||||||||| 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 31, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Tweeny should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Tweeny enters and sits in front of the fireplace. ||||||||| 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 EAT OR BE EATEN with a new Cat Collage "Rap Around Firesign" and lots of tracks from Firesign's ad compilation JACK POET LOVES YOU https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/jack-poet-loves-you 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 runs 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!" ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, July 31, 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 accompanies DJTweeny 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. ||||||||| Tweeny tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident." ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies 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. Tweeny: Howdy Deputy Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny! Howdy, DJTweeny! Deputy Dang: It looks to be a good show tonight! ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Mutt close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the Aviary. ||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Cease', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Cease: Folks here early today. Mutt: Evening, all! Cease: The Firsigns and especially Bergman were besotted by video games. Cease: Hey mutt. don't get all smutty now Mutt: Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk! Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease! Howdy, Mutt! Cease: Hey Dang. Mutt: Hiya DD! DJTweeny: Cat is tardy Deputy Dang: I think I'm on the wrong channel. This doesn't sound like Eat Or Be Eaten. I like it, but it's not EOBE. Cease: Am I? Mutt: Tardicat DJTweeny: There he is! Cease: No EOBE will come later. DJTweeny: Hi Mutt Cease: No, COMMA, EOBE wil come later. Mutt: Hey Mr. DJ- bow ba ba bow ba bow ba ba bow bow! Cease: In the early days of the internet, I spoke on the phone with Micheael Packer, who was Firesign archivist in the ealry 90s.
DJTweeny pets Mutt's head Cease: He played this to me on the phone, and told me not to tell anyone it existed. Deputy Dang: Don't tell us! DJTweeny: Catherwood, give Mutt a doggie bisquit ||||||||| Catherwood hands mutt a doggie bisquit. Cease: Not long there after, Firesign released it as a cassette, which I still hjave. Mutt: Hmmm … tastes good! DJTweeny: EOBE was one of the first CDs I bought Cease: I you were here last week, you heard me use this in the 2nd part of my collage about Peter Wolf. It's used whenh Peter enters the hotel room of John Lee Hooker Cease: I knew nothing about it until I returned to Vancouver in 88 and discovered Firesign had been busy Mutt: Soccer blue! Cease: I enjoyed playing soccer with my daugher and her friends when we lived in Japan in th4e 80s, but have no interest in watching it. Cease: Van is being seriiously screwed by agreeing to host the championship games Mutt: Me neither. Didn’t grow up playing it and I find it too difficult to watch on tv Mutt: Prefer football on tv and baseball in person Cease: Myh doctor and my dad insisted I need to do more sports so I played tennis in high school but only really enjoyed hittring the ball, not competiing. Cease: basketball is good too. Cease: car sooey Mutt: I played football, baseball and basketball and sucked at the last two. Ran track in high school and did fine. Cease: My first girlfriend was a major badminton player, profoundly athletic. If yuou think you're a good athete, and then you meet someone who is a Really Good athlete, you notice the difference right quick Mutt: Yes. It can be immediate. Mutt: Some folks just have the gift Cease: An old friend of mine was a pro baseball player, Tom Satriano, known as Satch. He plays Babe Ruth in my play Neal Amid. Deputy Dang: Not Responsible!!! Mutt: My dad played semi-pro baseball when I was young. He was fun to watch. Mutt: Don’t see Beet tonight or last week,either. Hope he’s ok. Cease: Yeah Cease: LLan joined us from the hospital last week. Our age is perilous Mutt: The LlanMan usually shows up a bit late,or he may be resting from his ordeal. Hopefully he shows up. Cease: Thus woman has a great voice. Cease: She was Phil Austin's producer on Hollywood Nightshift. Cease: Forget her name. Tweeny: Here are the liner notes for EOBE >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eobe-ln ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's it all about, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Smith from Anytown, USA?" Cease: Over breakfast with Bergman's daughter after his memorial, she told me that Pete would go into university books stores where ever he travelled and find the text books for the hardest classes and then solve their equations. Tweeny: Laura Quinn as Hawkmoth Cease: right. she was my facebook friend for awhile. not sure shes' still alive. Tweeny: That's pretty cool about Pete, Cat :) Mutt: Link to some Hollywood Night Shift shows. http://www.mckeown.net/HollywoodNiteshift/Hollywood_Niteshift.html Cease: the problem with hanging out on facebook or elsewhere, at our age, as you don't know how lnog they'll be alive Cease: i got 8 episodes of HNS from Packer and then gave them to Cease: Taylor. Oddly, haven't heard from him of late Tweeny: Laura's FB page indicates that she's passed :( - https://www.facebook.com/laurtquinn Cease: I thought tos.
Mutt ( Cease: Thanks, Tween. Tweeny: yw Cease: I wonder if this "album" came out with Pete hooked up with Pat Stallone. the mother of Lili. Cease: It's the only Firesign album even vaguely about love, don't you think? My knowleedge of their vast catalogue is indeed vast, but this the only one to feature a character in love. Tweeny: Now about Nancy? Cease: sex is common, but love is unique to this album. Cease: ausitn plays with that, sure, but no love is actually involved, or even implied. Cease: liust sure, but not love. Mutt: Youmight be right Cease: i wish i were not. Mutt: It can be a really tricky subject for a comic or comedian or writer Cease: true Mutt: If we’re talking agape vs. lust then there are moments here and there that approach the dirmer Mutt: Firmer Mutt: former! Mutt: Sorry. Very stoned. Cease: When Bergnab sats " I don't know how to love you " as the end of this, at least he acknowlegees its existence. Cease: MOrfe than me, mUTT< NOT FUCKING LIKELY DJTweeny: lol ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right." Mutt: Peace and love,man XD Cease: Maked sprllinh hard, but thinking good. Cease: spelling Mutt: You learning Welsh? Cease: lol Cease: i have to write lines for LLan to do in my new play while he's still available to do them. Cease: he was Einstein in my last play. want him to be the chancellor of germany in the new one. Cease: kudzu county is the main theme of the flcik they made vaguely based on this. Cease: oddly, when this add came out, i was drinking carnation instant breakfast before i went to work. Cease: chocolate mint. Cease: wool Cease: i've used this ad in Many collages Cease: shoot em up Cease: smog is not a problem, more a way of life Cease: aal kinds of heads Cease: i rememer recording this in 68 when it was first broadcast. Mutt: These are so surreal ||||||||| 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: they are Mutt: Little seeds of things to come Cease: it is delightful to have lived lnough to have hearfd this stuff when it first appeared in my ears Cease: mutt do you know this kerouac story? he sees a guy giving away money and jack asks him why'she doing that/ Mutt: No, I do not Cease: the guy says, i want to be a millionaire. kerouck says, then why are you giving away money?the guy says, I'm planting seeds. Mutt: What a great idea Mutt: Duce! Duce! Cease: are you yankees living in il duce's era or hitler's 30s? Cease: this is one of my favourite firesign thngs. paradies is so close now Deputy Dang: Rapidly approaching. I can barely listen/read the news. I'm thankful every day that I don't have kids. Mutt: I think more Duce’s but meaner Tweeny: I can't imagine raising kids in the current social environment Mutt: It’s a Kardashian World. Cease: evey canada day, july7 1, our cbc broadcasts a music show, spotlighting musician from all over canada. these are from Yellow Knife, blew me away Cease: not a fan of rap but i was enchanted with this. her voice is like descended from heaven. inuit singer Brenda Mutt: You like what you like. Mutt: Music either speaks to you or it doesn’t. No shame either way. Cease: true Cease: ethereal is the best word to descrribe brenda's voice Cease: dudes acting like their street when they're barely sidewalk. Cease: one of the best lyrics i've ever heard. Deputy Dang: That trumpet(?) reminds me of part of Oh Superman by Laurie Anderson. Cease: don't know her work, alas. Cease: heard a great interview with her on maron's podcast. Mutt: J. Arthur Rank! Cease: you have to be old to know arthurs Mutt: My local PBS station growing up always showed films from the Rank Organization. Mutt: Alec Guinness, Alastair Sim, Dirk Bogarde, many others Cease: will pbs and npr survive? Mutt: I truly hope so. I contribute yearly. Cease: i fear your country is dissolving. Cease: like most canadians, i enjoyed going there, but that is no longer happening for a large numbre of us canucks Mutt: Tis, to a large extent. What comes next is the wuestion. Mutt: Mistrust of knowledge and science is deeply ingrained in this country. The last 75 years or so were the aberration. Cease: the world coolio portrays here, i fear, is going to be your future, to a large exent, outside of the wealthy, patrolled areas Cease: asimov said it long ago, eh? Cease: ignoorance is the main line of you8r country. i was lucky enough to live there in the sputnik era Deputy Dang: willful ignorance Cease: all of sudden, education and intellience werre important. don't know how lnog it lasted as i returned to canada in 69 and then lived in japan for a long time, where intelligence is valued Mutt: I remain hopeful and fairly confident. We will survive this idiocy but it will be a long time fir the full reckoning to come Cease: is trump the product of that celebration of ingnorance asimove noticed from the begining? Cease: firesign does encourage hopefulness, mutt Mutt: Trump and his ilk have not arisen by spontaneous generation. They have been with us from before the beginning Cease: true Cease: but it ain't human genetic, maybe within the dna of american genocide of native americans and slavery, but not a canuck thing, as such Mutt: Talk to the first nation folks in your land. They might beg to differ. Everywhere humans have lived they have exploited their nei Mutt: Neighbors Deputy Dang: Jim? Mutt: Did you go to Gym high school! Mutt: Lol Cease: yo know the beatle lyric, jojo left his home in tucson, arizona, boughtr some califorina grass. my piano teacher told me tucson grass was much better Mutt: LOL! Cease: i learned from the long beatles peter jackson thing, that back was paul mccsartney's reaction to anti-imigrant rallies of the day. Cease: Get Back was one of their slogans. get back to where you once belonged. Tweeny: It's amazing how many real commercials they did Tweeny: I doubt most fans know about that side of their career ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "She's no fun, she fell right over." Cease: there was an IHOP accross from USC when I was a student there, when this commercial was made Deputy Dang: Almost makes me want to get some Carnation Instant Breakfast. Tweeny: heh Cease: true, tween. they need far greater awareness, and they won't get it from our chat, alas Cease: i have been promoting them almosr since they started/ Cease: neal young Cease: he is a Really Good song writer Tweeny: There needs to be more promotion on the Facebook fan sites Cease: his cousin Joan was my girlfriend in Univesity in 1970 ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I only lie, or I tell the truth. Heh - just lyin'." Deputy Dang:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_XJFVYC8VU What's Become of The Baby Cease: i iknow dino mostly from his restauran in LA when i iived there. Cease: i generally like marc maron, so i bought his reccomeneded book Dino bio, and it ffucklig bored me. made me thihnk a llot less of maron Cease: truly a tedious book about what sounds like an interesting guy. Cease: most of the book is seriously tedious descriptions of his many, manh flicks and songs, Tweeny: cool that Ossman did bits for the Hot Rats album ||||||||| 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 ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Cease close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the sitting room. Tweeny: Everybody be well and have a great week :) Cease: let's get lots and lots, a wonderful mantra Deputy Dang: Thanks, Cat! Thanks, Tweeny! Thanks, Mutt! Deputy Dang: Good night all Cease: we do our best Tweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| Tweeny is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM. ||||||||| DJTweeny departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?" Mutt: Thanks everyone. ||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Deputy Dang left for parts unknown.(Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow"). ||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Mutt left for parts unknown.(Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow"). ||||||||| 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 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:
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Mutt
Tweeny
