Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
10/23/2025

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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 October 23, 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 Firehead?"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Phil Austin and David Ossman's THE BIG BROADCAST OF 1976
plus a new Cat Collage "Sympathy For Ricki"
and from ALL THINGS FIRESIGN "Scaled Down Danger"
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'
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Tweeny dashes out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, October 23, 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 trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging DJTweeny by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Tweeny steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| cease bounds in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
cease: tweeny
cease: actrually it;s Sympathy for Ricky Lee.
DJTweeny: allo cease eh
cease: i follow her on Substack and will send her a link when it's up.
DJTweeny: oops, sorry cease
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Phil Austin and David Ossman's THE BIG BROADCAST OF 1976
plus a new Cat Collage "Sympathy For Ricki Lee"
and from ALL THINGS FIRESIGN "Scaled Down Danger"
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 enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
cease: is this a rebroadcast?
cease: and scaled down danger is in Box of Time.
||||||||| 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: Who am I?
cease: Dang it!
cease: Box of Danger, not Time.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, cease! Howdy, Tweens! Howdy Catherwood!
||||||||| Catherwood walks over to Deputy Dang and says "Do you have something for me to do?"
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
cease: Ossie seemed so happy we were playing this when you posted it on Facebook
cease: he has such a long career
||||||||| Catherwood leads Beet into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
cease: The Beet had dropped
Beet: Howdy, Pardners!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What you don't mean won't hurt you."
Deputy Dang: Cocktails, ginger ales, 10 cents a glass... if you don't like that, you can kiss my hairy
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
Beet: Hi, cease, Deputy, Tweeny.
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
cease: eric von hitler
cease: i'm playing with german names in my new play
cease: the chancellor of germany is johann amadeus beethoven
Deputy Dang: I play with myself in german name plays
cease: lol
Deputy Dang: I don't know what that means. I apoligize, Cat. I was just frobbing.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "How does he make his voice do that?"
cease: hilarious, none the less
Deputy Dang: emphasis on less
Tweeny: catherwood, please give everyone some of whatever Dang is smoking
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone some of whatever dang is smoking.
Beet: I inhaled.
Tweeny: heheh
cease: isn't that the point?
Tweeny: as opposed to Mr. Clinton, Beet?
Beet: He may have been lying.
Tweeny: a distinct possibility ;)
cease: don't you think it's time for a number?
Deputy Dang: I'm not wearing my glasses. How distinct?
Beet: Catherwood, give everyone a number.
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a number.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Mutt should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Mutt enters and sits in the comfy chair.
Beet: Howdy, Mutt.
cease: the mutt man cometh
Mutt: Hiya Beet!
Tweeny: Hey Mutt
Mutt: Lol cease
Mutt: Doctor Tween!
Mutt: Evening Deputy
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Ha ha ha - that's very logical."
Mutt: So the number Cavendash gave me is eleventeen …
Mutt: Catherwo-d, that is
Deputy Dang: Wood? Did someone call???
Mutt: Perhaps it was the elevator boy?
Deputy Dang: Let's leave my personal life out of this!
Mutt: XD
cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etheric_force
cease: new knowledge for me.
||||||||| 8:00 PM: llanwydd jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
llanwydd: good evening
Mutt: The Keely Disintegrator - sounds nasty
Mutt: Hey Llan!
cease: it is now that llan is here.
Tweeny: Hey llan
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Not Ed coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
llanwydd: I bought All things Firesign when it came out
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "How does he make his voice do that?"
Not Ed: Tweeny, cease, DDang. Beet, Mutt--and llan--wazreal - been 2 long - doing ok - how are you all
cease: i was visiting friends in berkely and found it in the local record store
Not Ed: ah audio!
Beet: hi, llan.
Mutt: Hey Not! Watz not real?
Beet: Hi, Not.
Not Ed: good pt!
cease: Not
Tweeny: Evenin' Not Ed
Not Ed: good to "see" you all in a virtual cents
Not Ed: I love this
Beet: I was never aware of this show.
cease: this is wonderful
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It goes in - it must come out."
Mutt: This isn’t virtual. This is real … the last reel of this vintage motion picture …
Not Ed: I'd heard of it er distantly?
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims cease, who then rushes out through the french doors and down through the brambles.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers cease into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
Mutt: Someone put a Mickey in Cease’sground zero.
cease: i was dissappeared. thnkfully not permanently
Tweeny: I asked David if this could be made available on Bandcamp, but haven't heard back yet.
Tweeny: You Are Here, Player
Mutt: Good job, Tween.
cease: i just had a swif from a mickey of Malibu in my desk.
cease: swig
cease: a vast amount of firesonia is about Power
cease: just watched proc/berg on Dangerous Minds, thier lA Barnstall tour. i think their last in LA
cease: they talked a lot about how their comedy seeks to empower us to resist powerf.
Beet: Apparently, a video of this is on Youtube. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=the+big+broadcast+of+1976#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:78567c7d,vid:aFm8UJuFOiI,st:0
Mutt: XD
Tweeny: wow, kewl Beet
Mutt: I did not type the last message attributed to me
llanwydd: lol
Mutt: This has happened before on chat
cease: yes. with the rose parade album.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Guaranteed by the Department of Redundancy Dept. and the Natural Guard."
cease: maybe other times
Mutt: When I clicked on the link Beet sent it opened another page of this chat and posted fir me
cease: Tex Tile
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Not Ed! I was about to not say howdy!
llanwydd: I fogot all about the RoseParade album
cease: how are things in Not land?
Deputy Dang: Llanwydd! Welcome! I hope your health is prevailing!
Beet: There seems to be something srange withe the link.
cease: yes, we all hope your health is ascendent
llanwydd: my health is not bad. Thanks for asking.
Mutt: The link opens briefly and then won’t load
Mutt: I went there directly and it seems fine
Beet: I found it by typing in The Big Broadcast of 1976 in Google.
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Deputy Dang left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
Mutt: Yup. Grainy video and all
Mutt: Good to hear, Llan. Now, stay that way ;)
llanwydd: I will stay on the healthy side. I am sure of that.
Not Ed: ssss
cease: we believe you
Mutt: (Best Mr. Burns voice) Excellent!
Not Ed: mm hmm
cease: the devil makes an appearance in my new play and i want that southpark satan voice.
||||||||| 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: thanks mutt and llan
llanwydd: dgewdcyu gkl;hnpy8097we56tradszx
Beet: You can say that again.
llanwydd: sounds like Nancy
cease: they did a lot of police skits but that's one of their best
Tweeny: There's llan speaking Welsh again
cease: station break prety late tonight. i cut the last 3 min, should have cut much more.
Tweeny: not a problem, cease
cease: sympathy for ricki lee
Not Ed: ricky
Not Ed: oops
Beet: It's that time again. This was really fun. Nice to see all of you. Have a great weekend. See you next week. G'Nite
Tweeny: yep, sorry I missed that cease
Tweeny: be well, Beet
cease: all the best, beet
cease: there is some wonderful musicianship on this
cease: their most satanic album.
Mutt: Welp, been a long day here. G’nite everyone. Thanks Tween for the usual sterling job. Be well all!
cease: the late Melinda
||||||||| Mutt says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Mutt exits at 8:00 PM.
cease: off you go
Not Ed: b-b-but
Not Ed: good trip cat
Not Ed: good lord
cease: it's hard listening to this to recall that dylan was once a great song writer
Tweeny: Dylan At The Met from EOBE is pretty hilarious
cease: indeed
Tweeny: "You can't understand a word he's saying, and that's when he's at his best..."
cease: we'l do our annual bridey murphy show next week?
Tweeny: Sure, why not
cease: that is the only hwole rfo show we have
cease: and its their halloween show
cease: it should be regular, like bdb for your independence day
Tweeny: Yeah, and Immortality for the new year
Tweeny: makes sense
cease: i think we've played all the firezine discs, except history of proc/berg, altghough that wasnt that lnog ago
Not Ed: I still haven't heard everything
Not Ed: Btw - Discography https://richcarlson.bandcamp.com/music - Ludography https://rich.itch.io/
cease: there is a lot i haven't heard, and i've devoted more than half a century on doing so.
Not Ed: wow!
cease: i hacd a model train set when i was around 6
cease: this is numinous writing
Tweeny: I had to look up 'numinous'
Tweeny: "having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity"
cease: easy to do now
cease: i use it to refer to how it illuminates a highre level, like a cathedral of words
cease: one of my short stories is also about people changing scale
Not Ed: trippy
cease: my fave nick danger stoies
Not Ed: loved it cat
Not Ed: great last bit wow great time all
cease: yeah, i'm happy with the ricki lee colage plus the rest
Tweeny: Thanks for listening everybody!
Not Ed: outstanding tx!
cease: nite tween
Not Ed: you 2 Tween
cease: great show tonght
Not Ed: over and outski
||||||||| cease rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| 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 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..."
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, DJTweeny vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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 dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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
llanwydd
Mutt
Not Ed
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/Etheric_force
https://rich.itch.io/
https://richcarlson.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=the+big+broadcast+of+1976#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:78567c7d,vid:aFm8UJuFOiI,st:0