||||||||| 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 26, 2026 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Gusts of wind blow in from outside and the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of helicopter blades is heard as Happy Panditt's chopper lands on the lawn and Tweeny plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM. ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: From THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA "Not Quite The Solution He Expected" with some Firesign April Fools bits and EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG plus Peter Bergman's TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE REAL WORLD and tracks from Proctor & Bergman's GIVE US A BREAK 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 says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Tweeny by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door ||||||||| Mutt steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. Mutt:Tween, you are missed in the chat. Have a good evening and many thanks for keeping us up and running in your absence. ||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Mutt by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, February 26, 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 ushers Tweeny 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. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies RedPillTweeny 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. ||||||||| Gusts of wind blow in from outside and the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of helicopter blades is heard as Happy Panditt's chopper lands on the lawn and Deputy Dang falls out at 8:00 PM. Tweeny: Hi Dang, RedPill Tweeny: mid-80s in Austin today Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny! Deputy Dang: Mid 70s in Palm Beach County, FL. ||||||||| 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 strides up and announces "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. Beet: Howdy! Beet: Hi, Deputy, Red, Tweeny. ||||||||| 8:00 PM: Art Holflaffer jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!" Tweeny: Hi Beet, Art ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Cease waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Beet: Hey, Art. Tweeny: allo Cease Cease: Not working this evening, Tween? Beet: Yo, Cease. Cease: i Cease: i'll just have some tea, if yiou don't mind Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease! Howdy, Beet! ||||||||| 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 half hour!" Cease: the mutt man Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt! Howdy Art Holflaffer! ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Wake up - and consider your only logical choice." Tweeny: Cease: Not working this evening, Tween? << For once, but I will be working Thursday of next week. Cease: nick deputy danger Beet: Howdy, Mutt. Mutt: Heyo kiddos! Say, are you guys holding? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scalp 'em, Tantric!" Beet: I wish. Cease: what shall i hold? Mutt: Blowing smokeyour way, Beet … Tweeny: Hey Mutt Cease: you iive in a cannabis lacking jourisdtiction, beet? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right." Beet: Second-hand stone. Cease: thaknfully for all of canada, that is no lnoger a problem Beet: Not legal here. Tweeny: They put up a statue to Willie Nelson in TX, but MJ is still illegal. A tad duplicitous ;) Mutt: Ya think? Lol! Beet: All hail Willie! Cease: Tis Mutt: One of my old roommates used to go around singing mamma dont let your babies grow up to be shitkickers Cease: I was on a boat with his wife. I must have posted to this site at the time. 2008 Beet: Saw him live in Boone, NC. Mutt: Cool beet Cease: Daniel's home town? Beet: Daniel who? Cease: Boone Mutt: Daniel Boone was a man. Just a biiiiig man Tweeny:Tweeny has a new microphone >> Behringer TM1 Complete Microphone Recording Bundle with Stand - https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/TM1PkBun1--behringer-tm1-complete-microphone-recording-bundle-with-stand Mutt: The Toys O’ Tween Beet: He definitely famously passed through there. Tweeny: nice to have a condensor again after all these years Cease: Good for you, Tween. Good for us all. Mutt: That’s some nice gear, Tween Beet: Hardly anything better than new electronics. Cease: anyone here like beer? Mutt: You have a good point Beet. Beet: Me. Mutt: Me to. Too much. Alcohol sober since 2010 Beet: I actually like the taste. Cease: i arrived in japan on aug 16, 1971 and was odered to drink beer. not a fan, but it wss useful in combatting the heat Cease: sobriety