Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
12/26/2019

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||||||||| 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 26, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with RedPillTweeny close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 3:36 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the Aviary.
||||||||| It's 3:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 7:10 PM: Rufus_T_Firetween jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| Outside, the 7:24 PM uptown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving DJTweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Mudhead', just granted probation at 8:28 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
DJTweeny: Hey Mudhead
DJTweeny: Music in a little over 10 minutes
||||||||| 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!"
Mudhead: gREAT, time for snacks
||||||||| 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: '** HAPPY (almost) NEW YEAR!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (New Year's 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 enters with johan amadeus myjetski close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:47 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the anteroom.
DJTweeny: Hi Johan
Mudhead: How bout some Dire Straights
johan amadeus myjetski: evenin' all!
DJTweeny: Beet was the only one who joined me and Cat last week lol
DJTweeny: was a tad lonely ;)
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:49 PM and CptButton waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJTweeny: Hi CptButton
CptButton: I've been to Ancient Greece, look at this grape!
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
DJTweeny: Proof enough for me!
||||||||| Cease enters at 8:51 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Hat Pack Annex.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with uh_clem close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:51 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the Aviary.
DJTweeny: Hi Cease
DJTweeny: Hi clem
||||||||| 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."
Cease: Hi all
johan amadeus myjetski: sorry for my absence last week - I was recovering from dental surgery & felt really low.
Mudhead: Evenin all
Cease: already twice as many chatters as last week.
Cease: welcome back, mud
DJTweeny: ouch, Johan :(
Cease: firesign usually picks you up when you're feeling low.
DJTweeny: Yeah, the crowd was a bit thin last week ;)
CptButton: Is this Abba?
Cease: next week we'll play something almost no one has heard, unless you caught the simulcast in 2000
DJTweeny: Yes
DJTweeny: This is Blind Lemon Jefferson
Cease: the laternative rose parade the firesign did for 3 pacifica stations during the rose parade.
Cease: he sounds blind
DJTweeny: haha
DJTweeny wonders how someone 'sounds' blind
DJTweeny: "Happy New Years Blues"
CptButton: Not Blind Lemon Pye?
DJTweeny: nor Blind Melon Chitlin
DJTweeny: (Cheech & Chong character ;)
Cease: we used to have a blind chatter named Dave.
Cease: he's not here.
DJTweeny: no he is not
johan amadeus myjetski: dave?
Cease: dave bahr, from colorado.
DJTweeny: I forget his nick
DJTweeny: It's been some years
Cease: is this eagles?
DJTweeny: yep
CptButton: Please don't bother tryign to find her, she's not there.
Cease: i see him on facebook all the time. he has a new book out.
johan amadeus myjetski: his 'insights' into listening to FST would have been interesting
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
||||||||| Mudhead is kicked out just as the clock strikes 8:58 PM.
Cease: you can probably find them in the archives
||||||||| Outside, the 8:58 PM bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Beet coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Beet: Happy chat Thursday all.
Cease: you left before the show starts, mud
Cease: hi beet
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Mudhead close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:59 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the sitting room.
Mudhead: Anyone miss me?
DJTweeny: wb Mudhead
Mudhead: So far, everyone
Beet: Hey Dr Cease, Dr Tween
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY (almost) NEW YEAR!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
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||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, December 26, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Cease: Mutt n' Mudhead
Mudhead: Sounds like good stew
Beet: It took 1984 a little longer to get here.
Cease: true, beet
Mudhead: Isnt 2020 a palindrome?
Cease: no
Mudhead: Feb 20th 2020
Cease: right
Beet: That works
||||||||| New notice: ' ** HAPPY (almost) NEW YEAR!! **
Currently playing: Firesign’s - “GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check Out IMMORTALITY at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-rv'
Beet: Soinds like a healthy Tween tonight
DJTweeny: Still sniffling and some sinus headaches, but much better thanks
Beet: Ominous music
DJTweeny: indeed
Cease: have you been here before, cptbutton?
Mudhead: My slaves are in those barrels!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out “GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-rv
johan amadeus myjetski: the show-off lane... I miss the 90s...
Cease: they'll come around again.
||||||||| "9:12 PM? 9:12 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Beet1 should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Beet1 enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
johan amadeus myjetski: i won't have much to show off by that time, cat
Mudhead: For every One there must be a corresponding Zeroi somewhere
Beet1: Slipped out for a second
||||||||| Catherwood leads Ampws inside, makes a note of the time (9:13 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Beet1: Hello Ampws
Cease: Hi Ampws
DJTweeny: allo Ampws
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi amps!
Ampws: hello～
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Tom inside, makes a note of the time (9:14 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
DJTweeny: Hi Tom
johan amadeus myjetski: 'lo Tom
Cease: Tom
Beet1: Yo Tom
Ampws: what
DJTweeny: Beijing China, Ampws??
Ampws: yup china
Cease: You wouldn't happen to be a doctor, tom?
Ampws: but hangzhou
Ampws )
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Merlyn inside, makes a note of the time (9:15 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
DJTweeny: (according to Nino)
Ampws: (smile)
Cease: how are things in china?
Cease: Hi Merl
Ampws: seem much more convenient
Merlyn: hey
Beet1: Ebenin' Merl
Merlyn: Nino's still got it
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** If you want to know where your fellow chatters live, ask Nino The Mindboggler by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page.
Ampws: such as Alipay
DJTweeny: Hi Merlyn
||||||||| Tom rushes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Tom?! It's 9:16 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Ampws: we dont need to bring cash when going out
DJTweeny: Tom, we hardly knew ye...
Cease: I thought it might be doc tech
Cease: that's convenient, amp
Ampws: doc?
Cease: one of the founders of the chat, doc technical, aka tom o'neill
Ampws: yup
Ampws: cool
Cease: are you a firesign fan, amp?
Ampws: im from the music channel in freenode
Ampws: yup
Cease: you've come to the right place
Ampws: i listened a lot
Cease: the more you listen to firesign, the more you get
DJTweeny: Hey Freenode
Ampws: the twisted heart is really nice
||||||||| 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: ** Check out “GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-rv
Rufus_T_Firetween: •• Visit the FIRESIGN THEATRE Web Site at >> www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
DJTweeny: This is such a fine 'comeback' album
DJTweeny: as are all 3 in the Trilogy
Cease: true enough
||||||||| 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 Tough Tony disembarks at 9:24 PM.
Cease: buit not unexpected. they ARE the firesign theatre
Cease: where's meek tony?
DJTweeny: Hi Tony
Tough Tony: Hi Firesigners!
johan amadeus myjetski: Tough!
Beet1: Hey, Tony
Ampws: Hi
||||||||| Around 9:25 PM, johan amadeus myjetski walks off into the sunset...
Tough Tony: Had to stop by to riff on one of my favorite FST albums!
||||||||| bubba steps in at 9:26 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski sneaks in around 9:26 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out “GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-rv
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: had to make the journey out and in...
DJTweeny: wb Johan
Beet1: Welcome back, Mr JAM
Cease: jammy
Cease: good thing you did, tony
Cease: bubba
Cease: best comeback album of all time?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: yo bbbbbubba!
Ampws: is everyone American
Cease: Canadian
Tough Tony: Yeah, best comeback album...they nailed it.
Ampws: cool
Mudhead: United Snakes here
Ampws: wow Amadeus
Ampws: it remind me of Mozart
Ampws: reminds
Tough Tony: Favorite line or lines from the album...Go!
Cease: so is unemployment
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: i am known for the Magic Bowl Movement in C minus....
bubba: yo all, was afk... bbbbbubbba back
Cease: your favourite line from this album, bubba?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: everything we will miss from the old millineum
Tough Tony: "We nuked 'em til they glowed and shot 'em in the dark!"
Cease: that's a great one, tony.
Cease: as i recall, proctor heard someone say that.
Cease: right merl?
DJTweeny: Hi bubba
Tough Tony: Weren't the group trying to sell those eyeball hats at the time?
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
DJTweeny: They were avilable for a while, but no more
||||||||| 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!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** “Fighting Clowns Of Hollywood: A Memoir” by David Ossman - http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman
bubba: Hayas, wrestling a new computer getting the stream to work.. what fun, and to think all I had to do was put the balls on the other side!!
Beet1: No one on the chat has one of those hats. I asked.
Cease: Great book. Lots of scripts.
Cease: My wife wanted one and Austin promised her one but it never happened. I think they sold out quickly
Cease: look at em spin now!
Cease: glad the lads made some money from them.
Tough Tony: "triple ripoff, millenium snatch and lick..." Oh god!
Beet1: Chip in the ass must hurt
Cease: if its the california highway patrol, it must REALLY hurt
DJTweeny: haha
DJTweeny: Glad you got it working, bubba :)
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: just found this : https://www.wish.com/share/3684iqdcle
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: hope that link works
Beet1: I have an eyeball T shirt from my nephew's band.
Tough Tony: Cool, Beet1. Any eyeballs will do.
Beet1: Gotta do what you can.
DJTweeny: It's asking for a Login, Johan
Cease: Nick's 3rd eye is under his hat.
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
Beet1: That's a ;pt of down time.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net
Mudhead: One of the best
Beet1: sometimes the typing is really horrible.
