||||||||| 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 December 01, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, December 01, 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?" ||||||||| 8:00 PM: Rufus T Firetween 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!" ||||||||| 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 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from the common cold ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Zen Cosmos waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Tweeny bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Zen Cosmos: late or not here, I'm too early, for once... ||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Tessakay', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 1:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Tessakay - dead from jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Rufus T Firetween', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. ||||||||| 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)' ||||||||| Catherwood escorts DJTweeny 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. ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER BERGMAN ** Currently playing: warm up music – R.I.P. CHRISTINE MCVIE 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 leads 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. DJTweeny: Hey johan DJTweeny: Hi Zen johan amadeus myjetski: christine mcvie was the only member of FM i really liked DJTweeny: She will be missed... ||||||||| 8:00 PM: Cease jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!" Rufus T Firetween: allo Cease Cease: Great song. One of many by FM Cease: Hi chatters Rufus T Firetween: How are you feeling Cease? Cease: not too bad today Rufus T Firetween: Good to hear :) Cease: We had our first big snowfall yesterday which was no fun. ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER BERGMAN ** WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u (streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)' Cease: There is a toddler who has shown up with his mom yesterday and today to make tiny snowmen on our yard. Cease: I told them, it's good someone enjoys the snow. Cease: Shovelling it is actually painful for my back. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Rufus T Firetween: I don't doubt it Cease: Covid makes me weaker than usuall and I'm very weak to begin with. Cease: Coughing mush less, but sinuses remain stuffed. Rufus T Firetween: At least you're on the mend Cease: I am, yes ||||||||| 8:00 PM: Elayne jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!" ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER BERGMAN ** Currently playing: Peter Bergman’s “TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE REAL WORLD” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out TRUE CONFESSIONS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv' DJTweeny: Hey Elayne Cease: Hi El! Elayne: Evenin'all! Elayne: Can't stay long, I'm aging a full year tonight, so I have to be prepared for the big Six-Five... Cease: A year in a night. Sounds like Scrooge. DJTweeny: Happy Birthday Elayne :) Elayne: With my luck the spirits will do it all in one night. Elayne: Thanks Kurt! DJTweeny: I've got 3 years on ya Elayne: I do feel like quite the youngster on here sometimes. DJTweeny: Look at it this way, now you qualify for Medicare ;) Cease: An elementary schoolboy thanked me for shoveling the sidewalk yesterday. Actually, it's required by law. Elayne: I officially joined AARP earlier this evening. I had been a member a number of years ago but never did anything. I figure why fight it now DJTweeny: Bergman would have been 83 last Tuesday Elayne:Tween, still waiting for my Medicae card. Signed up a few weeks ago. Social Security sent me a "thank you for signing up" letter but no card yet. DJTweeny: Proc & David are in their 80s and still at it, so that gives me hope Elayne: Me too Kurt. Elayne: Philip is apparently here in my town, but alas not for my birthday, and David's been posting lots of photos in which he looks fab. Cease: He does indeed, El. Cease: Proc travels A Lot! ||||||||| Catherwood ushers Bottles into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs. Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE REAL WORLD at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv DJTweeny: Hey Bottles Cease: Hi Bottles! Elayne: Hey Bottles! Elayne: He was having real trouble traveling for awhile there, Cat, I'm so glad he's more mobile again! Bottles: Hi yall. Finally got the audio. Bottles: Is this from KPFK? Cease: Ossman posted a picture of himself with Taj Mahal, said it was the first time they'd met since 68. Cease: Not true. They were on stage together on Dec. 31, 1969. I was there. Bottles: I saw that. And saw a video on NPR of Taj in a music shop in Berkeley, Subway Guitars Rufus T Firetween: "Starting in 2001, Peter Bergman wrote a thrice-weekly radio commentary for KPCC and other public radio stations." Rufus T Firetween: (see the above link) ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Guaranteed by the Department of Redundancy Dept. and the Natural Guard." Cease: Bergman was amazingly prolific Bottles: I wonder who the other voice is here. Cease: both are Bergman Elayne: Well happy listening, folks. Keep Bergman's memory alive. See you on the other side of 65. ||||||||| Elayne departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?" Cease: Keep having birthdays, El ||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving a bacteria coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. Bottles: Hi Elayne! a bacteria: PAPOON '24! Cease: My covid has joined the chatroom? DJTweeny: Hi bacteria Bottles: I mean Bye Elayne. - I love the theme music. DJTweeny: I'm with you there, bacteria ;) a bacteria: OH do virii get the vote now too? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Mister policeman, what makes America great?" DJTweeny: 'One Organism, One Vote!' a bacteria: Just came here to make my voice heard! a bacteria: What's the source this Bush Era feed with Peter? a bacteria: the NPR years? Rufus T Firetween: Starting in 2001, Peter Bergman wrote a thrice-weekly radio commentary for KPCC and other public radio stations. Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE REAL WORLD at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv a bacteria: I see that there's a CD of it too! Rufus T Firetween: We will have some of the NPR 'All Things Firesign' to end the show Rufus T Firetween: but this was just Peter a bacteria: Sweet, I managed to not seem to know about this yet! a bacteria: dang old sub-cellular-sized brain lol a bacteria: YAY ANTHRAX! a bacteria: (my cuz!) Cease: welcome, a.b. a bacteria: Hi DJTweeny, Thanks Cease! Rufus T Firetween: We do this every week bacteria, please do join us :) Cease: speaking of world war 2, i highly reccommend rachel maddow's new podcast Ultra. a bacteria: Thursday nights are generally impractical for me but I try to tune in sometimes! Cease: about plot by mostly American nazis against the us govt During ww2. Rufus T Firetween: What would be a better day, the weekends? Cease: 24 Congressmen. a bacteria: sunday and monday nights are the secret weapon lol a bacteria: thursday wants to be a weekend night so badly Bottles: I read one of Rachel's Ultra today. About some Brooklyn nazis. Cease:https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra a bacteria: it's super jealous of sunday that gets it a few times a year! Cease: Pete would love it! a bacteria: Rachel is solid. She takes stuff apart that I barely have the stomach for! Bottles: Oh, right, Cease, I just saw your commentt Cease: listen to the whole 8 episdoes, Bottles. Amazing. Cease: Her conclusion at the end is well worth having heard the whole thing for. a bacteria: I may be a bacteria but at least I'm not a digital dybbuk!?! Bottles: Regarding nazis, Kanye has all but proclaimed himself of being one. Cease: i barely knew he was before. Rufus T Firetween: The Master Race might have found that somewhat amusing Bottles: I wonder if Kanye realizes Nazis hated anyone who wasn't "Aryan"/ Rufus T Firetween: ** Peter Bergman's Firesign Theatre Web page >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Bergman a bacteria: I just tested Shazam and Soundhound to see if they knew this "music" - Shazam does! This is called Fools by Peter Bergman! Rufus T Firetween: ** Peter Bergman's page at Wikipedia >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bergman_(comedian) a bacteria: not to deadname him, Ye is a trainwreck and needs professional help in several ways, in the opinion of this bacteria Bottles: Where did he find music like that? Bottles: Maybe Elfman, or from Peewee's Playhouse. 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 ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER BERGMAN ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s THE PETER BERGMAN PRINCIPLE 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/' a bacteria: "hello fellow kids" is a whole meme now Cease: true a bacteria: Poop said it best a bacteria: RAW RAW!!! a bacteria: I saw the best minds of my generation lol a bacteria: Bob Welsh was the secret weapon of later era FM ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Bunnyboy close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the anteroom. Bunnyboy: Lo dere DJTweeny: Hey Bunny a bacteria: hi Bunnyboy! Vote Papuan '024! Cease: Hey Bun! ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What is reality?" a bacteria: dang autocorrect PAPOON Cease: lol Rufus T Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “THE PETER BERGMAN PRINCIPLE” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES Rufus T Firetween: ** The Peter Principle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjK6OeeupUY Rufus T Firetween: ** Beat Poetry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVOXxDV5BdI Cease: How's it going, Bun? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's all this brou-ha-ha?" Bunnyboy: Cold, but warm! a bacteria: brou-ha-ha? Bunnyboy: Hardy Har Har ! Cease: Did you get the snow? a bacteria: ha ha ha Cease: we got socked in van yest. a bacteria: low altitude here in my petri dish- we got rain Bunnyboy: A dusting. Hope it stays that way. Bottles: the snow stays on the mountains around here, where it belongs a bacteria: the new world mint contains glistening retsyn? that's just vegetable oil!?! Cease: pretty when it's on the mts only. not so when you have to shovel it. Bottles: Was that Ossman reading his poetry? Cease: yes Cease: the last 2 poems were from his An Autobozographical Evening which we listened to here recently. Cease: from late 80s, as I recall. a bacteria: This is the Peter Principle. Failing upwards until incompetence Cease: that's what it is, ab a bacteria: "Petered Out" Cease: this is peter himself. a bacteria: cool, I know the theory well but never read it directly or heard him speak Cease: he wrote it as humour, but.... a bacteria: HE WROTE IT AS HUMOR? whaaaaaaaasa?????? a bacteria: Wow! Wikipedia: Peter and Hull intended the book to be satire,[3] but it became popular as it was seen to make a serious point about the shortcomings of how people are promoted within hierarchical organizations. ||||||||| 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 dengue fever ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... a bacteria: Satire for the win! What, indeed IS reality!?!?! Cease: by jammy a bacteria: MM Squirrel Squares and other flat snacks!? Cease: is that from EOBEm ab? a bacteria: eat or be eat or be eat or be eaten! a bacteria: Road ready flat snacks, that's the ticket Zen Cosmos: on the road on the road on the road- an image of Keroac's on top of McCormacs's on a road... Bunnyboy: “BURMA SHAVE” Cease: i saw that on facebook a bacteria: lol mongeese Cease: this is from their latest release, "Before they changed the water" Bunnyboy: Gotta hop. Byeeeee! a bacteria: in today's news, NYC seeking a Rat Czar! "Hate rats? Are you a "somewhat bloodthirsty" New Yorker with excellent communication skills and "a general aura of badassery"? Then you might have what it takes to be the city's new rat czar." ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Offer not good after curfew in sectors R or N." Rufus T Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - BEFORE THEY CHANGED THE WATER– Digital Download >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/beforetheychangedthewater?rq=before%20they%20changed%20the%20water ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You can wait here in the sitting room, or you can sit here in the waiting room." Rufus T Firetween: Later Bunny Cease: by bun ||||||||| Bunnyboy 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..." Cease: the bunny got away ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Duluth? Bucko, you can get Tierra del Fuego!" ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER BERGMAN ** Currently playing - from Firesign's XM Radio series FOOLS IN SPACE 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 you can listen to/watch the XM Radio series at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/' Cease: there were a lot of those Love In Kit ads. a bacteria: oh wow I just discovered today that Angostura makes a Blu Vodka! I wonder if its distilled over by their mens' room? https://www.angostura.com/brands/others/vodka-1/ Tweeny: Boom Dot Bust is a really fun album Cease: true Rufus T Firetween: Thanks for all your work on this show, Cease Cease: most of my time goes into this show. Cease: oh that reminds me of my new play. there's an egyptain artist/prof who i want to quote from in the play. i asked her yesterday and she enthusiasticlaly approved today Rufus T Firetween: nice a bacteria: Enron is relevant again but this time it's FTX and Sam Bankrun-Fraud!? Cease: whats old is new again a bacteria: Loup!? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let's stand him on his head!" DJTweeny: The guy who investigated Enron is investigating FTX. He says he's never seen anything like FTX lol DJTweeny: going to take some time to unravel ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I hate rich people. I hate them and their stupid problems." a bacteria: New York Times guy interviewed Sam. I watched the whole thing today, I can't believe he's talking, against the advice of his lawyers! Cease: i fed the cassette of he provo take=over from thatr kpfk show into the computer so we cuold hear bergman in the beginning. a bacteria: REGNAD KCIN was right DJTweeny: "Sorry folks, I had no idea what was going on." heheheh Cease: then discovered it's already on the internet. ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER BERGMAN ** Currently playing: Firesign Theatre's ALL THINGS FIRESIGN 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out All Things Firesign at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=atf-tl' Cease: maybe we can listen to it soon, tween? it's an hour long. Cease: Bergman In The Beginning, as they were just talking about DJTweeny: Sure Cease, why not? Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about “ALL THINGS FIRESIGN” (Firesign On NPR) - http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=atf-ln Bottles: What's the Provo takeover reference, Cease? Cease:https://archive.org/details/pra-KZ4063 Cease: begman was punished for letting it happen. his show was hi=jacked in febm 1967 and station taken over by the Provos ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Hello, we're glad you made it!" Cease: then he moved to KRLA for actual money a few weeks later Bottles: Who were the provos? Bottles: Yjere Cease: kind of an anarchist movement of the 60s. started in amsterdam. bergman was part of the originhal group Cease: the la version was much much lamer. Bottles: There's a history of popular radio book called Something in the Air, had some incidents of people getting fired for being to radical. Bottles: Odd, as Provo is a mostly LDS town Cease:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provo_(movement) Bottles: I think the Osmonds are from there. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I hate rich people. I hate them and their stupid problems." DJTweeny: They take acid a lot, Bottles? Cease: when the guy offered me the cassette of the take over, i thought he was talking about Provo, Utah Bottles: I read something about that, Tweeny. Promptly forgot about it. ||||||||| 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' Bottles: This is great, Cease! Cease: i once went to a dinner in vegas at a place called Ogden. I thought it was from Utah, but it was only the chef's name. DJTweeny: It's from their NPR series Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about “ALL THINGS FIRESIGN” (Firesign On NPR) - http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=atf-ln ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Offer not good after curfew in sectors R or N." Cease: All Things Firesign Bottles: Thank you Kurt and Cat! Rufus T Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... a bacteria: great fun, thanks from the microscopic scale voting bloc! Cease: come again, ab ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What about my pickle?" ||||||||| a bacteria is kicked out just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM. DJTweeny: Until last time, again... Cease: off we fly ||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Cease, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the bushes. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 4:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from the common cold ||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the common cold ||||||||| 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:
a bacteria
Bottles
Bunnyboy
Cease
DJTweeny
Elayne
johan amadeus myjetski
Rufus T Firetween
Tweeny
Zen Cosmos
