A Firesign Chat
09/27/2018




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 September 27, 2018 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Outside, the 8:52 AM crosstown bus from Virginia pulls away, leaving Beet coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Beet: Won't be in attendance tonight. Airborne to Texas. Hope to see everyone next week.
||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 9 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 9:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood leads DJTweeny inside, makes a note of the time (7:22 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| "8:16 PM? 8:16 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Rufus_T_Firetween should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Rufus_T_Firetween enters and sits on the couch.
||||||||| 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)
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DJTweeny: BANNER: ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Monkey Music)
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
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||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Monkey Music)
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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||||||||| Catherwood ushers ddywnall inside, makes a note of the time (8:44 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
ddywnall: howdy tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: allo ddywnall
DJTweeny: Only got to 80 here today. First time in months I've been able to open the place up
ddywnall: what do you mean, tweeny?
ddywnall: I bet you have Peter Gabriel on the playlist
DJTweeny: open the windows etc to the outside air
ddywnall: aha
DJTweeny: This sounds like Gabriel, but it isn't
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
DJTweeny: Martin Page
ddywnall: I meant if you are playing monkey music, you might have shock the monkey cued up
DJTweeny: In the House of Stone and Light - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_House_of_Stone_and_Light
DJTweeny: not that one, thought Cat might use it in tonight's collage
ddywnall: I see. thanks for the link
DJTweeny: "Going Ape On The FM Dial"
ddywnall: lol
DJTweeny: :)
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Harry Katz close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:54 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the Aviary.
DJTweeny: Hi Harry
ddywnall: hi harry
ddywnall: got the beatles cued up?
DJTweeny: I do
ddywnall: thought so
||||||||| 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!"
Harry Katz: Nope.
DJTweeny: Warren Zevon to close out the warm-up set
ddywnall: cool
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Harry Katz: I am embarrassed to say that only moments ago did I get the blatant weed reference in the stunt motorcycle
ddywnall: stunt motorcycle?
DJTweeny: Stunt motorcycle?
DJTweeny: Reebis Kennebis?
ddywnall: oh yes
Harry Katz: ist’s name. More proof that everything I knew was wrong.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:58 PM and late as usual, it's Cease, just back from Billville."
DJTweeny: I guess I did too
DJTweeny: Hi Cease
ddywnall: lol
ddywnall: howdy cat
Cease: Hi all
DJTweeny: as in cannibas
DJTweeny: hah
Cease: spent the early afternoon wandering aorund downtown van, taking pix.
Cease: feet still sore.
DJTweeny: Well then, you'll be happy to know that we're closing out the show tonight with A Child's Garden Of Grass" ;)
Cease: this is a little too country western for me.
Harry Katz: Ha!
DJTweeny: 'but's it a good kind of sore...'
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
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||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, September 27, 2018 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Cease: hs a great middle easternish tuna dish at a breakfast place called Cafe Medina, along with a great drink the guy had created
DJTweeny: California Country, Cease, Jackson and Linda on backing vocals
ddywnall: I see you know that art of backtiming, tween. when I was a dj I was the only one at the station who could do that
DJTweeny: any MJ-laced food yet?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Now playing: Firesign Theatre's KBOO Radio Show
“TALKING OVER EACH OTHER”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out the FIRESIGN THEATRE RADIO HOUR at KBOO Radio >> https://kboo.fm/program/firesign-theatre-radio-hour
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ddywnall: or who bothered
DJTweeny: I'm not even sure what that is, llan lol
||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| Outside, the 9:02 PM bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Not Ed coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJTweeny: Hi Not
Not Ed: KBOOOO
Not Ed: Cheers Tweeny
ddywnall: when you play a song that is just the right length to end at just the right time
DJTweeny: Great ID for a sation
DJTweeny: *station
ddywnall: I used to do it with weather reports and other announcements
Cease: Hi Not
Not Ed: Indeedy.
DJTweeny: Oh yeah, I time the opening set to the second
||||||||| 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."
Not Ed: Hey Cease & HK
Cease: http://www.medinacafe.com/
Not Ed: Noodle drop
ddywnall: I would time my own weather reports tc
ddywnall: I mean etc
Not Ed: Hey ddywn
Cease: the tuna dish was really good.
ddywnall: what was it, tween?
ddywnall: I mean, what was it, cat?
Not Ed: Brett K: The watermelons don't count.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cat's luv their tuna
||||||||| 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: Le Thon Ras-El Hanout (11:00 am) Rare Albacore Tuna, White Bean & Quinoa Salad, Tahini Dressing, Aleppo Butter, Ovendried Tomatoes & Fresh Herbs
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Elayne', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:07 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
ddywnall: R word! LOL
Elayne: Evenin' all!
Elayne: Sounds delicious, Cat.
Not Ed: Hi Elayne
ddywnall: hi elayne
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Elayne
Cease: There was a special cocktail the bar tender had been on TV making last month so I went there for that. It went amazingly well with the tuna dish, both very complex, multi-spiced and intellectually involving
Cease: Hi El
Harry Katz: Again I can’t get audio connection.
ddywnall: tahini enhances anything
Not Ed: Intense Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about The Firesign Theatre radio Hour at KBOO Radio at >> https://kboo.fm/program/firesign-theatre-radio-hour
Cease: Took 232 pictures, had a great meal and drink. Perfect day. Jays arent playing so they can't lose.
Not Ed: sorry HK
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
Rufus_T_Firetween: Beautiful day in Austin, as I was telling llan earlier
Rufus_T_Firetween: first time in months I've been able to have the place opened up
Not Ed: Rufus is at it again
ddywnall: it was well over 80 here tween
Cease: Leaves aren't quite reddened yet, but getting there.
Not Ed: nice Rufus
ddywnall: I miss foliage
Not Ed: Remember rivers....
Not Ed: Remember Joan Rivers....
ddywnall: on a sunday afternoon
||||||||| Outside, the 9:12 PM crosstown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Elmer Ho coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
ddywnall: hi elmer
Cease: Ho-san
Elmer Ho: where the hell am I?
Harry Katz: Before they changed the water
Elayne: 232 photos?! Wow. Yanks played this afternoon, VERY interesting 6th inning. Mets are currently winning 4-0.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Elmer
Cease: My7 Jays are barely a major league team this year. We gave our best pitchers to Yankees and Houston. Really smart
||||||||| 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!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: byw, Beet said earlier that he's on his way to Houston and won't be able to join us
Elmer Ho: howdy everybody
Cease: The cocktail was invented for Pride month so they had almost run out of ingredients but made it special for me.
Cease: Had lavender in it, very pretty, must find out the ingredients.
Cease: The lads really had a lot of fun doing these shows.
Elayne: Hey Tween!
Cease: too bad, tween. he's one of the few who appreciate my collages.
Elmer Ho: hey, we all look forward to your collages
Cease: thanks, elmer
Elmer Ho: speaking of collages, are any of PP's collages published?
Not Ed: Hey Eho
Elmer Ho: the ones in the DOMM book were interesting
Elmer Ho: hey !Ed
Cease: a lot of them are in the book that accompanies the dvd, Duke of Madness Motors
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
Cease: Phil was/is really into his collages.
Cease: I find that very inspiring.
Elmer Ho: remember the book "why Donny can't read"
||||||||| Catherwood leads The Real Dr. Gunderson in through the front door at 9:20 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Cease: Real
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Gunderson
Cease: You Yankees think Kavenawe will be confirmed?
The Real Dr. Gunderson: Good evening. Just got out of neuro-surgery.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Dunno, the hearings have been quite a circus
Rufus_T_Firetween: How's the patient, Dr.?
Elayne: If he's being voted in by mostly white men, then probably. I know #NotAllMen, but lately it really seems like #ProbablyAllMenInPower...
The Real Dr. Gunderson: He was sorry then and he's sorry now!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about The Firesign Theatre radio Hour at KBOO Radio at >> https://kboo.fm/program/firesign-theatre-radio-hour
Cease: lol real
Not Ed: Waz Real
Cease: that was my job, teaching english as a 2nd language
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies NancyKat into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mutters something about 9:25 PM, then departs.
Cease: Hey Nancy.
Not Ed: Hi NancyK
NancyKat: Something something darkside...
Elayne: Evenin NK!
Cease: Have sprung into Springfield?
Rufus_T_Firetween: meow NancyKitty
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about The Firesign Theatre radio Hour at KBOO Radio at >> https://kboo.fm/program/firesign-theatre-radio-hour
NancyKat: Lol, yeah, Cease...its....different.
||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| 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 Badendchan plummets into the garden at 9:31 PM.
||||||||| The Real Dr. Gunderson runs out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's The Real Dr. Gunderson?! It's 9:31 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Elmer Ho: howdy Nancy
Cease: Bad
||||||||| "9:31 PM? 9:31 PM!!" says Catherwood, "The Real Dr. Pederman should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as The Real Dr. Pederman enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
ddywnall: hi Badendchan
Elayne: Off to watch more beisbol...
ddywnall: Hi Real
Badendchan: ( ◜◡‾)っ Beep boop
Cease: The Firesigns didnt have to try and be funny, any morfe than you have to try and obey the law of gravity.
The Real Dr. Pederman: That fraud Gunderman was not me!
Cease: leaving us before my collagfe, el?
Elmer Ho: has beisbol been beery beery good to you?
Cease: its about the birth of alternative radio, which i was part of the firesign were central to.
The Real Dr. Pederman: Hockey? I don't know hockey.
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: nor do i, real.
Elmer Ho: if you don't know hockey, you don't know puck
The Real Dr. Pederman: But beisbol been berry berry good to me
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Badendchan
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about The Firesign Theatre radio Hour at KBOO Radio at >> https://kboo.fm/program/firesign-theatre-radio-hour
Cease: interestingto hear them fantasizing abvout being no colbert, etc.
Cease: never quite made it there
Cease: on colbert
Cease: are you a baseball player, real?
Cease: i have a friend who played for the Angels and Red Sox, Tom Satriano.
The Real Dr. Pederman: Not any kore, but Chico Esquela is my fav player
The Real Dr. Pederman: Make that "more"
Cease: Bergman in partic became quite beggy at the end.
Rufus_T_Firetween: 'beggy'?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“GOING APE ON THE FM DIAL”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out Cat's New Collage at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS
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Cease: Tom O'Neil also works with me on various plays, etc.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Doc Technical :-)
Cease: He plays Ralph J Kramden on my new play CAST.
Cease: Tween plays Vince's boss at the label.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s new collage “Going Ape On The FM Dial” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS
Rufus_T_Firetween: That was fun, Cease :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** You Tube provides some more memories of KMPX and its successor, KSAN >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytQhf05aNsw
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Carlos Santana can hear his long songs on the radio >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgaytaFuB8s
Cease: 4 acres in Encino would have cost a fortune, even in those days.
||||||||| 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!"
Elmer Ho: what the hell is this music?
Not Ed is eating soup.
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Cease: Bergman wrote that song for a movie he made.
Cease: Love is Hard to Get.Bergman plays a Gorilla, named Nasi Goring
Cease: HOw's it going, Nancy?
Elmer Ho: it was his voice, but I had never heard it
Cease: Elaye still here?
Cease: It's in the first Proc/Berg album, Tv or Not
Cease: I have an odd connction to this piece by Ossman.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** THE PROCTOR PODCAST - From the mind, and life, of comedy great Phil Proctor >> http://theproctorpodcast.podbean.com/
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
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
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Dr. Happy Harry Cox says “I was right about the comet! Check out my new DVD set EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: THE DECLASSIFIED FIRESIGN THEATRE 1968-1975 before it’s too late!!” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
||||||||| It's 9:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| The Real Dr. Pederman - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: One of my favourite tunes
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: One of Pete's most poetic pieces.
Cease: Sounds like Ginzberg and Ferlinghetti
Cease: those were magical times, on the radio, edge of possibility
Rufus_T_Firetween: The nature of radio broadcasting has changed dramatically, for sure
Rufus_T_Firetween: Grid Bless that there is internet broadcasting available to all
Cease: FM opened up in mid 60s
Cease: Pete, Tom, B. Mitchell Ried and others.
Elmer Ho: ah, Tom Donohue was the Jimmy Wales of the 60s
Elmer Ho: come up with the basic idea and get everybody else to do all the work
Cease: who is jimmuy wales?
Elmer Ho: founder of Wikipedia
Cease: aha
Cease: read a greart article about real whales yesterday.
Elmer Ho: whales are cool
Elmer Ho: they invented the long distance telephone
Cease: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2018/09/26/Sperm-Whale-New-Energy-Technologies/
Elmer Ho: did anybody else's sound just go out?
DJTweeny: oh oh
Rufus_T_Firetween: as opposed to fake whales?
Cease: mine did. and it's my fucking sound
Elmer Ho: ah, so for once it's not my 12 year old $300 computer
Cease: aha, proc is back, explaining the brain.
DJTweeny: a glitch somewhere
Elmer Ho: ok, sound is back now
DJTweeny: been having intermittent net problems
DJTweeny: look like I have a good connection at the moment
Cease: need to hear this on big speakers
Cease: on my top 10 steely dan tunes.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Luckily, I the show archive is not affected by the internet connection, so you can always check out the archive to hear the show in its pristine form
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the FIRESIGN CHAT SHOW ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/firesign/
Rufus_T_Firetween: *the show archive
Elmer Ho: what is the best time of year to visit Iceland?
Rufus_T_Firetween: My Macs are from 2010, Elmer ;) Until a year or so ago I was using PPC Macs from 2003/4
Cease: never
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net
DJTweeny: oops
Cease: hpoe you enjoyed the collage
||||||||| New notice: '** currently playing - “A CHILD’S GARDEN OF GRASS” - 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 - THIS ALBUM MAY BE PURCHASED AT >> http://www.amazon.com/Childs-Garden-Grass-Various-Artists/dp/B0001MMGM2 **'
Elmer Ho: i have the book A Child's Garden of Grass
DJTweeny: The collage series based on Proctor's podcasts are a great contribution to the history of Firesign Cat
Cease: Yes, Pete is part of this. one of his tunes.
DJTweeny: Proc too, as I recall
Cease: could be, tween.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “A CHILD’S GARDEN OF GRASS” at >> http://hippy.com/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=348
Cease: oh tween, someone sent me a send ths file of the case of trhe mssing yolkw, which is on youtube online
DJTweeny: That was me
Elmer Ho: was that Annalee?
Cease: i didng even open it. you mentioned playing it here?
DJTweeny: and that link is no good anymore :/
Cease: i dont know if annalee is on this
Elmer Ho: gotta go
Cease: allthe firesigns and their ladies were on many audio projects
Elmer Ho: if I can't be here for a few weeks, remember
Cease: come again, elmer
Elmer Ho: VOTE while you're still allowed to
Elmer Ho: bye
||||||||| Catherwood says "10:22 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Elmer Ho by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
DJTweeny: Ossman!
Rufus_T_Firetween: https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-childs-garden-of-grass-mw0000731216
Rufus_T_Firetween: A Child's Garden Of Grass (A Prelegalization Comedy) - https://www.discogs.com/Ron-Jacobs-A-Childs-Garden-Of-Grass-A-Prelegalization-Comedy/release/5428950
DJTweeny: Anna Lee Austin is listed
DJTweeny: Oz Knox = Peter?
DJTweeny: I think the Firesigns used fake names ;)
Cease: constantly playing with names.
Cease: has chat shrunk?
ddywnall: just afk for a bit
||||||||| 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!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: "Honey, I Shrunk The Chat"
Cease: you still with us, ll?
Cease: this is very collagy as well.
||||||||| 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: yeah
Rufus_T_Firetween: Medium Rare lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: Kinda a cross between National Lampoon and FST
Cease: indeed, tween
Cease: ths is painful to listen to.
Cease: the accordian shit
Rufus_T_Firetween: you don't listen to Weird Al much, do you? lol
Cease: no
Cease: heard his interview on maron.
Cease: i was on that path in high school, mid 60s.
Cease: writing parody songs.
Cease: h kept with it, i went elsewhere
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Cease: warm sake is great
Rufus_T_Firetween: I used to drink it in Indiana in winter
Cease: hot better
Rufus_T_Firetween: I think the brand was Hakatsuru
Cease: i lived in japan for most of the 70s and 80s. lots of great sake
Rufus_T_Firetween: This sounds like NL's Deteriorata
Cease: indeed
Rufus_T_Firetween: The voice of the guy who did the Desiderata parody
Cease: i have no connection with any games.
Cease: totally alien to me.
Badendchan: ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ v i d e o g a m e s
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: Now this is FST
Rufus_T_Firetween: Winning some MJ
Cease: sounds firesony
Rufus_T_Firetween: 'but it's really _good_ shit'
Cease: dope legal here in a few weeks.
Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah, definitely hearing their influence
Cease: non stop tv coverage.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Good for Canada. Much more sane
Cease: will be an interesting transition.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Special Brownies at confection stores?
Cease: no, we're a way from that.
Cease: washington state much more advanced.
||||||||| 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
'
Cease: thanks for the show, tween.
Badendchan: ( •᷄⌓•᷅ ) oh no it's over
ddywnall: thanks, tween. thanks, cat
Cease: alas, bad
DJTweeny: Always a pleasure :)
Cease: i do my best every week, folks
DJTweeny: and we appreciate you efforts :)
Cease: there is so much to do.
DJTweeny: *your
Badendchan: ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ oh well goobnite
ddywnall: nytol
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
||||||||| Around 10:56 PM, ddywnall walks off into the sunset...
DJTweeny: see you next week
||||||||| At 10:57 PM, Cease vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
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:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Badendchan - 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| NancyKat - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Harry Katz - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Elayne - 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:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:32 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:
Badendchan
Beet
Cease
ddywnall
DJTweeny
Elayne
Elmer Ho
Harry Katz
NancyKat
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
The Real Dr. Gunderson
The Real Dr. Pederman
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
http://hippy.com/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=348
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS
http://kurtericson.com/firesign/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://theproctorpodcast.podbean.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Childs-Garden-Grass-Various-Artists/dp/B0001MMGM2
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8134&loclr=eanw
http://www.medinacafe.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_House_of_Stone_and_Light
https://kboo.fm/program/firesign-theatre-radio-hour
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2018/09/26/Sperm-Whale-New-Energy-Technologies/
https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-childs-garden-of-grass-mw0000731216
https://www.discogs.com/Ron-Jacobs-A-Childs-Garden-Of-Grass-A-Prelegalization-Comedy/release/5428950
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgaytaFuB8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytQhf05aNsw



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