||||||||| 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 November 05, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Outside, the 11:03 AM bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Ped Twill Reeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. ||||||||| It's 11:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Ped Twill Reeny - dead from the common cold ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween sneaks in around 4:10 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident." ||||||||| 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 5:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Rufus_T_Firetween', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 7:34 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room... ||||||||| 7:50 PM: DJTweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!" ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood leads Beet inside, makes a note of the time (8:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. Beet: Hello down there. Beet: I am not receiving audio. Beet: Anybody there? Beet: Hellooooooooooooooooo! Beet: Oh. I just noticed that I am an hour early. Very embarrassing. See you later. ||||||||| 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!" ||||||||| 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)' Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Beet, streams up now ||||||||| It's 8:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Beet - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: warm up music - Boston 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 tiptoes into the room, and intones "Announcing 'johan amadeus myjetski', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:43 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule... ||||||||| Al steals in around 8:44 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident." johan amadeus myjetski: hey Al, djt, rufus! DJTweeny: Hi Al, Johan Al: The lights went out and I missed everything. ||||||||| 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: Al: The lights went out and I missed everything. << But where was Jonah? Al: I have no audio feed -- is anything playing? johan amadeus myjetski: yes, no not Yes, but Boston DJTweeny: Tom Scholz was an engineer at 3M corp. Made a custom 12-tk tape recorder and lots of custom effects electronics to make this stuff :) Al: Got my speakers on but hear nothing. I don't mind not hearing Boston, though! DJTweeny: Yes, the feed is working, I'm listening to it DJTweeny: pasting the link directly into your player DJTweeny: *try pasting Al: All righty. ||||||||| "8:52 PM? 8:52 PM!!" says Catherwood, "llanwydd should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as llanwydd enters and sits on the divan. ||||||||| Outside, the 8:53 PM uptown bus from Leesburg pulls away, leaving Beet coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. DJTweeny: Hey llan johan amadeus myjetski: sometimes when i can’t feed audio, switching to the lower res 16k works ||||||||| 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." Beet: Hey Fellow chatters. A great good evening to you. llanwydd: good evening folks johan amadeus myjetski: hi llan! Beet: Evening Llan, JAM ||||||||| 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." johan amadeus myjetski: yo beet! Beet: How you is? johan amadeus myjetski: the long, strange trip has gotten longer ab ||||||||| 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." Beet: Nice tunes. johan amadeus myjetski: & a lot stranger! ||||||||| 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 Cease gets out at 8:55 PM. Beet: Amen to that. DJTweeny: and a long strange trip it's been DJTweeny: allo Cease eh ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." johan amadeus myjetski: dats a fack, jack! Beet: Hey, Dr Cease Cease: Eh? ||||||||| 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!" DJTweeny: "You boys completed the training on your own?" Beet: Hi Dr Tween johan amadeus myjetski: cease! Cease: HI chatters llanwydd: hi cat Cease: One of my old collages on the show tonight. should have new ones soon DJTweeny: I thought sentences in Canadian always ended in 'eh' DJTweeny: kewl Beet: A Golden Oldie. johan amadeus myjetski: lol! Cease: many do Beet: This is really good stuff, eh? llanwydd: never heard this song before ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" DJTweeny: From the 1st Boston album Beet: Killer musicians DJTweeny:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Scholz Beet: Yeah! ||||||||| 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 strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, November 05, 2020 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" johan amadeus myjetski: observing my navel... Beet: Is it an outie/ johan amadeus myjetski: yes, outta site! Beet:Tween's dulcet tones. ||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Now playing: Firesign's BOOM DOT BUST 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u Check out BOOM DOT BUST at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bdb-rv' johan amadeus myjetski: Center ille! A real nice place to raise your kids up! DJTweeny: Love this album johan amadeus myjetski: center ille johan amadeus myjetski: centerville Cease: Your midwest roots are showing, Tween DJTweeny: probably because I spent a lot of time in Indiana DJTweeny: yes, likey DJTweeny: although I grew up in the burbs of D.C. Beet: Which burb? DJTweeny: Bowie, MD. My Dad was a prof at GWU in D.C> DJTweeny: *D.C. Beet: Cool ||||||||| Catherwood enters with samgreeneggs close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:05 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the vestibule. Cease: hi sam Beet: Hello, Sam johan amadeus myjetski: hiyas, greeneggs! DJTweeny: Hey samgreeneggs DJTweeny:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Ericson << Dad Beet: Sounds like an interesting dude. DJTweeny: He was johan amadeus myjetski: i’m gonna drop out of chat for about 10, but i’ll still be listening! Cease: Fascinating, Tween DJTweeny: anyway, FST says this is about Blomington, IN, and that was my old stomping grounds Cease: That's where Fish is. DJTweeny: where Richard Fish lives Cease: Fish and Proctor did a zoom play just recently. did anyone hear it? DJTweeny: what Cat said Cease: ossman did a zoom play I think yesterday. posted it on facebook today ||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action! DJTweeny: not yet Beet: Not me. Cease: someone on facebook spoke of the firesign in the past tense. i corrected him. Cease: the living members are still very active, even at their ages. Cease: mr and mrs ossman were stuck in kansas city after doing a gig there. then covid hit and they couldn't get out. Cease: for a month DJTweeny: it gives one hope for the future, Cat :) DJTweeny: wow Cease :/ Cease: covid, no. firesign, indeed Cease: i spoke to dave on the phone the day he got back to whidbey DJTweeny: bet he was glad to be home ||||||||| "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!" Cease: when we were starting the Ossman Project this spring. ||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 9:15 PM, dragging Johan Amadeus Myjetski by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?" DJTweeny: hello again johan Cease: welcome back, jammy Johan Amadeus Myjetski: transferringipaqd to desktop Johan Amadeus Myjetski: ipad Cease: first time here, sam? Beet: I'm looking forward to the possibility of a hyperbole-free presidency. Cease: a return to normalcy? Beet: Whatever the Obama-style normalcy amounted to. Cease: one of my favourite bits of firesign music here Rufus_T_Firetween: With a Republican majority in the Senate, it will likely be an uneventful 4 years Cease: i assume austin wrote it. Beet: Very likely, Tween. Rufus_T_Firetween: Austin doing lunge music Cease: pittsburg. weirdly cool Rufus_T_Firetween: *lounge Cease: sounds like tonight' Cease: news Cease: austin was one talented musician. Rufus_T_Firetween: Austin could have had a career as a musician Rufus_T_Firetween: agreed Cease: all the firesigns were/are talented in many fields. Cease: austin, ossman and proctor all highly talented visual artists. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: they weren't too much on the military arts, thank goodness... Cease: bergman was a serious inventor (artificial heart callibre stuff), also taught comedy at UCLA and economics at yale. bush was one of his students Cease: actually, austin was, in a way, jammy Cease: psychological warfare division, vietnam era Beet: Apparently Bush didn't learn anything. Cease: bergman said he was his worst student. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: psy war? if i knew that, i'd forgotten it Beet: Figyures. Beet: Figures Cease: theres a guy writing a book about firesign. he has a podcast about austgin in psy ops. Cease: he was on chat one day. i'd have to llook up the podcast. told me stuff i sure didn't know. Cease: cornell prof. Cease: remember his name, tween? elayne's friend. Rufus_T_Firetween: sorry, no Rufus_T_Firetween: but I remember the chat Johan Amadeus Myjetski: so, it's an 'authorized' biography of the FST? Cease: Jeremy Braddock. Yeah he's been writing it for 20 years. i'm afriad it'll come out after the remaining firesigns are no longer around to read it. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: not to mention many FST fans, sounds like Cease: i'll invite him back to chat when ossman and proctgor are here. Cease: true, jammy.we are not a young lot. Beet: We haven't seen them for a while. Cease: they have other things to do, eh? Beet: Of course. Rufus_T_Firetween: Austin used to pop in on occasion unannounced, but they'd want 'an event' ||||||||| Catherwood leads EdgarEdgar in through the front door at 9:34 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. Rufus_T_Firetween: not sure we can do that for them Rufus_T_Firetween: hello Edgar Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Ed! Cease: Double Ed Rufus_T_Firetween: We're lucky to have 1/2 dozen people in here these days, and I don;t know what to do about it :/ EdgarEdgar: Hello Hello What's thjis about Jeremy? Cease: yhou know him, ed? Rufus_T_Firetween: Does anyone think that moving the chat to another night would get more people in here? EdgarEdgar: He's bgeen in touch and we talked ||||||||| 9:36 PM: AbbyDigital jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!" EdgarEdgar: It was a while back Rufus_T_Firetween: hello Abby Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Abby! ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?" AbbyDigital: Hiya Rufus! Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Zip my licker Cease: Abby Beet: Hey Abby Cease: Mr Bullington, I presume? AbbyDigital: It's crowded in here! Cease: very rarely, abby. EdgarEdgar: Another night? Which one? I mean, I'm never here but it's not the night, it's me Johan Amadeus Myjetski: But, we *can* talk in here, Abbs! AbbyDigital: Sigh. I was being optimistic. Beet: It looks like there's, like, 3 new titles on the FST website. EdgarEdgar: Bullington, indeed Cease: us too, abby AbbyDigital: That's why we're here, Cease! Cease: was just thinking of my days studying radio production at usc in 68, and you knew that prof. Cease: those were the days when we thought radio could change the world. AbbyDigital: Instead of watching slime oozing out of a trillioniare's mouth… Cease: it probably has, but in the opposite way we wanted. EdgarEdgar: Borgers. His daughter was a student I worked with as an aide in a program for smart but troubled kids Cease: yes, you told me that. i had lnog forgotten his name but remember the classes. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: It did change the world, cease! & for a long time, but not long enough EdgarEdgar: Helen. She bacame a big whig at KLON/KJZZ Long Beach State. Poor health. She passed recently Cease: program for kids. were you in touch with bergman when he was setting him his radio club for LA high schools? EdgarEdgar: That was much later, and he didn't tell me about it until it was nearly over Cease: reminds me of what hunter thompson about the wave cresting. EdgarEdgar: Remind me Cease: i meant the leftist optimism of the 60s vs the vast rightwing conspiracy that is american radio now. Cease: i did a collage about it. EdgarEdgar: AH! Now I get it. Yes. Optimism. Sometimes, I remember having more than I have now. EdgarEdgar: And American radio now is simply a terror Cease:https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/the_wave.mp3 Beet: In line with tonight's theme - We're Doomed. AbbyDigital: The repulsican rebuttal to the 60's Cease: cbc here is wonderful. Cease: but i think the ears have moved on to podcasts. works for me. ||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD! AbbyDigital: It started with Disco. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Optimism vs Entropy (attn.: collage suggestion) Cease: you think, abby? AbbyDigital: Yes, and it worked! EdgarEdgar: Caught that show live, and still play the DVD now and then. Magic. Cease: with much input from proc and ossie AbbyDigital: There hasn't been an effective counterculture since. Cease: well, there may be one brewing now. greta thunberg, etc. Beet: When people get evicted in the millions that may change. Cease: you would think so, beet Johan Amadeus Myjetski: interesting thing about the origin of disco. within a few months, all three of the big record labels, for differing reasons, were taken over by their accountants AbbyDigital: It's the old Mark Twain quote. "Lies are halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. AbbyDigital: Damn memes! Rufus_T_Firetween: Beet: When people get evicted in the millions that may change. << Come January, yes :( Cease: never more so then now, abby. in your country ( i assume you in the states, i'm in canada) Johan Amadeus Myjetski: disco was the result AbbyDigital: Johan, it was a coup! Johan Amadeus Myjetski: essentially, Abby, you're AbbyDigital: No need to shame me, Cease. EdgarEdgar: Disco was the insult....but fun to dance to Johan Amadeus Myjetski: right! Cease: in the original sense of that. being a blow to the head. Cease: it's rare anyone shows up here who isn't a yank. not surprising as firesign is Very American. Rufus_T_Firetween: EdgarEdgar: Disco was the insult....but fun to dance to << Zappa's 'Dancing Fool' parody is excellent EdgarEdgar: YES! 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: Very good. Cease: or very Anti-American as Ossman said once on Facebook AbbyDigital: Zappa's anything is excellent! ||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Now playing: Firesign's THE CAMPAIGN CHRONICLES 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u Check out THE FIRESIGN THEATRE at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/' Cease: Trouble Coming Every Day Beet: These are good. AbbyDigital: I clicked that link and now there are voices in my head! AbbyDigital: Jesus thinks you're a jerk. Beet: Jesus is supposed to be non-judgemental. AbbyDigital: He just couldn't take it anymore, so now he's taking sides. Beet: I understand. AbbyDigital: Beam weapons! Dr' Judy was right! Rufus_T_Firetween: lol Abby 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 ||||||||| 9:53 PM -- EdgarEdgar left for parts unknown.(Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow"). Rufus_T_Firetween: ** “Fighting Clowns Of Hollywood: A Memoir” by David Ossman - http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman Cease: Ed has departed? Alas. Beet: Let's all go to Sydney 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 AbbyDigital: That was scary! I saw a sad document for a moment. AbbyDigital: Everything is slowing down. Time is of affliction. Cease: sounds like shakespeare Rufus_T_Firetween: Actually, seems like the years are passing pretty quickly ||||||||| Sickfox bounds in at 9:57 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. Cease: or as molly ivins called him, shrub Cease: true for me, tween. ||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action! Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Sickfox Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, that's a nickname for GW Bush in TX ;) Cease: this covid thing is subtracting such a large section of our ever-shortening lives AbbyDigital: George Burns said, "When you get to my age, every fifteen minutes is breakfast." Cease: lol abby Rufus_T_Firetween: Molly had much fun with Shrub's use of the english language on bits for NPR Cease: hi fox Cease: wasnt she on 60 minutes, at one point? Rufus_T_Firetween: Molly is sorely missed Rufus_T_Firetween: could be Rufus_T_Firetween: y famous Texas writer Cease: she was a delight ||||||||| 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!" ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. AbbyDigital: The new imojis are here! OMFG, that's not really an update at all… Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Paul Harvey - esque Cease: based on paul harvey Beet: I was a big P. H. fan. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I enjoyed his rhythm of delivery. very reassuring Cease: this is the origin of the stuff on Lawyer's Hospital Cease: great radio voice Beet: One of a kind. Cease: planning to do a collage based on rats maybe next month. Cease: cbc's Ideas is doing a 2-part series on rats which i will liberally lift from. Cease: Tons of rats in the Firesign canon. AbbyDigital: Put a rat king in the middle Cease: rat f*ing has entered the language since the Firesign rats Beet: I'll vote for nobody. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: & lots of little rats, too! ||||||||| It's 10:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Sickfox - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Cease: get well, sickfox Cease: you still here, sam? Johan Amadeus Myjetski: little ratzis Rufus_T_Firetween: mmmmm Giant Rats... Johan Amadeus Myjetski: They Might Be Giants - sountrack Beet: lol llanwydd: my computer froze Rufus_T_Firetween: put a blanket on it llanwydd: lol Cease: warm it up Cease: its getting to the heater season here, though oddly warm this week Beet: I suggest a space heater. Cease: space is really cold Beet: I wish "they" would put these cassettes on CD's. Cease: you might ask THEM when they show up here. Beet: OK Rufus_T_Firetween: They might put it on the new Downlad Store, Beet Cease: Indeed, tween. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new FIRESIGN THEATRE DOWNLOAD STORE at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases Cease: there's supposed to be a LOT of stuff coming there. Rufus_T_Firetween: They've got lots of stuff waiting in the wings Beet: That would be fantastic. Cease: there is a VAST amount of Firesign material. Beet: You are probably the source for much of it, Cease. llanwydd: thats for sure Cease: when i was breakfasting with the ossman family, pete's friends and daughter the morning after Pete's memorail in kirkland, Ossman insisted, loudly, Put it All OUT, and that was more than 8 years ago llanwydd: my post was an answer to cats Cease: i do my best. Rufus_T_Firetween: llan talks to cats? Beet: We all talk to at least one Cat. llanwydd: you sure are lucky to know fst so well Cease: and speaking of cats,https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10157162143490882&set=a.92645545881¬if_id=1604612184975093¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif llanwydd: I only briefly met the two phils Cease: when i heard them on the radio, i was just getting on radio myself in the mid 60s Cease: so it was a natural thing to do. llanwydd: I did radio back in the 90s Cease: lol beet Johan Amadeus Myjetski: it's early for me, but i've got to go for now. See you all next Fire time! llanwydd: nite JAM Cease: by jammy. hope to see you here next week Beet: See ya brother JAM. Cease: you still here, abby? Beet: Love it. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “NAOMI KLEIN KICKS ASS” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NAOMI KLEIN ON TRUMP - http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Naoimi+Klien%2c+trump&view=detail&mid=73526303114E5FBCCCF773526303114E5FBCCCF7&FORM=VIRE Cease: Naomi is a kind of female Bergman in her thinking Beet: Can't wait to see Trump's TV show when he gets out of office. Cease: but much more influential Cease: she says, "adbusting." that was me: http://seemreal.com/aq/index.html Cease: i think he wants to replace limpba Cease: Bergman wrote labour legislation in the Kennedy administration. Cease: talk about strategic thinking. anyway, bergman says there were so many smart people attracted to jfk's washington in those days, and he would know. Cease: maybe a biden administration can have the same magnetism. Beet: Magnetism? You must be joking. Rufus_T_Firetween: haha, k Rufus_T_Firetween: Biden is just another schill for the corporatocracy/M-I complex Rufus_T_Firetween: like Obama and Bush and Clinton, and probably every other President since JFK Beet: A quote from Joe, "Nothing will fundamentally change." Rufus_T_Firetween: tools of the Deep State, yes Cease: that's not peter bergman's point. trump attracts nothing but grifters. Rufus_T_Firetween: Trump was pulling troops out of the Middle East Cease: like lbj said to mlk about passing civil rights legistlation, make me. Cease: fdr as well. Cease: and putting them on the streets of american cities Rufus_T_Firetween: anyway, the proof is in the pudding ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" Beet: Trump never pulled them out. Rufus_T_Firetween: we'll have 4 years to talk about it :) Cease: abandoning the kurds to slaughter by the turkish army so he could open a trump hotel in istambul? Beet: I think we will just go to sleep like we did with Obummer. Cease: you won't if you have grandkids. Rufus_T_Firetween:https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/09/09/centcom-boss-says-us-cutting-troops-in-iraq-to-3000-this-month/https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/09/09/centcom-boss-says-us-cutting-troops-in-iraq-to-3000-this-month/ ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" Beet: true My sympathis. Cease: my twin grand daughters are near greta's age. they will not go to sleep Rufus_T_Firetween: Trump vows US troops in Iraq will return home soon Beet: sympathies. Rufus_T_Firetween: Greta an other young people have lots to be angry about Beet: Another Trump promise you can take to the bank. As long as they are bailed out again. Cease: my grand daughters didn't just portray proctor and bergman in at least 3 of my plays, they are going to be just as pollitcal as proctor and bergman have been Rufus_T_Firetween: Now we'll get to make fun of Biden Cease: that's my town. Cease: when ever we drive from north van into town, we have to drive by his hotel Beet: Most people agree that the only way any change will happen is if masses take to the streets. Pitchfolks a torches. Cease: pitchforks aren't much good against guns. Beet: pitch forks and torches. Beet: An AK 14 Pitchfork. Beet: Actually I don't approve of firearms but you know what I mean. Cease: vegas pyramid: the luxor. where i stayed when i was last in vegas last year: Cease:https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/vegas_ate_sunday.mp3 Cease: would love to go to actual egypt, but atg least i went to this hotel Beet: If one of us becomes suddenly rich, let's you and I go see Egypt. Cease: let's do it, beet. Cease: if covid allows us. Beet: It can't survive in the desert. Cease: it's sometihng i have wanted to do since 1959. Beet: The greatest unsolved mystery on earth is the Great Pyramid. Cease: there is a scene in my play Neal Amid set in Egypt. The grateful dead, paul krasner and the ghost of neal cassidy at the pyramids. Cease: when little phil proctor was a kid during ww2,he used to sing this song to impress his parents. Beet: Very funny. Cease: he continues to impress us. Beet: This was fun. Thanks to everyone. Love the cassettes, Dr Cease. Thanks for piloting the ship, Dr Tween. G'Nite all. ||||||||| 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: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Cease: off we go ||||||||| Cease says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Cease exits at 10:57 PM. DJTweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 11:10 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 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| AbbyDigital - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - 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 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:32 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."
The Evening's Participants:
AbbyDigital
Al
Beet
Cease
DJTweeny
EdgarEdgar
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Rufus_T_Firetween
