Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
01/23/2025

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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 23, 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 Tweeny, just back from Hellmouth."
||||||||| 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 I THINK WE’RE ALL BOZOS ON THIS BUS
plus from the Mark Time XM Radio broadcasts
“Return to Planet X” and “Geomancer at the Garden Gate”
and Cat’s collage “Proctor, Bergman, Heat, DF Mark”
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 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.
||||||||| It's 8:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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, January 23, 2025 - 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?"
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Deputy Dang coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and llanddfyl steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| 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..
llanddfyl: good evening
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and pipes up "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: Howdy, Pardners!
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Cease by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
Beet: Hiya, Llan.
Cease: Hi all
llanddfyl: Hi some
Beet: Hey, Cease
Deputy Dang: Howdy, pardners!
Cease: some dont warrant a greeting, llan?
Beet: One of the steamiest pop songs ever.
Cease: true
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies llanwydd in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
llanwydd: we all do, cease
llanwydd: catherwood, get everyody bearwhiz
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyody bearwhiz.
Deputy Dang: I'm having deja vu.
llanwydd: right at theese moment?
Beet: I haven't had one of those for a very long time.
||||||||| 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 falls out at 8:00 PM.
Cease: we print it, you drink it
Tweeny: evenin' folks
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny!
llanwydd: I have my theory about deja vu. history has been repeating forever and whenever you have deja vu you are remembering the infinite times you have repeated your history
Beet: Greetings, Tweeny.
Tweeny: Di you guys see that Trump has ordered all the JFK/MLK/RFK assassination files declassified?
Tweeny: Should really shake things up
Tweeny: *Did
llanwydd: he might as well do something worthwhile
Beet: I just saw that. I hope they don't leave anything out.
Tweeny: nothing 'redacted'
Deputy Dang: Speaking if the fair and the funway, I went to Walt Disney World last Sunday. The best ride is standing in line. I think that's why they have so many of them, each leading to something you can sit and rest for a few minutes..
Tweeny: haha
llanwydd: never been to disney but I have been to epcot
Cease: only been to the disneys in california and tokyo
llanwydd: what do they call the one in nippon?
Tweeny: yeah, did Disneyland in Cal back in '64
Deputy Dang: I prefer EPCOT.
Beet: I had a very brief visit to Disneyworld.
Cease: i enjoyed the original as a kid as my daughter did in tokyo, but would it have any appeal to an adult?
Tweeny: EPCOT is science-oriented?
llanwydd: did they throw you out, beet?
llanwydd: seems that could be the only way you could have a brief visit
Cease: were upi the lonesome beet?
Beet: Just a lack of time. I felt nobody's boot.
llanwydd: lol
Deputy Dang: Well... EPCOT is more science oriented than the other parks. I haven't been there in more than 10 years, so I'm sure it's dated. It has a nice aquarium.
Cease: saw an excellent aquarium in spain
Cease: i lik fish. looking at them, eating them
Deputy Dang: My girlfriend wanted to go to Disney just to see the castle so she could say she had been and seen the castle. Mission accomplished.
Deputy Dang: A few weeks ago, someone (Mutt? Beet?) shared a link to Firesign Theatre's video Weirdly Cool (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0BEr7QmTDo). From there, I found Everything You Know Is Wrong (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAcHfymgh4Y). This week, I found Nick Danger in the Case of the Missing Yolk (1983) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGrKLO4c4D8. This is NOT on any of their albums as far as I know. It does have some lines from Lawyer's Hospital and some of the recurring Nick Danger tropes. David Ossman does not appear in it. Michael Nesmith was the executive producer. It was a fun watch, and I encourage you to spend 55 minutes or so enjoying it.
Tweeny: kewl, thanks Dang :)
Cease: thanks,dang
Beet: Sounds good
llanwydd: I saw Missing Yolk on tv many many years ago
Cease: i used some lines from Yolks in my new collage.
llanwydd: and J men on the same station sometime after. I wish I could remember what channel
Cease: j men is funny
Beet: I know it's largely the delivery, but I still laugh at some of these lines.
Beet: Of course, the content itself is superior.
Cease: considering how much they were alll into movies, its surprising they never made one as good as Python's Grail, or Life of Brian
Cease: lack of money?
Cease: no george harrison to fund them
||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanddfyl - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: by llsn
llanwydd: still here
Deputy Dang: yup
Cease: tha's good. death is to be avoided.
Beet: So far so good.
Cease: forget the future.
Beet: good idea
Deputy Dang: I don't know why, but I love that closing line.
llanwydd: great album
Beet: Wonderful
Cease: i see you are a sailor. indeed.
Cease: exactly what is being sailed isn't indicated.
Beet: And then the sound effects are of a wooden ship creeking in the wind.
Cease: like the song Wooden Ships
Deputy Dang: that's a software joke.
Tweeny: Wasn't that inspired by Crosby's sailship The Southern Cross (like the song of the same name)?
Cease: bergman was WAY into computers
Cease: yes tween
Cease: procs childhood friend wrote that song
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Hello, we're glad you made it!"
Beet: One of my favorites
llanwydd: that afghan joke was pretty lame
Cease: some jokes are
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Deputy Dang: that was fun. I'm sure there is a lot more Mark Time I have not heard before.
Tweeny: Fiesign Theatre on Xm Radio - https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/
Cease: we seem to be listening to he same episode
Tweeny: All the Mark Time episodes >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/marktime.html
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right."
Deputy Dang: Nah, it's just deja vu all over again.
Cease: lol
Tweeny: According to my playlist we played:
Tweeny: 01-Mark Time_ _Return to Planet X_ 03-Mark Time_ _Geomancer at the Garden Gate_
Tweeny: The new show got started lated because the program director started to play last week's show, so the new show will run over a few minutes into the next hour
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What you don't mean won't hurt you."
llanwydd: anybody think rand mcnally is going to censor the gulf of mexico?
llanwydd: they would face a boycott if they did
llanwydd: or mapquest or google maps or especially wikipedia
Tweeny: This is weird, sounds like we missed the promos and went straight to Cat's collage
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right."
Beet: It is once again time to go. Really enjoyed hanging with you gentlemen this evening. Everyone have a great weekend. See you next time. G'Nite.
Deputy Dang: G'nite Beet!
Cease: i only have a few of these. i htink there ae many of them.
Cease: by beet
llanwydd: nite beet. see yu nest thirsty
||||||||| Not Ed bounds in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: Ney Not
Tweeny: Hi Not Ed
llanwydd: hey I mean
Cease: hi not
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Not Ed!
Not Ed: Hey!!
Not Ed: DDang, C, llan, TWEENY
Not Ed: I'm hungry too
Not Ed: Good 2 see y'all!
Cease: we're usually here at this time
Not Ed: thank goodness!
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Mutt close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the anteroom.
Mutt: A very good evening to yinz
Cease: i have missed relatively few chats since the first in 1995
Not Ed: Mutt!
Cease: hi mutt
Tweeny: Hi Mutt
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt!
Mutt: Hey Not, Cease! And howdy Deputy, Dr. Tween and llan!
Not Ed bows and falls overoopz
Mutt: Hmm. Don’t think that was me, DD. Thanks for posting the links. I remember hinting down a betamax copy of Yolks when it came out. Took some doing where I lived.
Mutt: “Hinting down”. Ha!
Cease: good will hinting?
Cease: i thought this would go well with Bozos
Tweeny: It does :)
Tweeny: So what's for next week? Are we going to continue to play the albums in order?
Tweeny: Anybody have any requests?
Deputy Dang: In order sounds good. :-)
Cease: Df next week? That was the next album after Bozos
Tweeny: Yes, that would be next, and then we get into the solo albums
Tweeny: and Giant Rat
Not Ed: Well, for instance, I'd like to know....why?
Not Ed: And who am us, anyway?
Cease: i put all the solo albums together on ossman's request.
Not Ed: Catherwood bring everyone stunned ducks in alcohol sauce and a bear whiz
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone stunned ducks in alcohol sauce and a bear whiz.
Not Ed: (It's in the water)
Not Ed: NPR shows on Bandcamp soon I hear
Tweeny: cool
Not Ed: Ossman is pretty active on Facebook
Not Ed: yeah!
Cease: as is proctor
llanwydd: did not now that. I should check out their pages
Not Ed: Here's my BlueSky thingy if anyone wants to connect @indivisualist.bsky.social
Mutt: Proc’s new friend is a very nice person. Glad he is having some fun.
Not Ed: oh wow that's great!
Cease: he does seem to be having fun
Not Ed: he's a very nice person too so that should work out good
Mutt: He’s in excellent hands. So to speak.
Cease: he cetainly deserves it.
Not Ed: haha cool
Mutt: She’s wicked smart and very accomplished, and a lot of fun.
Not Ed: hey y'all i have to split - Please stay groovy and be good! : )
Not Ed: night!
Cease: you too, not
llanwydd: nite Not
Mutt: Be good Not!
Tweeny: Remember that this will play over the top of the hour since it started late
Cease: so we listen to the whole DF next week
Mutt: Welcome to Side 6
llanwydd: well I need to get to bed. big day tomorrow.
Tweeny: Sounds good Cease
llanwydd: looking forward to DF
Cease: hope it's a good one, llan
Deputy Dang: I'll stay over the top.
Mutt: Nite Llan. Good luck.
llanwydd: thanks
Tweeny: and then there's Not Insane
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
llanwydd: nite everybody
Deputy Dang: G'nite llanwyd!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "He can shout, don't hear you."
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, llanwydd hurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
Mutt: Young Guy! Motor Detective!
Cease: next week, all
Deputy Dang: G'nite all! Thanks Tweeny! Thanks Cease!
||||||||| 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...
Tweeny: Thanks for listening all :)
||||||||| Deputy Dang says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Deputy Dang exits at 8:00 PM.
Mutt: Be well everyone
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Mutt vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Tweeny, who then dashes out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds.
||||||||| 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 Plague
||||||||| Beet - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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
llanddfyl
llanwydd
Mutt
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://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/marktime.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGrKLO4c4D8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAcHfymgh4Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0BEr7QmTDo