will hsppen when i'm dead, not before, i suspect Tweeny: lol Tweeny: "You can have my glass of sangria when you take it from my cold, dead hands..." Mutt: I had little choice. A stroke made the decision for me. TBH, I feel it was a good choice for me. Cease: good for you, mutt' Tweeny: Mutt: Me to. Too much. Alcohol sober since 2010 <Cease: i feel like fucking hunter thompson, in my unrealistic capaciry to consume alcholoh for this lenghth of time Mutt: Doc told me he’d rather I smoke than drink, so … Beet: I became a huge fan of Sangria in Spain in 1972. Cease: me too, beet. Tweeny: I apparently didn't copy what I intended, Mutt :/ Tweeny: Mutt: Me to. Too much. Alcohol sober since 2010 << Good for you, Mutt :) Mutt: All good Tween Cease: laasrt trip there turned me on to Tinto Verano, which is red wine plus lemon soda, with a big ofrane wedge Beet: It's very deceptive. It'll get you drunk quick. Cease: orange Mutt: I want an ofrane wedge! Beet: Awonderful album. Cease: ask an alien Tweeny: catherwood, give Mutt an ofrane wedge ||||||||| Catherwood gives mutt an ofrane wedge. Mutt: Hooray! Tweeny: My FST favorite, Beet Cease: tis a wsonderful album Beet: Lots of laughs in this one. Cease: our forefathers took drugs! Mutt: I hold it with the first four. It’s realy those five. ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and DJTweeny bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Cease: well spott4ed, mutt Deputy Dang: This is certainly one of my favorites, but Bozos was my first, so it will always have a special place in my heart. Mutt: It’s as good as any of the first four and a terrific listen Beet: Bozos also my favorite. Cease: did i tell you my storfy about bozos, dsang? Cease: i was living at my boss's house in Hamatsu, Japan in 1971 A friend sent me the album. Deputy Dang: I don't remember hearing this story. Cease: REcporded it onto a cassette and then went to a closed zoo/park to listen to it on mh freiends' car cassette stereo Cease: a trip Cease: very very intense. there were a bunch of monkeys cavorting outwiee our csre while we listneed to this. very strange Beet: Was that your first Firesign, cease? Cease: carf Cease: car Cease: so addled as usual Mutt: A memorable experience Cease: no, i heard the mushroom shows anxd recorded them, beet. Cease: late 67 before their album Beet: Oh, yeah, cool. Cease: whne i heard them, i thought, i must meet them and do somethkng togeether. DJTweeny: Yeah, Cat goes back to the days when RFO was broadcasting in L.A., before they made their first album :) Cease: 30 years later, it came to pass. they starred in 3 of my plays. DJTweeny: a fan from the start Mutt: He’s been here since before the beginning Cease: lol Tweeny: Very cool that they wanted to appear in your plays, Cat :) ||||||||| llanwydd tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident." llanwydd: howdy folks DJTweeny: Hey llan Mutt: Creatively speaking, they have always seemed like generous souls to me Mutt: Hiya Llan! Beet: A very highly credentialed Firesign fan is our cease. llanwydd: for sure ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Duluth? Bucko, you can get Tierra del Fuego!" Cease: the llan man. Beet: Greetings, friend llan. Deputy Dang: If nobody has posted it yet, FST made a movie for this album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAcHfymgh4Y Cease: squeaking of duluth, i jusrt sent maria bamford the collsge i did about her in last week's chat collage Cease: i doubt she'll reply llanwydd: lol Cease: thanks for posting that, dang Mutt: Love that flick ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Ersatz Brothers Coffee, the REAL one!" Cease: welldone for tiny bread Mutt: It just works llanwydd: what flick were you speaking of? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I see your passport, please?" Cease: if someone had given the lads tons of money,what they could have done? Beet: Ilike when Happy asks, Is that you, Nino? Nino says, "Good question." Mutt: Llan: Everything you know is wrong ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What is reality?" Cease: i just noticed that llanwydd: I couldn't possibly say what my favorite movie is Mutt: FST or in general? llanwydd: I have seen EY''''''k'''''''i Cease: tis difficult, eh Cease: i'dsay Scroge from 1951, the blsack and white version. most beautiful movei i've ever seen llanwydd: or however itw spellled Cease: Papriko is the best move to see stoned. Cease: not seeing a movie stoned is not a good idea ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "More coffee, warden?" llanwydd: 1951? llanwydd: alastair Mutt: Sim llanwydd: sim? llanwydd: thanks mutt Cease: the year i was born. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_(1951_film) llanwydd: you seem to be having better luck with cannabis than I am with alcohol, cease Cease: i didnt see tv until i was 5. when i first saw it, it very scaary. llanwydd: tmi? sorry Cease: my lastg nmae Ishikwa is relavent. Ishi means stone and i'm often stoned. Kawa means river and i drink lke a river llanwydd: LOL Cat Beet: A classic movie. I might have to watch it again. Cease: I am very optinmist. DJTweeny: Confusus say, "Be like stone in a river, and you will drink." ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Not to be torturing me!" Beet: I have a softness for Chinese history and culture. Cease: R Crumbhunger Mutt: Lol ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Stop torturing me Ethyl!" Mutt: END OF FILM! Mutt: Catherwood give everybody a nice blue moss ||||||||| Catherwood brings everybody a nice blue moss. Cease: the great thing about Firesgin is thst there is no End. Cease: A mobius comedy as it were Mutt: That’s a terrific insight cease Cease: true Cease: i've spent a Large portion of mhy life listening to Cease: Fkireign and it obviously had an effedt Cease: i am plotting a trp to Istanbul in Octr. Had a great inflouence on Bergman Cease: Wil it have such an effecr on me? I seek to discover Beet: From my limited experience, Turks seem very friendly. Cease: i hope to find out. Problme is, thact oct is fsr from now. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Back from the Shadows again." Cease: I need rto learn some Turkish Mutt: I remember when Evel tried us jump across the Snake River Cease: it is a splendid gosl Mutt: Lemmings off a cliff ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 1:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| llanwydd - dead from the common cold ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Cease: by llan Beet: I guess if there's a Golden Staircase, you've got to get on it. Mutt: That coyote or wolf gets me like the sound of the ropes at the end of Bozos Beet: Great Cease: you'e either on the staircase or off the staircase Tweeny: So you guys like the sound of the new microphone? Cease: wonderful, tween Beet: Nice and clear. Mutt: Sounds great Tweeny: kewl :) Tweeny: True Confessions Of The Real World - https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-ln Tweeny: Great bits Mutt: Karl Rove looks like an amateur by today’s shenanigans Cease: true Beet: Karl was the Granddaddy of corruption. Cease: i know less of that Mutt: And Lee Atwater was his “uncle” Beet: absolutely Beet: Well, time to go. Enjoyed the offering this week. Nice to see al my FST buddies. Have a great weekend. See you all next week. G'Nite. Cease: by beet. glad to see you here Mutt: Be good Beet! Cease: tkis sounds too much like a bunch of bits to make a coherent album Mutt: Agreed. And a little too time specific Tweeny: It's not meant to be coherent, it's more like the All Theings Firesign (NPR broadcasts) CD Cease: indeed, tween ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's all this brou-ha-ha?" Mutt: Yup Tweeny: but yeah, you have to know what was going on politically at the time (GW Bush administration) Tweeny: young people would be scratching their heads :/ Cease: a hundred years from now, no one wil know who bush was Mutt: Lots of older folks, too Tweeny: one can hope ;) Cease: wewontbe alive Mutt: Theymight not be, either Tweeny: one of those "You had to be there" moments in history Cease: i'll be surprised to get to 80 Mutt: Yes. Mutt: To Tween, that is Cease: america has very little in the way of a political left Mutt: My sense is most folks in the US are somewhere near the center, whatever that is these days Mutt: The left of center is fragmented Mutt: The right of center is insane Cease: I live in vaguely socialistic bRitish Columbis. I was born in intenselly socialisty Saskatfchan Mutt: We all live in socialist countries to varying degrees. I don’t get hung up on labels. Cease: well spotted, mutt Mutt: When done wisely and well, everyone benefits. When done otherwise, it’s the old shell game Cease: true Cease: likie Scandinavia Mutt: They do it better than the US but it it far from what people think it is. They pay some really heavy taxes Cease: this is problem? you get what you pay for Mutt: That’s the hope. That’s one reason why I have stayed in Maryland - I pay a moderate amount but Mutt: I generally get what I expect Mutt: That could always change … ||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Deputy Dang, who then dashes out through the french doors and down through the brambles. Cease: I have been intensely studying Istanbul hotels and restsusnt and art galleries Cease: By dang Mutt: See ya Deputy Tweeny: Didn't know you were from Maryland, Mutt Tweeny: I grew up in a suburb of D.C. called Bowie Mutt: Not originally but for the past 50+ years Tweeny: My dad was a professor at GWU Mutt: Wiw. When was he at GW? Mutt: Wow Tweeny: Next time you get to the Eastern Shore, crack a crab for me :) Mutt: I grew up in silver spring Mutt: Will certainly do that Tween! Tweeny: nice, the first recording studio I worked at was in Silver Spring in 1976 Tweeny: Richard F. Ericson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Ericson Tweeny: me Dad Cease: I suspect the majoeiry of Firesign fans come from intellefctuslly chsallenging childhoods Mutt: If you were downtown I lived about a half mile away Cease: this is beautiful, pete Tweeny: I was born in Florida when he was working for Stetson University Cease: hats have their own university? Tweeny: Yeah Cat, FST fans sould have this CD in their collection Tweeny: only in Texas, Cat ;) Cease: lol Mutt: Holy crap, tween. I git my degree in econ. I read your dad’s cybernetics paper !!! Tweeny: Whoa... Cease: if i ever return to the ststes, there are things i'd love to do in Texas Tweeny: nice :) Tweeny: Yeah he was big time into cybernetics, managing director of the Society For General Systems Research Tweeny: I can't claim to understand any of it Mutt: I took classes involving organizational structure from an economic perspective. Cease: a modest proposal indeed Tweeny: Hope you do make it to Texas around Austin some time, Cat Cease: hope so too, tween. would love to meet you. hear onlhy good things about Austin Mutt: Austin would be the first place in Texas I would visit if the chance arose Tweeny: Lots of Californians have moved here Tweeny: including Musk, of course Cease: an old ffriend of mine went to univiersity in houston. said only good things about it Mutt: Musk you can keep XD Cease: i've hesrd good things about dalas too the site of the subgenius, which is kiind of a firesign offshoot Cease: had an amazingf piece of grouper with lime in the dalas airpott Tweeny: Teslas all overthe place, Mutt. Which I try to avoid since I ride a scooter ;) Mutt: I never got into the whole subgenius thing but some if it is funny Tweeny: and Waymo robot taxis, which I also try to stay away from Cease: yeah, it was only vaguely interesting Mutt:Tween, the teslas are EVERYWHERE here. It’s frightening. Tweeny: "OK, it's not _actual_ self-driving." heheh Cease: this is very funny Tweeny: Yeah, fun P&B album Cease: north van also has far too many teslas Mutt: There is NO cannibalism in the British Navy … And when I say none I mean there is a certain amount Cease: lol Cease: no is just a word in the dictionary Mutt: Define dictionary Cease: collecttion of words and their meanings Tweeny: Mutt: There is NO cannibalism in the British Navy … And when I say none I mean there is a certain amount << Very fun Python bit :) Mutt: Your comment re self driving brought it to mind Cease: i had a freind who lived in Idi's uganda. idi sould grass cigarettes. i acrualy smoked some Cease: shity person but good dope Mutt: I thought you meant ordinary grass Cease: lol Tweeny: So if Putin offered Ukraine free MJ, you'd be in favor of surrender? Cease: lol squared, tween
Tweeny P Tweeny: :P Cease: ukraine has the best soil in the world. it fan grow better dope than anywhere Cease: it can Mutt: Kviv Kush Cease: its pretty good hfre in BC Tweeny: That'd be wild. Ukraine being the world's largest produce of MJ. Cease: indeed, mutt Mutt: Rurik’s Rocker Cease: when the fucking war ends, i reallhy want to visit Ukraine Mutt: I hope there is someplace left to visit :( Cease: my idea is to work with othre Ukrianian playwrights to do interesting things. Cease: thre will be Mutt DJTweeny: Been fun folks, see you next time I have a Thursday off :) Cease: Great show, Tween Mutt: This was fun. Thanks Tween and Cease ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Mutt: G’nite all! ||||||||| Mutt leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Billville. ||||||||| DJTweeny leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Elmertown. ||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Tweeny by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door ||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from the yaws ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Cease - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Beet - 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: ||||||||| Art Holflaffer - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| 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."
