A Firesign Chat
05/21/2020




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 21, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 2:52 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
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 6:10 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...
||||||||| 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 DJTweeny gets out at 8:16 PM.
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween enters at 8:18 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Chapeau Manger.
||||||||| 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)
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||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Law 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)
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||||||||| Mudhead enters at 8:54 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Mudhead: Hi Kurt
DJTweeny: Hey Muddy
DJTweeny: A Dear Friends broadcast and Lawyer's Hospital tonight
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:56 PM, dragging murthy by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
||||||||| Catherwood leads Cease into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:56 PM, then departs.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Law 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)
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DJTweeny: Hi murthy, Cease
||||||||| Mudhead leaves to catch the 8:57 PM train to Elmertown.
murthy: Hello
DJTweeny: murthy is from India
||||||||| Mudhead enters at 8:57 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Chapeau Manger.
Cease: Great song!
murthy: Ya
murthy: Hello everyone
Mudhead: Hi Cat
DJTweeny: Sure is :)
Cease: I used it in a collage.
Cease: Hi muddy, murthy
murthy: hello Cease
DJTweeny: Have you heard of The Firesign Theatre, murthy?
murthy: Ya I think you told me the other day
DJTweeny: kewl
||||||||| Beet enters at 8:59 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Chapeau Manger.
Beet: Good evening Dear Friends. Hope all are well.
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
murthy: Beet, I hope the same
Beet: Howdy Dr Tween
Beet: Hi Murthy
Cease: Hey Beet
Beet: Hi Dr Cease
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, May 21, 2020 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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||||||||| 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 Credeneza Stones falls out at 9:00 PM.
DJTweeny: allo Stones
Beet: Hello Credenza
Mudhead: Yumm, crack me a whiz Tweeny
Cease: Stones
DJTweeny: Catherwood, please give Mudhead a Whizz
||||||||| Catherwood gives mudhead a whizz.
Beet: Can't beat DOMM.
Cease: I have some news about the Ossman Project, Beet
Mudhead: Thats not cracked!
DJTweeny: Great collection
DJTweeny: kudos to the people who put it together
Cease: Doc updated it and sent me the CD insert today.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Dear Friends broadcast collection, “BIG BROTHER IS WASHING”
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
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Mudhead: oh no, the covid!
Cease: That's the one that will be going into the Library of Congress.
DJTweeny: haha
Beet: I am interested to hear your news, Cease
||||||||| "9:03 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Credeneza Stones, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds.
Cease: I think we should listen to the latest, and final version again on chat, Tween.
Beet: Imagine how the the polygamists are faring with stay at home.
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: One of the DFs is only 38.26 so we can fit the Ossman Project in with that.
DJTweeny: agreed Cat
Cease: Proctor wanted everyone to be introduced to Doc rounded up a narrator who did a fine job.
DJTweeny: kewl Cease
Mudhead: I only think those thoughts in private Beet
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski enters at 9:07 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Chapeau Manger.
Beet: So Proc is directly involved with the project?
Cease: Jammy
DJTweeny: Yo Johan
Cease: I sent Ossie, Proc and Oona CDs of the version you heard here.
Beet: HI brother JAM.
Cease: Proc's notes were then incorporated in the new version
Beet: How cool.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hola Hi beet, djt, cease!
Cease: This is the version you'll put in the archives, Tween.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Sorry to be late. Traffic was murder on the ol’ Cantalope Expressway
Cease: 40,000 headmen in front of you?
||||||||| "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!"
Mudhead: mmmm, melon
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Yep. If they hadn’t had to stop & reload, I wouldn’t be here to tell the tale!
Mudhead: now Im hungry
Beet: One of my fondest memories laying back on my rack and listening to Dear Friends hour on the Pacifica network in Houston laughing my head off.
Cease: Ive used this piece in assorted collages.
||||||||| Not Ed waltzes in at 9:13 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Beet: Hi Not
Cease: The early Firesigns Loved using Indian accents.
Not Ed: Porque?
Cease: Hi Not
Mudhead: We've already got one
Not Ed: Hey Beety, Cease
Cease: You still here, Murthy
Not Ed: Cheerz Tweeny
Not Ed: JAM & Mud
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hiya Not!
DJTweeny: allo Not Ed
murthy: Cease, I am here
murthy: was listening to the music and forgot everything
Not Ed: Hi murthy
murthy: Not Ed, hi
Mudhead: Chickens and Cantaloupe
Cease: The is some of the Firesign "Indian" material.
