||||||||| 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 December 19, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| 3:25 PM: Tessa jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!" ||||||||| It's 3:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Tessa - dead from The Plague ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (7:38 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 visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com' ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| DJTweeny enters at 8:21 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Haberdashery Barn. ||||||||| 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)' ||||||||| New notice: '** MERRY CHRISTMAS!! ** Currently playing: warm up music (Chicago-Christmas Album) 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)' ||||||||| Cease waltzes in at 8:54 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. Cease: HI Tween. This sounds like Steely Dan DJTweeny: Hi Cease DJTweeny: Chicago's Christmas album Cease: Sounds like real life Zabriskie Point on today's news Cease: Teen steals plane. DJTweeny: Oh? Cease: Yeah that's definitely not SteelyDan vocals DJTweeny: nope ||||||||| New notice: '** MERRY CHRISTMAS!! ** 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)' Cease: horns sounded Dan-ish ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, December 19, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" ||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Beet', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary... Beet: Hope everyone is enjoying. Happy Thursday. Cease: Beet Beet: Hi, Dr Cease DJTweeny: Hey Beet Beet: Hi Dr Tween DJTweeny: Happy Thursday to you as well Beet: An actual rhyming Foresign Carol Beet: Firesign Beet: For medicinal purposesonly ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID OSSMAN!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “OSSMAN COLLAGE GRADUATION (Part 2)” 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/' Beet: Good DJTweeny: I still have a frog firmly lodged in my throat, as you can hear Beet: I didn't notice. Cease: this is more from Fred's radio interview with Ossie. ||||||||| "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: We should listen to the whole thing with all the guys some time in the new year Beet: I vote "aye" Cease: we'll have a lot of goodies in the new year as i plunder my vast collection of firesign stuff. Beet: Plunder away Cease: probably a hundred interviews. Beet: wow Cease: speaking of which, did you hear the interview Proc did last week on a podcast called Things I learned on the Internet Beet: Is everyone else out plundering their eggnog? DJTweeny: I have not DJTweeny: apparently, Beet Beet: Is that podcast readily available/ Cease: proc posted a link to it on facebook. aren't you friends with him there? Beet: I never get notices. I had better check my status. I am not a big Facebook person. Beet: I just sent a friend request to Phil Proctor page. Will that do it? Cease:https://tunein.com/podcasts/Comedy-Podcasts/Things-I-Found-Online-p1089645/ DJTweeny: Should Beet: Thanks Cease: in today's PLanet Proctor, he speaks of starting a new podcast with Jamie again. DJTweeny: kewl Beet: I miss the boomers Cease: ona Austin for an enchanting getaway on Fox Island, host Louise Palanker, for a stimulating appearance on “Things I Found on the Internet” [SEE MORE] ... Joan Allemand, Allison Barenbrug, Kenneth Wilhite, Jr., Melinda Peterson, and Ted Bonnitt, my partner in what we hope is a new podcast called “Phil & Ted’s Sexy Boomer Show!” Guests so far included Jamie Alcroft & Danny Mann, Larry Hankin & Paul Willson, Phyllis Katz & Rob Lewine and Anna Mathias & Alan Shearman... Set your ears for 2020. And congrats to my Cookie co-author, Brad Schreiber, on his latest opus, Music is Power. (More on this next year.) Cease: Oona Beet: Sounds great Cease: this is from an intervview i participated in on a vancouver radio station in 96 Cease: it was a science fiction discussion show and for some reason the 3 people doing the show were ignorant of firesign theatre. Rufus_T_Firetween: * Listen/Download Cat’s collage “OSSMAN COLLAGE GRADUATION” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FIRESIGN_AUDIO_BIOS Cease: proc is as good as bergman for making things up spontaneously Cease: thats why its so easy to make these collages. Cease: there's me Beet: Living in Houston, it was mandatory to be excited about the space program. It still gives me quite a charge. DJTweeny: kewl :) ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." Cease: much better than being known as the capitol of the oilpocalypse Beet: Yup Beet: For a while we were working in a hotel downtown. If you looked out the window, the Exxon building was a block away in full view. DJTweeny: Exxon is a helluva story Beet: Scary organization. DJTweeny: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016268/ << Great documentary about the rise & fall of Enron DJTweeny: and yeah, scary DJTweeny: will also make you angry Beet: Before they fell, there was a big story on network TV about how the workers ay Enron were screwing everu=ybody and laughing about it. It wasn't too long after that that they were pulled down. DJTweeny: The really screwed over the California energy industry Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net Beet: The baseball stadium changed from Enron Field to Minute Maid Park Cease: The Firesign or maybe just Bergman wrote a pretend opera based on the fall of enron Beet: Enjoyed that, Cat. Cease: its on the Fools in Space series. ||||||||| New notice: '** MERRY CHRISTMAS!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “A CHARLIE FIRESIGN CHRISTMAS” 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/' Beet: Love Vice. DJTweeny: They'd ask power plants to shut down so it would raise the price of electricty in California ||||||||| 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." Cease: should be Brown, not Brown's Beet: Vince. I guess I have a fondness for some vice also. DJTweeny: It cost Californians billions Cease: My last play was about Vince. Tween played his record executive Beet: One of the pieces in the expose was about how they were routing energy in California and caused blackouts andd bilked customers of billions Cease: Maybe the best thing about Christmas for me is hearing these Vince tunes everywhere DJTweeny: That was fun, Cat Cease: pussy catty ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “A CHARLIE FIRESIGN CHRISTMAS” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES Cease: this is my first mix of firesign and peanuts, but maybe not my last. DJTweeny: They go well with FST Cease: Schulz is meaner than Firesign but they're both cerebral and hilarious. Beet: The great music always lended a special angle on the stories. Cease: true Cease: I wonder where everyone is tonight? Beet: Good question. Beet: They're missing some good stuff. DJTweeny: If they were in Austin, they might have frozen. We've had record cold the last couple of nights DJTweeny: They are indeed, Beet Beet: What is the temperature? DJTweeny: This one is going to be a Christmas staple :) Cease: Ive been thinking of mixing Peanuts and Firesign for a while and this seemed the perfect vehicle. DJTweeny: a few degrees below freezing, but that's way cold for this part of Texas DJTweeny: It is Beet: Any precipitation? Cease: 2 inches of rain in vancouver today Beet: 20 degrees here. Rufus_T_Firetween: No, luckily, but we're supposed to get rain tomorrow as things warm up a bit Rufus_T_Firetween: 20 is nippy Beet: Just putting the clothes on is a major project. DJTweeny: 47 here at the moment going down to 42 DJTweeny: that's more like it Beet: This makes me want to watch these Charlie Browns again. DJTweeny: Yeah, I've been wearing thermal underware and several layers of clothing DJTweeny: They are classic Peanuts, for sure Cease: 54 years now DJTweeny: wow, hard to imagine Beet: I knew this guy in the service who deliberately picked unattractive women because he said they treated him like a king. Beet: If any of our female compatriots were here I wouldn't even be able to report that. Beet: Is that Orson? Cease: yes. from a firesign radio show. Beet: cool DJTweeny: LOL this is great DJTweeny: "You won't have Nixon to smite around anymore..." ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" Beet: I'm very much liking this collage. Cease: me too. DJTweeny: Very nice work, Cat :) Beet: Fantastic ||||||||| New notice: '** MERRY CHRISTMAS!! ** currently playing – PHIL AUSTIN'S “TALES OF THE OLD DETECTIVE” 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 Check out OLD DETECTIVE at >> http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Old-Detective-Other-Lies/dp/1572700017' DJTweeny: Sure wish I could think of a way to advertise this chat so that more Fireheads know about it DJTweeny: Maybe I'll ask Phil to include a short note about us in his newsletter Cease: there is so much great firestuff i think a lot of people would like to hear. DJTweeny: You bet Beet: it is a little odd with just three guys. ||||||||| 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!" DJTweeny: They're missing out Beet: This is a really great show. DJTweeny: :) Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “TALES OF THE OLD DETECTIVE” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=totod-ln ||||||||| 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' Beet: Well, I certainly had fun. Thanks to you two for being here and remaining steadfast. REALLY enjoyed the collage effort Dr Cease. Hope the weather warms up, Dr Tween. G'Nite. DJTweeny: Nite Beet Cease: bye DJTweeny: Thanks for being here ||||||||| At 10:56 PM, Cease vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted! ||||||||| Outside, the 10:59 PM bus from Florida pulls away, leaving llanwydd coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. llanwydd: hope there is still somebody here llanwydd: I swear I forgot ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. llanwydd: but I got here before 11 llanwydd: still here, tweeny and beet llanwydd: well, somebody call me on my shoe phone next week DJTweeny: Hey llan ||||||||| llanwydd leaves at 11:02 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..." ||||||||| Catherwood enters with llanwydd close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 11:02 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the vestibule. llanwydd: hi tween llanwydd: what was the show tonight? llanwydd: cat collage for sure but what FS album? llanwydd: well I better shift mah organs ||||||||| "11:05 PM? I'm late!" exclaims llanwydd, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the brambles. ||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, 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 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 the yaws ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from jaundice ||||||||| 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
llanwydd
Rufus_T_Firetween
