A Firesign Chat
02/25/2021




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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 4:32 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for February 25, 2021 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 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 Rufus_T_Firetween disembarks at 4:05 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 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
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 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 6:00 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...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween tiptoes in around 7:47 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and announces "Announcing 'DJTweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
||||||||| 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
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||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – Don Henley
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
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||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:44 PM, dragging llanwydd by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
llanwydd: howdy tween!
DJTweeny: Hey llan
llanwydd: how are you recovering from the storm?
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
llanwydd: hope you are doing better than last week
DJTweeny: Got water back Tuesday, after a week w/o
DJTweeny: much warmer weather, was 84 yesterday lol
llanwydd: Thank God
DJTweeny: talk about feast or famine
llanwydd: yeah texas weather is like that
DJTweeny: That's pretty extreme even for us
DJTweeny: snow on the ground and freezing temps and a few days later in the 80s
llanwydd: I was in san antonio in 1981. winter
DJTweeny: winters in Austin are usually really mild
llanwydd: in the 8s one minute and down to about 18 the next. it was really weird
llanwydd: I meant 80s
DJTweeny: yipes
DJTweeny: yeah I figured
llanwydd: how far is austin from SA?
DJTweeny: It's true that we can get weather out of the Panhandle that can drop the temp 30 degrees in a couple of hours
DJTweeny: around 100 miles, I think
llanwydd: further than I thought
llanwydd: I would drive that far for a good meal. I have several times
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:49 PM and late as usual, it's Cease, just back from British Columbia."
llanwydd: Hey Cat
DJTweeny: 80 miles, just checked
llanwydd: how you doing?
DJTweeny: allo Cat eh
llanwydd: listening to don henley tonight
llanwydd: I like his voice
DJTweeny: from his Inside Job album
DJTweeny: the next song is about extraterrestrials ;)
llanwydd: that sounds interesting
DJTweeny: I say we have enough already, don't need any extra
llanwydd: enough extraterrestials? dont look at me. I was born in new jersey
Cease: i had a long talk with doc tech last night
||||||||| Outside, the 8:53 PM bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Deputy Dang coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
llanwydd: how is he?
DJTweeny: haha
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
llanwydd: Hey Dang!
Deputy Dang: Welcome back!
Cease: Wantg to record Illan and Tween
Cease: hey dang
DJTweeny: any time, Cease
llanwydd: I have had a change of email address, cat
llanwydd: I will send it to you in pm. give me a moment.
DJTweeny: can you send me a test email llan?
Deputy Dang: heya Cat!
DJTweeny: I don't have my usualy email client up right now
DJTweeny: This song is called "They Not Here, They're Not Coming"
Cease: dont overestate my sobriety
llanwydd: well I will have to get your email address, first tween
DJTweeny: we need to talk to Merlyn about that
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 8:59 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: Evening all
||||||||| 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
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||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, February 25, 2021 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Cease: we are lucky to be hearing this now
Cease: hey beet
Beet: Hi Dr Cease
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Elayne 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: Hi Elayne
DJTweeny: Hi Elayne
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ***
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s “EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out EYKIW at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eykiw-rv
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Elayne: Evenin' all!
Cease: hey el
Elayne: Tonight's album isn't nearly as funny in the age of QAnon...
Cease: we all love you, el
Beet: I really like this one.
Elayne: Oh, uh...thanks Cat.
llanwydd: I cant see the chat
Rufus_T_Firetween: Just got delivery of a Korg Prologue 16 (the larger one) today - https://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/prologue/
llanwydd: I am going to go out and come back in
Rufus_T_Firetween is a very happy camper
Elayne: So I have my vaccine shot #1, going for #2 on St. Patrick's Day. Things are definitely looking up
Elayne: Phil and Melinda are getting shot #2 tomorrow I believe
DJTweeny: may you be well Elayne
llanwydd: good to be back
Elayne: No effects at all with #1, Tween. A litttle shoulder soreness, that's all gone now.
Beet: Wow! An amazing looking keyboard.
Elayne: I hear most of the side effects to look for come with shot #2.
Beet: Just got #1 today.
DJTweeny: Haven't had an analog like that since I sold my Sequential Prophet 5 in the late 90s
llanwydd: I am putting off my shot until all the old people can get theirs
llanwydd: I am only 59
Beet: A mere lad
DJTweeny: I'm putting off mine until we see the side effects
llanwydd: my mother had her first one the day before yesterday
DJTweeny: but each to his own
llanwydd: she had a fever of 100 shortly after but she is fine now
Beet: We have some deniers here.
llanwydd: there are deniers everywhere
Cease: how are things in nyc, el
Beet: I like the name "Hashfire Inn".
||||||||| 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 Not Ed falls out at 9:07 PM.
llanwydd: how is doc? anybody know?
DJTweeny: evenin' NotEd
Not Ed: hey Tweeny
Beet: Hi Not
Not Ed: Cheers Beet
Elayne: nYC is fine, Cat. Did you near from DocTech?
Elayne: Hi NotEd!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eykiw-ln
llanwydd: Hi Ed
Not Ed: Best Elayne!
Not Ed: Hey llan
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
llanwydd: recording from the civil war. LOL
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed: great
Cease: i talked to doc tech on the phonje yesterdsay
Not Ed: I love the FF tape
Cease: saunds like he's in good shape
llanwydd: ff?
Not Ed: fast forward
llanwydd: good to hear, cat
Not Ed: Cool Cat
Beet: It's good to hear he is better.
Cease: hey not. did you hear my collage about a tape from the futrure?
Cease: i'm in the middle of creating new audo play
Cease: hopefuly starring tween and llan
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Cease: how;s it goin, El?
Elayne: I'm tired, Cat. Don't know if it's because of my workday or the shot.
Elayne: I'm going to leave now.
Beet: Nino is so cool.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Rest well Elayne
llanwydd: nite E
Not Ed: Dimension X & X Minus One https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8v7ZDxE26jcHIy-Nn5RjOlJASujipdbz
Beet: G'Nite Elayne. Rest well.
Not Ed: Take care & be groovy E
Cease: glad to hear you got a shot, el. still far inte future here
llanwydd: ha ha
Not Ed: melt a watch
llanwydd: forklifters union. LOL
llanwydd: would you believe our governor here in florida has ordered flags to be lowered to half staff for rush limbaugh
llanwydd: aye aye aye
DJTweeny: hahaha, not that's a conservative State ;)
Beet: Whay a patriot.
Deputy Dang: Palm Beach county defied the governor
Beet: What
DJTweeny: *now
llanwydd: actaully we are a red state
||||||||| 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."
llanwydd: good to hear that about Palm beach county
llanwydd: this is shortly after limbaugh praised the insurrection at the capitol and its perpetrators
Not Ed tries in vain to melt a watch
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Comando Cody', just granted probation at 9:23 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Not Ed: I love this side
llanwydd: Hi Cody
Not Ed: Hey CCody
Comando Cody: Howdy folks.
Beet: Greetings Commando
DJTweeny: Hi Cody
Comando Cody: Looks like I've been missing an interesting chat.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eykiw-ln
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Dr. Happy Harry Cox says “I was right about the comet! Check out my new video DVD set EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: THE DECLASSIFIED FIRESIGN THEATRE 1968-1975 before it’s too late!!” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
llanwydd: well you are here now cc
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cody, you can always perus what you missed at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/chat/public/The_Waiting_Room.html
Not Ed: Well yes and no
Rufus_T_Firetween: *peruse
Comando Cody: Hey Rufus, did you manage to get back to semi normal down there in Austin?
Not Ed: It's always interesting around here
Rufus_T_Firetween: That's a live chat log
llanwydd: peruvians
Rufus_T_Firetween: Comando Cody: Hey Rufus, did you manage to get back to semi normal down there in Austin? << got water back Tuesday after a week without
Comando Cody: Thanks Rufus. I know. I saw the Limbaugh chat line and threw that out there.
Rufus_T_Firetween: semi-normal again, thanks :)
Beet: No busted pipes?
Not Ed: Cool guys
Rufus_T_Firetween: lots of busted pipes all over Texas
Rufus_T_Firetween: that's why my apartment complex was w/o water for a week
llanwydd: I can imagine, tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm not sure the whole complex has water restored yet
Rufus_T_Firetween: Texas can't find enough plumbers
Beet: I'm glad it is back for you, Rufus.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks Beet
Beet: When Covid is over, is that when we will see the aliens?
Rufus_T_Firetween: heheh
Comando Cody: I only recently saw the video of this.
Cease: Covid hasnt beeen that big a thing forme as i rarely go out
Cease: are you alll ok:
Comando Cody: I'm good. No COVID in me.
||||||||| Captain Equinox enters at 9:33 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Hat Pack Annex.
Not Ed: I walk the dog every day - an hour to an hour and a half
Cease: hi cap
Beet: We're rolling along OK in West Virginia.
Captain Equinox: Hiya, Kiddos!
Not Ed: COVID-free around here
Not Ed: Cappy
Comando Cody: Hello Cap.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ahoy, Captain
Beet: Hey, Captain.
Captain Equinox: Hey, man - are you holding?
Not Ed: (S. Seattle)
Captain Equinox: Hi All!
Not Ed: Natch.
Captain Equinox: Wanna hear me rap?
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
Comando Cody: No. please no.
Not Ed: Angelheaded hipsters...
Captain Equinox: okay.
Captain Equinox: Hi Art!
Not Ed: .: is burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone a hole
||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone a hole.
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
llanwydd: lol
Captain Equinox: Holey Crap!
Comando Cody: Oh my. I don't know how many of you have heard of Garfunkel and Oates but they have a very funny video about holes.
Beet: I have all the holes I need, thanks.
Rufus_T_Firetween: not I
Not Ed: I was actually in a band called the Angelheaded Hipsters
Captain Equinox: Hah!
Comando Cody: It's called God's Loophole. Not safe for your Tues Roadkill show though.
Cease: post the link, cody
llanwydd: that s not art garfunkel is it?
Rufus_T_Firetween guesses not
Comando Cody: Will do Cease. And no it has nothing to do with Art llan.
Not Ed: https://youtu.be/zQXADB3-HQM
Cease: how are you all doing?
Not Ed: (Angelheaded Hipsters link)
Rufus_T_Firetween: I appreciate your appreciation that we 'try' to be a 'family friendly' station
Rufus_T_Firetween: doesn't always work out that way lol
Captain Equinox: Booze!
Cease: i cut out all the fucks, tween
Comando Cody: I've got a very slow connection tonight so I'm guessing Not
Comando Cody: Ed has beat me to it.
Rufus_T_Firetween: There's a great Gilder Radner parody of children's songs called "Let's Talk Dirty To The Animals"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Had to make many bleeps ;)
Not Ed: Hey everyone I have to make like a tree and leaf
Not Ed: Good to see you all and good to know our Texas Firepals are hanging in there
Captain Equinox: Keep 'em flying!
Cease: b ynot
Not Ed: tanx Tween & Rufus
Rufus_T_Firetween: see you next time NotEd
Not Ed: tanx & bye
Beet: Nice to see you tonight, Not.
Rufus_T_Firetween: be well
llanwydd: great album
Beet: Love it
Rufus_T_Firetween: 'tis
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s
“APRIL FOOL'S DAY 1997”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out Firesign's new release DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES at https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
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Comando Cody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG5Y4VXlk-w
Captain Equinox: Ya know why Scots wear kilts?
Beet: ewe 2
Captain Equinox: The sound of the zipper scares the sheep.
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol @ Monkey Stout
Comando Cody: There is a full on slick video of this on You Tube as well. And I warned all of you ahead of time.
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
Captain Equinox: Pork?
||||||||| 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: I definitely need to split this up for individual bits
Comando Cody: I just flashed on the Dilbert comic where they outsource to Elbonia.
llanwydd: those sheep jokes are often directed at the welsh
Captain Equinox: The deuce you say?
llanwydd: dont understand why. if you need a subject for a welsh joke it could be poverty
Captain Equinox: or the inability to understand what they're saying?>
||||||||| 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!"
Comando Cody: Brad's pits.
llanwydd: LOL CE
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Merlyn into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mumbles something about 9:51 PM, then departs.
llanwydd: Hey Merl
Cease: hi merl
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Merlyn
Merlyn: hello dere
Comando Cody: Hello Merlyn.
Beet: Evening, Merl.
Rufus_T_Firetween: llan has been having problems with private chat
llanwydd: not just me, tween
Beet: I have been getting Llan's chats for Cease.
Comando Cody: llan I just sent you a private text.
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: Interesting
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“A FRANTICLE FOR LEBOWITZ”
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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Comando Cody: It was just a "are you getting this text to see if it was working.
Cease: proc gave me a casete with that on it in 97
llanwydd: 97? I was just a wee lad
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “A FRANTICLE FOR LEBOWITZ” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
Merlyn: hello dere
Comando Cody: I've been watching it on Netflix. She's a hoot.
llanwydd: actually I was in me thurties
llanwydd: is she the one with the buster keaton smile?
Comando Cody: LOL!
Comando Cody: Yes, these days she sports a pair of glasses that fit that description.
llanwydd: cool
Captain Equinox: I drink apple juice - OJ can kill ya!
llanwydd: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: lolol
Beet: Obstinate Jabber
Comando Cody: Anita Bryant drank it so you can see where that might lead.
Captain Equinox: Spike Jones?
Captain Equinox: Nyuk Nyuk!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 10:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Captain Equinox: Shhhh
Comando Cody: https://www.thirteen.org/programs/retro-report-on-pbs/retro-report-on-pbs-season-1-episode-7-anita-bryant-gay-rights-icon-andy-borowitz/
Captain Equinox: So glad you have *POWER*, Tween!
llanwydd: POWER to the people
Captain Equinox: People to the Power!
Captain Equinox: Up with People
Cease: i think, uh
Cease: soe crazy indian
Rufus_T_Firetween: Captain Equinox: So glad you have *POWER*, Tween! << I count myself extremely lucky to have only lost water, and that there was plenty of snow to melt down to flush the toilet
Rufus_T_Firetween: at one point, 1/2 of Austin was w/o power in sub-freezing weather
Rufus_T_Firetween: having warmth and internet was a blessing
llanwydd: but what an inconvenience to be without water
Rufus_T_Firetween: yes, for a week no less
Comando Cody: I was surprised to see that Texas is completely disconnected from the rest of the grid in the States
Beet: Scary
Rufus_T_Firetween: I considered maybe the beard wasn't so bad, maybe a Sean Connery in Red October look lol
Cease: glad to hear your watered agaom tweem
Rufus_T_Firetween: Comando Cody: I was surprised to see that Texas is completely disconnected from the rest of the grid in the States << There are 3 grids, East, West and Texas yeah
Captain Equinox: the Rapinds
||||||||| 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!"
Captain Equinox: they're grand
Rufus_T_Firetween: We can get power from Mexico, but they didn't have enough to share to make a difference
llanwydd: I got that reference immediately about grand rapids
Captain Equinox: wow
Rufus_T_Firetween: the scary thing is, it could have been worse
Comando Cody: I can guess. Mexican power isn't all that reliable even in Mexico.
Rufus_T_Firetween: if they hadn't done the rolling blackouts, the whole system could have collapsed and we could have been w/o power for months
Captain Equinox: This old man says he's been to chicago
llanwydd: florida is the only state that rarely gets snow
Comando Cody: You know Rufus, you could always have gone down to the Yucatan.
Beet: I heard that the system was seconds away from total collapse.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Austin is about on the same latitude as the Florida Panhandle
||||||||| 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!"
llanwydd: if I remember correctly it hasnt snowed in florida since 1978
Rufus_T_Firetween: we don't know from arctic cold
Captain Equinox: When we get snow here in Asheville, it's usually gone in 24-36 hours.
Comando Cody: Hmm, are we cult kooks as well?
Beet: I know it's only temporary but we had a beautiful clear sunny day today.
Captain Equinox: Have any of you watched The History of Time Travel? Streaming on prime.
llanwydd: but NC has mountains. we dont
Comando Cody: 70s here in Tucson.
Captain Equinox: True - i live in the mts.
Captain Equinox: LOVE Tucson
llanwydd: I live at sea level three miles from the beach
Beet: nice
Captain Equinox: Where, llan?
Comando Cody: My family used to go to NC to vacation on the beach.
llanwydd: pretty close to daytona
Captain Equinox: I'm in WNC - almost Tennesee
Comando Cody: When we lived in PA.
Captain Equinox: Got that - niece and nephew are from Englewood and now live in Sarasota
Captain Equinox: No BVD
||||||||| It's 10:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Captain Equinox: Herpes?
Captain Equinox: Oh, hairpiece.
Captain Equinox: Yoilet raised fish?
Captain Equinox: What about the trouser trout?
Comando Cody: We used to spend the week on Holden Beach.
Captain Equinox: Gotta run, folks - early appointment in the morning.
Comando Cody: Adios Cap.
Captain Equinox: Keep 'em Flying!
llanwydd: nite CE
||||||||| 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!"
Captain Equinox: toodles!
Beet: See ya comando
Beet: oops I mean Captain
Comando Cody: I'm not dead yet.
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Beet: Glad to hear it.
Comando Cody: LOL!
Comando Cody: I did the same thing to Elayne awhile back.
Cease: It might be diffiul to show up here if you were dead
Beet: Kinda cool though.
llanwydd: I hope to show up here when I am dead
llanwydd: what a shock that would be
Comando Cody: I was channeling the Holy Grail scene. "Bring out your dead!'
llanwydd: I know. I got that
Comando Cody: Hopefully a shock could bring you back from it depending on what you died from.
llanwydd: I have used that line in play rehearsals
llanwydd: always gets a laugh
Rufus_T_Firetween: "I don't want to go on the cart!!"
Comando Cody: What? Youse an actor llan?
llanwydd: yessuh
Cease: i was not aware of fran unti i watche this netflick series recently
Cease: lan has been in at least two of my plays.
Beet: Used to watch her on talk shows;
Comando Cody: Way cool llan. I've done some of that myself. Thorughly enjoyed it.
llanwydd: I have done some film and television as well
Comando Cody: She's definitley been around for awhile Cease.
Cease: yes i saw her on letrtetremasn, long agop
Beet: cool
Comando Cody: Wait, is there anything we can see on-line?
Beet: must be.
llanwydd: I played three rols in a PBS documentary about the former secretary of state george shultz called Turmoil and Triumph
Cease: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=fran+lebowitz+on+letterman&atb=v174-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2mszuV0Pa18
Comando Cody: I'll have to check it out. See if I can figure out your character.
llanwydd: I played an apostle in a history channel documentary called Jesus: The Lost 40 Days
Cease: you're a fine actor, llan
llanwydd: and the singer Selena died in my arms in an Investigate Discovery documentary called Real Crime/Reel Story
||||||||| It's 10:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Captain Equinox - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanwydd: thanks, cat
Comando Cody: I have a friend who was in the Coen brothers Millers Crossing
Cease: this is duke ellington
Cease: and som e white guy
llanwydd: love duke ellington
Comando Cody: Can't actually see him though. Extra in a darkly lit scene.
Comando Cody: Crap llan, won't be able to see that one.
Comando Cody: Cat, this is really good.
Cease: thanks, cody
Beet: Mingus was legensary.
llanwydd: I dont share Im a republican! love that
Beet: legabdary
Beet: legendary
llanwydd: lebonondary
Beet: yes
llanwydd: lebanese dairy
Beet: that too
llanwydd: lol
Comando Cody: Lebanon baloney.
llanwydd: roast eagle. lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol @ roast eagle with all the trimmings
Rufus_T_Firetween has has nothing to do with the Republocrats for a very long time
Rufus_T_Firetween: false dichotomy
Beet: Believe it or not, I used to be one. I'm embarrassed to admit it.
llanwydd: I am not registered with any party
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Deputy Dang: I know there's only a bit left, but I have to sleep. This has been a good show. They all are, of course.
Comando Cody: You're not the only one Beet.
llanwydd: except the birthday party
Cease: hji dang
Comando Cody: Adios Deputy D.
Rufus_T_Firetween: See you next time Deputy
Beet: See ya, Deputy.
Rufus_T_Firetween: be well
Deputy Dang: Thanks all--we'll see you here next week!
||||||||| Deputy Dang says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Deputy Dang exits at 10:40 PM.
llanwydd: nite dang
Rufus_T_Firetween: What's on deck for next week, Cease?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “A FRANTICLE FOR LEBOWITZ” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
llanwydd: wow
Merlyn: They couldn't use Rococo's last name in these ads for Pizza Hut due to competitor Rocky Rococo's
llanwydd: that was either product placemtn or a
Beet: Really enjoyed that.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Doc Technical’s “DEAR FRIENDS TOO”
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/media/media.php?item=domm-ln
'
llanwydd: yeah that was great
Rufus_T_Firetween: Doc did a great job with Dear Friends Too. They decided not to release it as an album, but I think he said they'll include some of it in a future Download Store release
Beet: Hope so.
llanwydd: I will be going now. hopefully see you next week
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new FIRESIGN THEATRE DOWNLOAD STORE at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
llanwydd: nite
||||||||| Catherwood says "10:47 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs llanwydd by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Comando Cody: Bye llan.
Rufus_T_Firetween: later llan
Beet: Good night, Mr. Llan.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies cat into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, mutters something about 10:49 PM, then departs.
Beet: This is great.
cat: this is thrilling
||||||||| 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 7-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net
Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign
'
Beet: This was fun. Nice to see everyone. Fantastic collage, Dr Cease. Thanks for the leadership, Dr Tween.
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Merlyn: sea later Tweeny
Rufus_T_Firetween: See you Tuesday for some opening Firesign for my music request show :)
||||||||| Merlyn leaves to catch the 10:57 PM train to Minnesota.
Comando Cody: Indeed. This was a good show. CU all next week I hope.
Comando Cody: I'll try top make the Tues. show as well. Usually tougher being the time it's on.
||||||||| Around 10:58 PM, Comando Cody walks off into the sunset...
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 11:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the common cold
||||||||| cat - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| It's 3:00 AM, 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...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:31 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
cat
Cease
Comando Cody
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Elayne
llanwydd
Merlyn
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eykiw-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eykiw-rv
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
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/chat/public/The_Waiting_Room.html
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=fran+lebowitz+on+letterman&atb=v174-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2mszuV0Pa18
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
https://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/prologue/
https://www.thirteen.org/programs/retro-report-on-pbs/retro-report-on-pbs-season-1-episode-7-anita-bryant-gay-rights-icon-andy-borowitz/
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8v7ZDxE26jcHIy-Nn5RjOlJASujipdbz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG5Y4VXlk-w
https://youtu.be/zQXADB3-HQM



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