Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
05/26/2022

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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 26, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Rufus_T_Firetween should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Rufus_T_Firetween enters and sits on the couch.
||||||||| 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
visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com'
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, May 26, 2022 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| It's 9:15 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 sneaks into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Rufus_T_Firetween', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Rufus_T_Firetween close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the anteroom.
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging Tweeny by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's DJTweeny, just back from Hellmouth."
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Hellmouth.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 8:00 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
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: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – www.firesigntheatre.com **
Currently playing: warm up music – JONI MITCHELL-HEJIRA
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)'
||||||||| Zen Cosmos enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Haberdashery Barn.
DJTweeny: Hey Zen
Zen Cosmos : actually it was 8:40.....
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and peter llawfyrdd jr. sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
peter llawfyrdd jr.: good evening
DJTweeny: Hi llan
peter llawfyrdd jr.: great choice for music, tween
DJTweeny: thanks :)
DJTweeny: good Joni
peter llawfyrdd jr.: one of many JM works that have really impressed me...
peter llawfyrdd jr.: ...and probably the only jaco effort that has ever impressed me despite all the hype
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hissing Of Summer Lawns is really excellent
peter llawfyrdd jr.: have not heard that one
Rufus_T_Firetween: Oh, you have to check it out
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Tom Scott and his band backing her up
peter llawfyrdd jr.: having the same trouble with the audio as I had last week
Zen Cosmos : looking forward to Planet Proctor, as last few were emailed late...
||||||||| 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!"
Tweeny: The Hissing of Summer Lawns - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hissing_of_Summer_Lawns << one of her best imho
Tweeny: Sorry to hear llan, it's stable here
peter llawfyrdd jr.: thanks for the link, tween
peter llawfyrdd jr.: I will certainly check it out
||||||||| Gusts of wind blow in from outside and the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of helicopter blades is heard as Happy Panditt's chopper lands on the lawn and Cease disembarks at 8:00 PM.
DJTweeny: allo Cease
peter llawfyrdd jr.: Hey Cease
Cease: hi all
Cease: did you hear Tunnel, Tween?
Cease: Lili sent it to me today
Cease: we should listen to it here in a couple of weeks
peter llawfyrdd jr.: let us in on it, cat. what is Tunnel?
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – www.firesigntheatre.com **
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: the lost Firesign mushroom play.
DJTweeny: I have not, Cease
peter llawfyrdd jr.: cool!
||||||||| Beet steals in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: Lili rounded up some actors at her radio station and recorded it.
Beet: Halloo Chatters
DJTweeny: yo Beet
Cease: will be the first time heard in55 years
Beet: Howdy Dr Tween
Cease: hi beet
peter llawfyrdd jr.: hi beet
Beet: Greetings Dr Cease
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: Hey, Peter
||||||||| 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 johan amadeus myjetski plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Deputy Dang in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
DJTweeny: hello again johan
Cease: i just suggested to her that they re-enact Profiles in BBQ sauce. that was never recorded.
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Beet: Hey, Deputy.
Deputy Dang: Howdy pardners!
Beet: Hi, JAM.
DJTweeny: This is from Dear Friends Too
Deputy Dang: Someone moved the rubber yellow line.
johan amadeus myjetski: hello!
peter llawfyrdd jr.: catherwood, put back the yellow line
||||||||| Catherwood ignores peter llawfyrdd jr.
peter llawfyrdd jr.: I guess catherwouldnt
johan amadeus myjetski: hi beet
Deputy Dang: lol
peter llawfyrdd jr.: I just had the mexican pizza from taco bell for the first time in about 30 years
peter llawfyrdd jr.: just ok, like most of their menu
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – www.firesigntheatre.com **
Currently playing: Firesign on National Public Radio in 1980
THE CAMPAIGN CHRONICLES
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 New Firesign Theatre Web Site at >> http://www.firesigntheatre.com/'
Zen Cosmos : 32 years... I am so much a geezer...
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Bottles jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
peter llawfyrdd jr.: I missed that. I wa a big npr listeniner from about 1990 to 2010
DJTweeny: Hi Bottles
peter llawfyrdd jr.: was
Cease: Bottles
Beet: Hey, Bottles. Hi, Zen.
Bottles: Hi. I hadda use my phone and it's so tiny I won't be too active.
Zen Cosmos : the latest mass shooting by a unincarcerated loonie means that the Heinleinian Crazy Years are now totally insane and surreal,,,
Tweeny: I normally try to leave politics out of this show, but since you brought it up... >> Tucker Carlson: Following Texas school shooting and Buffalo tragedy, leaders should ask this question - https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-texas-school-shooting-buffalo-mental-health
peter llawfyrdd jr.: I always say you should watch fox and cnn because they are both one-sided but it is hard to watch fox with all its sxerdcgtfvyh commentators
Zen Cosmos : 40 years of divisive lies have too easily brainwashed too many into bubbles of delusional fantasy, our country is ripe for further insanity...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Lili close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the sitting room.
DJTweeny: Hey Lili
Zen Cosmos : <>
Cease: Hi Lili
Zen Cosmos : <>
Cease: I thought you were Bottles
Lili: Bottles got 86ed so I'm here in her slot
peter llawfyrdd jr.: carlson, beck, GERALDO... give me a moment to throw up
Zen Cosmos : the sigh part isn't printing???
Cease: aha
peter llawfyrdd jr.: oh, sorry.... welcome Lili
Cease: i just told the chatters about Tunnel.
peter llawfyrdd jr.: yeah, sounds cool
Cease: What do you say we play it here 2 weeks from now?
Lili: I set down my phone and hit the off button
Cease: You'll be playing it on your station next week, right?
Cease: I'll have a new collage for next week
Beet: Evening Lili.
Lili: Cease that's ok or next week would be ok, same night no big deal
Lili: Hi yall
Cease: no, we'll wait til the following week. I wannt do some stuff with it.
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Lili: Do what with it? A collage?
Cease: you'll see, Lili
Tweeny: it will be a surprise lol
Lili: It would be nice to hear my mix first..worked hard on the flow
Lili: Oh ok..
Cease: no, your show will be played as is.
Lili: 😳
Cease: this was in Lawyer's Hospital, as I recall
Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah
Lili: Daffy Duck not real?? -gasp-
peter llawfyrdd jr.: I am not getting the audio but is it jimmy clicker?
Cease: jimmy is in it. a wide variety of sketches
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
peter llawfyrdd jr.: page two in a moment
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “THE CAMPAIGN CHRONICLES” at >> https://www.discogs.com/release/11871392-The-Firesign-Theatre-The-Cassette-Chronicles
Cease: I'm using this in my new collage.
Cease: dinner with jerry
Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Cease: he sounds more like chevy chase than jerry ford.
Cease: this is based on an old announcer whose name i forgot.
Cease: from chicago, i think.
Cease: you know who i'm talkking about. really famous guy
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Not Ed inside, makes a note of the time (8:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Beet: Paul Harvey
Not Ed: Jello!
Cease: hi not
Beet: Hi, Not.
Cease: that's it, thanks, beet
Not Ed: Hey C how are you?
Not Ed: Beet!
Cease: i used to listen to him on FEN, the US military radio station in japa.
DJTweeny: Hey Not Ed
Cease: pretty good, not.
Not Ed: llan, Zen, Ruf, Lil, Tweeny!
Not Ed: Good C
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cease: the busier i am, the better
Not Ed: I hear you sound good
||||||||| "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: sounds good
Not Ed: What can you all tell me about "Nick Danger: The Daily Feed Tapes"? Just found it with my old disks. Didn't rem. I have it.
Not Ed: Going to listen to it after this.
Cease: somehitng austin did for a radio show.
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Not Ed: 2 CDS.
Cease: we've played it here, but kig of hard to listen to cuz each piece is only a couple minutes long
Not Ed: Ohh
Cease: kind
Cease: if i was feeling more ambitious, i'd cut all the intros and outros out, but i have other firesign things to do.
peter llawfyrdd jr.: catherwood get everybody a get everybody a... on the rocks
||||||||| Catherwood gets everybody a on the rocks.
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
Not Ed: Firesign on American Experience - I love that it came up a couple times on Facebook
peter llawfyrdd jr.: thanks cathy
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Not Ed: tanx cath
Not Ed: Sent it to Procmer
Beet: Good stuff
Not Ed: Does TFT have an official YouTube channel?
Not Ed: Sorry I guess I could czech
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “THE CAMPAIGN CHRONICLES” at >> https://www.discogs.com/release/11871392-The-Firesign-Theatre-The-Cassette-Chronicles
Not Ed: It's great that they're on Bandcamp
Not Ed: tanx Ruf
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** The FST web site has been completely overhauled. Visit it at www.firesigntheatre.com
Cease: proc did a lot of Hal Stark commentaries
Rufus_T_Firetween: Click on the menu icon on the upper right part of the page for the new sections
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's still got some bugs, including that none of the Laugh.com links work (their problem), but Doc's working on it
Not Ed: Clean, light as a feather...Sweet Ruf
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, it's greatly improved
Rufus_T_Firetween: Proc's daughter is supposedly responsible
||||||||| 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."
Cease: i'm impressed with the new site.
Not Ed: Wow Ruf
Not Ed: Site's been around a long time
Not Ed: pretty cool
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Lili - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Not Ed: RIP Ray Liotta
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah I heard
Rufus_T_Firetween: and Alan White of Yes
Beet: Fabulous actor
Not Ed: Yeah
Not Ed: AW? Dang I didn't know
Not Ed: Cool band. Saw them once --with Moraz not Wakeman
Zen Cosmos : all this 80s stuff is somehow reliving a nightmare we actually lived through...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Me too Not Ed. Never saw them with Wakeman but saw them with Moraz 3x on the Relayer tour
Cease: excellent in field of dreams
Rufus_T_Firetween: Field Of Dreams is a great movie
Rufus_T_Firetween: 'Shoeless Joe'
Rufus_T_Firetween: He was also in Hannibal
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Rufus_T_Firetween: as a FBI agent who got a piece of his brain served to him for dinner
Rufus_T_Firetween: good actor, for sure
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cease: its like hearing much of this for the first time.
Rufus_T_Firetween: James Earl Jones as Terence Mann in FoD
Cease: field of dreams is by local author wp kiinsella. made him rich.
Rufus_T_Firetween: cool
Rufus_T_Firetween: great story
Cease: ive read several of his baseball books. they're pretty good.
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bottles - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Not Ed is reading some mail.
peter llawfyrdd jr.: ;i,kumyhnbgrf
Rufus_T_Firetween: gesundheit
peter llawfyrdd jr.: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “THE CAMPAIGN CHRONICLES” at >> https://www.discogs.com/release/11871392-The-Firesign-Theatre-The-Cassette-Chronicles
Rufus_T_Firetween: www.firesigntheatre.com **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre's PAPOON FOR PRESIDENT
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out PAPOON at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=pfp-rv
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – www.firesigntheatre.com **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre's PAPOON FOR PRESIDENT
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out PAPOON at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=pfp-rv'
Not Ed: Organism Leroy at his organism again
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “PAPOON” at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=pfp-ln
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone a hot kiss
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone a hot kiss.
Cease: hold the wet fist
||||||||| 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'
Cease: new collage next week
DJTweeny: kewl
Not Ed: w00t!
Not Ed: Later ALL!
Not Ed: Good 2 C U
Beet: Enjoyed the evening, folks. Nice to see everyone. Looking forward to next week's offering, Dr Cease. Thanks as always for leading, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Cease is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
||||||||| 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 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| peter llawfyrdd jr. hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's peter llawfyrdd jr.?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| It's 3:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Beet - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Tweeny leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Billville.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 4:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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
Lili
Not Ed
peter llawfyrdd jr.
Rufus_T_Firetween
Tweeny
Zen Cosmos

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=pfp-ln
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatre.com/
www.firesigntheatre.com
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hissing_of_Summer_Lawns
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=pfp-rv
https://www.discogs.com/release/11871392-The-Firesign-Theatre-The-Cassette-Chronicles
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-texas-school-shooting-buffalo-mental-health