Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
06/05/2025

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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 June 05, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Tweeny sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: From the New GIVE ME IMMORTALITY Digital Release
“RadioNow Says Good-Bye and Hello (Worksession)”
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/give-me-immortality-or-give-me-death
plus a new Cat Collage “Happy Heather Cox”
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 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
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, June 05, 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?"
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging Tweeny by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's DeputyDang, just back from Elmertown."
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Cease 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.
Cease: Hi all
Tweeny: Howdy Cease, Deputy
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DeputyDang: Howdy, Cease! Howdy, Tweeny!
Tweeny: This "The Late News" from Dear Friends Too
Cease: What's this from, Tween?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Direct readout - Doctor Memory."
Cease: Aha
Tweeny: *This is
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and announces "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: Good Evening.
Tweeny: Yo Beet
Cease: Beet
DeputyDang: Howdy, Beet!
Beet: Howdy, Tweeny, Cease, Deputyy.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Duluth? Bucko, you can get Tierra del Fuego!"
Beet: Deputy
Tweeny: Do check out the like posted above for the new digital release of GMIOGMD
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Ha ha ha - that's very logical."
Tweeny: all sorts of extra goodies included
Tweeny: *the link
Tweeny likes the link
Tweeny: This is cool, it's like the way they let us in on the XM Radio sessions around the table
Tweeny: the 'inner workings' of FST
Cease: true, tween
Cease: they were always into letting us in
Tweeny: brb
||||||||| Tweeny says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Tweeny exits at 8:00 PM.
Cease: i'm wondering about cabs in turkey and egypt.
Cease: the end of Electrician takes place in a taxi in turkey
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving llandsaykes coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Cease: when i enter the great pyramid, will i think "the pyramid is opening?"
Cease: hi llan
llandsaykes: isnt it windy? no its thursdy. so am I Ill go make some lemonade
llandsaykes: ever heard that one?
Cease: i have discovered a strawberry lemonade full of thc. good stuff
llandsaykes: I would love to try that
llandsaykes: heather cox must be scottish
||||||||| Tweeny tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Tweeny: Hey llan
llandsaykes: Hey Tween
Beet: Hi, llan.
llandsaykes: Hey Beet
llandsaykes: Hey Cease Hey Dang
Cease: How's it going?
llandsaykes: going pretty well for me. how about you?
Cease: i fell down last night and couldn't get up, until my wife returned and helped me up. not a good sign.
Cease: i was enthusiasticlly planning for a new trip, but i fear falling in a foreign country.
llandsaykes: I had that problem only two years ago. it was embarrassing
Beet: Sorry to hear that, Cease.
Cease: several times in the past couple of years. not good
llandsaykes: well cant you bring somebody with you on your trip, cat?
Cease: not that i know of, llan
llandsaykes: How about me? I would love to go overseas
Cease: lol
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I say Live it, or Live With It!"
llandsaykes: havent been overseas since 1984
llandsaykes: I wouldnt let it stop you, cat. if you can pass out in vancouver, why not pass out in paris?
Cease: because the hospital a couple of blocks away speaks english, and hospitals in otehr countries don't
llandsaykes: ah of course
llandsaykes: depend where you want to go overseas
Cease: i fell and broke my arm in dec. did a collage about it. everyone at my local hospital spoke enlish
Cease: istanbul, Giza and Luxor
llandsaykes: most europeans speak at least some english
Cease: egyptians and turks? maybe not so much
llandsaykes: yeah you might have some trouble if you pass out at the pyramids
Cease: i worry about that.
Tweeny: So fun to hear a work in progress
llandsaykes: they might bury you alive with king tut
Cease: indeed tween
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging Mutt by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
llandsaykes: Hey Mutt
Cease: my play Neal Amid has king tut awakened and my daughter as his priestess.
Cease: Hi Mutt
Cease: that
Mutt: Evening everyone
Cease: that's one reason i want to go inside the pyramid
Mutt: Hiya Llan, Cease
llandsaykes: I remember. I used to listen to your play over and over
Beet: Hello, Mutt.
Tweeny: ey Mutt
Mutt: Hey Beet!
||||||||| DeputyDang rushes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's DeputyDang?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| Catherwood leads Deputy Dang in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Mutt: howdy Tween!
Cease: This sounds like a bot. Never been botofied beforfe
Mutt: Is zat you DD?
||||||||| Catherwood leads llanwydd in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Cease: Thinking of trying AI on the new play
Deputy Dang: It's me again. I switched computers
Mutt: You certainly don’t look it
Mutt: A modern marvel!
Cease: These are your fellow Austinians, Tween. Timbuk 3
Tweeny: Looks like the PD loaded the old version of the show file to play tonight, sorry Cease :/
llandsaykes: what is this music cat?
Tweeny: I patched your intro into the current version, Cease
Cease: Mudflat girl by Timbuk 3, from thier Big Shot in the Dark album
llandsaykes: pretty catchy
Cease: only good tune on the album, alas
Mutt: Timbuk 3 had a good run for a while
llandsaykes: one-hit wonder?
Cease: saw them at a small club in vancouver. they were great
Mutt: Pretty much, but the mileage that hit got was amazing
llandsaykes: some of my best concert experiences have been in small spaces
Mutt: They were big on college/indie radio mid80s
Cease: i thought their big hit was Futures so Bright, I'm gonna need shades
llandsaykes: the rest have been Yes concerts at Madison Square Garden
Cease: Fave tune is Facts about Cats, which I use in another collage.
Cease: It was 1964, not 1960.
Cease: She should have corrected herself there
llandsaykes: I was living with y grandparents that year
llandsaykes: my
llandsaykes: and its never to late
Cease: These guys REALLY wanted to be musicians
llandsaykes: to lose again
llandsaykes: to fade awqy
llandsaykes: I love that album
llandsaykes: Jerome Howard Mandring
Deputy Dang: It also moved the Democrat part to the right.
Deputy Dang: party
Cease: people haVE guns in Canada, but it's not a Thing, like it is in the states.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "No, no my boy, you're confused. The horizon's moving up!"
llandsaykes: well of course in the usa it is a constitutional issue
llandsaykes: do you have anything like the united states constitution in canada, cat?
Cease: not necessarily. that was musket land
Cease: not really, llan
Cease: we have a charter of rights but thatr's fairly new
llandsaykes: this is one thing I like about the us government. our constitution is for the pupose of limiting authority
llandsaykes: purpose
llandsaykes: porpoise
Cease: Canada was formed from the British North American Act of the British parliament in 1867. no revolutions here
llandsaykes: didnt know that, cat
Cease: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/constitution-act-1867
llandsaykes: thanks for the link
llandsaykes: catherwood, get everybody a soma and tonic
||||||||| Catherwood gets everybody a soma and tonic.
Mutt: Zzzzzzzzz
llandsaykes: thanks cathy
llandsaykes: lol
Cease: Bergman worked in the senate in 1961
Cease: worked on writing laws
llandsaykes: cool. was he a page boy?
llandsaykes: aha
Mutt: No, he was the elevator boy!
llandsaykes: I was born that year
Cease: his intelligence was appreciated
llandsaykes: lol mutt
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| It's 12:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: particularly by the kennedy administration
||||||||| Tweeny says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Tweeny exits at 8:00 PM.
Cease: he tells many tales of that gig on his rfo podcast, and on the rcent KPFK released shows from 66,pre-Firesign
llandsaykes: the way I understood it, he was in england working with spike milligan for a couple of years before he joined kpfk
llandsaykes: at least Ingot that impression from the liner note from Shoes For Industry
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600"
llandsaykes: notes
llandsaykes: but I wouldnt swear to it
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Tweeny should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Tweeny enters and sits in the comfy chair.
Mutt: Llan: That's what I understood, too. Pete’s stories tended to be … fluid. True, but fluid.
Cease: Bergman spent some productive years in Europe and the middle east.
Cease: yeah, he had a lot of tales, mutt
llandsaykes: bullshit
llandsaykes: it was rush limgaugh wh first used the expression feninazi
llandsaykes: feminazi
llandsaykes: this lady needs to get back on her meds
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Inferior people should not be employed."
Tweeny: lol
Mutt: Catherwood with the score!
||||||||| Catherwood walks right past Mutt
Beet: Well, time to go. Enjoyed the evening. everyone have a great evening and weekend. See you next time. G'Nite.Well, time to go. Enjoyed the evening. everyone have a great evening and weekend. See you next time. G'Nite.
llandsaykes: Nite Beet
Cease: Bye Beet
Mutt: Goodnight, Beet. Good night, Beet.
Beet: Doubled the message. Sorry
Deputy Dang: G'nite, Beet!
Cease: Y'all know this Lenny Bruce piece?
Mutt: Lenny Bruce raised crows?
Cease: LOL
Cease: Thank You, Masked Man.
Mutt: An unnatural act!
Cease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tjWYEMQ70w
Mutt: When I first saw that animated short of Masked Man, I damn near peed in my pants from laughing.
Mutt: Of course, I was about 15 at the time, but not much has changed …
Cease: I think the album version is even better
Mutt: I agree
Mutt: The animation is a hoot
Cease: it is
llandsaykes: knew that was tirebiter
Cease: ossman has gotten a lot out of that character
llandsaykes: tirebiters career reminds me of mickey rooney
llandsaykes: but of course he has a very different accent
llandsaykes: very different and very strange
Cease: there's a scene in my play about George Harrison.
Mutt: Would you call it a mid-Atlantic accent?
llandsaykes: hight school madness has somewhat in common with the and hardy films
llandsaykes: andy
Cease: he actually said, I don't want to be Miceky Rooney, down to his last $20,000.
Mutt: Outliving your money is a perilous thing
llandsaykes: nothing like mid atlantic, mutt
Cease: when george died, he was worth half a billion. i'm glad he didn't go the mickey rooney route
Cease: the beatles deserved their fortunes
Cease: did you see the Elvis biopic?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Deputy Dan has no friends."
Mutt: Yup
Cease: Tom Hanks portrays the vastly evil Col parker and he's the focus of the flick.
Cease: when elvis died, he was worth $5 million. That's fuck all. Parker stoled almost all of his money, and spent it at Vegas casinos
Mutt: Van Kuijk was a con man and thief and a very bad man.
llandsaykes: so what did harrison do right?
Cease: when David Crosby died, he was worth $10 mllion, and he bitched about losing his boat cuiz he was too poor.
Mutt: Crosby was not a nice oerson
Cease: i dont know, llan, but act one scene one where i encounter harrison, he was with 2 large young men who i thought were bankers. i guess they did him some good.
Cease: so i understand, mutt.
Cease: he wrote some good songs, but he's not fucking george harrison.
Cease: nor elvis
Mutt: Not even close
Mutt: Harrison was pretty close to destitute on a few occasions fue to business matters. But th8ngs worked out eventually.
Mutt: He made koney from his association with Python films and from his songwriting
Mutt: Money
llandsaykes: yeah I knew he invested in Life of Brian
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I say Live it, or Live With It!"
Mutt: And Olivia is a very astute manager
llandsaykes: aha
Cease: that's necessary
Mutt: He mortgaged his house to get Life of Brian made
Tweeny: Mutt: He mortgaged his house to get Life of Brian made << Yeah, that was pretty cool
Cease: Yes I read thate
Tweeny: He also made the closing music for the Gilliam movie Time Bandits
Tweeny: and of course he was involved with the making of The Rutles (Beatles parody)
Tweeny: even had a cameo in the movie
Cease: I'm not sure if he was a short guy, or it just seemed so next to 2 big men.
Tweeny: The Rutles - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rutles
Cease: i fondly remember the ruttles. the beatles never took The Beatles seriously
Mutt: Neil Innes wrote wicked parodies that were great in their own right.
Cease: true
Tweeny: Innes was a genius at Beatles parodies
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Cosmo bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Mutt: Almost like a parallel universe version of the fab 4
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "These insignificant lumps came together..."
Tweeny: Hi Cosmo
Cease: hi cosmo
Tweeny: a little late to the show :/
Tweeny: we're done in a few minutes
Mutt: Cos
Cease: in our last 3 minutes here
Cease: Timbuk 3 rocks out
Tweeny: It starts 7pm US Eastern time
Tweeny: Thanks for listening, folks :)
Cosmo: Hi guys, … just figuring out the format
Deputy Dang: That was depressingly great!
Mutt: Gemmunz, I am over and out. Thanks Tweeney and Cease!
Cosmo: Wait … there’s AUDIO???
Cease: hope to see you here nextg week, cosmo
Deputy Dang: I haven't heard the Future So Bright song, so I guess I'll go listen to that also.
Mutt: Come back next week, Cosmo
Cease: Firesign was basically an audio group.
||||||||| Deputy Dang scurries 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!"
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Mutt vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Cease: we've been doing this here for 30 years. since 1995.
Cosmo: I should actually … I usually don’t get home from work until 8ish, but next week I have to take my mom to the eye doctor, so we’ll see!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: hope to see you here again
llandsaykes: are we still here?
Cease: nope
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Cease by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Cosmo: Okay, now I know this exists and how it works … because: like ANY dick, I traced the call!😛😈
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Tweeny leaves at 8:00 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
llandsaykes: well then, good night
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, llandsaykes runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
Cosmo: See you next week for:
Cosmo: The Adventures of: COSMO BLUES, Karaoke LEGEND!!😜
||||||||| Cosmo says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Cosmo exits at 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 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
Cosmo
Deputy Dang
DeputyDang
llandsaykes
Mutt
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/The_Rutles
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/give-me-immortality-or-give-me-death
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/constitution-act-1867
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tjWYEMQ70w