Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
08/20/2020

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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 August 20, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'RedPillTweeny', just granted probation at 6:41 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 6:52 PM, dragging Rufus_T_Firetween by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?"
||||||||| 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 6:53 PM bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving DJ Tweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| It's 6:55 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...
||||||||| 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)'
||||||||| Catherwood escorts BigRob inside, makes a note of the time (8:41 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELINDA PETERSON!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Radio 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)'
DJ Tweeny: Hi BigRob
DJ Tweeny: First time here?
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:51 PM and late as usual, it's beakman, just back from Billville."
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:52 PM, dragging Cease by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
DJ Tweeny: Hi beakman
DJ Tweeny: Hey Cease
Cease: hi chatters
beakman: hi hi
Rufus_T_Firetween: Did you know it was Melinda's birthday, Cease?
DJ Tweeny: First time here beakman?
beakman: yep
||||||||| It's 8:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| BigRob - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
DJ Tweeny: Welcome to our little soirée
DJ Tweeny: lol Merlyin for adding Covid 19 to the reasons for death
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:55 PM and Deputy Dang steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJ Tweeny: Howdy Deputy
Cease: I did, Tween. Phil has been posting about it for 2 days on Facebook.
Deputy Dang: Howdy. It's a nice night in my head tonight.
||||||||| 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 Beet plummets into the garden at 8:57 PM.
Beet: Hello all.
Cease: Beet, Dang
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELINDA PETERSON!! **
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)'
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Beet
Beet: Hi, Dr Cease.
Beet: Hi Dr Tween.
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Beet: Nice tune.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, August 20, 2020 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Deputy Dang: This way to the Fun Way!
Cease: what's this, tween?
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Johan Amadeus Myjetski in through the front door at 9:01 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Beet: Indian writers.
Deputy Dang: It's deep.
Rufus_T_Firetween: allo Johan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi All!
Cease: jammy
Beet: Hey JAM
Rufus_T_Firetween puts on his wading boots
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Cease beet!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Everybody well?
Beet: Doin' OK.
Deputy Dang: Nice! I'll hang in/out!
DJ Tweeny: Doing well, thanks Johan
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELINDA PETERSON!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s “RADIO NOW LIVE!”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out RADIO NOW at http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-rv'
Beet: This is a good collection.
DJ Tweeny: 'tis indeed
DJ Tweeny: Their best recorded and perhaps finest live performance
Cease: there aren't a lot of thier live performances recorded
DJ Tweeny: This kid is 20 years older now. Wonder what she thinks of FST
Deputy Dang: gfq
Cease: htis is from 21 years ago so she's an adult
DJ Tweeny: Like Bride, they cover lots of past characters
Beet: Be cool if somebody could find her.
DJ Tweeny: That's what I was wondering Cat
DJ Tweeny: If she became a fan
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RADIO NOW LIVE!” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
Cease: what was that writer's school from, tween?
Deputy Dang: I love this seen. Bozos was the first FST I ever heard.
DJ Tweeny: Doc's Dear Friends Too
Cease: aha
Deputy Dang: Rockefeller...
||||||||| beakman, spotting Bradshaw, runs into The Auditorium.
Beet: I enjoy the little additions to the story.
Deputy Dang: Welcome, @beakman!
Beet: Hi beakman
Cease: they'd be too bored without them, beet
Deputy Dang: It's really nice to hear live performances.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yes, lots of this is updated including Anythynge
||||||||| Outside, the 9:17 PM bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Stkev coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Cease: stkev
Stkev: I'm dead.
DJ Tweeny: Hi Stkev
Cease: pretty good typing for a dead person
Stkev: Hi.
Rufus_T_Firetween: As far as I'm concerned, this is as much of a 'must have' as DOMM
Stkev: Where's the FUN?
DJ Tweeny: Take a listen...
Cease: on the funway where it belongs
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RADIO NOW LIVE!” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
Stkev: Never mind.
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Not Ed', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:19 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
Cease: hi not
DJ Tweeny: allo Not Ed
Not Ed: Greetings firefolks!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Not!
Not Ed: groovy 2 see you all
Not Ed: Hey Tweeny
Not Ed: Barthy hippday, Melinda P
Beet: HI Not
Not Ed: Who's here Rufusss DDang JAM C Beet some others fading a w a y
Cease: there's always someone fading away here
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** 24/7 FIRESIGN THEATRE RADIO STATION!! ** https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/index.php
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Archives For The FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS can be found at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Visit the FIRESIGN THEATRE Web Site at >> www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
Rufus_T_Firetween: Great to hear all the old material mixed with the stuff from the 90s
Cease: tis
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : This is hilarious!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Definitely worth having in your collect :)
Not Ed: indeedy
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RADIO NOW LIVE!” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
DJ Tweeny: *collection
Rufus_T_Firetween: this old browser isn't so great with the chat :/
DJ Tweeny: Happy Birthday Robert Plant as well
Deputy Dang: drop-down ale masks... love it!
Not Ed: lol
Cease: i used this piece in my recent dwarf tribute, 1st night
DJ Tweeny: great revisiting of Parallel Hell
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: Good stuff.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJ Tweeny: A really fine collection of live bits
DJ Tweeny: and lots of improvization
DJ Tweeny: the interaction with the audience is great on this one
Cease: i hear they always had good shows in portland
Beet: lol
DJ Tweeny: The 'new' interpretation of Anythynge is next
Deputy Dang: Which new in quotes version do you mean?
DJ Tweeny: Updated?
DJ Tweeny: As they did in much of the show
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Almost as long a Pico & Alverati were out...
DJ Tweeny: Damn this is good
Cease: i'm watching the dnc now.
Cease: wish bergman and austin were here to see it.
DJ Tweeny: can Biden form a sentence?
Cease: htis 13 year old boy barely can but he's very eloquent
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Beet: Platitude Central?
DJ Tweeny: haha
DJ Tweeny: Love that his wife went live saying that he's OK, rather than himself
DJ Tweeny: /me remembers JFK and RFK and wonders what happened to the Democrats
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Gotta go early! See you all next week! Nite all!
DJ Tweeny: later gator
Cease: i remember them.
Cease: by jammy
Cease: hopefully have proctor as tim leary next week
Beet: See ya JAM.
Beet: Clinton and Obama turned us over to the plutocrats. Sad.
DJ Tweeny: The 'corporatocracy'
Beet: Exactly.
DJ Tweeny: Hasn't mattered who wins the Presidency since 1963
Beet: There's just one party.
Cease: i think it does now.
DJ Tweeny: Eisenhower's warning come to pass
DJ Tweeny: Yes, The Republocrats
DJ Tweeny: Why I voted Libertarian in 2016, and probably will again
DJ Tweeny: but vote Green also
DJ Tweeny: there have to be alternatives
Beet: I still love the land but the government has no legitimacy any more.
DJ Tweeny: They make us fight each other over social issues, but both parties serve the same masters
DJ Tweeny: as I've heard said, 'It's a Wall Street government'
DJ Tweeny: the real economy can go to hell, as long as the stock market is up
Beet: Election cheeting right out in the open and nobody cares.
DJ Tweeny: November will be interesting
Beet: Trump won't let go.
Not Ed: Vote for any other candidate but Joe is esentially a vote for Trump
Beet: Joe may be worse than Trump.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Sorry, I can't vote for neocon Dems
Deputy Dang: I have to go, folks. I have a meeting first thing in the morning.
Beet: Third Party, anyone?
Cease: off you meet
Deputy Dang: G'
Deputy Dang: G'night all.
||||||||| "Hey Deputy Dang!" ... Deputy Dang turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:48 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Beet: G'Nite Deputy
Rufus_T_Firetween: later Deputy
DJ Tweeny: Beet: Third Party, anyone? << Surrealist?
Beet: Not Insane?
Cease: we have 6 parties in Canada
Beet: Come Back Papoon.
DJ Tweeny: The Firesign Theatre’s David Ossman is: NOT INSANE 2020! - https://www.whidbeylocal.com/article/view/2145/2019/1/the-firesign-theatre-s-david-ossman-is-not-insane-2020-the-hello-goodbye-tour
DJ Tweeny: Make America Not Insane Again!
DJ Tweeny: I should be advertising that
Beet: MANIA
DJ Tweeny: yep ;)
DJ Tweeny: He's got a bit on YouTube
DJ Tweeny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFE6aDIxc4k
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Beet: It used to be Dumb Ass Play
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJ Tweeny: This is one fine album
Beet: Amazing performance.
Cease: they were amazing
DJ Tweeny: Indeed
Cease: they loved acting. dave and phil still do
DJ Tweeny: Glad they are still with us
Beet: We're lucky to have had them.
DJ Tweeny: Would still like to see them do something with Shearer
Cease: indeed, Beet.
Cease: it's been like living in the time of shakespeare in london
Cease: i think shearer is too involved with his own projects
Cease: he was on the cbc this morning, promoting his new trump song album
DJ Tweeny: need to play the 2005 London concert with Rat sometime
Cease: good idea
Beet: Great
Cease: plus exorcism in your daily life
||||||||| 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: thanks for the show, tween
DJ Tweeny: Pink Hotel needs to be played as well
Beet: This was good. Always a wonder to hear the live performances. Thanks to everyone. Looking forward to more from Dr Cease. Eternal thanks to our tech wizard Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
Cease: i want to get leary done by next week
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
||||||||| At 11:06 PM, Cease runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
DJ Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| beakman - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Stkev - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| RedPillTweeny enters at 1:49 AM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| It's 1:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJ Tweeny - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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 dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
beakman
Beet
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJ Tweeny
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
Stkev

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/index.php
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-rv
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
https://www.whidbeylocal.com/article/view/2145/2019/1/the-firesign-theatre-s-david-ossman-is-not-insane-2020-the-hello-goodbye-tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFE6aDIxc4k