A Firesign Chat
03/16/2023




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 March 16, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Rufus T Firetween', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| It's 8:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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, March 16, 2023 - 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 escorts 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.
||||||||| 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 half hour!"
||||||||| DJ Tweeny sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| 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)
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.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 – IRON BUTTERFLY—IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Bottles', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Tweeny: Hey Bottles
Bottles: Hello yall. Hope you don't mind if I work while I listen.
Bottles: Hmm - funny, none of the feeds seem to want to open.
Bottles: Maybe because the intro music hasn't started..
DJ Tweeny: I'm listenig to the 320k feed right now
DJ Tweeny: They're all active
DJ Tweeny: *listening
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: warm up music – IRON BUTTERFLY—IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's llanwydd, just back from Elmertown."
llanwydd: hiya keedos
DJ Tweeny: Hey llan
Rufus T Firetween: This is a live version of their classic hit
llanwydd: I think I read somewhere that in a gadda da vida means in the garden of eden
Rufus T Firetween: could be
llanwydd: probably wikipedia
Bottles: That's what they claimed in the 60s.
Bottles: Still can't get the feed. I'll try a different computer.
Rufus T Firetween: Bottles, the 16k feed doesn't play the FST show until the top of the hour
Rufus T Firetween: I need to fix that
Rufus T Firetween: As I said. I'm listening to the 320k feed right now
Rufus T Firetween: llan, you have the music?
llanwydd: so am I
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies 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.
llanwydd: no music yet, just drums
llanwydd: Hey Cease
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: warm up music – IRON BUTTERFLY—IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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DJ Tweeny: allo Cease eh
Cease: hey all
llanwydd: thought you were going to be in vegas this week
llanwydd: joining us from a casino?
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and announces "Announcing 'johan amadeus myjetski', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
llanwydd: Hey Jam
DJ Tweeny: Hey johan
Cease: i'm off to vegas on sunday. returning next thursd aftrnoon. hope to be home from airport in time for chat
Cease: when i click the stream, nothing happens except the screen seems to refresh itself.
johan amadeus myjetski: hi cease, llan, djt!@
Cease: ok, i'm going to turn this off and then come back on, see if that helps
johan amadeus myjetski: like Louie Louie, another song where you're expected to make up your own lyrics
Rufus T Firetween: llan, johan, you have the stream?
johan amadeus myjetski: yep, 320 ho!
Rufus T Firetween: yeah the streams are good (according to RFD)
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Cat, just back from Funfun Town."
johan amadeus myjetski: i do run it through my itunes, though
DJ Tweeny: meow Cat
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "cat 2 should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as cat 2 enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
DJ Tweeny: meow meow
llanwydd: I have it, tween
llanwydd: 320k
johan amadeus myjetski: one tuesday. i'm gonna request Vanilla Fudge version opf You Keep Me Hanging On
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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Bottles: Got it.
Cat: sounds fine on the old computer
DJ Tweeny: oops, mis-timed the intro music
johan amadeus myjetski: they think he is crazy, yet he outranks them
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Beet 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!"
Beet: Howdy, Folks
Cat: hi beet
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi beet!
Beet: Hi, Dr Cease
Beet: Hey, j.a.m.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I had to think for a minute ... what cruel game was he playing?"
DJ Tweeny: Yo Beet
Beet: Hi, Dr Tweeny
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Proctor & Bergman's “POWER”
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
Read about POWER at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=power-rv
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johan amadeus myjetski: PO-WAH!
Beet: Mr Trump?
DJ Tweeny: yep, even back then ;)
Cat: i heard a recent interview with Melinda. she said she played 17 roles in this.
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about Proctor & Bergman’s “POWER” at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=power-ln
johan amadeus myjetski: an ass before the tRump...
DJ Tweeny: Proctor referred to him as T-Rump
johan amadeus myjetski: have i ever heard this before?
Cat: the 320 sounds great, even on the old computer
llanwydd: somehow my 320 has disappeared
llanwydd: so here goes 128
Cat: it was hard for me to recall 17 female roles in this, but yes, i guess there are.
Cat: apparently this was her first collaboration with "Firesign"
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Close the door, and the light stays on!"
llanwydd: my computer froze and when I came back in 320 was gone
Tweeny: 320 is working fine
llanwydd: I am sure it is
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanwydd: but at the top of the page I see listen to the stream at 128k and under that or at 16k for dial up users
llanwydd: 128 is just fine, though
Rufus T Firetween: Right you are llan
Rufus T Firetween: Since we moved over to RFD Live, I need to change a lot of my announcements
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Proctor & Bergman's “POWER”
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
Read about POWER at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=power-rv
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Rufus T Firetween: what was listed as 128k was actually the new 320k stream ;)
Cat: this sounds like the segments are out of order
johan amadeus myjetski: the old 128 is the new 320?!? i don't hold with this new math
Rufus T Firetween: nope, not according to my list
Rufus T Firetween: yeah we now have 3 levels of quality
llanwydd: lol jam
Rufus T Firetween: /tweeny is now 320k (was the old 128k feed), and now my low level broadcast is 128k and I'm pulling the 16k feed from RFD
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I hate rich people. I hate them and their stupid problems."
Cat: that sounds familiar
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about Proctor & Bergman’s “POWER” at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=power-ln
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Deputy Dang close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the Aviary.
Cat: hi dang
Beet: Howdy, Deputy.
DJ Tweeny: Howdy Deputy
Deputy Dang: Heya Cat! Happy mid-Hump-Fri-Day!
Deputy Dang: Howdy Beet!
Deputy Dang: Ah, Hawkmoth speaking?
johan amadeus myjetski: Hiya Deputy Dang!
Beet: I haven't said hello to Miss Bottles yet. Howdy.
Deputy Dang: Heya JAM!
Deputy Dang: decolorized, ted turner, lololol
johan amadeus myjetski: LOL
Deputy Dang: I don't remember my trip to Mars.
johan amadeus myjetski: PKDick story about memory wiping
Deputy Dang: Which one? I've foudn PKDick challenging to read.
Cat: this is dependent on knowing the movies of the day
Deputy Dang: Or maybe I'm thinking UK Leguin(sp?)
Deputy Dang: Maybe it's a middle-K thing.
Cat: they went to Berkeley High School together
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'doctecazoid', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
doctecazoid: hey gamg
Cat: it's Doc!
DJ Tweeny: Yo Doc!
Beet: Hey, Doc
Deputy Dang: Howdy Doc!
doctecazoid: i've got like two minutes before i have to head downstairs for dinner
DJ Tweeny: whaddup dawg?
DJ Tweeny: Well, good you could stop in :)
doctecazoid: cat - i just pushed updates out. ready to unleash on the expectorant crowd?
Cat: i can have bio this evening
doctecazoid: ok, i'll leave it to you if you want to announce now or not.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Why does the porridge bird lay his egg in the air?"
doctecazoid: i fixed v/e credits, and added links to bio page
Cat: doc is talking about my new play, Vegas Egypt. It
Cat: It's done. Maybe we can premiere it here in 2 weeks
doctecazoid: sounds good.
llanwydd: how ya been doc?
Bottles: Killing time mixing to avoid going home. The neighbor is off her meds and having a small breakdown. Driving me nuts.
johan amadeus myjetski: this reminds me of that tim robbins movie The Player
doctecazoid: it has been an intense and intensive 6-7 weeks of production work
doctecazoid: started in earnest feb 1
Bottles: Good movie, Johan?
Cat: doc has done a fantastic job
Rufus T Firetween: Sorry to hear, Bottles :/
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "At your cervix."
johan amadeus myjetski: good evening Bottles!
doctecazoid: johan i lurrrve that movie - bought the soundtrack cd, it's so good.
llanwydd: got to get to publix. be back in about 20
johan amadeus myjetski: it's a movie about making movies. stars everybodsy who's anybody.
doctecazoid: it's a very meta altman flick - movie about movies
Rufus T Firetween: sounds like fun
doctecazoid: i'm being called to the dinner table, catch y'all later ttfn ttyl and all that crap
Bottles: Cool. Maybe it's on Youtube.
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, doctecazoid vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Cat: eat well, doc
Rufus T Firetween: later gator
johan amadeus myjetski: it's not 2001, but it's definitely worth a look
johan amadeus myjetski: right you are Doc!
Bottles: A local bookstore is going out of business - Cat, what was the book you recommended a month or 2 ago?
Beet: See you later, Doc
Bottles: It was by someone who's a very familiar name..
Cat: i reccomend books all the time
Bottles: Every book is a buck
Deputy Dang: Flowers For Algernon?
Bottles: OK. I'll look thru the records.
Deputy Dang: https://www.amazon.com/Buck-Book-Things-Dollar-Bill-Besides/dp/187825751X
Bottles: I'm set for reading material for the next year.
johan amadeus myjetski: i had to read Floweres for Algernon in 10th grade english class
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Not to be torturing me!"
Deputy Dang: It was optional for me, but my choice would affect my results on later essays.
Bottles: Johan, is that the one with Cliff Robertson as a mentally challenged person?
johan amadeus myjetski: catherwood,give everyone a groovy kind of feeling
||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone a groovy kind of feeling.
johan amadeus myjetski: the movie version, yes
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about Proctor & Bergman’s “POWER” at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=power-ln
Deputy Dang: It's a much better version of the meme than Lawnmower Man.
Beet: I actually enjoyed Lawnmower Man.
Beet: Long time ago.
johan amadeus myjetski: interesting visual effects!
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
Beet: This is fun.
DJ Tweeny: 'tis
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: Remember we changed our clocks, Catherwood.
||||||||| Catherwood ignores Beet
DJ Tweeny: what time is it catherwood?
||||||||| Catherwood says "It's 8:00 PM"
DJ Tweeny: Catherwood is on Mountain Time
||||||||| Catherwood says "It's 8:00 PM"
Beet: Which mountain?
johan amadeus myjetski: i'm just popping with POWAH!
Beet: cool
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
”FIRESIGN FUNGI (Part 1)”
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
check out Cat's Collages at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/
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Cat: Fantastic Fungi is truly fantastic. See it if you can. I watched it on netflix but it be elsewhere by now
DJ Tweeny: Got a link Cat?
johan amadeus myjetski: bob n ray!
johan amadeus myjetski: lol!
Cat: https://watch.fantasticfungi.com/
Cat: you might remember this from Digital Diner we heard
Cat: there's my daughter
Cat: she also has a few words in my new play
Cat: how time flys
Cat: you have new work tonight, bottles?
johan amadeus myjetski: tempis fairly well fugits, & that's a factoid
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cat: i had not known mushrooms were their own kingdom
Cat: when did we last hear ekyiw, tween? not so long ago, i think
johan amadeus myjetski: here's a link to fantasticfungi on utube:https://youtu.be/C7abxMxL4so
Rufus T Firetween: lemme check, Cat
Cat: Video is Unavailable
Bottles: Well Cat, sort of - getting April's show together. We need to record another shorty to combine with one of Jim's shorties.
johan amadeus myjetski: i am watching it on youtube now
Rufus T Firetween: September of last year, Cat
Bottles: Have to wait for our main actor's current local play to finish its run.
Bottles: He's playing Norman in On Golden Pond. He's awesome.
Rufus T Firetween: April 6 is Austin's birthday, so maybe play it around then Cat?
johan amadeus myjetski: yes, bottles, of course.cat said the video was unavailable
||||||||| Catherwood leads Deputy Dang into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
Cat: Good idea, Tween.
Deputy Dang: My cylium, you cylium, we all cilium for icylium!
Cat: I'm going to play it for a bunch of the actors at a party the following week
Bottles: Oh, I got the signal - is it talking about botany now?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I see your passport, please?"
Cat: this is a firesign show called Microorganism State Park
Bottles: Yay. Got it blasting thru good monitors now.
johan amadeus myjetski: botany bay?
Bottles: Wish they'd make shrooms legal here.
Cat: just in oregon, eh?
Deputy Dang: Oh, so many unsubstantated claims...
Bottles: Yea, and I think maybe Santa Cruz.
Deputy Dang: Shrooms are legal everywhere.
Bottles: Not the funny shrooms, Dang.
Deputy Dang: Have you ever heard of a shroom getting arrested or imprisoned?
Cat: lol
Bottles: I like the music.
Cat: it goes wonderfully with the visuals
johan amadeus myjetski: actually,i have. they were found guilty a sentenced to be fugicided. and they were. and they were no more. not in the pastures of my pyschodelic youth...
Deputy Dang: This is painful to hear.
johan amadeus myjetski: sad. moksha medicine abolished
llanwydd: amazingly my computer did not freeze in all the time I was gone
Bottles: I use CBD quite a bit.
llanwydd: I knew a guy who was usually known as shroom and he got areested occasionally
Bottles: But it's not as mind-feck-ish as shrooms.
llanwydd: so there has been at least one
Beet: I wish the Universe - including us - would get its shit together. C'mon!
llanwydd: be the change you want to see in the universe
Beet: If I could will the reversal of Climate Change I would.
llanwydd: so would I beet
Deputy Dang: $45ish https://www.shroomsupply.com/mushroom-grow-kits/mushroom-cultivation-kits
Beet: Let's you and I work on that one together, Llan.
Deputy Dang: oops
Bottles: Beet I heard today that some pseudo environmental group is claiming solar power causes cancer. Ha. turns out they're connected with a big coal company.
johan amadeus myjetski: i'm in too,beet.
johan amadeus myjetski: doesn't surprise me, bottles.
Beet: I should go gather recruits on Facebook or something.
Bottles: This sounds great, Cease!
Rufus T Firetween: from the RFD Chat >> ‘Humongous fungus' is almost as big as the Mall of America - https://www.science.org/content/article/humongous-fungus-almost-big-mall-america
Beet: I never came across the opportunity to do 'shrooms in my travels.
Bottles: But can you shop in this humongous fungus, Rufus?
Rufus T Firetween: heheh
Cat: it was kind of hard to find firesign to insert this because i didn't want to interrupt the flow of the flick
Cat: speaking of shopping, i'm going to this art installation in Vegas called Omega Mart
johan amadeus myjetski: sshhh! there's a fungus among us!
Rufus T Firetween: :)
llanwydd: dsfghj9oiyuhtgfhbu65euigluhgcfh
Beet: I agree.
Rufus T Firetween: gesundheit
llanwydd: lol
Cat: https://meowwolf.com/visit/las-vegas
llanwydd: thanks for the link, Cat
Beet: That looks very interesting,Cat.
johan amadeus myjetski: damn! i got carpenter ants in my place! whatr was the fungi?
Cat: the guy's name is Paul Stamets and he sells them. you can look him up and get the mushrooms
Bottles: Every home should have an aardvark Johan
Bottles: And they're so cute.
Beet: I saw him on Joe Rogan. Amazing guy.
Cat: https://fungi.com/
johan amadeus myjetski: i am prepared toenter negotiations with any aardvaark for their services...
Bottles: That sounds like a different Brown Shoes version than on Absolutely Free, Cease
Cat: no, its from that album, bottles
johan amadeus myjetski: Zappa.
Bottles: I LOVE that LP. My favorite Zappa/Mothers
johan amadeus myjetski: i thought it was from wild man fisher
Bottles: I heard Roy Estrada is serving time for nasty acts.
Cat: it had a big influence on Ossman in creating Electrician, Bottles
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This hasn't happened to me since 'M'!"
llanwydd: it is true bottles
Bottles: Really - I wonder what the influence was.
llanwydd: I first heard zappa on the dr demento show. I was impressed
llanwydd: I think I was in 8th grade
Cat: ossman talks about it in at least 2 of my collages, Bottles
Bottles: That's about how old I was when I first heard the Mothers Llanwydd.
Bottles: In 1968
johan amadeus myjetski: i first heard F Zappain my brother's bedroom. while he was at work. and never knew i was sneaking in & listening to 'We're Only In It For the Money'
llanwydd: it was either brown shoes or dont eat the yellow snow
llanwydd: those were the two in rotation on dr d
johan amadeus myjetski: i was 13 yo. it bent my widdle bwain!
||||||||| 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
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llanwydd: I used to record demento on my little AM radio
Cat: i'm hard at work on part 2 of this. have to have it finished and in Tweeny's hands before I leave in a few days
llanwydd: on a nyc radio station I dont remember the call letters
llanwydd: I lived about 40 miles from nyc
Beet: This was a very enjoyable Thursday Firesign. Nice to see everyone. Great collage, Dr Cease. I'm going to go look up the Mushroom show. Have fun in Vegas. Thanks, Dr Tween, for guiding us. G'Nite all.
Bottles: OK yall adios till next time.
Cat: i'm sure I'll be home for Hour 2 of the show next week
johan amadeus myjetski: one of your most unique collages, Cat! thankls!!
llanwydd: yeah thanks cat and tween. great show as always
Bottles: Thanks Kurt, Cat, & Merlyn!
||||||||| "Hey Bottles!" ... Bottles 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!"...
Rufus T Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Cat: i'll have part 2 for you by saturday, tween
DJ Tweeny: OK
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Not Ed', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Cat: just as we're signing off, not ed.
Not Ed: Better nate than lever!
Not Ed: Take care everyone!
llanwydd: Welcome Not Ed!
Cat: check out the archive, not. good show, as always
Not Ed: Sweet will do Cat
Not Ed: Hey llan
Not Ed: Best all!
||||||||| Cat is kicked out just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
DJ Tweeny: Until last time, again...
llanwydd: nite all
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, llanwydd vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| DJ Tweeny - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| cat 2 - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Beet - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 4:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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
Cat
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJ Tweeny
doctecazoid
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Not Ed
Rufus T Firetween
Tweeny
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=power-ln
http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=power-rv
http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
http://kurtericson.net/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://fungi.com/
https://meowwolf.com/visit/las-vegas
https://watch.fantasticfungi.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Buck-Book-Things-Dollar-Bill-Besides/dp/187825751X
https://www.science.org/content/article/humongous-fungus-almost-big-mall-america
https://www.shroomsupply.com/mushroom-grow-kits/mushroom-cultivation-kits
https://youtu.be/C7abxMxL4so



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