Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
02/19/2026

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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 February 19, 2026 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Tweeny into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| 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 LAWYER'S HOSPITAL
with tracks from BEFORE THEY CHANGED THE WATER
The Count of Monte Christo, High School Madness, The Bob Sideburn News Part 1, Whole Earth Estates, 40 Great Unclaimed Melodies
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/before-they-changed-the-water-live-1969-1971
plus from LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM "The Armenian's Paw"
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
and a new Cat Collage "Flaming Bamford"
Listen to the 256k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2 or the 16k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1'
||||||||| "Hey Tweeny!" ... Tweeny turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 8:00 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, February 19, 2026 - 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 Deputy Dang by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Beet', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
Beet: Hi, Folks!
||||||||| Cease tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease!
Beet: Hi, Deputy, cease.
Cease: Hi all
Cease: Did you notice Proc was just in Vagas, where I've spent a lot of time?
Beet: Hello, Virtual Tweeny.
Cease: Tweeny isn;t here, I don't think
Beet: Thus vir.tual
Cease: I'm studying Istanbul restaurants and museums now
Beet: Cool.
Cease: they were't vrfy old then. they are now
Cease: ossman is 89. that's old
Cease: i want to go to turkey before i get too old to do anything
Cease: Bertgman sure got a lot out of that country
Cease: of course, that was 60 years ago
Cease: remember when young people never wanted to get old
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Mutt, just back from Elmertown."
Cease: my generation
Cease: the mutt man cometh
Mutt: Im wet an im cold, but thank god I ain’t old
Beet: Hi, Mutt.
Mutt: Evening all you jazzy cats
Cease: I'm Cat and I like jazz. Does that count?
Mutt: Twice or double!
Cease: Not sure if it will actually happen, but am seriouslyu contemplating trip to Istanbul this fall.
Mutt: Good old Ben
Mutt: That’s a city I would love to see
Cease: I'm pretty sure when I go through custams at the airport, i''l think i'm back at the begiing ot Electrician
Mutt: Just don’t forget the elevator boy
Cease: there's a building there called Hagia Sophia that I realy want to see
Mutt: All the blasted and defaced icons and murals are still there I believe
Cease: unlike othr buildings i waned to look at from the outside, like the gehry buildings, hagia sophia is sometihng i need to expereicne from from the inside.
Cease: also serious restaurans there i want to check out.
Cease: my healh is poor at best. can i actually fly from van to istanbul, do stuff, and then fly home without damaging my self?
Mutt: I hope you feel up to it and are able to go.
Cease: me too
Mutt: If you can swing it money-wise maybe try pampering yourself on this one. Cut down on the foot travel and take taxis and such?
Cease: yes, that's my plan. did you go there, beet?
Beet: I think you will have a great time.
Cease: apparently ubsr is problematic thre. i'll see. very hilly city so need as much wheeled transportation as i can gt
Cease: that's why i'm giong there, beet.
Beet: Never been to Turkey.
Mutt: Maybe a driver service?
Cease: as an almost 75 year old man, i want to do as much as i can
Cease: i hear the subwa is very good and i look forward to it.
Cease: i cut the fuck out of that last sentence
Cease: i like subways, even though i was pickpocketed in the madred subway in my last trip
Mutt: I got so into this lp when it was released that I basically missed a semester of law school.
Cease: i have a story about nagasaki.
Cease: when i lived in japan, i went to a nearby bar run by a guy from nagasaki
Cease: we became friends. he was 9 when the bomb went off.
Cease: the city is very hilly so much of the city survived
Cease: he said it was beautiful, when he observed it from this hilltop perch
Cease: one doesn't normally meet somewhere who called the a-bomb beaituful, as it was blwoing up his city
Beet: 14 is now the datesble age for politicians.
Beet: dateable
Cease: is that due to the epsein files?
Beet: Apparently.
Mutt: That stuff is going to smolder for years
Beet: I think so.
Cease: no doubt
Mutt: Fall out everywhere else but US, so far
Cease: the last time a royal was in jail was in the 17th century
Beet: The former Prince is in jail.
Cease: and not the guy from Minneapolis
Mutt: I have no sympathy for anyone shown to have acted wrongly in this matter
Cease: that's a lot of people, mutt
Mutt: Yeah. I know.
Beet: Enfluence leads to blackmail.
Cease: kompromat
Mutt: Exaclty. He was a blackmailer and more
Cease: did you see them live?
Mutt: Who?
Cease: firesign
Mutt: Twice for me
Cease: wew now listen to them live here
Cease: i saw them in 69 but not again til 94
Cease: you, beet?
Mutt: 1981 and 1993
Cease: they didnt' do a lot live
Beet: No
Cease: it's not important. i think they're better as an audio act
Mutt: I would agree. It was fun to see them but the recordings are better
Cease: yep
Mutt: A big reason they never translated to tv or film
Cease: they all loved acting. i was never good at it.
Mutt: Their live acting skills are fine. But their audio acting skills are genius. They couldn’t compete with that .
Cease: true
Mutt: Four on stage - five on recordings
Cease: but is there compettioin?
Cease: nope
Cease: no one, at least in english, has done anything like theri work, of their quality, that i'm aware of
Mutt: There is a certain magic that they created in audio. Live performance is different. Their live could not compete with their tecordings
Cease: true
Mutt: On stage they are four talented guys. On record that mysterious fifth guy shows up and it’s magic
Cease: yep
Cease: well spotted, mutt
Cease: did you see btruce snyder's visualizatio of this?
Cease: i tihkn i posted t a link to it liast week
Mutt: No not yet
Mutt: This is fun
Cease: https://youtu.be/fQiczISciSY
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What about my pickle?"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Mutt: That link has been taken down
Cease: they produced a vast amount of wonderful stuff
Cease: steerio: music for cows
Mutt: Lol
Beet: It's Curt!
Mutt: Lord Tween speaks
Cease: The voice of Tween.
Cease: tihs goes well with what we just heard
Beet: Well, gotta split. This was fun as always. Enjoyed hanging with you guys. Have a great weekend. See you next time. G'Nite.
Cease: by beet
Mutt: Take care Beet!
Cease: there are few of us, at best
Mutt: Deputy is almost greyed out
Mutt: But in general I believe you are correct in your assessment
Mutt: Not sure who is listening to them anymore
Cease: it would be nice if there were more of us
Mutt: Well I can say that, tracking stuff on ebay as i do, somebody’s buyinh their stuff
Mutt: The classic lps still sell regularly
Cease: i'm glad they still get a few pennies
Mutt: I would imagine they receive very little these days.
Cease: i hope procc makes enough for his frequent travels
Cease: this is a very noisy show
Cease: nice edit there
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'llanwydd', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
llanwydd: good evening
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "We own the idea of NOW."
Cease: hy llsn
Cease: great to see you here
Cease: how's yourf health?
llanwydd: not too bad. thanks for asking
Cease: i like being old in that i'v survived this long. smsxing
llanwydd: lol
Cease: i never expected to grow old
Cease: i'm delighted
Cease: mis-goat me
Cease: fly by night producers
Cease: its heavy
Cease: how's it going, llan?
Cease: thanks, virtual tween
Deputy Dang: Thanks Cat! Goodnight all!
Cease: somethihg else next week
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Deputy Dang vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Cease 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 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Mutt dashes out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - 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
llanwydd
Mutt

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/before-they-changed-the-water-live-1969-1971
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
https://youtu.be/fQiczISciSY