A Firesign Chat
07/28/2022




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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 28, 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 divan.
||||||||| 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
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 7:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| 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 28, 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?"
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Bottles bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Bottles: Test test
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging Rufus_T_Firetween by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Bottles, about an hour until warm-up music...
||||||||| 8:00 PM: DJTweeny 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!"
||||||||| Tweeny enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Chapeau Manger.
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Bottles - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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
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||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: warm up music BIRTHDAY MUSIC
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
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||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's johan amadeus myjetski, just back from Billville."
DJTweeny: Hey johan
johan amadeus myjetski: hi djt
: Just getting my wires uncrossed Tweeny..your solution worked! Thanks.
||||||||| 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 Bottles gets out at 8:00 PM.
DJTweeny: kewl :)
DJTweeny: wb Bottles
DJTweeny: got the audio Bottles?
Bottles : Yepl 2 separate computers but whatever works.
DJTweeny: kewl
Bottles : Gotta start dinner in the meentime..
DJTweeny: I think Cat has to do it that way sometimes
DJTweeny: mange bien
johan amadeus myjetski: i found chat in browser, audio in itunes works well for me. your milage may vary...
Bottles : Hendrix?
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'llanwydd', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
llanwydd: well, well. arent we all early tonight
johan amadeus myjetski: don't think this is Jimi...
Bottles : no, tone sounds more like Zappa, but I doubt it
Bottles : Definitely not Zappa either..
johan amadeus myjetski: no, this is older. i recognize it but can't call it to mind
llanwydd: sounds like bowie to me
johan amadeus myjetski: uriah heep i think
llanwydd: not too familiar withUH
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey llan
llanwydd: or bowie for that matter
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yes, 'tis
Rufus_T_Firetween: Heep
llanwydd: Hi Tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: *was
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Cease, just back from Hellmouth."
johan amadeus myjetski: hi llan! hi cease!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Heep's 'Magician's Birthday'
Rufus_T_Firetween: allo Cease
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving JoeWalsh_ILBT coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Mr. Walsh
JoeWalsh_ILBT: Here I am, baby!
Rufus_T_Firetween: I think this Wonder tune is mis-labeled. Was supposed to be his 'Happy Birthday'
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Beet in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Beet: Hello, my buddies.
Rufus_T_Firetween: This is Weird Al
JoeWalsh_ILBT: Al Yankovich, nice!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yo Beet
johan amadeus myjetski: hiya beet
llanwydd: hey beet
Beet: Howdy, Dr Tween
JoeWalsh_ILBT: I'll have to request ILBT next Tuesday.
johan amadeus myjetski: this sounds like weird al
Beet: Hi, llan
Rufus_T_Firetween: 'tis
Beet: Greetings JAM
||||||||| Deputy Dang tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: I'm not getting any sound will have to unleash the old computer
Rufus_T_Firetween: Howdy Deputy
llanwydd: hey dd
Rufus_T_Firetween: ehhh
Cease: good to see lots of folks here this early
Beet: Yo, Deputy.
Deputy Dang: Howdy Pardners!
Cease: you new hear, joe?
Beet: Hi, Dr Cease.
Beet: Hi, JoeWalsh
Deputy Dang: Cease, if you unleash the old computer, I will ask, "you old hear, Cease?"
Beet: The Classic
johan amadeus myjetski: hello joewalsh!
Cease: life's been good to me so far, mostly
johan amadeus myjetski: more happy to you!
||||||||| Catherwood leads old computre 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.
llanwydd: lol
Cease: ah, Beatles
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: Perfectly timed.
Cease: Beatles, Bottles, what more could one want?
johan amadeus myjetski: geo. harrison
Rufus_T_Firetween: This is George Harrison
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: warm up music BIRTHDAY MUSIC
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)
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||||||||| 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
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Bottles : Yes Dagwood was a millionaire, but he gave it up to marry Blondie the flapper.
Bottles : Hi Cease, there were a couple songs before the Beagles that had me stumped.
Deputy Dang: Excellent! Congratulations to all birthdays before mine!
Beet: Happy Birthday, Phil !!!
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
PHIL'S MINIATURES
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/
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Cease: The whole Footnotes is 14 episodes long. We heasrd #1 last week, Free Huey, President Dewey.
||||||||| 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: We'll be playing them all in order, just like Phil's life.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “PHIL'S MINIATURES” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS
Cease: We just heard Scaled Down Danger as part of my Tunnel collage.
Cease: Did you hear that, Bottles?
Cease: I used a few bits from your production
Beet: Hi, Bottles.
llanwydd: us tiny florida people
llanwydd: I remember some radio stations would not play this song
llanwydd: absolutely true. some short people apparently complained
Beet: I always felt a little weird about this song. Kind of an insult but Iliked the tune.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hadn't heard that
||||||||| 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: sounds like the Eagles backing Randy. Was that you, Joe Walsh?
llanwydd: one article I read in a newspaper had the most typographic errors I have ever seen in one sentence
Cease: Germany is a colony?
Cease: reading a zippy comic on the "radio" is a different expereince than seeing it.
Deputy Dang: Germany is a colon : y?
llanwydd: something about a certain radio station's decision to "an the playing of the hig song, Shot People."
llanwydd: I imagine some shot people have some reason to live
llanwydd: wouldnt it be cool if phil stopped in tonight
Bottles : Has he dropped in before?
Cease: it's just randy's sense of humour. I mean, Sail Away promotes slavery. Do we really think Randy is pro slavery?
llanwydd: yes he has
Cease: long ago, bottles.
Rufus_T_Firetween: of course
Bottles : Naw, he's fulla sarcasm. He probably hates LA.
Rufus_T_Firetween: He also has a song called Rednecks
Cease: speaking of trees, is anyone else watchging new Attenborough series, gleen planet?
Cease: Both eductional (about trees, et al) and beautiful
llanwydd: I have not seen that
Bottles : Is Rednecks the one that says Don't know their ass from a hole in the ground?
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Elayne should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Elayne enters and sits on the couch.
llanwydd: hi elayne
Cease: its on pbs now. 3 episodes thus far.
Beet: Green Planet is great.
Elayne: Evenin' all! And Happy birthday to Phil!!!
Cease: Hi El!
Bottles : Not the SAttenborough show = it's lovely.
Deputy Dang: Don't know their hold from an ass on the ground.
Deputy Dang: hole
Beet: Hi, Miss Elayne.
Bottles : Hi Elayne!
Elayne: Heya Bottles, haven't seen you in awhile!
Bottles : Yeah, I had a few tech problems jwith chat. it's all good now.
Beet: Nice to have the ladies among us.
Cease: is that like Jewish chat?
Elayne: Glad to hear it, Bottles!
Bottles : Jewish chat, Cease??
Cease: where is that lady who has been here a lotrecently?
DJTweeny: Hey Elayne
llanwydd: yeah, I cant type in hebrew either
DJTweeny: and Happy 82nd Birthday Phil Proctor :)
Beet: You have to start with the last word.
Elayne: I think Hebrew typewriters were just coming in when I left yeshiva
llanwydd: lol
Bottles : YAY! Everybody buy Phil a drink!
Elayne: Probably a lot easier now with computers, just copy and paste
Cease: Amen to that
Elayne buys Phil any drink he likes
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s newsletter “PLANET PROCTOR” at www.planetproctor.com
Beet: Catherwood get Phil a drink.
||||||||| Catherwood gets phil a drink.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “Where's My Fortune Cookie?” >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
Cease: Lemon Ice Tea for me.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor’s Audio Book of his recent autobiography “Where's My Fortune Cookie?: My Psychic, Psurrealistic Pstory” is now available! >> https://tinyurl.com/y2k7ks5v
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** THE PROCTOR PODCAST - From the mind, and life, of comedy great Phil Proctor >> http://theproctorpodcast.podbean.com/
Elayne: ברכות ליום הולדתך
llanwydd: excellent!
Elayne: That's "Happy Birthday" in Hebrew
Beet: cool
Cease: do you know that manhattan store, el?
Elayne: Like I said, so much easier with copy-and-paste computer stuff
Elayne: Sorry Cat, what Manhattan store?
Cease: apparently a big centre for Phil's childhood
Cease: Mott's Miniatures
Cease: proc just referrect to it.
Elayne: Oh, in the audio I'm not playing because I won't be here that long?
||||||||| Catherwood leads Not Ed into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
Not Ed: Pork?
Cease: aha
Cease: hi not
Beet: Hey, Not
||||||||| 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!"
Tweeny: allo Not Ed
Tweeny: Phil Proctor at Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Proctor
Elayne: Nope, never heard of it, but I never collected dolls
Bottles : Hi Not Ed
Not Ed: Tweeny!
Tweeny: Phil's 82nd birthday is today :)
Not Ed: Hey C & Beet to boot
Not Ed: Bottles!
Not Ed: Cheersz Elayne & llan
Beet: White Rabbit
Cease: a hive of b's
Not Ed: Rufus!
Elayne: HeyNotEd!
Bottles : How goes it yall?
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Not Ed: DDang darn!
Not Ed: this is the Left place 2 B
Not Ed: Yes happy birthday Philbert Procmer!
Bottles : I could never understand the fascination of model trains. They just go around and around.
Not Ed: lol
Cease: i had. loved it. phil austin too
Not Ed: that they do that they do etc.
Cease: he later worked on the railroad.
Not Ed: interesting C
Bottles : I have a friend whose husband moved out, and left his massive train layout.
Not Ed: oh wow
Bottles : Takes up the whold attic.
Cease: like phil's love of miniatures. building a little world you have control over is great for any kid.
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Cease: very empowering.
Beet: Some people would fill up entire cellars with train landscapes.
Not Ed proclaims Cat King of Infinite Space!
Cease: this was my first play. stolen from disneyland
Bottles : There was an Ace hardware in Berkeley with a half finished train layout in the front window. Never got finished.
Not Ed: Shwink wrapt
johan amadeus myjetski: i painted soldier figurines, for war gaming.
Beet: The music is hypnotizing.
Not Ed: Hey JAM
Not Ed: I painted star trek ships and fantasy minis too
Not Ed: yeah Beet it's trippy
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Not! i'm in & out of chat tonight - fixing supper
Cease: is it broken?
Not Ed: ah fair enuf JAM
Rufus_T_Firetween: Phil Proctor's page at the new FST web site >> Phil Proctor - https://firesigntheatre.com/phil-proctor
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
johan amadeus myjetski: lol, cease! it's a southern colloquilism to say 'fixing' to mean preparing to do anything
Bottles : Is what broken, Cease?
Cease: "if i had been more of a capitalist" applies to all firesign
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone edible joints.
||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone edible joints.
Cease: his dinner
Bottles : Oh, right..
johan amadeus myjetski: i am 'fixing' supper, bottles
Bottles : Great album, Surrealistic Pillow.
Not Ed: Good stuph Cat
Not Ed: Yeah B
Tweeny: johan is fixin' to fix supper
Not Ed: haha
Beet: This is a very cool one, Cat.
johan amadeus myjetski: is that the album with Lather?
Cease: it was a lot of tun putting together this whole series. like swimming inside phiil's head for a few months
Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah
Bottles : No, Lather was on the next album
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: and Somebody To Love
||||||||| 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."
Bottles : Crown of Creation
Rufus_T_Firetween: Really? I thought that was Pillow
Rufus_T_Firetween: Ah, right you are
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
DON'T CRUSH THAT PHIL
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/
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llanwydd: cool
Not Ed: More more I'm still not satisfied!
Cease: there are 14 of them, not. we're only on #3 here
Not Ed: Yes!
Not Ed: Ty Cat sir!
Bottles : I looked up Ringball - isn't it the Mayan version of basketball sort of?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “DON'T CRUSH THAT PHIL” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS
Cease: sort of
Rufus_T_Firetween: Not Ed ^^ - the collection is there
Bottles : ..except they couldn't use their hands.
Cease: from Short people to Dwarves.
Not Ed: Phil P. narrates the Audible version of his auto-bio (honk honk!) Where's My Fortune Cookie? (My Psychic, Psurrealistic Pstory) - https://www.audible.com/pd/Wheres-My-Fortune-Cookie-Audiobook/1982699221
johan amadeus myjetski: loved the movie, never connected with the tv show
Not Ed: are there "short dwarves"?
Cease: yes, these collages are based on that.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s newsletter “PLANET PROCTOR” at www.planetproctor.com
Beet: M*A*S*H
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “Where's My Fortune Cookie?” >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor’s Audio Book of his recent autobiography “Where's My Fortune Cookie?: My Psychic, Psurrealistic Pstory” is now available! >> https://tinyurl.com/y2k7ks5v
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** THE PROCTOR PODCAST - From the mind, and life, of comedy great Phil Proctor >> http://theproctorpodcast.podbean.com/
Not Ed: Yay Rufus!
Deputy Dang: See?!
Not Ed: this is paced very well
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Not Ed: cracking up here lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: Phil Proctor at Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Proctor
Bottles : Yeah, great work, Cease!
Cease: you see how easy it is to match phil's autobiography with other firesign stuff?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Phil Proctor's page at the new FST web site >> Phil Proctor - https://firesigntheatre.com/phil-proctor
Deputy Dang: Is all that Marching to Shiboleth audio, or is there any associated video?
||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: yeah, i often have trouble with pacing in my longer collages
Bottles : Oh, not the dentist! I had an ordeal yesterday at the dentist.
Deputy Dang: @Cease, yes; I was surprised how much of his words had such direct correlations to parts in the albums. (I only know them as albums, not plays or shows or etc).
Bottles : The anesthesia was good though, once it kicked in. I'd eaten a CBD gummy before I went.
Not Ed: Arlo still posts on Facebook.
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Not Ed: Yummi gummi
Cease: yeah, he's one of my "friends"
Not Ed: yes?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hope the dentist did a good job Bottles
Cease: did y'all see my facebook post this afternoon about the origin of "ant proof casters?"
Bottles : Yeah Rufus, they fixed a filling that had come out.
Cease: i just discovered it in a book i'm reading now, Life on the Rocks, about saving coral reefs
Cease: that was from my last long play, Box of Time.
Cease: new one in production now, with Tweeny and Llan, among many others.
Bottles : Did you see the Jack Nicholson dental scene in Little shop of Horrors?
Bottles : WC Fields had a great Dental scene too
||||||||| Catherwood leads Bunnyboy into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
Bunnyboy: Separate, but equal!
Beet: Hey, Bunny.
Bottles : Hi Bunnyboy
||||||||| 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."
DJTweeny: Hey Bunny
Cease: my parents had a reel to reel befofe i was born.
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
Cease: hi bunny
||||||||| zen cosmos tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Not Ed: Bunny
Bunnyboy: Different space, same place.
Deputy Dang: As did Tim Conway and Harvey Corman.
Cease: hi zen
DJTweeny: It's Phil Proctor's 82nd birthday :)
DJTweeny: Hi Zen
Bottles : My 3rd grade teacher brought a wire recorder to class, Cease
Beet: Hi, Zen.
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
FREE TIME WITH THE CAT MAN – FOOD
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/
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Cease: they loved to play with the pronunciationof my last name.
||||||||| 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: but then they loved to play with sounds, period
Bottles : Oh,I remember that, Dang! Hilarious~
zen cosmos: I'm listening...
Cease: this is from Austin's Daily Feed collection. we should listen to that soon
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s Free Time With The Cat Man broadcast “FOOD” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#FREE_TIME
Not Ed: Tanx Ruf
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Bunnyboy: Wow! FST.com is all fresh and stuff!
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Cease: Yeah Taylor and Proc's daughter have done a good job.
Not Ed: 3 cheers for T & PD
Bottles : Did Bergman ever do a solo LP?
Not Ed: we wish
Bottles : Or was his radio show enough to handle, I guess
Beet: THE TIME IN ROMNEY IS 10 O'CLOCK
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE REAL WORLD at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-ln
Cease: yes bottles.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Starting in 2001, Peter Bergman wrote a thrice-weekly radio commentary for KPCC and other public radio stations. 15 of his sardonic observations on the news, and interviews with prominent (albeit imaginary) newsmakers, have been collected on the True Confessions of the Real World CD. "I have access to a lot of important people," Bergman notes, "like GOP marketing consultant Bleach Lincoln, super agent to the stars Buddy DeMorte, and Dr. Presley Coil, with the federal Department of Approximate Rocket Science. On the show they share their expertise on everything from Star Wars to Enron to the war on terror."
Not Ed: Interesting
Rufus_T_Firetween: As close as Bergman came to a 'solo album' ^^
Cease: they all did stuff like that.
Cease: the daily feed, wihich began this collage, is austtin's radio bits just like pete's.
Bottles : I think I heard some of his 2000-something RFO shows.
Cease: pp and do have also done them too.
Cease: http://radiofreeoz.com/
Cease: it's at this link, bottles
Bottles : Cool
Cease: 2010-2012
Bunnyboy: Gotta feed the fam. Cheers!
Cease: by bun
Bunnyboy: Stay cool, and dry, and well!
Beet: See ya', Bunny.
||||||||| Bunnyboy rushes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Bunnyboy?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Not Ed: Laterz!
johan amadeus myjetski: nite, BB
johan amadeus myjetski: chocolate & garlic, yuck! but i'll tell ya a flavor combo that *does* work: garlic & cinnamon...
Bottles : Did he say Illinois Roosevelt? That's great.
Cease: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN DOUBLE VINYL ALBUM!! ** - DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES >> https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
Bottles : Maybe I just heard it funny
Not Ed: haha
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** New Music Release from David Ossman – NO BAND IS AN ISLAND - https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/no-band-is-an-island-live
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - THE FIRESIGN THEATRE LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - Paperback Book + DVD-ROM Disc >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - FOOLS IN SPACE – Digital Download >> https://firesigntheatre
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - BEFORE THEY CHANGED THE WATER– Digital Download >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/beforetheychangedthewater?rq=before%20they%20changed%20the%20water
Not Ed: Spools in Face!
Bottles : Drools in Space
Rufus_T_Firetween: oops, screwed up the Fools In Space link :/
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - FOOLS IN SPACE – Digital Download >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/brucesnyderdesignandtime-mk6dl?rq=fools%20in%20space
Rufus_T_Firetween: Foods In Space?
Not Ed dribbles rather than drools. It's rather disgusting actually.
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
Not Ed: I also pass.
Not Ed: If you know what I mean.
Not Ed: Cuz I don't.
Tweeny passes on that one
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Bottles should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Bottles enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
Not Ed: (Tweeny is wise)
Tweeny: wb Bottles
Bottles: Thanks Tween, I just got on my other pooter
Deputy Dang: lolol
Deputy Dang: new kind of spell lolololol
Beet: Some pooters are better than others.
Deputy Dang: I really appreciate that great guy upstairs.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s Free Time With The Cat Man broadcast “FOOD” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#FREE_TIME
Deputy Dang: where can I acquire groat clusters?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Deputy Dang: preferably edible ones...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s play CAST at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#PLAYS
Cease: any bird food store should have them
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S VIDEOS at >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone buttered groat clusters
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone buttered groat clusters.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
Beet: Yum
Rufus_T_Firetween: and for Bottles >> Check out SCRATCHED UP RADIO THEATER at >> https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater
Not Ed: Dee-lish
Cease: that's Sapporeo beer. the first beer i had when i first went to japan. not bad
Deputy Dang: 🖕 lol
Cease: big red star on the bottle ithought it was chinese communist beer
johan amadeus myjetski: ever had an australian beer called "tewes
johan amadeus myjetski: '?
Not Ed: I only drink Fitgers
Cease: this one's for you, zen cosmos
Deputy Dang: I had tewes while I was there, but that was ore than a dozen years ago.
Beet: Om Om On The Range.
Cease: and speaking of gary snyder, here's his most famous poem
Cease: firesigns loved to perform it.
johan amadeus myjetski: love ol' smokey the bear!
Not Ed: A tall glass of hot meat?
Cease: forgot to include that, not
||||||||| 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!"
Deputy Dang: A hot glass of tall meat
Not Ed: Hey yeah!
johan amadeus myjetski: my moksha *is* smokey the bear
Not Ed: lol DD
Bottles: We went camping last weekend - saw NO wildlife whatsoever.
Bottles: Kinda scary.
Deputy Dang: ??? not even trees?
Not Ed: Hey Firepeeps I have to head out - will you all take good care? I know you will!
Cease: you're far from the fires, i hope
Not Ed: thanks Tweeny & Ruf & Merlin 2
johan amadeus myjetski: nite, Not!
||||||||| "Happy" Harry Cox pops in and say "I was right! Everything I knew WAS wrong! You CAN get "Profiles in Barbecue Sauce", chock full of meaty Firesign scripts!"
Cease: will do, not. good to see you again
Bottles: Oh yeah, a couple hundred miles from Yosemite.
Beet: See you next week, Not. G'Nite.
Not Ed: Cat your collages really blow my mind! : )
Deputy Dang: Next time, take some mushrooms... you'll see wildlife, regardless.
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
Not Ed: Later!
Deputy Dang: I think I talk a lot about myself here. l-/
Bottles: Definitely take your advice, Deputy,
Bottles: Bye Not Ed
johan amadeus myjetski: if i can't look back, can i look sideways?
Deputy Dang: You can look, but don't touch!
Deputy Dang: Farewell Not Ed!
Deputy Dang: I hope to see you or your twin again soon.
Deputy Dang: How did that music (Je taime?) become so popular?
Beet: Very sexy suggestive music.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s Free Time With The Cat Man broadcast “FOOD” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#FREE_TIME
johan amadeus myjetski: dave's not here
Deputy Dang: No, man, I'm Da... oh, wait... you're right... Dave's not here.
johan amadeus myjetski: lol,DD
||||||||| It's 2:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Deputy Dang: I saw a Youtue video recently of a local political "protest" where some who was definitely having a meth-o-something experience. It was funny if you can ignore her railing/going off to a 10yo girl who was there with her mom.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I almost played Leg Of The Crow for the opener
Deputy Dang: I don't think I'm familiar with that... Hmmm... I guess that means I'm _not_ familiar with that.
Beet: I tried Vietnamese food once. Basically stir-fry.
johan amadeus myjetski: i don't think, therefore i'm not...
Beet: Lucky you.
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's a bit from the Dear Friends radio series. Doc included it on his Dear Friends Too collection
Deputy Dang: double plus good
zen cosmos: Happy Birthday Mr. Proctor
Beet: Amen.
Rufus_T_Firetween: DD knows Newspeak
Deputy Dang: Ah. I have the Dear Friends album, but not the radio shows.
johan amadeus myjetski: good vietnamese is mostly fresh vegetables. a few dishes have chicken
Rufus_T_Firetween: The radio shows are part of the Duke Of Madness Motors collection
Cease: they're on the Duke of Madness Motors collection
Cease: well worth the investment.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-ln
Deputy Dang: Isn't there a song on Eat or Be Eaten? No... Fighting Clowns? called Oh Afghanistan?
Deputy Dang: Right after the hot tub scene?
Bottles: Sounds right.
Cease: yep
Rufus_T_Firetween: album_domm_300x412.png Duke of Madness Motors: The Complete "Dear Friends" Radio Era 1970-1972 (Paperback Book + DVD-ROM) - https://firesigntheatre.com/store/duke-of-madness-motors-the-complete-dear-friends-radio-era-1970-1972-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc?rq=duke%20of%20madness << new store link
||||||||| 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
'
Deputy Dang: lol unkindest cut of all...
Bottles: Thank you Tweeny and Cease!
Rufus_T_Firetween: HAPPY 82ND BIRTHDAY PHIL PROCTOR :-)
Deputy Dang: I have the book and DVD ROM. Sadly, I don't have an active AV system, and my current laptops don't have cd/dvd support.
Deputy Dang: Happy Birthday to everyone 81 or over!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Cease: actually it is closed now. next week, new collage about the moon.
johan amadeus myjetski: thanks all!
Beet: Very enjoyable Thursday evening. Nice to see everyone. Fabulous collages, Dr Cease. Thanks for the leadership, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
Cease: Bye
||||||||| Bottles leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Hellmouth.
Deputy Dang: I love you man! Cheers until next week, and then on and on and on.
Cease: and on and on
Cease: to the moon, alice's restaurant
zen cosmos: adios
Deputy Dang: gesundheit!
||||||||| Cease is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Deputy Dang leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Funfun Town.
||||||||| Tweeny leaves at 8:00 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Hueypettoowy', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
Hueypettoowy: The bombay doors are open and swinging, baby!
||||||||| It's 3:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from the common cold
||||||||| JoeWalsh_ILBT - dead from the common cold
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| zen cosmos - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Bottles - dead from jaundice
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Hueypettoowy - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with llanwydd close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the vestibule.
||||||||| llanwydd rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| It's 3:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| old computre - 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
Bottles
Bunnyboy
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Elayne
Hueypettoowy
JoeWalsh_ILBT
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
Tweeny
zen cosmos
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-ln
http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#FREE_TIME
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#PLAYS
http://kurtericson.net/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://radiofreeoz.com/
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
http://theproctorpodcast.podbean.com/
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-ln
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
www.planetproctor.com
http://www.seemreal.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Proctor
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/no-band-is-an-island-live
https://firesigntheatre.com/phil-proctor
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/beforetheychangedthewater?rq=before%20they%20changed%20the%20water
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/brucesnyderdesignandtime-mk6dl?rq=fools%20in%20space
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/duke-of-madness-motors-the-complete-dear-friends-radio-era-1970-1972-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc?rq=duke%20of%20madness
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
https://firesigntheatre
https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater
https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
https://tinyurl.com/y2k7ks5v
https://www.audible.com/pd/Wheres-My-Fortune-Cookie-Audiobook/1982699221
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber



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