Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
05/14/2020

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 May 14, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 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 Rufus_T_Firetween plummets into the garden at 3:05 PM.
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| It's 3:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Rufus_T_Firetween into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, mutters something about 5:12 PM, then departs.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'DJTweeny', just granted probation at 5:12 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Reality 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)'
||||||||| llanwydd enters at 8:50 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Haberdashery Barn.
llanwydd: hi there
DJTweeny: Hey llan
llanwydd: I listened to this whole albu a few days ago
llanwydd: oops. not the live album
DJTweeny: kewl :)
DJTweeny: a fine album indeed
DJTweeny: Live At Carnegie Hall is excellent
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
llanwydd: havent heard carnegie hall yet
DJTweeny: That was Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
DJTweeny: this is Alan Parsons
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Cease into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:56 PM, then departs.
llanwydd: Hi Cat
DJTweeny: allo Cease eh
Cease: HI chatters
llanwydd: none of us in hawaii
llanwydd: oh, I get it
DJTweeny: almost didn't have a show tonight, I had glitches in my internet this afternoon, and then it cut out completely
llanwydd: interesting
DJTweeny: ATT's support told me I need to make an appoint for a technician
Cease: bummer
||||||||| "8:58 PM? 8:58 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Beet should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Beet enters and sits in the comfy chair.
Beet: Evening Corona Fireheads
llanwydd: hi Beet
Cease: Hi Beet
Beet: Hi Dr Cease
Beet: Hi Llan
DJTweeny: turned out the ATT Gateway (modem/routher) just had to be reset
llanwydd: I had a corona for the first time in years yesterday
Cease: sound dissappeared
DJTweeny: yep, lost the connection again
Beet: Hi Dr tween
DJTweeny: arrrrg
DJTweeny: Hey Beet
DJTweeny: ATT being flaky
DJTweeny: well, unless it cuts out completely again I'm going for it
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, May 14, 2020 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Beet: Hang in there brother.
DJTweeny: I'm sure Austin service is under tremendous pressure
DJTweeny: the silicon valley of Texas
Beet: Youtube went down worldwide this evening.
||||||||| Ma_Jenkins sneaks in around 9:01 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
Beet: Hi Ma
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Dear Friends broadcast collection, “DON'T OPEN THE DOOR ON REALITY”
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'
DJTweeny: Howdy Ma
Cease: Ma
llanwydd: we used to chat without audio. no reason we can't do it again for one night
Ma_Jenkins: Happy Thursday!
Cease: we did a couple of weeks ago, llan
llanwydd: Hi there Ma J
Cease: if there's firesign in it, it's always happy Ma
Ma_Jenkins: Howdy!
Ma_Jenkins D
Beet: This one of the greatest collections of anything ever and a bargain at that.
llanwydd: I must have missed that night, cat. I don't remember
||||||||| 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 dain bramage disembarks at 9:03 PM.
Cease: Dain
DJTweeny: Hi dain
Cease: Reminds me of the title of a Krassner album: Brain Damage Control
llanwydd: good evening drain bamage
DJTweeny: Phil doing two voices lol
DJTweeny: talented guy
Cease: Phil playing his mother.
DJTweeny: have to look for the Krassner
Beet: Didn't he say that all of the female voices he did were his imitation of his mother.
dain bramage: Hey Now! Pass the rocket fuel....
Cease: yes, Beet
DJTweeny: hadn't heardd that
DJTweeny: or hheard that even
Beet: There's a little bit of preacher in all of them.
llanwydd: hard to believe his mother sound like nancy AND mrs presky
dain bramage: dddrain it....
Beet: Aaaaaw
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Mudhead', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:12 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
DJTweeny: yo Muddy
Beet: Hi Mud
Cease: HI Mud
Mudhead: I'll get back to you as soon as I spit this Chlorox Gum out.
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 ** Read about “BOX OF DANGER: The Complete Nick Danger Casebook” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bod-rv
DJTweeny: ewww
Rufus_T_Firetween: fort those of you who don't have the wonderful collection yet ^^
Mudhead: Hi all, isnt my breath shiny?
DJTweeny: heheh
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
DJTweeny: as kleen as kleen can be
Ma_Jenkins: I've got some tide pod breath mints in my purse if anyone needs one.
llanwydd: I could use one, Ma
Mudhead: Be careful with those blue ones
dain bramage: ahh, nice clean nauts
Cease: is it a candy mint at the same time?
Ma_Jenkins: This looks intersting...here...'ocean breeze' flavor.
Mudhead: the kids will love those
Beet: lol
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Deputy Dang close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:20 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the anteroom.
Mudhead: But they had no plan, but then a plan surfaced, but then they had a better plan, but they didnt follow it...
Mudhead: I cant keep the lies straight
Cease: Dang
dain bramage: it's all true... every lie
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
llanwydd: donut!
llanwydd: I saw the real CoMC with donat
Deputy Dang: Howdy pardners! I'm having trouble getting my audio working tonight.
llanwydd: hi dd
llanwydd: youre not the only one
llanwydd: ours dropped out a little while ago
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
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
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
dain bramage: dog is the copilot
DJTweeny: Yes, my ATT U-Verse connect was very bad earlier today
Beet: Hi deputy
DJTweeny: considered calling off the show, and then it went completely dead
Cease: seems to be working now
dain bramage: strong audio here... 128k... bleachy clean
DJTweeny: had to reset the 'gateway' (modem/router)
DJTweeny: but the archive will be accurate
Beet: No noticeable problem.
DJTweeny: fingers crossed Cease
dain bramage: no residue
DJTweeny: kewl
Ma_Jenkins: The audio sounds good.
llanwydd: mine is fine too
Deputy Dang: I'm connected now. Whew! What a pain that was.
Beet: Terrible stuff
DJTweeny: great idea to play the Dear Friends broadcasts in order, Cease
DJTweeny: It's a bit of history
Cease: Most fans only know the DF album. It's great hearing the whole shows
Beet: I am totally in favor.
DJTweeny: yes
Beet: I can almost see the cloud of smoke in the studio.
Beet: Sound out.
Ma_Jenkins: yah
Beet: It's back.
Beet: Doctor, uh.
Beet: One of my favorite circus acts.
Beet: . . . and a hearty Hi Oh Silver!
llanwydd: anybody get their letter from trump? I never got mine
DJTweeny: even distorted, FST sounds great :)
Beet: Didn't know about a letter.
DJTweeny: Earl must have been not watching the meters ;)
llanwydd: yeah, trump has supposedly sent a cover letter to go with the stimulus checks
DJTweeny: He wanted his signature on the checks
llanwydd: lol
DJTweeny: that's some vanity for a Prresident
Beet: It was just deposited into my account.
DJTweeny: It's not The Treasury Department, it's Donald Trump!
llanwydd: there is talk about a second round of checks
DJTweeny: *President
DJTweeny: or Pressident, depending
Beet: I'll take some of the trillions the banks got.
llanwydd: lol beet
||||||||| 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: yeah, crumbs to Main Street ;)
Beet: Good old tune.
dain bramage: squashed like a zucchini
llanwydd: lol
Beet: Sound out
Beet: Back
DJTweeny: annnd, another internet glitch
DJTweeny: but back again
Ma_Jenkins: darn...
dain bramage: doctor cough in
DJTweeny: Google Fiber is looking interesting
Beet: Get the Valium
DJTweeny: 1G up and down with a land line for $80/mo
DJTweeny: but I'd have to change all my email addresses which would be a serious pain
Cease: "building a wall" this was back in 71
llanwydd: my sound is gone
DJTweeny: yep, another glitch
Cease: it comes, it goes
DJTweeny: back now
DJTweeny: ATT. They come. They go...
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
DJTweeny: not my equipment
DJTweeny: imagine the musicians of Austin having to go online
DJTweeny: serious bandwidth useage
||||||||| Outside, the 9:58 PM uptown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Not Ed coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJTweeny: Hi Not Ed
Not Ed: Hi Tweeny
Cease: Not
Ma_Jenkins: I'm just glad you share these awesome shows with us old fans. Thank you!!!
Not Ed: Cheers Cease
Beet: Cool
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show. If you'd like to make a small contribution to help with the server fees, there's a PayPal link to donate here >> http://dishnuts.net
Beet: Hi Not
Cease: There are a lot of shows
Not Ed: Hey Beet & dain & llan! & Ma & all kinds of firefolks like that there
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“THE 2 AGES OF MAN”
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/'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski steals in around 10:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
Not Ed: Hi JAMMY
Cease: HI Jammy
Beet: Howdy JAM
llanwydd: hey JAM
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Cease, Not, & everybody!
Not Ed: Yay!
DJTweeny: allo Johan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Beet! Llan!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : DJT!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I just dropped in to see what condition my condition is in...
Beet: Social distancing in the '30's
Cease: I remember those incinerators
Not Ed: chillin at a distance yo
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Not Ed: resisting media hyperhype
Not Ed: sure is good 2 hear this C
Cease: didnt get much airplay on Firesign Radio so you can hear it here.
Not Ed: great
Not Ed: sorry it didn't get plays but what r you gonna do
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Blig black owl
Not Ed: right lol
Beet: rightening
Beet: Frightening
Not Ed: feed issues
Beet: Everything went pause
Beet: A successful relationship.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Went deaf for a bit...
Cease: Maybe we should have a section in the archives for these, Tween. So folks can hear them uninterrupted
DJTweeny: That was my thinking Cease
Cease: Maybe call it Cat's Firesign Radio Shows.
Cease: I don't call them collages because they're just Firesign, even if its lots of different Firesign bits around a theme.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Firesign Theatre Radio - http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/
Not Ed: tx Ruf
Rufus_T_Firetween: yw
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Fading fast. Nite all! Next fire week, same fire station!!
Cease: Nite, Jammy
Rufus_T_Firetween: later gator
Beet: Bice to see you, JAM. Nite.
Beet: Nice
Not Ed: JAMMIN
Beet: Pants 'Em
Not Ed: Pluck 'Em
Beet: Color TV. What a revelation.
Beet: Sound out
||||||||| 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!"
DJTweeny: OK, it's back
Beet: Back
DJTweeny: Well I tried :/
DJTweeny: Didn't want to dissapoint again
Cease: You think it'll be better next week?
Beet: Hey, you're doing great.
DJTweeny: Austin is a tech hub
DJTweeny: can't say
DJTweeny: but I'll give it a go
Cease: Something is better than nothing
Not Ed: Thanks Tween
llanwydd: you do a great ob for us, tween
Not Ed: I was really N-joying
llanwydd: job
DJTweeny: can't imagine the strain on the infrastructure, with everybody working from home and trying to do live music broadcasts instead of the clubs
llanwydd: not ob
DJTweeny: thanks guyz
Not Ed: Ob, the Impenetrable Lord of Toads Away
llanwydd: lol
Not Ed: works 4 me
Beet: everything is copacetic.
||||||||| 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!"
Not Ed: 10 4
Cease: I haven't heard this in quite a while. I'm impressed by how it progresses from conception onward.
llanwydd: lawyers hospital
Cease: Have we heard that recently, Tween?
Cease: I'd forgotten how rich their vein of kids and youth directed comedy is
DJTweeny: let me check
Not Ed: lawyers heh yeah
DJTweeny: We haven't heard Lawyer's Hospital since before 2019
Beet: Early educational TV was such a trip.
Not Ed: nice edit
llanwydd: I doubt anybody stole the school
Beet: Imagine carrying your radio in your shirt pocket.
Cease: only the stool
||||||||| It's 10:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
DJTweeny: How can you be in two places at one?
Cease: by being on the radio
DJTweeny: prosecutor _and_ defense?
DJTweeny: *once
DJTweeny: catherwood, please take everyone's hat and groat
||||||||| Catherwood takes everyone's hat and groat.
llanwydd: thanks cathy
llanwydd: very good cat. never thought of that
Not Ed: okie dokie (Spanky talk)
Beet: Hey, Catherwood, here's your door knocker.
||||||||| Catherwood steps up to Beet and queries "Did you want me?"
llanwydd: and talkie spank
Cease: this is from ossman's 79th birthday celebration which is on youtube
Cease: maybe 75th
Not Ed: kewl
DJTweeny: "Nice knockers!" "Thank you doctor..."
llanwydd: my audio is gone
DJTweeny: back
llanwydd: back again
Not Ed: is the thrill gone?
DJTweeny: definitely have to check into Google Fiber
llanwydd: he's gone...nothin' gonna bring him back...
DJTweeny: they claim to be more reliable, but all of Austin tech is under stress
Not Ed is hovering (about three feet off the floor)
||||||||| 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 6-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net
Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign'
llanwydd: thanks for everything, tween
Cease: alas
DJTweeny: Sorry for the mess folks, but at least I tried to put on a show for you
llanwydd: you too, cat
Beet: You done good
Cease: thanks for the effort, tween
llanwydd: indeed
Cease: it'll be in the archives
DJTweeny: yeah, the archive will be accurate
Cease: see some of you here next week
DJTweeny: and thanks for all your good work Cat
llanwydd: well, I've got something waiting for me in the kitchen
Cease: it'[s fun to do
llanwydd: nite everybody. see you next week.
Beet: See you, Llan
Cease: later, folks
||||||||| "10:55 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Cease, who then rushes out through the french doors and down through the garden.
||||||||| Around 10:55 PM, llanwydd walks off into the sunset...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Beet: I saw Adams' house in Quincy, Mass.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: I carelessly lost both of my parents.
DJTweeny: You should have put GPS chips on them
Beet: Chat continuity makes all the difference during pandemics. Thanks to everyone. Great collection, Dr Cease. Thanks as ever to our guide Dr Tween. G'Nite.
DJTweeny: Dancing On The Ceiling is pretty good Quincy
DJTweeny: as is JQ Adams 'The Search For Monsters'
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Not Ed: Adios
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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
dain bramage
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
llanwydd
Ma_Jenkins
Mudhead
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween

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=bod-rv
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
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
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases