Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
09/17/2020

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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 September 17, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (4:10 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 5:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween steps in at 5:55 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| Catherwood says "5:55 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Rufus_T_Firetween by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| 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 falls out at 5:55 PM.
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Rufus_T_Firetween', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:31 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
||||||||| 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 (Eagles)
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)'
||||||||| 8:46 PM: ZeppoTube jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
DJTweeny: Hi ZeppoTube
ZeppoTube: Hiya. "First time caller, long time Twitter follower."
DJTweeny: Great to have you here :)
DJTweeny: We do this every Thursday
ZeppoTube: Yeah, that's what the twitter thing said, this is never a good time for me but I'll catch the start at least.
ZeppoTube: Speaking of the start, AFK until then.
DJTweeny: Nino (click on the link at the bottom right of the page) says you're from PA. I went to a school in Newtown in Bucks County, you know whwere that is?
DJTweeny: *where
ZeppoTube: Not really, I know Bucks is toward Philly but I'm not super familiar with the area
ZeppoTube: I grew up near Reading and now live in Lancaster
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
ZeppoTube: [afk again, also Hello Catherwood]
||||||||| Catherwood pretends not to hear ZeppoTube
DJTweeny: Yeah, very near Philly
DJTweeny: There was a train that ran through campus that we could take to downtown Philly
DJTweeny: 50 years ago)
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Eagles)
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, September 17, 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)'
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Beet inside, makes a note of the time (9:01 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Beet: Hello folks.
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
Beet: Hi Dr Tween
Beet: Boy am I glad I avoided the rush
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Let's Eat broadcast collection
“HAPPY HARRY'S CONFESSION BOOTH”
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?'
||||||||| Outside, the 9:03 PM downtown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Captain Equinox coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Captain Equinox: *cough cough*
Captain Equinox: Hiya, Kiddos!
DJTweeny: Aye Captain
Beet: Hey, Cap. Nice to see you.
DJTweeny: The air quality a tad uncomfortable, Captain?
Captain Equinox: *cough cough*
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and pipes up "Presenting 'Cease', just granted probation at 9:05 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Captain Equinox: Those damned diesel fumes!
DJTweeny: Beet: Boy am I glad I avoided the rush << Limbaugh?
DJTweeny: allo Msr. Cease
Beet: Even in West Virginia, the sky is hazy.
DJTweeny: wow
Beet: Allo Dr Cease.
Cease: air is terrible here
DJTweeny: They're saying it's been detected in Europe :/
Captain Equinox: Can’t stay. Just returned from Charlotte and it’s time to crash.
Captain Equinox: See y’all next week!
||||||||| "9:07 PM? 9:07 PM!!" says Catherwood, "johan amadeus myjetski should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as johan amadeus myjetski enters and sits in the comfy chair.
DJTweeny: We've been getting lots of rain down here, so I guess that may have ameloriated the situation
Beet: Thanks for dropping in.
ZeppoTube: Hi & bye cap'n. I'm back now.
Beet: Hey, JAM>
DJTweeny: no reports of air quality problems in Austin from the fires
DJTweeny: Hi Johan
DJTweeny: wb Zeppo
Beet: It's very weird.
johan amadeus myjetski: hi yas!
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
ZeppoTube: I've heard the "Dear Friends" CD but how much more is on "Duke of Madness Motors"?
ZeppoTube: Most of the reason I'm here tonight [again, First Time Caller] is to expand my Firesign library somewhat.
Beet: Hard to explain the vastness of the material.
Cease: SF is only parts of the shows. DOMM has the full shows
ZeppoTube: Ah, that makes sense
johan amadeus myjetski: how many am us, anyway?
Beet: yes
Rufus_T_Firetween: ZeppoTube: I've heard the "Dear Friends" CD but how much more is on "Duke of Madness Motors"? << Dear Friends is David Ossman's 'best of' clips from the Dear Friends radio broadcasts
Rufus_T_Firetween: DOMM has all their broadcasts from 1970-1972, and much more
||||||||| 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: It's definitely worth the purchase
johan amadeus myjetski: mo’ rockin’ hammock
Cease: very much worth it.
ZeppoTube: So I'll fill the void with my request for recommendations...
johan amadeus myjetski: so much action!
ZeppoTube: In addition to Dear Friends, the albums I've hear [or have] that I love are: Don't Crush That Dwarf[...] and Giant Rat of Sumatra...
johan amadeus myjetski: everything you know is wrong, in the next world, you’re on your own
ZeppoTube: ...and the albums that I have or heard that I DIDN'T like are: How Can You Be In Two Places At Once[...] and Waiting For The Electrician[...]
Cease: the newer albums are great too
ZeppoTube: Oh, and I heard Bozos and it was just Okay.
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Beet: How were you introduced to them?
||||||||| llanwydd enters at 9:18 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
ZeppoTube: My dad had Bozos and Don't Crush That Dwarf in his record collection.
llanwydd: howdy
Beet: Hey, Llan.
johan amadeus myjetski: the one about the end of the millenium is one of the best ‘newer’ ones
Beet: Those are excellent starters.
ZeppoTube: So can someone suggest one that's sort of like the albums I like but not like the albums I don't like? If that's possible?
johan amadeus myjetski: hi llan!
llanwydd: interesting, zep. two places is my favorite
ZeppoTube: Yeah, I know it's popular, but I just couldn't get into it after a few listens. Whereas I can listen to the other ones over and over.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi llan
Rufus_T_Firetween: What's your favorite Zeppo?
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: What do you think of Bozos?
Rufus_T_Firetween: My favs are EYKIW and Boom Dot Bust
llanwydd: boom is an interesting choice
Rufus_T_Firetween: I lived in Indiana for quite a while, so I get it
Rufus_T_Firetween: and many of my friends are ham radio people, so the 'elmer' business (ham radio teachers) hits home also
Rufus_T_Firetween: have spent a little time in AZ in the mid-70s as well, so EYKIW was fresh back then
johan amadeus myjetski: i liked the Peanut Butter Conspiracy!
ZeppoTube: I should probably just seek them out online and give a listen, but there are a lot more albums than I thought there were.
Cease: yes, many are online
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Watch the Firesign Theatre Youtube Channel at >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXdhVqpbttKSvBWGWHSBkgw/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd
||||||||| 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: Lots of albums and skits there Zeppo, and if you like 'em buy 'em :)
llanwydd: I have only passed through IN
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the entire FIRESIGN THEATRE CATALOG at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/montage.html
ZeppoTube: Thanks for the link, Rufus :)
llanwydd: cool, tween!
Rufus_T_Firetween: yw
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: llanwydd: I have only passed through IN << 'Fly-Over' country for sure ;) but I mixed at a 2000 seat country music concert hall and had a small recording studio there back in the 80s
Rufus_T_Firetween: and Proc has said that BDB is about Bloomington, IN, near where I lived
johan amadeus myjetski: tvglide! yes!
Beet: Bloomington is Billville?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Proc is from Goshen, IN
Rufus_T_Firetween: an yeah, he's said that
Rufus_T_Firetween: 'Which way's Goshen?'
Rufus_T_Firetween: that's Proc :)
Beet: Are we in Goshen yet?
Beet: I wonder what kind of town Goshen is?
johan amadeus myjetski: lands o’ goshen! i never...
Beet: I just saw that Goshen is 33,000 population
Beet: You never know what kind of statement will stop all discussion whatsoever.
Rufus_T_Firetween: heh
Beet: My apologies.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Elmer Award - http://www.arrl.org/elmer-award << Elmertown
Beet: Where you at, Cease?
Cease: north vancouver
Cease: hard to breathe
Rufus_T_Firetween: :(
Beet: Are most people just staying indoors?
Cease: yes, with windows closed.
Rufus_T_Firetween: The whole West Coast has the worst air quality on the planet at the moment, and that's saying something
Cease: yes
Rufus_T_Firetween: There was a point at which people were selling oxygen on the streets of Beijing. Maybe a new enterprise on the West Coat
Cease: i'd buy some
Beet: Buying bottled water and bottled air.
