Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
05/16/2024

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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 16, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Tweeny sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: A Replay from May 18th, 2017
Firesign Theatre’s JUST FOLKS
plus PETE MOSS
and a Cat Collage “Naomi Klein Kicks Ass”
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi
Listen to the 320k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2 or the 16k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
This show is archived at www.kurtericson.net/firesign / Cat’s collage archive is at www.kurtericson.net/cat'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, May 16, 2024 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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 Deputy Dang falls out at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Beet should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Beet enters and sits on the couch.
Beet: Evening, Friends!
Beet: Oops, just me so far.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
Beet: Hi, Deputy. How you be?
Deputy Dang: I made it another week, so I suppose that's a good thing.
Beet: It's definitely good for me. I appreciate the company.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Mutt should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Mutt enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
Deputy Dang: I remember May 18, 2017 like it was yesterday.
Mutt: Evening everybody!
Beet: I think it's always good that the shows start with the question, "Who am I?"
Deputy Dang: Howdy Mutt!
Beet: Hi, Mr Mutt.
Mutt: Who am us?
Beet: Anyway.
Mutt: Howdy Messrs. Beet and Tweeny and Deputy
Beet: I love the string of adjectives that describes whatever they're talking about.
Mutt: I read something recently about how the order of multiple adjectives in English follows a certain order
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I had to think for a minute ... what cruel game was he playing?"
Mutt: It is always: Opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose - Noun
Beet: I think Firesign has a monopoly on that. I've never heard any other performers do that.
Mutt: The exceptions have to do with tricky vowel sounds, which is why we say big bad wolf and not bad big wolf!
Tweeny: Evenin' fellow fireheads
Mutt: The boys certainly had a way with adjectives
Beet: Hello Tweeny.
Mutt: Hi ho Tweenerino!
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny!
Tweeny: Got an email from Cat. He's having fun on his Spanish Adventure
Tweeny: Just got a new audio mixer installed this afternoon, so we'll have a new show next week :)
Beet: I hope he is getting the maximum from this trip.
Mutt: What are you using, Tween?
Tweeny: One of these >> X1622USB - https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=0601-ACY
Tweeny: German designed, built in China
Tweeny: Lots of great features for the money
Mutt: One knob compression! Nice
Beet: New toys are always fun.
Tweeny: Yeah, the channel-level compression is a nice touch
Mutt: High level feature, that
Beet: fired me to hind him.
Mutt: Hope it exceeds your expectations!
Tweeny: It's basically what I was using before, but the electronics suddenly got really noisy. Probably a bad power supply
Tweeny: Thanks Mutt
Tweeny: It lasted 4 years, and considering it runs 24/7 I guess that's not too bad
Mutt: I did some time as a projectionist back in my youth and occasionally had the opportunity to work the soundboard at the theater I worked at. Lots of music shows between movies
Beet: smoking dirty magazines.
Mutt: My knowledge must be 40 years out of date!
Beet: I've never heard PETE MOSS before. Where did this come from?
Mutt: Me neither
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I say Live it, or Live With It!"
Deputy Dang: Me three!
Beet: You still here, Tween?
Tweeny: Sorry, I was away for a while.
Tweeny: Pete Moss was never released
Tweeny: Let me see if I can find a link
Tweeny: http://www.westley.org/pm.html
Tweeny: Hope Merlyn's doing OK, haven't seen him here for quite a while
||||||||| It's 11:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Mutt - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Beet: I do hope he's OK.
Deputy Dang: I don't see how someone could confuse Steve Reeves with Agnes Moorehead. Is that the funny part?
Beet: And be so adament about correcting him.
Deputy Dang: this is a really great script. i love the lyrics and the variety of sources.
||||||||| 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..
Deputy Dang: I haven't heard Spike Jones in quite a while!
Beet: Well, time to go for me. Nice to see everyone. Heve a great evening and I'll see you next week. G'Nite all.
Deputy Dang: Nite nite Beet!
Tweeny: Too bad we can't get more people in here, because we play some great material
Deputy Dang: I've put out feelers a few times, but so far, none have joined us. :-/
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's llanwydd, just back from Billville."
llanwydd: good evening
Deputy Dang: Howdly, llanwydd!
llanwydd: what did I miss?
llanwydd: I fell asleep and lost track of the time
Deputy Dang: Some stuff that hasn't played in a while. There was a Pete Moss segment that is unreleased; Beet and Mutt and I hadn't heard it before. The Naomi Klein section was okay.
llanwydd: I didnt think there would be a collage because Cat is away
Tweeny: Hey llan
Deputy Dang: I don't think it was new.
llanwydd: I hope he is having fun in spain
llanwydd: Hi Tween
Tweeny: As it says at the top of the page, it's a replay from May 18th 2017
llanwydd: yes I see that
Tweeny: He emailed me and sayd he was indeed having fun :)
llanwydd: I bet
Tweeny: My mixer flaked out so I had to by a new one. Just installed it today and we'll have a new show next week.
Tweeny: Any requests? I'm doing the set lists since Cat is away
Tweeny: Anything you haven't heard in a while?
llanwydd: how about waiting for the electrician side two?
Tweeny: Sure, I can do that
llanwydd: cool
Tweeny: Anything to go with it?
Deputy Dang: Sounds good to me
llanwydd: yeah, fries and a coke
Tweeny: heheh
llanwydd: do we have time for more than that?
Tweeny: OK, I'll come up with some stuff we haven't played in a while
Tweeny: I'm talking about the Thursday show, Llan
Tweeny: But if you want to hear Side two of Electrician on Tuesday we can do that as well
llanwydd: this is thursday isnt it?
Tweeny: Yes, but this is pre-recorded
Tweeny: We're not live
Tweeny: Thursdays are prerecorded now
llanwydd: pardon me. I am scatterbrained
Tweeny: NP
Tweeny: No worries, I'll come up with something for next week
Tweeny: I'll set up Side Two of Electrician for Tuesday :)
llanwydd: good. I hope I can catch it
Tweeny: Hope to see you there
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Don't worry about the flies, we won't weigh 'em!"
Tweeny: My new mixer has squeaky clean audio :)
llanwydd: I wouldnt know a mixer from a mixto
Tweeny: One of these >> https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=0601-ACY
llanwydd: just checked it out. I dont know what I would do with a mixer.
Tweeny: Well, that's where I combine my microphone with the music & comedy audio for shows
llanwydd: I see
Tweeny: also has inputs for my synths
llanwydd: this is one of their earliest plays. I had no idea when I heard it on just folks
llanwydd: thought it was all new tuff
llanwydd: stuff
Tweeny: Pass The Indian has always been a staple of their live performances, as I understand it
llanwydd: I dont remember if they did it at Town Hall in NYC
llanwydd: although I remembered most of the show for many years
Deputy Dang: That was really great, Tweeny! Thank you for your work! I hope we see Merlyn here again soon also.
Tweeny: OK guyz, hopefull will see you Tuesday but Thursday for sure :)
Tweeny: Yeah, hope Merlyn finds his way back to us
||||||||| Deputy Dang rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
llanwydd: yeah, thanks again Tween.
llanwydd: nite everybody
||||||||| llanwydd leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Billville.
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Tweeny left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:31 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."

The Evening's Participants:
Beet
Deputy Dang
llanwydd
Mutt
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
http://www.westley.org/pm.html
https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=0601-ACY
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi