A Firesign Chat
08/09/2018




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 August 09, 2018 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 6:49 PM, dragging DJTweeny by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
||||||||| 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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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:24 PM, dragging Rufus_T_Firetween by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
||||||||| 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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||||||||| llanwydd bounds in at 8:38 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: hey tween
llanwydd: didnt want to miss the overture again
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Joni Mitchell)
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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DJTweeny: Hi llan
Rufus_T_Firetween: The album is "Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm"
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski enters at 8:46 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Chapeau Manger.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Johan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Evening, RFT!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Love Joni!
Rufus_T_Firetween: The album is "Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm"
Rufus_T_Firetween: some fine Joni tuneage
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Not familiar with this album, but it’s wonderful
Rufus_T_Firetween: excellent production quality to boot
||||||||| Night Gnus sashays in at 8:50 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Her stuff’s usually pristine production wise...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Gnus
llanwydd: never heard this before
Rufus_T_Firetween: true Johan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi nightly!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi llan!
||||||||| 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!"
llanwydd: I have often said that joni is canada's greatest genius
||||||||| 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!"
llanwydd: hi JAM
||||||||| 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."
llanwydd: I wonder it Cat would agree with me
llanwydd: greatest artist anyway
Night Gnus: Good Evening Fire Guys! I am Fartagus!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Not taking ANYTHING away from Joni, Leonard Cohen has to be a premier Canadian export.
Rufus_T_Firetween: although it was fitting that she was featured in PBS's "American Masters" series
Night Gnus: Nice so see so many, and Catherwood too boot!
||||||||| Catherwood walks right past Night Gnus
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol Gnus
||||||||| 8:54 PM: Cease jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
llanwydd: the greatest genius is probably too smart to let us know
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Cease
llanwydd: Hi Cat
Night Gnus: Hi Cat....Hi Hat
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Absolutely, Rufus, she is a true master
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Cease!
Night Gnus: Gnu guy here, hear? Not sure how this all works? Please advise.....
Cease: HI all
llanwydd: but would she call herself an american master?
Night Gnus: Whos Who/
llanwydd: you are doing fine, gnu
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : You’re doing it Gnus!
Night Gnus: Muchas Grassus
Night Gnus: Yes the firesale store....never can have enough.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : She probably considers herself a singer/songwriter
Cease: there was one about neal young too. still considers himself a canuck but has lived in cal since the 60s, joni too.
Night Gnus: so whos Catherwood wit da stripes? George Tirebiter himself?
||||||||| Catherwood walks right past Night Gnus
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Catherwood, introduce yourself to Night Gnus. And be nice...
||||||||| Catherwood introduces himself to night gnus and be nice .
Night Gnus: Gotta Love Mr. Young. Dem Canadians gave the Acadians
Rufus_T_Firetween: THis is a fun tune
Cease: Newcomer, Gnus?
||||||||| 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
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||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, August 09, 2018 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: I love this bit
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Elmer Ho in through the front door at 9:01 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Two Canadians I have worked with are Sarah McLachlin & Jimmy Johnson, both from Nova Scotia, fine musicians & really nice people!
Cease: Just read Robbie Robertson's autobi, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/books/robbie-robertson-of-the-band-tells-all-in-testimony.html
Night Gnus: Life's too serious to get serious about!
Night Gnus: Robbie's book is great. Nice read
Rufus_T_Firetween: I recall liking what I heard from Sarah
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : So right Gnus, so reet!
Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl Cease
Night Gnus: ahh reet!
Cease: Certainly one of our best exports, if you're talking song writers
Rufus_T_Firetween: "Help! It's The Police!"
llanwydd: this was on the Forward Into the Past album
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Elmer
Cease: Elmer
Elmer Ho: not since I left Colorado, Rufus
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
llanwydd: so was the flip side, I dont remember the title
Elmer Ho: hey Cease
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Stunted experts + the only ones to trust!
Night Gnus: DJTweeny, hello from Lockhart!
llanwydd: cool
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s
“JUST FOLKS: A FIRESIGN CHAT”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out JUST FOLKS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-rv
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Rufus_T_Firetween: Lockhart? kewl :)
llanwydd: live. lol
Elmer Ho: Lockhart, as in June?
