Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
05/30/2024

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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 30, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and pipes up "Presenting 'Tweeny', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Tweeny: ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: JUST FOLKS: A FIRESIGN CHAT
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
plus a new Cat Collage “Between Americans”
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
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: JUST FOLKS: A FIRESIGN CHAT
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
plus a new Cat Collage “Between Americans”
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 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.
||||||||| 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 30, 2024 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Tweeny walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Deputy Dang close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the anteroom.
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Tweeny by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
Tweeny: Howdy Deputy
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny!
Tweeny: Only going to stick around long enough to make sure everything working
Deputy Dang: Same here--it should take me a couple of hours.
||||||||| Cease enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Chapeau Manger.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cat!
||||||||| Not Ed enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Not Ed: Hi ho!
Not Ed: Waz real?
Not Ed: GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS
Not Ed: okay enuf o' that
Tweeny: Hey Cat, Not Ed
Not Ed: hi Tweeny
Not Ed: Cat, DDang
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Beet bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Beet: Greetings fellow chatters.
Tweeny: Hey Beet
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Not Ed! Howdy, Beet!
Cease: Hi all
Not Ed: Wazreal Beet
Beet: Hi, Tweeny, Deputy, Not, Cease.
Not Ed: I never grew up either
Beet: Why bother growing up?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Join the expectant crowd gathering now as we stop here on..."
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's JZip, just back from Elmertown."
Cease: Hi J
JZip waves
Cease: I noticed reading the transcripts that someone named Mutt showed up on chat when I was gone.
Cease: Wasn't he here before?
Deputy Dang: Howdy, JZip!
Beet: Hey J
Not Ed: Wazreal JZ
JZip: Local Stocks, Ed Davis.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scalp 'em, Tantric!"
JZip: That's too good.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They're in everyone's eggs."
Not Ed: Helloooo
Cease: a chat during chat
Not Ed: !
Tweeny: Just wanted to make sure everything was working properly. Everybody have a great week :)
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Tweeny departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
Cease: later, Tween
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and intones "Presenting 'morlog', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Cease: Morlog
Cease: less tree
Not Ed: Yo morlog
morlog: hey there
Deputy Dang: Speaking of trucks, I got my commercial driver's license (CDL) last year.
Cease: good for you, Dang
Cease: I had my driver's license stolen my last day in Spain.
Cease: just have a termporary one until the new one comes in the mail
Deputy Dang: Good thing you weren't driving back!
Cease: lol
JZip: Tudor Nightmare Village!
JZip: I think we've all been there.
Beet: G'Niye, Tweeny.
Beet: Nite
Cease: Bill Niye the Science Guy?
Beet: Howdy, Morlog.
||||||||| llanwydd steals in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
llanwydd: hey folks
Cease: Hi Llan
Cease: That's us: Just Folks!
Cease: What we're listening to now
llanwydd: lol
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "There's one crawling up my leg!"
llanwydd: one what, catherwood?
||||||||| Catherwood walks over to llanwydd and mumbles "My ears are burning..."
Not Ed: Hey llan
Cease: Doesn't this album remind you of Not Insane? A kind of compilation that isn't really put together.
Not Ed: yeah
llanwydd: never thought of that
Cease: i think it's a new thought for me too.
JZip: This one has a throughline, though, while I've always found Not Insane kind of scattered.
Cease: Firesign is very good at inspiring new thoughts.
Cease: True, Zip
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You guys are nothing but a pack of cards."
llanwydd: I probably always thought of just folks having a central theme but never knew what the theme was
Cease: supposed to be a report to Jimmy Carter on the state of the nation.
llanwydd: now that I think of it it is sort of a mockumentary
JZip: It's all addressed, nominally, to Jimmy Carter, just like the documentary.
Not Ed: I haven't listened to this in a great while - love it lol
Cease: this was originally on my favourite mushroom play, A Shadow Moves Upon a Land
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Indonesia for the Indonesians!"
llanwydd: that opening and recurring theme music ties it al together
llanwydd: all
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging Mutt by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
llanwydd: hi mutt
Cease: Hey Mutt
Mutt: Good evening everyone
Not Ed: Mutt!
Beet: Hello Mutt
Mutt: Hiya llanwydd and cease
Not Ed: don't break the station Tweener
Mutt: You’re Not Ed!
Not Ed: Catherwood get everyone a hot buttered groat cluster
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a hot buttered groat cluster.
Not Ed: Indeed!
Cease: Fish did a lot of stuff with Firesign. We should listen to some of it here.
Mutt: Hey Cease, how’s your back/leg? Think you were recovering from a nasty fall last I remember.
Cease: In good health now. Spent almost 2 weeks in Spain painfree
Mutt: Wonderful! Glad to hear it
Cease: Heeeeer's David!
llanwydd: maybe I should go to spain for my own health
Cease: you could go to worse places, llan
Mutt: Me three
Mutt: Mi tres
llanwydd: moi quatre
Mutt: Ha!
Beet: Spain is definitely what is good for you.
Cease: certainly good for me! will have a collage about the trip by July.
Beet: I'm envious.
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| It's 12:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| morlog - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: by morlog
Deputy Dang: plague... that's rough.
Cease: get him!
Cease: the ending to Just Folks segues neatly into this
Not Ed: lol it does
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's it all about, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Smith from Anytown, USA?"
Not Ed: Catherwood get everyone a Schlitz
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a schlitz.
Beet: Gotta go. Enjoyed this. Nice to see everyone. Welcome back, Cease. See everyone next week. G'Nite all.
Deputy Dang: Gnite, Beet!
Cease: By Beet
llanwydd: nite beet
||||||||| It's 12:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| JZip - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Deputy Dang: Oh no! The plague got another!
Cease: It's deadly
Not Ed: C U soon Beet
Cease: There's a statue of the Amercian teacher in Sapporo, who first said "Boys, be ambitious" to his students in the 19th century.
Cease: I thought that was too obscure for Bergman to know about, but actually Notihng was too obscure for Firesigns, and Bergman in particular
Deputy Dang: George Carlin! :-D
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Heavy on the 30 weight."
Cease: He praised Firesign on their TV show Weirdly Cool
Mutt: Al Sleet :)
Cease: sounds like Proctor
Mutt: Well, off to slumberland. See you next week. Be well everyone
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Mutt by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
llanwydd: nite mutt
Cease: By Mutt
Deputy Dang: Gnite, Mutt!
Not Ed: Adios
Not Ed: this is great
Cease: Yeah, Corwin was a great writer. It was exposure to Corwin that got a Very Young David Ossman oriented towards writing for radio.
Not Ed: share and we all win - the early development of personal computers was about this
Not Ed: indeed cease
Cease: it was indeed, Not
Not Ed: and then the older ossman-version turned me on to Corwin
Not Ed: The Undecided Molecule
Cease: When he had an audio publishing company, Fish put out a CD compilation of 13 of Corwin's plays.
Not Ed: then I began finding the other stuff
Not Ed: omg it must be fantastic
Cease: Yes, I think I'll make a collage out of that molecule. Great to here Greoucho in it.
Not Ed: i'll check that out
Not Ed: yeah that's great cool Cat
Not Ed: great lil cast
Deputy Dang: take off your shoes!
Not Ed: The Undecided Molecule (Robert Benchley, Norman Lloyd, Groucho Marx, Vincent Price, Sylvia Sidney and Keenan Wynn) https://youtu.be/G2sDyLOG0aQ
Not Ed: it's like Dr Seuss for adults ; )
Cease: indeed
Deputy Dang: lol that was a good switch
Not Ed: superb
Not Ed: superb piece
Cease: wasn't that great!
Not Ed: do you have this online Cat - or is it online elsewhere?
Cease: there is a brand new video version of this that Fish sent me. I'll post it to the Firesign facebook groups tomorrow.
Cease: Tween has already put this up on the Collage Archives site.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Koolzip coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Cease: http://kurtericson.net/cat/
Cease: Hi Koolzip
Deputy Dang: I'll listen to the Phil Austin Story this weekend. Thank you for making it.
Koolzip: Hiya
Cease: I've made A Lot of collages. No idea how many.
Cease: Been here before, Kool?
Koolzip: Nope Girst time
Deputy Dang: Welcome!
Cease: This is from Anytown, USA, an album of their early live shows. I'll suggest to Tweeny that we listen to the whole thing next week.
Cease: You've come in just at the end of the show,Kool. You should visit us when the show begins
Cease: 2 hours worth of great Firesign stuff
Cease: Every Thursday since 1995
Deputy Dang: 7pm next week on Thursday
Not Ed: great time - great choices & goodness
Cease: we do our best
Deputy Dang: Nice work, Cat!
Not Ed: Good to see you all!
Deputy Dang: Goodnite all, and welcome again to Koolzip!
Koolzip: I'll try to be here next week
Not Ed: TY tweeny
Cease: More hilarity next week!
Not Ed: Cool Kool me too
||||||||| Deputy Dang is thrown out the window just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
Not Ed: outta here!
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Cease!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Koolzip - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Beet - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- llanwydd left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| 8:00 PM: rkc jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| rkc - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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
Cease
Deputy Dang
JZip
Koolzip
llanwydd
morlog
Mutt
Not Ed
Tweeny

URL References:
http://kurtericson.net/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
https://youtu.be/G2sDyLOG0aQ