it. Cease: Just finishing my script for new play about Ukraine so contemplating new play. I'm thinking of riffing on Don Quixote. Cease: There's a wonderful statue in Madrid devoted to Don Q. Cease: Have a good title: Cat Quixote and Sancho Telephono. Cease: The translation app on my phone will be my translator Cease: Does anyone know what "no balloon payments" means anymore? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Open up, your door knocker fell off!" Cease:Tween is on tape tonight? Deputy Dang: apparently, yes Cease: I'll be gone for May 9 and 16 and still fucked up from the time change on the 23rd, but back in Van late May 22 Cease: HOPe we can programme something for this show while both of us are gone Deputy Dang: that was fun Cease: I didn't get any of the dope jokes from these plays. Pre-dope ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's llan, just back from Hellmouth." llan: evening folks Beet: Hi, Llan. llan: helbliggadiddyff Beet: I think so too. llan: where you off to, cat? Beet: wobble llan: weebles Cease: Hey LLan! llan: howdy Cease: I finally found a Ukrainian women to do the Ukrainian lines in my play llan: great Cease: Spain, in 2 weeks, Llan, for 2 weeks Cease: I' Cease: lI'ld like an orange, or the sun. one of my fave firesingn lines llan: oh, yes. I remember you saying Cease: yeah the only lines I really needed were a Ukrainian woman and may have found one, who sounds enthursiastic. llan: reminded me of a great gentle giant song, Two Weeks in Spain Cease: hope to have all the lines recorded and to Doc before I go to Spain llan: I could have introduced you to a ukrainian woman hwo might have helped you. she died several years ago at the age of nintey-seven llan: she spoke perfect ukrainian llan: my first landlady Cease: like my grandma llan: born in moscow during the bolshevik revolution. can you imagine llan: the stories she told Cease: knew my uncle louis, who, like his 3 bros, were born in russia in the 1870-80s Cease: Unlce Louis and Adam are in my play CAST, which you can listen to here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/CastComplete.mp3 Cease: told me amazing stories about escaping the russo-japanese war and rebuilding sf on 06 Cease: key part of act one of the play llan: I played one of your uncles didnt I? ||||||||| Catherwood ushers Tweeny into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs. Tweeny: Evenin' bozos llan: Hey Tween Beet: Welcome, Tweeny. Cease: The Tween llan: yeah I guess we are all bozos on this bus Cease: vosotros Cease: i'm kinda studying spanish now llan: fancy name fo a tv clown Cease: any one know what ballon payments meant? llan: have not heard that expression Tweeny: same thing it does now Cease: bozos=vos otros. the others Deputy Dang: the v and the b being the same Tweeny: What is a balloon payment? When is one allowed? - https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/what-is-a-balloon-payment-when-is-one-allowed-en-104/ Cease: you pay a little a month, like a ballon, but then get hit with a big payment at end. car dealer scam llan: cant help thinking about the freak of nature with the red hair and red nose Cease: thanks, tween Beet: ballooon payments: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/what-is-a-balloon-payment-when-is-one-allowed-en-104/ llan: how do auto salesman and mechanics get away with what they do? Cease: my dad was a car dealer, 1950-75 Cease: the world is more corupted than we'd care to believe, llan Beet: Cease got it. llan: I had an uncle in that business. he used to say YOU CANT TRUST ANYONE llan: but I have always wondered is it that way all over the world? Cease: my dad's dealership was taken over by the mafia at the invitiation of the ford motor company. not a local dude, from the top, so was ford in bed with the mafia in 1975? it would be usefu to know. ||||||||| 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.. Cease: good point, llan. hard to tell llan: in bed with the local authorities is my guess Cease: i thikn there are mafia-less controlled countreies somewhere. maybe denmark? llan: and the mob possibly Beet: Corruption is everywhere. llan: well we alreay know there is something rotten there Cease: italy is still largely a mafia state, as i understand, and the balkans. the furtrher nortrh you get, i suspect less, or at least difrerent kind of organized crime Cease: better, less corruptible cops Tweeny: Screen Shot 2022-01-19 at 1.05.57 PM.png The Firesign Theatre Live at the Magic Mushroom - https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc Tweeny: I should have added that to the titles ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc “Sesame Mucho” “Freek for a Week” “The Sword and the Stoned” “Twenty Years Behind the Whale” Listen to the 256k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2 or the 16k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1 This show is archived at www.kurtericson.net/firesign / Cat’s collage archive is at www.kurtericson.net/cat' Cease: hair freak Cease: remember that expression Cease: osman posted about sesame mucho in answer to my facebook post today: Beet: That time again. Must go. Enjoyed the festivities tonight. See everyone again next week. G'Nite. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "A fair for all and no fair to anybody!" Cease: by beet Cease: there are so few of us Cease: in 2 weeks, tween and I wil be gone; will there be a chat? Tweeny: It'll be here for whoever wants it :) llan: dont you think I will show up? dont I usually? Cease: well tween, you took over from jimmy but, though i was here from day one, was not involved with production Cease: my wife said i have to start dvd-izint my vhs becauce i'm runnning out of time. i dont thnk i'll die that soon, but who knows? Cease: i get killed in spain and tween took so then what happens to this chat? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "We own the idea of NOW." Tweeny: If something happened to me, it'd be up to Doc Tech to keep it going Tweeny: And unfortunately it's been a long time since we've heard from Merlyn :/ Cease: Doc exited this decades ago, tween Cease: and merl is not with us ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Not responsible! Park and lock it!" Tweeny: Well, he still maintains the code now that Merlyn is unable Cease: i've livbed longer than bergman. i was in vast pain for 5 weeks from twisted leg, so thzat means recovery from any bummer is increasingly distant ||||||||| It's 12:30 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... Cease: by dang Cease:tween, when you and i are gone, will anyone be here? does that alter the structure of this realistry? llan: I would hold the fort if I knew what to do Cease: thanks, beet. llan: I am not the most computer literate of all of us, but if I knew what I was doing... Cease: i intend to return from spain alive, but the best laid plans of spanish flys can go astray ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc “Sesame Mucho”, “Freek for a Week” “The Sword and the Stoned” and “Twenty Years Behind the Whale” Listen to the 256k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2 or the 16k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1 This show is archived at www.kurtericson.net/firesign / Cat’s collage archive is at www.kurtericson.net/cat' Cease: i can barely spell computer. tween is the wiz here Cease: whart is happenibng here, tween? Tweeny: llan, you'd have to have an audio program in which to assemble the show Tweeny: what did I miss, Cease? Cease: ? Tweeny: Cease: whart is happenibng here, tween? Cease: with you and i gone, can the show continue? Cease: what is wrong with this, tween, now? Tweeny: Ah, RFD must be having issues Tweeny: sorry :( Cease: it goes in and out, like anything! Tweeny: I'll text the program director llan: I dont even know what an audio program is Tweeny: Yeah, that's on the server side Cat Cease: still fucked ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I hate rich people. I hate them and their stupid problems." Tweeny: something like this, llan >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity_(audio_editor) Tweeny: Sorry Cat, nothing I can do about it from here Cease: i turned it on and off, no luck llan: thanks tween. Cease: it's ok. i'm sure the communicatrion problem will be far more vast in spain Tweeny: No, it's not you Cat. The problem is with the play-out server in California Tweeny: Yeah llan, I should have said 'audio editing program' Tweeny: and you'd have to be able to record the announcements Tweeny: The program director is on the road at he moment but will check it when he gets home. Unfortunately, that will likely be after the show Tweeny: You can always listent to the archive (the link is listed above) ||||||||| Deputy Dang sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. llan: wb dang Deputy Dang: I thought it was my ears Cease: hey dang Cease: this is oddly fucked Cease: any ideq why, tween? Tweeny: Nope, just a problem with the streaming server in California Tweeny: The show is already up at the archive, if you want to listen from there Cease: we need to do something better than this ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Duluth? Bucko, you can get Tierra del Fuego!" llan: I never heard bucko in the line llan: I heard begorra but I was probably wrong Cease: in their beginning, in 67, they were brilliant Cease: as good as their albums Tweeny: and it was all downhill from there? Cease: up-hilll llan: lol Cease: in the sense that water flows up a tree llan: and why the hell does he want to get duluth when he can have all the california stations? Cease: ? Cease: you mean the refr here? ask proc, but i suspect it has something to do with sound llan: or is there a duluth california? Cease: no Cease: we have to fix this, tween ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "More coffee, warden?" Deputy Dang: thanks Tweeny! Have fun in Spain Cat! Tweeny: There's nothing to fix, Cat, the archive is fine llan: yes cat. I hope you have a wonderful fortnight Tweeny: RFD just had trouble playing the file ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Tweeny: They're just playing what I put in the archive Tweeny: which is fine Tweeny: anyway, everybody have a great week and maybe we'll see you at my show on Tuesday :) Deputy Dang: Gnight all! ||||||||| Deputy Dang leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Billville. Tweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Tweeny walks off into the sunset... llan: nite everybody ||||||||| At 8:00 PM, llan hurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..." ||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Cease - 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 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 2:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| JZip - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| 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 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Beet - dead from The Plague ||||||||| 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
Cease
Deputy Dang
JZip
llan
Tweeny
