Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
10/04/2018

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 October 04, 2018 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:07 PM and late as usual, it's DJTweeny, just back from Funfun Town."
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected)
128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
||||||||| DJTweeny rushes off, saying "8:39 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween sneaks in around 8:39 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween runs out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Rufus_T_Firetween?! It's 8:40 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:40 PM and late as usual, it's Broussardish , just back from Billville."
: Hi dish
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies DJTweeny inside, makes a note of the time (8:42 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Car 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)'
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Rufus_T_Firetween', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:42 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:45 PM and TimmMcCoy.com sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
TimmMcCoy.com: Long time, no here!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Timm!
Rufus_T_Firetween: indeed
Rufus_T_Firetween: How you doin', guy?
TimmMcCoy.com: Depression. A great fucking bitch. But I NEED THIS!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ehhhhh :/
Rufus_T_Firetween: Well, glad you're joining the asylum this evening :)
TimmMcCoy.com: Isnt this a treatment for depression?
Rufus_T_Firetween: It surely can be
TimmMcCoy.com: BEACH BOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rufus_T_Firetween: lots of car music
||||||||| 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: and the BB wrote quite a few
TimmMcCoy.com: GROOVY on the mugs & steins!
||||||||| doggycock steals in around 8:50 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
doggycock: it's me
TimmMcCoy.com: Catherwood, hows 'bout a dirty martini?
||||||||| Catherwood steps up to TimmMcCoy.com and says "Would you like something?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi doggy
TimmMcCoy.com: RUFF!
Rufus_T_Firetween: "It's on the roof!"
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:53 PM, dragging Cease by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
TimmMcCoy.com: COMMANDER CODY!
Rufus_T_Firetween: yo Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: yes indeedie
Cease: Hey Timmy. How's it going?
TimmMcCoy.com: Depressed, but havent killed anyone...yet! LOL!
Cease: Great to see you here again.
Cease: Are you beginning tonight's show with my collage, Tween?
TimmMcCoy.com: Thank you. I need the insanity to keep me sane!
Cease: From your vast radio experience, I think you could do Firesign based collages like I do only like you woudl do, and they would delighte the ears of us all.
Rufus_T_Firetween: no, the KBOO first
Cease: aha
||||||||| 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!"
TimmMcCoy.com: I'll give it a shot! We'll see if the shorts are clean enough to run up a flag pole!
Rufus_T_Firetween: bet Timm could make some great collages
Cease: usually by time my collages come on, most chatters have depaerted
Cease: Tim, for example.
TimmMcCoy.com: HeeHee!
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'll reverse it next week, if you like
Cease: you've spent more time in firesign land than I, and that's a lot.
TimmMcCoy.com: Lets see if my brain can pull it off first. I'll keep ya posted.
Cease: i'm riffing on proctor's weekly podcast, chapters of his autobi.
||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| 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)'
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, October 04, 2018 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Cease: firesingn have given us a torch, of audio enlightenment, and it is our duty to run with it, bringing forth yet greater freedom
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** THE PROCTOR PODCAST - From the mind, and life, of comedy great Phil Proctor >> http://theproctorpodcast.podbean.com/
Cease: attendence is down
Rufus_T_Firetween: Proc said when he got back to Cal he'd check his schedule and see if he can do an interview
Cease: lots of bears where i live. we cant put our garbage out too soon
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and intones "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 9:03 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: Evening all.
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
Beet: Hey, Dr Tween
Cease: Hey Beet
Beet: Hi Dr Cease
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Not Ed in through the front door at 9:04 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| 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'
DJTweeny: Hi Not
Beet: Hi Not
Not Ed: Now what's all this brouhaha?
Not Ed: Hey Beet
Not Ed: Tweeny
Cease: hey hot
Cease: not
Not Ed: Hey Cat, Rufus, TMC, Brou, dc
Cease: this is close to his drunk monkey role
Not Ed: yeah
TimmMcCoy.com: High Not!
Cease: proc revels in his languages
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about The Firesign Theatre radio Hour at KBOO Radio at >> https://kboo.fm/program/firesign-theatre-radio-hour
Not Ed gives a thumbs up.
Not Ed: how many languages does PP speak - I know he speaks Russian
Rufus_T_Firetween: pretty sure French as well
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Elayne close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 9:08 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the sitting room.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Elayne
Beet: Hi Miss E
Elayne: Evenin' all! Can't stay long, exhausted from watching the entire Yankees game last night.
Not Ed: Cheers Elayne
Cease: Hi El
Not Ed: aha!
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Elayne: Not Ed, Phil was actually speaking Russian last Sunday. He still remembers most of it.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Elayne: Evenin' all! Can't stay long, exhausted from watching the entire Yankees game last night. << the Civil War?
Not Ed: Phil and Bill
Elayne: I never knew, he learnt it when the Yale Russian Chorus visited the Soviet Union.
Elayne: I met someone named Bill, one of Phil's friends.
Not Ed: Oh French
Cease: Have you listented to any of my collages, El?
Elayne: Cat, I don't even listen to whatever plays here every Thursday. Not so much into audio these days, except music during my daily commutes.
Not Ed: Don't try Finnish you could sprain your throat
TimmMcCoy.com: Opps. AFK...for a min or two...
Cease: It was wonderful to see you and Phil feasting on Facebook.
Elayne: People keep mentioning this thing called podcasts, and I'm sure they're very nice, but I'm not into those either.
Elayne: Oh Cat, it was a lovely breakfast. Not the food so much as the company.
Cease: alas
Elayne: I mean, AUSTIN FUCKING PENDLETON!!! My fangirl heart was going pitter-pat.
Cease: i'm diong what i've often done over the decades, playing with audio.
Elayne: And Bill and Dolores Weeden are very interesting people. Dolores is apparently Melinda's cousin
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol E
Elayne: I've Facebook-friended Bill.
Not Ed: Everyone go to YouTube and czech out Jacob Collier (In My Room, etc.) - 22 year old musician - Shorter + Coltrane + Stevie Wonder + blazing originality - deep jazz made delicious
Rufus_T_Firetween: nice influences
Elayne can't eat another jazz, she's full.
Not Ed: Yeah this guy is frightening - and soulful, and melodic as heck
TimmMcCoy.com: Im BACK!
Not Ed: "In My Room" is like a Sgt Pepper of Jazz (trust me)
Rufus_T_Firetween: and BEAUTIFUL!
Not Ed: Yay Timm
Elayne: So we'll be seeing DocTech and Lili on Saturday, and will give them greetings from this group.
Rufus_T_Firetween: please do :)
Not Ed: Hey cool!
Rufus_T_Firetween: They are missed...
Cease: And beautiful, Timmy
Elayne: DocTech is, as ever, working crazy hours, and has a 60+ minute commute each way, so that eats up time.
Cease: fantastic, el. give them my affection.
Elayne: Will do. Must go, my cst (as opposrd to our Cat) doesn't let me type in peace.
Elayne: Come on then, Zed...
Elayne leaves, cat in tow.
||||||||| At 9:16 PM, Elayne dashes out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
Not Ed: In My Room (Title track) https://youtu.be/4v3zyPEy-Po
Cease: By El
Beet: Bye Elayne
Not Ed: Sorry, that's a track called Hideaway - also wonderful
Not Ed: In My Room https://youtu.be/7dSFMUcTuhU
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about The Firesign Theatre Radio Hour at KBOO Radio at >> https://kboo.fm/program/firesign-theatre-radio-hour
Not Ed: UK feller
Rufus_T_Firetween: square, little?
Not Ed: (sings all parts, plays all instruments)
Not Ed: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks to Les Paul for inventing the Multi-Track Recorder
Cease: they always analized what they were doing.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Todd Rundgren is one of those
Rufus_T_Firetween: Still is, I assume
Not Ed: Herbie Hancock was raving about him - that's how I heard
Not Ed: Todd is utterly amazing too
Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl
Cease: i use this bit in an old collage, about halloween
Beet: This guy sounds interesting
Rufus_T_Firetween: I have Man Child on vinyl
Not Ed: coool
Not Ed: great record
Not Ed: We just started playing Cantaloupe Island again in the little group I'm in
Cease: good for you, not.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:24 PM and Merlyn sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Not Ed: some great covers of that tune out there
Not Ed: hey Merl
Cease: hi merl
Beet: Hey Merlyn
Rufus_T_Firetween: in a puff of smoke appears.... Merlyn!
Cease: they are talking to a radio audience here.
Cease: this is a seminal moment of firesign creation.
Not Ed: Xcellent
Cease: this is nearly the last things they did together. pete died a couple of months after this
Merlyn: hey
Cease: hey merl, were you at pete's memoril in kirkland?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about The Firesign Theatre Radio Hour at KBOO Radio at >> https://kboo.fm/program/firesign-theatre-radio-hour
Cease: that was the idea, a series
Rufus_T_Firetween: sorry it didn't work out
Rufus_T_Firetween: would have been like the Dear Friends days al over again
Rufus_T_Firetween: *all
Cease: indeed, tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: this is great (Alphabet bit)
Rufus_T_Firetween: He has something like this on True Confessions
Cease: pete had a perfect voice
||||||||| 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 Not Ed the 2nd disembarks at 9:50 PM.
Not Ed the 2nd: Slid sidewaze
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Peter Bergman’s “TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE REAL WORLD” Here >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv
Not Ed the 2nd: Bergman is aces
Rufus_T_Firetween: There is a track called "A-Z"
Not Ed the 2nd: Well played Tweeny
Beet: Amazing
Cease: hi again'
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“CAR TOWN”
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'
Not Ed the 2nd enjoys Cat's collagi often.
Beet: Hi 2nd
Not Ed the 2nd: Whoops. They're on to me.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s new collage “CAR TOWN” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS
Not Ed the 2nd: Hey Beet.
Cease: thank you, not
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol
Not Ed the 2nd: back atcha Cat man do
Rufus_T_Firetween: no thranks?
Not Ed the 2nd: lol
Not Ed the 2nd: delta 88
Cease: i dont make these things thinking anyone would hear them
Not Ed the 2nd: it's a good thing to do C
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** THE PROCTOR PODCAST - From the mind, and life, of comedy great Phil Proctor >> http://theproctorpodcast.podbean.com/
Cease: i think of it as art
Rufus_T_Firetween: truly is
Cease: just following firesign
Beet: Big shoes.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: Beet, I started writing skits in 59 and thought they were pretty good.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:02 PM and llan steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
llan: hi
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey llan
Beet: Surely your Dharme, Cease.
Beet: Hi Llan
Cease: when i heard firesing on radio in 67, i new i had to ascend to that level
Rufus_T_Firetween: wow @ '59, I was 4 years old
Cease: hi llan
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
Beet: Wow this is an old one. Haven't heard it for about 40 years.
Cease: my distant childhood
Cease: this sounds like vegas
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Cease: over the years, phil created a lot of animals as humans in his works
Rufus_T_Firetween: probably why he gets the childrens' movie gigs from Disney
Rufus_T_Firetween: incredibly talented man
Cease: they all were
Rufus_T_Firetween: Rugrats and stuff like that
Rufus_T_Firetween: of course
Not Ed the 2nd: Pork?
Rufus_T_Firetween: he just got the more mainstream gigs that payed for his house in 90201?
Cease: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol Not
Rufus_T_Firetween: or 90125, whatever
Merlyn: One guy from another company that I work with was using an icon from Rugrats and he was really impressed I knew Phil who did a voice on the show
Not Ed the 2nd: Catherwood give everyone blueberry cookies
||||||||| Catherwood hands everyone blueberry cookies.
Merlyn eats a cookie
Rufus_T_Firetween plays Sally Fields Forever
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Cease: Is that so, Merly
Rufus_T_Firetween: an previously-unreleased Rutles tune
Cease: merly, you must have spent tiem with harlan'
Beet: Another colorful car salesman in Houston was a guy named Art Grindle.
Cease: there must be many
Beet: true
||||||||| It's 10:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llan - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: as you can hear, this is the audio of a video
Rufus_T_Firetween: sure
Rufus_T_Firetween: as The Case Of The Missing Yolks would be
Cease: did you ever experience mandatory hair cuts?
Rufus_T_Firetween: FST video of their albums is an afterthought
Rufus_T_Firetween: their attempt to turn radio theater into video
Rufus_T_Firetween: great stuff, but the audio wanted you to make movies in your mind
Cease: plau yolks
Cease: anyone else here?
Rufus_T_Firetween: maybe you can fit Yolks into on the shows as a reflection of a collage
Rufus_T_Firetween: just us rats lol
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: good idea
Rufus_T_Firetween: as we have discussed, FST is pretty esoteric ;)
Rufus_T_Firetween: not for everybody
Cease: however; i think yolks should stand on is own'not as part of a collage
Cease: we'll talk of this elsewhere
Cease: i think the firesign exists to make us smarter
Rufus_T_Firetween: Well done, Cat
Beet: Completely agree.
||||||||| It's 10:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Broussardish - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: audio of s youtube
DJTweeny: mmmmm beaver tails...
Cease: hi brou
Beet: Great White North
Cease: one of my favourie tunes'
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Extras broadcasts
“AL ATLAS INTERVIEW (3/70)”
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?'
Beet: Great, Cat
Cease: thanks, beet
DJTweeny: fine work, sir
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
DJTweeny: amazing compilation
Cease: i try and make new collages every week, now to promote proctor's podcast
DJTweeny: and thanks to all the techs that made all the divergent engineering of recordings work
DJTweeny: definitely a labor of love
||||||||| Catherwood enters with llan close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 10:48 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the anteroom.
DJTweeny: wb llan
Beet: Llan resurrects
Cease: hey llan
llan: I was never gone
DJTweeny: 'my son is shooting up, he's growing every day' roflllllll
Beet: That's what Jesus saidf.
Beet: said
Cease: lol
||||||||| 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: terrible singing but funny
DJTweeny: of course...
DJTweeny: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Merlyn: Thanks tweeny
llan: thanks tween and cat
Beet: Interesting evening. I enjoyed the varied input. Thanks to everyone. Loved the collage, Dr Cease. Thanks, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
Cease: thanks for the show, tween
DJTweeny: my pleasure
||||||||| "10:56 PM? I'm late!" exclaims llan, who then dashes out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds.
||||||||| Merlyn dashes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Merlyn?! It's 10:56 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| Cease runs out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Cease?! It's 10:56 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Not Ed the 2nd waves.
Not Ed the 2nd: Positive waves.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed the 2nd - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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 Globner's disease
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Not Ed - 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 the yaws
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Beet - 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:
||||||||| TimmMcCoy.com - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| doggycock - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:32 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."

The Evening's Participants:

Beet
Cease
DJTweeny
doggycock
Elayne
llan
Merlyn
Not Ed the 2nd
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
TimmMcCoy.com

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://theproctorpodcast.podbean.com/
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
https://kboo.fm/program/firesign-theatre-radio-hour
https://youtu.be/4v3zyPEy-Po
https://youtu.be/7dSFMUcTuhU