Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
05/04/2023

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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 May 04, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| 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 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 6:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, May 04, 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, "Rufus_T_Firetween should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Rufus_T_Firetween enters and sits on the divan.
||||||||| 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
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Tweeny, just back from Hellmouth."
||||||||| 8:00 PM: DJ Tweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – PATRICK MORAZ-HUMAN INTERFACE
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)'
||||||||| 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 Cease disembarks at 8:00 PM.
DJ Tweeny: allo Cease
||||||||| Catherwood enters with cat 2 close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the Aviary.
cat 2: hey
Rufus_T_Firetween: How are things in Vanland?
Cease: i have 2 kpfk rfos from 1978. we heard a big chunk of one in the first vegas collage. we'll hear the whole show next week, and another one in the following week
Cease: Hot. it's gone from winter to summer overnight
Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl
Cease: they're both 1 hour long
Cease: should have my Meow of the Wolf Movie collage ready by next week
Cease: asked taylor about them several times but he never answered
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Buzzy and Bunny K. coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Cease: hi buzzy and bunny
DJ Tweeny: Hey Crumhungers (one of my fav FST bits :)
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Howdy, finally found the comment line! Buuny's whipping up some blue moss, be here shortly
Cease: first time here?
Buzzy and Bunny K.: I heard from Phil today, having lots of fun in Palermo
Cease: very spacey music
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Yes, 1st time
DJ Tweeny: cool
Cease: we have a Palermo Pizza parlous here in north vancouver. that's as close as i'll ever get to palermo
DJ Tweeny: We're Glad You Made It!
Buzzy and Bunny K.: HAha same here
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging Merlyn by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
Cease: Hi Merl
DJ Tweeny: Hey Merlyn
Buzzy and Bunny K.: I had a comedy radio show years ago, I would start it with the "Welcome to the future" clip
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Shoes for Industry! Shoes for the Dead!"
DJ Tweeny: nice, Buzzy
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
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16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
Merlyn: Hey all
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Beet', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Beet: Hey, Gang.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I see your passport, please?"
Beet: Hey, Gang.
DJ Tweeny: Yo Beet
Beet: Hi, Dr Tween
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: Beety
Beet: Hey, Dr Cease, Merl, Buzzy and Bunny.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Xtras collection
“AL ATLAS INTERVIEW”
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 DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?'
Cease: from their 1970 tour. there weren't many of them
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'ModeratleyGinchy', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Cease: Hi LA
DJ Tweeny: Hi Ginchy
ModeratleyGinchy: Hi DJ Tween!
Beet: Hi, Ginch
ModeratleyGinchy: Hiya Beet!
Merlyn: Hey M
ModeratleyGinchy: So Al Atlas... they're in Marakesh? Sorry to ask. Unclear.
||||||||| Catherwood leads Barney* into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Not Ed should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Not Ed enters and sits on the divan.
Cease: Hi Not
Not Ed: Wazz real
DJ Tweeny: They're on the Marakesh Express
DJ Tweeny: Hey Not
Not Ed: Hey C
Barney*: Hi! I'm Barney*
Barney*: It's hard to tap your toes in high heeled rubber shoes!
Beet: Howdy, Not
Not Ed: Hey Tweeny
Not Ed: Wazzup Beet
Cease: Barn E.
DJ Tweeny: Hi Barney
Not Ed: & Merl
Merlyn: HI Barney, Not
||||||||| Catherwood leads Bottles inside, makes a note of the time (8:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
DJ Tweeny: Hey Bottles
Bottles: hey
Cease: Bottles
Not Ed: Barn, B&B, Mod, and RUFUS
ModeratleyGinchy: So cool
Not Ed: Hi Botts!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Hour Hour broadcast collection
“THIS IS ONE AVANT-GARDE SCRIPT YOU WON'T GET OUT OF”
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 DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS at >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/duke-of-madness-motors-the-complete-dear-friends-radio-era-1970-1972-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc?rq=DUKE%20OF%20MADNESS'
ModeratleyGinchy: Very cool CAT!
Merlyn: Hey Bottles
Not Ed: Awesome
Cease: I had a pretty good tape recorder in those days. I arrived in lA in early June and was able to record the last 6 Hour Hours from my parent's excellent tuner, so the quality is very good.
Not Ed: Nice
Cease: as far as I know, the last 6 Hour HOurs are from my collection. I sent them to Taylor
Not Ed: Cool
Cease: i'm annoyed that Lots of people didn't take these shows. there were many people, including my friends, who had tape recorders and listened to the radio shows
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You can wait here in the sitting room, or you can sit here in the waiting room."
Cease: tape
Beet: Hi, Bottles.
Beet: Hello, Barney*
Not Ed: Barn-E
Cease: you would not be able to say "nip" on the radio anymore.
Not Ed shifts.
ModeratleyGinchy: No, but I just doed laughing because of that... was so not expecting it
Cease: but it was a different time.
Not Ed: indeederoo
ModeratleyGinchy: It should be about nothing but intent... and there's no intent to hurt there
Cease: when i was in first grade at Chandler Elementrary School in 1957, we were given pencils. the eraser was labeled "for rubbing out Nips"
Cease: no doubt left over from ww2
Not Ed: yeah
ModeratleyGinchy: Okay, that's just xenophobic... and NOT funny
ModeratleyGinchy: on kid's pencils?
Cease: first grade, yep
Rufus_T_Firetween: yikes Cease :(
Cease: 1957 not so far from ww2.
Not Ed: yep pretty sad
Not Ed: catherwood give everyone a kitten
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone a kitten.
Cease: there was no next week. this was their last show
Not Ed: ahh
Bottles: whad I miss?
Bottles: Oh goody a kitten from Catherwood!
||||||||| Catherwood steps alongside Bottles and says "Typing my name just to rile me, eh?"
Cease: the Old Lady they are referring to is the same woman who was with Harry on The Years in Your Ears, on Mark Tinme
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Bottles' SCRATCHED UP RADIO THEATER at >> https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater
Bottles: Yet another computer in my place to trip over.
Not Ed: heehee
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-rv
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is Major Hit in the cockpit of the Enola McLuhan."
Not Ed: wasn't "Blue Smog" a band?
Bottles: OK Rufas, I'll do that, thanks!. 2 of our best actors in a play tonight.
Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl
Not Ed: Rufus is ON IT
Cease: that's from 8, right?
Bottles: I think that was Glue Smog, Not Ed. Even worse.
Not Ed: Hahaha
Not Ed: lol Botts truly
ModeratleyGinchy: Grew up here in LA and we couldn't go out and play during recess due to smog. No longer. One of the few things better now... very few.
||||||||| Catherwood steals 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 anteroom...
ModeratleyGinchy: I know smog has another meaning here... just... an odd memory.
Tweeny: Blue Cheer
DJ Tweeny: Welcome johan
johan amadeus myjetski: Hiyas evrybody!
Beet: Hey, Mr j.a.m.
||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Barney* - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Beet: smoke on the water?
Bottles: Hi Johan
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "More coffee, warden?"
Not Ed: Bergman is cracking me up
johan amadeus myjetski: has he dyed those ties by now?
Not Ed: Hey JAM
Not Ed: follow the rubber line to your seat
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi Bottles, Beet, Not!
Beet: Feels like a big hand.
Bottles: This must be kind of old, hard panned stereo. And me with only hifi sound. Can't hear Bergman
Cease: Jammy
johan amadeus myjetski: I couldn't find my seat with a rubber line & a hologram...
Not Ed: 2. 3. 4.
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Cease!
Cease: it was a stereo broadcast. kppc-fm
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed points.
Bottles: I have my sound going thru a Peavey PA, turned up to 1. Fidelity is great. But it
Bottles: s Mono.
Not Ed: what type of echo maker is that?
Not Ed: depands on the year
Bottles: probably tape echo with a R to Reel
johan amadeus myjetski: it sounds like an old Echoplex
Cease: 1970
Not Ed: echoplex like?
Not Ed: yeah probably C
johan amadeus myjetski: then it was an echoplex
Bottles: Oh, right, tape would just be one echo.
Not Ed: yeah
Not Ed: they're fun i dunno if they still make them - fx are digital now
Buzzy and Bunny K.: was this show recorded at KPCC?
Not Ed: good point
Cease: no, on my taperecorder.
Bottles: Echoplexes were awesome! Echoplex for sure
Not Ed: loved em
Not Ed: never had one
Bottles: which was tape echo
johan amadeus myjetski: the echoplex could do THREE, 'cos it had 3 playback heads which could be move3d spread out to make longer echoes.
Merlyn: Hi JAM
Not Ed: Brian may used like 3 of them I heard he'd play multipart solos and such wiff it
johan amadeus myjetski: a fabulous machine, but a bit expensive at the time ($300+)
Bottles: You could record a band, then stop playing, set it to playback, then take a break while it replays.
Not Ed: ohh wow
johan amadeus myjetski: Greets, Merlyn!
Not Ed: JAM
Bottles: I saw a band do that, then they climbed into a car and drove off. Outside show.
Bottles: And the music kept playing
Not Ed: we used to make tape loops when we were kids with dad's gear
Rufus_T_Firetween: Buzzy and Bunny K.: was this show recorded at KPCC? << KPFC lost a lot of their archives in a fire, right Cat?
Bottles: Yeah,Ed it was like tripping.
johan amadeus myjetski: Jethro Tull did that on their Passion Play tour, at the end of the album
Not Ed: and do sound on sound and speed stuff and what not
Not Ed: yes JAM
Bottles: Get real buzzed, and play with sound with sound
Not Ed: Cool Bottles
Bottles: Or maybe it was sound on sound. I don't know the differece
Not Ed: sculpting air is fun
Cease: there's that np again
Not Ed: no erasing
Cease: nipping at our heels
Not Ed: lol
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Hello, we're glad you made it!"
Bottles: I'd do that during pledge drive with the station's reel to reel. We made pledge drives fun and crazy
Cease: i lived in nippon for most of the 70s-80s and got to play Firesign on the national radio station in 74-75
Bottles: Whats Nippon?
Cease: the Japanese word for Japan.
johan amadeus myjetski: japan to you & me
Not Ed: Japan
Bottles: oh ok
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Indonesia for the Indonesians!"
Not Ed blushes
Cease: also called Nihon.
||||||||| 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 Barney* gets out at 8:00 PM.
Cease: Nippon was the favoured pronunciation during ww2 as it could be said more emphatically in speechs
johan amadeus myjetski: hello Barney!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "There's a seeker born every minute!"
Bottles: A lot of sake consumed there, Cease?
Cease: after the war, Nihon was preferred because of that war time association
Not Ed: Welcome Barn-E
Not Ed: re-Welcome
johan amadeus myjetski: oh for heaven's sake, Bottles! ;)
Bottles: I wonder where the word Japan came from
Not Ed: me too
Cease: i'm surfe google could tell you. i'm just telling you stuff i remember from my yeasrs there
Bottles: I like sake. We have card parties with a traveling bottle of sake.
johan amadeus myjetski: Where's your school sake, Cease?
Not Ed: sounds fun
Cease: you know the sake scene from A Child's Garden of Grass?
Cease: Bergman was inthat
Rufus_T_Firetween: I used to like Hakusturu sake (sp?)
Bottles: No Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: a warm cup of sake is good in the winter
Cease: i see japan is exporting better sake these days. a good thing.
Not Ed: I'll have to get some again
johan amadeus myjetski: haven't thought about that in years, Cease! but i do remember it
Merlyn: ya
Cease: i had a flight of sakes at a japanese restaurants a few weeks back.
Rufus_T_Firetween: 'flight' ?
johan amadeus myjetski: a whole flock of 'em? wow!
Cease: I did a collage based on it. It may have been called In the Garden.
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
Cease: flkight is 3 of something.
Rufus_T_Firetween: a triplane of alcohol
Cease: for comparison. stores sell flights of beers, ciders, wines and now sake
Rufus_T_Firetween: as opposed to a case?
Cease: that's what you can get in liquor stores. this was a restaurant so it had better sakes
johan amadeus myjetski: i not current on potent potables...
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Gee Mom, isn't that bridge built yet?"
Cease: a case is a box (16?) of the same thing. a flight is 3 different things
Not Ed: whoosh Ruf
Rufus_T_Firetween: ah, 3 _different_ things
Rufus_T_Firetween: interesting
Buzzy and Bunny K.: do you guys know... new belgium- Fat Tire- was sold to Kirin of japan.
Buzzy and Bunny K.: they changed fat tire into bud lite. I live in Ft. Collins
Cease: my fave beers are belgians. never liked Kirin.
Cease: La Duchesse de Bourgogne is the best I've ever tasted.
Buzzy and Bunny K.: they should rename it bear whiz- better sales
Bottles: Oh good, I love calliope music
cat 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchesse_de_Bourgogne
Beet: Was there a moment of silence in Canada for the passing of Gordon Lightfoot?
Cease: he was a national treasure
ModeratleyGinchy: Yeah, that got to me. Didn't think about the Canadian connection. Forgot he was from there.
Bottles: CBC had a great Q show about him yesterday
Cease: VERY Canadian.
Cease: often listen to Q
ModeratleyGinchy: Well, he reigned over So Cal radio
Beet: Bob Dylan's favorite singer-songwriter.
Rufus_T_Firetween: wow, didn't know that about Dylan
Bottles: Dylan recorded Early Morning Rain.
Cease: I saw him at UCLA when I was a student there in 69, i think.
Beet: They used to hang out. They were buddies.
Bottles: Which is my favorite lightfoot song, and Canadian Railroad Trilogy
Cease: lightfoot had the best voice and dylan the worst. elvis's cover of Rain wasn't bad
Cease: i lvoe that, bottles
Merlyn: ya
Cease: some quote from dylan yesterday: iiked every sone of his.
ModeratleyGinchy: Wow. That's a name form the past.
Bottles: Dylan had a good voice in 1970 or so when it was recorded
Bottles: after he quit smoking
Cease: dyaln Never had a good voice. lightfoot's was angelic
Buzzy and Bunny K.: P.A. mentioned KPCC, this was taped there, 2 floors underground
DJ Tweeny: FST's 'Dylan At The Met' (EOBE) is hilarious
Bottles: Listen to Nashville Skyline Cease/
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: you can hear the sound quality diminishing here. my parents lived at the top of the hills and reception, even on their very good tuner, was not 100 %
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: oh, i see your point, bottles. certainly an improvement.
Not Ed: Hour Hour (hour hour)
johan amadeus myjetski: Our Hour?
Not Ed: Nashville Skyline is nice
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They never come up into the hills."
Cease: didnt care for the tunes, but the singing is good, by dylan standards.
Cease: disllike country music in general.
johan amadeus myjetski: Desire was my favorite Dylan. but i wouldn't rate myself as a big Dylan fan.
ModeratleyGinchy: Can't believe you recorded it from your folk's house.
Cease: Black Diamond Bay was the last Dylan song I loved. that was long ago
Cease: yep
Cease: hey, yall see my Tom Robbins quote on Facebook today?
Cease: A direct connection to WC Fields Forever, though perhaps unintentinonal
Rufus_T_Firetween: I like what Hendrix did with All Along The Watchtower. A great Dylan tune, but Hendrix brought it to life.
Not Ed: no i lost u for a while
ModeratleyGinchy: I DID!
Cease: the book Tibet peach pie was written or published in 2014.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's llanwydd, just back from Billville."
llanwydd: howdy
Beet: Hey, llan.
DJ Tweeny: Hey llan
Bottles: I looked for Robbins at the library. NOTHING in print there, Cease. I couldnt believe it.
Cease: me too, tween. i think my favourite dyan cover, tied with jarrett's My Back Pages
DJ Tweeny: 'late as usual...' lol
Cease: our 2 local libraries have between them a dozen of his books. afterfinish peach pie, i got Frog PJs out today
llanwydd: dylan cover? what were you talking about before I came in?
llanwydd: or is that a moshe dyan cover
Merlyn: hey kkan
llanwydd: one or the oddyer
Cease: hi llan
Merlyn: llan
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I take your hat and goat?"
llanwydd: hey Cat
Not Ed: Hey llan
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It was hotter than Hooker in Heater today, and hotter than Heater in Hellmouth."
llanwydd: hey Moyl
johan amadeus myjetski: howdy, llan!
ModeratleyGinchy: I sitll think Another Roadside Attraction is my favorite, Cease
llanwydd: howdy JAM
ModeratleyGinchy: Maybe because it was my first
Cease: i re-read it last week and it blew me away
Cease: lastyear,not week
ModeratleyGinchy: It is so much fun
ModeratleyGinchy: I was enamored
Cease: first time in 50s year. what a wonderful surprise
ModeratleyGinchy: I should go find mine
Cease: but read Skinny Legs in Vegas and loved it more. will start Frog tonight
ModeratleyGinchy: I stole it from the library but didn't mean to
llanwydd: fofty years is a long time
llanwydd: fifty
Cease: his work wiill last centuries
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Inferior people should not be employed."
llanwydd: but the firesign theatre have gone on longer than that
johan amadeus myjetski: tree fitty, llan?
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Llanwydd, croeso!
llanwydd: fie dollahs
Buzzy and Bunny K.: and bora dda
llanwydd: hey b and b
ModeratleyGinchy: This is like talking relatives...
Cease: tis
Cease: this is so new york
ModeratleyGinchy: 8lol*
johan amadeus myjetski: i got fie, can i get fie fitty?
ModeratleyGinchy: Was this planned or accidental?
llanwydd: lol
Not Ed: haha
ModeratleyGinchy: How can anyone talk this long, this concisely?
ModeratleyGinchy: Or do you think it's edited?
Cease: no. i'ts live. i was taping it.
ModeratleyGinchy: LIVE?
ModeratleyGinchy: That's insane.
Cease: yep. told ya often enough
Not Ed: LOL
ModeratleyGinchy: Not insane
Not Ed: have you been drinking Phil - well yes
Merlyn: LIVE
Not Ed: haha
Not Ed: LIVE
llanwydd: catherwood, get everybody a dfvgybhnujmmnhvbgyhnjmk,kmnbc
||||||||| Catherwood gets everybody a dfvgybhnujmmnhvbgyhnjmk kmnbc.
llanwydd: hanks cathy
johan amadeus myjetski: rushing regularly - highly recommended
llanwydd: I mean thanks
Beet: Why, thanks, Catherwood.
||||||||| Catherwood strides alongside Beet and queries "Someone mention my name?"
Not Ed: mmm I just love a hot tall mug of dfvgybhnujmmnhvbgyhnjmk,kmnbc!
Beet: Refreshing.
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone a case of dfvgybhnujmmnhvbgyhnjmk,kmnbc
||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone a case of dfvgybhnujmmnhvbgyhnjmk kmnbc.
Cease: i think i saw that park
Beet: That'll keep me going for awhile.
llanwydd: lol
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Close the door, and the light stays on!"
ModeratleyGinchy: Groat cakes for me
Not Ed: I'll say
johan amadeus myjetski: is this a disease, Not?
Not Ed: catherwood give moderatleyginchy a plate of hot buttered groat cases
||||||||| Catherwood gets moderatleyginchy a plate of hot buttered groat cases.
