||||||||| 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 May 08, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Tweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room... ||||||||| 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 FIGHTING CLOWNS https://firesigntheatre.com/store/fighting-clowns with some performances from the concert collection THE FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood and a new Cat Collage “Bloopers” 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 ushers Johbo81 into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Johbo81: its so quiet in here Johbo81: I guess I'll come back later ||||||||| It's 5:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Johbo81 - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| 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 7:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Tweeny - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| 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, May 08, 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?" ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and BuzzyKrumhunger steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. ||||||||| It's 10:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| BuzzyKrumhunger - dead from the common cold ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Deputy Dang 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. ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Cease into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs. Cease: Howdy folks. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease! You haven't missed much, so far! ||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Lynn coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. Deputy Dang: Howdy, Lynn! You haven't missed much, so far! ||||||||| Catherwood strides up and announces "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. Beet: Hey, Folks! Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet! You got here just in time! Beet: Hi, Deputy, Cease, Lynn. Beet: It's nice to be on time. ||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and announces "Announcing 'llanwydd', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom... llanwydd: howdy Cease: All rolling in Deputy Dang: Howdy, llanwydd! ||||||||| 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 Bunnyboy gets out at 8:00 PM. Cease: Hi Bunny! Bunnyboy: Eeeeeeeedmond!… Deputy Dang: Howdy, Bunnyboy! Bunnyboy: Odd day off. Hiya, folks! Bunnyboy: Catherwood, Timpani! ||||||||| Catherwood walks up to Bunnyboy and mumbles "Something I can help with?" ||||||||| 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: Just in time for oddness Beet: Hi, Bunny. Tweeny: Evenin' Dear Friends Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny! Cease: Are you new here, Lynn? Beet: Hey, Tweeny. Bunnyboy: Where’s “here”? Cease: The Tweenster Tweeny: 'You Are Here, Player' Bunnyboy: Well? We’re waiting! Cease: I think we all get our own now Bunnyboy: “Four Before…” ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Ersatz Brothers Coffee, the REAL one!" llanwydd: catherwood is serving us coffee this week ||||||||| Catherwood ignores llanwydd Bunnyboy: Any word from Merlyn? Cease: Not I Beet: Hi, Llan. Cease: I wonder if Austin wrote this music? Tweeny: Not in a very long time, Bunnyboy. I suspect he's gone :( Probably never recovered from the stroke. llanwydd: we keep hearing about the first american pope who is actually not Tweeny: It's probably in the liner notes, Cease. Tweeny:https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=fc-ln llanwydd: he is really the first NORTH American pope Bunnyboy: True! SOUTH American! Deputy Dang: ah... Tweeny: 'American' as in U.S. Tweeny: North American would include Mexico and Canada Cease: "america" usually means the US, or as we call it "the states" Tweeny: yeah Cease: Is the Caribean part of that? Bunnyboy: Including The States of Denial! Deputy Dang: United is doing a lot of heavy lifting these days. Deputy Dang: (and I'm not talking about the airline) Tweeny: Good question. There's also Central America Cease: Could the Pirates of the Carribean just flee to a different country. Tweeny: Caribbean countries are in their own sphere, I think llanwydd: now we have a Pope Bob from Chicago Cease: Pope Bob Hope Deputy Dang: I wonder if he knows Ed from Chicago. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "There's a seeker born every minute!" Cease: JOe from Chicago and his mob. Bunnyboy: NotJoeNotEd Deputy Dang: Ah, Joe--my memory is uh... something... looking for... Cease: Hemlock Sones, in disguise Bunnyboy: Doctor…ahh…Doctor…TIME FILLER! Cease: You still here, Lynn? Cease: Is this the first time you've heard this album? Cease: This is wonderfully recorded. Cease: actually we often have folks show up here who may just be checking it out, and moving on. Bunnyboy: And Rip Van Badpenny, like me. Cease: cleverf name Bunnyboy: Funny Names > Clever Names Cease: Hey Bunny whatever happened to that Seattle late night comedy show. 90s maybe Cease: bald guy Bunnyboy: ALMOST LIVE? Yes, John Keister. Cease: right! Cease: great show Cease: didnt get the seattle local refs but really enjoyed it Bunnyboy: Off the air since about 2003. Had a 40th anniversary celebration, last year. Cease: thre was a sketch called Pike or PIne. I knew they were Seatle streets but that was wall. still laughted Bunnyboy: You can find whole episodes on YouTube! Cease: i assume they all went off to other things? Bunnyboy: They had a restrospective at MOHAI - Museum of History and Industry, last year. Bunnyboy: Yeah, if you Google ALMOST LIVE, you’ll get lotsa info. Cease: if this isn't escape, what is? Cease: will do. Deputy Dang: There is a lot of good music on this album. Bunnyboy: Don’t know if you’re able to get KING5+…free app, on Roku, and some Smart TVs. Bunnyboy: They also have eps there. Bunnyboy: They had cable episodes on Comedy Central, for a few years. Cease: are they still funny this many years later? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They had to come from small towns with strange names." Bunnyboy: Amazingly so, with the fullness of time. Cease: 30 year old canadian comedy shows feel dated Cease: and they only repeat the good stuff. Bunnyboy: Also, nice to see shots of Downtown, before it went to hell. Cease: Beet still here? Cease: The lads did a great interview about the making of the album. should be next Deputy Dang: It looks like some folks are fading... ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let's stand him on his head!" Bunnyboy: Downtown was on decline for several years, in the mid-teens. Then riots and COVID sealed the deal. Bunnyboy: And Amazon built like crazy, and abandoned most of the office spaces. Beet: Beet still here, sort of. Cease: Lynn still here? Cease: Their magination is unimagineable Deputy Dang: I haven't heard that line before--I don't have a son; I have a vasectomy. Cease: great line Beet: I don't recall hearing a lot of this. llanwydd: I have a vascodegama Beet: That's somthing to explore. llanwydd: lol Cease: i think the word "line" is prounouced "lynn" in alternate dialects Tweeny: llanwydd: I have a vascodegama << so you can't get women pregnant anymore? llanwydd: LOL Bunnyboy: “I’ve had this operation…” Deputy Dang: Thank you Beet--I was struggling to come up with a response. Bunnyboy: Don’t fight it! Respond! Beet: I'm here to help. Cease: just about to join a chat about borscht Cease: as my play is called,Smetana, it sems to make sense Deputy Dang: sounds fishy to me Cease: Ukrainian word for "sour cream" llanwydd: sounds interesting llanwydd: didnt know there was a borscht chatroom Cease: my only word of the language. thanks to my grandma's fear of my skinniess. 60 years ago. weigh the same now Beet: sour cream transforms the humble beet. Deputy Dang: can't Beet a borscht chatroom! Cease: it does Cease: lol ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Stop torturing me Ethyl!" Tweeny: David Ossman commenting on my post for this show on Facebook: "I want to produce a revival of this show!" Bunnyboy: If it’s borscht, it’s hard to…Beet. Cease: i just just a Discord channel from Anna of Ukraine that had a Ukrainian cooking forum. Beet: yes Cease: I'v watched some of the borscht vids. there are a lot Tweeny: Would be great to have Ossman & Proc do a modern version :) Bunnyboy: Mmmm… Tweeny:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2221071160/posts/10160980683051161/?comment_id=10160980746836161¬if_id=1746724281508003¬if_t=group_comment Cease:tween, it would be great to have the Anything. At their age, they deserve only that which is Most Important to them. llanwydd: thanks for the link, tweeny Tweeny: yw Bunnyboy: Have a swell evening! Take care of yourselves! llanwydd: nite bb Cease: by bun. see you here soon Tweeny: later Bunny...
Bunnyboy hops along. ||||||||| Bunnyboy rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?" Beet: See ya, Bunny. Cease: it's as if i'm hearing this for the first time Deputy Dang: Admins have received my request to join the lovers. Cease: i hope you are successful ||||||||| 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.. llanwydd: isnt a lover someone who bakes bread? Cease: good one, llan Deputy Dang: (static noise) over Tweeny: The Firesign Theatre is their official page, but there is also Firesign Theatre, Dear Friends of Firesign Theatre, Lovers of Firesign Theatre and It's Just This Little Chromium Switch Here Tweeny: That's all the ones I know about Tweeny: know any others, Cat? Deputy Dang: I know I'm in Chromium Switch, but not sure of the others. I'm hardly on Facebook these days. Tweeny: Well if you are on FB, be sure to at least 'like' The Firesign Theatre, since that's where they make official announcements Deputy Dang: Firesign Theatre Appreciation and Humor Tweeny: Phil Proctor - https://www.facebook.com/philip.proctor2 Tweeny: David Ossman - https://www.facebook.com/david.ossman.3 Cease: Tom G was on Facebook recenlty saying he was the first and probably true Cease: But I usually post on the other 3 sites and and FB Tweeny: Chromium Switch is Gedwillo Cease: Are you like or on Memorex? Cease: Do you remember the SCTV parody of that with Ricky Lee Jones and Tom Wais listennig to Cease: Ella? Cease: Brilliant stuff Beet: Well, that time again. Gotta go. Enjoyed hanging with you folks tonight. Have a great evening. G'Nite. llanwydd: nite beet Cease: I think this is Phil's favouirte thing from that flick Cease: Did Beet go again? Cease: I hope he'll return Deputy Dang: G'nite Beet! Cease: I just re-watched the flick. Not as good as long ago Tweeny: SCTV - MAMOREX VIDEO CASSETTE TAPES - (Ella Fitzgerald) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt0cXyBhb30 Cease: I think cuz this built it up too much Cease: I think Ricky and Waits wrote the best music of the late 70s-early 80s, and they got some good competition Cease: i read wais left her because she was too strung out on heroin at the time. don't know the story, but she seems active now Cease: i think it was mentioeed on Facebook that she wanted to talk on Substack so I joined up. Cease: glad I did. I told her what I thought of some of her songs and used on in one of my early plays, but she didn't get back to me. i dont know if she wrote a good song since the 80s. Deputy Dang: maintaining a social media presence takes effort. I do the bare minimum, and mostly just because I'm looking for work. Cease: no luck yet? llanwydd: Ive heard this Cease: most have, llan Cease: i usedc it in more than one of my collages Deputy Dang: I almost/sort of have a real promising one, but I made several calls today and it might be the ad was by a contractor and not the actual employer. Too bad--the employer is local. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I say Live it, or Live With It!" Cease: my producer at firesign radio told me a funny story about bergman and canned peas Cease: i'm not sure bergman had a brother but the story is of bergman's brother who grew cannabis and peas and packed hssh in cans of peas and bergman smuggled them into turkey. its the orogin of the beginning of electrician llanwydd: bergman doing his best slim pickins Cease: true ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Close the door, and the light stays on!" Cease: how are things in florida, llan? llanwydd: raining heavily tonight, cat Cease: i keep hoping up one days with Smetana in my InBox llanwydd: love the sound of it Cease: it'a a great and necessary play, or am i going crazy? Cease: i once hasd the script for this, but it dissappeared llanwydd: so thats what a line reading is Cease: yes i just learned that from this Cease: i have almost no experiene with commercial recording, but you must have had a lot, llan llanwydd: I never encountered that as an actor Deputy Dang: educational. I'd never thought about it from perspective of a practiced/experienced actor. Cease: it as a mathemtatical sense Cease: Owens was on the radio whan I was a kid in LA.He had a wonderful voice. la was ful of great radio in the 50s 60s and the Firesign arouse from that. llanwydd: I only knew him from laugh in Cease: It could not have happened in 1966 Vancouver, for exmple. Or many other places, There just what much talent concentrated with opportunities in other places. New York, LA, mostly Cease: gary was an influence on phil austin. Cease: you can hear it some of austin's news stuff Cease: ok the emperor of radio in radio was Vin Scully. No one captivated you more than Vin Cease: the reason I write radio plays is because I grew up in that atmosphere llanwydd: thunder is rattling my roof llanwydd: I love it Cease: where did you grow up? now you can do anything anywhere. Cease: did you watch Babylon 5? Cease: great scene about rain on the roof llanwydd: who me? never saw that one Deputy Dang: I tried to watch it but never could get into it. Deputy Dang: Which is strange, because it seems like just the kind of show I would enjoy. Cease: lots of rain poundig on rooves in my many years in japan. llanwydd: must have been a comforting sound Cease: i loved it. our founder, Elayne, turned me on to it after it had started. Cease: she and her then husband had just come out to visit in early 95 and chat came into existence soon after, though I don't know how. i'm no doc teck llanwydd: lol ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You people are soooooo superstitious!" Deputy Dang: It's surprising how hard it is to talk. Cease: why? llanwydd: this is from give us a break Cease: i can create dialogue for my new play torentially. Cease: we have so many more oportuniteis now compared to our childhoods. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Duluth? Bucko, you can get Tierra del Fuego!" llanwydd: if only... llanwydd: Im glad we didnt have internet when I was a child Cease: i would have to go, with much diffulty, by bus from van nuys to downtown la to find something at the downtown librrary. now i just have to make a click. llanwydd: if we had all those things back then, we would have missed out on a lot of great experiences Cease: my mother and i would go shopping by bus andit would tske a Long Time when I was a little kid with no cell phone Cease: yeah i have fond memories of being a little kid in van nuys in 56 when my neighbours were walnot groves and farms and the smell of fresh cut lumber for homes going up,. llanwydd: I love this commercial Tweeny: There was a great parody of that commercial. The tag was, "We will sell no wine, before you pay for it..." Cease: a class ick llanwydd: lol, tween Deputy Dang: lol Cease: when i lived in la, i could drnk paujl mason, but it wasn't my fave Cease:tween, we should plays these whole shows, digital diners soon Cease:tween stil her? Lynn llanwydd: lynn has not gone grey somehow Cease: chat seems to be taken over by ghosts. they are here and then they fade Deputy Dang: Malcom X John Lennon? Cease:tween is my producer so ths show would not exist without him llanwydd: thanks tween llanwydd: and cat Deputy Dang: Excellent show tonight! Thanks Cat! Thanks Tweeny! Thanks llanwydd! Thanks Firesigns! Deputy Dang: Goodnight all! Happy Trails! And may the farce be with you! llanwydd: thank you too dang Cease: more next week, eh ||||||||| Deputy Dang departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?" llanwydd: nite everybody ||||||||| llanwydd says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, llanwydd exits at 8:00 PM. Cease: of we flit Tweeny: THanks for listening everybody ||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Cease left for parts unknown.(Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow"). Tweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "A fair for all and no fair to anybody!" ||||||||| "Hey Tweeny!" ... Tweeny 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!"... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 3:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Beet - 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 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 4:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Lynn - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| 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."
