Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
04/24/2025

Archive

||||||||| 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 April 24, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Tweeny close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the Aviary.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Firesign Theatre’s ALTERNATIVE ROSE PARADE 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJrTdfuzQPs
plus a new Cat Collage “Olfaction”
and from LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM “The Armenian’s Paw”
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
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 strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 24, 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.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Deputy Dang, just back from Hellmouth."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Cease bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| 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 Beet disembarks at 8:00 PM.
Beet: Evening, Friends.
Tweeny: Hello Dear Friends
Beet: Hi, Tweeny.
Beet: We are the early birds.
Cease: Hi all
Tweeny: chirp chirp
Tweeny: Hey Cease
Beet: Hey, Cease
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I think we're all Bozos on this bus."
Deputy Dang: Howdy, pardners!
Beet: Hi, Deputy.
Tweeny: Howdy Deputy
Deputy Dang: So... what point should we be at in the video at the time I ask this question?
Tweeny: As I mentioned, they say that the commentary starts at 2:18
Deputy Dang: Ok I think I'm close. I was confused because I still had the youTube audio on.
Cease: Duck in, Duck off
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "More coffee, warden?"
Beet: Pork flavored marshmallows
Cease: it wont go away
||||||||| Catherwood ushers llanwydd in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
llanwydd: howdy folks
Beet: hi,llan.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, llanwydd!
Cease: hey llan
Deputy Dang: llanwydd, it's going to be tricky to "catch up". This is approximate instructions: open a new tab and go to the youtube link up at the top of this page. It will start playing the 2000 Rose Parade. Turn the YouTube audio off. Then move the time to around 16:00 minutes.
Tweeny: Hey llan
llanwydd: guess I missed it then
llanwydd: too much to make my computer freeze
llanwydd: it does tht these days
llanwydd: that
Cease: i dont know how many computers I've had.
llanwydd: I have had only one but when I first joined the chat I had webtv which hooked up the internet to my television through a phone line
Tweeny: I remember your using WebTV. That was sort of quirky, wasn't it?
Tweeny: had problems with email?
llanwydd: not much problems with webtv. I kind of miss it
Cease: how's it goin, llan?
llanwydd: microsoft took it oer and then it was msntv then years later they dicontinued the service
llanwydd: going great, Cease. thanks for asking
Cease: fine canadian actors
Beet: Feeling kind of drowsy, friends. Have fun and see you next week.
Cease: by beet
llanwydd: nite beet
Cease: what was that?
Cease: did anyone else notice that? a sudden diminuation of volume?
Tweeny: a little EOBE there
Tweeny: Yes, I had to turn up the volume
Tweeny: You might want to check the file at that point to see if there's an issue
Cease: aha
Tweeny: might be an issue at the station, but I've not seen that happen before
Cease: only for A few sec
Tweeny: might be the original recording since they were doing it live, who knows
Cease: ode to bad acid
Cease: bergman's bad trip led to a lot of his later creativity
Cease: iconic imagery from pete land: the guys with metal hats coming out of the walls. on david crosby's brownie'
Cease: mettaly
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What is reality?"
llanwydd: that doesnt sound like a catherwood quotation somehow
||||||||| Catherwood strides up to llanwydd and mumbles "Typing my name just to rile me, eh?"
Deputy Dang: I was at 58:23 into the video.
Cease: the next thing is from a CBC Ideas programme about smell
Cease: where is my intro, tween?
Cease: didn't you get it in time to post it?
||||||||| 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..
Tweeny: Damn Cat, I'm sorry I forgot to include it :/
Tweeny: arrrg
Cease: ok
Tweeny: I'll ammend the file so at least it will be in the archive copy
Cease: good
Cease: anyone here?
llanwydd: I am still here
Cease: didnt we all lose the sense of smell and taste during covid?
Tweeny: I heard that was one of the symptoms
Cease: yep
Deputy Dang: I did. That's how I knew I had COVID. As a test, I spritzed some air freshener. I couldn't smell it. But I opened my mouth and breathed it in (not straight from the sprayer, just in the air), and I could sense the astringency but there was no flavor.
Cease: those were the symtoms both Fumiyo and I had.
llanwydd: I never had the covid
llanwydd: to my knowledge
Cease: good for you
Cease: billions and billions
Deputy Dang: a billion here, a billion there... it starts to add up!
Cease: do bilionaires care if they lose billions?
Deputy Dang: they don't care if we lose billions
Cease: this is a profound thing. we need diversity
llanwydd: who do you think will become the first trillionaire?
Cease: should that be allowed?
Cease: why should anyone have that much money?
Cease: we already have musk runinng trtump to his advantage. a trilionaire would be even more eager to keep his fortune and impose his will on the world
llanwydd: could be
llanwydd: but my question was who will it be. I was kindof half joking
Tweeny: OK, I've patched the file and will upload it as soon as the show's over.
Cease: good, tween
Deputy Dang: You would notice if you drank vinegar. The acid isn't just a scent.
Tweeny: "Sorry about that, Chief..."
Cease: we dont know if we get the archive back, tween. depends on what doc can do
Tweeny: Well, I meant the RFD archive for now so when people listen to the show it'll have your intro.
Tweeny: It'll be up there for 5 weeks, and of course both RFD and I will have archives of all the shows.
Cease: thanks, Tween
Cease: I'm tryhing to make contact with people in Ukraine an haviong access to sometihng is better than nothing.
Cease: up the irish is i think, a ref to a leeny bruce joke
Deputy Dang: This is reminiscent of the Marx Brothers.
Cease: intentionally i'm sure
Tweeny: no doubt
Cease: any ideas for next week?
Deputy Dang: It feels like we've listened to everything recently. Two Places, Next World, Dwarf, Bozos, Dear Friends, Eat or Be Eaten, Lawyers Hospital...
llanwydd: how about the forward into the past album?
llanwydd: how about the forward into the past album?
Cease: good idea
llanwydd: one I havent heard in a long time is Give Us a Break
llanwydd: that album is hilarious
Cease: what do you think, tween?
Cease: they all are, llan
Tweeny: let me check when we last played it
Tweeny: It's been over a year since we heard it. Yeah, it's a very fun album and we can play that after next week's show
Tweeny: Let's put that one on deck, Cat
Tweeny: Maybe pair it with What This Country Needs?
Tweeny: 'an evening of Proctor & Bergman'
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Hello, we're glad you made it!"
Cease: Good idea.
Tweeny: All be well folks, and we'll see you next week
Deputy Dang: That sounds good! I look forward to Thursday nights every week, including next week!
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Deputy Dang vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Tweeny: It's been fun :)
llanwydd: nite dang
llanwydd: well thanks again cat and tween. see you next thrsday
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Tweeny by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| llanwydd is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
||||||||| It's 1:30 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...
||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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
llanwydd
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJrTdfuzQPs