||||||||| 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 June 06, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| 8:00 PM: 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!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: ANYTOWN USA: LIVE 1974 https://firesigntheatre.com/store/anytownusa?rq=anytown 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' ||||||||| It's 4:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Tweeny - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| 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, June 06, 2024 - 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?" ||||||||| Deputy Dang waltzes in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. Deputy Dang: How did it get to be Thursday again already? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It was hotter than Hooker in Heater today, and hotter than Heater in Hellmouth." ||||||||| It's 10:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from the common cold ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging llanddfyl by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?" llanddfyl: what no music tonight? ||||||||| 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 Tweeny plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM. Tweeny: Sorry llan, no more warm-up music :/ llanddfyl: I always have to open two windows to chat and listen to the audio at the same time. Tweeny: It's a pre-recorded show now and just fits into the 2 hour time slot llanddfyl: ohm, thats right. you told me Tweeny: But hey, there's lots of great content on RFD anytime you want to tune in :) ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and morlog bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Tweeny: Hey morlog morlog: hi, i like cheese llanddfyl: hi morlog Tweeny: Glad you got your phone working morlog: me too Tweeny: sounded like quite a bit of tricky electronics surgery just to change out a battery Tweeny: It's just pop-out and pop-in with my Motos morlog: wasnt too hard, but yeah, a bit too much just to change the battery morlog: had to take the wireless charging pad, speaker, and 3 ribbon cables out just to get to the battery morlog: phone is running a lot better now, the old battery was messing with the fingerprint reader and charging port Tweeny: morlog: had to take the wireless charging pad, speaker, and 3 ribbon cables out just to get to the battery << that's insane ||||||||| Deputy Dang sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident." Tweeny: Howdy Deputy Deputy Dang: Howdy Tweeny, et al! ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging Beet by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?" Beet: Good Evening, Friends! Tweeny: Yo Beet Beet: hi.Tweeny. ||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Cease should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Cease enters and sits in the comfy chair. Beet: Howdy, Deputy, llan, morlog. Tweeny: This is from the XM Radio series ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I take your hat and goat?" Cease: Hi all Tweeny: Hey Cease Beet: Hi, Cease. Cease: had a splendid day taking pix downtown van Deputy Dang: Howdy Beet! Howdy Cease! Beet: I wish there were a way to post pictures in the chat. Cease: i realized something. though spanish cities have beautiful architecture, van downtown has just as much beauty in the reflectrions in the windows Cease: i dont know this at all Cease: why is this the first time i've heard this? Tweeny: Beet: I wish there were a way to post pictures in the chat. << just post a link from Imgur or whatever Tweeny: It's XM Radio, Cat Tweeny: The Fuse Of Doom-3 Cease: on tguesday's near final sexy boomer show, they teased the idea of becomning visual in the fall Cease: this is the new dvd version? it's not on the fuse of doom i have, tween Beet: That would be great! Cease: i bought Firesign World in a record store in Tokyo not long after it came out. Cease: i was playing Firesign on the national radio station at the time. Tweeny: ** Read about the FIRESIGN XM RADIO PERFORMANCES at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/ ||||||||| It's 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| llanddfyl - dead from jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Cease: how's everyone this evening? Tweeny: Hot, and you? Cease: wonderful Beet: All good in WV Cease: i couldn Cease: get the edited version of this to tweeny in time Tweeny: NP Cat Tweeny: Real sure I got the Fuse Of Doom tracks from FST's XM Radio site, because the originals are RealPlayer files Tweeny: I had to re-record them to .aiff Cease: how's it going, morlog? morlog: sideways ||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging JZip by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?" Cease: better than not going at all ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "We own the idea of NOW." Tweeny: haha Tweeny: Hi JZip
