A Firesign Chat
06/25/2020




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 June 25, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "7:25 PM and late as usual, it's Rufus_T_Firetween, just back from Funfun Town."
||||||||| 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 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)
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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 DJTweeny gets out at 8:33 PM.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (The Who)
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
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||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Cease', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:48 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies llanwydd in through the front door at 8:49 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Cease: Who's on first?
Cease: Hey llan
Cease: Baba O'Reilly the best head phone testing song
Rufus_T_Firetween: allo Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey llan
Rufus_T_Firetween: ARP 2500 modular synth
Cease: you know your instruments
Rufus_T_Firetween: and yes, Who's Next and Quadrophenia are my favorite Who albums
Rufus_T_Firetween: a fan of old analogs
llanwydd: I like live at leads
llanwydd: leeds
Rufus_T_Firetween: Saw Keith Emerson live with his monster Moog live on the Brain Salad Surgery tour in 1973
Cease: when we moved back to canada after many years in japan, i wanted some good stereo equipment so i went to the city's best stereo store and scored some gems.
Cease: beyerdynamic DT 911 headphones.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Actually, Japan makes great audio eqpt
Rufus_T_Firetween: and musical instruments
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yamaha rocks
Cease: i had all japanese equipment when i lived there.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Beyer is great, of course
||||||||| Outside, the 8:53 PM bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Johan Amadeus Myjetski coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Rufus_T_Firetween: allo Johan
Cease: the first city i lived in there, Hamamatsu, is famous for its mujsical instruments.
llanwydd: hiMAM
Cease: hi jammy
llanwydd: JAM
Cease: i ttried a bunch of headphones but the beyer was the best.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I'm down trailing clouds of glory I'm down!
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: allo, allo, allo!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: DJT, Llan, Rufus!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Just got a new Mac Pro today that Doc sent, Grid bless him
Rufus_T_Firetween: old, but solid Mac tech
Rufus_T_Firetween: very nice of him
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I saw the comment about Emerson - I saw ELP in 71 on the Tarkus tour!
Cease: he is that.
Rufus_T_Firetween: nice :-)
Cease: We've been friends for more than 20 years
Rufus_T_Firetween: for Brain Salad, they had a Quad system in the eaves of The Capitol Center in MD near D.C.
Rufus_T_Firetween: That combined with the stereo stack on stage was amazing
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: He was still playing from beneath his B3 Hammond
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Deputy Dang', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:58 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Cease: i can imagine
Cease: hi dang
||||||||| Outside, the 8:58 PM bus from Leesburg pulls away, leaving Beet coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: DePuty!
Beet: Evening folks.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi beet!
Rufus_T_Firetween: imagine the sequencer at the end of the album rotating around in quad
Beet: Howdy Mr. JAM
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Beet
Rufus_T_Firetween: Howdy Deputy
Cease: beet
Beet: Yo Dr Tween
Beet: Hi Dr Cease
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
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Beet: Love The Who
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, June 25, 2020 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Dear Friends broadcast collection, “I COULD ALWAYS SHOOT HIM WITH THE CAMERA”
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check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
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Cease: it's wonderful to hear these shows in their entirety
Beet: In his Outlaw Ghostship
Rufus_T_Firetween: indeed
Cease: i use this in my new collage
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: the clock has been drinking, not me...
Cease: tom waits for no one
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: HAHA! good Cease!
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol cease
Beet: Put your entire record collection in your shirt pocket.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: OOoohhhh! Vacuum cleaner sounds...
Beet: Never neglect the right teat.
Cease: We have 3 vacuum cleaners and there are only 2 of us in the house.
Rufus_T_Firetween: We're outnumbered by the machines
Cease: old sf idea
Beet: I wish God would bless the President. It would be a nice change.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts murthy in through the front door at 9:11 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
murthy: hello everyone
llanwydd: hi murthy
Beet: hi murthy
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey murthy
murthy: hello Beet
Rufus_T_Firetween: Murthy is from India
murthy: hello Llanwydd
Cease: murthy
Rufus_T_Firetween: from a music chat on the Freenode IRC network
murthy: Rufus_TFiretween, Cease, hello
Beet: His name means he is a diety. Pretty cool.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I did not know that...
murthy: Beet, ty
Cease: like bergman's dog Nurgi
||||||||| 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: Nurgi is Indian?
Rufus_T_Firetween: you learn something new every day here at The Firesign Chat
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi murthy!
murthy: Johan, hello
Rufus_T_Firetween: Welcome to the asylum, murthy :)
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Beet: Nice prose.
murthy: chat seems to be skipping colon
Rufus_T_Firetween: ':' here has the same effect as /me in IRC
murthy: ah
Rufus_T_Firetween: :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: so leave a space before emoticons
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: skippy colon-itis? oh, no...
murthy: : )
murthy: nice
Rufus_T_Firetween: there ya go
Cease: if you remember the df episode you played 2 weeks ago with my collage Dogged Runyon, you;ll recall Bergman talking about naming his dog after the Babylonian god
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Bergman proves himself, yet again, to be uber cool
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: i think bergman was a cool baby
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-ln
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Visit the FIRESIGN THEATRE Web Site at >> www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
Cease: just watched a programme about the black panthers this week on pbs
murthy: I came to know about the black panthers from the movie "Forest Gump"
Beet: They did some good work.
murthy: ya
Cease: scared the shit out of hoover. as did the firesign theatre.
Cease: thankfully he didnt have the firesigns killed
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: that as possibility was just a vague paranoia, but now...
Cease: have any of you read the book proctor is reading from?
Cease: i did.
Cease: the greening of america.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm not sure you can compare The Black Panthers with the new Black Lives Matter movement
Cease: its a different world now
Beet: Hello to the NSA guy.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: i remember that book, but never read more than flipping through once...
Cease: but i think BLM is learning from their grand parents from the Black Panther days
murthy: I read one article where they say that without factories and mass production it won't be feed and meet the needs of the world's growing population
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 9:26 PM, dragging Bunnyboy by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: BLM seems like it's been hijacked by Marxists
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Bunny
Bunnyboy: lo dere!
Beet: Hi Bunny
Cease: hey bunny! long time no hop
murthy: hello Bunnyboy
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-ln
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: hey Bun!
Bunnyboy: Yeah, crazee days...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Archives For The FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS can be found at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign
||||||||| 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: bergman taught labour history at yale. george bush was one of his students.
Rufus_T_Firetween: No shite??
Cease: yep
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: the clothes make the hippie? I never knew...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Too ironic
Beet: There's a cool anecdote.
Cease: then he moved to the senate where he serranaded Robert Kennedy with labour songs.
Rufus_T_Firetween: wow
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: he talks about this at some length on his rfo podcast.
Beet: George must have slept through the class.
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
Cease: bregman had an amazing life.
Rufus_T_Firetween: no doubt
Cease: his daughter told me some amazing stories about him when we had breakfast after his memorial.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:31 PM and Not Ed sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cease: hey not!
Not Ed: Porque?
Beet: Hi Not
Cease: eiffel tower re-opened.
Cease: had a wondrous meal there.
Rufus_T_Firetween: allo Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween: /me has eaten in the Seattle tower restaurant
Cease: https://seemrealland.blogspot.com/2017/06/
Rufus_T_Firetween: pretty sure I wouldn't go anywhere near Seattle these days
Not Ed: Hey Rufus
Rufus_T_Firetween: companies are leaving, probably for Texas
Not Ed: Hey Tweeny
Not Ed: Waz real Beet?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Tesla is looking at building a new plant in Austin
Rufus_T_Firetween: this is great :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: Orson Welles, no less
||||||||| 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!"
murthy: Rufus and the gov is cooperative now?
Beet: i want a Tesla.
Cease: the space needle? i ate there during the 62 worlds fair
Not Ed: Beet & Bunny
Beet: Catherwood give me a Tesla.
||||||||| Catherwood gives Beet a tesla.
Not Ed: DDan & JAM
Not Ed: Cat!
Not Ed: murth
Not Ed: quite a group 2 nite
murthy: Not Ed, hello
Cease: decades later, my daughter and her boyfrfiend ate there
Rufus_T_Firetween: murthy: Rufus and the gov is cooperative now? << Texas is generally friendly towards business, and there's no State Income Tax
Rufus_T_Firetween: Lots of Californians moving here
Rufus_T_Firetween: Apple builds its best computers here
murthy: Rufus, ya
Beet: I have fantasized of retiring there.
Not Ed: Miss my olde Apple IIe
Rufus_T_Firetween: Maybe in the Hill Country, Beet
Rufus_T_Firetween: I have missed my C-64s on occasion ;)
Not Ed: C64 is my all time favorite computer
Rufus_T_Firetween: Doc just gave me a 2010 Mac Pro which I intend to put to good use
||||||||| 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."
Not Ed: kewl
Rufus_T_Firetween: Ran a MIDI studio with a SX-64 portable with an external monitor sync'd to a Tascam 246 Portastudio cassette multitrack tape recorder
Not Ed: nice
Rufus_T_Firetween: The PPQ resolution left something to be desired, but it was a good start back in '85
Not Ed: Apple IIe had midi port - we strung them together to play midi maze together
Not Ed: for sure Ruf
Rufus_T_Firetween: and a C-64 for business with M$ Multiplan
Cease: had my first covid era dental visit today
Rufus_T_Firetween: ou could go off and make dinner while it calculated a spreadsheet, but it worked
Rufus_T_Firetween: *You
Not Ed: haha still it was amazing
Not Ed: killer app!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Make you cautious, doesn't it cease?
Beet: I ventured into the big town of Winchester today.
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Not Ed: VisiCalc
Rufus_T_Firetween: This is like The Man Who Eats Watches
Cease: like finding oneself in an sf flick.
Beet: This is very funny.
Cease: tiz, tween
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone an infinity cube
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone an infinity cube.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Johan puts his infinity cube in his pocket, and declares, "I've a hole in me pocket!"
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed: I try not to watch.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Beet: I ventured into the big town of Winchester today << Did you buy a rifle?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hide beneath the theatre seating look away...
Not Ed: Hide behind livestock
Beet: Didn't see any rifles.
Not Ed: Trifles
Beet: I know a lady named Winchester who is related to the arms manufacturer.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: sounds like a Remington job to me...
Beet: Could well be.
Not Ed: love mutt n smutt
Rufus_T_Firetween: The beginning of Mutt & Smutt :)
Cease: still here, bunny? how are things in seattle?
Not Ed: Bunny is fading
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Not Ed: Gotta wear maskies starting tomorrow C
Rufus_T_Firetween: as is llan
Bunnyboy: eyup
Not Ed: there he is
Beet: Hey, Llan, where ya goin'?
Not Ed: cheers BB
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, Cal has made it mandatory for all citizens
Cease: i had to wear a mask to get into the dentist;s, tomorrow the same with the bank. some stores demand masks too.
Not Ed: fellow Seattloid
Rufus_T_Firetween: Austin is making it mandatory if you work for or visit a business
Rufus_T_Firetween: the disturbing thing is that the new cases are people in their 20s
Not Ed: maskatory!
Cease: bc has a very good record with covid deaths, thus far.
Beet: If you don't have one, they'll give you one in Costco.
llanwydd: still here, beet
Rufus_T_Firetween: which means it's not 'just for old people'
Beet: Hey, there you are.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Houston is running out of hospital beds
Bunnyboy: Cheers from West Seattle!
Cease: there is a long term care facility near our house that was the site of the first canadian covid deaths.
Cease: accrfoss the street from a shopping centre my wife and i frequnet.
||||||||| 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!"
Not Ed: boom time in the robbery and hold up biz I suspect
Cease: kinda scary
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Firesign would have had fun with the People's Autonomous Zone
Cease: she could steal, but she could not rob
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: There's a state law AGAINST wearing masks in North Carolina, yet everybody's okay with breaking this law which has been on the books for 35 years or so. I am just saying they ought to officially resend this law, temporarily...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Beatles?
Rufus_T_Firetween: heheh cease
Cease: i'm turning Abbey Road into a pair of collages.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: came in thru the bathroom winder
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Not Ed: everyone looks like a bank robber
Bunnyboy: The unsurprising thing is that new cases are 20 somethings.
Not Ed: indeed
Bunnyboy: (sings) Nothing bad ever happens to me!...
Beet: This virus is an unpredictable, sneaky thing.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease: i'm turning Abbey Road into a pair of collages << kewl
Cease: sometime in july
Bunnyboy: A virud
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: Fats Dominos voice has changed
Bunnyboy: A viruschhhh...is an ugly ting!...
Not Ed: Break the station!
Not Ed: Interdiction?
Rufus_T_Firetween: especially since he died
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: Hey, Paolo, he broke the station!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“CONAN, RUSSEL, FIRESIGN (PART 1)”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out Cat's Collages at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
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Not Ed: Fats Domino theory.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Izzard is cool
Not Ed: lol Beet
Cease: izzard is my favourite living comedian. saw him twice in vancouver
Beet -)
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “CONAN, RUSSEL, FIRESIGN” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
llanwydd: sdfghjkkhgfdty
Beet: Two very different personality types.
Cease: but that works for comedy
Beet: I dig Conan's laugh.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: this sketch should be played in history class...
Beet: https://www.britannica.com/science/islets-of-Langerhans
Cease: izzard, like firesign, rewards your intelligence
Rufus_T_Firetween: there goes llan, speaking Welsh again
Bunnyboy: Off to the races! Later. gates!
Rufus_T_Firetween: later Bunny
Cease: by bun
Beet: Plymouth is a nice little town.
Beet: See ya Bun
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease, have you seen Monty Python Live In Aspen?
||||||||| 10:11 PM -- Bunnyboy left for parts unknown.   (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
Cease: yes
Rufus_T_Firetween: Izzard walks on with the Pythons and pretends to be a member for a couple of minutes
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's hilarious
Cease: vaguely remember that
Rufus_T_Firetween: He was also in the TV series Hannibal
Cease: you still here, murthy?
Cease: don't know it
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hannibal feeds him to himself, slowly, one limb at a time
Cease: i saw him as charlie chaplin in a flick, forget the name.
||||||||| 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: about a strange murder on the boat of wiliam randolf hearst
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hannibal TV Series - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2243973/
Rufus_T_Firetween: wow @ charlie chaplin
Cease: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266391/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_53
Beet: I have admired the yogis who are just always silent.
Cease: stones are silent.
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: Hemlock?
Cease: this solution's turning blue
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: everything's turning... blue!
Cease: supermarkets have indeed became mazelike strange
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Cox?
Beet: Russell is so f***ing cool.
Cease: someone i would like to meet
||||||||| 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."
Rufus_T_Firetween: murthy is probably asleep, it's like 4am Saturday in India
Cease: aha
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: i am no more likely to go to india than i am to go to the moon, but my was there and loved it.
Rufus_T_Firetween: 8am Friday
Cease: wife
Beet: Been there twice. Strange confusing place.
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Rufus_T_Firetween: so he stayed up really late to do this chat :)
Cease: indeed, tween. maybe he's a night worker
Rufus_T_Firetween: My brother went there to learn yoga and said it was like another planet
Rufus_T_Firetween: the culture was so different
Beet: Very
Cease: that's what attracted me to japan in the first place. it was profoundly other
Cease: yes, anothr planet. another reality
Beet: What makes it special is their ancient knowledge.
Cease: it's a good thing to experience other realities when you're young
Beet: A Playboy centerfold is someone's daughter.
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol @ 'white rice pudding'
Rufus_T_Firetween: and the guy looking at it is someone's son ;)
Beet: wayward sons and daughters.
Rufus_T_Firetween: /me remembers the old rock tune Carry On My Wayward Centerfold
Cease: i remember writing funny stuff when i was 8, but not performing. never good at that
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol @ celtic kabuke
Beet: It was the coke
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: things do go better with coke. just ask robin williams...
Cease: the firesign never dealt in pain
Cease: not personal pain, anyway. that i can see. social pains, of course
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: or is that, things grow bitter with coke...
Beet: Interesting insight, Cease.
Rufus_T_Firetween: RIP Robin, he is missed
Rufus_T_Firetween: hate that he was in such a bad place that he had to kill himself
Cease: right after surviving the gangland massacre in SF, bergman and proctor performed in colorado, and made jokes about the massacre
Cease: indeed, tween. that he had no one to reach out to.
Beet: All fame is good for is opening otherwise closed doors.
Cease: this is from the df episdoe you just played
Cease: yes, getting a table at a restaurant became imporant to me a few years ago. not so muchg anynmore
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Cease: yes. make stuff. that's what this is.
Beet: Making stuff can be its own reward.
Cease: yes, beet
Cease: it has always been for me
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I agree, Cease. Making stuff.A main purpose of human existence.
Beet: You obviously enjoy it.
Cease: love it
Beet: Is this on Youtube?
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Cease: seeing/hearing/tasting wonderful things makes me want to recreate the enjoyment i get from experiencing theier wonders for mysefl
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: from the Box Of Danger collection
“THE CASE OF THE MISSING GENERAL”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out BOX OF DANGER at >> https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook
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Johan Amadeus Myjetski: GREAT collage, Cease!
Cease: thanks, jammy
Cease: that's just part one
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “CONAN, RUSSEL, FIRESIGN” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Sergent Bradshaw
Rufus_T_Firetween: Box Of Danger is so excellent
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Conana is one of the finest interviewers in the post-johnny carson era.
Rufus_T_Firetween: They did this at the 2005 London show
Rufus_T_Firetween: "My little dog Winston?"
Beet: I anxiously await part two, Cease.
Beet: lol
Cease: polio lounge
Rufus_T_Firetween: Need to do an evening in England again, Giant Rat and the 2005 London show
||||||||| 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
'
Cease: good idea, tween
Cease: bergman wanted to call his daughter Winston
Rufus_T_Firetween: is that like A Boy Named Sue?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Beet: This was really fun. Nice to see everyone. Thank you all for making my Thursdays very meaningful. Fabulous montage, Dr Cease. Thanks again for guiding the ship, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
Cease: hope to have abbey road done in july
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Love, love, love to all! Thanks for the laughs, et al!
murthy: show was nice, ty
Cease: you're still awake, murthy> thanks for sticking with us.
murthy: ya
murthy: it was my pleasure
Cease: we aim to please. and so does louise.
murthy: : )
Cease: bye
||||||||| Cease rushes off, saying "10:59 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
murthy: see you later, bye
||||||||| "Hey murthy!" ... murthy turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:59 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:25 AM, 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 1:40 AM, 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 1:55 AM, 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...
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies RedPillTweeny in through the front door at 2:55 AM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 3:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| - 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
Bunnyboy
Cease
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
llanwydd
murthy
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-ln
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
https://seemrealland.blogspot.com/2017/06/
https://www.britannica.com/science/islets-of-Langerhans
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266391/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_53
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2243973/
https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook



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