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
murthy )
DJTweeny: so Murthy, how do you like their Indian accents? lol
Beet: Love Indian food.
murthy D
Mudhead: I'd love some food
murthy: Beet, nice
Not Ed: Tim Curry
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "9:16 PM and late as usual, it's dumbase, just back from California."
Mudhead: We dont have Indian food here
murthy: I too love those, but not I am self cooking :(
Cease: dumb
DJTweeny: Hi dumbase
Not Ed: Hiho dum
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Food exit 1.78eo127 kilometers ahead on the Cantalope Expressway. If you lived there, you’d be dead by now!
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
Rufus_T_Firetween: great collection ^^
Cease: That it is, Tween
Beet: There's a large Indian population in Houston.
Not Ed: Tee-rific
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi dumbase
Cease: I learned that from a Bourdain show about Houston, Beet
Beet: Hello dumbase.
Mudhead: Id need to go to New Haven for Indian
Mudhead: thats Thats an hour away
Beet: Two large temples there also.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I played at the indian temple in memphis several years ago
Beet: What kind of performance was it, JAM
Mudhead: Some shrimp curry and fresh Nan
murthy: Johan, thats nice
Not Ed: Sikh?
murthy: Mudhead, thats a nice combi
Mudhead: no, wasnt sick at all
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I played bansuri flutes ( from india)
murthy: wow
Not Ed: Cool JAM
Beet: Very nice.
Not Ed: Sikh temple?
murthy: flutes are my fav musical instrument
Mudhead: fresh melon balls
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Sikh & yee shall find
Beet: lol
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : No, Hindu temple. Or Vedanta actually
murthy: LOL
Cease: Austin's parents were into Vedanta
Beet: Ws it connected to the Vedanta Society?
murthy: wow you guys know more about India than me
Not Ed: Ahh tx JAM
Mudhead: There are few restaurants open in CT, they were supposed to open for outside seating today
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : The temple director, Sri Achayra, invited me to eat with him afterwards. The peppery-est tumeric rice i ever ate!
Beet: I hope the reopenings aren't hazardous
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Merlyn', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:26 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
Not Ed: Hiho Merl
Mudhead: Those of us like myself are waiting for the vaccine before we go into public
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Merl!
Merlyn: hey
Beet: Hi Merlyn
DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn
Mudhead: Ive got one foot in the grave already, the other foots on the slippery Covid
murthy: Mudhead, me too
Cease: Merl!
Mudhead: So my aides are doing my shopping and Im staying insuide
Cease: Did you hear the Ossman Project when Tweeny played it here in
Cease: April, Mud?
Beet: Very interesting music choices.
Mudhead: no, missed it, sorry
Cease: I created it with a bunch of chatters and former chatters, plus other friends of the Firesigns
Beet: lol
Mudhead: Damn, I missed it
Cease: Proc wanted some additions so the new version is done
Cease: Ossman tells me it's going into the Library of Congress with all the other Firesign stuff.This week I think
Mudhead: Will it be LP records format?
Cease: Doc just sent him the CD
Cease: You knew about that, right, Merl?
Mudhead: I wonder if they'll have that format in a hundred years
Cease: I assume they'll have some format. Wouldnt' do any good to store stuff no one can hear
Beet: Good point
DJTweeny: murthy: Mudhead, you could cook? To murthy: I don't know if you'd call what I do cooking, but I do heat stuff ;) murthy: Beet, Ya I have an online friend, a texan from there, he told me To murthy: Interesting that I'm seeing your conversation with Mudhead
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : What? I can’t hear that!
murthy: What kind of music is this one? Its like a song from the movie grease
Mudhead: Then again it is the gubmint
DJTweeny: oops, didn't mean to send that here
Cease: Will they be able to read mp3s in the next century? No one knows
Beet: Have a name, Tween?
DJTweeny: We're working on what's going on with private messages
Beet: I am not having any private messages right now.
murthy: DJTweeny, Google chrome and Firefox are dropping non https in steps
DJTweeny: Beet: Have a name, Tween? << ¿Que?
Beet: You said something about an "online friend" - a Texan.
||||||||| 9:38 PM: General Dysfunction jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Cease: HI General
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Whokll sweep up all the non https off these steps?
||||||||| 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: That was not me Beet
Merlyn: the private message problem is just both of you have the same 6-digit random number
murthy: Beet, ya he shows up at #music on freenode with a nick nativetexan
Beet: Very confusing.
murthy: he is from your place
DJTweeny: OK, yeah, nativetexan is from the Freenode IRC
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi General!
Beet: West Virginia or Texas?
murthy: Huston
DJTweeny: He lives in Houston, I in Austin
DJTweeny: in a music channel
General Dysfunction: Happy to be here, away from the confusion. Oh crap, I brought the confusion with me. Damn I can't shake it.
Beet: I am very curious.
Cease: Dry your mukluks by the fire
Beet: Hey, Dys
murthy: Mukluks are awesome
Beet: We have two Dukes - Madness and Earl
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : The line sleeps tonight!
murthy: DJTweeny, nice
General Dysfunction: Mukluks; everyone who is anyone has them.
Cease: I'd rather have muckrackers
Beet: A nice oddity from the 50's.
murthy: General, I don't have one, I use them in a game
General Dysfunction: murthy, like dice?
Beet: Do the Time Warp again.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : It’s just a step to the left
Beet: I too am an expert in drug abuse.
murthy: General, "The long dark" aka Canada simulator
Beet: This is hilarious.
Cease: You can't simulate Canada. Too big.
General Dysfunction: Ah, the long dark is new to me, but i'm following that thread
General Dysfunction: familiar with long dark tea time of the soul, but the canadian twist is new
murthy: Cease, try the game, you will be surpirsed
murthy: or see someone play on twitch
Beet: It's the disgruntled again.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Busted flat in Baton Rouge...
General Dysfunction: ooooh, rounding out!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I’m hearing celophane!
Beet: My father was with the Big Brothers.
General Dysfunction: big brother is washing you.....oh my goodness
murthy: This one is nice, what am I listening now?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Big brother only got as far as my brain, General...
Beet: That's pretty far.
General Dysfunction: Johan, thank goodness
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||||||||| 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."
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Archives For The FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS can be found at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign
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
General Dysfunction: I fell into a dark room, and forces of invisibilties followed me, and I said, please, look the other way and do not pay attention to me
Beet: This is a surprisingly clear recording.
Rufus_T_Firetween: murthy: This one is nice, what am I listening now? << See the topic at the top of the channel
murthy: DJTweey, what was the last title played?
murthy: DJTweeny
General Dysfunction: goodness that was a muffled experience
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Touch up and touch down
murthy: Rufus ok
Rufus_T_Firetween: from the DOMM Dear Friends broadcast collection, “BIG BROTHER IS WASHING”
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
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : They’re here. And they’re watching us...
Beet: That was great.
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
Cease: https://tascam.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Junko+Meets+Charlie+Brown.mp4
General Dysfunction: Watching, hopefully learning
Rufus_T_Firetween: washing us
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Broken stations again!
Mudhead: Dont break your station
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi General
Cease: My latest video, with some Firesign.
Cease: I posted it to Youtube but can't find it there.
murthy: When someone told "Big brother is washing", I thought someone was trolling about NSA
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s “LAWYER'S HOSPITAL”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out LAWYER'S HOSPITAL at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=lh-rv
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Beet: It is Ten O'Clock in West Virginia, Catherwood.
||||||||| Catherwood ignores Beet
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “LAWYER'S HOSPITAL” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=lh-ln
Cease: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D5XFCEq6aODI%26feature%3Dshare%26fbclid%3DIwAR36W6c62SPxooKTZASZXHwAKUdBQVpa9nflAoC_ZNQCdkfSvL0MN1h1kQ0&h=AT3sozl24fKQ6LuyT3Pot7LINKP7RLOd3OyJQe8zDOIRVjhA7mfNpwkxRhes-JvRdprCL96aIpoPLZiuLqr-s90rh2Vopi3WsJbYOrPuw2detxV0ytafZNLLawOerX7PAg&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c[0]=AT3UaJTS76RaRZtmL6ZspQtRMAav3N7wlHAbGPJ54n56T9mBNOPqstUmiNIZNZLAjfkgVeKA3L_xeftUum1HGH9b89_iAFtH1yZ1cF_MgbZVUXWE4E6bpydKHOOVkIGx3DAqppcQW-5oN61yN6OS1A
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Demographic? Sounds like a Greek geek...
Cease: Bits from both sides of the 2 places album
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : You won’t want to eat after this!
Cease: Oh Lucy! I brought Fidel Castro home for dinner!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Ethyl was at the gas station...
Beet: Gerry Falwel was a dangerous man.
Merlyn: Please note that "Box of Danger" is no longer in print -- if you can find it, buy it
Cease: Bad news, Merl
Beet: I am a proud owner of the Box. A treasure trove.
Merlyn: Proctor didn't even know -- I looked up Nick Danger stuff for a fan who wrote to the website and noticed Shout Factory no longer offered it, and Proctor verified it
Beet: Make soap out of it.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Better to sell than to have fourteen boxes left in some ody’s basement because they’re not selling...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Better tosell out than...
Beet: So they sold out? That is nice.
Cease: Maybe in a hundred years, Firesign stuff will only be available through the LIbrary of Congress
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Merlyn: What timing!
Merlyn: The scuttlebutt is that it's been scuttled!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Some kid a hundred years from now, prowling through the LoC will come across FST, and it’ll all start over again....
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : What a pleasant thought!
Cease: Indeed, Jam
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** 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 - RFR Archives at www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Initially, the kid won’t be able to believe people a hundred years ago were this clever...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “LAWYER'S HOSPITAL” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=lh-ln
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
Cease: Before the Great Dumbing Down
Beet: Archeology discovers Firesign Theatre!
Cease: A good plot for Futurama
Beet: Naughty Bambi.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : At least, maybe theykll be able to make enough noise to keep the wolves awake...
Beet: Is DOMM in the LOC?
Cease: Yes. All their stuff is.
Beet: Great
Cease: LOC bought all their stuff, past present and future
Beet: Very prescient on their part.
Merlyn: trivia -- "biopsy" has all letters in alphabetical ordre
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : The dim sum of the parts...
DJTweeny: haha Johan
Cease: sounds like Austin school lunch menu
Beet: I just found out that Gerals Ford's birth name was Leslie Lynch King Jr!
Beet: Gerald
General Dysfunction: Merlyn- Excellent observation, must share with my bored co-workers, they're looking for anything, absolutely Anything for a Spark
General Dysfunction: I also, will drink to anything
Beet: This is a scary scenario.
General Dysfunction: It is indeed.
||||||||| Mudhead says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Mudhead exits at 10:26 PM.
General Dysfunction: I remember when there used to be......
Cease: by mud
Beet: One thing have learned in this life especially over this last six months is that you can't throw in your lot with any politician.
||||||||| 10:28 PM: RedPillTweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
Beet: See ya Mud
Beet: Hey, Red
Cease: Red beans and reds!
Beet: I enjoyed the seance this evening
General Dysfunction: reds are a Wonderful supper
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Great paul harvey imitation
Cease: indeed
Beet: A Lot of classic FST
General Dysfunction: thin mustache transplant, david niven, uh oh, into the water, dive for the ball, call the police in the morning....sure, no rush....
DJTweeny: Hi RedPill
Cease: They did a LOT of those poet ads
General Dysfunction: Great Ads
Cease: tv and radio both
General Dysfunction: Oh yeah, whatever it takes to get jack back in the saddle again
Merlyn: This is about the only radio commercial that contains the term "pederasty"
Beet: Great
General Dysfunction: what's it all about????
General Dysfunction: uh oh, god damnit
||||||||| 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...
Cease: This is the newly released version, Tween?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Twousers
Beet: What would early rock n roll have done without the triplet.
||||||||| llanwydd enters at 10:41 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Cease: Hi llan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Llan!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Now playing: Firesign Theatre's
“FIGHTING CLOWNS LIVE IN MARYLAND – THE AMERICAN PAGEANT”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
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Beet: Hey, Llan. Better late than never.
llanwydd: okay kids. turn off the computer and go to bed.
Rufus_T_Firetween: oops, forgot to chane the topic
Rufus_T_Firetween: *change
llanwydd: howdy folks
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: LLan, there's a new Final version of The Ossman Project
DJTweeny: FST has a new Download Store
Cease: Maybe Tween can play it here in a cople of weeks.
llanwydd: dying to hear it, cat
Cease: Proc wanted everyone to be idenified so they are now.
Beet: Wallace?
llanwydd: what are phil and david up to these days?
General Dysfunction: the little guy, one shining steel rail....I listened faithfully in 1972 and after that, and it stuck till I'm now 65, must mean something, still my people
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : What about the only president who was never president, Ben Franklin!
