||||||||| 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 December 09, 2021 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood leads Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (3:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 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' ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 3:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from The Plague ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood leads Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (3:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. ||||||||| Catherwood says "3:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Rufus_T_Firetween by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door : test ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 3:00 PM and Rufus_T_Firetween sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. ||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and intones "Announcing 'DJTweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 3:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule... DJTweeny: test ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. ** Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected) 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u (streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)' ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: warm up music – STEVE MILLER-ABACADABRA 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)' ||||||||| llanwydd enters at 3:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Chapeau Manger. llanwydd: Hi Tween Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey llan llanwydd: great choice of music, tween llanwydd: I hope le Chat joins us Rufus_T_Firetween: Steve Miller is good hee fee llanwydd: is that like hi fi? Rufus_T_Firetween: yes :) llanwydd: lol Rufus_T_Firetween: a term we use at RFD ;) llanwydd: aha ||||||||| 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: by the way, tween, what are dishnuts? you dont have to crack them, do you? Rufus_T_Firetween: haha Rufus_T_Firetween: a bunch of ham radio peopl who are also into 'satellite dishes' llanwydd: cool Rufus_T_Firetween: *people ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Cease into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, grumbles something about 3:00 PM, then departs. Rufus_T_Firetween: these days we just use the internet llanwydd: always wanted a ham radio when I was a kid. closest I got was a shortwave Rufus_T_Firetween: Yo Cease llanwydd: Howdy Cease Cease: Hey Rufus_T_Firetween: shortwave = ham Rufus_T_Firetween: 'amateur radio' ||||||||| Beet waltzes in at 3:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. Beet: Hi, folks. Rufus_T_Firetween: Yo Beet llanwydd: not mine. you couldnt talk on it but you could hear alll over the world Beet: Howdy Dr Tween ||||||||| 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)' Cease: It's the Lonesome Beet-tiik llanwydd: Hey Beet Beet: Yo, Dr Cease Cease: Is this Steve Miller? Beet: Hi Llan llanwydd: yes it is Rufus_T_Firetween: yes Cease ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, December 09, 2021 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" llanwydd: got something on the stove brb ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Firesign Theatre's “I THINK WE'RE ALL BOZOS ON THIS BUS” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out BOZOS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bozos-rv' Beet: My fave Cease: Yeah, I love this album Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “BOZOS” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bozos-ln Rufus_T_Firetween: I like the bits you did comparing it to the Worlds Fairs Cease ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" Cease: I just used the "vegetables are green" line in my new collage about Brautigan. Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl Cease: should have it finished by next week. very Firesonian dude. they were quite fond of him Cease: yeah, i was sure they'd been to a world's fair, but actually, not really Cease: ossman was 2 when he attended the 39 world's fair and the other guys never did Rufus_T_Firetween: Ossman didn't make it to NYC? Cease: this riff is a rip off of a disneyland ride Cease: no, he'd moved to LA when the 64 fair happened. proc was there, but maybe not interested Rufus_T_Firetween: so it was you who snuck into the fairgrounds? Rufus_T_Firetween: trying to remember your story about tat Cease: no, that was air ship al. he lived next door to it Rufus_T_Firetween: ah yeah, Al Cease: i was on a tour of trhe east coast and spent a few days in nyc. Rufus_T_Firetween: great story Rufus_T_Firetween: we should replay that sometime Cease: indeed Beet: He is getting the unintended joke of animated characters. ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "3:00 PM and late as usual, it's InTheWood, just back from New York." Cease: Hi Woody Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi InTheWood Beet: Hey, Wood Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “BOZOS” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bozos-ln InTheWood: Hi, all. Beet: The sonic engineering on this album really was and is revolutionary. InTheWood: I always pictured Terry-Thomas as 'Civilized Man'. ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." Cease: and it was done in quad too. i'd love to hear that. Cease: good one, wood Beet: It was amazing. Cease: i'm going to use this in the brautigan collage too Rufus_T_Firetween: Beet: The sonic engineering on this album really was and is revolutionary. << as much attention to detail as any Parson album Rufus_T_Firetween: *Parsons InTheWood: They were the rock stars of audio comedy. Beet: I wish someone had been filming for a documentary like they did for the Beatles. Rufus_T_Firetween: THe XM Radio series has them filmed witting around a table. Great to see the guys in action Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about FIRESIGN XM RADIO PERFORMANCES at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/ Cease: well, actually someone did. or more than someone. merlyn, one of the founders of the chat, flew out to LA to video their whole XM series InTheWood: I say live it, or live with it! Beet: Tat was very revealing. Rufus_T_Firetween: exactly, Cease Cease: several of us filmed their seattle shows and i know many more have been fillmed, including by the guys themselves llanwydd: thats really cool, cat 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 Rufus_T_Firetween: speaking of video collections ^^ Beet: The closest we get for the main albums are the pictures in "Big Book of Plays." Cease: i inadvertanly saw a clip from the new beatles thing on youtube today. looks greeat ||||||||| 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!" llanwydd: how can you be wrong about a comet? Cease: maybe it's not a very good cleanser ||||||||| 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!" InTheWood: Comets will sneak up on you. llanwydd: lol Cease: i have a fair amount of vid of them performing, though not high quality Cease: proc/berg did a hilarious parody of the Comet ad, featuring Kahoutek, on their TV show This is great radio to watch. llanwydd: I love to watch radio ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 3:00 PM and residualecho steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. DJTweeny: hi hi hi echo echo echo Beet: Hi, echo. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “BOZOS” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bozos-ln Cease: hey echo residualecho: Surfing the English Channels have only one station InTheWood: Echoooo residualecho: What? what? what? InTheWood: Going to Greece?... residualecho: And fry this egg on drugs residualecho: Did I detect echoes of documentary talk? residualecho: It seems to me that there are so many hours of performance and interviews it's almost more of an editing job than anything else residualecho: Most of it would be obtaining rights to existing material Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - THE FIRESIGN THEATRE LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - Paperback Book + DVD-ROM Disc >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php Cease: i know better than anyone (except, maybe, taylor) as i spend many hour a week going througn the vastness of firesign to make my collages residualecho: But those who hold rights don't seem to me likely to be stingy with them Rufus_T_Firetween: You and Taylor doing a project together would be pretty cool :) Cease: there is some guy named Luke Polling supposedly making a film about them. there is a cornell prof writing a book. Cease: i worry that if these things actually happen, it will be after the remainiing guys have died Cease: no, tween. Beet: They really captured the carnival atmosphere. Cease: i have little experience with carnivals InTheWood: Close B, close mode. Beet: I went to many carnivals as a kid. residualecho: Close "B" clothes mode InTheWood: Right. residualecho: I went to plenty of supermarket parking lot carnivals, in the suburbs of Disneyland, in which I grew up, as a park brat residualecho: rusty buckets with cheap carnies operating them Beet: I liked the weird sideshow attractions like two-headed cows and bearded ladies. Cease: i can't say i've been to No carnivals, but in the suburbs of No. really never insterested me InTheWood: What a brilliant and understanding mix of theme-park culture and computer/hacker culture. residualecho: Marin County Fair was always plenty of fun Beet: amen residualecho: And these days (well, before Covid) we used to go to all sorts of fairs, apart from Renaissance (which the four or five were early attendees of) Rufus_T_Firetween: nice use of tremelo residualecho: Like "Maker Faire" Cease: ossman's first wife was very involved in that fair, as you probably know, echo Beet: Brilliant stuff. Cease: i went to the german xmas fair her in van last week. residualecho: Was that Oona? David was the host of a marathon broadcast from one of the very first faire's Cease: not so much a fair as a place to hawk german goods and food, also very good hot drinks Rufus_T_Firetween: Oona is the widow of Austin Cease: no, oona was austin's 2nd wife. i forgert ossman's first wife's name, but they had 2 kids Cease: only x wife i know is tiny, who showed up on sunday chat. Beet: A masterpiece. Cease: indeed, beeet Rufus_T_Firetween: Glad Tiny showed up, because practically nobody else did lol ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Now playing: XM Radio broadcast “MARK TIME – THE TIME PIRATES” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u Free Downloads!! at http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/' residualecho: Disneyland fireworks could be seen from my front lawn, they were the sign of curfew at 9pm. The idea that the first four albums were a complete unit signified by the label, "The Fireworks" has become the binder for the first four Cease: Merl was a writer on these shows Cease: true, tween. Cease: it's not often we have more people here than i have fingers on one hand. Rufus_T_Firetween: Hope Merl is OK. Have heard anything from him. Last I heard he had a stroke last July :( Rufus_T_Firetween: *Haven't Rufus_T_Firetween: no responses to emails Cease: very interesting,echo llanwydd: I dont think the first four should be considered a unit Cease: why not, llan? Cease: they lads do. their big book of plays is those albums, considered as one story llanwydd: well, especially since the first album has nothing in common with the rest Cease: no, the character in electrician is reborn as babe boomer in the 2nd album, etc. residualecho: The three sketches stand alone, but Electrician holds up as a complete story, which transitions to HCYB quite well Cease: they tried to tie their stuff together very concsiously from the beginning residualecho: Martian Space Party was an abrupt break from that mode Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about FIRESIGN XM RADIO PERFORMANCES at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/ Cease: extremely dulll radio. lol Rufus_T_Firetween: The first album begins with the sound of the wind, and Bozos ends with the sound of the wind. I'm pretty sure that was on purpose Cease: definitely, tween Rufus_T_Firetween: and there are repeating themes through the first 4 Cease: i hadnt heard that in a while, tween. thanks for playing it. Rufus_T_Firetween: Your idea :) residualecho: I don't know if I'd ever heard these Mark Time episodes. Siriusly Beet: This is very funny. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about FIRESIGN XM RADIO PERFORMANCES at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/ Rufus_T_Firetween: just happened to fit the time Cease: Mark is in Bozos, so this is very confluent Rufus_T_Firetween: So great to be able to see the lads sitting around a table working together Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks to those who recorded the XM video residualecho: I take it most of us watched Get Back, which is what sparked discussion about a Firesign Doc Cease: i havent seen it yet. will do eventually residualecho: It's an odd era to have documented so scrupulously llanwydd: yeah, thanks for playing Bozos, Tween llanwydd: great album Rufus_T_Firetween: again, Cat's idea :) llanwydd: I have not seen get back residualecho: They were pretty much at a dead halt creatively and trying to work out where to go next, so they decided to crank out a load of songs which found their way to Let it Be and Abbey Road Rufus_T_Firetween: Cat's the producer, I'm just the engineer llanwydd: it was cool to see the teaser footage though llanwydd: very clear picture residualecho: So, watching them make it up from scratch was pretty amazing llanwydd: but abbey road was so much better than let it be residualecho: Yes, it was Rufus_T_Firetween: Alan Parsons was 2nd (as a teenager) to George Martin on Abbey Road ||||||||| 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!" residualecho: Get Back era is not my favorite era by a long shot Cease: i bought a recent version of abbey road and made a couple of good collages out of them last year Rufus_T_Firetween: the Let It Be release was the end of The Beatles :/ residualecho: But what got them together was the idea that they had to bang out new material that they could play live 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: That was great. InTheWood: Their live action was terrific. ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “FREETIME WITH CATMAN – “TRANSPORTATION” 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.net/cat/' residualecho: Most of the material from Let it Be was recorded before Abbey Road, so that was most of the last Cease: i wonder what a 1-month subscription to the disney channel costs? residualecho: Whose live action, Wood? llanwydd: I wonder if you have to crack dishnuts with the plate llanwydd:tweeny and I were discussing that earlier Cease: austin's idea for the title and my name residualecho: I think you can subscribe for $7.99 and cancel Cease: i can afford that. Beet: I'm pretty sure it's $7.99/month, Cat residualecho: You may get tired of some of those earworms after a while residualecho: But then you also get all that Marvel and Pixar and Disney stuff residualecho: Get Back is close to 8 hours ||||||||| 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: didnt know that about let it be, echo. I thought it was their last gasp residualecho: "And in the end..." Cease: not interested in that ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. residualecho: As a 2D and 3D animation professional and former Imagineer, I'm practically required to be interested in all of that Cease: i get a month of netflix for maybe a month a year or every 2 years. made 2-part collage out of fran lebowitz thing, some years ago, a collage based on bojack horseman Beet: Very interesting profession, echo. Cease: got free amazon with a purchase of something from them last month but very very little i want to watch. residualecho: Growing up in Disneyland puts you on a rather guided path, if you draw at all Cease: some interesting sciecne programmes and a good edie izzard concert. that;s about it residualecho: I just refuse to watch cable. I like streaming because most of it is a bit more direct without paying middleman Cease: most of what i read, watch, listen to is relavent to projects i'm working on or hoping to get inspiration from Cease: i have 2 libraries within wlking distance thatr have exccellent video libraries, including brand new stuff and stuff i can get them to order so, why pay for stuff i can get for free? residualecho: An advantage of living near civilization Rufus_T_Firetween: not for free since you pay taxes for the library ;) Cease: this is canada, echo residualecho: I'm living in the boonies of Central CA, near the Monarch Butterfly Groves on the border with Pismo Beach Rufus_T_Firetween: more like 'shared ownership' Cease: you should visit residualecho: Vancouver, compared to here, is quite civilized Cease: taxes cover everything, tween. residualecho: I love Young Guy, Motor Detective. Recontextualizing earlier work residualecho: So much of Temporarily Humboldt County owes a debt to Stan Freberg's United States residualecho: but loads more psychedelic Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease: taxes cover everything, tween. << If they did, goverments wouldn't have to borrow money :P Rufus_T_Firetween: but this is not a political discussion, this is The Firesign Chat :) residualecho: Only the rich, get anything from taxes, as they socialize the losses and privatize the profits. residualecho: If we got anything like culture from our taxes, it would raise serious hackles Cease: true enough, tween Beet: All are working to make rich people richer. Kinda like slaves. llanwydd: catherwood, play us a serenade on the cittern. ||||||||| Catherwood rushes alongside llanwydd and asks "Did you want something?" Cease: from before the beginning, the firesign were dedicated to liberating us llanwydd: I rememeber bergman acknowledging (sic?) freeberg as an influence residualecho: They were excited to record in the same studio (Columbia) where Freberg recorded the last nationally syndicated radio comedy show. They used the same door prop for sound effects Rufus_T_Firetween: nice Cease: they always acknowledge their influences. llanwydd: thats really cool residualecho: I first heard this station break on KRLA residualecho: Like Bob and Ray Cease: like newton, they know they stood on the shoulders of giants llanwydd: dont we all Rufus_T_Firetween: Capitol giving them unlimited studio time was certainly a huge factor residualecho: Columbia Cease: are you old enough to have heard the krla show, echo? Rufus_T_Firetween: would have loved to be a fly on the wall when Austin was editing/mixing residualecho: At 66? I heard them on KRLA KPFK, and KPPC llanwydd: I dont think I have ever heard a radio station that began with K Rufus_T_Firetween: Columbia, right Cease: welll, yes and no. true it led to their wonderful albums, but at a loss of royalties which they later come to regret residualecho: I'm 66 now, but in 1966, I was 11 llanwydd: then you were born during the eisenhower administration Rufus_T_Firetween: I was 12 in '66 Cease: i do not recall listening to the first kpfk show though my freinds said we did. i was very anti astrology, and the whole burgeoning new age trip of the time Rufus_T_Firetween: also an 'Eisenhower kid' llanwydd: kennedy was president when I was born Cease: i was first on radio in 65. i was 14. residualecho: Disneyland opened on July 17, and I was born on April 17, 1955 residualecho: I discovered radio in 1965, when a Colorado Cousin visited and scanned the dials, and left me an AM/FM radio Cease: i had been writing plays since i was 8 in 1959, even taught play writing for a couple of years in the early 60s, and when i heard the mushroom plays,i knew i had to follow them residualecho: She'd iron her Cher-like hair. Cease: my cousin opened the first radio station in my home town, yorkton, the year before i was born Cease: so i have had a family connection to radio since pre-birth Cease: lol residualecho: Yeah, I was too young to be a hippie. When my friend and I heard the term "Teenybopper" we were sad because were weren't teens yet, being only 12 llanwydd: I used to listen to WOR every morning Cease: i had a radio in the shape of a sputnik in maybe 58? llanwydd: I used to call myself a post-hippie residualecho: I grew up in a projection booth, so movies are a huge part of my life llanwydd: reminds me of cinema paradiso residualecho: So I need to feed my home cinema Cease: i was more of a beat, which is more of an intellectual genre. you're Supposed to be highly literate. hippy was not a literacy based genre residualecho: I was in 8th grade when all the FM radios were performing all the clues to the game, "Is Paul Dead?" Cease: that's what made firesign kind of anti-hipppy, although they appreciated the audience llanwydd: how literate do you have to be to read On the Road? residualecho: "Beatniks" was a pejorative for "The Beat Generation" ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Tweeny inside, makes a note of the time (3:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. Beet: I was a hippie but very clean cut to hide my identity. llanwydd: I read that book in the Port Authority bus terminal in new york city Cease: keroauc and pals were Profoundly literate. residualecho: The Beatles name was a take off on Beats residualecho: Have you seen Kerouac reading his work to Steve Allen noodling on the piano? llanwydd: OtR was kind of a letdown for me because of all the hype llanwydd: have not seen that Beet: And a tribute to Buddy Holly's Crickets. residualecho: Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was how I backed into Kerouac and the Beats Cease: i like the long hair (i moved back to very cold canada in 69, where i need all the hair i can get), the music, etc but always loathed astrology and the anti-intellectualism of the hippies was always off-putting llanwydd: the only clip I have seen of kerouac was on Firing Line with Buckley Cease: yes echo. i used that inone of my collages residualecho: Multi Valent references! My favorite! Crickets and Beatles and Beats, Oh My! llanwydd: it was pretty interesting residualecho:https://youtu.be/3LLpNKo09Xk residualecho:https://youtu.be/3LLpNKo09Xk llanwydd: thanks for the link residualecho: It took a long time to show as sent, thought I was prohibited Cease: not so much his books but kerouac's reading the story Visions of Neal and the 3 Stooges has an immense influence on me. residualecho: I can't wait to hear the Mushroom tracks residualecho: Their Goons references are readily acknowledged Cease:https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/grateful_beats-2.mp3 Cease: i heard and recorded some of them when they were first broadcast, echo residualecho: The Beat that Bergman was involved with was Ginsberg or was it somebody else in The Pink Hotel? Beet: I am very much looking forward to Mushroom collection. Cease: some of the stuff you'll hear in the mushroom release will be from my collection residualecho: I was only just starting to track them down. LA Radio was amazing. You can get a sense of it in Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood llanwydd: I have to agree about Topaz Cease: ossman, naturally as a poet, was involved with gins. bergman had a very bad expereince with him in SF in 66 Cease: yes, i loved that flick, echo. residualecho: And especially Bogdonavich's first movie, Targets, played a lot of KRLA and KHJ airchecks Cease: proc's first wife was a freind of sharon tate and was invted over the night they were killed but thankfully didn't go Cease: thart counter-history is something i reallyu appreciate Cease: i'll have to look for that, echo residualecho: Alternate histories residualecho: Targets is about the Texas Tower shooter residualecho: And it's a Roger Corman flick. It has Karloff in it because Corman said, "He owes me three days of shooting!" Tweeny: which was 1966 llanwydd: somebody named grossman did the album cover for Dwarf Tweeny: Univerity Of Texas Tower Cease: remember when mass shootings were rare? llanwydd: the dialogue rememded me of it llanwydd: rminded residualecho: Bergman's Yale Roommate was Robert Grossman llanwydd: yes that was it Tweeny: He was a former Army sharpshooter, picking off people two blocks away Tweeny: what a nightmare residualecho: Both Targets and OUATIH are big wish fulfillment fantasies residualecho: The sound mix is awesome tonight Cease: we just had a big commemorsation of a vast shooting at a montrewl univverrsity the other day. some guy hated womn so he walked into a university and killled many. that' still a commemorative event here. Cease: in your country, if you wanted to commemorate mass shootings, you['d be doing that every day residualecho: Schools in America seem like death traps. I got tired of shooting drills, and of having to keep an eye on borderline psychotic students llanwydd: we never had shooting drills in my school Cease:https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/tributes-to-victims-on-32nd-anniversary-of-montreal-s-polytechnique-mass-shooting-1.5694861 llanwydd: I remember air raid drills residualecho: I've felt safer with my high school and college kids schooling via zoom, but the high schooler went back to high school for this, their first semester post covid residualecho: but everybody is vaxxed and masked Cease: maybe you folks are too young, but when i was a kid in LA in the mid-50s, we had to do drop drill every friday morning atr 10 AM residualecho: I remember earthquake and nuke drills residualecho: But as a teacher, I've had to supervise shooter drills Cease: this is long before the cuban missile crisis. we were wwarned of incoming russian nukes to get under our desks. this is 57 residualecho: yeah, 61 through 63 residualecho: (for me) llanwydd: I cant imagine doing a drop drill once a week residualecho: Have you seen Atomic Cafe? residualecho: Documentary culled entirely from progaganda footage, like "Duck and Cover" llanwydd: I remember I could never get it right with the jacket llanwydd: we had to sit against the wall and hold our coats over our heads residualecho: Fun thing is, when Michael Moore wanted a cinematographer for "Bowling for Columbine", he hired the editing team from Atomic Cafe, who had never operated a camera. Beet: We were under our desks for nukes, residualecho: Were there no newspapers to cover your head with to make you more safe from the blast? Cease: yes llanwydd: lol Cease: you're older than me, beet Beet: Totally protected of course. llanwydd: your desk is better protection from the h bomb Tweeny: nothing like hiding from a nuclear blast under tinder, er, a wooden desk Beet: Then the air raid siren every Friday at noon. residualecho: We were drilled so well I remember everybody diving under the desk during the 1964 Aleutian Quake. It was pretty damned rough in the suburbs of Disneyland residualecho: the quake, that is. Not talking about the mean streets of Disneyland Tweeny: nowadays it The COVID!! Cease: 10 AM in LA, beet Tweeny: and wearing a mask is about as effective residualecho: The Covid is much more scary Tweeny: or you can take an experimenatl gene-altering vaccine residualecho: The mask is way more effective than no mask. Don't get me started Cease: the first death in canada from covid happened a few blocks from my house, accross the street from my local shopppng centre Tweeny: OK lol llanwydd: Ive had my shots Tweeny: I waer a mask when I'm around people :) llanwydd: I dont worry about the mask residualecho: My mask protects you from me better than my mask protects me from you. It works if everybody wears them Tweeny: llanwydd: Ive had my shots << /me puts a tag around llan's neck and sayd he's a good doggie residualecho: I"ve had my shots, including booster, but I can still contract it and infect somebody else, even if I'm unlikely to actually get sick from it Tweeny: *wear llanwydd: lol Tweeny: anyway, we could spend hours debating it ;) residualecho: some things aren't debateable Beet: I'm all shot up. llanwydd: I wear it when Iam compelled Cease: i was on that ferry in 1964 llanwydd: but I think I am safe without it residualecho: I'm compelled to not want to infect anybody else llanwydd: naturally residualecho: That Orange Stain is likely to have exposed at least 500 people to it when he came down with it, testing positive 3 days before his debate with Biden Cease: ido not understand anti-vax thinking. we were Delighted to get vaccinartions aginwst polio in the mid 50s Tweeny: residualecho: I'm compelled to not want to infect anybody else << and yet, the fully vaccinated can still get it and spread it ||||||||| 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!" Cease: every one was required to get shots against diseases in those days and it was considered wondrous llanwydd: I agree. everybody should get the vax residualecho: You and I, vaccinated, are safe from coming down with symptoms or dying from it, but even though we're vaxxed, we can contract it and spread it while our system is fighting it off Tweeny: Yeah, we could spend hours... it's not even a real vaccine Tweeny: OK, the show is winding down residualecho: It's as real a vaccine as any llanwydd: so tween and echo you are saying the vax is not dependable? residualecho: Too bad the misinformation spreads faster than the science Cease: i know echo. i have a ticket to vegas i'm supposed to use by march, but am a bit scared to use it. residualecho: I am not saying that llanwydd: If I thought that, I would wear a mask all the time Rufus_T_Firetween: I'll debate it with you another time :) ||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! ** Thanks to Radio Free Dishnuts, www.dishnuts.net, for providing the streaming server for the simulcast :) Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.net/firesign' Beet: Hospitalization and deaths are reduced. residualecho: I'm saying that the way any vaccine works is to train your immune system. I can't get sick from measles, but if I'm exposed to it, I can infect somebody else. If they're not vaxxed, they can get really sick llanwydd: he shot herself Cease: bothg your country and mine are making travel increasinglyu difficult residualecho: That's why I wear a mask all the time outside my house Rufus_T_Firetween: Beet: Hospitalization and deaths are reduced. << Not in Israel, where majority of new hospitalizations are people who have been 'fully vaxxed' residualecho: But there are new variants, and those hospitalizations are far less likely to be fatal Rufus_T_Firetween: and the same applies to the States, where the new hospital cases are growing in the ones with the greatest vaccination rates Cease: never tried opium. Rufus_T_Firetween: Another time :) residualecho: good night! ||||||||| residualecho is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 3:00 PM. llanwydd: not even bubbl-o? Cease: by echo Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks Cat, see you all next week... Cease: well, i'm not dead yet, llan. maybe i can go to the local opium store and buy some Beet: Nite, echo. ||||||||| 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." llanwydd: lol llanwydd: thanks tween and cat for another great thursday evening InTheWood: I see you are a sailor... Cease: i just recorded my part in my play (more than 50% if the play) today so hopefuly play will happen soon Cease: withg llan, tween, others llanwydd: great, cat! ||||||||| 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!" Cease: so i'm a happy cat. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Beet: Really enjoyed the offerings tonight. Thanks to everyone. Great stuff as usual, Dr Cease. Thanks for guiding, Dr Tween. G'Nite all. llanwydd: next week, folks ||||||||| "3:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims llanwydd, who then dashes out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds. InTheWood: Thanks, Tween! Cease: you stilll here, wood? hope to see you here again Cease: we do our best Every Week. InTheWood: Cheers, and G'night, all! ||||||||| Catherwood says "3:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs InTheWood by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door DJTweeny: Until last time, again... Cease: bye ||||||||| "Hey Cease!" ... Cease turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 3:00 PM, I don't have to go yet!"... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Tweeny - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| Beet - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the yaws ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - 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."