JZip waves Cease: ralph was myh dad's competitor in ford dealerships in the san fernando valley, 1960s-70s Cease: hi zip. let's get hip JZip: I'm hip like a trip. Or someone iike it. ||||||||| Catherwood ushers llanddfyl 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. Beet: Hey, JKZip. Cease: just watching hbo series Wining Time on the lnog flight from Frankfurt and now frfom the local libary, vic weiss is a cheracxter Beet: hi, llan. Cease: he was a mafioso who stole my dad'd dealerhsip in 1975, in collusion with the ford motor company. llanddfyl: wining time? that must be annoyiing Cease: the hbo show portrays vic as a vitim, but in reality he was just as evil as his killers Cease: about the magic johnson Slowtime Lakerfs. Cease: vic was a pal of las vegfas coach tark the shark, who the laker owner waned to join the lakers Deputy Dang: What about the elevator boy? Cease: my dad told me the mob killed vic because he didn't bring tark the shark to the lakers. Winning Time says it was because he tried to get Tark to leave vegas. Cease: thinking of my dad a lot today, d-day. Cease: he wasn't in that invasion but with the canadian army in england at the tiime, fixing jeeps ||||||||| 8:00 PM: Mutt jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!" Cease: hey Mutt: Howdy Doody everyone! Cease: it's howdy doody time. one of the first things i remember from tv when i was a kid Beet: Hi, Mutt Mutt: Hiya Beet Cease: good to see you here again, Mutt Mutt: Howdy D was a little before my time Mutt: You, too, Mr. C Tweeny: Hi Mutt Cease: there are so few of us Beet: Cear memories of Howdy here. Mutt: Wasn’t Bob Keeshan/Capt. Kangaroo Clarabelle? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Inferior people should not be employed." Mutt: Hi Mr.DJ ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What about my pickle?" Beet: Clear. Cease: very far in my distant past. only vague memories. Beet: Correst about Captain K and Clarabell Mutt: They’re still probably better than mine! Cease: i dint see tv until i was 5 when my family moved to LA. our town in Sask had not tv. Mutt: Ah, thoughtso. Thanks Beet Beet: Having trouble typing tonight. Cease: tv in canada was not widely distributed in the early 50s Cease: i got the fuck out of that phrase Mutt: Lol Beet: I'm trying to get the fuck out myself. Cease: mutt, you're not supposed to say, "fuck" among other words, on the radio, in your country. so i have to edit the fucks from firesigfn before tweeny can play this as a radio show Mutt: Hey Llan - like you new Welsh-inspired monniker Cease: i have to cut the "fucks" out in order for this to be legally played Cease: you're back, llan? Tweeny: The RFD program director tries to stay on the right side of the FCC :) Mutt: Gotcha, but still an hilarious sentence Cease: you'll be happy to hear my plays is moving along. got some Ukranian voices recorded today Deputy Dang: radio? Cease: true, mutt. Tweeny: David Ossman on Facebook>> "Let me know what you think - I really wanted this piece to get out - I loved the little play - we never did it again." << Get into FB and let David know what you think :) - https://www.facebook.com/philip.proctor2/posts/10160436034548752?comment_id=2744772512344429¬if_id=1717692461844177¬if_t=feed_comment&ref=notif Mutt: Me no facebook :( Tweeny: Yeah, NP Cease: i doubt dave will actually join us, but we should keep invitring him. Tweeny: but that's where they live to communicate with their fans :/ Beet: That link doesn't open to Davd's page. Cease: yeah they are very facebook dependent for thatr Tweeny: No, it's a comment made on Phil Proctor's page Mutt: I get it but I just find the whole FB thing creepy ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Decode your answer now." Tweeny: where I posted the announcement of this show Cease: its great we have many ways of discovering this site Tweeny: I also posted it on David's page, but he made the comment on Phil's page Cease: tom gedwilllow posted today about starting early firezine, 72? long ago Tweeny: 72? really? Mutt: FireMail or Chromium Switch! Cease: much later elayne started this zine in latre i80s, which led to the founding of this chat in 1995 Tweeny: hah ||||||||| 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.. Mutt: I have a couple issues of CS in the old Firesign hoard Tweeny: Chromium Switch is now on Facebook Mutt: Hah! Tweeny: yep Mutt: The o,d CS site is still up, I believe, but waaay out of date Mutt: Old Cease: I think my next collection will be called Old Tweeny: It's Just This Little Chromium Switch Here (FB) >>https://www.facebook.com/groups/chromium.switch Mutt: Aaarrrggghh ||||||||| 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 half hour!" Not Ed: Holy moly big group Not Ed: Hey Beet: Hi, Not. Not Ed: I can't stay but I wanted to wish you all a GROOVY WEEKEND Mutt: Possible titles: Old my beer, Old on sonny, old on I’m comming … Mutt: Ed! Tweeny: Hi Not Ed Cease: Hi Not. Always good to see you here Not Ed: Y'all take care Not Ed: Take good care, C Cease: we do our best.
Tweeny sends the chat in for weekend re-grooving Not Ed: See you next time Not Ed: lol Not Ed: Later Tweeny Cease: I wanrted to go to Spain to see if I could survive the trip. I could. Not Ed: Catherwood get everyone a hot-buttered groat cluster ||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a hot-buttered groat cluster. Tweeny: good deal, Cease :) Not Ed: bbye! Tweeny: buh-bye... Mutt: Buh bye! Beet: This one was fun. Nice to see everyone. Enjoyed the show. I'll go tell David on his Facebook page. G'Nite all. Cease: i can sort of survive vegas, but this was a non-english speaking country with numerous challenges and unguaranteed rewards Cease: by beet Mutt: Nite beet! Be well Tweeny: not to mention testing your ambulatory capabilities after you recent mishap Cease: yes tween Cease: i proved quite physically capable, to my great pleasure. Mutt: Excellent Cease: back pain rarely debilitating. Tweeny: and things are restored after your wallte was stolen? Cease: i saw a beautiful young woman way down the bar in San Sebastian, and I thought, beauty is always a surprise. Mutt: Yikes. Pickpocket? Tweeny: I've had that happen, and it's a real PITA to get all the offocial documents and financial cards back again Cease: yes tween. license, etc. Tweeny: *official Cease: instread of just expecting great food, etc, i began to see good things as happening serendipitously Mutt: I like offocial better Cease: i have to be on the look out for beaurty, but i can't expect it reliably Tweeny: offal documents? Mutt: Beauty and ugliness are primitive divisions at best, no? Mutt: Lemme see yer OFFAL documents! Cease: i'm rre-reding carl sagan's Dragons of Cease: Eden now, about the eveoluton of the brain. Tweeny: kewl Cease: an old book but great to re-read. our brains have much to teach us Mutt: Sagan and Gould were two huge influences on me Tweeny: but remember, "Your brain may no longer be the boss..." Cease: rightfuly so Cease: just a ride, as bill hicks said Tweeny: RIP Bill Hicks Mutt: Both inspired a scientific curiosity that I still have Cease: me too, Mutt Mutt: The original cosmos was thrilling Mutt: No one was talking to the public about this stuff Cease: I was a kid when sputnk happened and vastly benefittred from the way the us education syuste pivoted to teaching science in the lafte 50s Mutt: I’m about 10 years behind you, but yeah. Cease:https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/thanks_sputnik_1.mp3 Cease:https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/thanks_sputnik_2.mp3 Mutt: Soasiba! Cease: Tihs is my collage about Sputnik's influnce on me. I'm trying to get my grandkids interested in science Mutt: Spasiba! Mutt: Well, time to walk my owners. Pups can’t wait. Good nite everyone and be well ||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Mutt left for parts unknown.(Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow"). Cease: By Mutt ||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Not Ed - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| llanddfyl - dead from the yaws ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Cease: off you drift Cease: is anyone strill here?
Tweeny is not anywhere at all ||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Cease, who then dashes out through the french doors and down through the brambles. ||||||||| Tweeny leaves at 8:00 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..." ||||||||| It's 12:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| JZip - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Deputy Dang: Outstanding! Thank you Cat and Tweeny and RFD! ||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Deputy Dang runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..." ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 1:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| morlog - dead from the yaws ||||||||| 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 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: ||||||||| Beet - dead from the yaws ||||||||| 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
llanddfyl
morlog
Mutt
Not Ed
Tweeny
