Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
07/10/2025

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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 July 10, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 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 plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: From LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM "A Shadow Moves Upon a Land"
plus a new Cat Collage "We're Doomed"
and from FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD "Meanwhile In Billville"
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'
||||||||| Tweeny is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, July 10, 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 leads Tweeny in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Cease waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cease: go go go
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "...And no Buddhist writers either!"
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Deputy Dang coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease! Howdy, Tweeny!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Tweeny: Howdy Cease, Deputy
Cease: Dangie!
Cease: Danger Man. Patrick mcgoohan before he became number 6
Cease: actually, not a new collage, but, whatever
Tweeny: What would you call it?
Cease: some years ago, eh? 3 or 4? more?
Tweeny: Ah, OK
Tweeny: so not 'new'
Cease: you Could call it a collage. it is the first thing I did for Ossman in this realm.
Cease: yeah, that's it, tween.
Cease: can you hear yourself as a sort of LBJ President Tweeny in my new play, y'all?
||||||||| 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 DJTweeny plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM.
Cease: this is probably my favourite firesign thing. it ain't funny.
DJTweeny: I've been thinking about how to talk in the Tweeny voice
DJTweeny: Tweeny with a Texas accent, then?
Cease: yep
DJTweeny: an interesting idea
Cease: just started work on dialogue from president of palestine, mohammed goldstein.
Cease: no ww2 means a totally diffrerent world. thankfully i've read a LOT of science ficition
Cease: you still here, dang?
Cease: our tiny community continues to shrink
DJTweeny: Yeah, too bad we can't get more people into chat :/
Cease: tis
Cease: this is so brilliant. i want everyone to know of it
Cease: austin wrote this.
Cease: unkindness
DJTweeny: Yeah, not meant to be amusing at all...
Cease: i think he was the best of the firesign writers, and that's saying A Lot
DJTweeny: of course, it would be difficult to make a comedy about what happened to the native americans
DJTweeny: although they did make some excellent satire with Temporarily Humbolt County
Cease: they did
Cease: i smoked and i smoked
Deputy Dang: Yes, I'm still here.
Cease: i heard and recorded this when it was broadcast in 67 and it continues to influence my collages
Cease: dang it
Cease: my first collage uses this list of tribes
Cease: duckman also riffed on this
Cease: proctor disliked an earlier versin of this so tom found this guy to introduce it. henry minot, a conncticut radio wizard
Cease: this is richard fish, a great friend of the guys
Cease: this guy has done a Lot to promote Firesign
Tweeny: He brought Proc & Ossman to Indiana for that concert. I love that my 102 year old mother was able to meet them because they rehearsed in a little playhouse in Nashville near Bloomington.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "These insignificant lumps came together..."
Cease: where is everyone today?
Cease: great for your mother, tween
Tweeny: They've been taken in for regrooving
Deputy Dang: I'm overdue for regrooving.
||||||||| It's 11:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving DJTweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Deputy Dang: I'm subscribed to Rhino Record's YouTube channel.
Cease: didnt know of its existence
Tweeny: I also didn't know they had one
Deputy Dang: I don't remember how I found it. Probably from looking for novelty record stuff.
Deputy Dang: https://www.youtube.com/@rhino
Tweeny: I just subscribed, thanks :)
Deputy Dang: I don't know that I'd recommend it. It's mostly videos for collections/artists they've acquired. E.g., recently a lot of David Lee Roth.
Cease: that voice was my daughter
Deputy Dang: 👍
Tweeny: It's great that you have some voice recordings to remember her by :)
Cease: saw an art show today. https://thepolygon.ca/
Cease: notr many tween, but some is much better than none
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: i went to my 6th infinity room a few weeks ago. i can see using images of my daughter in such a room
Deputy Dang: When you mentioned them a few weeks ago, I looked around and learned that one had left a museum/gallery in Miami somewhat recently (Sept 2024). I'm keeping an eye out for one nearby.
Cease: interesting use of current tech. things may alter soon.
Deputy Dang: Miami is about a 2-hour drive, but that's not unreasonable.
Cease: i was last in Miami 70 years ago
Cease: here';s doc tech. i wonder where he is with my new play?
||||||||| 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 DJTweeny plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM.
Tweeny: He's really covered up with work, from what I'm able to gather
Cease: one would assume
Cease: it would nice of the war ended before he finishes producing my play, but no one knows
||||||||| Beet enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Chapeau Manger.
Beet: Hey, sorry I'm late but Hello.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
Cease: The Beet Man
Cease: Lili just rolled a few bombers
Beet: Hi Deputy, Cease Tweeny.
Cease: Sorry I didnt cut that, Tween
Cease: This is my nephew
Cease: https://thepolygon.ca/ Good to see this today
Tweeny: Hey Beet
Beet: Hey, Brother Tween.
Cease: The Beet generation.
Cease: thus is Elayne, who created this chat we're on now
Beet: I generate whenever I can.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "A fair for all and no fair to anybody!"
Beet: Where has Elayne been?
Cease: still in NYC but rarely comes here, alas
Cease: i see her posts on facebook often
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Mutt jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Cease: elayne and her then husband came to visit us in 95 and we drove down to meet ossman. chatr started soon after
Cease: hi mutt
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt!
Beet: Heyi Mutt.
Tweeny: Hey Mutt
Mutt: Hiya Cease and Deputy D!
Mutt: Buenos Noches Don Tween!
Cease: tihs is my freind terry. we met when i was playing firesign on the university radio station in 72
Mutt: EveningBeet!
Cease: the angel of death. saw a wondrrous japanese flick once callecd The Dearth Goddess.
Cease: hey beetie, you're in 2 places at once
Beet: That's Me!
Cease: tis
Mutt: Cool, Beet!
Cease: this is supposed to be in the library of congress now
Cease: your voice will live as long as your country. maybe longer
Tweeny: Wonderful that LOC inducted them :)
Cease: tis
Cease: i was part of that.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "How does he make his voice do that?"
Beet: That was fun to do and to listen to again.
Cease: beet,this was so hard to do, i gave up after part one.
Beet: Thanks Cease for letting me do that.
Cease: getting people to record themselves and send the recordings to me was like pulling teeth. my teeth
Cease: fuck, beet, we do what we can, eh? the lads deserve to be remembered and if you and i can push thart along, that's a good thing
Beet: They should be as famous as the Beatles.
Cease: where is llan tonight?
Cease: they should, beet
Cease: california is worth visiting. i grew up in la.
Deputy Dang: llanwydd has been off and on the past few weeks.
Mutt: The take off blast still gives me chils!
Mutt: Wow!!
Cease: waas gonna go to turkey and egypt and egypt but changed my mind
Tweeny: Considering what's going on over there these days, that could be a wise decision.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You guys are nothing but a pack of cards."
Cease: yeah, i went a few blocks today to see some art and loved the art, but it was so tiring. and that's here in north van going to istanbul alone would be difficult
Tweeny: your granddaughters?
Cease: yeah
Cease: they just graduated high school.
Beet: Cool
Tweeny: How Time Flys
Cease: Very smart girls
Mutt: Congratulations
Cease: i dont know this, tween
Beet: They sounded very bright.
Tweeny: It's from the FCH live recordings
Cease: wow
Tweeny: and I didn't realize that the concept of Billville was this old
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I think we're all Bozos on this bus."
Cease: i must expand my listening
Tweeny: so they had the concept long before they expanded it into the Boom Dot Bust album
Cease: a lot of their stuff marinates for a long time
Mutt: Yeah
Tweeny: https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood
Cease: thanks for turning me on to this, tween
Mutt: I saw them on this tour in 1981
Tweeny: Live At The Magic Mushroom >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
Cease: i was living in japan then
Tweeny: This is supposedly 1979
Mutt: 1979-1981 pretty much same tour
Cease: 30 years beforfe BDB. wow
Tweeny: "At the beginning of 1979 the Firesign Theatre had been without a record contract for three years. While they pushed like hell to get Hollywood to notice them, pitching shows and writing screenplays, they gave themselves a performance showcase by writing and staging a slew of brilliant live shows."
Cease: they were always brilliant
Mutt: They hooked up with RhinoRecords and did Missing Shoe and Fighting Clowns suring this time
Mutt: During
Tweeny: lol @ Comrade Carter
Tweeny: Yeah Cat, we need to play stuff from FCH
Cease: new collage next week.
Tweeny: kewl
Deputy Dang: Good night. I little odd at the beginning, but still clearly Firesign. Thanks Cat! Thanks Tweeny!
Beet: This was fun. See you next week. G'Nite.
||||||||| Cease says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Cease exits at 8:00 PM.
Tweeny: Have a great week all :)
Mutt: Night everyone!
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Deputy Dang, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the brambles.
||||||||| Mutt rushes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Mutt?! 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.
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Tweeny is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs DJTweeny by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| 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://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
https://thepolygon.ca/
https://www.youtube.com/@rhino