Rufus_T_Firetween: not your average children's story
||||||||| It's 9:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Rufus_T_Firetween: about it, Beet :/
Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks to Merlyn for adding a new disease :)
Beet: What happened to Llan?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hurricane Sally
||||||||| Deputy Dang waltzes in at 9:56 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Howdy Deputy
Beet: Hey Deputy.
Deputy Dang: Show me your door knockers!
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: Fun
Rufus_T_Firetween: "Thank you doctor..."
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “THE COSMIC SOCIAL WORKER (Part 2)” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“THE COSMIC SOCIAL WORKER (Part 2)”
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/audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ'
Beet: This'll be good.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: I saw a beautiful red Karmann Ghia today.
Beet: Took me back
Cease: not feeling well this evening. i think i'll go to sleep. enjoy ginsbreg
Cease: see y'all next week.
Beet: Hope you feel better. Get some good rest.
Rufus_T_Firetween: cool old car
Rufus_T_Firetween: be well Cease
Beet: It was a beauty
Beet: It's very strange listening to one of Cat's creations without his being here. It is a first.
Beet: Hope he's OK.
Rufus_T_Firetween: His health was fragile before having air that is hardly breathable :(
Rufus_T_Firetween: best wishes
Beet: Do you know what the malady is?
Beet: Maybe wrong to ask.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Just being an old guy, as far as I know
Rufus_T_Firetween: He and his wife both have their issues
Beet: Aging is a bummer.
Rufus_T_Firetween: as we all do
Beet: Yup.
Rufus_T_Firetween: My sort-term memory is going to shite
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: Different parts take their turns with aches and pains.
Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah, a little arthritis here and there
Rufus_T_Firetween: I try to excercise
Beet: Do you remember who he said was doing this?
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's about Allen Ginsberg
Rufus_T_Firetween: http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES << search Cosmic Social Worker
Rufus_T_Firetween: there's a description there
Beet: Thanks
Beet: It says the previous was Allen singing Skeletons.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah on Letterman
Beet: Oh
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Hour Hour broadcast collection
“THE BOSS SOUND 1010 WINS MUNICH”
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'
Beet: Cool
Deputy Dang: our our?
Deputy Dang: our hour?
Rufus_T_Firetween: not an hour
Rufus_T_Firetween: just a clip from DOMM
Deputy Dang: longer or shorter?
Rufus_T_Firetween: a very short hour indeed
Rufus_T_Firetween: although it would be cool to do some of the complete Hour Hour shows from DOMM
Rufus_T_Firetween: this just happened to fit the show time
Rufus_T_Firetween: I've never heard it before
Rufus_T_Firetween: To bad Cat's not here. He loves Terry Southern
Rufus_T_Firetween: *Too
Beet: ouch
||||||||| 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'
Rufus_T_Firetween: This does not sounds like the early 70s lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: a little DOMM surprise :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: *sound like
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Beet: I did enjoy tonight but it is very concerning about our brother Cat. May he get back soon. Of course his collage was wonderful. Nice to see all you other die hards. I wish there were more of us. Huge thanks to Dr Tween for carrying us all. G'Nite and stay safe.
Deputy Dang: That Farce is all that is.
DJTweeny: Spread the word about the chat!
Deputy Dang: Thankyou Tweeny and Cat. That seemed a little different, but very interesting. I might have to listen to it again.
DJTweeny: 'May The Farce Be With You'
||||||||| Deputy Dang hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Deputy Dang?! It's 10:59 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - 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..
||||||||| It's 12:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| ZeppoTube - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Captain Equinox - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Beet - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "1:17 AM and late as usual, it's Danzilla, just back from Coos Bay."
||||||||| Danzilla sneaks away to The Aviary...
||||||||| 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
Captain Equinox
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Rufus_T_Firetween
ZeppoTube

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=domm-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/montage.html
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
http://kurtericson.com/cat/audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://www.arrl.org/elmer-award
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXdhVqpbttKSvBWGWHSBkgw/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd