Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
01/09/2025

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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 January 09, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's RedPillTweeny, just back from Elmertown."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Tweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Firesign's HOW CAN YOU BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE WHEN YOU'RE NOT ANYWHERE AT ALL
plus a tribute to the late Jimmy Carter
and JUST FOLKS: A FIRESIGN CHAT
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'
||||||||| It's 5:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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 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.
||||||||| It's 7:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Tweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
||||||||| 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, January 09, 2025 - 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.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM uptown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving BuzzyKrumhunger coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, BuzzyKrumhunger vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| 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 llanwydd falls out at 8:00 PM.
llanwydd: good evening
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600"
||||||||| 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 Cease disembarks at 8:00 PM.
Cease: hi all
llanwydd: howdy Cease
||||||||| 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 accompanies Deputy Dang into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
llanwydd: hey Dang
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease! Howdy, llanwydd! Howdy, (Tweeny)!
Tweeny: Evenin' folks
llanwydd: hi Tween
Cease: tween
Tweeny: near freezing and raining here
llanwydd: we had a cold day in FL too
Deputy Dang: Same here. It's 60degF outside.
Deputy Dang: Do you have a new microphone or settings Tweeny? This voice sounds a little different/better than usual.
Tweeny: I have a cold lol
Deputy Dang: You wear it well! :-D
Tweeny: makes my voice a little deeper
llanwydd: this is my favorite fst album
llanwydd: first one I heard as well
Deputy Dang: I always smile during this part. The crazy is coming at us full speed.
llanwydd: thats for sure
Cease: it is wonderful
llanwydd: what separates this album from the others is the two different comic styles on each side
Cease: true
Deputy Dang: do you mean each side of the record?
llanwydd: makes it very upbeat in its approach I think
llanwydd: I better check
Cease: they are different realities
llanwydd: its ok theyre speaking chinese
llanwydd: yes I meant each side of the record, dang
Deputy Dang: 👍
Deputy Dang: This was in the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0BEr7QmTDo Weirdly Cool show. I watched it sometime in the last two weeks.
Cease: ossman told me it was their last attenpt at fame
llanwydd: thanks for the link dang
Cease: sound like the name of a chinese restauranr; link dang
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Heavy on the 30 weight."
Deputy Dang: You can also find them performing Everything You Know Is Wrong on YouTube. It's not like the Weirdly Cool, which is on a stage. I watch it also and the strange thing was that I felt I had watched it before or like my brain wasn't my own.
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and pipes up "Presenting 'Not Ed', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Tweeny: Hi Not Ed
Cease: hi not
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Not Ed!
llanwydd: Hi NE
llanwydd: lol, cat
Not Ed: Hello Tweeny, llan, C, & DDang
Not Ed: let me get hooked up here
Not Ed: it's just this little chromium switch here
Not Ed: ah yes...
llanwydd: I have also seen EYKIW many years after I first heard the album. it was quite an experience
Cease: me too
Not Ed: yeah it was cool
Cease: very well done
Not Ed: is
Deputy Dang: is was cool?
Not Ed: was is the last time I looked
Not Ed: catherwood give everyone a tarnished piece of tim
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone a tarnished piece of tim.
Not Ed: Tim
Not Ed: lol
Deputy Dang: lol
Not Ed: haha
llanwydd: poor tim
Cease: poor tar
Deputy Dang: I've always wondered if that part about picking up cues on time and such is based on a real-life event where it actually happened. I wonder if one missed a cue and the other improvised to cover and it just made it into the next performance and became canon.
Not Ed: I can see that
llanwydd: missing cues is very common in stage productions. it must be common in radio
llanwydd: or has been in the days of otr
Tweeny: Dang, you could always get on Ossman's FB page and ask him.
Not Ed: the organ playing is so brilliant
Cease: thats organ leroy
Deputy Dang: I would never have considered that. It's probably mentioned in one of his books. But it would be easier to ask.
Not Ed: wait --same player for real?
Not Ed: [organ leroy/dwarf] and [organist/how can you be] = same player?
llanwydd: possibly
Cease: i have no idea
Not Ed: From ChatGTP: On the Firesign Theatre's album "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All," the organ was played by David Grimm & The Grateful Boogies. For "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers," the specific organist is not clearly documented in the available sources.
Not Ed: Hmm would have to verify this with the guys.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: tatlor jessen would know
Not Ed: Taylor is The Man
Not Ed: I haven't heard this in AGES thank you!
Not Ed: Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to delay sentencing in his New York hush money case https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-appeal-12f9e883b71d8c37178b0ea32193e8c4
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I say Live it, or Live With It!"
Cease: this is really funny
Tweeny: Not Ed: Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to delay sentencing << So, we'll have President Vance
Tweeny: What a freakin 'circus
Cease: this sounds like roller maidens
Tweeny: Yeah, similar Cease
Not Ed: great surprising decision - historical!
Not Ed: great stuff
Deputy Dang: That was fun and respectful.
Not Ed: (the carter stuff)
Deputy Dang: Well, respectful with humor.
Not Ed: Man Iran strung him along until the end - then wanted him gone - they released the hostages literally hours after reagan was announced as winner of the election
Not Ed: they wanted him gone, I meant
Not Ed: yet, Carter gets blamed for it
Not Ed: but he transcended all of that to say the least
Cease: true
Tweeny: Trump is doing something similar to Reagan, which is that if all of the Hamas hostages aren't released before he takes office there will be 'hell to pay'
Cease: as id gaza isnt hell now
Tweeny: indeed
llanwydd: I remember the hostages were on the plane and on their way during Reagans inauguration ceremony
Deputy Dang: I had/have a friend who was in the Air Force and in Egypt during the hostage crisis. All he could tell me about what he was doing is that he couldn't tell me what he was doing. lol
Deputy Dang: This part about charring the caterpillars cracks me up.
Not Ed: Yeah
Not Ed: Indeed Tweener & C
Not Ed: DD total clusterf*kk
Cease: some funny shit
Cease: mordor
Cease: new orc
Not Ed: great classic
llanwydd: neer caught that mordor reference before
llanwydd: never
Tweeny: "Two door, four door, mordor living!" ~ Ralph Spoilsport
Tweeny: "New York, New Orc, you know you gotta choose one..." ~ Little Feat's Tripe Boogie
Tweeny: I really like the version of this they did for NPR (on the All Things Firesign album)
Cease: they performed this a lot
Cease: by all
Deputy Dang: Most excellent!
Tweeny: Thanks for listening, folks...
Tweeny: See ya next week
Deputy Dang: Good night all. See you next week!
||||||||| Deputy Dang rushes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Deputy Dang?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
llanwydd: thanks tween. great show
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This hasn't happened to me since 'M'!"
Tweeny: Cat's selections :)
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600"
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Tweeny leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Elmertown.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Not Ed: Night!
||||||||| llanwydd leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Hellmouth.
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Cease - 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:
Cease
Deputy Dang
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://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-appeal-12f9e883b71d8c37178b0ea32193e8c4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0BEr7QmTDo