ModeratleyGinchy: Thank you Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood answers "You're very welcome!"
Not Ed: Indeed it is
Beet: The groats come in a case, now?
ModeratleyGinchy: lol... come in quarts and short
ModeratleyGinchy: shorts
ModeratleyGinchy: and cases
llanwydd: no, in the plain brown can
cat 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Groat
johan amadeus myjetski: see Jimmy in the back...
Not Ed: buckwheat groat is nothing to just throw around
Beet: Get them at Costco.
Cease: tommy davis was my Dodger and groat was his close competitor for batting titles
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Direct readout - Doctor Memory."
johan amadeus myjetski: i ahd my hay & groat when i arrived...
ModeratleyGinchy: glad you hld the 40 weight and entrenching tool
ModeratleyGinchy: *hekd
Not Ed: you're such a tool
ModeratleyGinchy: *held
ModeratleyGinchy: sheesh
Cease: RFalph's Stgories Los Angeles. great show
Cease: you see that, mg, or was that before your time in la
ModeratleyGinchy: I didn't
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You can wait here in the sitting room, or you can sit here in the waiting room."
Cease: a friend of mine was on that show
ModeratleyGinchy: Will look it up
Buzzy and Bunny K.: I will ask Phil tomorrow if it was an echoplex, tell you next thurs
Not Ed: keen tanx
Cease: he was a cellist who was getting his pilot's license, so story had a show about him playing the cello while piloting a plane
Cease: thanks, bunny and buzzy
Buzzy and Bunny K.: wow
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "How does he make his voice do that?"
johan amadeus myjetski: look forward to your response... on the edge of my seat
Buzzy and Bunny K.: haha.
ModeratleyGinchy: But I recall Loman and Barkley
ModeratleyGinchy: well, the name anyway
Not Ed shifts
johan amadeus myjetski: a blig black blole...
johan amadeus myjetski: i meant blowl
Cease: i remember hearing them on the radio. they were really funny. dont recall their tv show the firesigns are talkling about
Not Ed: kelly ann was a conduit of cash aha!
Not Ed: hehe sorry
Not Ed: look it's the king of france!
johan amadeus myjetski: no one expects the spanish inquisition!
ModeratleyGinchy: What is DOMM Hour Hour?
johan amadeus myjetski: but the french inquisition...
ModeratleyGinchy: That cracked me up, JAM
Not Ed: Duke of Madness Motors release
Merlyn: B B, plil
ModeratleyGinchy: Ohhh
ModeratleyGinchy: thank you
Not Ed winks
Rufus_T_Firetween: ModeratleyGinchy: What is DOMM Hour Hour? << One of their series of broadcasts in the arly 70s
Not Ed: u betcha
johan amadeus myjetski: thanks. ModGrinch!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-rv
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS at >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/duke-of-madness-motors-the-complete-dear-friends-radio-era-1970-1972-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc?rq=DUKE%20OF%20MADNESS
Not Ed: yay RUF
Rufus_T_Firetween: That's the link to buy it on their new web site ^^
johan amadeus myjetski: music to North by Northwest
Rufus_T_Firetween: all of their broadcasts between 1970 and 1972
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's a must-have compilation. You wont be sorry for the purchase...
Buzzy and Bunny K.: 10-4 Elinor
Not Ed: some of it was syndicated wasn't it?
ModeratleyGinchy: Looking at it now... along with looking for Ralph Story to see if any shows are left
ModeratleyGinchy: Thanks for the link to buy
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Won't spurt like the hosers!"
Beet: It is an amazing collection.
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Actually washes your car while you're driving it home to work
Not Ed: a must have and worth it
Cease: Are you two friends of Phil and Melinda, Buzzy and Bunny?
Not Ed: so much content yes
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Yes quite. But Melind might be fed up with me!
Not Ed: who am us anyway?
johan amadeus myjetski: silly sibingwe am what you is...
Bottles: Is you was or was you is?
Beet: yes
johan amadeus myjetski: a philly sophical debate, Bottles
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Met them at a show at a private theatre, I stay and cook for them when I'm in their neighborhood- rarey now
Buzzy and Bunny K.: rarely
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Phil puts some of my satire in PP now and then
Cease: wow
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Sometimes he even gives me a byline!
Cease: any connection to his new Sexy Boomer show on KPFK?
Buzzy and Bunny K.: No, I hope it keeps going. KPFK is in $ trouble, the building is for sale
johan amadeus myjetski: puts me in mind of the old piltdown man...
Merlyn: your ak
Buzzy and Bunny K.: I proposed a new FST skit on AI, could it write a good FST skit?
ModeratleyGinchy: Blasphemy
Buzzy and Bunny K.: yes
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Ala Ah Clem and the president
johan amadeus myjetski: dead air for apathy, dead air for apathy!
Not Ed: ah choo
johan amadeus myjetski: chinese, Not?
Not Ed: no alas
Not Ed: only bad jokes
johan amadeus myjetski: Mr. Ah Choo, of the ding mynasty
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Guaranteed by the Department of Redundancy Dept. and the Natural Guard."
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed: oh that choo!
johan amadeus myjetski: choo be choo, & i be me
cat 2: i made radio shows (collages for this show) mixing thier interview with penn gillette, and more recently jaron.
Buzzy and Bunny K.: cool
Not Ed: wow
johan amadeus myjetski: & that was a good collage, Cat2
cat 2: which one?
cat 2: i hope they're all good
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Phil said Penn hung around FST way back when, asking them how he could get into showbiz
johan amadeus myjetski: the penn gilette interview. i had not heard it before your collage. (there were two, i recall only one, i may have missed the other)
||||||||| 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'
Buzzy and Bunny K.: The 2nd one was without Phil, for a reason
Bottles: Thank you Kurt, Mervyn!
Cease: my collage is about that, bb. including his emails to me. i sent him the collage but nevre heard back. oh well
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Aha, you know about that
Bottles: Adios yall
||||||||| Bottles is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
Rufus_T_Firetween: A D OS?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let the air out of your shoes and prepare yourself for a period of simulated relxation."
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Thnaks for having us! Bunny got mossed a while ago
Not Ed: oops I wuz away
Cease: http://kurtericson.net/cat/
Not Ed: hey I need 2 go 2
Cease: come again, b and b
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Guaranteed by the Department of Redundancy Dept. and the Natural Guard."
Not Ed: It's so good 2 see you all!
Buzzy and Bunny K.: I will let you know the echoplex answer next week
Not Ed: thanks Cat n Ruf & Merl n Tweeny
johan amadeus myjetski: nite all! thanks for the n'yuks! love to all! g'nite!
Not Ed: bbye
||||||||| Buzzy and Bunny K. hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Buzzy and Bunny K.?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Cease: will have a 1978 rfo KPFK show next week, plus my new collage
Rufus_T_Firetween: /me had a RE-201 Space Echo
Rufus_T_Firetween: neat tape machine but no SOS ;)
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Beet: Fun tonight. Thanks to everyone. Really enjoyed the results of Cat's taping genius. Thanks, Dr Tween, for guiding. G'Nite all.
Merlyn: nite
Cease: will clcik over to kkrn right now to hear bottles new show
Cease: ooh, my favourite dead song
DJ Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Barney* - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| ModeratleyGinchy - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Cease departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| It's 3:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Beet - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Merlyn - dead from the common cold
||||||||| cat 2 - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJ Tweeny - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and intones "Presenting 'Barney*', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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:
Barney*
Beet
Bottles
Buzzy and Bunny K.
cat 2
Cease
DJ Tweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
ModeratleyGinchy
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
Tweeny

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-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
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Groat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchesse_de_Bourgogne
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/duke-of-madness-motors-the-complete-dear-friends-radio-era-1970-1972-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc?rq=DUKE%20OF%20MADNESS
https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater