Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
07/14/2016

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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 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for July 14, 2016 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "4:36 AM and late as usual, it's RedPillTweeny, just back from Hellmouth."
||||||||| It's 4:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 6:57 PM, dragging RedPillTweeny by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (7:09 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| It's 7:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 7:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 7:29 PM and Rufus_T_Firetween bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 7:31 PM, dragging rc by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
rc: /me slaps cathwood with a large trout
rc: hello
||||||||| rc walks away to The Sitting Room.
||||||||| It's 7:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| rc - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with DJTweeny close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:06 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the anteroom.
||||||||| 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 web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com'
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Tyrell', just granted probation at 8:16 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| At 8:20 PM, Tyrell vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| Catherwood ushers rmah inside, makes a note of the time (8:20 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
DJTweeny: Hi rmah
rmah: this is some gay shit
||||||||| 8:21 PM: Timeghost 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!"
Timeghost: Greetings, bipeds.
DJTweeny: Hi Timeghost
DJTweeny: lol rmah
DJTweeny: Yes, we're a really happy bunch :)
rmah: I mean, wtf
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
||||||||| 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)'
DJTweeny: You know the Firesign Theatre, rmah?
rmah: DJTweeny: stop advertising this in ##economics TXRoadkill
rmah: final warning
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:30 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs rmah by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
DJTweeny: only because I mentioned it to RaHaCk
DJTweeny: normally, I wouldn't
DJTweeny: first time I've ever mentioned it
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Poco)
Listen to the stream at 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)'
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Ralph close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:41 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the sitting room.
Ralph: Hiya, Friends..................
DJTweeny: Hi Ralph
Timeghost: Hail, Ralph.
Ralph: you better think twice..........................
Timeghost: Don't think twice, it's alright.
Ralph: .... about leavin' me behind, make up your mind.........
Rufus_T_Firetween: Ralph referes to a classic Poco tune :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: *refers
Ralph: although this one is also Legendayr
Ralph: legendary
Ralph: that darn Cat stays busy don't he
DJTweeny: yessir, he do
||||||||| Outside, the 8:48 PM bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving cease coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJTweeny: Hi cease
DJTweeny: Ralph: although this one is also Legendayr << Legend is one fine album
Ralph: hey, let's just take a look at this beautiful new DVD/book combo! Kelly Glue Book says this article was STOLEN, but it is mine now for the tidy little sum of 51 HUNDRED dollars
DJTweeny: this is Poco 'unplugged' from the Bareback at Big Sky concert
DJTweeny: lol Ralph
Ralph: that's DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS, here in the city of....... Emphysema
Ralph: hey, this is a "DATA DVD"...... I've been robbed!!!!!
Ralph: oh, but then there is this fascinating letter on the last page........
DJTweeny: the only way to fit all that music on a single DVD was with MP3s
cease: Hey y'all
DJTweeny: Music/Comedy, whatever...
DJTweeny: allo cease
DJTweeny: over 3 _days_ of listening on the DVD
||||||||| Nabby sneaks in around 8:58 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
DJTweeny: Hi Nabby
Nabby: Pork?
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and intones "Presenting 'Johan Amadeus Myjetski ', just granted probation at 8:58 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Timeghost: Hi, Nabby
DJTweeny: Hi Johan
Timeghost: Evenin', Johan
||||||||| Outside, the 8:59 PM bus from Leesburg pulls away, leaving Beet coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi DJT, & all!
Beet: Catherwood give everyone a pleasant incident.
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a pleasant incident.
Nabby: Hey Tweeny Cat JAM Ralph RTF Tghost
cease: Nabby, JAM.
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
Beet: Catherwood give everyone a pleasant incident.
||||||||| Catherwood hands everyone a pleasant incident.
Nabby: Hey Beet
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, July 14, 2016 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Beet: Hi everyone
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Elmer Ho into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, mumbles something about 9:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 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)'
DJTweeny: Hi Elmer
Elmer Ho: Hi there pardner
Beet: Hi Nab, Tween
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Thanks for EYKIW last week! I thought everything I knew was wrong. But I was wrong.
Beet: Hi JAM
Ralph: Thanks Cathrewood (picks up one of the bombers on the side table)
cease: Elmertown
||||||||| Catherwood tosses another cheese log on the fire and intones, "If you want to keep the cornstarch off your mukluks this season, buy a hoodie or a sweatshirt at the Firesign corner Cafepress store."
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi beet!
Beet: Hello Mr cease
cease: Beet, the reaper
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Elmer, Timeghost
Nabby: Is June a month with Oysters in it?
Elmer Ho: what am I listening to?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Lol, Cat!
Nabby: Jello
Ralph: LOL JAM
Nabby: Hi Elmer
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Proctor & Bergman's “CLARK WINTERGREEN”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out CLARK at >> http://rfo.chromiumswitch.org/'
Elmer Ho: cat colleges? Do they have to pay tuition?
Beet: Hi Elmer
Ralph: Don't do it!!
Elmer Ho: hey beet
Elmer Ho: and (darling) Nabby
cease: I first visited Proc at his house in Dec, 95. He told me he thought Clark Wintergreen was the best thing Proc/Berg ever did, and it was very well received on the road.
cease: this recording is I assume from one of their shows that they shared with Fred to put out.
Elmer Ho: this is new to me
DJTweeny: I couldn't find anything about it on the net, and it's not in the FST media collection on their web site
Nabby flings a booster book just because.
Ralph: nevah hoiduvit
cease: its obscure
Elmer Ho: youre all bosco - "we're all bozos"
Nabby: interesting cat & Tween
cease: supposed to be a australian term i gather
Nabby: right
Ralph: Astralya
||||||||| 9:06 PM: shoes for the dead jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Nabby: Remember Roota Rotor?
DJTweeny: Hi shoes
||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!"
Nabby: Hi shoes
shoes for the dead: Howdy
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** FIRESIGN THEATRE and OZ PODCASTS are available for the price of your firstborn chinchilla (free) from the iTunes Store, and online: FST podcasts at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/podcasting/indexx.html - and RADIO FREE OZ podcasts at >> http://rfo.chromiumswitch.org/
cease: shoeshave y'all heard austin's Down Under Danger, about Australia?
Ralph: Oh God
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
cease: Tween has played it several times, I think
Nabby: echo
Beet: hi shoes
shoes for the dead: yes I did,Cat
DJTweeny: I played Down Under Danger on June 23
cease: almost yesterday
Ralph: is it almost yesterday already??
shoes for the dead: soon
Ralph: make it work, or be out of work
shoes for the dead: haven't heard this one yet
Nabby: Nope Clart Winkergreen is new to me too
Ralph: don't blame yourself, let the Company do that for you!
Nabby: The Company is your Friend.
cease: i'm thinking performed in the early 80s, this cd came out in late 90s
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Claret Wintergreen sounds so... Fresh... & confident.
Ralph: you can't get to Kansas in a boat!
Nabby: wow that's quite a span
cease: if proc thinks its their best work, that means something.
Ralph: LOFL
||||||||| Elayne enters at 9:15 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Nabby: LARF
Elayne: Evenin' all!
Elmer Ho: gotta admit I'm not getting it
DJTweeny: Hi Elayne
Elmer Ho: maybe you have to be sober
cease: Hi El
Nabby: Hi Elayne
Beet: Hi Miss E
shoes for the dead: hey Elayne
DJTweeny: /me suddenly remembers that Bosco Hearne is one of their characters
Elmer Ho: hey Elayne
DJTweeny: lol Elmer
cease: Tween is going to play my latest Beatles collage later, the tune I got a Feeling
Elayne: Good to know, Cat. Afraid I won't last that long.
Nabby: Bosco Hearne, right.....
Elayne: I just came in because I know how much y'all worry if you don't see me now and again. :)
cease: I haven't been sober since 1971, barely recognize the idea.
Elayne: Job still taking a bit more out of me than I'd like.
Nabby: You betcha El
cease: true enough, el
DJTweeny: any more word from Dex, Elayne?
Elayne: Things should calm down by next month, one of the partners I support is looking for a "higher level" admin.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Good to see you, E!
Elayne: She takes up a lot of my time I love her to bits but I think I'm being stretched too thin.
Nabby: btw rebozoette is still having computer probs
cease: have you had any contact with our grenich villlage friend?
Ralph: what about Lily
DJTweeny: so it would seem, Nabby
Nabby: indeed
Elayne: As I suspect is Dex, Nabby.
cease: as tween said
DJTweeny: What version of Windows does she use, Nabby?
Nabby: Ahh El
Elayne: Not yet, Cat. Work and such, like I said.
DJTweeny chuckles
Nabby: Dunno Tween
Elayne: Damn, I can't even focus on the screen. I'm no good to y'all tonight, I'm afraid.
Elayne: Love to everyone. I'll try again next week.
Ralph: gotta download the Winamp app
cease: did you and robin ever listen to my sgt pep pills collages?
Nabby: You're good, you're good.
||||||||| Elayne is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 9:19 PM.
DJTweeny: get some rest, E
||||||||| 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."
Nabby: Take care, E!
cease: sleep well, el
Beet: bye E
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Nite, E!
Nabby: still using Winamp 2.91 - sweet spot version - made free, if you can find it - doesn't need internet connection, etc.
DJTweeny: I know a lot of people who still use Winamp
Nabby: works in Win 7
cease: Boat?
Elmer Ho: got Winamp here too
Elmer Ho: love the plugins
cease: if you think about it, you can see a lot of precedents to some of these lines in older stuff
cease: we're supposed to feel sorry for a guy who owns a boat?
Elmer Ho: ah yes, Ralph Platt
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I spent 8,years in retail sales; I am loving this!
cease: in dylan's autbiography, he mourns the loss of his 75 foot boat.
cease: only known use of the word "cunt" in the firesign lexicon. i suspect, that's why this was never widely released
DJTweeny: could be
DJTweeny: but at least he rhymed it ;)
cease: jam, i think my dad had salesman genes
shoes for the dead: yuppers
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : There's a nagging hum under some portions of this, perhaps this was regarded as an audio technical shortcoming?
cease: thankfully not passed on to me
Beet: He cunt help it
DJTweeny: might be Johan
DJTweeny: but it could be notched out
shoes for the dead: probly right, JAM
DJTweeny: I'll bet Doc Tech could run some filters and get rid of it
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Thank goodness, Cat! Those 8 years were some of the unhappiest of my life. No joke.
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
shoes for the dead: was this on Rhino?
DJTweeny: I can't find any metion of a commercial release, shoes
DJTweeny: it's in the OZ podcasts though
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** FIRESIGN THEATRE and OZ PODCASTS are available for the price of your firstborn chinchilla (free) from the iTunes Store, and online: FST podcasts at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/podcasting/indexx.html - and RADIO FREE OZ podcasts at >> http://rfo.chromiumswitch.org/
||||||||| Catherwood tosses another cheese log on the fire and intones, "If you want to keep the cornstarch off your mukluks this season, buy a hoodie or a sweatshirt at the Firesign corner Cafepress store."
cease: i love looking at the pacific ocean outside my bedroom window. would hate to be on a ship seeing only the ocean.
DJTweeny: nice view, Cat
cease: tis indeed, tween
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Sounds like an impedance mismatch
cease: on the tv next to me, massacre in Nice. my wife will be in Nice next May.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : It wasn't nice in Nice...
Elmer Ho: visited there several times - nice place
Elmer Ho: lots of good cheap restaurants
Elmer Ho: tell your wife to enjoy
cease: speakikng of mexico, i was on a cruise with air america to mexico in 08, trying to get the firesign on that network. ocean got really boring really quickly
Elmer Ho: you cant live in fear
Ralph: ghastly
DJTweeny: OMG cease :-(
cease: we were in nice in 2002. ate very well. a friend worked in a restuarant there.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I love this guy's ads!
DJTweeny: unhappy bastille day
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Roger that, DJT!
cease: the french rose agaisnt opression by king in the original bastille day. they must rise agaisnt the tyranny of terrorists now.
cease: i love what simone de beavoir said, used in a doonesberry tv show, a woman has to be twice as good as a man to get a job. thankfully this is not difficult
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Has anyone else noticed how the world news seems to be deleted scenes from the film "Brazil"?
Elmer Ho: never saw "Brazil" so all the scenes are deleted to me
Nabby: What?
shoes for the dead: Hi NSA guy
||||||||| 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."
Nabby counterbugs the NSA with a digital weevil.
cease: hi shoes
cease: this is a scene from herman hesse's book Steppenwolfe.
Nabby: never read it Cat
Elmer Ho: Hesse drove a Porsche? well, what do you know
cease: do so, nabby.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I really enjoyed HH's "the Glass Bead Game"
Nabby: noted Cat
DJTweeny: Brazil is some great Gilliam
cease: their wretched flick zacharria was based on a hesse novel.
shoes for the dead: I pegged him as an audi guy
Beet: Eyes getting heavy for some reason. Gonna hang it up for this session. Nite all.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Lol, shoes!
shoes for the dead: by Beet
cease: i'm a really fast reader but on a long train trip i couldnt finish glass bead game
Nabby: not a great flick - has a few moments - interesting background
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Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Pleasant travels, beet!
Nabby: later Beet
cease: i got as stoned as humanly possible and went to the theatre to see it with the harder they come.
Nabby: keep it sweet
Elmer Ho: Zacharia was based on Steppenwolf if i recall correctly
cease: jimmy cliff was great. zack sucked.
cease: by beet
Elmer Ho: bye bye Beet
DJTweeny: later Beet...
DJTweeny: so being stoned didn't help, eh?
cease: NO ho, its based on Siddartha
cease: lol tween.
DJTweeny: quite loosely, apparently
Nabby: a scintillating chap, Sid
cease: so much of my life has been spent intoxicated, it's difficult to discern its affect on anything.
DJTweeny: ;)
cease: sangria my beverage of choice
DJTweeny: I belive that translates to 'royal blood'
Nabby: I believe it's spelt intoxification if I'm not mistaked
Nabby: "intoxified"
Elmer Ho: is the 60 Hz hum in the background my system or is it in the recording
DJTweeny: he got real intoxifyed
cease: we were in spain in 02 and even my boozed avoiding wife was seduced by sangria
DJTweeny: beat me to it :)
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Infoxitation
Nabby: mmm hummy
DJTweeny: the recording, Elmer
cease: i can drink it all day with no bad effects. except eventual death, but that what you get whatever road you take
DJTweeny: a ground loop, maybe
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : It's in the recording, Ho
Nabby: Infoxed but not outfoxed haha!
Elmer Ho: thanks guys
DJTweeny: can't imagine how the soundman wasn't able to trace it
Elmer Ho: my father-in-law was cuban -- made a mean homemade sangria
Elmer Ho: used this special very "robust" spanish wine
cease: normally few people are here when tween plays my collages at the begining of the show.
DJTweeny: Life. Side effects may include Death.
Nabby: what did he change into Elmer
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Could they have been running the board themselves?
Nabby: lol
cease: this time, he's playing them an hour into the show and perhaps even fewer people wold hear them
||||||||| 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!"
Elmer Ho: he changed into a dead cuban
DJTweeny: 'country picketing' lol
Nabby: oh my
cease: i was at an event for bar tendersin vegas in feb and i talked to a cuban guy. i asked him if cuba had fruit only there. does your dad ever make driinks from cuban fruit?
cease: frozen noses, the name crosby and stills had before they joined nash
Elmer Ho: only rum, if you call sugarcane a "fruit"
DJTweeny: that I had not geard
DJTweeny: *heard
Elmer Ho: he was in charge of buiding the Bacardi pavilion
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Fabulous song!
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Ferd', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 10:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
Nabby liked geard better.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: lol
DJTweeny: Hi Ferd
shoes for the dead: hey Ferd
Nabby: Hi Ferd
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Ferd!
DJTweeny: tele-pathetic lol
Elmer Ho: a fond Ferd welcome
cease: Ferd.
cease: My dad's actual name was ferdinand, but he preferred to be called Fred
Ferd: Are you reading me?
DJTweeny: My Gradfather's name as well
cease: i only read good books
DJTweeny: he went by Ferd
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Loud n clear, Ferd
DJTweeny: Yes Ferd... 5 by 5
cease: he had a much older brother named frederick, who called himself Fred too.
DJTweeny: must have been confusing
Ferd: It's an nickname that was given me, back in '72, when I first heard these four wonderfully funny guys.
cease: so my dad was called Freddy by his family, to his dismay. that's probably why we moved to LA in 56
DJTweeny: Nino The Mindboggler says Fred is in Peru. Is that accurate?
cease: what did you hear first, ferd?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : This infernal re
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Loading
cease: what is wrong wtih sound here?
cease: this is fucked
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : It's like selective deafness
cease: indeed, jam
Ferd: Sorry to arrive late. I'm in Lima, Peru - instead of Fl. So my clock's a bit off.
cease: how are things in lima?
Elmer Ho: lima is a weird place
Ferd: I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus
Elmer Ho: they get less than an inch of rain a year, but there's a lot of green and growing stuff
cease: My fave, ferd
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Have a squeeze of the heewe'd, Ferd
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Wheeze
Nabby: Honk
Nabby loves Lima beans.
Ferd: A bit cooler than S. Florida. Mid 60's in the day and mid to hi 50's at night. Sunny one day and gray the next. It's a big city with fog AND smog. Also it's the S. Hemisphere so it's Winter.
cease: I write about food and Peruvian food is a big thing now.
cease: how big, ferd?
cease: i live in vancouver, 2.5 million. i grew up in LA, 18 million and worked in Tokyo for many years, 36 millon
Ferd: Right. The rain, here, is only ever a light mist. When it's cooler you feel it in your bones.
||||||||| 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."
Ferd: I love a good wheeze squeeze. Who doesn't?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “THAT FIRESIGN FEELING”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
CHECK OUT CAT’S PLAYS AT >> http://seemreal.com/'
Ferd: By the way, that's Lima beans, not Lima beans. 😉
cease: y'all see the beatles flcik?
Nabby: ahh
cease: when they sang this song on the roof?
Nabby: not yet Cat
cease: one of my favourite moments in cinema
Nabby: oh you mean Let it Be
shoes for the dead: the get back movie?
DJTweeny: maybe a long time ago
Ferd: Which Beatles flick?!
cease: bergman wanted to create the beatles of comedy and he succeded.
shoes for the dead: that one
DJTweeny: the rooftop concert
Nabby: there's a new Ron Howard Beatles flick coming out
cease: how many of us can say that?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Agreed, cease!
DJTweeny: cool, Nabby
shoes for the dead: there is a vid on utube of JA on the roof doing Pooneil
Ferd: That IS let it be, correct? Haven't seen it in years. Kinda cool and sort of sad.
shoes for the dead: in NYC
DJTweeny: The Rutles have a great parody of the rooftop concert in their movie
cease: let it be, I forget.
cease: ask madam google
Ferd: Nabby, I'm up for that.
cease: i liked a funny use of nixon
shoes for the dead: the cops come on this one too
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Right, DJT
DJTweeny: sounds like you got your copy of I've Got A Feeling from an AM radio ;)
Nabby: yeah it looks interesting Ferd
cease: youtube
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : The Nixon was from his appearance on LaughIn
DJTweeny: yeah, I remember that
Ferd: Just checking that I haven't gone deaf,
Ferd: audio is still off, right?
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Nabby: "The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2531318/
Ferd: Wow! That ought to be to wonderful.
||||||||| Catherwood tosses another cheese log on the fire and intones, "If you want to keep the cornstarch off your mukluks this season, buy a hoodie or a sweatshirt at the Firesign corner Cafepress store."
cease: Hope some of you like Bruce Cockburn.
||||||||| 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!"
Nabby: Cat did you see Scorsese's George Harrison flick
shoes for the dead: ya splane it, Cat
cease: This is one of my fave, his reggae tune Peggie's kitchen wall.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “WHITE REGGAE”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
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cease: yes nab
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Cease, I have this BC cd - love it!
Nabby: love it Cat
Elmer Ho: v nice - never understood why I didnt have any of his albums
Elmer Ho: but nowadays theres spotify so no excuse
Ferd: Hi Elmer Ho.
Ferd: Mother's name was Elmer. Well, it was Ellen. We called her Elmer.
cease: Help, it's the police!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Nice, Cat!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Ha!
Elmer Ho: nytol - until next week
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:24 PM and Ferd, again waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| Around 10:24 PM, Elmer Ho walks off into the sunset...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Nite EH!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Nite Elmer
Ferd, again: That's grease from an ancient grape.
cease: by ho
Ferd, again: Ciao EH.
Ferd, again: IVE
Ferd, again: Ive really lost the thread. I'll try and catch up.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I never understood how Peggy was short for Margaret
Ferd, again: Is it?
DJTweeny: ah, so this is why you wanted Lemon Car :)
Ferd, again: Everyone knew her as Nancy.
shoes for the dead: Jamaican and Indonesian Ganja is the same
cease: yep
shoes for the dead: sure would like to grow some
Ferd, again: My wonderous wife wants to catch a late movie. I'll be on time next Thursday. Thanks every one. Ciao, for now.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Zappa's Flix Blakes would mesh with this
cease: by ferd
DJTweeny: later, Ferd...
shoes for the dead: have fun, Ferd
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Bye Ferd!
cease: wondrous wifes for everybody
Ralph: wonders what a wonderous wife would be like
shoes for the dead: i shat a sherrif.........
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
cease: ive been married to wondrous Fumiyo for 41 years
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Lol, shoes!
DJTweeny: wow :)
shoes for the dead: good job, Cat!
Ralph: It's a Wonderful Wife
Nabby: Life is wonder, and pain, and loss...but not such a bad deal, really.
cease: yeah, life is trying not to fuck up
cease: and hopefully not be destroyed by the forces that woud fuck you up
cease: Firesign is a big ally in that.
DJTweeny: Unavoidable really, Cat. It's called being human...
Ralph: I said wife, not wife
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Both these are well up to your high standard, Cat. Really funny, really enjoyable! THANKS!
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
DJTweeny: yes they are, Cat
Ralph: wife is a carnival, believe it or not
DJTweeny: lol Ralph
Nabby no longer needs human food and cannot be destroyed.
DJTweeny: neat trick, Nabby
cease: this is the best guitar i've ever heard
Ralph: no more humans for you then, Nabby
DJTweeny: Clapton's no slouch
shoes for the dead: didn't he quit?
DJTweeny: Nabby has given up cannibalism
||||||||| 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!"
shoes for the dead: doing music?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Cease, a small note I saw taped up over a vu meter on a mixing console in a studio read "try not to fuck up". Sound advice to all of us...
Ralph: i get my advice from the sound effects man
cease: thats two from me tonight
Nabby prefers long pigs in a blanket.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Extras Collection “LET'S EAT PRE-SERIES SHOW”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS may be purchased at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ'
Ralph: whoa, Nabby
Nabby: blech that's disgusting
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Fabulous, Cat!
Ralph: now, let's not leap to premature ejaculations
Nabby: Top Cat!
cease: Paul Krassner just gave me permission to play the 2 collages i made of his alb ums.
cease: i think tween can play them, along with a lot of things kras did with bergman
Ralph: next week??
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Looking forward to those, Cat!
cease: I can do next week.
cease: i interviewed him for my old mag adbusters in 95,
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
cease: he asked me to edit one of his books and then contribute aritilcles to 3 others.
Ralph: next week??
cease: we are stilll in contact
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Oh, cheese us !
DJTweeny: sure, cease
DJTweeny: I even have a Krassner album called "Irony Lives". Might play a cut or two from that
||||||||| sydlexic sneaks in around 10:44 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
shoes for the dead: hey syd
sydlexic: Hi.
cease: paul and pete had a radio show that i';ve never heard, during iran-conra.
cease: maybe taylor has that
cease: hi syd
DJTweeny: hu syd
DJTweeny: * Hi syd
sydlexic: greetings all
shoes for the dead: i turned a phrase once and talked with a limp for a while
Nabby: Hey sydl
DJTweeny: the show starts at 8 Central, syd
DJTweeny: just about over :/
sydlexic: my timing is impeccable as usual
Nabby: Oh shoot I have to go go go
Nabby: Good to see you all
Nabby: Thanks Cat & Tweeny
shoes for the dead: see ya nab
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Lol, shoes
Nabby: adios!
DJTweeny: have a great week, Nabby
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Nite Nabbster!
Rufus_T_Firetween: We're setting up a new archive for Cat's collages, but there's only one entry so far...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s new Collage Archive at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
cease: I produce them faster than I can comment on them.
||||||||| 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 6-8pm EST every Sunday at www.dishnuts.net
Listen to my show archives and ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow'
cease: i really think anyone can do this, with available online firesign and whatever else
cease: i mix fireswign with tunes from youtube and other stuff. its a mashed up world
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Push huppies
||||||||| Catherwood tosses another cheese log on the fire and intones, "If you want to keep the cornstarch off your mukluks this season, buy a hoodie or a sweatshirt at the Firesign corner Cafepress store."
Ralph: Thanks again DJ
cease: this is wonderful
cease: what is this, tween?
shoes for the dead: Thanks Tween and cat!
shoes for the dead: Park it and Lock it!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : THANKS! Everyone! Love love love!
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening everybody, and have a great week :-) See you next time, same FireTime, same FireStation...
||||||||| cease is kicked out just as the clock strikes 10:57 PM.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cat >> Duke of Madness Motors Extras - 1971-10-07 - Let's Eat pre-series show
Ralph: Happy trailing clouds of glory
Timeghost: Thanks, Tweeny, good night.
||||||||| "Hey Timeghost!" ... Timeghost turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:58 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Until last time, again...
||||||||| 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 enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| sydlexic - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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 2:10 AM, 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...
||||||||| It's 2:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Ferd, again - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Ferd - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| It's 3:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Ralph - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| shoes for the dead - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Nabby - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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 4:10 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 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 4:32 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
DJTweeny
Elayne
Elmer Ho
Ferd, again
Ferd
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
Nabby
Ralph
rc
rmah
Rufus_T_Firetween
shoes for the dead
sydlexic
Timeghost

URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/podcasting/indexx.html
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://rfo.chromiumswitch.org/
http://seemreal.com/
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2531318/
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow