||||||||| 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 25, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood leads Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. ||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Rufus_T_Firetween vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted! ||||||||| Catherwood leads Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (8:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. ||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. ** Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET visit Firesign's *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com' ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 7:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| 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 25, 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 ushers Rufus_T_Firetween into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs. ||||||||| 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.. ||||||||| 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 DJTweeny gets out at 8:00 PM. ||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and announces "Presenting 'Tweeny', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. ||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and snorts derisively "Presenting 'johan amadeus myjetski', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. johan amadeus myjetski: I am not a number - I am a free man! DJTweeny: Hey johan DJTweeny: great old series :) DJTweeny: I need to watch that again DJTweeny: music in 1/2 hour ||||||||| 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)' johan amadeus myjetski: i'm - let's get this party started ||||||||| Zen Cosmos tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident." DJTweeny: Hi Zen johan amadeus myjetski: yeah the Prisoner was a great reflection of the cold war era! mind bending at times. & all they want is*information* johan amadeus myjetski: Hi ZC! ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: warm up music – JEFFERSON STARSHIP-DRAGON FLY 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)' DJTweeny: I remember watching it first run on TV johan amadeus myjetski: yes, me too! johan amadeus myjetski: did you realize the Prisoner was filmed at the same studio at the same time as 2001:a space odyssey? Rufus_T_Firetween: No, I hadn't heard that Zen Cosmos: sad to report - The Heinleinian Crazy years have gotten truly insane lately<> Zen Cosmos: <> Zen Cosmos: sigh ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What you don't mean won't hurt you." Rufus_T_Firetween: I heard that when Peter Hyams was making the sequel 2010 that Kubrick had made it tough because he destroys the set and props, not wanting anyone to copy what he had done johan amadeus myjetski: anything we can doto help &/or comiserate? Rufus_T_Firetween: It's gonna get crazier, Zen ;) Rufus_T_Firetween: *destroyed ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You can wait here in the sitting room, or you can sit here in the waiting room." Zen Cosmos: the only thing keeping me "sane" is ther realization that in the multiverse half of the mes are doing better, yet the other half are worse off... johan amadeus myjetski: SK did indeed destroy everything. that gimbaled set of the Discovery would have been awesome to play in... ||||||||| 8:00 PM: Bottles jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!" johan amadeus myjetski: hi bottles! DJTweeny: Hey Bottles Bottles: Hola yall johan amadeus myjetski: i hadn't thought about this album in years - i'd forgotten how good it is! Rufus_T_Firetween: One of my favorites from the era Rufus_T_Firetween: Hard to believe it was 50 years ago :) ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Gee Mom, isn't that bridge built yet?" Bottles: Who's this, Starship? johan amadeus myjetski: yep! Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah Bottles, see the banner at the top of the page Bottles: Oh never mind, I see tio ||||||||| Merlyn waltzes in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn Bottles: Opened the wrong can, now I have to use corn...don't have the stuff for chowder, maybe make salsa.. johan amadeus myjetski: hi Merlyn! Bottles: Corn guacamole? might be good Merlyn: Hey FAM Rufus_T_Firetween: ** 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 — 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: you could make 3 Sisters (corn, squash, beans) ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Cease into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs. Merlyn: hey DJ johan amadeus myjetski: hey Cease! ||||||||| 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 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)' Cease: i hate avocados as much as anyone hates anything ||||||||| 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 half hour!" Beet: Evening, Gang! johan amadeus myjetski: hiya, beet! DJTweeny: Hey Cease, Beet ||||||||| Buzzy and Bunny K. enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Chapeau Manger. DJTweeny: Hi B&B Cease: hey buzzy johan amadeus myjetski: Hi B & B! Cease: you missed the show you requested last week,the mix of bozos and eyk ||||||||| New notice: ' ** HAPPY BIRTHDAY ORSON OSSMAN! ** Currently playing: from Peter Bergman’s RADIO FREE OZ show podcasts “7-11-78” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u Check Out RADIO FREE OZ at >> http://radiofreeoz.com/' Buzzy and Bunny K.: Hey, we made it! Bunny's outside checking the gas connection on the travel King, it's been making funny noises Beet: Howdy,Drs. Tween, Cease, Buzzy j..m., Merlyn and Zen. Merlyn: hey cease, beets Beet: j.a.m. Cease: orson was in my play Red Shift Beet: Hi, Bottles. Merlyn: hi Bb ||||||||| cat 2 enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Chapeau Manger. ||||||||| 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 InTheWood disembarks at 8:00 PM. InTheWood: Hi, all! DJTweeny: Hi Woody Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RADIO FREE OZ” at >> http://radiofreeoz.com/ Buzzy and Bunny K.: Have some moss! Beet: Hey, I.T.W. InTheWood: Is that blue?... Merlyn: hi Wood Buzzy and Bunny K.: yes, Bunny's been whipping 'em up all day! johan amadeus myjetski: woody! Cease: this is from 1978 InTheWood: Nice! woah... Buzzy and Bunny K.: Nino the mind boggler says hello! He's being studied in Russia again. Putin plans to use bent fort Buzzy and Bunny K.: ks to defeat Ukraine Cease: that will work ||||||||| 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 five minutes!" llanwydd: good evening Buzzy and Bunny K.: yes, Bora dda! Beet: Hi, Llan. DJTweeny: Hey llan johan amadeus myjetski: hi LLlan! Zen Cosmos: if in Seattle this weekend: NW Folklife Festival... Merlyn: hey llan Buzzy and Bunny K.: Only Llan knows this- his name is pronounced "clan-with." llanwydd: hows everybody? johan amadeus myjetski: feeling strength in reason. a rare commodity these days... llanwydd: lol InTheWood: "clan-with". "Band-width?" Buzzy and Bunny K.: Ok here but is hotter than Heater in Hellmouth llanwydd: somebody once said common sense is not very common Rufus_T_Firetween: how true, how true llan Bottles: whats folklife Festival about, Zen? Buzzy and Bunny K.: Mark Twain said german humor is no laughing matter johan amadeus myjetski: that was me - i said that! Rufus_T_Firetween: lol @ Twain ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And while we're on the subject..." Cease: peter as labratory animal Bottles: I was just today reading Twain critiquing James F Cooper. johan amadeus myjetski: exactly how *is* the old wahzoo? Bottles: He didnt think much of Cooper. Cease: i can tell you a story about the ford motor company InTheWood: What's _that_ about? Buzzy and Bunny K.: Do tell! johan amadeus myjetski: mark, mark, mark, they're performing horrible experiments on animals in space! mark, mark... Cease: i'm not sure if ford is the mafia or infiltated or what, but they are in bed togehther Bottles: Jimmy Hoffa might have set that up Cease Buzzy and Bunny K.: Doesn't make a lot of sense- how can the mafia extort money from ford owners? johan amadeus myjetski: didn't ford wake up with the head of a pinto on the pillow next to him? Cease: could be. my dad's dealership in van nuys was taken over by the magtia at the invitation of ford. Buzzy and Bunny K.: Really?? Wow Cease: lol jammy Cease: yeah my dad thought he was in with the ford company in detroit, bjt he wasnt corrupt \enough fro them so they brought in a real mafioso named vic weiss Cease: he was a competitor to ralph spoilsport Buzzy and Bunny K.: Hmm, a german mafioso. But there is asilver lining- the mafia could get ford to make cars like lambos Merlyn: I am back Bottles: Hi Merlyn! Cease: hi merl. happy week after your birthday InTheWood: Merlyn! Rufus_T_Firetween: Merlyn is back, and he's beautiful! Buzzy and Bunny K.: Hi Merddin! Merlyn: hey cease johan amadeus myjetski: trailing clouds of glory... johan amadeus myjetski: i can't bear that Cease: bear with me Buzzy and Bunny K.: Have you-all discussed doing this as a zoom? Zen Cosmos: some videos to ponder-- Fall of Rome videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecMfU3910WYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxoCM1yQqEA johan amadeus myjetski: there's a bear with you right now?!? Cease: what would be the purpolse of that, buzzy? Rufus_T_Firetween: Sorry B&B, but my old Macs won't do Zoom InTheWood: Have you just returned from Rome?... Rufus_T_Firetween: That's not to say that someone couldn't put up a Zoom chat, I just couldn't be part of it Buzzy and Bunny K.: Well, I look pretty funny. Give everyone a good laugh Rufus_T_Firetween: haha, k johan amadeus myjetski: i don't care for the fall of rome, but the springtime, that's a different matter... Cease: for hitler, in germany? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Hello, we're glad you made it!" Beet: I can prove that I was in Rome . . . look at this olive. Rufus_T_Firetween: "Springtime for Hitler and Germany, Winter for England and France...." Cease: one of the funniest songs Buzzy and Bunny K.: Kenny Mars and Phil P. were great friends johan amadeus myjetski: yes, Cease. Could i discuss investment opportunities in the entertainment idustry? Rufus_T_Firetween: The Producers is one one of Mel's best, for sure Zen Cosmos: I can't believe I'm still protesting all this feces... Beet: Catherwood, give everyone a good laugh. ||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone a good laugh. Buzzy and Bunny K.: "Ula, go to work!" InTheWood: Catherwood comes through. ||||||||| Catherwood walks right past InTheWood Beet: I like these strange songs Peter is playing. Buzzy and Bunny K.: Yes, from the punk era InTheWood: We are sausages with eyes. ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Not Ed close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the Aviary. Cease: hi not Beet: There's Not. Hey. Not Ed: Ruf, Tweeny, JAM, Zen, Bottles, Merlyn, C/Cease, B&BK, ITW, llanwydd, waz real? DJTweeny: Hi Not Ed Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RADIO FREE OZ” at >> http://radiofreeoz.com/ Cease: how nikce to have people here Cease: better than having just bots Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, pretty good crowd tonight ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let me hear it for me!" johan amadeus myjetski: hello Not! Not Ed: Hey! Beet: No one does riffing like Mr. Bergman. Cease: better than nobody here. that has happnened. johan amadeus myjetski: i never come down from the hills Rufus_T_Firetween: haha johan Cease: my parents used to live in the hills. Rufus_T_Firetween: catherwood, please play Misty Mountain Hop for johan ||||||||| Catherwood walks up to Rufus_T_Firetween and says "Stop typing gibberish, Rufus_T_Firetween!" Buzzy and Bunny K.: Your parrots? InTheWood: There's nothing to eat here! Beet: I may be the first in my family to live on a hill, I think. johan amadeus myjetski: lol, beet, & tweeny tpp johan amadeus myjetski: too Not Ed: ceramacist lol Bottles: I lived on a hillside for 5 years Beet. Not the greatest for taking walks Buzzy and Bunny K.: Especially in Silverlake Bottles: But the wildlife was great to see. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Bottles' SCRATCHED UP RADIO THEATER at >> https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater johan amadeus myjetski: & if you look out the left, iy's 5000 feet to the bottom of the grand canYONNNNN! Not Ed: catherwood bring everyone a steaming plate of meatless hot creatures ||||||||| Catherwood hands everyone a steaming plate of meatless hot creatures. Bottles: Thanks for the plug, Rufus. Rufus_T_Firetween: lol Cease: i live at the bottom of a hill now. hate walking up. too much work. fuck work. Rufus_T_Firetween: yw Bottles Beet: I had 5 rabbits in my front yard yesterday. Rufus_T_Firetween: lol Cease
Not Ed shifts. Cease: yeah bottles is a really good radio producer. Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl Beet Bottles: I have no yard now, but sometimes a pigeon walks on my window sill. Buzzy and Bunny K.: Bottles, I love doing live radio shows! Buzzy and Bunny K.: But you are so far away- from me Cease: good for you, buzzy Bottles: Yeah Buzzy and Bunny, it's fun. We're not live tho, lots of post production added. Cease: i am in a different country Beet: Cool tune. Buzzy and Bunny K.: Aha. could I be a voice long distance? ||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| llanwydd - dead from The Plague ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... johan amadeus myjetski: i'm in a different state of mind... Not Ed: me too Bottles: Anything's possiblw now with Zoom, etc Bunny Buzzy and Bunny K.: haha johan amadeus myjetski: that's a fact, bott;es! Buzzy and Bunny K.: I will send you an email Bottles: I tell the manager we could do a remote broadcast via Zoom, but we haven't tried it. It would take someone in the main control room who knows what they're doing Beet: lol Bottles: She says the delay - but it's not a big delay. Beet: Musk You Ask Perfume. Buzzy and Bunny K.: REPS does them live on zoom Bottles: What's REPS? Buzzy and Bunny K.: Dave Ossman's group in Seattle, Radio enthusiasts of Puget sound Bottles: Supposedly there's an app where musicians can jam, with no delay. Bottles: Oh cool, Bunny. Buzzy and Bunny K.: Wow, 73 people playing Layla! Merlyn: Hi Not Rufus_T_Firetween: The last Strawbs release was done over Zoom, as I recall Rufus_T_Firetween: Was the only way band could get together during the 'pandemic' Rufus_T_Firetween: *bands Cease: 73 is the total number of people who have been on chat, i suspect ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Back from the Shadows again." Bottles: I guess each player could add a part of a recording that gets passed around. Buzzy and Bunny K.: lots of split second editing Bottles: It should be easy with time code Bunny, however that works. Not Ed: great song Bottles: I've had to edit between syllables. Tricky but not too hard. Buzzy and Bunny K.: Take a look at REPS, or lets ask Ossman Cease: tis is very different from bergman's usual music. h'e not a jazz guy Not Ed: haha cool Bottles been there too - it's fun : ) Bottles: Yeah, this is nice! anyone know who this is playing. Cease: scott hamilton, they said Not Ed: beautiful player Beet: Pretty frickin nice sax. Very mellow. Not Ed: group is sweet too Zen Cosmos: REPS does cool Xmas shows, and David O. is a regular... Cease: i'm much more into jazz than bergman was, but that's not saying much johan amadeus myjetski: this guy reminds me more than just a little bit of Lester Young... Cease: yeah i can hear that, jammy Beet: Oh yeah Zen Cosmos:https://www.repsonline.org/ Zen Cosmos:https://www.repsshowcase.com/ Not Ed: lol Zen Cosmos:https://www.facebook.com/REPSOTR/ 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 johan amadeus myjetski: "If I can't sell it, I'm gonna sit back down upon it. I see no reason I should give it away" ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Buzzy and Bunny K.: thanks Zen johan amadeus myjetski: - etta james Cease: at last ||||||||| New notice: ' ** HAPPY BIRTHDAY ORSON OSSMAN! ** Currently playing — Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “BRAND FIRESIGN” 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 COLLAGE ARCHIVE AT >> https://www.kurtericson.net/cat' Beet: I live near Martinsburg, WV. Cease: i should use that in a collage' Cease: mountainous theree, beet? Beet: Lots of mountains. Also near Harpers Ferry. Beautiful. Rufus_T_Firetween: Been to Harper's Ferry many many moons ago Rufus_T_Firetween: 'tis indeed beautiful johan amadeus myjetski: beet, you're about 3 hours north of me Beet: Really? Beet: Cool. johan amadeus myjetski: i'm right next to Roan Mtn., on the Tennessee / North Carolina line, on the NC side Beet: Near Johnson City? Cease: i'm in north vancouver. lots of mountains here. Buzzy and Bunny K.: Close to Asheville? Merlyn: I live in st paul Cease: i don't know that part of your country. grew up in la, which is how i now firesign from 67 when they were new johan amadeus myjetski: about 45 mins from Johnson City, about 1.25 hours from Asheville, NC Buzzy and Bunny K.: Our Travel King is parked in Fort collins, CO. Having the crows removed. Cease: love the guitar here johan amadeus myjetski: B&B K recycle the silver in those crows Buzzy and Bunny K.: Asheville has bcome the new Boulder johan amadeus myjetski: Asheville used to be the Portlansd of the southeast Cease: i barely know your country at all. must be lots of great places Buzzy and Bunny K.: We tried that, the silver extractor cost more than the silver extracted. Beet: I think I mentioned this before, but I used to live in Boone, NC. johan amadeus myjetski: Cease, i've never visited your neck of the woods, but i have wanted to, having seen the photos Cease: her'e david ossman Buzzy and Bunny K.: Santa Fe- a bizarre place. Cease: it's pretty here, but basically it's pretty everywhere Buzzy and Bunny K.: New Mexico Overdrive johan amadeus myjetski: Beet, i can drive to Boone in about an hour Beet: I enjoyed it immensely. Cease: meow wolf erupted from santa fe. that makes me think highly of santa fe johan amadeus myjetski: i vidited Sante Fe about 15 years ago. people in their cars have the strangest existential state of mind. nothing exists for them beyond their own bumper... ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scalp 'em, Tantric!" Buzzy and Bunny K.: True, I worked for the coroner, saw the other side of it. Cease: not breaking bad territory? new mexico just fell away Buzzy and Bunny K.: Haha, very much so Cease: seeig meow wolf's Omega Mart in VEgas in March made we think about working with those folks johan amadeus myjetski: Santa Fe folks are highly educated, very creative, but all that goes out the window when they get in their cars Buzzy and Bunny K.: Yes Johan, there is a certain mentality there in NM Cease: when i heard firesign in 67, their muahroom plays, i wanted to wrok with them, and eventually did 30 years later, if i were young i'd like to work with meow wolf. johan amadeus myjetski: i thought it was due to the quality of light, which georgia o'keefe talked about. Buzzy and Bunny K.: Yes, the northern light is great there. And how's your Georgia O'Keefe?
Tweeny loves the Southwestern sunshine Tweeny: We get a bit of it here in Austin Tweeny: nothing like Arizona or New Mexico of course johan amadeus myjetski: my georgia O is just peachy... Buzzy and Bunny K.: haha, very good Buzzy and Bunny K.: Bottles, I will tune your show after this johan amadeus myjetski: i visited Austin in late '73. got to see jerry jeff walker live in a club with maybe 25 people in the audience Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Bottles' SCRATCHED UP RADIO THEATER at >> https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater Rufus_T_Firetween: Wow, very cool johan Cease: Bottles does really good work. Buzzy and Bunny K.: He was supposed to play in Denver in &# but got too drunk Beet: Great place for music, Austin is. Has 6th Street recovered yet, Tweeny? Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, the clubs back then were a different world from the tourist attraction it's become now Buzzy and Bunny K.: sorry, 1973 Rufus_T_Firetween: Janis Joplin sining in Austin bars Rufus_T_Firetween: 6th Street is still a thing, but not like it was ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "These insignificant lumps came together..." Rufus_T_Firetween: *singing Rufus_T_Firetween: lots of clubs didn't survive the pandemic johan amadeus myjetski: i get goose bumps from insigniftganct lumps Beet: Very sorry to hear that. What about Antone's? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Ha ha ha - that's very logical." johan amadeus myjetski: whew, where's spellcheck when you really need it? Rufus_T_Firetween: I think they're still in business, but at a different location, lemme check... Cease: herfe's austin the central califronica trainyard Tweeny: yep - https://antonesnightclub.com/ Cease: austin's dad worked on the radio so he got a job there too as a young man. Cease: railroad, not radio Tweeny: Lot's of tech people moving here from Cal Tweeny: Elon Musk even Cease: why is that, tween? Beet: Nice looking website for Antone's. Merlyn: I am asleep Buzzy and Bunny K.: Teasla gigafactory in Austin Cease: wake upm Merl Tweeny: Cease: why is that, tween? << Much lower cost of living than Cal, and the police actually arrest you if you commit a crime ;) Tweeny: Buzzy and Bunny K.: Teasla gigafactory in Austin << largest car factory in the world afaik Beet: Are they still building the car factory? Tweeny: They're still adding on to it Tweeny: SpaceX has a spaceport in far South Texas Tweeny: All the big tech companies are here Beet: Aren't they also going to manufacture their own chips? Cease: i ive in north van. its expensive here and there's lots of violent crime bt i still like it here Tweeny: Possible, but I hadn't heard about Musk doing that. People like Samsung are building huge new chip plants though Tweeny: Apple has a big presence here, and is expansing their campuses johan amadeus myjetski: chips from anywhere but china is a good step Tweeny: Yeah, there are lots of new chip projects in the works in the US Cease: there is nothing to eat here, excpt chips Tweeny: If the PRC took Taiwan, it would devastate the chip market because most of the really adcanced chip tech comes from there Bottles: I just finished off the chips, Cease. Beet: I just saw a headline that Tesla has made some of their own chips. Tweeny: Could be johan amadeus myjetski: Cease, stand near that fellow who chips the stones... Tweeny: Wouldn't surprise me, as Musk has his fingers in all sorts of tech pies Beet: Amazing dude. Cease: ossman is an amazing poet Cease: like dionne Buzzy and Bunny K.: and the Belmonts? DJTweeny: Thanks for all your efforts putting these collages together, Cat Cease: lol yeah i thought of that. the woman we heard just before ossman in this collage, dionne brand Cease: well, its a lot of work, but it's fun ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY ORSON OSSMAN! ** Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s RADIO NOW LIVE! 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out RADIO NOW at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-rv' Beet: Good one. Buzzy and Bunny K.: Why must i be a teenager in love? johan amadeus myjetski: Like music, i suspect poetry is a main side-interest of FST & their environs. Cease: glad you liked it, beet Cease: true jammy, in that they loved playiing with words, which is poetry johan amadeus myjetski: this collage was a littlke more serious than some others, but it made me think outside my usual mental haunts. THANK YOU bigtime, Cease! Buzzy and Bunny K.: never heard this version of bozos, cool Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about RADIO NOW LIVE! at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln Cease: thank you for enjoying it, jammy. i never know from week to week what i'll do. it is serendiptious, what comes into my conscouisness each week DJTweeny: Their best-recorded live album ^^ Cease: it is kind of easy to put stuff with firesign, once there is sometihingto connect them johan amadeus myjetski: who was it that said, to learn comedy, be interested in everything Buzzy and Bunny K.: comedy is evrywhere, even in Bakersfiel Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - THE FIRESIGN THEATRE LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - Paperback Book + DVD-ROM Disc >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc johan amadeus myjetski: too true, mr Krumhunger, too true! Cease: proctor told penn that, jammy ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Stop torturing me Ethyl!" johan amadeus myjetski: ah - i thought it wasn't too far off target... Buzzy and Bunny K.: what album is this on? johan amadeus myjetski: everything everywhere all at once Cease: hope y'all enjoyed the collage next will be eobe flick and album combined. weird with a beard Rufus_T_Firetween: The link I posted above Buzzy ||||||||| 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' Beet: Totally enjoyed the evening. Thanks to everyone. Great collage as usual, Dr Cease. Thanks for guiding, Dr Tween. All best to all. G'Nite. Buzzy and Bunny K.: thanks Rufus_T_Firetween: RADIO NOW LIVE! johan amadeus myjetski: Love, love, love to all! Thanks to all! g'nite all! InTheWood: Thanks, and G'Night, all! Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "She's no fun, she fell right over." Cease: we do our best, eh? ||||||||| At 8:00 PM, InTheWood vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted! Merlyn: nite Bottles: Thanks Kurt and Cease and Merlyn! ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What is reality?" ||||||||| Bottles departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?" ||||||||| Merlyn says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Merlyn exits at 8:00 PM. Cease: off we drift ||||||||| Cease dashes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Cease?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!" johan amadeus myjetski: "we all try. you succeed" - rick, Casablanca DJTweeny: 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 3:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Beet - dead from The Plague ||||||||| Buzzy and Bunny K. - dead from The Plague ||||||||| cat 2 - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| 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. ||||||||| Tweeny departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?" ||||||||| 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
Buzzy and Bunny K.
Cease
DJTweeny
InTheWood
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
Tweeny
Zen Cosmos
