A Firesign Chat
12/08/2022




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 December 08, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood ushers 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.
||||||||| 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 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, December 08, 2022 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 10:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Rufus T Firetween, just back from Elmertown."
||||||||| It's 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Hat Pack Annex.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Tweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| 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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||||||||| Catherwood ushers DJTweeny in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Zen Cosmos', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
DJTweeny: Hi Zen
DJTweeny: music in a couple of minutes
Zen Cosmos: hey, early again...
DJTweeny: just in time for the warm-up music :)
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID OSSMAN **
Currently playing: warm up music – MUSIC ABOUT OLD/NEW MEXICO
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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DJTweeny: We start tonight with Ossman's "New Mexican Overdrive"
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
DJTweeny: Yo johan
johan amadeus myjetski: yo ho, mateys!
DJTweeny: This is Manfred Mann
johan amadeus myjetski: 'allo, Zen
DJTweeny: We start tonight with Ossman's "New Mexican Overdrive"
Zen Cosmos: VLC player has 10K maniacs
DJTweeny: as his birthday was Tuesday :)
DJTweeny: bet more than that
johan amadeus myjetski: i like natalie marchant's voice
Zen Cosmos: D.O. occasionally does voice over or bit parts for local audio sites, mostly vintage radio drama/comedy...
DJTweeny: the 128k link is working fine
DJTweeny: I'm listening to what I'm playing
DJTweeny: Try re-entering the URL Zen
johan amadeus myjetski: i'm listening to what i;m hearing...
DJTweeny: that is often the case, but not always...
DJTweeny: Waylon Jennings impersonating Marty Robbins ;)
johan amadeus myjetski: "listen to your heart' they say, i listen to my ears...
DJTweeny: catherwood, please give johan a stethescope
||||||||| Catherwood brings johan a stethescope.
johan amadeus myjetski: boom-chitty-boom-chity-chitty-chitty-boom
DJTweeny: haha
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Cease, just back from Elmertown."
Cease: Hey
DJTweeny: allo Cease
DJTweeny: hope all is well in Canukland
johan amadeus myjetski: the song "the killing floor" has a line, "i should have gone, when my friend said come to mexico with me..."
Cease: did i just missed a beloved steve miller song?
Cease: this is nice
DJTweeny: Mexico is having some serious problems these days
DJTweeny: 'cartel wars'
Cease: most of the snow has melted.
DJTweeny: even the popular tourist towns aren't immune :/
johan amadeus myjetski: those still going on?
DJTweeny: Oh heck yeah they are
Zen Cosmos: VLC player has a different program on before us...so yeah, I re-entered...
DJTweeny: worse than ever, esp since Biden opened the border
DJTweeny: kewl Zen
johan amadeus myjetski: cartel = real fascism in action
DJTweeny: Texas has invoked the 'invasion clause' and is sending military to the border
Cease: just got netflix today and rewatched first episode of Servant of the People.
Zen Cosmos: wth is "radio Caroline"?, is that then right VLC channel for warm up?
DJTweeny: great Billy Joel from his first solo album
DJTweeny: Piano Man
Cease: the hilarious comedy that propelled Zelensky to the presidency of Ukraine.
johan amadeus myjetski: is that where texas invades mexico, like the pancho vila this a hundred years ago?
DJTweeny: Zen Cosmos: wth is "radio Caroline"?, is that then right VLC channel for warm up? << You're listening to RFD, not my stream. Use the URL posted at the top of the page
DJTweeny: johan amadeus myjetski: is that where texas invades mexico, like the pancho vila this a hundred years ago? << No that was chasing Poncho Villa into MX after he raided across the border
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID OSSMAN **
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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Zen Cosmos: okay...
Cease: he was a friend of mine.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: There's been no suggestion of taking the US Military across the border
Cease: he drink whiskey, i just drink the wine
DJTweeny: 86, I got it right?
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID OSSMAN **
Currently playing: David Ossman's
“NEW MEXICAN OVERDRIVE”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out OVERDRIVE at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/updates/00222.html
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Cease: i was there. when you hear clapping and laughter, and even when ossman asks us all to speak as part of the play, that's Fumiyo and I.
Cease: among others.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Direct readout - Doctor Memory."
DJTweeny: nice :)
Zen Cosmos: Seattle mention reminds me of where I live- the Soviet of seattle, site of the 1919 General Strike
Cease: twice as big as vancouver.
Rufus T Firetween: ** Check Out NEW MEXICAN OVERDRIVE at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/updates/00222.html
Cease: i love the way he weaves references to
Cease: Firesign material into a new story
johan amadeus myjetski: back story always supports the personality
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: Howdy Folks. Sorry I'm late.
