Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
04/06/2023

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||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:32 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for April 06, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Rufus T Firetween bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| 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 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 jaundice
||||||||| 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, April 06, 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?"
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Tweeny should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Tweeny enters and sits at the bar.
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and intones "Presenting 'DJTweeny', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Rufus T Firetween 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)
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)'
||||||||| 8:00 PM: llanwydd jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
llanwydd: Hey Tween
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL AUSTIN **
Currently playing: warm up music – BILLY JOEL-THE STRANGER
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)'
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and johan amadeus myjetski waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
llanwydd: Hey JAM
johan amadeus myjetski: hullo!
llanwydd: I bought this album about a year after it came out, if I remember right
DJTweeny: Evenin' johan, llan
DJTweeny: One of Joel's best imho
llanwydd: a classic album for sure
DJTweeny: I also really like Glass Houses
johan amadeus myjetski: i admire his songwriting, but was never really a fan. lovced his song about alletown. & the semi-rap song about the time magazine covers
Rufus T Firetween: Yeah, Allentown is a good anthem of the Rust Belt
johan amadeus myjetski: we didn't start the fire
Rufus T Firetween: another good one
llanwydd: I never bought another BJ album until, I think 1988 when I bought Streetlife Serenade on 8 Track because the used car I had just bought had an 8 track player
llanwydd: I like that album a lot
Rufus T Firetween: haha
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They're in everyone's eggs."
llanwydd: and I found Streetlife and Yesshows on sale together and bought them both
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I only lie, or I tell the truth. Heh - just lyin'."
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and announces "Presenting 'Merlyn', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
llanwydd: Allentown is another place I have been to often. I lived about fifty miles away for quite a while
Rufus T Firetween: There would be some serious track fading with YesShows on 8-tk
llanwydd: Hi Merlyn
Rufus T Firetween: Hey Merlyn
Rufus T Firetween: My first copy of Going For The One was on 8-tk
llanwydd: yeah there was track fading on Ritual
Rufus T Firetween: I had a portable boom box with an 8-tk player
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Cease into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
Rufus T Firetween: Used it when I was touring with a band in FL in '77
llanwydd: Hi Cease
Rufus T Firetween: allo Cease
llanwydd: you were in a band, tween? what did you play?
Merlyn: hey Ru
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I see your passport, please?"
Cease: can't get into the stream and my page is blinking again.
Rufus T Firetween: Soundman/Roadie
Merlyn: hey Cat
llanwydd: cool
johan amadeus myjetski: i never owned an 8-trk
Rufus T Firetween: with a 12-channel Yamaha console and a Roland Space Echo RE-201
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Meryl, hi Cat!
llanwydd: those were around for about ten years
johan amadeus myjetski: Rollie Space Echo was boss! i sold several when i worked at a music store 75 - 76
Rufus T Firetween: They were a good answer to the EchoPlex, with a reverb chamber and 3 plaback heads with a rotary dial for preset configurations
johan amadeus myjetski: i know - soooo mechanical!
Rufus T Firetween: very versatile for a tape echo
llanwydd: why dont I remember space echo
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I have proof I've been to ancient Greece, look at this grape!"
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving cat 2 coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and snorts derisively "Presenting 'InTheWood', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
llanwydd: hey woody
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "How does he make his voice do that?"
InTheWood: Good jukebox in this place... Hi, all!
cat 2: thankfully i have this ancient computer which still works
Rufus T Firetween: Hi Wood
johan amadeus myjetski: they disappeared when the first Lexicon digital units appeared in the early 80s
Merlyn: hey Wood
DJTweeny: Roland RE-201 Space Echo - https://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/re201.php
llanwydd: thanks tween
johan amadeus myjetski: they were basically obsoleted by the
johan amadeus myjetski: lexis
DJTweeny: My first digital was a DigiTech DSP-128
Cease: No problem getting sound on Tuesday
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL AUSTIN **
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)'
johan amadeus myjetski: digitech 128 was/is a nice sounding unit
Rufus T Firetween: a restaurant song to open the show ;)
Rufus T Firetween: grainy, but good for the money at the time
llanwydd: yeah. great song
Cease: i wonder why i can't get on here, and the screen keeps blinking. i turned the computer off and on and it's still blinking. not a good sign
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Rufus T Firetween: 320k stream is working fine
johan amadeus myjetski: and the 70s Yamaha boards werre nice & quiet! i had a Carvin 12 channel in those days
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Deputy Dang close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the Aviary.
Cease: aha. thanks, tween
llanwydd: hey dang
||||||||| Beet sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
Beet: Evening, Folks.
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL AUSTIN **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre's “ROLLER MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out ROLLER MAIDENS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rm-rv'
InTheWood: Hi, Beet.
Merlyn: hi Dang
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
Cease: Beet, Dang, Wood, Jammy, llan, Merl: hi
InTheWood: [tips hat]
Deputy Dang: Howdy doodies and doodettes!
johan amadeus myjetski: hullo Deputy
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL AUSTIN **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre's “ROLLER MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE”
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 ROLLER MAIDENS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rm-rv'
Beet: Hi, Dr Tween, Wood, Dr Cease, Jam, Llan, Merl, Deputy.
Merlyn: hey Beet
johan amadeus myjetski: hi beet!
DJTweeny: sorry didn't chang the post to the current stream offerings
Beet: And Happy Birthday, Phil.
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about ROLLER MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rm-ln
Deputy Dang: ass gas cash or grass; no one rides for free!
johan amadeus myjetski: not after 1976 anyway
Deputy Dang: good point. showing my age, i guess.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'doctecazoid', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Cease: i just noticed that was ossman's voice
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi doc!
Rufus T Firetween: Hey Doc
Cease: hey, it's the doc
doctecazoid: evening
InTheWood: Doc!
Cease: the producer of Vegas/Egypt and other fine Seem Real Theatre products
Beet: Howdy, doctecazoid
doctecazoid: i was in the neighborhood and thought i'd stop by
Rufus T Firetween: In the neighborhood of Fun Fun Town?
InTheWood: How're the roads?
doctecazoid: engulf & devour
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Not Ed jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Bottles', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
doctecazoid: two roads is right up the street, in stratford
Not Ed: Porque?
doctecazoid: local brewery
Cease: Not, Bottles
johan amadeus myjetski: well, exit now for the funway!
doctecazoid: yes they sell two roads in bottles
InTheWood: Gonna get me all excited, talkin like that.
doctecazoid: how they get those roads into bottles, i don't know
Beet: Hi, Bottles.
Bottles: Hiyas
johan amadeus myjetski: hi bottles!
Not Ed: Hey Botz
doctecazoid: i guess i missed the v/e premiere
Bottles: I can't stay long, got a zoom meeting at 7
doctecazoid: oh well
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Woodie - didn't see you there!
InTheWood: Keepin' close the the jukebox tonight.
Cease: no, it's in the 2nd hour, doc
Not Ed: Beet, C, DDang, Merl, Ruf, Tween, doctec!, JAM, ITW - what a bunch of Firehedz
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Ottawa hot air coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Cease: you'll miss my play, bottles. but it'll be posted online after the show
Not Ed: this is great 2 hear
Cease: Ottawa. the capitol!
llanwydd: howdy otta
Ottawa hot air: Cough, cough
DJTweeny: Hi Ottawa
Not Ed: Hey llan!
doctecazoid: bottles you can also hear it via https://seemreal.com
Merlyn: , hi Bottles, Doc
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Ottawa
DJTweeny: Hey Bottles, missed you joining
Bottles: Couldn't make it last week at all.
Cease: i was going to post that on Facebook post show, doc
Beet: Hello, Ottawa,
doctecazoid: merl - good ta see you here!
doctecazoid: ('see' being a metaphor or course)
Merlyn: Gey
Ottawa hot air: hmmm
Bottles: Woohoo shit kickin music
johan amadeus myjetski: nice turnout tonight!
Not Ed: Hi Ott
Not Ed: Wooohooo
Merlyn: hey Ottawa
llanwydd: I think Ottawa might be somebody I know who I invited to the chat
Cease: aha
llanwydd: some chance it is him
Not Ed: ahh
Merlyn: hey Not
Not Ed: hey Merl
Ottawa hot air: Oddily, see log, but not when chatting
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Not!
Not Ed: JAM!
DJTweeny: Hey Not Ed
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about ROLLER MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rm-ln
Not Ed: Big group 2 nite
doctecazoid: know ed?
doctecazoid: knot
Not Ed: Tweeny!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I see you are a sailor."
Merlyn: llan
doctecazoid: it's not a gang, it's a club!
Not Ed: Hey doctec!
doctecazoid: yo knot
Ottawa hot air: Why are we waiting? Shouldn't we be weighting?
llanwydd: gang, club...
||||||||| 8:00 PM: coda jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
doctecazoid: i'm wailing right now
llanwydd: weighting on watt
Merlyn: c
Rufus T Firetween: 'M-A-R-X... I-S-T... TV Family.....'
doctecazoid: who's whaling on moby's ... never mind.
DJTweeny: Hey coda
coda: hi all
Not Ed: back to the coda
doctecazoid: morse coda?
Merlyn: hey Coda
Cease: ah, coda, from Tuesday
coda: just so you know kurt, for what ever reason, you're not on rfd
Cease: ah, the Jamaican
doctecazoid: aren't you over that coda yet?
InTheWood: Rum and Coda, Cease?
coda: and it's coda from tuesday
llanwydd: I was about to say...youve had a coda since tuesday?
doctecazoid: zoltan codalay
doctecazoid: (kodaly)
Not Ed: haha
llanwydd: lol
Bottles: I'm coming down with a nasty coda myself.
coda: really love fst
doctecazoid: better bottle that up - quick!
Not Ed: achoo?
InTheWood: Gesundheit!
Deputy Dang: It was hotter than Heater in Hooker.
Bottles: Yeah, making some pseudo chicken soup.
coda: now you're live on rfd
Cease: this is the firesign chat show.
doctecazoid: i tell ya, watching the noose, one of austin's lines in 3 faces comes to mind...
InTheWood: No sense in denying it at this point.
doctecazoid: "i hate rich people! i have them and their stupid problems!"
llanwydd: I always liked that line, doc
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Open up, your door knocker fell off!"
doctecazoid: i haven't heard roller maidens in a long time ... so brilliant!
Cease: tis
coda: allright all, just wanted to pop in, kurt, good show so far, night all
doctecazoid: coda is coda-ing
Cease: by coda
Beet: Come back again, coda.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I had to think for a minute ... what cruel game was he playing?"
doctecazoid: good luck with the zooooom
Not Ed: Later alligator
Cease: johnny fresno= peter bergman
Not Ed: oh yaa
doctecazoid: roller maidens is the most 'firesign' of the solo albums
doctecazoid: don't get me wrong, i love 'em all
Cease: you think so?
Rufus T Firetween: Thanks for stopping by coda
InTheWood: Who's missing, then? Proctor?
Not Ed: B A R T H Y - H I P P D A Y - P H I L - A U S T I N
doctecazoid: and i think given their different humor styles, they needed to get those solo albums out of their system in order to start working together again
Cease: could be, doc
Rufus T Firetween: ** Alan Gross' tribute to Phil Austin - http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/philaustin/
Not Ed: cool doc makes sense
Rufus T Firetween: ** PHIL AUSTIN at Wikipedia >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Austin
Rufus T Firetween: ** PHIL AUSTIN at the Firesign Theatre web site >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Austin
Rufus T Firetween: ** PHIL AUSTIN'S “Blog Of The Unknown” >> https://philaustinblogofunknown.wordpress.com/
Not Ed: Awesome Ruf
doctecazoid: what i wanna know is: when is god coming back from vacation?
Not Ed: the Blog was/is wonderful - cripes I miss the guy
Cease: elayne had a line about the brooklyn dodgers moving to lA: they're just on a really long road trip
Cease: so do we all, not
doctecazoid: cat: priceless.
Not Ed: nice band!
Not Ed: who's drumming?
Not Ed: ace
InTheWood: hot hot hot!
cat 2: austin had a lot of musician friends
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about ROLLER MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rm-ln
Not Ed: ohh I bet yeah
InTheWood: Guitarist, wasn't he?
Rufus T Firetween: band personnel list is probably there ^^
doctecazoid: ebbets fields forever
Bottles: are there other FT persons on this LP?
Not Ed: yeah he had that Gibson Hummingbird lots pretty guitar
Merlyn: yrd
Rufus T Firetween: yes Bottles
Cease: we just heard bergman as johnny fresno, bottles
Cease: ossman was an announcer earlier
Merlyn: yes
Rufus T Firetween: "Among the voice talent featured on this album are fellow Firesign members Peter Bergman and David Ossman."
Bottles: cool
||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Ottawa hot air - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Not Ed: that's a great audio form
Not Ed: two voice music
doctecazoid: steel guitar, acoustic & electric guitars: donald beck
Not Ed: oh wow
doctecazoid: the music credits are not anywhere on the laugh.com release
Not Ed: studio musician played with a lot of folks
doctecazoid: they were included in the album, in the form of a letter written to mr. horace t. frogge from manny thoughts, manager of red greenback and the blue boys
johan amadeus myjetski: has this happened to me sice "M"?
Not Ed: don beck
Not Ed: lol
johan amadeus myjetski: since
InTheWood: No, JAM. No, it has not.
doctecazoid: bass: charles larkey
Cease: indian death match interview indeed
doctecazoid: drums, washboard: joe vaccaro
doctecazoid: piano skip edwards
doctecazoid: accordion: pete jolley
Bottles: Cease one of the local theaters put on Between Heaven and Hell last weekend. A bunch of one-act plays.
doctecazoid: fiddle: bobby bruce
Not Ed: catherwood bring everyone a corn cob pipe and some Old Toby
||||||||| Catherwood hands everyone a corn cob pipe and some old toby.
Cease: wow. great news, bottles
doctecazoid: bg vocals: oona elliot, lesley gore
johan amadeus myjetski: squeeze box & warshboard
Not Ed: awesome huh JAM
Bottles: Wow Leslie Gore was a big name.
Not Ed: 4 sure
johan amadeus myjetski: wasn't 'oona (or Una) mama cass's first name?
Not Ed: the ozzie guy is hilarious
doctecazoid: oona later married phil
Not Ed: there's DO
Cease: indeed
Bottles: Hmm. I thought it was Naomi Johan?
Bottles: I mean Naomi, Johan.
InTheWood: And what about Naomi?
johan amadeus myjetski: maybe so.my memory's not what it was before "M".
Bottles: Cass's real first name. Not sure.
Merlyn: hi Naoni
Cease: you mean it wasn't Mama?
johan amadeus myjetski: lol, Cat
Bottles: Ellen Naomi Cohen
Cease: i have an interview bergman did with her on the 67 oz show.
doctecazoid: ozzie: richard paul
doctecazoid: afaik
Cease: paul did a lot of stuff with assorted firesigns
Bottles: I don't think she liked the name Mama very much.
Not Ed: thanks docT
doctecazoid: richard paul was on how time flys as well
doctecazoid: i'm just a fount of perpetual revelation
Not Ed: oh cool
Cease: and some other ossman stuff
johan amadeus myjetski: i don't think i ever heard mama's full real name before, bottles
Not Ed: lol that's fine!
Cease: the great bergman voice
Not Ed: (doc)
Bottles: Mama Cass is like Beatle John. After the band broke up, it's lame.
Not Ed: the whole fam loved mama
Beet: Cass had one of the best voices ever.
Not Ed: truly beet
doctecazoid: truth, beet
johan amadeus myjetski: she had a great ear for harmony, fer sure!
Not Ed: yeah
doctecazoid: "i'll find out what channel you're on and i'll hunt you down..." - priceless
llanwydd: edrfytgubyhinuojmik,juhygt
johan amadeus myjetski: equaled only by harry nilsson, & karen carpenter
Bottles: OK Gotta bail. See yaz
llanwydd: I first heard Mama in 4th grade
doctecazoid: i'm just wild about harry!
llanwydd: Make your own kind of music....
||||||||| Bottles runs out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Bottles?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
llanwydd: we sang that in our house too
InTheWood: Must be: Interested in sex, miracles, etc.
doctecazoid: see me smile
Not Ed: aww yeah
InTheWood: ...Yes, that's very nice...
doctecazoid: classic
johan amadeus myjetski: roll credits
Not Ed applauds
DJTweeny: Wonderful album
doctecazoid: then roll the creditors
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL AUSTIN **
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)'
Beet: cool
Not Ed: Yay Phil
Cease: that's almost 50 years old
Beet: G'Nite, Bottles
InTheWood: Yay food!
Cease: where is this from, tween?
doctecazoid: e. l. ambra
Not Ed: We're all hungry
doctecazoid: south north street - heh
Merlyn: nite Bottles
DJTweeny: Doc's Dear Friends Too, Cat :)
Cease: aha
Cease: i should listen to that more often
Not Ed: haha great bit
Cease: this is very good intro to my play
Not Ed: NPR?
Cease: mostly descriptions of food and booze
DJTweeny: yeah Ed
Cease: yep
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600"
DJTweeny: and this is from P&B's Give Us A Break
Not Ed: cool I need to listen to those again!
Not Ed: ahh Tanx Tween
Cease: found an rfo from 1978. you'll be hearing a big chunk of it in my new collage, in a couple of weeks
Cease: the whole show was about food
Rufus T Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show. If you'd like to make a small contribution to help with the server fees, there's a PayPal link to donate here >> http://dishnuts.net
Cease: even has a scene in Vegas
doctecazoid: oh dear the station is broken
Deputy Dang: Omg thank you. I was waiting for some loud static!
DJTweeny: lol
||||||||| New notice: ' ** HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL AUSTIN **
Currently playing - Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “VEGAS/EGYPT”
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 PLAYS AT >> https://www.seemreal.com/seemreal-selections.html'
Not Ed: eat static!
doctecazoid: si
||||||||| Bunnyboy sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Cease: I approve of you new intro to the play, doc
Bunnyboy: Lo dere
Cease: coming in on a plane.
doctecazoid: thanx - your dvd provided the inspiration
Cease: hey bunny. you're just in time for my new play
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Surrounded by a thin thin thin 16mm shell. And inside, it's delicious!"
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about Cat’s play “VEGAS/EGYPT” at >> https://www.seemreal.com/vegas-egypt-credits.html
DJTweeny: Hey Bunny
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Bunn!
Merlyn: hi Bunnyboy
doctecazoid: hey bb
InTheWood: Ah yes, my Bunnyboy.
Bunnyboy: Hiya!
doctecazoid: great scott!
johan amadeus myjetski: elementary, my dear doctor!
Cease: i had real difficulty finding a good gin tonic in my recent vegas trip
doctecazoid: cat, check out fever tree tonic - it's the nazz!!
doctecazoid: speaking of food, i'm being paged - late dinner at chez lili
Cease: yeah, the two good GTs I had both used fever tree. we can get it here
doctecazoid: y'all enjoy the play
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: that's my 8 year old daughter, from 1987.
johan amadeus myjetski: nite, doc!
doctecazoid: nice to hear it in a streaming context - mix seems to hold up well
Cease: enjoy your meal, doc
Bunnyboy: Hi lili!
Bunnyboy: Hi lo
doctecazoid: ttfn ttyl yada yada
doctecazoid: i'm ready for a nytol
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs doctecazoid by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Cease: this is the great Richard Fish
Cease: here's LLan
Cease: here's Doc
Rufus T Firetween: There are hotels in Vegas w/o casinos?
Not Ed: oops need to go
Not Ed: it's so good to see you all
Rufus T Firetween: Later Not
Not Ed: so much fun tonight
johan amadeus myjetski: nite, Not!
Not Ed: thanks T, R & M
Not Ed: Nite all!
Cease: by not
Cease: there are, tween
Merlyn: nite Not'
Cease: doc found this fine radio buy, Harry Minot to do this.
llanwydd: LOL
Cease: he was also the narrator in my production We're All Doomed which Ossman asked me to do
llanwydd: This is hilarious
InTheWood: Is anyone else hungry now?
llanwydd: lol
Rufus T Firetween: lol @ "What do lentils give up for lent?"
johan amadeus myjetski: waiter! an alka-seltzer, please!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Open up, your door knocker fell off!"
johan amadeus myjetski: what *is* your favorite color?
Cease: obligatory python ref
Cease: " i hope i don't have to fight a murderous rabbit"
Rufus T Firetween: Holy Grail
Deputy Dang: I'm sorry. This has been great. I've been up for 16+ hours. Cheers and friends benefits! But good night. Thank you especially to Cease and Tweeny.
||||||||| Deputy Dang says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Deputy Dang exits at 8:00 PM.
Cease: by dang
johan amadeus myjetski: Nite, DD!
InTheWood: G'night, Dang. Sleep well.
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about Cat’s play “VEGAS/EGYPT” at >> https://www.seemreal.com/vegas-egypt-credits.html
Merlyn: nite Dang
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right."
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'DJ Tweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
johan amadeus myjetski: Nancy - you're back!
Cease: Welcome back, Mrs Haber
DJ Tweeny: allo again
InTheWood: Nancy, Nancy, it's a success!
Bunnyboy: Gotta go. Cheers!
johan amadeus myjetski: you'll have to have them all pulled out, after the savoy truffles
johan amadeus myjetski: nite BB!
InTheWood: Ah yes, my Bunnyboy...
Cease: by bunny
||||||||| Bunnyboy says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Bunnyboy exits at 8:00 PM.
Cease: that was doc' partner Lili
Cease: i just had the same soup in recent trip to vegas. much better this time. more truffly
||||||||| 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 Beet1 disembarks at 8:00 PM.
Cease: lots of research went into this
||||||||| It's 2:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
DJ Tweeny: And yet, I'm still here...
johan amadeus myjetski: the reports of your recent death were greatly exaggerated?
DJ Tweeny: indeed
llanwydd: LOL
llanwydd: this is me
Cease: you were wonderful, llan
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I say Live it, or Live With It!"
llanwydd: thanks, cat
||||||||| It's 2:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| coda - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Beet1: coda is dead from too much repetition.
Rufus T Firetween: nice :)
johan amadeus myjetski: i repeat myself when under pressure i repeat myself when under pressure i repeat myself...
Beet1: lol
InTheWood: Snap out of it man!
Rufus T Firetween: a monkey in a silk suit is still a monkey in a silk suit is still a monkey in a silk suit
Rufus T Firetween: forget who's album that was
johan amadeus myjetski: king crimson
Rufus T Firetween: Duke Williams And The Extremes
Rufus T Firetween: It was in a circle on the album cover
||||||||| 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'
llanwydd: wonderful play, cat
Rufus T Firetween: Very nice work, Cat :)
johan amadeus myjetski: love love love to all! great play Cat really great! thabks!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Wake up - and consider your only logical choice."
Beet1: Good Thursday night. Thanks everyone. Very interesting play, Dr Cease. Thanks for guiding, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
Cease: Thanks folks
Rufus T Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Merlyn: nite all
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Merlyn, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the brambles.
Cease: No idea about next week but should have new vegas collage in a couple of weeks
Cease: by merl
InTheWood: G'night, all. Thanks!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: talk to you off line, tween. by wood
DJ Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| InTheWood is thrown out the window just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
Cease: is it beginning? no, it's the end.
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Cease walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, llanwydd vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| It's 3:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet1 - dead from the common cold
||||||||| DJ Tweeny - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from jaundice
||||||||| cat 2 - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Beet - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Tweeny - 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:
Beet1
Beet
Bottles
Bunnyboy
cat 2
Cease
coda
Deputy Dang
DJ Tweeny
DJTweeny
doctecazoid
InTheWood
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
Not Ed
Ottawa hot air
Rufus T Firetween

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http://dishnuts.net
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www.kurtericson.net/firesign
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