A Firesign Chat
05/05/2022




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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 05, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 3:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| 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 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 3:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween steals in around 3:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'DJTweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 3:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
||||||||| Outside, the 3:00 PM crosstown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Tweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| 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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||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "3:00 PM and late as usual, it's Zen Cosmos, just back from Seattle."
DJTweeny: Hi Zen
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – STEELEYE SPAN-ALMANAC
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||||||||| Catherwood enters with johan amadeus myjetski close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 3:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the sitting room.
DJTweeny: Hey johan
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
johan amadeus myjetski: LOVE LOVE LOVE Maddy Pryor & Steeleyte Span!
DJTweeny: Saw Steeleye Span in concert on the Rocket Cottage tour in the mid-70s :)
johan amadeus myjetski: evenin' DJT, Zen
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
johan amadeus myjetski: i'm a little envious - i've never had the opportunity to see them
DJTweeny: seemed appropriate music for Firesign's ANYTHYNGE album
johan amadeus myjetski: a friend of mine acquiured a hurdy grdy a couple years ago - this makes me think of that
johan amadeus myjetski: hurdy gurdy
Rufus_T_Firetween: as in the Donovan song?
||||||||| llawydd enters at 3:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Chapeau Manger.
DJTweeny: Hey llan
llawydd: howdy
johan amadeus myjetski: yes, but oddly, there's no hurdy gurdy in Dono's recording
DJTweeny: Anythynge this evening, so this music seemed appropriate
Zen Cosmos: google fuxxed me with reboot...
johan amadeus myjetski: Hello Llan!~
DJTweeny: a tad ironic
llawydd: sounds very celtic
DJTweeny: 'tis
llawydd: nice
DJTweeny: Span even does celtic rock
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 3:00 PM and Cease steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJTweeny: allo Cease
llawydd: for those who like celtic may I also recommend Robin Bullock
johan amadeus myjetski: hello cease!
||||||||| 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."
llawydd: Hi C
Cease: Hi all
johan amadeus myjetski: Clannad is another celtic/celtic rock band. Emya's older sister fronts it
johan amadeus myjetski: Enys'd
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DJTweeny: Tull has dabbled with celtic on more than one occasion
johan amadeus myjetski: i'm going to have to turn the lights on - not seeing the keys too well in the semi-twlight
llawydd: most tull is great for my money
DJTweeny: good to be able to see the keyboard ;)
||||||||| 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!"
johan amadeus myjetski: Tull's Songs From the Wood is particularly so
Cease: could be useful here
llawydd: songs from the wood more than hints at celtic
johan amadeus myjetski: well, i can get a key or two away from the one i'd intended...
llawydd: seems like every tull album hints at a different musical genre
llawydd: I can remember when I thought the guy with the crazy grimace was jethro
johan amadeus myjetski: watched a classical composer critique JT's Aqualung. he said it was a harmonically ground-breaking song
||||||||| 3:00 PM: Bottles jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
llawydd: this is a really catchy tune.
llawydd: Hi Bottles
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Bottles!
DJTweeny: Hi Bottles
johan amadeus myjetski: Oh btw, which one'sPink?
Bottles: Hey guys
llawydd: lol
Bottles: You know who's Jethro now, right llawydd? The guy who invented the plow.
DJTweeny: and found black gold?
llawydd: first time I saw a steeleye span album in a record store I thought the name was a parody of steely dan
johan amadeus myjetski: right you are Bottles!
DJTweeny: Texas Tea?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
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llawydd: I read that somewhere, bottles
Cease: hi bottles
Zen Cosmos: attention divided by Crosscut Fest and Star trek SNW, but manging to multiscreen
Bottles: You got it, Tweeny
Cease: me too, llan. isn't it?
johan amadeus myjetski: Kaliforny is where you belong
llawydd: I doubt it cat
Bottles: So what does Steeleye Span mean?
Bottles: Hey Cease.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Beet in through the front door at 3:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Beet: A pleasant Thursday evening to all.
Cease: Welcome, Beet
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, May 05, 2022 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
llawydd: eggs bacon sausage and span, spam bacon and span
Beet: Hi, Dr Cease
llawydd: great music, tween
Beet: Howdy, Dr Tween
Bottles: Hi Beet abd Catherwood.
||||||||| Catherwood rushes alongside Bottles and yells "oh, fuck off Bottles!"
johan amadeus myjetski: i was really confused, as i heard Steely Dan & Steeleye Spanb the same weekmany decades ago
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre's ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out ANYTHYNGE at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=aywt-rv
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Bottles: Well, of all de noive!
llawydd: I can see that jam
Cease: bonnet, like the old hat, tween. not bon-eh
Beet: Glad to hear that we are in for the treat of a new Cat collage.
DJTweeny: eh, I was thinking the French pronounciation
DJTweeny: but then you mis-spelled Suzuki ;)
johan amadeus myjetski: why, soitinly!
DJTweeny: Like Lisa Bonnet
Cease: yep. only it's called suzuke. rhymes with cuke. although his name is suzuki, is co-workers and friends call him suzuke, as you'll hear in the collage
Bottles: It's Sue Zooky, right?
Beet: Now, now boys. Fighting's out of style now
llawydd: that reminds me of a time I got confused about steely dan. I heard a song by the Police on the radio and I thought I was hearing the voice of donald fagen (I had never heard of sting) and I liked it so I ran out and bought Gauchobought
DJTweeny: k
Cease: no, i spelled suzuke. that's his nick name and the name of my collage
llawydd: I was disappointed
Cease: i dobnt know who lisa bonnet is.
llawydd: you know what I am trying to say
Beet: Lisa was very hot. Marrid Lenny Kravitz.
Cease: llan. similar experience. i heard a new year's eve concet from england a couple days after we moved to japan with our infant at the end of 78.
llawydd: catherwood, take out my gallbladder
||||||||| Catherwood outs llawydd's gallbladder.
DJTweeny: Lisa is an actress who was one of the Cosby Kids. She also appeared in the movie Enemy Of The State (very good movie)
johan amadeus myjetski: knew of someone with a similar misunderstanding with Nieil Diamond & thought it was Neil Young
llawydd: lol
Cease: when i heard Roxannne, I jsut assumed it was Bob Marley
llawydd: very interesting cat
Cease: i know her not.
Cease: the kids he molested?
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johan amadeus myjetski: he wanted Cinnamon Girl, got Diamond's Soolimon
DJTweeny: Well anyway, that's how her name is pronounced. It's the French pronounciation
llawydd: big difference between ND and NY
Cease: i used this in Many collages
Cease: ted's name rhumes with sonnet.
Cease: rhymes too
llawydd: first time I heard genesis I thought phil collins sounded exactly like cat stevens
DJTweeny: Looks like it's spelled slightly differently - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Bonet
llawydd: then when I heard genesis with peter gabriel I thought he was phil collins
Cease: this play has many many incarnatiions.
DJTweeny: haha llan
johan amadeus myjetski: my senior English teacher would have had a caniption fit if she heard this. She thought Billy Shakespear was the penultimate of the English litterature
llawydd: I read that as incantations
DJTweeny: It does indeed
Cease: ossman arose out of the rennaissance fair years before firesign so this is very much his thing.
Beet: Interesting. I'll have to listen to Phil again with that in mind.
DJTweeny: But this is the CD version, which has the entire play in its definitive version
Cease: austin was playing minor roles in shakespeare in frisco in the early 60s
johan amadeus myjetski: hey Beet!
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Cease: his story The House of Little Men is about that.
Beet: Hi brother JAM.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=aywt-ln
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO: SHAKESPEARE'S LOST COMEDIE by The Firesign Theatre (book version ) >> http://www.bearmanormedia.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=434
llawydd: I passed an audition for the renaissance fair but then decided it was too far to drive
llawydd: so disappointing
Bottles: So is this all based on Macbeth, more or less?
johan amadeus myjetski: i've played a couple of renaissance3 fairs in my days
Cease: hamlet
Cease: plus many others.
llawydd: I call it the scottish play after being in a horrible production of it
Beet: Now it sails. lol
Bottles: But I heard three weird sisters at the start
johan amadeus myjetski: a thespian's bane of bad luck
Bottles: The witches soda speak
Cease: i played laertes once, 1st year of university. was quite fond of shakespeare in those days.
Bottles: Seems like they called Macbeth the Scottish play because it was so gruesome
Cease: saw a wonderful version of midsummer night's dream done with only black actors and appropraitelyu black music in watts around that time. mid 60s.
llawydd: I auditioned for the part of laertes father but got cast as hamlets stepfather
Cease: bummer, llan.
Cease: polonius has some great lilnes.
johan amadeus myjetski: double bubble trouble blows no good
Bottles: My mom's family is related to Macbeth, supposedly. The Finley clan.
llawydd: I am also related to the scottish king
llawydd: on my mothers side
Cease: so you're bottles of scotch?
llawydd: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: "Better get out of here, Finley."
Bottles: So we're cousins llawydd.
llawydd: yep
Cease: you go back far enough in time, everyone is your cousin.
||||||||| "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!"
Rufus_T_Firetween wonders if anybody catches that line from an old TV episode
llawydd: some would argue that cease
Bottles: True that Cease
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Deputy Dang', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 3:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
llawydd: Hey Dang
Cease: nairobi. isn't everybody/
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johan amadeus myjetski: count me in that cousin's reunion. my grandmother was heir to a castle & $ in scotland.
Cease: hi dang
llawydd: lol
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
Cease: he took my watch!
johan amadeus myjetski: hi DePuty
Bottles: We're all originally of African and Neandrathal descent.
llawydd: all online pedigrees make me a direct decendant of king charlemagne
llawydd: well may be not all, but all the ones I believe
johan amadeus myjetski: we're all no more than 14th cousins.
Deputy Dang: Howdy Pardners! I'm on phone, so won't be charging much. I need toget an iPad or something.
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: Hey, Deputy.
Deputy Dang: Chatting much, not charging much(either)
Bottles: Howdy Dang
llawydd: I bought a copy of the original script of Anythynge from The Young Tom Edison Club back in 77 or 78. that was firesigns hospitality shelter as they called it
johan amadeus myjetski: we are Devo!
llawydd: I got a personal thank you (and autograph) from Elmo Firesign, who I believe was probably Ossman
johan amadeus myjetski: phlemland
Cease: lucky you, llan.
llawydd: for sure
Bottles: Happy Cinqo de Mayo yall. Who's bogarting the mescal?
llawydd: you are the first to spell that right all day, bottles
llawydd: I keep seeing cinco
johan amadeus myjetski: my former anneversary!
Tweeny: Cinco de Mayo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo
Cease: maybe the free mexican airforce can bring you some, bottles
Bottles: I first typed cinquo.
Tweeny: "Cinco de Mayo (pronounced [ˈsiŋko̞ ðe̞ ˈma̠ʝo̞] in Mexico, Spanish for "Fifth of May") is a yearly celebration held on May 5, which commemorates the anniversary of Mexico's victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862"
llawydd: I tried spell check and doesnt know jack shit
johan amadeus myjetski: jack schzu
johan amadeus myjetski: schitzu
llawydd: catherwood spell it for us please
||||||||| Catherwood strides up to llawydd and says "Stop typing gibberish, llawydd!"
Deputy Dang: What noise annoys a noisy oyster?
johan amadeus myjetski: gibberishgibberishgibberishgibberish...
llawydd: catherwood take out my appendix for me
||||||||| Catherwood outs llawydd's appendix for me.
llawydd: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=aywt-ln
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO: SHAKESPEARE'S LOST COMEDIE by The Firesign Theatre (book version ) >> http://www.bearmanormedia.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=434
Bottles: I hardly ever drink, but I'm thinking about a marguarita. Did I spell that right? Theres an Irish bar down the street, wonder if they serve them
llawydd: sounds like a zen meditation, jam
llawydd: I dont drink but when I do...
johan amadeus myjetski: lol, llan!
Beet: Margaritas are wonderful.
Rufus_T_Firetween: just ask Jimmy Buffett
Bottles: I knew a guy from Micuacan whose name was Margarito.
johan amadeus myjetski: blew out my flipflop cut my toe on a pop top...
llawydd: ouch!
Beet: When Jimmy Buffet wrote that song, I thought it was one of the coolest ones ever.
||||||||| 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!"
johan amadeus myjetski: had to cruise on back home
Bottles: I blew up my flat top, stepped on a pop tart
Rufus_T_Firetween: hah
llawydd: cool riff on twelfth night
Cease: read an good article about his empire in the new yorker recently.
Cease: had some damn good and large cocktails at his bar in vegas with friends.
llawydd: dad drove a flat top...
Cease: hie has his own towns now.
llawydd: back in the black and white fifties
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johan amadeus myjetski: cannibis indica
llawydd: riff on merchant of venice here
llawydd: I played three parts in that play
johan amadeus myjetski: beware of geeks bearing gifts...
Cease: the book of this is mostly notes.
Cease: i think it was their final project together.
Bottles: Notes?
johan amadeus myjetski: like G7?
llawydd: hit it jammy
johan amadeus myjetski: hi bubba hiddy howdyou do?
llawydd: lol
johan amadeus myjetski: that's funny!
Cease: their only hard cover book. very heavy.
llawydd: catherwood give me a facelift
||||||||| Catherwood gives llawydd a facelift.
johan amadeus myjetski: this sounds like it might FST'sa greatest words per minute of all their works.
llawydd: yeah this is a great album
johan amadeus myjetski: might be their most words per minute
Cease: jam, well there's a lot of competition, but you could be right.
llawydd: I didnt appreciate it as much when I first bought it because it was before I got into shakespeare
llawydd: since then I have read all of shakewspeare
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's a masterpiece parody
Bottles: I think Shakespeare is meant to be seen
Rufus_T_Firetween: of 'Billy The Shake'
llawydd: when I watch jeopardy I rarely fail to ace a shakespeare category
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llawydd: I have appeared in fifteen shakespeare plays
llawydd: do I sound like I am bragging. well...
Rufus_T_Firetween: wow, very cool llan :)
johan amadeus myjetski: thy naught soldier's tool? HA!
llawydd: have to do it somewhere
Cease: good for shakespeare, llan
llawydd: lol
Bottles: I can't act my way out of a wet paper sack
johan amadeus myjetski: that's actually very impressive, llan!
Cease: I think you could play the Kommandant in Tunnel, Bottles, aftrer hearing your voioce.
llawydd: sotto voioce
Beet: I always enjoy a well-acted Shakespeare play.
johan amadeus myjetski: it's said Shakespeare had a vocabulary of 35,000 words. most of us have vocabs of less than 10,000.
Cease: llan has been several of my things, botttles. he's a fine actor.
Bottles: I get stuck doing roles sometimes, like last week someone didnt ' make the recording
llawydd: poe was pretty impressive in that way too
llawydd: I have read most of poe
johan amadeus myjetski: nevermore!
llawydd: well that must mean you are a good performer, bottles
llawydd: thanks cat
||||||||| It's 9:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Bottles: I did ok. A male actor didn't show up, so the author had to play that part. Not a great day.
Bottles: It'll be on the air right after this show.
Bottles: ..on a different station
llawydd: on the air where?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Feel free to post a link Bottles
Bottles: Kkrn.org
Beet: A lot of Hollywood, L.A. references.
llawydd: thanks. will definitely check it out.
Cease: if i hadn't grown up there, it would be unknown to me.
Cease: but at the same time, they're playing with the sounds of the streets.
Bottles: Here it is already online, http://kkrn.org/broadcasts/4289
Bottles: 3 very short plays.
Bottles: Not our greatest..
Bottles: Don't know LA at all.
Cease: i don't know nyc or many other cities.
johan amadeus myjetski: never been to NY, nor LA. but now Atlanta, the anteroom of hades...
Cease: ive seen afew episodes of atlanta thatg may be set there. that's all i know of what atlanta looks like
Rufus_T_Firetween: what a great producton
Bottles: Well I never been to Tucson, but I kinda like Milwaukee...Hoyt Axton song
johan amadeus myjetski: really fine
Bottles: They musta had fun writing it.
Beet: Never been to Spain but I kinda like the music.
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
johan amadeus myjetski: does anyone know if robin williams was an FST fan?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
SUZUKE AND HALF A KEY
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Bottles: Yay!
Rufus_T_Firetween: johan amadeus myjetski: does anyone know if robin williams was an FST fan? << absolutely, he's one of the people featured in the video Weirdlyy Cool
Rufus_T_Firetween: *Weirdly
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Rufus_T_Firetween: talking about his discovering FST :)
||||||||| 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: yes he was.
Cease: he talked about them in their weirdly cool show
Bottles: Awesome! I mean Ossman..
Rufus_T_Firetween: Carlin was also interviewed
johan amadeus myjetski: it just struck me that RW could have sat in (as musicians do with other friends) with FSAT & hold his own
Cease: i'm prlettty sure that happened, jam. proc and him worked on same flick somewhere i'm sure
Rufus_T_Firetween still hopes that Proctor & Ossman will get together with Harry Shearer to do something. Shearer was so great on How Time Flys
Rufus_T_Firetween: Jim & Nellie Housifier
||||||||| 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."
llawydd: carlin liked firesign
Rufus_T_Firetween: at the end of his interview, he said 'How can you be in two places at once, when you're not anywhere at all?" and then they went to the Firesigns on stage doing the bit
Beet: Carlin the Great.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Bill Murray was also interviewed
Cease: and chevy chase
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's a cool PBS video with FST using minimal stage sets (supposedly at Austin's insistence)
Rufus_T_Firetween: OOPS, I meant Chevy Chase
Rufus_T_Firetween: not Bill Murray
llawydd: somewhere I read the HCYBI2PAOWYNAAA was a line from Duck Soup
llawydd: but I havent found it yet
Bottles: I wonder whose house was in the video TV or not TV. It was pretty cool.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm pretty familiar with Duck Soup, and I don't remember that
Rufus_T_Firetween: but there's might have been lines that inspired it
llawydd: interestingly though there is some music near the beginning of the original Nick Danger play that seems to have been taken directly from a scene in Duck Soup
Rufus_T_Firetween: well there's no doubt that they were inspirced by Marx Bros and W.C. ;)
Rufus_T_Firetween: wouldn't surprise me a bit
Beet: Echoing laughter.
Rufus_T_Firetween: *inspired
Cease: bergman's uncle wrote for the marx bros.
Rufus_T_Firetween: wow, amazing
Bottles: Whoa! Cool.
Beet: That is pretty cool.
Cease: what happened?
llawydd: just as interestingly, I think is the line in Pliers that goes ...here is a line of indians leaving rancho milario which I heard later in the outtro music to the kubrickversion of spartacus
johan amadeus myjetski: wow!
Cease: whats happening here?
Cease: are we back on?
llawydd: I think so
Cease: spesaking of spartacus, here's a recent email from ossman:
Bottles: We're on. Maybe reload the audio.
llawydd: catherwood, carry back to old virginny
||||||||| Catherwood strides up to llawydd and says "Someone mention my name?"
llawydd: I dont eat breakfast
Rufus_T_Firetween: the RFD stream is fine
Cease: Ossman on Music Years ago, Taylor produced a CD with all the music we used on Dear Friends-Chugoku-Chino no Komoriuta he called it, everything from Stormy Weather by the Spaniels to the Spartacus theme. I like that we ended the studio albums with the duet on Bride- I loved all the musical stage performances, especially Fighting Clowns – remember we were advertised by Columbia as the being the only Rock group that “isn't” need music.
llawydd: catherwood, clip my toenails
Cease: this is in response to tellling him one of the chatters requested an all music compilation
's toenails.
llawydd: cathy has disappeared
llawydd: an all music compilation would be really cool
llawydd: who won jeopardy tonight? i missed it
Cease: well, it couldn';t compete as items for sale with fighitng clowns and roller maidens which are basically musicals
llawydd: just tonight i read about a play or movie called Fire Maidens from Outer Space. Anybody know anything about this?
Bottles: Is this you doing the interview, Cease?
Cease: did you hear that. suzuke. twice.
Cease: iadded the "key" wih nick bits.
Bottles: Oh, this is Suzuke?
Cease: yes.
Cease: that's whatg you just heard him called. twice
Cease: no, it's a cbc show called q.
llawydd: this kind of put me off when I first heard it
Cease: every morning. often good guests. last few days he had my hero, jose andres and then abigaile disney.
Bottles: It is a little graphic.
Cease: both have new docs out so they were plugging.
llawydd: I can telll you all my organs stand up for me when I get out of bed
johan amadeus myjetski: at a jethro tull concert, ian anderson said he was taking a break by saying he was going to "walk the old one-eyed snake-in-the-pants
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “SUZUKE AND HALF A KEY” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
llawydd: limbs as well
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Canadian scientist and broadcaster David Suzuki on the CBC radio show Q - https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-50-q/clip/15893054-at-85-david-suzuki-isnt-slowing-hes
Beet: I'm just glad they are all present for morning muster.
llawydd: like zappa ian had ought to shut up and play his guitar
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: or flute as the case may be
llawydd: lol
johan amadeus myjetski: as FZ said, 'play yo ha'monica, son'
llawydd: well, I got to get to burger king before it closes
llawydd: so i GUIESS I will see you next week barring a miracle
johan amadeus myjetski: attention all tinhats!
Bottles: C you later llawydd
johan amadeus myjetski: bye llan!
llawydd: nite everybody
Cease: by llan
Beet: See ya Llan
||||||||| llawydd leaves to catch the 3:00 PM train to Hellmouth.
Bottles: I'm gonna listen while I make something to eat
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “SUZUKE AND HALF A KEY” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Canadian scientist and broadcaster David Suzuki on the CBC radio show Q - https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-50-q/clip/15893054-at-85-david-suzuki-isnt-slowing-hes
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
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/
Cease: eat well, bottles
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: Great
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Currently playing: Proctor & Bergman's “HUBBLE TROUBLE”
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
Visit the Firesign web site at >> www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
'
Cease: no, tween. SUZUKE. no ki!
Rufus_T_Firetween prefer's Stevie Ray Vaughn's band Double Trouble :P
Cease: this is john hockenberry's 1990 npr show Heat.
Beet: No equal to SRV.
Cease: operation paperclip was he us plan vaccum up german scientists and bring them back to the states
Cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
Tweeny: Operation Paperclip - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
Tweeny: beat me to it
johan amadeus myjetski: i met werner von braun when i was five - i thought until i was grown that that meant i was cleared, okayed to go into space. but never happened :(
Beet: That's pretty amazing, JAM.
Cease: alas
Cease: this sounds like a scene in blade runner where the machine allowed them to see around corners in photos
johan amadeus myjetski: he asked me if i was interested in going into space. i noddedas loudly as i could...
Rufus_T_Firetween: 'extrapolation'
Rufus_T_Firetween: they do the same thing in the movie Enemy Of The State
johan amadeus myjetski: a good gene hackman film!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Canadian scientist and broadcaster David Suzuki on the CBC radio show Q - https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-50-q/clip/15893054-at-85-david-suzuki-isnt-slowing-hes
Rufus_T_Firetween: johan amadeus myjetski: a good gene hackman film! << Gene Hackman and Will Smith are great together
Tweeny: Enemy of the State - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Tweeny: worth a watch...
Cease: i'm sure he heard you, jam
johan amadeus myjetski: hackman's best is the Conversation, though
Cease: that was very good.
Tweeny: Hackman was hilarious as a conservative Senator in the Robin Williams film about a drag club The Birdcage
||||||||| 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.net/firesign
'
Tweeny: The Birdcage - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115685/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
johan amadeus myjetski: NITE ALL! GREAT to be here!
Bottles: I think Hackman was the hermit in Young Frankensteen
Bottles: Adios Johan
Beet: Nite, JAM
Cease: bergman at hjis most groucho
Cease: by jam
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Bottles: See youse all later. Thank you Kurt and Cease.
Cease: we'll have something next week but not sure what
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Cease: off we fly
DJTweeny: suggestions always welcome
Beet: This was wonderful. Thanks to all. Fabulous collage, Dr Cease. Thanks for guiding, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
Cease: by
||||||||| At 3:00 PM, Cease vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from the yaws
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Bottles - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Beet - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| At 3:00 PM, Tweeny hurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski enters at 3:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| Catherwood walks in wearing his pyjamas, yawns, and mumbles "It's midnight here in New York city"...then he falls over and starts snoring loudly..
||||||||| It's 12:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, 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
Bottles
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
llawydd
Rufus_T_Firetween
Tweeny
Zen Cosmos
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=aywt-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=aywt-rv
http://kkrn.org/broadcasts/4289
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
http://kurtericson.net/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=434
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
http://www.seemreal.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Bonet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/no-band-is-an-island-live
https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
https://www.amazon.com/Firesign-Theatre-Weirdly-Cool/dp/B00006RJCN/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1416094217&sr=8-2&keywords=weirdly+cool
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-50-q/clip/15893054-at-85-david-suzuki-isnt-slowing-hes
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115685/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber



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