A Firesign Chat
09/15/2016




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 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for September 15, 2016 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Outside, the 7:32 PM uptown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving DJTweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJTweeny: 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 steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Rufus_T_Firetween', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 7:35 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
DJTweeny: 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
Rufus_T_Firetween: oops
||||||||| 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
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DJTweeny: better
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 8:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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)
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||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween sashays in at 8:36 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Creedence Clearwater Revival + others)
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)
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||||||||| Outside, the 8:47 PM uptown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving NancyKat coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJTweeny: Hey NancyKat, haven't seen you in a while
NancyKat: Grargharghbargh gagh!
NancyKat: Heylas, Tweeny! Yes..long time, no time, timing essence...yakkity shmakkity.
NancyKat: Hi Rufus.
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:55 PM, dragging Beet by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
Beet: Howdy all.
Beet: Or should I say, "you guys"?
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:56 PM and Cat bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJTweeny: Hi Beet, Cat
Beet: Howdy Mr. Cat
DJTweeny: Dear Friends...
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:57 PM, dragging Uh, Jerry by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
Cat: How D
DJTweeny: Hi Jerry
NancyKat: BEET!
NancyKat: And Cat!
Cat: Hi Uh
Beet: You mean, "first choice" Mr. Bush?
||||||||| Catherwood enters with rebozoette close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:57 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the vestibule.
Cat: uh, hi nancy
DJTweeny: Hi rebozoette
NancyKat: hi, revbozoette.
Cat: rebo
Beet: Hello Nancy
rebozoette: Beet Cat DJTweeny NancyKat rebozoette Uh, Jerry hi and tweeny thanks for Laugh
Beet: Hi rebozoette
rebozoette: you aall look so shiny tonight
NancyKat: Would you prefer Uh or jerry?
Cat: must be the drugs, rebo
Beet: Why thankee
NancyKat: rebozoette-I just got polished.
||||||||| 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)
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rebozoette: cleaned the monitor cat he he
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, September 15, 2016 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
NancyKat: aha.
rebozoette: NK good for you
Beet: Sice I missed last week, I listened to the replay and saw all the madness of the hackers. Pretty weird.
||||||||| shoes for the dead enters at 9:01 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Beet: Howdy shoes
DJTweeny: Hopefully things will go a bit more smoothly this week ;)
NancyKat: Hackers? I take it not the Angelina Jolie kind?
shoes for the dead: howdy
NancyKat: Shoes!
Cat: shoes
DJTweeny: Howdy shoes
Beet: Very strange
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 9:02 PM, dragging cease by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?"
NancyKat: cease!
||||||||| syntroxis sneaks in around 9:02 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
NancyKat: syntoxis, hello.
Cat: hello again, fellow feline
Beet: it's the ceasester
shoes for the dead: hey syn
Beet: Hi syn
Cat: i'm in two computers at once, or should be
syntroxis: hi
Beet: Hi Kurt
Cat: doubling my audience
syntroxis: hi
Beet: This ought to be a good one.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “A FIRESIGN NIXON”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out CAT’S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
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rebozoette: is it thursday again
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:04 PM and Lil steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Beet: Hi Lil
Lil: Again with the grape?
shoes for the dead: hey Lil
Cat: lil just in time to hear my nixon piece
Lil: How about bringing me a pizza instead Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood bringings Lil a pizza instead.
shoes for the dead: same one?
DJTweeny: Hi syntroxis, Lil
Lil: Wouldn't miss it Cat
Cat: you missed the beginning but it will be posted soon
Lil: Hi shoes, Beet, Tweeny, Cat, rebozo, et al
shoes for the dead: speedy elvis
NancyKat: Hi, Lil!
rebozoette: hi lil
Lil: Hi NancyJat
cease: i cant get any audio on this computer
Beet: This is funny
Lil: *Kat
Cat: it is indeed, beet
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
NancyKat: Lil-is ok.
rebozoette: steady steady
Lil: Love it so far!
Cat: that is hilarious
DJTweeny: lolol
rebozoette: my gumbas
DJTweeny: I changed FTP clients and, so the collage won't be posted until later. Sorry Cat
Cat: fine, tween. i'll post a link on facebook to my site tomorrow
Beet: this is brilliant
Rufus_T_Firetween: for the collages which have already been posted...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s new Collage Archive at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
DJTweeny: 'tis indeed Beet :)
Cat: i think proctor wrote some of this, not sure. it was on bergman's digital diner show in 95
||||||||| Elmer Ho bounds in at 9:12 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
DJTweeny: Hi Elmer
NancyKat: Ho, Elmer!
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Elmer Ho: No, but I wish I was
Cat: this is the great austin elvis from roly maidens
Cat: ho
shoes for the dead: hey Elmer
||||||||| "Happy" Harry Cox pops in and say "I was right! Everything I knew WAS wrong! You CAN get "Profiles in Barbecue Sauce", chock full of meaty Firesign scripts!"
Cat: austin loved doin nixon.
Elmer Ho: Hi Ho Hey everyone
DJTweeny: I can believe that
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Plays at http://www.seemreal.com
Beet: Howdy elmer
Elmer Ho: i'm on a dorked up computer tonight and can't hear the stream
Elmer Ho: makes me sad
DJTweeny: awwww :(
DJTweeny: well, the replay will be up tomorrow evening
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 9:15 PM, dragging Nabby by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
NancyKat: D'awww shucks.
shoes for the dead: i was that way last week, ho
Cat: this is my nixon collage. it''l be posted
Nabby: Where's the fire?
Cat: hi nab
Beet: Hey Nab
shoes for the dead: hey Nab
NancyKat: Nabby-In your eyes! HEY!
Nabby: Hey!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Nabby
Lil: Ba dum bum
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Medium Richard close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 9:16 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the anteroom.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Richard
NancyKat: Hello, Medium richard.
Beet: Hi medium
shoes for the dead: hey MR
Cat: Medium Rary, our chef and guru
Medium Richard: Good morning or night!
||||||||| "9:16 PM? 9:16 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Notelrac should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Notelrac enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
NancyKat: Crayyayayzay Agnew...
Cat: one of those things
Beet: greetings notel
NancyKat: Hi, Notelrac.
Nabby: Rufus, Lil, NancyK, Cat, Beet, shoeses, and Tweeny, Jello!
Lil: Hope nothing like last week ack
Medium Richard: The unsuspecting public is the BEST kind.
Cat: rac and roll
NancyKat: Nabby-Raspberry or Grape?
Nabby: coolstuff Cat
Nabby: Yes pleez, NK
Nabby: what?
NancyKat: Nabby-LOL...yez...
DJTweeny: Hi NoteIrac
Nabby: Hi Note (C#)
rebozoette: hi nabby
Nabby: hey reboz!
rebozoette: noon ell
||||||||| 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."
shoes for the dead: milk
Nabby: great bit - Austin does great Nix
Elmer Ho: Huzzah! Elmer has stream!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out David Ossman’s new book “MARSHMALLOWS AND DESPAIR” at www.davidossman.com
NancyKat: Huzzah1
Nabby: Hooray
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new video series from Phil Proctor and Jamie Alcroft - BOOMERS ON A BENCH >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz_4vJNLwgFrLR3N0RN1Tw
shoes for the dead: pee in it!
Elmer Ho: had to install winamp on this thing
NancyKat: Spoony Agnew?
Lil: YAHOO!!!!
Cat: this is from Lawyer's Hospital, I think.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s newsletter “PLANET PROCTOR” at www.planetproctor.com
Lil: Love Winamp
NancyKat: Or is that the New Pokemon-Yuri Gellar?
rebozoette: what no aspect
Nabby: winamp 2.91 the sweet spot!
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Merlyn', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:23 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'cobbo', just granted probation at 9:23 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
NancyKat: Hello, Merlyn.
DJTweeny: Hi Merlyn
Beet: Hi Merl
rebozoette: j e l l o
DJTweeny: Hi cobbo
NancyKat: And cobbo
Nabby: Hi Merl
Cat: merl, cob
shoes for the dead: hey Merl
Lil: Hey Merlyn!
Merlyn: hey
Beet: Hi cobb
Beet: ty cobb
Nabby: Hi cod I mean cob
Elmer Ho: hullo mr cobb, I like your salads
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Nabby: Catherwood give everyone a cod
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a cod.
DJTweeny: lol
Elmer Ho: i have this record
Cat: Coy coi,
Medium Richard: Milhous and irregularity - a winning team!
NancyKat: Great-Now i can make a Fish Sandwich!
Elmer Ho: "begatting of the president"
rebozoette: chips salt and vinegar
Nabby: pork?
Elmer Ho: if you read tonights chat transcript in order it sounds really weird
NancyKat: With a salad on the side...
||||||||| At 9:26 PM, cobbo vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Medium Richard: Comes the regulution, there'll be irregularity sandwiches for all.
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: did we harass cobbo too much?
||||||||| 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!"
rebozoette: elmer the voices need to be echoed lol
Medium Richard: oh no not that
NancyKat: The False Profit, Margin?
Elmer Ho: whawhawhawhawhatatatatatat?
NancyKat: Everyone needs a good ol' Dick/
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
NancyKat: /?
Elmer Ho: i just loooove Jim's rant... wait for it
rebozoette: grand
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and intones "Presenting 'Clem', just granted probation at 9:30 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Cat: elmer, if it's not weird here, you're in the wrong place.
DJTweeny: Hi Clem
Beet: Clem!
Cat: clam's brother?
NancyKat: hi, uh, clem
Clem: hey everyone!
shoes for the dead: hey ccClem
NancyKat: If you can't be weird here, where can you be weird?
DJTweeny: good point Nancy
Lil: Hey Clem Clam
Lil: Indeed it is Nancy
||||||||| Catherwood escorts cobbo into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mumbles something about 9:32 PM, then departs.
DJTweeny: wb cobbo
Cat: welcome, cobbo
Cat: the firesign exists to create weirdness
Beet: Where is Nixon when you don't want/need him?
rebozoette: so funny
Medium Richard: A gay old time??
Cat: i should have made the flintstones louder
shoes for the dead: good one, cat
Beet: That was fun
||||||||| 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!"
rebozoette: thanks cat brilliant
Medium Richard: Wow - all of us... that's a LOT of Bozos.
Elmer Ho: thanks Cat
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
Beet: You may already BE there.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign's “I THINK WE’RE ALL BOZOS ON THIS BUS”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out BOZOS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bozos-ln
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NancyKat: Medium-A busfull, you could say.
Nabby: don't crowd the wheels
Medium Richard: Ah...
Elmer Ho: biting through...
Cat: i did that relatively quickly. there is So much firesign/nixon stuff.
Nabby: (oh ya thanks Cat!)
Beet: Don't forget to pump your shoes.
Nabby: dutch fudd street?
Elmer Ho: i don't wear em anymore
Nabby: I have to adjust my vertical
Cat: next up, i have a collage based on ry cooder's Get Rythym and then Alice's Brazerko Lounge
Medium Richard: Call any vegetable...
Nabby: holymolygrams
NancyKat: Broccoli.
Elmer Ho: doe PA play the guitar on this?
DJTweeny: Since you took up playing the flute, Elmer?
shoes for the dead: tired eyes, gonna listen out
Cat: probably, ho
DJTweeny: rest well, shoes
shoes for the dead: Park it and Lock it!!
Elmer Ho: gnight shoes
Cat: he was their designated guitarist
Beet: Nite shoes. Take care
Cat: sleep well, shoes.
Elmer Ho: sort of like being the designated drunkard?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out “I THINK WE’RE ALL BOZOS ON THIS BUS” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bozos-rv
Medium Richard: Indian vegetables... not interfering with stream-peeing...
Cat: they all drank, the few still alive still ldo.
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Nabby: where's the rubber li--oh there it is
Nabby: squeek
rebozoette: deflate something
Nabby is awestruck by scary night
Beet: incredible illusion - very real
Nabby: is this simulated do you suppose?
Nabby: honk honk
Nabby is sticking it out.
Cat: stimulating
rebozoette: whats that well its air
Beet: He says "sync" the same time as the recording
rebozoette: you are now blurry
DJTweeny: hadn't caught that Beet
DJTweeny: interesting
||||||||| cobbo leaves to catch the 9:43 PM train to Billville.
cease: this is my favourite because it competes the story started with electrician
cease: thus, the quadrology.
rebozoette: ki ya yeah
Medium Richard: But was the turtle Clarence... or was it Freddie???
Beet: I still regard this as one of the greatest masterpieces in the recording medium.
cease: have you heard the quad version, beet?
cease: i have not.
DJTweeny: a groundbreaking use of multitracking, for sure
Beet: I used to own it with a four-channel system
cease: very much audio influenced by disney,worlds fair rides
cease: wow, beet.
Medium Richard: IN THE DENSE GAS
cease: i' sure you mentioned it here before, but i remain amazed. doubt i'll ever hear it
Elmer Ho: "hid from each other, or fell down"
cease: small dying creatures is an interesting line
Beet: Listening to it stoned took you into a completely different universe
DJTweeny: Was just thinking how wild it would be if your and my families passed each other at the '64 World's Fair
DJTweeny: Cat
cease: we may have passed each other. montreal too.
DJTweeny: you never know
rebozoette: za zoo
Elmer Ho: i always wondered if "plow man.. I dig the earth" was a ref to All along the watchtower
DJTweeny: anybody else here attend the 64/67 World's Fairs?
Medium Richard: Civilization has been dropping great loads ever since.
Merlyn: By the way, these playlists haven't been publicly announced yet:
Merlyn: All Nick Danger XM radio video clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FL42wODWk&list=PLFLiX0DkzSl3bLz-nWjt90nQbFqzvXquk&index=1
Merlyn: All Mark Time XM radio video clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FL42wODWk&index=1&list=PLFLiX0DkzSl2kFbGXknZNLML0vNmQGrxD
Beet: Phlegmish village
rebozoette: I did oh wow
DJTweeny: Could be, Elmer
||||||||| 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."
DJTweeny: cool, Merlyn
Nabby: this scene is memorable
rebozoette: nabby oh nabby
Cat: you did great work with those clips, merl
NancyKat: Whirl-itzer
DJTweeny: Merlyn, have you considered making a FST channel for all their stuff, as Proctor has for Boomers?
Beet: Corn starch
Nabby: fudd was a brilliant fudd
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out “I THINK WE’RE ALL BOZOS ON THIS BUS” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bozos-rv
Nabby watches the balls spin.
Medium Richard: You're too young to think about that, Beulah...
Merlyn: That's where those clips are tween, the channel isn't public yet
DJTweeny: lol
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 9:53 PM, dragging Don G O'Vanni by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?"
Beet: Pushover Principle runs the universe
DJTweeny: Ah, OK
DJTweeny: Hi Don
Nabby: It's electric.
Don G O'Vanni: Hi Bozos.
Nabby: Hey Don
Beet: howdy dgo
NancyKat: Hi, Don...
Medium Richard: OUCH
NancyKat: The Future is then.
Don G O'Vanni: Nabby...Nancy...
Beet: What is a "strone" ?
Cat: Don
Nabby: It's mechanical. Today it would be virtual.
cease: the darkest hour is just before the Don
||||||||| It's 9:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Clem - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Don G O'Vanni: Cat
Merlyn: There are two other clips; this one, the eulogy for Lew Tebbetts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzJLh2VCV0
Merlyn: And this one when Ossman, Jerry Stearns, and I visited Mystery Science Theatre 3000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8yt3va1ICo
Merlyn: The MST3K one is pretty dark at times, no lights...
NancyKat: cease-Inded it is.
Nabby: Jerry Stearns rocks - My home state radio play cool guy
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
Nabby: thanks Merl
Beet: Did you hear they're starting MST3K again?
Merlyn: We'll probably open it up soon, it just depends on what David and Phil want to do exactly.
cease: yes beet
Merlyn: I heard that, beets
DJTweeny: Hadn't heard that Beet
Merlyn: There's also rifftrax
Nabby: merl may I post these on the FST Facebook page later?
Cat: they do seem to be into releasing as much as possible
Nabby: a fine album it is
Merlyn: No nabby, the Firesign guys want to announce them
Nabby: ahhh no probbers Merl
Merlyn: sure thing nabbs
DJTweeny: Are we getting close to the DVD release, Merlyn?
Nabby: tanx for sharing meantime
Nabby: good golly miss molly, need to gooooo
Beet: This is priceless
Merlyn: Not sure, tween, Taylor would be the best one to ask. I do have a DVD image made of Danger/Time clips with menus and everything
Beet: Nite Nab
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:59 PM and Paulo steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJTweeny: cool
DJTweeny: Hi Paulo
Nabby: thanks Tween & Merl & Rufus & Cat & take care ALL!
Cat: i paid several dollars for my copy.
NancyKat: BB, nabby!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Elmer Ho: sweet dreams Nab
Merlyn: made that years and years ago, soon after the XM show ended, but the guys weren't sure about releasing it vs. XM radio owning it. Bergman was mostly concerned about copyright issues
||||||||| 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!"
Cat: by nab. hi paulo
Beet: saw that one coming
Paulo: Howdy all.
Merlyn: Do you have a DVD of the Danger/Time thing cat? I know I gave some out, don't remember who except the guys and taylor for sure
Cat: h9ws it goin, paulo?
Cat: what is that, merl?
Beet: Hi Paulo
Cat: a sort of game thing?
rebozoette: motorcade overload
Medium Richard: NO. A flop flip.
Cat: i think i do, merl.
NancyKat: Hello, Paulo.
Cat: need it back?
Lil: LOL RE
Merlyn: I made a DVD of the clips I just posted of the XM radio bits of Nick Danger and Mark Time, I thought that might have been what you said you paid a few dollars for
Lil: Night Nab
Beet: Doctor uh
Merlyn: (to cat)
Cat: no, not what i was thinking of, merl.
Merlyn: ok
||||||||| Outside, the 10:02 PM bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Tim coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Cat: i just know of the clips posted on the firesign site
Cat: hi tim
Beet: Tim
DJTweeny: Hi Tim
Cat: i have some animations from you about mark time, others i think
Elmer Ho: unhappy macnam
Cat: bettre than low tim
Medium Richard: Sysstat uptime? Let's kill -9 this PID.
Merlyn: Here's the future Firesign youtube channel, but since all of the clips are still unlisted, none of the clips show up in the empy list: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXdhVqpbttKSvBWGWHSBkgw
Cat: did you break the president, paulo?
Elmer Ho: it's great how the background music goes all wobbly here
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new video series from Phil Proctor and Jamie Alcroft - BOOMERS ON A BENCH >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz_4vJNLwgFrLR3N0RN1Tw
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
NancyKat: Hi, Tim.
Beet: When they "cross the tracks" the announcer has an accent on the other side
Rufus_T_Firetween: ha! Hadn't noticed that
Cat: there is always something to discover
Merlyn: good catch beet
Rufus_T_Firetween: no doubt, Cat
Merlyn: also, one of the clips is the cartoon version of the haunted space station they just mentioned
Elmer Ho: gotta run - thanks for another evening of simulated exhilaration
Rufus_T_Firetween: se ya, Elmer
Beet: See ya Elmer
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out David Ossman’s new book “MARSHMALLOWS AND DESPAIR” at www.davidossman.com
Medium Richard: Later
||||||||| "10:07 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Elmer Ho, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the bushes.
NancyKat: BB, Elmer.
Cat: by elmer
Beet: Clem senses trouble from Artie
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the entire FIRESIGN THEATRE CATALOG at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/montage.html
Beet: It took me a while to realize that Clem doesn't confront Dr, Memory, the clone does
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Archives For The FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS can be found at: www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
Cat: good point beet
rebozoette: one circuit short
Beet: The Gypsy program
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** If you're on Facebook, you can Like the official Firesign Fan Page here >> https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208 - and if you’re on Twitter and would like to get official Firesign tweets, follow @FiresignNews - there are also a couple of other unofficial Facebook fan pages at >> Chromium Switch - https://www.facebook.com/groups/50372982074/?ref=br_tf - and Firesign Theatre - https://www.facebook.com/groups/21145641274/
Beet: Wise Ass Barnie
Medium Richard: No?
Beet: Wondeful
||||||||| 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!"
cease: Forget it tape head, my favourite line/idea in Firsign
cease: the future can't be known.
Medium Richard: Trying hard to remember the future...
Beet: How could I forget that?
Beet: Incredibly profound
Beet: Hadn't thought about that Mr Tween
DJTweeny: yeah, it's very cool
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: a DOMM Dear Friends broadcast “A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE INQUISITION”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
'
Beet: Who am these guys, anyhow?
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Medium Richard: But creative mispronounciation...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
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/
Medium Richard: Sweet dreams, all...!
Beet: Nite Medium
NancyKat: Nigh, nigh, Medium.
rebozoette: pea knotz
Cat: you too, richard
DJTweeny: Please join us again, Richard :)
||||||||| It's 10:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tim - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
rebozoette: inflate them till they squeek
Cat: vist us when you return to life, tim
Beet: Hello NSA guy
rebozoette: laughter therapy
cease: i heard bozos in an abandoned basebal stadium in oct 71 in hamamatsu, japan.
Beet: that's kind of freaky, cease
cease: a freind at stanford sent me the album and i recorded it onto cassette on my bosse'es system. then went with firiedns to said stadium an listned to it. very trippy
rebozoette: cool cat
Beet: on speakers or headphones?
DJTweeny: that's wild, Cat
cease: car stereo
Beet: I can only imagine what a French Lick is
Cat: echoing in that stadium was amazing
Beet: I bet that was a perfect way to hear it for the first time
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski steps in at 10:36 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Cat: hi jam
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: That darned time machine!
cease: jam
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Darn that time machine!
rebozoette: extra parts manual
Beet: Hi JAM
cease: one of my feeds has ceased
NancyKat: JAM!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Cat beet, rt al!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nancy!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: et al
DJTweeny: Hi Johan
Lil: Hiya Jammie!!!
NancyKat: ooooomlout!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: DJT! Everybody okay?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Lil!
Beet: "Heil Schickelgruber" doesn't exactly role off the tongue
cease: its impossible to listen to the firesigh and not be more than ok
DJTweeny: Yeah, Merlyn seems to have dissuaded the idiots we had in here last week from bothering us any more
DJTweeny: no it doesn't, Beet
||||||||| It's 10:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Don G O'Vanni - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Sorry I missed that last week...
Beet: Merl knows his stuff
rebozoette: cuff UM
DJTweeny: You youu aren't, Johan, I assure you
DJTweeny: it was a real mess
||||||||| Catherwood enters with toadaway close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 10:40 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the sitting room.
DJTweeny: ummlatt them!
cease: toad
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: That bad?!?
Beet: yo toad
DJTweeny: Hi toad
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hello Toadie
DJTweeny: had to reset the chat numerous times
NancyKat: Hi, Toad.
rebozoette: no motions lol
DJTweeny: BTW folks - I'll be playing Cat's "Hunter & Bear" in its entirety again next week, since it was badly interrupted last week
Beet: excellent
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Not just because I missed it? Aw...
cease: good to hear
DJTweeny: haha
DJTweeny: smooth sailing this evening, thankfully :)
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Not many recall the John Birchers today
Beet: no bumps in the road tonight
DJTweeny: They're still around, Johan
DJTweeny: http://www.thenewamerican.com/ << Bircher web site
Lil: good on ya Tweeny
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Sorry to hear that, dat, really sorry...
cease: i'm productive as long as i'm productive
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: DJT, not dat...
DJTweeny: Wonder what happened to Llan this evening?
DJTweeny: and we _still_ haven't heard from Dex
cease: i remember seeing a bircher billboad inthe desert outside of la
DJTweeny: I know how that works, Cat
Cat: am i here?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: They don't have much of a public presence in the southeast, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were under ground, rocks, etc.
cease: snootin?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Where's your school spirit, cease?
Lil: where is this material from Tweeny?
DJTweeny: DOMM
DJTweeny: see the banner :)
Lil: it sounds more complete than the version I have
Lil: sorry
DJTweeny: That last bit was of course included on the Dear Friends album
Lil: I have to get DOMM
DJTweeny: These are the shows that all the Dear Friends album clips came from
Lil: not the entire bit though
Beet: Highly recommended
cease: yes you to, lil
DJTweeny: yeah, Ossman went through the shows and pulled clips for the Dear Friends album
cease: you do
rebozoette: mesz more eyes
DJTweeny: Lil >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
Lil: Indeed I do
Lil: Thanks Tweeny
||||||||| 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
'
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I had Dear Friends double LP, and I am still amazed how much I liked it, though it was unlike their "full-fledged" works like Electrician or Nick Danger
NancyKat: I am not long for bed, lovers. Don't take any wooden nickels! *HUGGS* to all.
Lil: question
DJTweeny: Sure, it's a compilation album like Shows For Industry
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
DJTweeny: Take care, Nancy
cease: yeah their bits are as good as their big plays
DJTweeny: *Shoes
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: As, being in the deep south, their radio work was generally unavailable around here.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nite Nancy Kat
Lil: Phil and Peter said they filmed TV or Not TV
Beet: Nite Kat
Lil: Anybody know where to get that?
Lil: Night Nancy
cease: yes i have it, lil
||||||||| It's 10:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| toadaway - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
cease: it may be on youtube
rebozoette: no new babies hahaha
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Lil: Oh wow, is it available for purchase
cease: i used some of it in my collage The 6th Album
Lil: The audio is cease but haven't seen the video version there
Beet: Nice evening. Thanks everyone. Thanks Cat for a great collage. Thanks Tween. G'Nite.
cease: thanks again, tween
Lil: Great show Tweeny and Cat, thank you muchly
Merlyn: thansk wteen
||||||||| Around 10:56 PM, Merlyn walks off into the sunset...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Thanks everyone! Love, love, love to all!
rebozoette: Beet Cat DJTweeny NancyKat rebozoette Uh, Jerry thanks cat and tweeny grand master sound
Lil: Night Beet
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
rebozoette: thanks all
cease: i think it will be on a fior sale dvd later
cease: you too, jam
cease: for sale
Lil: Ah my favorite sermon
cease: off we go
Lil: Would love to see that one cease
Lil: Night all, great show
||||||||| 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...
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood leads Boyle M. Owl inside, makes a note of the time (11:10 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 11:18 PM and Douchebag bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Boyle M. Owl - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Notelrac - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| capt scarlet sneaks in around 11:56 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
capt scarlet: Is it too late to join?
capt scarlet: Guess so. Better luck next time
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| 12:00 AM: Everbody jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
||||||||| It's 12:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| capt scarlet - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 12:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Medium Richard - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 12:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Everbody - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 12:55 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...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Douchebag - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 1:15 AM and bozonotrous bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| It's 1:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| bozonotrous - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Paulo - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 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:
||||||||| Lil - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| syntroxis - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - 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:
||||||||| cease - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| NancyKat - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| shoes for the dead - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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 measles
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| rebozoette - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 4:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cat - dead from measles
||||||||| 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
capt scarlet
Cat
cease
Clem
DJTweeny
Don G O'Vanni
Elmer Ho
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
Lil
Medium Richard
Merlyn
Nabby
NancyKat
Paulo
rebozoette
Rufus_T_Firetween
shoes for the dead
syntroxis
URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bozos-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/montage.html
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/
www.davidossman.com
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bozos-rv
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
www.planetproctor.com
http://www.seemreal.com
http://www.thenewamerican.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/21145641274/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/50372982074/?ref=br_tf
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz_4vJNLwgFrLR3N0RN1Tw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXdhVqpbttKSvBWGWHSBkgw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FL42wODWk&index=1&list=PLFLiX0DkzSl2kFbGXknZNLML0vNmQGrxD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FL42wODWk&list=PLFLiX0DkzSl3bLz-nWjt90nQbFqzvXquk&index=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzJLh2VCV0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8yt3va1ICo



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