Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
07/21/2022

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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 July 21, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Gusts of wind blow in from outside and the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of helicopter blades is heard as Happy Panditt's chopper lands on the lawn and Rufus_T_Firetween plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| 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 *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 6:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, July 21, 2022 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" -- then he looks around at the empty room, looks at his watch, and mumbles "...am I early?"
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Rufus_T_Firetween, just back from Elmertown."
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and DJTweeny bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| DJTweeny dashes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's DJTweeny?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
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||||||||| Catherwood leads DJTweeny in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Tweeny, just back from Hellmouth."
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies johan amadeus myjetski 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.
johan amadeus myjetski: time, time, time, see what's become of us...
||||||||| 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)'
DJTweeny: Hey johan
||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: warm up music BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-TUNNEL OF LOVE
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)'
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Cease', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
DJTweeny: allo Cease
Cease: Just got sound.
Cease: Igather we' re set for tonight
Rufus_T_Firetween: glad it's working
Cease: Out shooting pix in downtown vacouver today. fine day
Rufus_T_Firetween: no, I just thought I'd play some music
Rufus_T_Firetween: no FST tonight
Rufus_T_Firetween: cool Cease
Cease: i'm watching the hearings so only partially here tonight
Cease: saw you at the tuesday show, jammy
||||||||| Regnad kcin steals in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
DJTweeny: Hi Regnad
Cease: kcin
Cease: i'm watching rioters storm the capitol.
Cease: yeah it sounded like springsteen
Cease: i have been in that building
Cease: i was in dc in the summer of 64.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with read kcin close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the anteroom.
||||||||| 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)'
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Beet in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Beet: Howdy, folks.
Cease: hey beet
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: yo Beet
Beet: Hi, Dr Tween
Cease: out takibng pix today for the first time in a long time. one of my favourite things to do
Beet: Howdy Dr Cease
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Proctor & Bergman's THE HISTORY OF PROCTOR AND BERGMAN ON THE ROAD
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out THE HISTORY OF PROCTOR & BERGMAN at >> http://www.firezine.net/issue5/fz5_09.htm'
Beet: I see jam and Regnad and read? Howdy.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about THE HISTORY OF PROCTOR & BERGMAN ON THE ROAD at >> http://www.firezine.net/issue5/fz5_09.htm
Cease: we seem to be fewer and fewer
||||||||| 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 JZip disembarks at 8:00 PM.
Cease: at some point we will dissappear entirely
Cease: Hi JZip
Beet: Inevitable.
||||||||| Elayne sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: and as soon as I type that gloom, someone new shows up. hy new person
Elayne: Eveinn' all, and happy slightly-belated birthday, Tween!
Beet: Hi Elayne.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks Elayne :-)
Beet: Hi JZip
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JZip waves hello
Elayne: Uh-oh, can't even spell evenin', not a good sign
Elayne: But perhaps a fire sign
DJTweeny: Hi JZip
Elayne: I've been through the desert on a car with no name, it feels good to be out of the rain. Had to drive verrrrry slowly through at least three flooded spots on highways early this afternoon.
||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters with morlog close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the Aviary.
Rufus_T_Firetween: send it down here E, we're in the middle of a drought
DJTweeny: Hey morlog
Elayne: Oh Kurt, I wish we could send you some of our storms!!
Cease: Hi El
Beet: Flooding is not fun.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about THE HISTORY OF PROCTOR & BERGMAN ON THE ROAD at >> http://www.firezine.net/issue5/fz5_09.htm
Beet: Hi Morlog
Cease: How are things in NYC, El?
morlog: hey there
Elayne: If it were up to me, Beet, I wouldn't be out at all. Between the pandemic and the heat in the NYC area I usually don't have to go out, but I had to take Mom for some medical stuff in NJ this morning so no choice.
johan amadeus myjetski: hi all!
DJTweeny: morlog lives in Hawaii and they've been getting huge waves innundating 2 story buildings
Elayne: Cat, I have no idea, I rarely venture out of our home on the border, at least not in this pan-heat-ic. So glad I work from home!
Elayne: Oh wow, sorry morlog!!
Cease: i waa down town today taking pix for the first time in a long time. really good weather in van today
morlog: the tide has calmed down quite a bit now
Elayne: I'm actually happy to be living in the NYC area, so many other places in the country (and the world!) are suffering worse than us
Beet: Draughts everywhere.
Cease: yeah i love living in a suburb, not downtown.
johan amadeus myjetski: how many am us, anyway?
Cease: fun to visit, but i'm glad i dont live downtown.
Cease: certainly one of the nicest cities to visit
DJTweeny: Johnathan Winters could turn his own face into whatever mask he wanted
Elayne: Johan, are we including the elevator boy?
Cease: i knew him, sort of.
Elayne: I still wouldn't mind living around where you are, Cat, but it's probably still hella expensive
johan amadeus myjetski: absotively!
Cease: his son starred in one of my early plays so i met him. htis was maybe 62?
Cease: tiz, el.
DJTweeny: wow '62
||||||||| llanwydd enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Hat Pack Annex.
llanwydd: good evening folks
DJTweeny: Hey llan
Cease: he had whitish/gray hair so it inspired the science fiction writer in me.
Cease: hey llan
Cease: kind of looked like an alien.
Beet: Hi, llan
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Regnad kcin - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanwydd: what was the play, cat? was it one of those four at seemreal?
llanwydd: interesting that you were writing plays in the early sixties
Cease: started in 59.
llanwydd: cool
||||||||| Catherwood enters with ModeratelyGinchy(MG) close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the Aviary.
llanwydd: hi ginch
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Evening!
Cease: Hi MG
DJTweeny: Hi MG
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about THE HISTORY OF PROCTOR & BERGMAN ON THE ROAD at >> http://www.firezine.net/issue5/fz5_09.htm
Beet: Hey, MG
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: this is a great story
DJTweeny: 'tis
Cease: never saw them but penn followed them obsessively
Beet: I'm very much enjoying this.
Cease: seen firesine quite a few times. they're actulaly better on radio, though fun to hang out with.
Cease: not heard it before, beet?
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Wow. That would be cool.
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): To see them
Beet: I'm sure this is the first time.
Cease: well, it's ok, mg
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Especially to have seen the two no longer here
llanwydd: they have a different syle for every medium they work in
Cease: yeah, they appeared in 3 of my plays. great guys
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): wow
Cease: did you know i write radio plays?
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): so you personally knew them? Sorry, I didn't know.
johan amadeus myjetski: i love war stories from the road like these. their enernally humorus point of view would keep up spirits while so far away from home
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): no
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): didn't know
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
llanwydd: on radio they were all improvisation, on albums they were the precise opposite
Cease: http://seemreal.com/
Cease: thanks tween
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Ah, so Cease is Cat?
DJTweeny: yw
Cease: yeah i have a new play in production now. tween is in it. yes
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Sorry to be confused
Cease: cease is an abbreviation of c.simril
Cease: tis confuisng.
DJTweeny: "If you think you're confusing now..."
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Thanks for the explanation and link
Cease: i am a confusing cat
llanwydd: yes, I have heard those four plays on the main page of your site
ModeratelyGinchy(MG) lol
llanwydd: I like Neal Amid the best
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Zen Cosmos sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Beet: Hi Zen
llanwydd: Hey Zen
Cease: phil austin volunteered to star in my plays because he liked my writer and i dragooned proctor and ossman to be in them too.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s play CAST at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#PLAYS << the one I'm in (a couple of very small parts)
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Zen
DJTweeny: Hi Zen
Zen Cosmos: hey
Cease: also ossman's son Orosn and Phil Proctor's wife Melinda so a ton of firesigns have been in my plays
Cease: hi zenny
DJTweeny: We need to revisit your plays with FST people, Cease
Cease: maybe
Cease: there4 are not a lot of new people
llanwydd: hey lets take a census here. how many of us are actual firesigns (aires, leo or saggitarius)?
DJTweeny: I mean to play on the Thursday shows
llanwydd: sic
JZip: Not I.
llanwydd: nobody?
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Amen to that last line
llanwydd: not I neither
DJTweeny: Give Us A Break is a fun album
llanwydd: hilarious album
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about GIVE US A BREAK at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=guab-ln
johan amadeus myjetski: bold but not boulder?
Cease: it's great that fred and firezine made this album possible, kept some history of the lads open to us fans
llanwydd: tween, we were talking about possibly us chat regulars trying out ZOOM sometime. I think that might be fun
Cease: you think, llan? aren't we happy enough just reading?
DJTweeny: I was thinking about that, but it would be a whole different chat
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): wow... what a story
llanwydd: well, maybe, cat. but would it be fun to try it at least once
DJTweeny: people have been used to this format for many years
johan amadeus myjetski: i'd LOVE to do a FireZoom!
Cease: you didnt know about this, mg?
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Nope
DJTweeny: llan, maybe we could try it on another day (maybe Sunday) just to see how it would work?
llanwydd: yeah, I know but how about maybe one ZOOM just so we can all see each other nd tal as we would in person
Cease: act 2 of my play CAST is kind of about this
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Just a fan of everything I've heard... bought a lot of standard stuff by FST, but not in the know
llanwydd: talk
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Gonna go look when this is done. I have the link.
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): I'm also an old time radio fan
llanwydd: and talk, I meant
llanwydd: we will speak of this anon...and on and on and on
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): so when I found them I recognized they were too... but no in depth knowledge
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): jeez
llanwydd: I have to get to the store. see you all again in about 20
Cease: ok llan
Beet: Get some nice snacks.
JZip: What a story! I'd never heard this happened.
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): great line
Beet: Great!
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
FREE HUEY, PRESIDENT DEWEY
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/'
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Glad I'm not alone JZip
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): hey
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): cool
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Bottles coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Cease: Welcome, Bottles
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: Yo Bottles
DJTweeny: Hi Bottles
||||||||| Bottles says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Bottles exits at 8:00 PM.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “FREE HUEY, PRESIDENT DEWEY” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS
Rufus_T_Firetween: She's no fun, she fell right over...
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Thanks for the link. Amazing story.
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Who is Bill?
Cease: Firesign friend. guy who got shot in the massacre
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): okay
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): thx
Cease: there is a lot of informartion in my collages.
Cease: there is a lot of information out there.
johan amadeus myjetski: cease, you strike the precise balance between entertainment & information
Cease: thanks jammy. i do my best
johan amadeus myjetski: to quote Rick Blaine, "we all try; you succeed"
Cease: when i was a little kid in the early 50s i spent half a year each year in a car with my paretns drivng around nothr america. they were really boring people, but radio was a wonder
Cease: so doing radio has been my life.
||||||||| Bottles I can't chat oh well. bounds in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Cease: radio, meanig, it is possible to do interesting, enteraining, enlightening things with sound
Beet: radio was a near miracle.
Cease: bottles knows that well. she'd an old radio pro from cal
Cease: indeed, beet
Rufus_T_Firetween: What OS are you using Bottles?
Cease: i was 5 when i first saw tv but just born when i heard radio
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm on a 2010 Mac running 10.6.8 here, works fine while listening to the stream
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): My dad used to take me on drives to get us away from mom and we'd listen to CBS Radio. I loved the older recorded shows -- like Black Museum. My old brothers taught me about FST.
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Wow. That is sad. I work for a music org that helps people recover their IP. Too many artists have a similar story.
Cease: Souhds like you're doing great things, MG
Beet: I'm old enough to remember radio dramas like "The Shadow" and "Johnny Dollar.
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Argh
||||||||| 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."
Cease: you're older than me, beet, and i'm old
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Oh... love The Shadow.
Beet: Fibber McGee and Molly.
Cease: not a fan of crime radio. loved jack benny.
Cease: i hatred shows about violence. tv too. still do
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): FST does that layered sound thing that I first heard from Orson Welles. But with FST, it means there's always more you'll hear.
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): It's like a treat to listen every time... because I hear somethign new
Cease: true, mg
Zen Cosmos: ancient history is SO calm vs. nowadays...
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Was Jack Benny better on radio? I've seen the TV show.
Cease: well, they're differnt world, mg.
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): Oh, it might be in the INternt Archive
Cease: some things tv did better, like the twilight zone parody.
Cease: the "your money or your life" joke realy only works on radio
Beet: The fact that they were reading from scripts on radio changed the flavor of the delivery
Cease: the eye tolerates lacxk of movement less than the ear does
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): ahhh
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
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: cool
Cease: hey tiny numbedr of folk, i saw a great move a few days ago caleld Mr Jones
Cease: the guy sho smuggled himslef into Ukranine during Stalin's famine
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): yeah, never thought of that... you're right... listening does seem much faster and richer
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
THE TUNNEL UNDER THE TUNNEL
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/'
Cease: very relevant to today's war.
Cease: there's my voice
Cease: you can't say "fucked with it" on the radio.
Cease: here's a shout out to you, bottles
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): cool... there ar two of you, Cease
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): *are
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): time slip?
Cease: how can i be in 2 places at once?
Beet: What's this movie "Mr Jones"about, Cease?
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): I think it involves a clock, champagne a dime and a grape, Cease
Cease: https://westendfilms.com/screeners/mr_jones.html
Cease: Lol, MG
ModeratelyGinchy(MG): laptop dying. gotta find cord.
Beet: Looks interesting
Beet: In Search of the Lost Cord.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with llanwydd close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the sitting room.
Beet: llan is BACK!
Cease: welcome back, llan
llanwydd: hi
llanwydd: I didnt even log back in this time
llanwydd: I just opened the old window
Cease: did anyobne here ever smoke?
Cease: i got into it in japn, a natio of smokers and drinkers
llanwydd: smoke what?
Beet: I smoked for 20 years.
Cease: tobacco
Cease: 71-87 so 16 years
llanwydd: yeah, of course I have tried it. who hasnt
Cease: japan is a hard country to live in without smoking and drinking
Beet: I enjoyed the ritual.
llanwydd: I hope they have smoke free areas
Cease: maybe now. i havent visited since 07 and left japan in 88
llanwydd: such crowded cities need smoke free areas
Cease: tokyo has more people than canada
llanwydd: whose femail e voice was that, cat?
Zen Cosmos: if anyone is interested in a sci-fi radio deep dive:https://www.otrcat.com/science-fiction-in-radio
Cease: thanks zen
Cease: was it one of mine or from the x minus one show, llan?
llanwydd: this is sounding more and more like otr
Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks Zen
Zen Cosmos: also here: Early Science Fiction on the Airwaves H.G. WellsWithin the horror and drama genres there were some breakout science fiction radio plays including Arch Oboler's radio plays Lights Out "Meteor Man" and "The Rocket Ship" Radio Guild Theater "The Man Who Was Tomorrow", Columbia Workshop's "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots), Favorite Story produced H. G. Wells' "The Time Machine", and Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" among others. The most memorable s science fiction old time radio from the 1930s was Orson Welles War of the Worlds on Mercury Theater aired on Halloween (October 30, 1938). This broadcast had a phenomenal impact on the nation because Welles blurred the lines between fiction and fact, essentially convincing America that the Martians were invading.
Cease: this is from 1955. porbably most of these folks are long dead
llanwydd: I am not familiar with x minus one
Zen Cosmos: born in 55, I'll joining them soon enough...
llanwydd: but this reminds me of Lights Out which I was a big fan of
Cease: i think all old radio is online
llanwydd: oh, please, zen. 65 is the new 48
Zen Cosmos: anybody remember One Step Beyond? a proto Twilight Zone/Outer Limits show in the 50s?
llanwydd: I loved OSB
llanwydd: I only saw it in reruns
Cease: yeah i see the similarites, llan
Beet: There's a guy on D. C.'s NPR station who plays all of the old radio shows. Pretty cool.
Zen Cosmos: A LOT of the associated video is now accessible on You Tube...
||||||||| It's 2:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| ModeratelyGinchy(MG) - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Bottles I can't chat oh well. - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: yes zen. i'm old enough to have been realy fucked up by watching twilight/limits when i was a kid.
JZip: There's a script for this!
JZip: https://www.genericradio.com/show/2CCNTKCBO
llanwydd: tween sent me some of the very best of george and gracie many years ago. I still listen to it
Cease: this is from Bottles production of Last Tunnel to Fresno.
Beet: They were so good.
Zen Cosmos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Science_fiction_radio_programs
llanwydd: plus the variety comedy film feature International House which is hilarious
Cease: i think i have that on vhs
Cease: wc fiedls, et al
llanwydd: My dad used to tell me stories of the radio and otr. I was fascinated.
Cease: god for you, llan
llanwydd: right, cease
llanwydd: dad loved The Shadow and The Inner Sanctum even though it scared the hell out of him
Beet: Classic stuff.
Cease: i dont like scary stuff
llanwydd: and he was hooked on the old Lone Ranger series too
Beet: The voice of The Devil.
llanwydd: I dont listen too (or watch) much to scary stuff anymore but I lived and breathed it when I was a kid
llanwydd: old universal monster movies especially
llanwydd: catherwood, pass the bong
||||||||| Catherwood strides over to llanwydd and mumbles "Do you have something for me to do?"
Beet: bongs are a lot of fun.
llanwydd: arent they? blub blub blub
Cease: not me, llan'
llanwydd: never done that, cat?
Cease: my next collage is about the moon
llanwydd: and the green cheese? nudge nudge
Rufus_T_Firetween: The Mune?
Cease: done what?
llanwydd: did you determine that it really is green cheese?
Rufus_T_Firetween: any Light Of The Silvery in there, mayhaps?
llanwydd: I was referring to that hilarious commercial in Neal Amid
Cease: no
Cease: lots, tween
llanwydd: my local AM station is about the only radio station on earth that would play stuff like In the Light of the Silvery Moon anymore
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
llanwydd: they take requests and fortunately one of my favorite songs is night and day. WSBB has a million versions of it
llanwydd: so, we were going to talk about this. what does everybody think about doing just one ZOOM chat? just to get to know each other a little better
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: Austin was quite the wordsmith.
Cease: ttrue, beet
Cease: he loved playig with words
llanwydd: I would like to see the people I have been talking to for so many years
Cease: dont we haveb px below chat ? we used to
llanwydd: seem more real
Zen Cosmos: in Seattle try KIXI AM...lots of oldies...
llanwydd: sounds cool, zen
llanwydd: once in my life I have been in the radio K zone
llanwydd: dont remember the call letters but it was the main fm station in san antonio
llanwydd: danger is what you are paying for. cool
llanwydd: I mean cool
||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! **
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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
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llanwydd: frozen cocktail
llanwydd: hehe
llanwydd: what makes you think
llanwydd: like a zen meditation
Zen Cosmos: adios...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
llanwydd: fantastic!
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Beet: I always enjoy these Fire-fests. Nice to hang with you good folks. Great collection, Dr Cease. Thanks for hosting, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
Cease: i'll be here as long as there is a here, here
llanwydd: yeah cat. great stuff
JZip: Good night.
Cease: i try and always do great stuff
llanwydd: thanks, tween. thanks, cat. see you all next week
JZip: This was fun.
llanwydd: nytol
Cease: thankis, JZip
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Cease!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| llanwydd says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, llanwydd exits at 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 3:00 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 yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| morlog - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| JZip - dead from the common cold
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| read kcin - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Beet - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:31 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."

The Evening's Participants:

Beet
Cease
DJTweeny
Elayne
johan amadeus myjetski
JZip
llanwydd
ModeratelyGinchy(MG)
morlog
Rufus_T_Firetween
Zen Cosmos

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https://westendfilms.com/screeners/mr_jones.html
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