Elmer Ho: oops, this is August
Night Gnus: Yes lovely downtown Lockhart! Just moved from beautiful downtown Buda!
Night Gnus: Lassie is my friend
Elmer Ho: good to recycle some of the better bits from Let's Eat
||||||||| Not Ed waltzes in at 9:10 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: Hi Not
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi ≠ Ed
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Not!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Never been to either, Gnus
Elmer Ho: howdy !Ed
Night Gnus: Who dat? Not ED?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Heard Buda is pretty cool, what with all the chanting and such
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Catherwood, page mr. R. T. Choke?
||||||||| Catherwood walks over to Johan Amadeus Myjetski and queries "Someone mention my name?"
Not Ed: Hey llan, Rufus, JAM, EHo, Gnu & Tweeny
Night Gnus: No worries Rufus, theres time.....and it flies
Not Ed is flying right now!
llanwydd: this is supposed to be charles kuralt isnt it?
Night Gnus: This is so funny...need to break this out more often
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “JUST FOLKS” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** THE PROCTOR PODCAST - From the mind, and life, of comedy great Phil Proctor >> http://theproctorpodcast.podbean.com/
||||||||| "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!"
Night Gnus: Soory Chatters....gotta' check out....see ya in the funny pages!
llanwydd: nite gnu
Cease: come again, gnus
Not Ed: Later Gnu
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : No Gnus is not good Gnus! See you next time!
Not Ed: well put JAM well put
||||||||| 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 Beet falls out at 9:16 PM.
Beet: Evening everyone.
Not Ed: Beet!
Cease: Beet, Not
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Beet
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Alert, Beet!
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Allreet, Beet!
Beet: Hi Not, Dr Cease, Dr Tween
Beet: Howdy JAM
Not Ed greets Cease in traditional Martian fashion.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I prefer grape jellyfish...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “JUST FOLKS” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
Cease: I think I had jelly fish in a Chinese restaurant. wasn't bad.
Not Ed: Who doesn't.
Not Ed: Yeah I've had it, like fried I think?
Not Ed: What isn't fried.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Muddled classes - under siege these days
Beet: I've worked a pump in my time.
Cease: My dad began working in his brother's gas station when he was 10.
Not Ed: I'll bet
Not Ed: Beet
Cease: this was the 20s.
Beet: Did he check the tires and the fluids?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I’m afraid so, Beet...
Cease: wasnmt much to check in 1927
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'NancyKat', just granted probation at 9:21 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: Ah, the good old days.
Not Ed: lol love this
Not Ed: Hi ho NancyK
llanwydd: hi Nancy
Rufus_T_Firetween: NancyKat! Great to have you back :-)
Beet: Hi Miss Nan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Nancy!
Elmer Ho: agreed !Ed
Cease: Hi Nancy
NancyKat: Meeeererp!
Elmer Ho: was that a hairball or a mouse?
Not Ed: good 2 C U
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Sounds like a chinchilla
NancyKat: Hi all, doing this on my phone piggybacking off my bfs net.
Cease: how are things in chicago?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Good to see ya none the less
NancyKat: Not so well, we're actually in the process of packing etc. And moving in the next few days. Springfield or bust...
Cease: its been good for the Simpsons.
Elmer Ho: oh my, do I love Ben Bland...
Elmer Ho: good luck with the move, Nancy - always a challenge
Elmer Ho: we have stayed in the same house largely because we can't imagine packing up 25 years worth of accumulation...
NancyKat: Yup...apparently the complex we're moving into looks like a donut....ill be on the lookout for Apu and squishies...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Best wishes for a smooth move, NancyKat
Cease: indeed elmer.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “JUST FOLKS” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
NancyKat: Elmer...agreed...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
Cease: we've lived in our current house for 15 years and that's the longest we've lived anywhere.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Just moved from a house I was in for 22 years. Most everything’s in storage while I find another place
Cease: phil's lived in his house a long time too, maybe 50 years?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I haven’t watched tv in 5 months. Maybe that’s my problem...
Beet: No TV? Almost sacriligeous.
Elmer Ho: as John Lennon said "a few weeks of telly is as good as pot"
Beet: Or however you spell it.
Elmer Ho: Beet, yes, it's "TV"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease: phil's lived in his house a long time too, maybe 50 years? << Wow, in Beverly Hills? FST must have made some good money back in those days ;)
NancyKat: Yah, i hate moving, kinda like Carlins 2nd version of stuff etc.
Beet: Thanks
Cease: indeed, nancy
Cease: Dwarf sold a million copies.
||||||||| 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."
Rufus_T_Firetween hasn't watched TV in years, and his apartment complex forces him to pay for cable.
Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: YY @ Carlin, NancyKat :)
NancyKat: I need tv...MUST HAVE PBS! I still have the Weirdly Cool videotape somewhere.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I didn’t realize it sold THAT many! Wow!
Beet: I wasn't aware that they did that well with any of their albums, Cease.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Back in 10 folks!
Cease: plus proc was a very successful actor from a young age.
NancyKat: Beet, im sure word of mouth is a good part if that....although im not sure what amount was put towards marketin.
llanwydd: I didnt know that either but I wonder if it might be because High School Madness appeared on a popular compilation album called 30 Years of Recorded Comedy
llanwydd: among other reasons of course
Cease: i htink college radio had matured to a point where they had great air play by then.
Cease: i was playing them on the air in ottawa in 69 and they were widely played in those days.
Beet: This makes me feel better about their success as artists.
llanwydd: that and Rooing Stone magazine did a front page article on the about 1969
llanwydd: I mean Rolling Stone
llanwydd: I mean them
Cease: they really captured their moment in time, and in a sense are still in it.
NancyKat: llan-Wow, id love to see that issue!
llanwydd: good greef, my spelign is gong heighwyre
Cease: phil and dave performed in kansas city just recently.
Cease: it must be on line somewhere, nancy
Beet: I was wondering whether they were going to continue performing.
Cease: well, phil proctor nearly died a couple of weeks ago, so i suspect performing is not his priority.
llanwydd: did not know that cat. what happened?
Not Ed: phil phil phil
Not Ed: heart stuff
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: it's in his facebook posts.
Cease: i'm sure he'll describe it in his next Planet Proctor.
Not Ed: good advice C
Beet: Hope he is out of danger.
Not Ed: he's home from hospital
DJTweeny: I believe he said he said his new pacemaker seemed to be doing the job
Cease: he just told me a few hours ago that he's going to a reading of his play, starring ed asner, tonight.
DJTweeny: *he said
Not Ed: nice C
DJTweeny: kewl Cease
Not Ed: cool Tweeny
NancyKat: Wow, im glad hes better.
Elmer Ho: hope he's doing OK
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Back in 10 folks!
Cease: i think he pushes himself to hard, but i'm not him.
Not Ed: yo JAM
Beet: Prayers with our friend.
Cease: dig this, of all the firesigns proctor REALLY LOVES PERFORMING
DJTweeny: Well, he started out in theater in NYC
Cease: it is his life, almost since birth, as you'll discover when you read or listen to his autobiography.
Beet: He's pretty darn good at it.
Not Ed: radio people/voice people tend to be pretty upbeat, even type A, they ride stress and are usually so cool, nice folks but driven, some of them
DJTweeny: that he is, Beet
Not Ed: indeed Beet
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“UNCONSCRIPTED”
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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Beet: Good one.
Not Ed: Nunes can bite the big one, btw
Not Ed: Sorry, off topic
Beet: I do enjoy these.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : The fencing I have done involved hammers and barbed wire...
NancyKat: JAM...have at thee!
Beet: lol JAM
Rufus_T_Firetween: Nune Of The Above?
Not Ed: Cat I like this one a lot
||||||||| 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!"
Not Ed: Ninja editing
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : A bed in!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s new collage “Unconscripted” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS
Beet: where?
Not Ed: Viet Nom Nom
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Not Ed: As the kids say
Not Ed: Ken Burns's Vietnam series, which is 1st rate, in on Netflix - HIGHLY recommended, even as we lived those times and places
Not Ed: IS on Netflix I meant
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : A cousin was in DaNang, said it was as beautiful as Hawaii, but then there was that pesky war thing...
Cease: I saw it on PBS. Had friends who were there on the US side, students who were there on the Viet side.
Not Ed: Yeah, that's a common comment - my stepdad--we called him sarge because he was one--said it was the most beautiful country he'd ever seen, and he's been all over the place
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I got ejected for my high school talent contest after winning it doing Phil Ochs’ Draft Dodger Rag
Beet: It's nice to know they were a presence in Viet Nam
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:55 PM and Elayne steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Not Ed: old gentleman now
Cease: HI El
Not Ed: Hi ho lejendary Elayne
Elayne: Hey! Someone left all these grapes in my path again. I'm getting angry over that. You might even say wrathful.
Beet: Hi Elayne.
Cease: Bourdain starts talking and Elayne shows up. coincidence?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Elayne
Elayne: Evenin' all!
NancyKat: *eats grapes*
Not Ed: synchronicity
Cease: Bit says "shit"
Elmer Ho: hello Elayne, hope all is wel
Elayne: J'accuse, NancyKat!
Elmer Ho: well
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Elayne
Elayne: All's well folks, I know I haven't been around much but I'm fine, didn't want anyone to worry.
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha E
NancyKat: Je suis desolee, Elayne, mais je suis faim pour les fruits!
Elayne: I do feel like I need to check in every now and then.
Cease: Glad to hear you're well
Elayne: Oh good lord, NancyKat, you win. It's French, Tish. I can't hold a cahdle.
Elayne: Or candle.
Elayne: Not typing very well at the moment.
Elmer Ho: ou est le Metro?
Cease: that didnt work too well for me last summer, el.
NancyKat: Tu parle francais? Lol.
Not Ed: groovy guys & gals, so good to see you all-must head out-IT IS THE NOURISHMENT INTERVAL-Cat thanks for your creativity-take care Tweeny & Rufus & Merl-see youz all next time!
Elayne: till trying to get Robin to take me to Paris via the Chunnel someday...
NancyKat: La metro est la bas, pres de la fenetres, aves les romans.
Elayne: Night Ed!
Cease: keep well fed, not.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Nite, Not!
Beet: Nite Not
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
NancyKat: Nighnigh, Not.
Elayne: Bon soir!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : So funny collage, Cat!
Elmer Ho: Mon oncle est malade, mais la rue est vert
Elmer Ho: au revoir, pas Ed
NancyKat: I dont get to practice my french much, weirdly enough, my BF IS Gomez, basically.
Elmer Ho: ha
||||||||| 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!"
Elmer Ho: once I got lost in Montreal, rehearsed in my head "pardonnez moi, ou se trouve..."
Elmer Ho: went up and asked someone and they replied "sorry, I don't speak French"
NancyKat: Catherwood, je vais prends un kir.
||||||||| Catherwood rushes over to NancyKat and says "Would you like something?"
Elmer Ho: c'est bon, Nancy
Elmer Ho: oops, lost track of time - gotta run
NancyKat: Well, i asked for a beer, but i realize i dont drink it...so, maybe some tea? *hands him a beret as payment*
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Nite Elmer!
Elmer Ho: in parting - if you haven't read Robert Wyatt's biography "Different Every Time" you should
NancyKat: Bb, Elmer...ou monsueir Ho....
Elmer Ho: very uplifting, in an odd way
Rufus_T_Firetween: Catherwood, please give everyone some joie de vivre
||||||||| Catherwood hands everyone some joie de vivre.
Elmer Ho: au revoir y'all
||||||||| "10:05 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Elmer Ho, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the brambles.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Love rob love Robert Wyatt!
Cease: by, elmer
NancyKat: Thanks, i thought id lost it!
Beet: fabulous
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Dear Friends broadcasts
“ALL NITE IMAGES”
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?
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Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
Elayne: I think I'm off too. Next week (maybe), all!
Cease: Keep well,El.
Rufus_T_Firetween: be well Elayne
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Bye E!
Beet: See ya Elmer
NancyKat: ,mew
Beet: Goodnight E
NancyKat: I must away as well...sleep be needed...huggz to all...hopefully by sunday i can chat and listen on an actual laptop....
Cease: hope to see you here again, Nancy.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Nite Nancy
||||||||| At 10:13 PM, NancyKat dashes out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
Beet: Next time Nan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Nah, he’s a lumberjack, jack!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Top of the world, Ma, top of the world!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new FIRESIGN CHAT SHOW ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/firesign/
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Wascality
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:24 PM and Booozo sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Boooozo
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Booozo!
Cease: Boo
Beet: hello boooozo
Booozo: I'm so glad to hear that the math works not
||||||||| It's 10:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: sound is gone
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Welcome to our little soirée
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : It’s baaack!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, should be OK now
Cease: Indeed
Rufus_T_Firetween: Internet glitch
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Or a glinternet itch...
Rufus_T_Firetween: they're the worst
Rufus_T_Firetween: but I hear they have a shot for that these days
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the video of David Ossman and Phil Proctor at the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS >> http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8134&loclr=eanw
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Oh, good! All they offered me was some cream that didn’t work...
Cease: one of my favourite firesign bits.
Rufus_T_Firetween: "The Bill Of Rights On The Outside" lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: great line :)
Beet: Elmer!
Cease: There he is.
llanwydd: there who is?
Cease: Elmer Ho
llanwydd: aha
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 10:44 PM, dragging A Congress of Senators by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: "They call him Flipper, Flipper..."
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Senator
A Congress of Senators: The sncient Greeks ate their servants, we throw away light bulbs.
Cease: Con gress
Rufus_T_Firetween votes for The Congress Of Wonders
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Con!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Nino says you're near Houston, TX (click on the Nino link at the bottom of the page
Rufus_T_Firetween: Austin here
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
A Congress of Senators: You would throw a salad on Caesar?
A Congress of Senators: pass the ketchup Heinz!
Beet: Worst of both worlds
Cease: It says I'm in Hawaii instead of Vancouver
Rufus_T_Firetween: yet another glitch :/
A Congress of Senators: It's but a little league away!
Cease: Nino is hallucinating. Maybe it's the heat.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I is sufferin’ deefness o’ da schpeekers
Rufus_T_Firetween: Nino is not having a good night
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : It’s alreet nu
A Congress of Senators: Come on hoard let's sack!
Rufus_T_Firetween: or the mushrooms
Beet: I'm about 80 miles from Leesburg
llanwydd: where does nino have me?
DJTweeny: Daytona, llan
llanwydd: I am about 60 miles from leesburg but I bet its a different leesburg
llanwydd: thanks tween
Beet: Daytona, Llan
Cease: robert e?
A Congress of Senators: In 507BC democracy was born.
Cease: in athens?
llanwydd: same guy probably. not same city
Rufus_T_Firetween: Catherwood, please give the senator a grape from ancient Greece
||||||||| Catherwood brings the senator a grape from ancient greece.
||||||||| 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 the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign
'
Beet: Leesburg was named to honor the influential Thomas Lee and not, as is popular belief, his son Francis Lightfoot Lee who lived in Loudoun and brought up the bill to establish Leesburg, nor as is sometimes thought, Robert E. Lee (his great-grandnephew).
A Congress of Senators: Let me shake the corn starch off my mukluks.
Cease: sound gone now?
llanwydd: democracy was a new idea that late?
Cease: sounds like a novel.
A Congress of Senators: Papoon for president! we know he's NOT INSANE!
DJTweeny: ** Remember folks, the chat/show starts officially every Thursday at 9pm Eastern, with warm-up music on the streams starting around 8:40pm Eastern
Cease: Gone with the Sound
Rufus_T_Firetween: nope Cat
A Congress of Senators: dog bless you all and food night.
Rufus_T_Firetween: stream's good
Cease: i think there was democratic governance as early as there was governence. it would have risen out of tribes
Rufus_T_Firetween: Join us next time :)
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Great collage cat! Love, love, love to all! Thanks!!!
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Cease: next week, phil goes to russia
Beet: Another good night for us. Thanks to all participants. Great collage, Dr Cease.Thanks for guiding us all, Dr Tween. G'Nite.
DJTweeny: kewl
DJTweeny: Should be an interesting story
DJTweeny: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Cease: Bye
||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| At 10:55 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Cease!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| A Congress of Senators - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| "11:16 PM? I'm late!" exclaims llanwydd, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the garden.
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Booozo - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| It's 12:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Night Gnus - 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:
A Congress of Senators
Beet
Booozo
Cease
DJTweeny
Elayne
Elmer Ho
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
llanwydd
NancyKat
Night Gnus
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://kurtericson.com/firesign/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://theproctorpodcast.podbean.com/
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-rv
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8134&loclr=eanw
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/books/robbie-robertson-of-the-band-tells-all-in-testimony.html



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