DJTweeny: yo Beet
Rufus T Firetween: ** Check Out NEW MEXICAN OVERDRIVE at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/updates/00222.html
Beet: Hi, Dr Tween.
Zen Cosmos: oh, btw, Happy Yuletide, everyone...
Rufus T Firetween: ** Buy George Leroy Tirebiter: The Complete Collection at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/george-leroy-tirebiter-the-complete-collection
Beet: Greetings, Dr Cease, J.A.M., Zen.
Cease: Hey Beet
Cease: the sound of cat
Beet: Let me join everyone in wishing David a fabulous birthday.
Cease: Indeed
Rufus T Firetween: ** David Ossman at the Firesign Theatre web site >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Ossman
Rufus T Firetween: ** Check out David Ossman's Facebook Page at >> https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=639203550&ref=content_filter
Cease: Hartford is also where the actor is coming from, i await.
Cease: You heard him as the narrator in that Ossman thing I did.
Cease: He's mr radio in Hartford.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Surrounded by a thin thin thin 16mm shell. And inside, it's delicious!"
Cease: doesn't this sound like you're right there?
Cease: this is wonderfully recorded
Cease: ossman has talked about how the miceky spillane novels created a generation of readers
Cease: that's why this is set in 1954
Rufus T Firetween: As I pointed out, there's a whole album of Tirebiter available now:
Rufus T Firetween: ** Buy George Leroy Tirebiter: The Complete Collection at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/george-leroy-tirebiter-the-complete-collection
Rufus T Firetween: including this
||||||||| residualecho steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Rufus T Firetween: $15 at Bandcamp
DJTweeny: Hi echo
Cease: hi echo
residualecho: Been doing all my zip distracts from Bandcamp, so I was extracted
Cease: yes lots of great OtherWorld stuff from David and Judith
Rufus T Firetween: you can buy just this one bit for $1
Rufus T Firetween: There's a new early live recording set Cat and I will be playing soon
Beet: Hey, Echo.
residualecho: Hiya Mr. Beet!
Cease: the old viejo
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Bunnyboy, just back from Hellmouth."
Bunnyboy: Lo dere
Zen Cosmos: https://www.fakeradio.net/see-hear
Cease: Hey Bun
DJTweeny: Evenin' Bunny
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "She's no fun, she fell right over."
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about NEW MEXICAN OVERDRIVE at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/updates/00222.html
Rufus T Firetween: ** Buy George Leroy Tirebiter: The Complete Collection at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/george-leroy-tirebiter-the-complete-collection
Bunnyboy: NMOD was the second slate on TIREBITER FOLLIES night, on Whidbey.
Zen Cosmos: https://onlineradiobox.com/us/oldtimeradio/
Beet: Hi, Bunny
Cease: Were you there, Bun?
Cease: Did Fumiyo and I meet you there?
Bunnyboy: Indeed! Didn’t meetcha in person until the 1999 Seattle shows.
Zen Cosmos: Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound; REPSboard@yahoo.com http://www.repsonline.org/
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Elayne should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Elayne enters and sits in the comfy chair.
Rufus T Firetween: ** Check out the YouTube video of David Ossman’s live concert in Langley, WA last March, ”NOT INSANE 2020: THE OSSMAN CHRONICLES” at >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFE6aDIxc4k
Cease: The way Cat is put down by her boss in this really annoys
DJTweeny: Hey Elayne
Bunnyboy: Hi El!
Cease: Hey El
Zen Cosmos: https://www.facebook.com/REPSOTR/
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about NEW MEXICAN OVERDRIVE at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/updates/00222.html
Zen Cosmos: Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound 4d ยท Join REPS for two online Christmas events in December! On Tuesday, Dec. 13th at 7:30 PM PST, we'll present a live recreation of Rogers of the Gazette – “Christmas Tree”, starring Larry Albert, Linda Bearman, and many more of your REPS favorites. We’ll also have live music, trivia, and REPS board member election results for 2023. On Wednesday, Dec. 14th at 7:00 PM PST, join Craig Wichman for a live presentation on the history of “A Christmas Carol” on radio. Please visit www.REPSonline.org for more info and links to these online programs.
Elayne: Evenin' all. Hello, I must be going.
Elayne: Just dropped in to make sure everything's OK
Cease: Sionce we last met, a werewolf lost his senate race in georgia
Cease: as i type, she says "george"
Cease: as opposed to what, el?
Cease: more happy birthdays, if that's relevant
DJTweeny: You and yours be well E
Bunnyboy: We are here we are here we are heeeeeere!
Elayne: "That's the night that the werewolf died in Georgia.... that's the night that they voted for the right man..." (with apologies to Vicki Lawrence)
Zen Cosmos: werewolf hunter meme-https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10221995904911936&set=pcb.10221995909032039
Elayne: Yes, mine was 2 December and Robin's (like David's) is 6 December, so our anniversary is smack in the middle
Elayne: And we've both been ill all week, so no real celebrations
Elayne: Tonight's the first night I feel like I can breathe, so I'm going to take advantage and attempt to sleep through the nighrt
Bunnyboy: Aw!
Cease: Fumiyo and I had Covid recently
Cease: Better now.
Bunnyboy: Double Aw!
Elayne: Oh no! We haven't succumbed, but whatever we've had hasn't been fun
Beet: Hey, Elaine.
DJTweeny: ehhh Elayne, 'Get Well, Get Well soooon...'
Elayne: So anyway, off to bed. Take care y'all...
Cease: Flu wreaking great havoc on the young in Van
Bunnyboy: No succumbing!
Beet: Glad to hear everyone is feeling better.
Cease: you too, El
Bunnyboy: God bedring El!
johan amadeus myjetski: succumbing just sucks
Zen Cosmos: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89856452909?pwd=dWtScjNsdENLQ3BLK3pqbitFZVZwdz09
Bunnyboy: First time hearing the ANYTOWN USA shows, this week. Wow!
Cease: yeah, bun
Zen Cosmos: https://www.repsonline.org/event/reps-radio-presents-craig-wichman-history-of-a-christmas-carol/
Cease: they really played with the material
Zen Cosmos: last several posts are all REPS- radio enthusiasts of Puget sound links- all free with Zoom- enjoy!
Cease: austin says fuck so often, it'll take me some work to get it into broadcast shape
Beet: I think this was the first time with Anytown myself.
Bunnyboy: Thanks, Zen! West Seattle boy here.
johan amadeus myjetski: slightly overwrite - there's a concept
Rufus T Firetween: Cease: austin says fuck so often, it'll take me some work to get it into broadcast shape << His impersonation of Nixon on Lawyer's Hospital probably got him some attention back in the day lol
residualecho: Anytown tour was a skeleton key resetting my future listening to the fab four albums
Rufus T Firetween: but truth be told both LBJ and Nixon were known for their cursing
Cease: good point, echo
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about NEW MEXICAN OVERDRIVE at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/updates/00222.html
Rufus T Firetween: ** Buy George Leroy Tirebiter: The Complete Collection at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/george-leroy-tirebiter-the-complete-collection
Cease: everything is gonna get Much Louder
johan amadeus myjetski: What?
Rufus T Firetween: 2023 is going to be 'interesting'
Cease: the noise machine
Cease: aren't you listeninbg, jammy?
johan amadeus myjetski: the old chinese curse: 'may you live in interesting times...'
Cease: ossman put a lot of himself in this
johan amadeus myjetski: yes in listening but i may have gone deaf...
Bunnyboy: (sings) Subpoenas, Indictments, the billing doesn’t matter!…
Cease: like austin did in his tales of the old detective
Cease: you ok, bun?
Cease: a couple of days ago, i had an idea for a new play
Bunnyboy: Pulled jury duty, for the first time ever. The court ghosted me.
Cease: based on my family's connection to Ukraine.
Cease: what does that mean, bun?
Cease: i was selected but didnt make the cut
Rufus T Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show. If you'd like to make a small contribution to help with the server fees, there's a PayPal link to donate here >> http://dishnuts.net
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Direct readout - Doctor Memory."
Beet: Fun
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID OSSMAN **
Currently playing: THE NIGHT THE PROVOS TOOK OVER KPFK
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out PROVOS at >> https://archive.org/details/pra-KZ4063
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||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about THE NIGHT THE PROVOS TOOK OVER KPFK at >> https://archive.org/details/pra-KZ4063
Cease: When Bergman first broadcastr this, hundrfeds of thousands listned
johan amadeus myjetski: reality is impinging into my trip - so i gotta go. see you firwheads next fire week, same fire channel, same fire time!
Cease: Bergman was the bomb that dropped
Cease: by jammy
Beet: G'Nite, J.A.M.
Bunnyboy: Summonsed. Reminder. Then… nuthin’!
Cease: how's it going, bun?
Bunnyboy: Nite JAM
Bunnyboy: All’s swell, cat! How u?
Cease: just got idea for new play yesterdsay so i am full of enthusiasm
Beet: Sounds promising, Cease.
Cease: my mother's mother spoke only Ukrainain
Bunnyboy: I think BUY OR DIE is remarkably timely.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What you don't mean won't hurt you."
Cease: I'm oigng to create scenes from my family's Ukrainian ness
Cease: my new play is filled with family histoyr. i want it recorded while it still can be?
Beet: Cool
Cease: the thing about history is that it is unique
Cease: no one else has experienced what you have or do
Cease: we are all our creators
Cease: this is bergman at the beginning
Beet: Very clear recording.
Cease: this is an official release from the station
Cease: bun have you seen sandman?
Cease: just got netflix this aft. wil watch sandman after chart
residualecho: Then you'll have to watch Wednesday. Lotsa YA goth detective Monster High fun
Cease: i want to watch the micahel palon shows as i read his books earlier this year.
Beet: I love Wednesday. Great show.
Cease: wanrt to watch dont look up, a few other thibngs
Cease: i trey and watch netflicks once a year. have new tv which gives grewt pictgure so am lokonig forward to this
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about THE NIGHT THE PROVOS TOOK OVER KPFK at >> https://archive.org/details/pra-KZ4063
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Bottles in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Bottles: Hola yall.
Bottles: I forgot it's Thursday.
Beet: Hi, Bottles.
DJTweeny: Hey Bottles
Rufus T Firetween: ** Check out Bottles' SCRATCHED UP RADIO THEATER at >> https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater
Cease: My favoutie shape
Cease: every stone
Beet: What a wonderful idea.
Cease: we must all be enlightended
Cease: pegte was profound from early
Cease: pete
Bunnyboy: I’ve seen 2 eps, cat. Fun! Also read 3 of the 10 trades, and listened to all 3 “acts (series) of the Audible Original productions.
Cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provo_(movement)
Cease: i'm gonna watch the Sandman in a few minutes. i know Gaiman was very involfed in this
Bunnyboy: Gaiman narrates the Audible shows.
Cease: i should check that out, bun. did you see his episode of babylon 5, the day of the dead?
Beet: I will also have to check out Sandman. Sounds interesting
Bunnyboy: Gad, he’s brilliant.
Cease: one of the best tv epiisodes i've ever viewed
Cease: speasking of gad, i justr started re readijg Leguin's Earth Sea trilogy. main charactre is Ged.
Cease: She told me he was her idea of Gandalf as a boy
Bottles: I just got a Linux machine. Steep learning curve, as I knew it would be.
Bunnyboy: I’ve got all the B5 series material, on the creaking shelf.
Cease: i hopeit works, bot
Cease: elayne told me to watcb it . she was rigtht
Bottles: Oh, it works ok Cease, just installing software now.
Cease: came in at the 2nd year. actually thtat'
Cease: true of many shows.
Bottles: Watch what, Cease?
Bunnyboy: Read AMERICAN GODS and STADUST.
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging llanwydd by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
Bunnyboy: STARDUST
llanwydd: sorry Im late
Cease: babylon 5
Cease: hi llan
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Don't worry about the flies, we won't weigh 'em!"
Bunnyboy: LO LLAN
Bottles: Oh ok.
Cease: did you see it, bot?
DJTweeny: a tad tardy, llan...
Beet: Greetings, Llan.
llanwydd: lol
Bottles: No. Startrek-ish?
Bunnyboy: Hall monitor!
llanwydd: so how old is david?
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about THE NIGHT THE PROVOS TOOK OVER KPFK at >> https://archive.org/details/pra-KZ4063
llanwydd: no the hall merrimack
DJTweeny: 86
llanwydd: god bless him
Bottles: Great Beatles song
DJTweeny: and both he and Proc are inspirations to us younger folks :)
Cease: How appropriate to hear Lennon's voice
Cease: his death diminished us all
DJTweeny: All Hail Marx and Lennon
llanwydd: lol
Bottles: Indeed
Cease: hey bottles
Cease: i jjst got idea for new play the other day.
Cease: this is a vile ad
Bottles: Excellent
llanwydd: lets hear, cat
Cease: but 67 was a different era
llanwydd: true
Cease: i think it's because of you, botttles
Bottles: Kpfk is a non-commercial station, must be a satire of a commercial
residualecho: Geeze, over 50 years ago
Cease: when you told me you have a new play, as i expect my latest to be available sooenest, the creative part of my brain looked for a new project.
Bottles: Because of moi?
llanwydd: yes yoi
Cease: I can maybe do some good for Ukraine.
Bottles: Do it!
llanwydd: that would be cool
Bottles: Have the Provos taken over yet?
Cease: Let's get together and do this, eh, folks?
Cease: hold on, bottles
Bottles: Yes! Lets do this! Do what?
Cease: create a radio play
Cease: just got idea 2 days ago, but we can talk
llanwydd: and air it on kpfk
Bottles: I had a dream once in which David Byrne placed an ad for an assistant, so I applied...
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Join the expectant crowd gathering now as we stop here on..."
Beet: I know it's impossible at this point, but if only everyone would just leave Ukraine alone, that would be ideal.
llanwydd: cool, bottles
Bottles: So what he did was, held a dinner for guests, then recorded their conversation, and wrote a song about it.
llanwydd: the famous people we dream of
llanwydd: I went on stage with humphrey bogart once
Cease: Beet, I am Ukraininan. I want Russia would leave me alnoe, but you can't make him
Bottles: Bogart? He died so many years ago!
Cease: wow, llan
llanwydd: I mean in a dream
Bottles: Oh! Ok.
Beet: Wish I could.
residualecho: I missed the whole thing with The Provo?
Bunnyboy: Time to roll. Cheers!
llanwydd: nite, Bb
llanwydd: wow, that looked like B flat
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about THE NIGHT THE PROVOS TOOK OVER KPFK at >> https://archive.org/details/pra-KZ4063
Rufus T Firetween: "But I'm not flat. Look..."
llanwydd: LOL
Bunnyboy: I yam wot I yam!
||||||||| Bunnyboy departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
residualecho: Thanks, RTF
Bottles: Ha! Good one, Rufus.
Beet: G'Nite, Bunny.
Rufus T Firetween: Giant Rat is one of my all-time favs :)
Bottles: Mine too
Cease: the thing is, you can say, "X is my fave" and it would be true
Beet: I have always enjoyed X
Cease: X means anything
llanwydd: lol
Cease: all albums are our faves
Bottles: X is a variable.
llanwydd: but then you have to say x =
llanwydd: and the other person has to guess
Bottles: Or X doesn't =
Bottles: Sounds like a drinking game. Guess wrong, take a drink
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's all this brou-ha-ha?"
llanwydd: lol
Cease: are you folks into math at all?
llanwydd: havent known catherwood to interject before
||||||||| Catherwood ignores llanwydd
llanwydd: except to tell us the time
Bottles: Into math? Math is a tool. And A concept
Beet: Can't do basic math very quickly. But I like what the advanced stuff can do.
llanwydd: I was so bad at algebra I had to go to summer school to graduate my senior year
Bottles: Strange. Johnson was still alive in 1968.
Cease: To some extent, we are born with a proclivity of numbers
Bottles: And 1967 even
Cease: i loved math from a young age.
Bottles: And they're talking about LBJs death. Or was it another Johnson?
Cease: i saw numbers in colours at a young age. it was pretty
Beet: This is very cool hearing Peter planning the Love In.
Cease: yeag beet, it is a treasure
llanwydd: cool, cease. thats called synesthesia
Cease: indeed
llanwydd: 100 must have been quite a rainbow
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about THE NIGHT THE PROVOS TOOK OVER KPFK at >> https://archive.org/details/pra-KZ4063
||||||||| 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: Will do, Rufus. I love Archive.org.
Rufus T Firetween: It's a great resource for non-DRM audio art
Bottles: Art Bell is still on Archive.
llanwydd: I still reruns of C2C with art bell on weekends
Rufus T Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Beet: Really enjoyed the offerings tonight. Nice to see everyone. Hope all get well. Exciting prospect for your new creation, Dr Cease. Thanks for guiding, Dr Tween. G’Nite all.
Cease: We do our best, eh?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It goes in - it must come out."
residualecho: Lotsa fun!
Bottles: Thank you Kurt and Cat!
DJTweeny: yw :)
||||||||| residualecho 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 enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, llanwydd walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| It's 4:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bottles - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Cease - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Beet - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 4:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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
DJTweeny
Elayne
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
residualecho
Rufus T Firetween
Zen Cosmos
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Ossman
http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/updates/00222.html
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
http://www.repsonline.org/
www.REPSonline.org
https://archive.org/details/pra-KZ4063
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provo_(movement
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/george-leroy-tirebiter-the-complete-collection
https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=639203550&ref=content_filter
https://onlineradiobox.com/us/oldtimeradio/
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89856452909?pwd=dWtScjNsdENLQ3BLK3pqbitFZVZwdz09
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10221995904911936&set=pcb.10221995909032039
https://www.facebook.com/REPSOTR/
https://www.fakeradio.net/see-hear
https://www.repsonline.org/event/reps-radio-presents-craig-wichman-history-of-a-christmas-carol/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFE6aDIxc4k



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