Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
11/07/2024

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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 November 07, 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 half hour!"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: I THINK WE’RE ALL BOZOS ON THIS BUS
plus tracks from PAPOON FOR PRESIDENT
and a new Cat Collage series
“On The Way To Santa Fe”
Listen to the 256k 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.
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||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, November 07, 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.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's llanwydd, just back from Elmertown."
llanwydd: howdy
llanwydd: looking forward to bozos
Tweeny: Hi llan
Tweeny: Cat thought it was appropriate for post-election US ;)
Tweeny: I voted for RFK, Jr. & Tulsi Gabbard. Not particularly a fan of Trump.
llanwydd: I thought rfkjr had dropped out of the race
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Deputy Dang close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the sitting room.
Tweeny: Howdy Deputy
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny! Howdy, llanwydd!
Tweeny: He suspended his campaign, llan, and like Tulsi defected to the 'Trump Team'
llanwydd: I voted for kamala but as much as I dislike trump as a human being, I am hopeful that he can do something to clean up bidens mess
Tweeny: Yes, let's hope that the wars will be stopped quickly, for one
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is Major Hit in the cockpit of the Enola McLuhan."
llanwydd: Hey Dang
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Cease close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the sitting room.
Tweeny: allo Cease
Cease: Hi all
llanwydd: Hey Cat
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease!
Cease: A great album
Tweeny: one of their finest
llanwydd: for sure
Cease: I selected it for this week because of the President
llanwydd: cool to think that someone can break the president
Cease: Finally, my recent adventures in Santa Fe in the 2nd hour
llanwydd: cool
Cease: Doc was supposed to have my play produced by this week, but it has yet to happen.
llanwydd: I was going to ask you about that, cat
llanwydd: dying to hear it
Cease: Have an idea for a new play. It's called Centennial, about an obviously fictional celebration of the Weimar Republic's 100th anniversary.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Beet steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Beet: Evening, Folks!
Cease: There was never aWW2 because they never let Hitler out of Jail.
llanwydd: Hey Beet
Cease: Hi beet
Cease: YOu speak German, right, llan?
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I see you are a sailor."
llanwydd: fantastic idea, cat
Tweeny: yo Beet
Cease: it came to me in a dream.
Beet: Hi, llan, Cease Deputy, Tween
llanwydd: I know some german and I can speak in a perfekt deutsche aksendt
Cease: I'm REALLY PISSED OFF at the catch-and-release policies of BC's so called justice system
Beet: Still my favorite FST album.
llanwydd: some dreams are worth depicting
Cease: criminals commit serious crimes in vancouver daily, are arrested, and are promptly released.
llanwydd: one of my favorites beet
Cease: my play is a reaction to that.
Beet: Very strange policy indeed, Cease
llanwydd: every big city has a serious crime problem
llanwydd: unfortunately it reflects the human condition
Beet: Very effective "Voice of God"
Cease: Ossman makesan excellent god
llanwydd: never thought of it that way beet
Beet: Perfect
llanwydd: I remember hawkmoth using that expression
Cease: speaking of ossman, there are some clips from his play New Mexican Overdrive in my new collage.
Cease: we'll listen to it in the first hour next week.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What you don't mean won't hurt you."
llanwydd: great
Cease: you now he'll be 88 in a few weeks?
llanwydd: god bless him
Cease: that's a car, not an age!
Beet: That sounds good.
Cease: he once lived in Santa Fe, which inspired my trip
llanwydd: my mother will be 88 in a few months
Cease: i hpoe she's as fit as ossman
llanwydd: so will millions of others
Tweeny: cool, llan :)
Cease: people are living longer
Tweeny: Cease, looks like we need to do an Ossman tribute
llanwydd: for sure
Cease: i'v made 2 of them already, tween.
Cease: The Ossman Collage Graduation and Happy Birthday Ossman
Beet: what's a "strone"?
Cease: apparently something in Irish english
Tweeny: OK Cease, let's see what fits into a birthday show
Cease: did you callhear the blues song someone made of that speech?
Cease: It's the Bees and Spiders Again. Video. Donewith AI
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM uptown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving JZip coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
llanwydd: howdy Zip
Cease: Zip
Beet: Hey, JZip
JZip waves at all the nice people, and all the rest too
Tweeny: Hi JZip
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I take your hat and goat?"
llanwydd: is a jzip different from a KBeaner?
JZip: Well, I've heard of one of them.
JZip: So I'd say yes.
llanwydd: lol
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You can wait here in the sitting room, or you can sit here in the waiting room."
Cease: if any of you are on any of the Firesign Facebook groups, the song should be thre. made recently
llanwydd: I would call myself a beaner who is a would-be bozo
Cease: lots of beaners in santa fe.
llanwydd: ank you
Beet: bozo aspirations.
llanwydd: I bet thats true, cat
Cease: there's a bozo waiting for you on the other side.
llanwydd: across the border?
llanwydd: I would like to meet her
Cease: accross the road
Beet: Now, if we're all bozos on this bus, then you have already made it, llan.
llanwydd: lol
llanwydd: how do you leave the future?
Cease: by turning it into the past.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I think we're all Bozos on this bus."
llanwydd: aha
Deputy Dang: Did we all stop wearing underwear in the year 2020?
Tweeny: OK guyz, I have to get up early for work tomorrow so will have to say adios. All be well...
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Tweeny, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the bushes.
llanwydd: thanks for the fun evening, tween
Cease: you too, tween
Deputy Dang: G'nite Tweeny! Thank you for setting up the show!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They never come up into the hills."
Beet: I confess I'm still wearing mine. Embarassing.
JZip: 2020 was a weird year.
Beet: See ya, Tweeny.
llanwydd: I dont find underwear embarassing
llanwydd: as I remember we were wearing our underwear over our faces in 2020
Cease: only in Barbaria
Beet: Underwear is not embarassing but wearing them is.
llanwydd: briefly
llanwydd: same voice as at the end of side two
llanwydd: oh this is side two
Beet: Wonderful
llanwydd: fantastic album
Cease: tis
Deputy Dang: I don't know why, but I really like that line/ending.
Cease: me too, dang
Beet: Biden is going to Mars ?
llanwydd: I dont know wy anybody wants to go to mars. there is nothing to do there
Cease: not a very inviting planet
Beet: There's a large collection of red sand there.
llanwydd: but some people want to spend the rest of their lives there
llanwydd: I remember having a wonderul dream about bouncing around in the low-gravity of mars.
llanwydd: while watching cornstalks pop out of the red soil
llanwydd: LIFE ON MARS
Beet: Have you been converted in to an alien now?
llanwydd: didnt papoon run on one of the low profile parties this election?
Beet: I heard they are in everybody's eggs.
llanwydd: lol
Cease: a job that needsa man. where have i heard that before?
llanwydd: papoon actually did run against trump and harris on the surrealist ticket
llanwydd: his campaign slogan was Not Senile.
llanwydd: job that needs a man sounds familiar. where is that from?
Cease: your recent election
llanwydd: right in
llanwydd: I missed that cat
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Not Ed', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
Beet: Who won?
llanwydd: Hey Not
Not Ed: Yo dogs.
Cease: Hi Not
Beet: Hi, Not.
Not Ed: Hey C, Beet & llan
Not Ed: DDang? JZ?
llanwydd: I remember capone in neal amid. great cahracter
Not Ed: Is all surviving?
llanwydd: and characterization
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: we is, not
Not Ed: outstanding
llanwydd: no, NE, we are all dead and imagining that we are alive
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Guaranteed by the Department of Redundancy Dept. and the Natural Guard."
Not Ed: lol well whatever worx llan (I hear ya)
Beet: You're giving away our secrets.
Not Ed: haha
llanwydd: however, I think therefore I think I am, I think
Not Ed: Positive note (then I'll say no more): Remember that each time America has encountered the Darkness, we came through it a better nation.
Cease: that's the clip from Neal Amid
Not Ed: Santa Fey was a merry olde elf
Cease: i remember riffing on all the books spillane sold
Cease: Ossman riffing
Not Ed: yeah great
Cease: Dave was impressed.
llanwydd: did I inadvertantly quote neal amid. I thought I know your play very well
llanwydd: I have listened to it many times
Not Ed: ditto
Beet: Van Morrison singing about being green?
llanwydd: wasnt that where the yaquis lived and encountered the Nagual
Cease: channeling his inner kermit the frog
llanwydd: I heard barbra streisand sing with kermit. wonderful duet
Beet: Can't imagine that.
Beet: Well, this has been fun. Got to go. Nice to see everyone. Have a great rest of the week. See you next time. G'Nite.
llanwydd: oh, she sang with everybody. willie nelson, neil diamond, billy joel...
llanwydd: Nite Beet
Cease: by beet
Not Ed: Move the Louvre!
Not Ed: Bbye Bbeet
||||||||| It's 1:15 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...
Cease: there's richard fish, from my new play
llanwydd: I remember the name,cat. he has been on your recordings before, hasnt he?
Cease: yes, he was the news guy in VEgasEgypt
Cease: he was also in the Ossman thing, We're Doomed
Cease: were't you in that too?
llanwydd: yea i was
Cease: one of our previous chatters got this album for me. this was before youtube made everything available
Cease: some serious jazz rock from 1969
llanwydd: some chatters have gotten albums for me too
Cease: you know chat has been going on almost 30 years
llanwydd: I think it was tweeny who sent me roller maidens
Cease: we'll hear that whole album next week. that was a clip from New Mexican Overdrive, one of Dave's most ambitious production.
Deputy Dang: This is very enjoyable Cat.
Cease: i saw it live in maybe 97? 98?
Cease: that's the idea, Dang.
Cease: there's a store in Vegas called Kiki of Montparnasse.
Cease: lingerie
Cease: spencer tracy did look like gertrude stein.
llanwydd: run by a miniskirted habitue from...
llanwydd: sounds like santana
Cease: there was a flood of great music on the radio in those days
llanwydd: I am just old enough to remember that, cat
Cease: good
llanwydd: better than justin bieber and miley cyrus
llanwydd: george one was german
Cease: the not insane idea was from eagleton, as i recall. mcgovern's vp had to quit because he couldn't prove not insane
Deputy Dang: Horse-leech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemopis_sanguisuga
Cease: they were quite interested in horse leechs at one time
Deputy Dang: weren't we all
Cease: there's an early simpsons episode with michael jackson, where-in homer gets a certificate saying he's not insane.
llanwydd: wasnt his vp sargent shriver?
llanwydd: I might remember al that wrong
llanwydd: I was ony ten or eleven
Cease: yes, after eagleton dropped out.
llanwydd: when I was in school back then a rumour swept like wild that mcgovern wanted to make us go to school on saturdays
llanwydd: everybody liked nixon as a result
Cease: https://www.npr.org/2012/08/04/157670201/the-thomas-eagleton-affair-haunts-candidates-today
llanwydd: thanks for the link
Cease: false news has been with us forever
llanwydd: true
llanwydd: thanks Cat and Tweeny
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "A fair for all and no fair to anybody!"
Deputy Dang: Good night dear friends! I look forward to the sequel next week. Thanks Cat! G'note llanwood!
llanwydd: great show as always
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Gee Mom, isn't that bridge built yet?"
||||||||| "Hey Deputy Dang!" ... Deputy Dang turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 8:00 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| "Hey Cease!" ... Cease turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 8:00 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Not Ed: Hey all take care. Thank Tweeny & Ruf & Cat. Don't let your meat loaf!
Not Ed: Take care DDang!
llanwydd: Nite everybody
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, llanwydd!" 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 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 fiddlers
||||||||| Not Ed - 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
llanwydd
Not Ed
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemopis_sanguisuga
https://www.npr.org/2012/08/04/157670201/the-thomas-eagleton-affair-haunts-candidates-today