A Firesign Chat
09/19/2019




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 19, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween steals in around 8:29 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| 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 escorts DJTweeny inside, makes a note of the time (8:29 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers DJuan into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:32 PM, then departs.
DJTweeny: allo DJuan
DJTweeny: Warm-up music in about 10 minutes
DJTweeny: First time here?
DJuan: Yes
DJTweeny: Cool, where'd you hear about us?
||||||||| 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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DJuan: Ran across on FB; been a fan of FT since '69
DJTweeny: Nice :-)
DJuan: Columbia Records put out a promo 7" disc with several new acts - including"Indonesia for the Indonesians."
DJTweeny: Ha, neat
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (TV Music)
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
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||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:44 PM and Kissinger waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJTweeny: Hi Kissinger
Kissinger: Hi, what is this.
DJTweeny: Good to see you here
DJTweeny: This is warm-up music for the Firesign Chat Show, which starts at the top of the hour
Kissinger: What is the show about?
DJTweeny: It's a simulcast for fans of The Firesign Theatre, who chat here every week
||||||||| Cease steals in around 8:47 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
Kissinger: k
DJTweeny: I'll be playing Firesign Theatre material starting at the top of the hour
DJTweeny: Hi Cease
DJTweeny: www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
Cease: HI Tween, others
Cease: I've heard this song before
DJTweeny: The Firesign Theatre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firesign_Theatre
DJTweeny: Yes you have. Used it even ;)
||||||||| 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."
||||||||| Catherwood leads Johan Amadeus Myjetski inside, makes a note of the time (8:49 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
DJTweeny: Hi Johan
Cease: HI Jammy
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi djt!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Greets, cease! Everybody going okay?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Doing okay?
DJTweeny: Kissinger, my Tuesday show is all music requests, you might stop by there too (I announce it in IRC as I did this show tonight)
Cease: I saw a fine art show today by an artist I'm using in toinght's collage.
DJTweeny: Doing good, but I hear that it's a tad wet down around Houston
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
DJTweeny: Cool, Cat
Cease: I went to our local North Van photo gallery a couple of monthes ago to see a show called The Clock.
Cease: I was unimpressed, but very impressed by anothr artist/film maker there named Sara Cwynar.
Cease: There will be linlks.
Cease: She kinda does with photos what I do with Firesign and stuff. Collages
Cease: https://thepolygon.ca/
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Well, i passed on a piece of land i really wanted to build a cabin on, but it was too entangled with liens, soo...
DJTweeny: Sounds messy
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Sara Cwynar - how do you pronounce that?
DJTweeny: Bet Llan would know
Cease: Swin ARE
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : It was. Came close to losing my money, thank goodness i hired a lawyer!
DJTweeny: Smart man
Cease: She came to Vancouver to give a talk at the art gallery so I went to hear her talk and then talk to her a couple of weeks ago.
Cease: Yes, lawyers are often useful.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Love this FZ!
||||||||| Outside, the 8:58 PM uptown bus from North Carolina pulls away, leaving ''Bob'' coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJuan: slime
DJTweeny: Hi Bob
Cease: Bob
||||||||| 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: Great Zappa tune, yeah :)
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Johan Amadeus Myjetski : The $250 i paid her saved 1,000s
''Bob'': Comin' in on Zappa. Noice.
DJTweeny: excellent
Cease: Indeed, Bob
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hiyas Bob!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
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Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hello DJuan, & Kissinger!
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, September 19, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
''Bob'': Don't mind my coughing. I've got a head code.
DJTweeny: DJuan's first time here, says he's been a FST fan since '69
''Bob'': That's 50 years!
DJTweeny: Indeed
''Bob'': I know, because that's how old I am.
DJuan: Don't remind me
DJTweeny: haha
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Love TV Glide!
''Bob'': We've got to do something to get the youth involved. None of my students get my Firesign references.
DJTweeny: Wish there was a good way to do that
Cease: Only young people can talk to other young people
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "9:03 PM and late as usual, it's Beet, just back from Virginia."
Beet: Howdy all.
Cease: HI Beet
DJTweeny: Maybe find a young DJ who would be willing to play some FST bits
DJTweeny: Hey Beet
''Bob'': I'm thinking TikTok memes.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Tex Tyrebiter. George’s brother?
Beet: Hey, Dr Cease, Tween
''Bob'': HONK! HONK!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hey beet!
Beet: Hi, JAM
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Currently playing: Proctor & Bergman's “TV OR NOT TV”
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
Read about TV OR NOT TV at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tont-rv
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Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I’ve been tv free for over a year and a half now!
Cease: Wow, we have enough time for EOBE
DJTweeny: many years for me
''Bob'': So you're Not TV, then?
Beet: I am an addict
DJTweeny: Yeah, it worked out well Cease :)
DJTweeny: from TV screens to video game screens
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : EOBE = extra out of body experience?
DJTweeny: Could be, could be...
''Bob'': Wait. Tweeny is talking and typing at the same time? How does he make his voice do that?
DJTweeny: I'm just that good ;)
Cease: I got Netflix for a month. Seen some good stuff, but not more than a months worth
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Proctor & Bergman's “TV OR NOT TV” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tont-ln
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Definitely, Bob, i am Not TV
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I remember when cable tv started, part of what you paid for was... NO COMMERCIALS!
Cease: My baseball team, the blue jays, have been terrible all year but suddenly good just as tghe season ends.
Beet: And Telemundo
Cease: One of our new players hit for the cycle. Only the 3rd time in blue jays 40 year history
''Bob'': Honestly, I kind of wish the streaming services would put back a classic commercial or two when they run old sitcoms. Just not right watching them without the commercial break.
Beet: A la Tarantino.
DJTweeny: heh
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : You have a point, Bob, it messes up the pacing of the entire show sometimes
''Bob'': I watched his latest movie twice, so, yes. :) Best thing he's done in a loooong time.
Beet: Academy Awatd time for Leo
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the New Live Concert Collection “FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD” at Firesign's new Download Store >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
Cease: Don't all Firesign albums have commercials in them?
Cease: Except the first one.
DJTweeny: Could be
Cease: OK, not Giant Rat either.
''Bob'': Yeah, as a radio DJ, I lean heavily on Firesign's "commercials".
||||||||| 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!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Fractured commercials, very enjoyable, in all FST albums
DJTweeny: EOBE has lots of commercials
Cease: I think more commercials than narrative
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : My area is definitely alerted
||||||||| 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!"
DJTweeny: "Bob" Where and when is your show?
''Bob'': Speaking of old Russian Marxists, I found this great Russian folk group on YouTube today: https://youtu.be/k7TxSDRqdC4
''Bob'': Not doing a show right now, Tweeny. I'm a visiting prof in another state again this year. But when I'm doing one, I'm at WCNI. radioeschaton.com
DJTweeny: Anythynge wouldn't have any commercials
DJTweeny: Please let us know when you're back on the air :)
''Bob'': Hopefully I'll find a permanent job someplace that has a good college station. :)
Cease: Hopefully
DJTweeny: Good luck to you...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Dr. Happy Harry Cox says “I was right about the comet! Check out my new video DVD set EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: THE DECLASSIFIED FIRESIGN THEATRE 1968-1975 before it’s too late!!” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
Beet: Anybody watching Ken Burns' Country Music doc?
''Bob'': Not yet. Is it on Netflix? Sounded good.
DJTweeny: Nope, didn't even know he was doing one
Beet: Broadcast. I am enjoying it.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Heard about it, but i’m tv-free!
''Bob'': Last night I watched a Zvuki Mu DVD. The whole thing was in Russian. Still don't know what I watched.
DJTweeny: haha
Beet: Ha ha
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : No sub titles?
''Bob'': Ah, yeah, I cut the cable 5 years ago. And I'm living in a river valley where no TV signals penetrate.
Beet: Back to basics
Cease: This morning, Netflix told me to watch Chelsea Handler's doc about white privilidge which I did. Then this afternoon, our prime minister is appologizing for his life of white privilidge
Cease: Interesting coincidence.
Beet: chuckle
''Bob'': /me tries not to make the obvious Canadian joke
Beet: I try not to bug anybody with my white privilege.
DJTweeny: lol
''Bob'': I got sent to the principal and had my white privilege's revoked.
''Bob'': He said it would be on my permanent record.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** For those of you who don't know, typing a ':' (colon) in this chat has the same effect as typing '/me' in an IRC chat
''Bob'' thanks RTF
Rufus_T_Firetween: yw
Johan Amadeus Myjetski :::::::::::
Rufus_T_Firetween: heheh
''Bob'': You're halway there!
||||||||| 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!"
Beet me too
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Had to see for myself, sorry. Returning you to your regular
DJTweeny: haha
||||||||| 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."
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Ly scheduled chat
''Bob'': if ";" is a semi-colon, is "," a demi-colon?
''Bob'': And why isn't "." a semi-colon?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hemi-demi-semi colon.
DJTweeny: Questions mankind has yet to answer...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:41 PM and Not Ed steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Not Ed: Pork?
DJTweeny: allo Not Ed
Cease: HI Not. In time for my collage
Beet: Hey Not
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Not Ed!
DJTweeny: But he _is_ in time for your collage
Not Ed: JAM, Beet, C Jello!
Not Ed: Cheers Tweeny
Not Ed: Best B
Beet: Give up this day. lol
Not Ed: I love Procmer and Birdman
Not Ed: lol Beet
Beet: The Yale Boys
Not Ed: Pirates!
Not Ed: Pi r round
DJTweeny: Yes they are
Not Ed: See!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : These kids sound like more science students
Not Ed: scramblevision --I would sign up for that
Not Ed: INSERT HERE
DJuan: 'Night all - thanks. Climate strike tomorrow
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net
Not Ed: Take care DJ
Cease: Good luck, DJ
DJTweeny: Join us again, DJuan :)
Beet: I am all for insertion
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Nite DJuan!
Not Ed takes a hit ouch!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“THE 50's” (Part 2-As Seen On TV)
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out Cat's Collages at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
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Beet: Where is Llan?
Not Ed: Yay Cat
''Bob'': Everything I know about the 50s I learned from Leave It to Beaver re-reuns.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Love that Tom Waits song!
Not Ed asks if you can say "Cold War Conformity"
Not Ed: (50's)
Beet: My brother tried to be Wally. Kind of worked for a while.
||||||||| 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!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Captain Kangaroo was mind bending , or Mr Greenjeans was anyway
Not Ed: awesome Cease
Beet: Big Banana Man fan
''Bob'': Yeah, growing up, I always expected to have ping pong balls fall on me for no reason. Life is disappointing.
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone carrots and ping pong balls
||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone carrots and ping pong balls.
DJTweeny: haha
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “THE 50'S” (Part 2 – As Seen On TV) at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#50s
Not Ed: gotta b ready for anything
Beet: Hey, what's falling on my head?
Not Ed: lol right?
Not Ed: it taint raindrops
Not Ed: I need to check out part 1 Cease - will do
Cease: Probably 5-part series
Not Ed: whoa really
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Ha! Bob! You’re very right!
Not Ed: I'm for it
Cease: Halbsertam's tv series was 7 parts.
Cease: I'm not using several, and then splitting one into two.
Not Ed: which I've not seen but I will czech youtube
Cease: its quite good.
Not Ed: my favorite mutt & smut!
Not Ed: noted Cease
Cease: someone on facebook posted a talk by a professor mintz about the 50s, which led me to this topic
Not Ed: ahh yes
Not Ed: may have been myself--was it from hoffman's series
Not Ed: Hmm maybe not....thinking
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I enjoyed 50s sci-fi shows after i was grown: Captain Z-Ro, Rocky Jones Space ranger, & ? pace
Not Ed: the first episode seeds of the 60's
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : My dad was a NVP disciple
Not Ed: JAM very fum
''Bob'': Is this Edward Herrmann narrating?
Cease: apparently, it was the bible in the trump house.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
''Bob'': What exactly is the difference between buck named and stark naked?
Beet: Puts a dent in feeling up
Beet: Your the one who gets pricked.
Beet: Everybody watched those Gilette fights
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Sara expands on the theme in her talk at the Art Institute of Chicago >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bxYwt7ynUU
''Bob'': LOL Just realized I accidentally typed "named" there out of habit. Yes, I'm a unix geek.
Beet: Black folks say "butt" naked
Cease: Sara turned me on to an old BBC series called Ways of Seeing by John Berger.
Cease: Hopefully will become a new collage
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : That sounds interesting, cease, what was it about?
Cease: this is sara's flick, Rose Gold
Cease: it's on Youtube, Jammy
Cease: how are eyes and minds have been trained to see things in certain ways.
Cease: i suspect sara does not know firesign. hopefullly this willl change
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Will check it out there. Thx!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
Cease: Ths is Sara
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Sara expands on the theme in her talk at the Art Institute of Chicago >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bxYwt7ynUU
Cease: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/102?utm_source=social&utm_medium=bitly&utm_campaign=Magazine&utm_content=Photography%20Commission%20Cwynar
Cease: Her latest project at MOMA
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : What age woman is she? She sounds young
Cease: Yes, 34
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : A mere kid!
Cease: Look how young the Firesigns were
Cease: This is from a podcast called The Organist, which we'll hear here next wseek
Cease: Hopefully with its author, Jeremy Braddock.
Cease: Doiing a book about Firesign
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I wonder if we didn’t lose the war
DJTweeny: "Never trust anyone over, er... under 30!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Getting hungry now...
Beet: cool background rhythm
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : The revolution will be televised
Rufus_T_Firetween: Disposable Heroes was a good band
Rufus_T_Firetween: 'Intelligent Rap'
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “THE 50'S” (Part 2 – As Seen On TV) at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#50s
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Reminds me of Gil Scott Heron
Cease: Me too
Rufus_T_Firetween: It does
Rufus_T_Firetween: Greatly influcenced, I'm sure
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “EAT OR BE EATEN” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eobe-ln
Beet: Fabulous
||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign’s - “EAT OR BE EATEN”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check Out EAT OR BE EATEN At >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eobe
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Cease: I'm proud of it.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Truly brilliant, Cat!
Rufus_T_Firetween: As well you should be :)
Cease: Not as happy with the next episodesw but TV/advertising is the best topic, sometihng I've been involved with most of my life
Rufus_T_Firetween: What's going on now with social media makes all that TV social programming pale in comparison
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Agreed, Rufus!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Great documentary about the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal >> The Great Hack - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9358204/
Beet: This is a very cool album
Rufus_T_Firetween: One of my favorites :)
Cease: Yes I plan to watch that while I stilll have netflix, tween
''Bob'': I think they rebranded that car as the AMC Javelin.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I highly recommend it
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
Cease: want to see the dylan thing too
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : As there’s no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, i reckon
''Bob'': 4 + 3 + 2 = 8 ????
Cease: This woman, Laura, went on to produce the Hollywood Nite Shift programme I played in last week's collage.
''Bob'': I love her voice.
Cease: Wonderful voice
DJTweeny: Wow, that's cool about Laura Cat
||||||||| "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!"
Cease: A facebook friend
Cease: Laura Quin
Cease: Quinn
DJTweeny: Think I ask her to friend also. Would be cool to get her in here once in a while
DJTweeny: Will mention I played EOBE tonight
DJTweeny: Is that the Laura Quinn with ARCO?
''Bob'': Every time I hear this I wish there were somewhere to watch Hill Street Blues re-runs.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I don’t think I ever heard this before- very funny!
DJTweeny: Yeah, great HSB parody :)
DJTweeny: Apparently we're alread friends, I just never knew who she was
DJTweeny: I see a pic with Austin
Cease: she was he girl in the flick of eobe, when austin sang that song
Cease: the girl
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Raise the level of your home...
||||||||| 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: That's cool, Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: I've asked her to join us in he chat sometime
Cease: It would be great to have her here as we listened to this
DJTweeny: *the
||||||||| "10:48 PM? 10:48 PM!!" says Catherwood, "llanwydd should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as llanwydd enters and sits at the bar.
llanwydd: its not over yet is it?
DJTweeny: Hi Llan, a tad tardy ;)
DJTweeny: just about :/
Cease: HI Llan
DJTweeny: missed a great Cat Collage
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “THE 50'S” (Part 2 – As Seen On TV) at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#50s
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Llan!
Beet: Hey, Llan!
llanwydd: hi everybody
DJTweeny: Next time I play EOBE, I will be sure to invite Laura
Cease: Good idea, Tween
||||||||| 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 7-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net
Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign
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Cease: There's more to come
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : G’nite all! Thanks all!
Beet: Very rich chat tonight. Very enjoyable. Thanks to all of our dear friends. Absolutely fabulous collage, Dr. Cease. Look forward to more. Thanks to the great Dr Tween for keeping us alive. G'nite.
''Bob'': Thanks, Tweeny & Cease. Nice to be able to drop in again. :)
llanwydd: nite folks.
||||||||| At 10:54 PM, llanwydd dashes out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
Cease: Bye
||||||||| At 10:54 PM, Cease dashes out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
DJTweeny: Bob is a 'Drop-In'
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.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'Barney', just granted probation at 11:36 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| It's 11:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Barney - dead from measles
||||||||| 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 dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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 dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Beet - 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:
||||||||| DJuan - 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 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:
||||||||| ''Bob'' - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Kissinger - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:32 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."


The Evening's Participants:
''Bob''
Beet
Cease
DJTweeny
DJuan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
Kissinger
llanwydd
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eobe-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eobe
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#50s
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tont-ln
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tont-rv
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
http://www.seemreal.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firesign_Theatre
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
https://thepolygon.ca/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9358204/
https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/102?utm_source=social&utm_medium=bitly&utm_campaign=Magazine&utm_content=Photography%20Commission%20Cwynar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bxYwt7ynUU
https://youtu.be/k7TxSDRqdC4



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