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY (almost) NEW YEAR!! **
Currently playing: Doc Technical’s “DEAR FRIENDS TOO (Part 2)”
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?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ'
Beet1: This ought to be good.
Tough Tony: Cool!
Cease: as long as yu can figger out what eye'm saying, typing isnt a problem
Beet1: Sexy French song.
Mudhead: Thank you Tom
||||||||| 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: yeah! Love a new look at Dear Friends!
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
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: this is rather hissy.
DJTweeny: It's having a hissy fit
Beet1: Appropriately smarmy french chef.
Cease: proc's first 2nd language was french.
Cease: i dont think he's had quite the affair with french as he has had with russsian, but it's still an affair.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "10:02 PM and late as usual, it's llanwydd, just back from Funfun Town."
llanwydd: good evening
Beet1: Hey, Llan.
Cease: hey. it's llan!
Cease: merry hollidays, llan
llanwydd: same to you and to all
Beet1: Norm MacDonald said that the best thing about alcoholism as a disease is that you get to DRINK.
Cease: lol beet
Cease: I'll drink to that.
||||||||| 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."
DJTweeny: Hry llan
||||||||| 10:04 PM: J.A.M. jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
DJTweeny: Herro
llanwydd: Hey tweeny
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Not Ed into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 10:05 PM, then departs.
llanwydd: welcome, JAM
J.A.M.: Hi Alan!
Cease: Hi Not
DJTweeny: Hi Not Ed
llanwydd: Ni Not
J.A.M.: Oh, Not!
Not Ed: Porque?
llanwydd: Hi, I meant
Beet1: Lungmeat and coffee. What a combo.
Beet1: Hey, Not.
Not Ed: JAM, llan, C, Beet, Tweener
DJTweeny: Darned good crowd tonight :)
||||||||| 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!"
Not Ed: Mud, TT
Beet1: Better than last week.
Not Ed: Kewl
Cease: lol beet
DJTweeny: Slightly lol
DJTweeny: Last week it was just Cat, Beet and me
Cease: if you put together all the firesign's commercials, real and pretend, it would be a long collection.
Not Ed: royal loyal troopers
Cease: ah hour at least
Not Ed: Mercy Humpe
Not Ed: movie
J.A.M.: And more than a couple of award winning commercials, cease!
Tough Tony: Hahaha! "retract your ballpoints, fellas!"
Not Ed: Love Austin's art commercial
Beet1: I had a crush on Blondie.
Beet1: A cartoon.
Not Ed: third house guest
Beet1: I love astrology nerds.
Cease: that sounds like anna lee
Not Ed: lol ya
Tough Tony: HAHAHAHA!
Not Ed: (nerds)
Not Ed: catherwood give everyone a tracking fob
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone a tracking fob.
Tough Tony: Are we still tracking that fob?
Beet1: Hitler outlawed swing.
Not Ed: He wasn't much fun
DJTweeny: He was no fun at all
Beet1: He liked dogs.
Beet1: And a vegetarian.
DJTweeny: but at least eventually he fell right over
Not Ed: He used to french poodles
J.A.M.: there are those who thought ol'Adolph was just a misguided dog lover...
Beet1: Poor misguided paper hanger.
DJTweeny: haha
J.A.M.: calls Moe Hailstone to mind.....
Tough Tony: I've gotta annex the Sudetenland before sunrise so...
Beet1: Everyone needs a goal in life.
llanwydd: Moe Hailstone? who is that?
Beet1: lol
J.A.M.: Moe Howard's portrayal of Hitler in a 3 Stooges short a couple of months before Chaplin's send up of Hitler.
llanwydd: I have probably seen that
Cease: link?
Beet1: For some reason no one wears that style of mustache anymore.
DJTweeny: There were characters in the Terry Gilliam movie Brasil who did
DJTweeny: obvious for a reason ;)
DJTweeny: *obviously
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: python skit about hitler one of the funniest
Beet1: He shaved it off when he went to Argentina.
DJTweeny: The Nazis in a boarding house, Cease?
Cease: yes
llanwydd: I remember that one,cat
DJTweeny: Yeah, that's fun
Cease: i used it in a collage long ago
||||||||| 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!"
J.A.M.: link to "You Nazty Spy" https://youtu.be/TClfKwPPAZA
Beet1: I don't think I have seen that one.
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
Beet1: Thanks
Cease: yes, i remember this, jam
DJTweeny: It's in Episode 12 of the TV series, Beet
Cease: listrening to this in the background, it's a kind of score of discordance
J.A.M.: his salute is"hail, hail, hailstone, wahoo!"
Cease: random words throw the i ching in your speakers while you chat.
Beet1: I will seek that out.
