A Firesign Chat
06/26/2025




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 June 26, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Tweeny by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Peter Bergman’s
THE BIG INTERNET RADIO BROADCAST OF 1996
plus from TALES OF THE OLD DETECTIVE
“Developmental Valley School Lunch Menus”
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
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||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Tweeny, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the bushes.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, June 26, 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?"
||||||||| 8:00 PM: FZAPPA jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
||||||||| Catherwood leads Tweeny 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.
||||||||| It's 10:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| FZAPPA - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Cease enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Chapeau Manger.
Cease: Hey Zappa
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Mutt into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
Mutt: Is this the Vault of Mindless Fellowship?
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Mutt: Hi Cease
Cease: Hi Mutt. How's smut?
||||||||| 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.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Pardners!
Mutt: Back at the shop getting a new load
Cease: dang dang, the gang's all here
Mutt: Hiya Deputy D
Deputy Dang: lol
Tweeny: Howdy Cease, Deputy, Mutt
Mutt: Good evening Sir!
Cease: hey tween. have begun work on a new collage but probably not ready by next week. let's listen to a bunch of phil austin stuff
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging DJTweeny by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?"
DJTweeny: Sure Cat
Cease: lorts of ideas for new play today. will start recording this weekends
Cease: the most important thing in doing a project is momentum.
Mutt: Anyone know what is up with the main Firesign site? It says it was last updated in 2023.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Don't worry about the flies, we won't weigh 'em!"
Cease: i think phil's daughter is running the site now. not sure.
DJTweeny: Is that Melinda?
Mutt: What you said about momentum: trye, dat!
Mutt: true
Cease: it sounds like here, Tween
Cease: her
DJTweeny: Mutt: Anyone know what is up with the main Firesign site? It says it was last updated in 2023. << Most of their new material is being posted on their Bandcamp site
Mutt: Ah. Thanks Tween.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I see your passport, please?"
Cease: there is so much beautiful firesign performances, like this. eveyone should know this
Tweeny: https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/
||||||||| 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 plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM.
Beet: Hello, Friends!
Tweeny: Yo Beet
Mutt: Hiya Beet!
Cease: Beet
Beet: Hi, Tweeny, Mutt, Deputy, Cease.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
Beet: Hope everyone is doing well tonight.
DJTweeny: Fine here, hope you're doin well also, Beet
Cease: we do our best, tween
Beet: What was the temperature in Austin today, Tween?
Beet: Saw a really cute hostess in Ruby Tuesday today.
DJTweeny: We had some rain come through so oly 79 now, but it's generally upper 90s with high humidity and heat indexes well over 100
DJTweeny: *only
Beet: Kinda the same here in West Virginia today.
DJTweeny: Yeah, typical for us, but that 'heat dome' is roasting much of the country
Cease: we hasd one in vancouver a few years ago. really bad
DJTweeny: This is really fun :)
Cease: recently re-read holden cafield book not a fan
Cease: carcher in the rye
||||||||| DJTweeny scurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's DJTweeny?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'DJTweeny', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Cease: this is brilliant
Beet: This lady is hilarious.
Cease: she did a lort of stuff with bergman
DJTweeny: and now some Anythynge?
Deputy Dang: One hopes all of the arrivals are late!
Cease: they sure did shakespeare
Tweeny: did him in, even
Cease: this is brilliant writing
Cease: i dont think the lads were capable of anything but beautfiul writing
Cease: if you recall the recent digital diner, this is from that
||||||||| 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..
Cease: bomb bomb bomb, bomb a clown
Cease: edie mclurg
Deputy Dang: Who are these voices?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I only lie, or I tell the truth. Heh - just lyin'."
Beet: This was very interesting fun tonight. Enjoyed hanging with you fine folks. Everyone have a nice weekend. See you next week. G'Nite all.
Deputy Dang: G'nite, Beet!
Cease: by beet
Cease: i used to get much more depressed. not for a while now.
DJTweeny: Good to hear you're not having to deal with that, Cat
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let me hear it for me!"
Cease: but physucal deteoration continues
Mutt: Nite Beet!
Cease: brfain is active as ever, thanks to creating collages for this show
Mutt: Dave Thomas used to do a joke about how the body is overrated - it’s just a way to get my head from point a to point b.
Cease: i wanted to go to turkey and egypt this year, but not physically capable to tht trip
Cease: good one, matt
Cease: this is from 96, early internet stuff
Tweeny: It was cool that Bergman embraced it
Cease: he wasa very avant guard
Cease: ifind this person really annoying
Cease: i recall eating at the brown derby
Mutt: Cool
Mutt: Never got the chance
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "At your cervix."
Cease: my family moved to LA in 56 so it would have been after that
Mutt: It closed long before I ever got to LA
Cease: john simon stole bergman's girl friend in 68.
Cease: pete bitches about that on one of he fools in space shows
Mutt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Derby
Cease: i heard him play piano with taj, and the Firesigns st the ash grove in 69
Cease: great piano player
Deputy Dang: that was funny
Cease: they lived together for many years but were never married. when he did marry, it onlhy lasted a short time
Tweeny: Hasn't sounded like Austin was involved with this
Cease: i met bergman in a hotel in seattle, 99. told me a story about folks he met in nyc on a redcent trip.
Cease: first thing austin said to me, on the phone, was, Bergman stole my wife.
Tweeny: haha
Cease: trhey had complicated interlives
Mutt: As always, this was fun. Thanks Tween Cease Deputy, and Beet. Be well!
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Mutt vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Tweeny: 'Beat Poetry', how cool
Cease: by matt
Deputy Dang: I've heard this before but it's been so long I didn't remember it was Firesign!
Tweeny: hah
||||||||| It's 12:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: they did so much brilliant stuff, it's hard to believe. thankfullyu we can play a lot of it on this chat show
Tweeny: indeed
Cease: we perform an important service here, tween
Tweeny: Pretty much only appreciated by die-hard fands, but now RFD as all the show archives as well
Tweeny: All the stuff from JL & Bambi on CNI Radio is apparently lost :(
Tweeny: *has all
Cease: yeah, there are very few of us. but we push it along
Tweeny: Great suggestion for a show :)
Cease: if not us, who?
Tweeny: My brother in Oregon has requested Bozos, so maybe we can squeeze that in somewhere
Cease: i love bozos
Tweeny: Elayne's favorite, as I recall
Cease: i'm working on a collage based on marc maron's interview with peter wolf, but i could detour into a bozos riff
Cease: hers was dwarf, i think. can ask
Deputy Dang: Nothing wrong with a bozos riff
Cease: you know my story about hearing bozos surrounded by monkeys in japan in 71
Cease: i'm gonna go think about a bozosd riff now.
Tweeny: kewl
Deputy Dang: I don't think I remember that story, though you might have mentioned it.
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Tweeny scurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Tweeny?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Deputy Dang: Goodnight all!
||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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 jaundice
||||||||| 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
DJTweeny
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/Brown_Derby
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/



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