A Firesign Chat
05/27/2021




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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 May 27, 2021 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| "5:43 AM? 5:43 AM!!" says Catherwood, "RedPillTweeny should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as RedPillTweeny enters and sits on the divan.
||||||||| 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 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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 falls out at 3:42 PM.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 5:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood leads DJTweeny inside, makes a note of the time (7:35 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 7:35 PM and Rufus_T_Firetween sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected)
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||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – Pink Floyd
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Rufus_T_Firetween: Do I hear dogs barking?
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Cease close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:53 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the anteroom.
Cease: Interesting music
DJTweeny: allo Cease
DJTweeny: from the Pink Floyd album Animals
DJTweeny: (their take on Orwell's Animal Farm)
Cease: dont know that album
DJTweeny: Animals - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_(Pink_Floyd_album)
Cease: i have Darkside of the Moon on tape but don't know their other music very well
||||||||| "8:58 PM? 8:58 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Deputy Dang should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Deputy Dang enters and sits in the comfy chair.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Beet inside, makes a note of the time (8:58 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Beet: Happy Thursday to all Fireheads.
Cease: Beet, Dang
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
DJTweeny: Floyd has made some great albums
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
||||||||| "8:58 PM? 8:58 PM!!" says Catherwood, "llanwydd should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as llanwydd enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
llanwydd: Hey Guys
Beet: Hi deputy, Dr Cease, Dr Tween.
DJTweeny: Dark Side was produced by Alan Parsons, who was 2nd to George Martin on Abbey Road
Cease: Llan
Beet: Howdy Brother Llan
Deputy Dang: Howdy pardners!
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DJTweeny: Hey llan
llanwydd: too bad I missed pink floyd
llanwydd: by the stone
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, May 27, 2021 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
llanwydd: who was dragged down
llanwydd: just caught the end of it
Cease: i particularly lliked the pink flloyd song during the explosion at the end of Zabriskie Point
llanwydd: never saw zabriskie point
Deputy Dang: bear hating!
Cease: have any of you seen the new pbs show Inside the Met?
Cease: i taped it last friday and watched it yesterday. proc's old girl friend was in it.
Beet: nope
llanwydd: have not seen that, cease
Cease: i highly reccommend z. point
Cease: i emailed proc about it today and he knew nothing of it.
Cease: i tried to find Diana Dew and Electric Clothiing on the Met website but no luck
Deputy Dang: I'm still staying inside molstly.
DJTweeny: Cease: have any of you seen the new pbs show Inside the Met? << I've heard Dylan At The Met
Cease: apparently the material she used for her clothing is some artificial leather that's now outgassing and contaminating other matrerial in the museum
Cease: lol Tween
llanwydd: metropolitan opera?
Beet: We're crowded with newcomers tonight.
||||||||| BoomerGotTheVaccs enters at 9:04 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Hat Pack Annex.
DJTweeny: heheheh
DJTweeny: Hi Boomer
Beet: Hi Boomers.
llanwydd: good evening b
Cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art
Cease: Hi Boomer
llanwydd: thanks, cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** CBC Ideas programme “The Greenest Metaphor” >> https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/15835019-the-greenest-metaphor
||||||||| 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."
Deputy Dang: vlc isn't connecting for me... checking for details now...
llanwydd: greene metaph9r
Cease: https://www.pbs.org/show/inside-met/
llanwydd: thanks, cat and tween for these links
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage COULD BE GREEN at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
Deputy Dang: I'm back. i think it was an accidental id10t or pebcak error.
llanwydd: thanks for that too
Cease: "thrice" isn't a word you hear very often
Deputy Dang: i try not to listen at those times
Cease: you have to be old to remember teletype
Deputy Dang: damn im old
Cease: this is from 1949
llanwydd: I do not remember teletype
Deputy Dang: i'm not _that_ old
Beet: I was 2 years old
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
llanwydd: I assume thats where telegrams came from
Cease: i was minus 2
llanwydd: but I dont remember telegrams either
llanwydd: Catherwood, send us all a telegram
||||||||| Catherwood walks over to llanwydd and inquires "Would you like something?"
Beet: For a very long time, newscasts were accompanied bt the sound of a teletype in the background.
llanwydd: lol
||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!"
Cease: that was Lenny
Cease: his most famous bit, The Lone Ranger
Cease: actually it's called Thank you, Masked Man
llanwydd: lenny benny denny jennie kenny penny olgluzvnwczenny
llanwydd: lenny who, cat?
