Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
08/21/2025

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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 August 21, 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 vestibule...
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: From KBOO Radio Portland Firesign Theatre's Last Performance Together
"Talking Over Each Other"
plus a new Cat Collage "Easy"
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'
||||||||| It's 6:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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, August 21, 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 strides up and intones "Presenting 'DJTweeny', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Deputy Dang', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, DJTweeny!
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy :)
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Cease into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
DJTweeny: Oops, the PD has put up a rebraodcast :(
DJTweeny: allo Cease
Cease: HI all
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease!
DJTweeny: OK, it's NOT a replay :)
DJTweeny: He just had the announcement wrong ;)
Cease: What is it?
DJTweeny: This is FST/NPR Earth Day
Cease: sounds like barnstormer
DJTweeny: used it as an opener
Cease: why don't i know this?
DJTweeny: Sure, it's the Rev. Barnstormer character
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and intones "Presenting 'Tweeny', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Cease: this sounds like Southpark
Tweeny: Do you have this in your collection? "Firesign - Earth Day 2003"
Cease: no
Cease: this is new to me
DJTweeny: hmmm, wonder where I got it from
Cease: i'll record it from this.
||||||||| Beet steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Cease: HI Beet
DJTweeny: yo Beet
Beet: Howdy, Folks!
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
Beet: Hi, Cease, Deputy, Tweeny.
Cease: stop reading, you're going to hurt yourself. my dad used to say that.
||||||||| 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 hour!"
Mutt: Boo!
Cease: Mutt, meet Mutt
Beet: Hey, Mutt.
Mutt: Hiya, Mutt!
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt!
Mutt: Grid evening all
DJTweeny: I just emailed it to you, Cat
DJTweeny: is telus working now?
Cease: thanks
DJTweeny: if not I'll send it to gmail
Cease: no. i'll call them tomorrow.
DJTweeny: OK, I'll send it to your gmail account
Cease: The last time I had this problem, i was told to switch to Chrome and it worked. This time it did not.
Cease: i know the Hopi speech. it's quite famous
Cease: Oh this is the RFO rebroadcast of the KBOO show.
Cease: Tom Gedwillo played this recently on Facebook.
Cease: He's the curator of the RFO collection
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks 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...
Cease: Hi llan
llanwydd: jazz for industry
DJTweeny: Hey llan
Beet: Hi, llan.
Mutt: Hey llan!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You guys are nothing but a pack of cards."
Cease: This sounds a lot like the way they talked to each other in the Fools in Space shows
Mutt: Yep. It do
DJTweeny: Hey Mutt
Cease: oh this isn't KBOO
Cease: KBOO is something else
Cease: The door that is never open or closed
DJTweeny: This is what I have under the file names Talking Over Each Other
Cease: jump you fuckers. i must have edited that.
DJTweeny: So it's RFO?
Cease: yes
DJTweeny: Yeah, this file is marked as edited
Cease: but they are connected.
Cease: i may have this.
Cease: sounds Very familiar.
Cease: they had just been writing the words for that play . bergman was quite unhappy with it, as he says here
Cease: thier only (?) hard cover book.
llanwydd: I am not getting any audio
Mutt: Which book?
Cease: Anythyne You Want to
Cease: thier shakespeare play
Cease: with more footnotes than script.
Mutt: Oh. Thanks. Therer are other hardbound books by them.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Ersatz Brothers Coffee, the REAL one!"
Cease: such as?
Cease: i must by the 2 books bruce snyder put out, of thier movie scripts
Cease: get
Mutt: The first edition of Marching to Shibboleth was hardbound but recalled. There are also hardbound editions of Barbecue Sauce and Exorcism.
Mutt: The last two came out years after the original softcover editions.
Cease: i did not know that.
Cease: i had no idea there was a market for that
Mutt: It is strange. Bear Manor started offering HB editions a year or so ago. I picked them up to go with the softcover editions.
Cease: occupy wall street was started by my magazine, Adbusters
Mutt: Marching has two first edition states, one HB and one softcover.
Cease: much as i'd love to see the script for EYK, i did not buy Marching.
Mutt: You’d have to buy the softcoverversion - it was not in the original HB version
Beet: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-big-suitcase-of-1969-an-overstuffed-screenplay-by-the-firesign-theatre-firesign-theatre/1146490693
Cease: i will buy the Snyder books. eventually. they're quite expensive
Mutt: I haven’t decided on those myself.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Denbo should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Denbo enters and sits on the couch.
Cease: Welcome Denbo
Beet: Hello Denbo.
Mutt: Denbo Denbo Where you gonna go go-ee-oh?
Denbo: hey there
llanwydd: hidenbo
DJTweeny: Hi Denbo
Mutt: Welcome!
DJTweeny: Hey Cat, how should I change the description for this (since the current one is inacurate)?
Cease: yes
Denbo: Just checking my copy of EYKIW looks good enif to play again
Mutt: Play it!
Cease: From Bergman's RFO podcast, December, 2011.
Denbo: I spread their name/history to ppl
Denbo: talkin bout that one!
Cease: Good for you, Denbo.
Mutt: You are a self-realized man!
Cease: I read a book recently called This Book is a Knife. Not so good.
Denbo: always luv those guys, have VHS tapes still
Cease: there are worse places than estonia
Mutt: Most of their video is available in digital format
Cease: my fellow Adbusters editor was from Estonia.
Mutt: My wife’s family is from Latvia
Cease: My grandparents are from Ukraine. A neighbour.
Denbo: do have dvds too
Mutt: Hiya cuz!
Mutt: Denbo: Good on you. I have my old vhs tapes, too. Dvds are convenient as is digital but I still keep da tapes.
Cease: lol
Denbo: eat or be Eaten was a great one w. vinyl also
llanwydd: falling asleep. see ya next thursday
Mutt: Rest up, Llan. Feel better!
Cease: by llan
||||||||| llanwydd 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..."
Cease: this sounds like a bit from RFO
Denbo: New channel enjoy
Beet: See ya llan
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: From Bergman's RFO podcast, December, 2011
"Talking Over Each Other"
plus a new Cat Collage "Easy"
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'
Cease: Good work, Tween
Denbo: just clicked in there
DJTweeny: You've got the stream, Denbo?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right."
||||||||| 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..
Denbo: yes DJ thanks
DJTweeny: kewl
Cease: that's where Bergman's memorial was.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I hate rich people. I hate them and their stupid problems."
Cease: i have never been to Portland. only its suburbs
DJTweeny: Considering that this is only a couple of months before Bergman died, he sure sounds to be in good form
Cease: he does
Cease: but he wasn't
Mutt: I was just thinking that,Tween. Remarkable.
Cease: That's why the other guys were so surprised when he died. He didn't let them knnow
DJTweeny: so you said
DJTweeny: they surely couldn't have known from his performances
Cease: indeed
Cease: drones back then.
Cease: i hadn't realize there were drones then.
Beet: Welp, gotta go. This was really fun. Nice to see everyone. Have a great weekend and I'll see you next week. G'Nite.
Cease: YOu too, Beet
Mutt: Nite Beet!
DJTweeny: Be well Beet
Denbo: gotta run glad i found U here
Mutt: Jeez. The politics here seems soooo remote, now.
Cease: come again, Denbo
Cease: indeed, mutt
Mutt: See ya denbo!
DJTweeny: See ya next time Denbo
Mutt: Herman Cain
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Wake up - and consider your only logical choice."
Cease: You have to be into American politics to know who he was.
Tweeny: Rick Perry was of course Governor of Texas
Mutt: He had his fifteen minutes and then some
Cease: i vaguely remember that, tween.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Not to be torturing me!"
Cease: i met jim hightower on a cruise. the one Texan politician have met.
Mutt: This would have been the lead up to the 2012 race. Perryhad some juice but it evaporated quickly
Tweeny: Hightower was a very interesting guy
||||||||| 8:00 PM: MarkTime jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
MarkTime: nice evening to you all
Tweeny: Jim Hightower - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hightower
Tweeny: Hey Mark :)
Cease: HI mark
Tweeny: "From 1983 to 1991 he served as the elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture."
MarkTime: haven't heard you talk about Hightower in quite a while
Cease: He's really short, considering his name.
Cease: Seemeed like a nice guy.
Tweeny: Cat just mentioned that he met him
Mutt: Hiya Mark!
MarkTime: hwy cease, mutt
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What you don't mean won't hurt you."
Mutt: That’s funny
Cease: i'm a drinker and a thinker
||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Denbo - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: i ddint' edit this
Tweeny: Maybe you can make a note to make an edited version for us?
Tweeny: Talking Over Each Other 2
Cease: can do
Tweeny: I have an edited version of part 1
Cease: yes, i noticed.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I had to think for a minute ... what cruel game was he playing?"
Mutt: I like hearing the uneditedtuff
Cease: yeah, this will require some editing.
DJTweeny: RFD's program director likes to make the FCC happy ;)
DJTweeny: an we try to be a 'family firndly' radio station
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Close the door, and the light stays on!"
Mutt: Understood. Heard a few chouce terms
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Why does the porridge bird lay his egg in the air?"
DJTweeny: *friendly, even
DJTweeny: but he does understand that's it's FST, not Andrew Dice Clay
Cease: indeed
DJTweeny: good live FST session
DJTweeny: much fun :)
Cease: true
Mutt: Loved it
Cease: This piece inspired me to write Act 3 of my last play. Letters introducing Ukrainian words and ideas
Cease: We'll hear this on next week's Talking Over Each Other, this one actually from KBOO
Tweeny: kewl
MarkTime: haven't gotten a bus system map yet....I do have a backpack.
Deputy Dang: I haven't heard this song in half of forever!
Cease: it's from 68? or earlier
Cease: i heard an interview with Arlo. he was astonished at the populartiy of that song.
Cease: the slant eyed persuasion
Tweeny: MarkTime: haven't gotten a bus system map yet....I do have a backpack. << Good deal
Deputy Dang: Excellent collage, Cat! Thank you!
Tweeny: You couldn't accuse FST of being 'politically correct' ;)
Tweeny: Thanks for listening everybody!
Mutt: Greatstuff cat!
Cease: I had a lot of fun making that. Wish we still had an archive
Deputy Dang: Thank you Tweeny for getting it up for us!
Cease: no, you could not.
Mutt: Thanks Tween!
Tweeny: yw :)
MarkTime: gnite everyone
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is W.A.L.T.E.R ... this is W.A.L.T.E.R. ..."
Cease: i was inspired to do that from watching Nashville recently. have no idea where ideas for new collage will come from
Mutt: Nashville is an all time gret flick.
Cease: Next week, folks
Tweeny: that's part of the fun of it, one would suspect :)
||||||||| Deputy Dang leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Funfun Town.
Mutt: Be well everyone
Cease: yeah, i never know where inspiration will come from
Cease: off we fly
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Mutt, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the bushes.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Cease, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the brambles.
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Tweeny is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
||||||||| DJTweeny 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..."
||||||||| 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 the yaws
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| MarkTime - 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
Denbo
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
llanwydd
MarkTime
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/Jim_Hightower
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-big-suitcase-of-1969-an-overstuffed-screenplay-by-the-firesign-theatre-firesign-theatre/1146490693