Cease: storm clouds over europe
Rufus_T_Firetween: The Naked Ant - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0650998/
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** “Fighting Clowns Of Hollywood: A Memoir” by David Ossman - http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman
Beet1: I sometimes use the online I Ching for a new angle on stuff. It's fast.
Cease: firesign used it a lot in the early days
Cease: nick ends with i ching reading
Beet1: Quoted it in Nick Danger.
Beet1: There's an echo in here.
Cease: biting through in THIS AREA
Beet1: "You put me through too many changes."
Beet1: Nightin jail Junior high school lol.
Cease: good job, doc tech
Not Ed is wondering what the reason for all this is
Cease: all what?
Not Ed: Ix?
Not Ed: This
Not Ed: right here
Not Ed: right there
Beet1: The universe likes to laugh at itself.
Cease: reality?
Cease: welll said, beet
Not Ed: RIP Ram Dass
DJTweeny: "Reality, What a Concept..." ~ Robin Williams
Cease: be here now
Not Ed: Yea I like that too B
DJTweeny: yes RIP Ram Dass
Not Ed: Be Somewhere Else Now
Cease: i was in the hospital 50 years or so ago and a friend brought me that book.
Cease: very helpful
J.A.M.: Be There Then
Not Ed: Great
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
DJTweeny: I need to read that again
Beet1: Great book.
Beet1: Heart transplant - Park and Lock It.
Not Ed: lol
J.A.M.: but now my feet are getting too clod...
llanwydd: Be There Then. LOL
Beet1: This is some rich stuff.
DJTweeny: Oh.... How can you be in two places at once, when you're not even being here now...
llanwydd: lol
Cease: listening to firesign is to be constantly enriched
Beet1: Is this in the Dear Friends, Hour Hour collection?
Cease: DOMM yes
Cease: but doc tech put these pieces together for this
Cease: just like i do with my collages
Beet1: genius
DJTweeny: Like Ossman went through and made the Dear Friends album
Cease: all firesign radio is collage
J.A.M.: a rich humorous fertilizes us all...
Cease: i'm just introducing more iterations
Cease: i hope the mushroom plays are eventually released in some form
||||||||| 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'
Cease: this is from my fave, A Shadow Moves Upon a Land
DJTweeny: They're putting together some more projects for the Firesign Download Store which might include some of that
Beet1: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new FIRESIGN THEATRE DOWNLOAD STORE at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
Not Ed: incomprehensible!
Not Ed: bong!
Not Ed: (quoting NPR)
Cease: i think npr was afraid its funders might find this too offensive
||||||||| Catherwood leads NancyKat inside, makes a note of the time (10:50 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Cease: hi nancy
Cease: fellow feline
NancyKat: Bingbangbong!
DJTweeny: Hey NancyKat, just in time for the end of the show :)
Not Ed: NPR is very milk toast
Not Ed: Hi NKat
DJTweeny: Hope you can make it nexy week :)
llanwydd: great!
Cease: how are things, nancy?
J.A.M.: hi NanC
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed: Hey thanks Kurt!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
NancyKat: LOL...I know, I just thought I'd pop my head in since i'm not wrangling child or being in a sleep deprived coma...
Beet1: This was fantastic and a pefect way to say goodbye to 2019. It was great to see everyone. Thanks to Doc Tech this week for the collage. Give Dr Cease a rest. Thanks as ever, Dr Tween for your yoeman efforts. Have a great 2020 all. G'Nite.
Cease: good to hear, nancy
Not Ed: Good 2 C each and everyone (merl! yeah!)
NancyKat: MEOW all.
J.A.M.: love, love, love to all! prosperous new year to us all!@!!
Not Ed: Adios firepalz C U in 2020
bubba: ciao
llanwydd: I thought I knew every grateful dead song
Cease: i'll always be here, as long as i"m I
llanwydd: oh now I recognize it
Cease: i hope we all prosper, jammy
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
llanwydd: thanks tweeny
Merlyn: thanks tween
||||||||| Merlyn rushes off, saying "10:58 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
llanwydd: nite everybody
||||||||| llanwydd departs at 10:58 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| NancyKat - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| DJTweeny - 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:
||||||||| J.A.M. - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| CptButton - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 12:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| It's 1:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| bubba - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| uh_clem - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tough Tony - 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 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:
||||||||| Beet - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Ampws - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Mudhead - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Beet1 - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
Ampws
Beet1
Beet
bubba
Cease
CptButton
DJTweeny
J.A.M.
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
Mudhead
NancyKat
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
Tough Tony

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=gmiogmd-rv
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0650998/
https://www.wish.com/share/3684iqdcle
https://youtu.be/TClfKwPPAZA