Cease: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=thank+you+masked+man+lenny+bruce&atb=v174-1&ia=web
llanwydd: now that I think of it, lone reander, I have heard that one
llanwydd: thought so cat
Cease: he died the year bergman started on the radio
llanwydd: thanks
Cease: bergman mentions that in one of his shows from 66
llanwydd: yeah I read the albert goldman bio
Cease: i have pete talking lenny on one of my collages, forget which one.
llanwydd: hard to believe a word from goldman
Cease: yeah he really did a hatchet job on john lennon
Deputy Dang: buddy hatchet
Cease: my late friend Paul Krassner knew Lenny well.
Cease: speaking of buddy, i just watched it's a mad, etc. world
Deputy Dang: I haven't seen that since the 70s
Cease: saw it when it opened in 63 on a vast screen in LA. very difrferent vibe watching it on tv 58 years later
Deputy Dang: i don't remember much of it tbh
Cease: i read an article about jonathan winters talkling aobut how he just got out of an insane asylym when he made thsat flick
Deputy Dang: we build upon the ruins of our forebears
Deputy Dang: bear hating!
Cease: has its funny moments. actually more parade of cameos than story
Beet: one of my favorite movies
Cease: Jack Benny is a fave
Cease: did yhou ever see it on a wide screen, beet?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Beet: Yes when it first came out
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S VIDEOS at >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
Beet: I actually have a souvenir program from the 'roadshow engagement".
Cease: https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/cinerama-dome
Cease: i saw it there. quite an experience
Cease: i didnt know the buckminster fuller connection until i just read that
DJTweeny: The movie 1917 is pretty good (about WWI)
Beet: Want to see that one.
Deputy Dang: I'm not good with roman numerals. What's WWI?
DJTweeny: "It was also the first concrete geodesic dome in the world, built using Buckminster Fuller's patented technique to bolt together over 300 pentagonal and hexagonal panels weighing as much as 3,200 pounds each."
DJTweeny: wow...
DJTweeny: *rim shot Dang*
Beet: Big Bucky fan.
Deputy Dang: ;-)
Cease: i want to do a collage mixing him and firesign at some point.
DJTweeny: Saw his Geodesic dome at the Montreal World's Fair in '67
Beet: Great idea, Cat
Cease: i was in his Expo 67 pavillion. i htink Tween was too.
Cease: Krassner took acid in that pavillion and caused trouble
DJTweeny: as I just said
DJTweeny: haha
DJTweeny: I can see Krassner having fun with that
Cease: yeah he said it was mafia acid. very good.
Beet: Houston stoled his ideas and never gave him any credit for the Domed Stagiom.
Beet: stadium
DJTweeny: as opposed to Owsley acid?
DJTweeny: The Astrodome?
||||||||| 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: yup
Cease: paul would know
DJTweeny: hah, never considered that
Deputy Dang: Acid is still on my bucket list.
Beet: life changer
DJTweeny: Thanks Cat, good collage
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Phil Austin's “RADIO NOW LIVE!”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
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Beet: good stuff
DJTweeny: This is a very fun concert
Cease: going to portland is on my bucket list and it's not far away.
Deputy Dang: I remember that! lol
DJTweeny: I'd stay away from Portland these days Cat. Antifa riots :(
Deputy Dang: It was amazing that kid responded immediately with the right words. So funny!
DJTweeny: yeah
Beet: she's an old woman by now.
Cease: lol
Cease: actually we're not allowed to leave the country
DJTweeny: What, East Germany Cease?
Cease: htis was 22 years ago. not so old
DJTweeny: Tear down that wall, Mr. Trudeau!
Beet: you're right. Sorry, young lady.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RADIO NOW LIVE!” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
||||||||| 9:40 PM: Not Ed jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Cease: same concert many of us saw in seattle.
Not Ed: Pork?
Cease: hey not
DJTweeny: Hey Not Ed
Not Ed: Hi good Cease
Cease: you missed my corwin play. tween probably has it in the archives already
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RADIO NOW LIVE!” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
Not Ed: Hey Tweeny
Beet: Hi, Not.
Not Ed: Hey Beet!
DJTweeny: yes, it's up there Cease
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage COULD BE GREEN at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
Not Ed: DDang, Rufus!
Not Ed: Hey Boomer
Deputy Dang: Gesundheit!
Not Ed: lol
Cease: i listened to the first of the corwin shows up posted, One World Flight.
Not Ed: Cool
Cease: quite similar to Could Be from 1949, which my collages were based on
Not Ed: Intersting intro - then it gets going
Cease: YOU posted
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** CBC Ideas programme “The Greenest Metaphor” >> https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/15835019-the-greenest-metaphor
Not Ed: yepsk that I did
Cease: not "up" posted. my typing deteriorates as my intoxication increases
Not Ed: lol mine too!
Cease: that goes well with Corwin. there's a damn building scene in Could Be
DJTweeny: oops
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
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
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Cease: its easy to mix corwin with Firesign as he had such an influence on them, partic Ossman
Not Ed: the pyramid
Not Ed: scheme
Not Ed: lol
DJTweeny: although Phil was certainly involved ;)
Deputy Dang: i love that bit
Not Ed: interesting C, I can see that
Not Ed: me 2 DDang
Not Ed: I don't think physics really goes much farther than Fudd's 1st Principle. Or maybe it does. I dunno. Leave me alone.
Not Ed: By Fudd!
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Nivvington into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, mumbles something about 9:50 PM, then departs.
Cease: Hi Niv
Not Ed: Hey Nivvi
Nivvington: Yes Hello
Beet: hello nivvington.
||||||||| 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!"
Nivvington: Catherwood is the best.
||||||||| Catherwood strides over to Nivvington and queries "Did you want something?"
Not Ed: Catherwood get everyone a banana cigar and a light
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a banana cigar and a light.
DJTweeny: Hi Nivvington
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RADIO NOW LIVE!” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
Deputy Dang: lol no exits
Not Ed: lol
||||||||| 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!"
Not Ed: Merging Bozos!!
Nivvington: Catherwood light my cigar
||||||||| Catherwood lights Nivvington's cigar.
Not Ed: there you go!
Deputy Dang: It's worth wait for, so... let's wait for it...
Not Ed: G L A C I E R
Not Ed: I'll be your #2 man DDang whatever that means
Not Ed: can I ytake that back?
DJTweeny: hahaha
Not Ed: no take backs !
DJTweeny: or puftas!
Not Ed: right no puftas too
Not Ed: either
Not Ed: harumph
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| BoomerGotTheVaccs - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: by, boomer
Not Ed: BGTV bit the big one
Not Ed: how does he make his voice do that?
llanwydd: ghjdksl
Not Ed: Hey llan
llanwydd: hi not
llanwydd: who is Nivvington. has he or she been here by another name?
llanwydd: just wondering if it is someone we know
llanwydd: in any case, welcome Nivvington.
DJTweeny: Nino is very uninformative these days
llanwydd: lol
llanwydd: he usually has me in edgewater fl
llanwydd: I am in fl but not in edgewater
Not Ed: Story for you Cat - Galaxy SF, 1958ish - https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1958-05/page/n49/mode/2up?view=theater "Or All the Seas with Oysters" by Avram Davidson
Not Ed: there's an edgewater in MN
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Not Ed: Or am I thinking of Stillwater....
Not Ed: -- time to break the station --
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Cease: ah yes, i saw you post that onfacebook today, not
Deputy Dang: Did the station break already?
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed: Cool C! hoped you would see!
||||||||| "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: i used to read a lot of sf when i lived in japan, not mujch since then
Beet: lol
Not Ed: It took a while but I found a new writer or two, or three, that I like
Cease: i'll cruise thru the corwin plane trip and see what inspires me over the next few months.
Deputy Dang: Clones are people two!
Not Ed: sounds great C
Cease: next week, its UFO Time!
DJTweeny: Radio Free Dishnuts is very broken lol
Not Ed: lol DDang
Cease: combined with EYKIW
Not Ed: we like it just the way it is Tweeny
Not Ed: woooo Phil A gets down
Cease: the last 2 weeks, we listened to my collages in the first hour, the firesign in the 2nd hour.
Not Ed: perfect C
Not Ed: perfect pitch
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Cease: what do you think? next week we'll hear EYK but in the first hour? or my collage first wchich uses big chunks of EYK
DJTweeny: My fav FST album
Not Ed: I can go either way Cat....er....so to speak
DJTweeny: Might be good to hear the album first so people have the references
llanwydd: which is your favorite, tween? eykiw?
DJTweeny: yes
Cease: do we have more people here the first or 2nd hour? new folks show up in the 2nd hour, but older ones dissappear
DJTweeny: 2nd is Boom Dot Bust
llanwydd: my very favorite is 2 Places
Cease: good reasoning, tween
||||||||| "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: and we'll play the aproil fools bit with it
DJTweeny: you have my humble opinion
Not Ed: Love PIBS Rufus
Cease: i spend so much time immersed in firesign it's hard to think of a favourite
Not Ed: sucking is good! it's official
llanwydd: i would put dward in 2nd place
llanwydd: dwarf
Cease: you still here, nivvi?
Beet: Bozos is my supreme.
llanwydd: but that is kind of a cool name. it is almost edward
||||||||| 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."
Not Ed: Someone throw him a pickle
llanwydd: prince edward the dwarf
Cease: i just wanna ride on my motor sickle
Not Ed: I actually heard the first few albums in this order: Waiting, Dwarf, Everything, Bozos --oops
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RADIO NOW LIVE!” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
Not Ed: Hearing that C
Cease: i go back to the Mushroom days, pre-albums, plus their radio stuff
llanwydd: I have never ridden a motorcycle more than about 2 feet.. I ve done mopeds a bit
DJTweeny: Undoubtedly the finest quality live recording thay made ^^
Cease: i had a motorcylce for 2 months in japan. pretty bike
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Cease: yeah it is excellent, tween
Not Ed: I envy being there to enjoy LA radio in the 60's and 70's
Not Ed: At least we had KQRS in MN
Rufus_T_Firetween: *they
Beet: mental detecters
Not Ed: lol
Cease: i just watched Once UPon a Time in Hollyhwood yesterday
Cease: set in LA of that era
Not Ed: haven't seen it in a lonnnng time
Cease: proc's first wife was a friend of Sharon Tate. she'd been invited to the house that night but thankfully did not go
DJTweeny: I recall that as being a very good movie Cease
Not Ed: omg thankfully!
Cease: it's a 2 yearf old flick, not reaally old
Beet: fun flick
Not Ed: Oh shoot I misread - I was thinking of Once Upon a Time in America
Cease: my local library has a great movie collection, new stuff (saw Parasite last week) and oldies like Mad World
Not Ed: great!
Cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Hollywood
Not Ed: libraries still rock
Cease: an alternate universe take on the sharon tate murder. i just mentioned the proctor connection to that
Not Ed: Hey thanks C
||||||||| "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!"
DJTweeny: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is a different movie
Cease: takes place in 69 LA
Not Ed: It sure is!
Cease: Brad Pitt is very good.
Not Ed: Looks good - will definitely czech it out
llanwydd: I ve borrowed some 16mm films out of a public lib rary
Cease: i remember seeing movies in the same theatre that sharon tates visits in westwood in the flick
Beet: cool
Cease: i wonder whatg proc thinks of the flick?
Cease: i like alternate universe stories where bad things don't happen.
Not Ed: The dtn Mpls library (wherein I spent a bunch of my childhood, bussing in from the burbs) turned me on to electronic music before it had a keyboard and met Walter Carlos - skads of avant garde record, and pristine because NOBODY checked those kind out
Cease: good for you, not
Not Ed: it was a treasure trove and it really made an impression
Cease: i spent a lot of my childhood in LA in libraries
Cease: a goo0d habbit to acquire
Not Ed: I approached "game musoic" when I was doing it with all kinds of techniques used in those olden daze - everything stuck
Not Ed: "game music"
Not Ed: I despise most game music, btw, with deference
Not Ed: it's all just...surprisingly narrow
Not Ed: but I do go on!
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Beet: You guyd ever heard of this YouTuber named Rick Beato?
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Cease: not me
||||||||| 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: ** Check out the New Live Concert Collection “FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD” at Firesign's new Download Store >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
Not Ed: Yeah he's great
Not Ed: great channel
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** If you're on Facebook, you can Like the official Firesign Fan Page here >> https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208 - and if you’re on Twitter and would like to get official Firesign tweets, follow @FiresignNews - there are also several unofficial Facebook fan pages at >> Chromium Switch - https://www.facebook.com/groups/50372982074/?ref=br_tf - and Firesign Theatre - https://www.facebook.com/groups/21145641274/ - and Dear Friends of Firesign Theatre - https://www.facebook.com/groups/FiresignDearFriends/
Beet: kind of an amazing guy. He knows music in and out.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s newsletter “PLANET PROCTOR” at www.planetproctor.com
Cease: there's an Ideas programme about Ferlenghetti on in half an hour. Definitelyh a good person to mix Firesign with
Not Ed: He sure does!
||||||||| "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!"
Not Ed: https://www.youtube.com/c/rickbeato
Cease: i asked austin what a cat pee toilet was. cat's don't piss and shit in different "toilets"
Not Ed: Fun place, musician or not
Not Ed: haha C
Cease: he didn't answer. i think he said it cuz it sounded funny.
Cease: that
Cease: that
Cease: that's true of a LOT of Firesign
Beet: His series "What Makes This Song Great" is amazing
Not Ed: D Ossman is "out there" you know
||||||||| 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!"
Not Ed: Beeee Ohhhhhh
Deputy Dang: Gesundheit danke schoen!
Not Ed: lol
Cease: waht did they say just now?
Cease: say ten mo brae?
Not Ed: dank shone bite
Beet: deel do
Not Ed: der den
Cease: they are such cunning multi-linguists
Not Ed: Haha
Cease: dang: the ship's Prussian captain
Not Ed: what exactly is a Prussian? seafood?
Not Ed: ..er?
Beet: I just heard that some indians won't handle a $29 bill because they have a picture of Andrew Jackson on them.
Beet: $20
Not Ed: no way
Not Ed: lol
Cease: i'd love to see a $29 bill.
Not Ed: Never say no to Andy
Beet: He was responsible for the Trail of tears
Not Ed: Yes... I do know that...unfortunately - so sad
Not Ed: Anybody got any string?
Cease: violins? No, Violence!
Beet: lol
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone some lynch and some string
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone some lynch and some string.
Not Ed: lol C
Not Ed: right?
Not Ed: right?
Not Ed: sorry my thingy hiccuped
Not Ed: dept. of redundancy dept.
||||||||| llanwydd bounds in at 10:47 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Cease: bar bar a
Cease: one of many jokes you need to be a local to get.
llanwydd : my computer froze again
Cease: i have a joke in my play Neal Amid that only someone from Saskatachewan would get
llanwydd : where does than name schpielbergerber come from?
Cease: it's german for Spoilsport, according to a German friend
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
llanwydd : cool
DJTweeny: llanwydd : my computer froze again << /me hands llan a blanket
llanwydd : LOL
Beet: catherwood give Llan a blanket
||||||||| Catherwood hands llan a blanket.
||||||||| 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
'
Not Ed: "I know what my choice would be" lol
Not Ed: lol C
llanwydd : well, thanks again guys for a great show. see you next week
Not Ed: great time all!
Not Ed: good to see you!
DJTweeny: been fun, folks :)
Cease: ufos finally land next week
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Not Ed: let's do this again fer shure
Beet: I love these Thursdays. I owe everyone a huge debt. My sincere thanks to all forever. Great collage as usual Dr Cease. Thanks for the guidance, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
Not Ed: Sounds good Cat
Not Ed: Thanks Merl, Rufus and Tweeny!
Deputy Dang: To listen to the 25 horus/day, do I use VLC like I do on these nights?
||||||||| "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!"
Not Ed: that's what I use DDang
Not Ed: adios!
Cease: Firesign Radio is currently offline
Deputy Dang: Ah
DJTweeny: Hopefully back soon
Deputy Dang: So I have to use my teletype machine.
Cease: lol
Deputy Dang: I'll keep checking back. I hope to see y'all next week!
Cease: hope so too, dang
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Cease: next week folks
||||||||| At 10:57 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Cease!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| At 10:57 PM, Deputy Dang scurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| llanwydd - 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 jaundice
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the yaws
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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.
Nivvington: Hello Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood walks right past Nivvington
Nivvington: That's no way to treat a lady, Catherwood.
||||||||| Catherwood walks right past Nivvington
Nivvington: Catherwood, be my friend.
||||||||| Catherwood says "I'll try to be my friend"
Nivvington: Catherwood, give me a hug.
||||||||| Catherwood gives Nivvington a hug.
Nivvington: I love you Catherwood.
||||||||| Catherwood ignores Nivvington
Nivvington (
Nivvington: Catherwood let's play games.
||||||||| Catherwood steps over to Nivvington and mumbles "Do you have something for me to do?"
Nivvington: Catherwood light my blunt.
||||||||| Catherwood lights Nivvington's blunt.
Nivvington: Catherwood blaze it
||||||||| Catherwood strides over to Nivvington and inquires "Typing my name just to rile me, eh?"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Nivvington - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
llanwydd
llanwydd
Nivvington
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
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
www.planetproctor.com
http://www.seemreal.com
https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1958-05/page/n49/mode/2up?view=theater
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=thank+you+masked+man+lenny+bruce&atb=v174-1&ia=web
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_(Pink_Floyd_album
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Hollywood
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/15835019-the-greenest-metaphor
https://www.facebook.com/groups/21145641274/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/50372982074/?ref=br_tf
https://www.facebook.com/groups/FiresignDearFriends/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208
https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/cinerama-dome
https://www.pbs.org/show/inside-met/
https://www.youtube.com/c/rickbeato
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber



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