Cease: david was stuck in kansas city when the airlilnes stopped
Beet: Is he still there?
Cease: proc brings us his daily news on facebook and in his planet proctor
llanwydd: oh no
Cease: no he's been back since april. i talked tohim the day he got back
llanwydd: I think I have been through kansas city on my way to witchita
Beet: Good. He lives in a beautiful part of the country.
Cease: not far south of me.
llanwydd: long long ago
Beet: War after war after war.
llanwydd: great jazz town I hear
Cease: is this the university of maryland show?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Got stuck in KC one Christmas eve when trailways bus company was bought by greyhound
Beet: I used to ride Trailways.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Standing room only all night in the KC bus station
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : When they finally put us on a bus, it had no heat & a quarter inch of ice on the inside of the windows. Cold
Beet: They had a few last routes in Iowa when I was there.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:51 PM and Nuke steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Beet: Hello Nuke
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hiho Nuke!
llanwydd: only transportation hub I have ever been stuck in was the Porth Authority in NYC
DJTweeny: a little late Nuke, the show's almost over :/
llanwydd: about ten years ago
DJTweeny: try 9pm Eastern next time
General Dysfunction: yearning to make corn?
Nuke: Hello. I can't hear yet. but I believe in dolphins.
Beet: That was a madhouse. A little better now.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Til we reincarnate again!
||||||||| 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: you have to simply assume the existence of dolphins
Beet: Guaranteed.
General Dysfunction: corn and dolphins, it's enough to save us!
Nuke: I know I missed most of the show, but I always listen to it after.
llanwydd: cool soof here
llanwydd: LOL
Cease: Better than not listening to it at all, Nuke
DJTweeny: "So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish!"
llanwydd: I meant spoof
llanwydd: lol
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Dougy Adams!
Nuke: Thank you. Chos, as always is my excuse.
General Dysfunction: Ah....until soon....
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
||||||||| 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!"
General Dysfunction: and bless douglas adams
Beet: All best to everyone. Thanks for the offerings, Dr Tween. I look forward to future projects, Dr Cease. G'Nite.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Love love love to all! Thanks all!
Nuke: I will do better.
llanwydd: yes thanks merl, thanks cat, thanks kurt ericson from austin
General Dysfunction: Enjoyed immensely, look forward to next week
Merlyn: cya
||||||||| At 10:56 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Merlyn!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Nuke: Why does a poeridge bird lay it's eggs in the air?
Cease: Only the leprechans know, Nuke
Nuke: HA!
General Dysfunction: bless those damn little leprechans!
Cease: Next week all
||||||||| Cease rushes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Cease?! It's 10:58 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Nuke: Good night.
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
murthy: I got disconnected because of power outage :(
General Dysfunction: and god night...
murthy: may be next time I will be here all though
murthy: through
||||||||| Catherwood says "10:59 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs llanwydd by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
General Dysfunction: okay, love that donald fagen song
||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Nuke: Good night to all.
murthy: Good night
General Dysfunction: the best, Walter Becker
||||||||| At 11:17 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, General Dysfunction!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
murthy: Thanks for the good music and stuff, enjoyed it
murthy: I have to go now, see you all later
||||||||| murthy says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, murthy exits at 11:18 PM.
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
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||||||||| 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...
||||||||| It's 12:40 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 12:55 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, 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
General Dysfunction
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
Mudhead
murthy
Not Ed
Nuke
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=lh-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=lh-rv
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D5XFCEq6aODI%26feature%3Dshare%26fbclid%3DIwAR36W6c62SPxooKTZASZXHwAKUdBQVpa9nflAoC_ZNQCdkfSvL0MN1h1kQ0&h=AT3sozl24fKQ6LuyT3Pot7LINKP7RLOd3OyJQe8zDOIRVjhA7mfNpwkxRhes-JvRdprCL96aIpoPLZiuLqr-s90rh2Vopi3WsJbYOrPuw2detxV0ytafZNLLawOerX7PAg&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c[0]=AT3UaJTS76RaRZtmL6ZspQtRMAav3N7wlHAbGPJ54n56T9mBNOPqstUmiNIZNZLAjfkgVeKA3L_xeftUum1HGH9b89_iAFtH1yZ1cF_MgbZVUXWE4E6bpydKHOOVkIGx3DAqppcQW-5oN61yN6OS1A
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