A Firesign Chat
11/10/2022




Archive

||||||||| 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 November 10, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Rufus_T_Firetween into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| 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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||||||||| It's 8:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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, November 10, 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?"
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Rufus_T_Firetween by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Not Ed', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone a break and plenty of time.
||||||||| Catherwood hands everyone a break and plenty of time.
||||||||| 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 12:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Hat Pack Annex.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Rufus_T_Firetween 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.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Johan, a little early aren't we?
johan amadeus myjetski: yeah my reality is being a little real. be back in 30 mins, if the creeks don't rise.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Tweeny 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.
||||||||| DJTweeny sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| It's 1:30 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 fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'johan amadeus myjetski', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
||||||||| 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)
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||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: warm up music – THE BAND-THE LAST WALTZ
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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johan amadeus myjetski: i'm another dea than the hundreds of thousands of my followers that've come to see me jump into this big... oh wait, that's someone else.never mind.
Rufus_T_Firetween: heh
johan amadeus myjetski: i've always thought this tune was so very sad
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let the air out of your shoes and prepare yourself for a period of simulated relxation."
johan amadeus myjetski: h'orns!
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Bottles 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: hey bottles!
DJTweeny: Hey Bottles
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Bottles. close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the sitting room.
Bottles. : Hiyas yall
Bottles. : I love the Band.
johan amadeus myjetski: i said hey chester you know i'm a peaceful man....
||||||||| 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)
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||||||||| Catherwood leads Cease 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.
Cease: Hey
johan amadeus myjetski: that's garthg hudson on the soprano sax!
DJTweeny: allo Cease
johan amadeus myjetski: evenmin' cease!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And while we're on the subject..."
Bottles. : i'll be in and out, Dinner et al.
Bottles. : Love Garth's playing. Genius.
Bottles. : Hiya Cease!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: Some beautiful and tasty sax there
Cease: Hi wonderul bottles
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Deputy Dang', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
johan amadeus myjetski: i never had a bar of scotch ever before
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
Cease: Hey Dang
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'ModeratelyGinchy', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Deputy Dang: Howdy Pardners!
DJTweeny: Hi Ginchy
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi deputy!
ModeratelyGinchy: Hey, I better go stunt some trees
Cease: Lot of my stuff onthe show tonight. I advertised it as a Catapalooza
ModeratelyGinchy: Hi DJ!
Cease: Ah, my favourite Ginchy
ModeratelyGinchy: Hi everyone!
DJTweeny: That it is
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi ModGinchy
ModeratelyGinchy: *waves* to Cease
ModeratelyGinchy: myjetski, hi!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Deputy Dan has no friends."
Cease: Moderation in the defense of Ginchy in no virtue. Exremism in the defense of Ginchy is no vice,
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Beet', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
Cease: Hi Jammy
Beet: Howdy, Folks.
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
Cease: Beet
johan amadeus myjetski: hi beet!
Cease: New collage tonight. About Mars
johan amadeus myjetski: i recently re-tired my car
Beet: Evening, Dr Cease, Dr Tween, J.A.M.
Bottles. : Cool.
Cease: Me too
ModeratelyGinchy: damnm I nissed that
ModeratelyGinchy: omething about my defense?
Beet: Hi, Bottles.
ModeratelyGinchy: Oh well
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: Phil and Ted Bonnitt's podcast Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out The Boomers at >> https://player.fm/series/phil-and-teds-sexy-boomer-show
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Cease: Great Fleetwood Mac song, Ginchy
Bottles. : Hi Beet. Missed what Grinchy?
ModeratelyGinchy: Yeah, love KPFK
ModeratelyGinchy: Not important, something scrolled screen
ModeratelyGinchy: *off screen
Cease: Good to hear, Ms Moderate
Bottles. : Used to work at KPFA. What a den of vipers.
ModeratelyGinchy: Oh???
ModeratelyGinchy: WOw
Cease: This was recorded Tuesday, elecrtion day in your country
ModeratelyGinchy: That's disappointing to hear
DJTweeny: hah
Beet: The United Snakes?
ModeratelyGinchy: I love this
Bottles. : People on the board fighting over taking over the station license
Cease: I remember the Cuba missile crisis. It's in my new play
ModeratelyGinchy: Have been on a news moratorium since voting day here.
DJTweeny: smart cookie Ginchy ;)
Cease: Hey Moderate my dear Ginchy, this is a tiny frament of the new radio show the lads have.Will have much more to come
ModeratelyGinchy: Huh. I guess that makes sense. It's sad though. I always thought of them as a champion of the do-gooders
Bottles. : Excellent
johan amadeus myjetski: i remember the cuban missle crisis, too
ModeratelyGinchy: Oh, it's great
Beet: You don't want to know which side of the Duopoly is pretending to lead?
ModeratelyGinchy: the show, I mean
ModeratelyGinchy: not the Cuban Missile Crisis
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: Firesign's PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out PINK HOTEL at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-rv
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Bottles. : They once were, but the moderates wanna made it an all- Democratic format.
Deputy Dang: I don't think I've heard this before.
Beet: Hi, Deputy.
DJTweeny: It's from the PInk Hotel Burns Down compilation album (out of print)
DJTweeny: This was the precursor to EOBE
Deputy Dang: Ah. Howdy Beet!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Shoes for Industry! Shoes for the Dead!"
johan amadeus myjetski: why'd it have to be snakes?
ModeratelyGinchy: So glad to hear someone make that differentiation, Bottles. I have some serious grudges with the Dems.
ModeratelyGinchy: But try to keep it on the DL
DJTweeny: There's a new Indiana Jones movie in the works
Bottles. : They were actually trying to bankrupt the station so they'd have to sell the east coast stations for millions.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "...And no Buddhist writers either!"
Deputy Dang: The electronic voiceover told me it was in the same timeframe as EOBE.
Beet: I saw a video of an anti-war guy calling down Bernie Sanders for sending billions to our proxy war. Very entertaining.
Bottles. : Proxy war where, in Ukraine?
Beet: Yes.
Bottles. : Aha.
ModeratelyGinchy: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: EOBE Liner Notes - https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eobe-ln
ModeratelyGinchy: 2.5 kids
ModeratelyGinchy: i was the half
ModeratelyGinchy: brilliant
johan amadeus myjetski: a george harrison song: it's not a pity
Cease: well observed, MG
Rufus_T_Firetween: Pink Hotel Liner Notes - https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-ln
ModeratelyGinchy: The layering means I always have something new to discover as I listen.
Cease: Foremr Firesgin honcho Michale Packer once playhed this for me on the phone. Said it would never be released.
Rufus_T_Firetween: "8. The Pink Hotel Burns Down or What Good is a Halfling in a Holocaust? TFT invites you to play alone on the Road to Bonus City with Armistice Brooks, Ol' Grizz the Leatherback, Earl-the-Halfling, and the Dustmaster... or is your game over? (August 1981 - Opening scenes of an unfinished album)"
Cease: MG, that is true. There is really no end to what we can discover in Firesignland
DJTweeny: So, several years before EOBE
Bottles. : The Firesigns never made a board game, did they.
Beet: Cool
Bottles. : That would be fun
ModeratelyGinchy: YAY!
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
DINING ON MARS WITH THE FIRESIGN THEATRE
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: I am so looking forward to your enjoyment of this, chatters
Cease: I am wondering if I'm runing out of steam here
Beet: It sounds pretty interesting.
Cease: hasnt started yet, beet
ModeratelyGinchy: ohhhh
ModeratelyGinchy: I cry every time I hear that song
Beet: Your summary I mean.
ModeratelyGinchy: yes, great summary
johan amadeus myjetski: dropping out of chat for supper preparation; keepin' my ears on
Cease: good for you, jammy
Beet: Bon Apetit, J.A.M.
Cease: did you eat well, MG?
ModeratelyGinchy: Oh heck no. BBQ chips
ModeratelyGinchy: lol
ModeratelyGinchy: So were you motivated at all by the Mollusk?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "A fair for all and no fair to anybody!"
ModeratelyGinchy: in the topic choice?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I think we're all Bozos on this bus."
Cease: to the extent i can, i try and eat stuff that tastes good.
Cease: i will not live lnog enough to eat on mars. but maybe my grandkids?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “DINING ON MARS WITH THE FIRESIGN THEATRE” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** CBC's Ideas programme ponders dining on the red planet: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/dinner-on-mars-how-to-grow-food-when-humans-colonize-the-red-planet-1.6604758
Beet: They will have to bring their lunchboxes.
Bottles. : Don't wanna go to Mars til the Earth is uninhabitable.
Beet: Do kids have lunchboxes anymore?
ModeratelyGinchy: So Cal has left me with a distatse for desert for life
Bottles. : Mmm, fermentation..
Rufus_T_Firetween: Bulletproof lunch boxes
Cease: i can understand that, MG
Cease: i too go tired of heat
Beet: I'm counting on the spaceships to whisk me away in a timely manner.
Bottles. : ..inside their bulletproof backpacks
Rufus_T_Firetween: yy
Cease: move to vancouver. we get rain.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Don't worry about the flies, we won't weigh 'em!"
ModeratelyGinchy: I tikd you. I am working on it.
ModeratelyGinchy: told
Cease: anyone remember the joe dimaggio coffee makers?
ModeratelyGinchy: how long do you work on each of these, Cease
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right."
Bottles. : .? No
Cease: a few weeks
Bottles. < .
Cease: a lot of it is where the inspiratin leads. what Firesign stuff I can find that folds into this other stuff
Cease: so i rely upon my vast memory and collectoin of thier stuff.
ModeratelyGinchy: Wow. So significant time on research and then there's the editing.
Cease: but i don't know from week to week what will inspire me.
Cease: yeah, 2-3 weeks for each collage.
Cease: it's kind of a job. this is what radio was to me as a kid. a wonderufl kaliedesopce of sound pleasure
Cease: a mixtgure of interesting stuff
Bottles. : Audio mixing is fun, eh Cease.
ModeratelyGinchy: I love narrative radio and old time radio. Orson Welles... learned about all he did with sound. Then found FST and it all together for me.
Cease: Ossman told me that these are going into the Library of Congress. I'll believe it when I see it, but it's a worthy gosl.
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
Cease: Indeed, Bottles
ModeratelyGinchy: *all came together
Bottles. : I thought th
Bottles. : oops sorry
Bottles. : Brain fart
ModeratelyGinchy: Did you do any psychedelics, Cease? Seems you'd have to in order to put these together.
Cease: No
ModeratelyGinchy: Kind of amazing.
ModeratelyGinchy: My brother used to sing this to me
Cease: I ;seek to amaze
Cease: Wow
ModeratelyGinchy: lol
Bottles. : Old Peter Green! Love it
Cease: He was great
ModeratelyGinchy: yeah, he died way too young
Cease: that can be said of almost everyone, MG
ModeratelyGinchy: May be... but that really does seem young to me
Cease: just read bio of Nicky Hopkins who also died young
Cease: love this song
Cease: Norrth Sea Bubble, Billly Bragg
Cease: anyone remember velikovsky?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scalp 'em, Tantric!"
Bottles. : Not I
Bottles. : A town in Siberia?
Cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_in_Collision
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Bunnyboy, just back from Hellmouth."
Bunnyboy: Lo dere
Bottles. : Oh, the place where the meteor hit?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “DINING ON MARS WITH THE FIRESIGN THEATRE” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
Bottles. : Hi BB
Cease: Bergman took this shit way too seriously. he had a show on krla in early 68 where he riffed on velikovsky
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** CBC's Ideas programme ponders dining on the red planet: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/dinner-on-mars-how-to-grow-food-when-humans-colonize-the-red-planet-1.6604758
Beet: Hey, Bunny
Cease: Hey Bunny. No Time NO HOP
DJTweeny: Hey Bunny
ModeratelyGinchy: Ha, I remmber KRLA
Cease: we're going to listen to my play Red Shiftr tonight. I tihnk you[re in it
Bottles. : All of us?
Cease: Us is a wonderful idea
ModeratelyGinchy: Wow... that book... don't let the Trumpsters and anti vaxxers get hold of it
ModeratelyGinchy: oh wait
ModeratelyGinchy: ey don
Bunnyboy: If only the GOP had settled for a Red Shift…
ModeratelyGinchy: they don't read books
Cease: lol
ModeratelyGinchy: brb
ModeratelyGinchy: cat
Cease: you may be right, MG
ModeratelyGinchy: wnts to eat
Bunnyboy: It worked! #InsideBaseball
Cease: but i think books are not much of a thing any more
DJTweeny: well, Kindle these days
DJTweeny: people still read books, just digitally
Cease: My daughter was the only person she knew who read books
Bunnyboy: Books will survive us all.
DJTweeny: That's sad
Bottles. : Audiobooks are great at bedtime.
Cease: i hope so, bunny
Beet: I was proudof myself that I read all of Proctor's book.
Cease: i dont have a kindle but may have to get one, as some books i want to read are only digital
Bottles. : I read quite a bit
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Now playing: XM RADIO BROADCASTS
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Free Downloads!! at http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/
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Deputy Dang: That was great, Cat!
Cease: Thanks, Dang
Bottles. : Yeah! I love the theme of Mars!
Cease: Beet, good for you.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It goes in - it must come out."
Cease: Glad you like it, as it were, Bottles
Cease: I try and create collages that people will like. That is my idea of radio.
Bottles. : They're all awesome!
Cease: If you can make beauty, do so.
Bottles. : Not everyone groks FT.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Indonesia for the Indonesians!"
Cease: We are obliged to do so, to the universe
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about FIRESIGN XM RADIO PERFORMANCES at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/
Bunnyboy: “Say, what’s the big idea?”
Cease: Yeah, but those that do can do a lot of good new work by mixing them with other struff. thsat is what radio is for
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/
Bottles. : That's for sure, esp. Public radio is a big mix.
ModeratelyGinchy: Cease: I know you have your site, but any interest in a YouTube channel for these?
Bottles. : U never know what you'll hear next.
Cease: You mean the collages, MG? They are audio, eh?
Bunnyboy: Audio is all over YouTube!
ModeratelyGinchy: Yeah, but lots of people put on audio stuff... just stick up a basic piece of art and run it.
Bunnyboy: Title card or slideshow
ModeratelyGinchy: Other than a still image and a thumbnail, it doesn't have to be video
Cease: My collages are almost enitrely mixtures of stuff owned by other people.
Bunnyboy: No product placement!
ModeratelyGinchy: Agreed Bunny
Bunnyboy: Unless you’re selling something.
ModeratelyGinchy: ahhh
ModeratelyGinchy: well, true, I guess if you ended up trying to monetize (or get paid), then you would run into compyright claim
Cease: i'm sure firesign would happiloy have it but the cbc's idess programme etc would probably considre it theft
ModeratelyGinchy: but if not getting paid, no problem
ModeratelyGinchy: of course the you might not want the hassle
ModeratelyGinchy: lol
Cease: i'm old and even as a young person i tried to avoid hassle. i quote my age because there isnt much time left so what battles i fight zare severerly limited
Bunnyboy: Of course, there is fair use…
ModeratelyGinchy: Well, you'd likely not get a cease and desist from FST
ModeratelyGinchy: and, yeah, under commentary you can do a lot
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: if tween keeps these on the archive site, that's enough
Bottles. : Ni publis stations in Canada?
Bunnyboy: Catherwood should leave the room more of them.
||||||||| Catherwood walks up to Bunnyboy and yells "My ears are burning..."
Cease: yes
Cease: how's it going, bunny>?
Bottles. : Oops, i meant public!
Bunnyboy: Often
ModeratelyGinchy: or maybe pubis stations?
Bunnyboy: All swell! You?
ModeratelyGinchy: ha ha
Bunnyboy: You can’t get there from here…
Beet: Nice to see you again, Bunny
Cease: well, we do what we can. Doc Tech is supposedly now producing my new play now so i'm happy about that
Bunnyboy: Try s0pankmeehere
Cease: you were in at leasdt one of my plays, bunnyh
Bottles. : Spank me here, Bunny?
Bottles. : Or was that a typo?
Bunnyboy: Thanks, Beet!
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'llan', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
llan: howdy
Bunnyboy: Red Shift!
Bottles. : Hi llan.
DJTweeny: Hey llan
Bunnyboy: hiya llan!
Cease: hey llan
llan: good evening. hows everybody?
Beet: Hey, Llan
Cease: we're much better now that you are her
DJTweeny: Doing well llan, and you?
llan: lol
ModeratelyGinchy: Oh
ModeratelyGinchy: BobbyBunny
llan: I am doing well. thanks for asking
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
llan: I was waiting for hurricane floods but that never happend
llan: we got some heavy wind, thats all
ModeratelyGinchy: let's go out to the lobby
Beet: Nice for you.
DJTweeny: Cease: we're much better now that you are her << llan had a sex change operation?
llan: lol
Bunnyboy: MG: That film is in The National Film Registry!
Beet: Get the pronoun right.
Cease: speaking of the lobby, the firesigns did their last mushroom show from the lobby of the station they were locked out of
Cease: here
johan amadeus myjetski: i thought sex NEVER changed throughout his&kerstory
llan: if thats as close as you can get to the studio...
Bottles. : Is Mark Time Ossman's writing mostly, Cease?
ModeratelyGinchy: So Cease, the one we listened to about a month ago with Penn Jillette... that was one of yours?
Cease: let's assume so, bottles
Cease: yes MG
ModeratelyGinchy: ahh.. okay... thanks
Cease: i ttried to send it to Penn but have been unsuccesful
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out MARK TIME on XM Satellite Radio at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/marktime.html
Bottles. : Johan that reminds me of a joke
Bunnyboy: Muh family needs feeding. Ta!
Cease: famous people get unsolicited shit all the time i can understand why he ignroes it
Beet: See ya Bunny.
Bottles. : 2geezers were talking. One asked, Getting any on the side?
ModeratelyGinchy: <---decidely unfamous... so, wouldn't know
||||||||| Bunnyboy rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
Cease: by bun
Bottles. : The other said, Its been so long that I didn't know they'd moved it.
Bottles. : The end.
ModeratelyGinchy: lol
DJTweeny: haha
ModeratelyGinchy: That cracked me up Bottles
Bottles. : Excuse my crudeness.
ModeratelyGinchy: appreciate it
Beet: That was pretty clean, actually.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And while we're on the subject..."
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s play
RED SHIFT
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
'
ModeratelyGinchy: YAY!
Cease: Here's Aistom
Bottles. : A Moms Mabley type joke
Cease: He was wonderful in this.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RED SHIFT” at >> http://seemreal.com/redshift/RSCD_Inside_s.jpg
DJTweeny: Austin, even
johan amadeus myjetski: Rumi said death is when you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief...
ModeratelyGinchy: killer quote myjetski
Cease: well quoted, jammy
ModeratelyGinchy: this is really cool, CEASE
ModeratelyGinchy: socislist millionire
Cease: i'm a good playwrite, in my opionion. firesign's too
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Indonesia for the Indonesians!"
ModeratelyGinchy: love it
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Wake up - and consider your only logical choice."
Beet: I like that oneJ.A.M.
llan: that was a really cool effect in that WotW clip
Cease: Good writing meets good acting.
llan: for sure
Bottles. : Good job!
Cease: Yeah Botttles, This is Really Good
Bottles. : Recent?
Cease: Doc Tech's first production for me. He then did a coyple of my short pieces and now is at work on my new lnog play
johan amadeus myjetski: Cease, you're an amazing playwrite, & i'll hear no other opinions
Cease: This is 20 years old
ModeratelyGinchy: who is Doc Tech?
Cease: The guys who produced this. Also a major pillar of the Firesign web presence
ModeratelyGinchy: wo, well, you're prescient then.... did you see Musk coming?
ModeratelyGinchy: ah
ModeratelyGinchy: play
ModeratelyGinchy: okay
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Not to be torturing me!"
Cease: Sand resonate telepathy. I like that
Beet: Someone interject Catherwood.
||||||||| Catherwood walks alongside Beet and inquires "Someone mention my name?"
Bottles. : I really admire actors.
Cease: I was very producttive with radio plays from 1996-2002,
ModeratelyGinchy: I"m dying
ModeratelyGinchy: My side hurts
Cease: Melinda and Phil, when I met them in 1995 told me to do radio plays so I did.
Cease: Stop dying, MG
johan amadeus myjetski: you wer ordained, then
ModeratelyGinchy: A great way to go, laughing
Bottles. : Best way to die.
Cease: best thing is to not die
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
johan amadeus myjetski: it is said john coltrane died laughing at a tv show
Cease: but i msut say, this play is pretty good
Beet: And then just continue laughing when you get to the other side.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S VIDEOS at >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber
ModeratelyGinchy: I"ve already beat the repar once.... So I'm good :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
Bottles. : Or a local reggae singer, riding home from a gig, they were smoking up a storm naturally, when they realized he'd died. Not a bad way, painlessly.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Bottles' SCRATCHED UP RADIO THEATER at >> https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater
ModeratelyGinchy: Oh, they are on YT
Cease: teh repar?
ModeratelyGinchy: Wow, that's strong stuff, Bottles
ModeratelyGinchy: Thanks for those links
Bottles. : We're just lucky the quality of actors who wanna be on the air.
ModeratelyGinchy: Sorry
ModeratelyGinchy: Reaper
Cease: You are, Bottles
Cease: This is really good
llan: I heard a line a moment ago that I recorded years ago when Cat was considering an edit but it never went in
llan: remember that Cease?
ModeratelyGinchy: I just love this
Bottles. : And these are all online, right Cease?
llan: reemreal.com bottles
llan: seemrea.com
llan: one more try
llan: seemreal.com
Cease: http://seemreal.com/redshift/index.htm
llan: thanks cat
Bottles. : I've listened to a few there
Cease: i'm a pretty good play write, thank to Firesigns
johan amadeus myjetski: if you carrying pictures of chairman mao, you ain't gonna make with anyone anyhow...
llan: you are indeed, cat
Cease: lol jammyh
johan amadeus myjetski: if you go
Cease: i like thatr, unmarked or mard
Bottles. : Ooh, think I overate.
ModeratelyGinchy: Speaking of brown out
Bottles. : I better lie down
ModeratelyGinchy: we just went out again
ModeratelyGinchy: Hope the food was good, Bottles
Cease: thankfjhully you;re back on MG
ModeratelyGinchy: Well, still on
Bottles. : Teriaki casserole is usually goo.
ModeratelyGinchy: We lost power for 6 hours the other day
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Hello, we're glad you made it!"
Bottles. : Good i mean
ModeratelyGinchy: hopoe it's not a repeat
Cease: ddi you enjoy it, bottles>
johan amadeus myjetski: all this talk of mars without a phillip k dick sample
Bottles. : Oh yeah
ModeratelyGinchy: mmm teriaky
Cease: thanksx for pkd ref
Cease: want to heere a funny story abvout terryaki?
ModeratelyGinchy: yes
johan amadeus myjetski: teriyaki is beaten only by barbeque sauce...
Cease: growing up in LA, i thoght terryiaki meant with pineapple
Cease: then i moved ot japan and no pineapple was involved.
ModeratelyGinchy: Doesn't it include pineapple (and thanks for the correct spelling)
ModeratelyGinchy: DId not know that
ModeratelyGinchy: But an LA person here
johan amadeus myjetski: i spent a month in hawaii in the 80s, & found more variations of teriyaki than you might think possible
Cease: not in japan MG the thing about food is, it depends on how good the ingredients are
Cease: whatg did you learn, jam?
Cease: his is wondeful writring and acting. i'm impressed
Cease: this
johan amadeus myjetski: the only generality you can make about teriyaki is most of it is a blend of soysauce & a sweetener (could be pineapple, but dozens of other things)
Cease: this father-son dialogue is one of he best acts i'v ever heard
ModeratelyGinchy: Buddha beer
ModeratelyGinchy: ha
johan amadeus myjetski: everybody has their own view of what teriyake is, should be, even could be
Cease: MG, is th is the first time you[ve heard my plays?
Deputy Dang: I'm really enjoying this one a lot!
ModeratelyGinchy: Whose song?
Cease: good for you, dang
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s play CAST at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#PLAYS
Cease: i wrote it.
ModeratelyGinchy: No kidding?
ModeratelyGinchy: It's awesome!!
ModeratelyGinchy: boddhisatva boogie
Cease: MG, that's the idea, eh>
johan amadeus myjetski: steely dan bodhisattva is a great song!
johan amadeus myjetski: who was that dinkin' jane?
Cease: as ceators of stuff, let's make the best stuff we can, make the world expand with beauty
ModeratelyGinchy: nine fold
ModeratelyGinchy: cool, we've gained one
llan: wonderful thought, cease
johan amadeus myjetski: ABSOLUTELY, Cease! a very important principle which we must live by
ModeratelyGinchy: nice thought
ModeratelyGinchy: have RAPH
Beet: I don't know that I have heard this one before, Cease. Great job!
ModeratelyGinchy: RALPH
Rufus_T_Firetween: Great Ralph Spoilsport bit
llan: lol
||||||||| 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
'
johan amadeus myjetski: lol! great segment, cease!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is W.A.L.T.E.R ... this is W.A.L.T.E.R. ..."
Cease: it's been up online for 20 years. http://seemreal.com/redshift/index.htm
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hope to see you guys Tuesday
johan amadeus myjetski: entropyic dust...
Cease: there is no all. i think that's a profound tihought
llan: I might stop in tuesday
johan amadeus myjetski: check out circe link's cover of bowie's life of mars, DJT
Rufus_T_Firetween: love Circe's covers
Rufus_T_Firetween: Please do request it
johan amadeus myjetski: you know i will!
johan amadeus myjetski: GREAT play Cease!!! thabnks!
DJTweeny: Wonderful play, Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Deputy Dang: Outstanding! Thank you!
Beet: My God, I do love the Firesign as I do love this chat. Nice to see everyone. Great collage and play as usual, Dr Cease. Thanks for M.C.ing Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Gee Mom, isn't that bridge built yet?"
johan amadeus myjetski: nite all!
llan: great!
llan: thanks tween and cease
Cease: i do what i can
llan: nite everybody
||||||||| llan rushes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's llan?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Deputy Dang: Goodnight all
||||||||| "Hey Deputy Dang!" ... Deputy Dang turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 8:00 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Cease: Off we lflee
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Tweeny by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| It's 4:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from The Plague
||||||||| ModeratelyGinchy - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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 Dr. Pedal plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM.
Dr. Pedal: DR. Dali's melted watch is Ohmish and doesn't believe in daylight savings time! so for everywhere else except northern Indiana .. I'm LATE!
Dr. Pedal: This week I learned just how dangerous comedy can be when I was fired from my JHob as a "greeter " at walmart because I told the wrong joke to the wrong person so he called in and had me terminated!
Dr. Pedal: In my defense I know It was such a good joke that person is now repeating it!
Dr. Pedal: So DJ Tweeny, were you ever cured of youer Shortness of pants?
||||||||| It's 4:30 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...
||||||||| 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.
Bunnyboy
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Dr. Pedal
johan amadeus myjetski
llan
ModeratelyGinchy
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
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http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#PLAYS
http://kurtericson.net/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemreal.com/redshift/index.htm
http://seemreal.com/redshift/RSCD_Inside_s.jpg
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-rv
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/marktime.html
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
http://www.seemreal.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_in_Collision
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater
https://player.fm/series/phil-and-teds-sexy-boomer-show
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/dinner-on-mars-how-to-grow-food-when-humans-colonize-the-red-planet-1.6604758
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eobe-ln
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-ln
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