Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
11/13/2025

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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 November 13, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Tweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: The Recently Discovered Mushroom Play THE LAST TUNNEL TO FRESNO
plus a Proctor & Bergman interview with Tom Metzger
a new Cat Collage “This Is Walter” Part 1
and from RADIO NOW LIVE! “The Wall Of Science”
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 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..."
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, November 13, 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?"
||||||||| ;llanwydd steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Deputy Dang should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Deputy Dang enters and sits at the bar.
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Deputy Dang runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
;llanwydd: hey dang
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and cease sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
;llanwydd: hey cease
cease: hi all
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and announces "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: Evening, Folks.
cease: the beet generation cometh
;llanwydd: am I seeing this right? P & B did an interview with the notorious aryan supremacist?
Beet: Hi, llan, cease.
cease: lolo
;llanwydd: hey beet
cease: different metzger
;llanwydd: aha
cease: the tundra is far from armenia
||||||||| Mutt waltzes in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
cease: the mutt
;llanwydd: yes it is
Mutt: Woof! Woof!
Mutt: A very grid evening to all
cease: doesnt ossman sound young here?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Join the expectant crowd gathering now as we stop here on..."
Beet: Hi, Mutt
Mutt: Da Beet!
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging MarkTime by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
MarkTime: be careful its a trick question
Mutt: I could never get my socks off!
cease: the mark man
MarkTime: evening Crew!
||||||||| Nancy Kat bounds in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Nancy Kat: Mow
cease: i'd rather be crew than crude
Beet: Howdy, Mark.
cease: the nancy. welcome.
cease: my fellow feline
Beet: Hi, Nancy.
Nancy Kat: Llan, Beet, Cease, Mark, Mutt...HalloooOO!
Mutt: Hey Mark and hey Nancy!
Nancy Kat: A case of the pox?
cease: fingers, sir
cease: hayakawa was a senator in california in those days
Mutt: Sez You
cease: not sure of dates for his senatorship
Mutt: Late 70s?
cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._I._Hayakawa
cease: this is from our chatter friend Lili
Nancy Kat: Save Armen ia, get a hairlift
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "My nostrils flared at the smell of his perfume."
cease: i contributed that beatles bit
MarkTime: no tweeny tonite....too bad....guess I'll mosey along...Peace and Joy to you
MarkTime: All
Nancy Kat: Much love, Mark!
cease: bye mark
Beet: I'm experiencing deja vu.
Mutt: Cya mark!
Beet: G'nite, Mark.
Mutt: Beet: Right now?
cease: one of teh best rock albums ever
Beet: It seems like I've experienced this script before.
cease: lol
cease: this is very well acted
Beet: I just watched Cross of Iron with James Coburn last night. Really good.
cease: ww2 flcik?
Beet: Yep
cease: my dad was in ww2 i thought about that the other day
Nancy Kat: He's got...the Plague///
Beet: Where did he serve, Cat?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right."
Mutt: CoI is a very bleak film. Loved it.
Nancy Kat: Why does this strike me like Hogans heroes?
Beet: Showed things from the other side.
Mutt: Where’s Kinch??!
cease: He only got as far as London but his regiment went to Dieppe and got slaughtered. he was inm a hospital back in london, or most likely, i would not have been born
Mutt: Incredible
Beet: Wow!
cease: yeah, i think of that whenever i have physical problems, which is not infrequetnt. sometimes being fucked up works on your favour.
Nancy Kat: Wow. it's the little things, Cease...butterfly Effect and all.
cease: true, nancy
Mutt: Throw a stone in a pond - you never know where all the ripples go
cease: very zen
Nancy Kat: My Grandfather was on the War Board, none of the rest of us served due to various health problems. Not that my Uncle didn't try...
Beet: I remember Banana Man. He would come on Captain Kangaroo
cease: i went to live in japan in 1971. well worth doing
Mutt: My son is intent on going to Japan
Nancy Kat: My uncle went to a class reunion and realized that most of his friends and fellow male classmates had been killed in Vietnam. It changed him.
cease: what is a war board, nancy?
cease: i left in 88 so know little of today's japan
Mutt: But probably more than you realize.
cease: i had american friends who were in vietnam
Nancy Kat: I take it that it was a group of Men (of course, in those days) that were in the various In dustries that supported the various war efforts. He was the Vice President of Chemtron, a company that supplied carbon dioxide to other companies i.e. CocaCola. During the wars, they suplied it to the Governmet.
cease: aha
Beet: One of my buddies here was a Viet Nam vet. He saw combat with two Purple Hearts
cease: empower the individual, always the firesign theme
cease: they were always teachers
cease: i think it is the nature of knowledge to disseminate
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "...And no Buddhist writers either!"
Beet: Way ahead of their time and prescient.
Mutt: Cease and Beet: PLEASE! This isafamily show …
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let me hear it for me!"
Beet: pardon
Mutt: You are excused
Beet: It is amazing how quickly the public mood can pivot because of social media.
Mutt: Yes. Scary.
Beet: The magic of discovering Firesign for the first time.
cease: yes
cease: i was there almost from the beginning
cease: i helpd them get in the library of congress
Mutt: For good or otherwise, for me it was Dwarf in 1974
cease: you're younger, mutt? i was born in 51
Beet: Library of Congress most beautiful building in D.C.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Mutt: Born in 62. Local library had Dwarf featured front and center in the comedy album section (which was about ten records deep)
Nancy Kat: My Mom's first exposure was "Bozos" and of course, as i've said, mine was "Dwarf". beet-Yes, the magic and the sheer WTf of it all. Like having your brain scratched by intellect for the first time...I don't know if i expressed that right....
Beet: Well put.
Mutt: The Shade of Twen
cease: they exist to scratch your intellect, nancy
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Get on it and do it every day!"
cease: that's me
Nancy Kat: Cease-Well, you know, you go about your daily life...and it's all sameysamey and fairly low effort. Not high brow..and then something pokes your brain and you're like "OHHOOOO! smartsmart!"
Mutt: Exactly
cease: not for me, nancy. i awake everfy day full of ideas for the play or the radioshow
Mutt: But most folks aren’t
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Stop torturing me Ethyl!"
Mutt: And most ignore the poke
cease: yeah, it's a bummer to realize that msot people aren't on my wavelength
cease: i went to that room because of this
Mutt: And they don’t really want to be
cease: the elite dont want to be elite?
Mutt: No. Most folks prefer to remain in ignorance
Nancy Kat: "Oh no, it's paisley..."
cease: people in luxury prefer to remain in luxury
Mutt: It’s easier
Mutt: Easier to remain on ignorance
Beet: Well, unfortunately gotta go Really enjoyed it tonight. Nice to hang with you fine folks. Have a great weekend, y'all. G'Nite.
Mutt: Be well Bett!
cease: by beet
Mutt: Beet
Nancy Kat: BB, Beet!
cease: anyone speak german here?
Nancy Kat: Nein. learning though. My Maternal Grandfather was German/ Dutch
Mutt: Nope
cease: my dad's first language
cease: wouls love to read it. fave book is german
Nancy Kat: Cease-Which book is that?
cease: the black obelisk by remarque
cease: the writing is so pretty is makes me cry to read
Nancy Kat: I'd like to be able to read French and German more fluently because a lot of the scholarship about Ancient egypt is in french and german.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And while we're on the subject..."
Nancy Kat: As well as many obscure occult texts
cease: i'm ion pain most of the time.
cease: i hope the rest of you chatters are leading p[ain free lives
Nancy Kat: I hope your pain decreases, Cease. Beet, Mutt I shall hopefully C you all next week. HUGGS and love.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Mutt: Bye Nancy!
Mutt: Thanks Tweeny, wherever you are! See you next week CatMan!
||||||||| Mutt leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Hellmouth.
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Nancy Kat - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| ;llanwydd - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| MarkTime - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 3:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| cease - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:15 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:
;llanwydd
Beet
cease
MarkTime
Mutt
Nancy Kat

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/S._I._Hayakawa