A Firesign Chat
08/15/2019




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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 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for August 15, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'DJTweeny', just granted probation at 6:37 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| DJTweeny says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, DJTweeny exits at 7:36 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers DJTweeny in through the front door at 7:37 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween enters at 7:37 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Chapeau Manger.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected)
128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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||||||||| "8:32 PM? 8:32 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Paisley Sunrise should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Paisley Sunrise enters and sits on the couch.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Ohh... It's Paisley
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Paisley
Rufus_T_Firetween: music coming up shortly
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Johan Amadeus Myjetski into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:34 PM, then departs.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yo Yohan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Coming up short on the music?!? Evenin’ all!
Paisley Sunrise: Oh, hi!
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Grateful Dead)
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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||||||||| Catherwood accompanies llanwydd in through the front door at 8:40 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
llanwydd: howdy
DJTweeny: Hi llan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Llan!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Music reminds me of the time I heard the Friends of Distinction in the Tomorrowland cafe at Walt Disney World
Rufus_T_Firetween: This is from the Terrapin Station album
DJTweeny: First time here, Paisley?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I like this album a lot, probably my fave Dead
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Who is this?
DJTweeny: Terrapin Station - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrapin_Station
DJTweeny: A lot of GD fans didn't like Keith Olson's use of orchestra on a Dead album, but I love it
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Didn’t know this one!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Estimated Prophet - that’s the business!
DJTweeny: Donna Jean Godchaux (wife of the keyboard player) singing on this one
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:55 PM and Cease steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hiccups in my wifi this evening- argh!
DJTweeny: ask and ye shall receive
DJTweeny: Hey Cease
Cease: Hi chatters
DJTweeny: ehhh sorry about your net Johan
DJTweeny: Solid here
Cease: My Outlet Express refuses to let me get email today.
DJTweeny: Outlook?
Cease: HOw does one correct that?
Cease: that's it.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Thanks!
Cease: On 2 computers
DJTweeny: Might have to talk to your service provider, Cat
DJTweeny: They may have changed something
Cease: bummer
||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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Cease: every wed night my computer refreshes, installs updates. so maybe some updsate last night did something eveil to Outlook
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Love that soprano sax solo!
DJTweeny: yeah Johan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : You know, Horn section is about as alien to GD as orchestra
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, August 15, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
DJTweeny: Pretty much
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
now playing: FIRESIGN THEATRE'S LAST CONCERT FOR KRLA LOS ANGELES
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out KRLA at >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRLA
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Cease: One of the things that repelled me about the Firesign in those days was all that astrology.
||||||||| 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 Beet disembarks at 9:02 PM.
Beet: Hello fellow Fireheads!
Cease: Hi Beet
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Is that big boxed FST dvd set still available?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hiyas, beet!
Beet: He said Full Moon and it's a Full Moon today!. Cosmic.
DJTweeny: Duke Of Madness Motors, Johan?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : AND Mercury emerged from retrograde!
Beet: Howdy Dr Tween, Dr Cease, Brother JAM.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : The with all the major FST albums in it
DJTweeny: I don't know about that one, Johan
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Cease: its 3 of their radio shows from that era.
Beet: This song held such great promise for a very cool movie. But unfortunately, no.
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
DJTweeny: Cease, do you know what he's referring to?
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'The Snook', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:05 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
DJTweeny: Hi Snook
The Snook: Greetings all! I finally got a Thursday night free.
Cease: what, tween?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Snook!
Beet: Hey, Snook
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'aleknight', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:06 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
Cease: Welcome, snook. ale
aleknight: Howdy hi hi.
DJTweeny: Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Is that big boxed FST dvd set still available? Johan Amadeus Myjetski : The with all the major FST albums in it
The Snook: Yo ho! Many thanks for the headsup and invite from Doc Tech. I've been running flat out since our show last June with David & Phil.
DJTweeny: Hi AK
DJTweeny: Snook, would you perchance be Richard Fish?
Beet: Hello ale
The Snook: Not such a hard guess, is it?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I got to talking with a stranger who was an FST fan, said there was a dvd set with the core 4 fst albums + several others
aleknight: Not I.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Ale!
Cease: HI Richard. Thanks for appearing in my play Red Shift long ago.
||||||||| 9:08 PM: Not Ed jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Cease: HI Not
Not Ed: Pork?
DJTweeny: allo Ed
Beet: Yo Not
aleknight: Happy hello all.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Not!
The Snook: THAT was a blast, Cease! We gotta find a way to do some more.
||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!"
Cease: Good Idea, Snook.
Not Ed: Beet n JAM n Tweener
The Snook: I have no idea who you mostly are and it makes, of course, no difference. MAKE AMERICA NOT INSANE AGAIN!
Not Ed: Cheers alek
Cease: Canada too.
DJTweeny: We need a baseball cap for that, Snook :)
Not Ed: Waz real TSnoo
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Well said that Snook!
Not Ed: Cease how r we?
The Snook: Yeah, but Canada will be easier. Fewer people, more bears.
Not Ed: Make America Groovy Again
Cease: I spent the day doing my favourite thing, taking pictures of reflections in downtown vancouver.
Not Ed: Legalize America!
Cease: also eating and drinking.
Not Ed: haha cool C
The Snook: The Make America Not Insane Again Campaign (MANIAC) needs YOU. Geroge Tirebiter is out to break Norman Thomas' record for unsuccessful candidacies.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Submit America for re-grooving
Not Ed: All power to nobody!
Cease: A real surrealist is ever not successful.
The Snook: Right arm. Out of state!
Not Ed: Snook!
Not Ed: indeed JAM
The Snook: Yo!
Not Ed: I didn't grow up with KRLA - KQRS in MPLS/StP
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Nor i, Not, in Birmingham & Augusta
Cease: on the canadian front, news today of trudeau's perfidity confirmed by ethics officer may doom canada to a more polite trump like right wing in upcoming election
llanwydd: dfrghyuiuhyg
Cease: hi llan
The Snook: Aha. Methinks the stearns takes a bow, Not Ed.
Cease: i did grow up with krla.
Not Ed: sorry to hear that Cease
Beet: Hi Llan.
Not Ed: I know U did fer sure
The Snook: A more polite Trump? Talk about damning someone with faint praise.
Not Ed: Hey llan
Cease: we are a polite country, snook
Not Ed: Snook ya
The Snook: True, Cease, especially by comparison with the neighbors - sort of like Flanders to Homer Simpson.
Cease: sort of
Beet: The broken president is now serving his second term.
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the New Live Concert Collection “FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD” at Firesign's new Download Store >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
Cease: good simpsons episode about canada.
Cease: lisa asked trudeau (really him) about the snc lavallin scandal and he ran away.
Not Ed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Be-In
Not Ed: tanx Rufus
The Snook: "On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." -- H.L. Mencken
DJTweeny: heh
Not Ed: infested u mean
The Snook: The power of prophecy. Don't forget to inflate your shoes.
Cease: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/D%27oh_Canada
Not Ed: Procephy?
Not Ed: told it like it is
The Snook: Prizzackly, Not Ed.
Cease: this is more than 50 years old and ossman sounds exactly as he does now
Cease: have you heard this, snook?
Not Ed violently agrees but lightly.
Cease: i heard this is when it was first broadcast, jan 68
The Snook: Not sure - was there a link that disappeard from my screen?
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone a prophecy
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a prophecy.
Not Ed: can I have a hit off your prophecy man?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : A martian astrologer is a great concept
The Snook: Ossman had the foresight to create a role he would only get better at.
Not Ed: lol it is
The Snook: Jovian astrology would be VERY complicated. Probably only be able to predict about five minutes ahead.
Not Ed: (to JAM)
llanwydd: have to head out for while. be back in a half hour or so.
Not Ed: toe jam
||||||||| llanwydd departs at 9:24 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
Cease: see you then, llan
Beet: See ya, Llan
The Snook: To the land of the Frogs?
Cease: well observed, snook
Rufus_T_Firetween: Looks like David has a new book coming out >> https://egressstudio.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/david-ossman-book-launch-party/
Cease: yes i saw thatr on facebook today
Not Ed: yes
Not Ed: great news - nice cover art too
Not Ed: flog the frog Snook?
||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!"
Cease: ad forgotten how much poetry they did on this show.
||||||||| Catherwood tosses another cheese log on the fire and intones, "If you want to keep the cornstarch off your mukluks this season, buy a hoodie or a sweatshirt at the Firesign corner Cafepress store."
Cease: poetry works much better on the radio than on the page.
Not Ed: yes hi Cat
The Snook: If anyone would like to hear David & Phil in the June show -- they did a new bit together, among other things -- it's up at http://wfhb.org/follies/firehouse-follies-fireheads-tales-june-2nd/
Cease: we're planning on playing it here, snook. if that's ok.
Cease: mixed with a new collage about Saskatchewan.
Not Ed: neato
The Snook: By all means! Share and Share alike -- More Sugar! Our Follies shows (since 2007) hit a bump in the road after the June show: our creator and producer, Mike Kelsey, suddenly passed away.
Cease: oh no!
Not Ed: the sugar must flow
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Lol, not!
The Snook: The whole gang stepped up and we're continuing. The next show is Sunday, August 25, 4-6 p.m. EDT.
||||||||| Catherwood tosses another cheese log on the fire and intones, "If you want to keep the cornstarch off your mukluks this season, buy a hoodie or a sweatshirt at the Firesign corner Cafepress store."
The Snook: We're stealing jokes from many sources, including Firesign you may be sure.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Tuning of the poet
The Snook: Having David & Phil here was a Master Class. Our rehearsals took twice as long, we kept laughing.
Cease: next week, the first broadcast of Life in the Day, performed by the lads at their last Magic Mushroom show, mixed with the KWKWT cut from Hour Hour 1970 east coast tour, as well as 2 Places and Dwarf, which arose from that original play
Cease: p[art 2 of this KRLA show.
The Snook: Wow C, fabulous stuff!
Beet: So many undiscovered (by some) jewels.
DJTweeny: kewl Cease
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I buried Paul
Cease: was he dead?
Beet: Those tusks get in the way.
The Snook: No, he was walking backwards in bear feet.
The Snook: But in Alabama the Tuscaloosa.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Firehouse Follies - https://wfhb.org/category/follies/
Beet: Just move them aside.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Supposedly, Paul died in a car wreck during the recording of Sgt Peppers, and got replaced with a look alike named Billy Shears
The Snook: Groucho's asides were the funniest.
Not Ed: god i love this song
Cease: that they were, snook
DJTweeny: One of The Beatles's best, for sure
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : How it got in my pajamas i’ll never know
Not Ed: for sure
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Absolutely
DJTweeny: fer suuure, dude
Not Ed: (major Lennon fan)
Not Ed: lol
Cease: from Rubber Soul to their last work, the Beatles created more good music than anyone.
Not Ed: truly C
The Snook: An astonishing four-way partnership. Two of them, actually.
Not Ed: i thought you typed Foam Rubber Soul haha
Cease: even their solo work was great. RAM is as good as much of Paul's Beatles songwritinhg.
Not Ed: i love RAM
Cease: Heard it on youtube, my reel copy has rotted away. should buy a CD
||||||||| The Snook says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, The Snook exits at 9:41 PM.
Beet: They're releasing the anniversary set of Abbey Road in a few months.
Not Ed: yeah my vynil got wasted by water & mildew
||||||||| snook waltzes in at 9:41 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : It’s hard to realize they were only together what, 10 years at most?
Cease: did any of you see the Lennon doc, Above us Only Sky, about the making of Imagine?
snook: Whoops. Clicked the wrong place.
Cease: By Snook. Come again.
Cease: Oh, welcome back.
Not Ed: no C I want to see it
Cease: it was on CBC here. great doc.
Not Ed: Hi-back Snoop I mean Snook
Cease: gives one much more respect for Yoko.
Not Ed: I'll keep a look out
Cease: it may be on netflicks.
Cease: maron talks about watching it and being profoundly influence by it. must have been on netflicks
Beet: A cameo by Mr Snook
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** “Fighting Clowns Of Hollywood: A Memoir” by David Ossman - http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman
Cease: interviewed sean lennon recently.
Cease: a must have book for all lovers of Firesign
Not Ed: Checked yes it is on Netflix thanks!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Dr. Happy Harry Cox says “I was right about the comet! Check out my new DVD set EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: THE DECLASSIFIED FIRESIGN THEATRE 1968-1975 before it’s too late!!” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
Not Ed: watchlisted
snook: All priceless material. Ossman is a great writer. Proctor can't help being funny - and taking pictures.
Cease: true, snook
Not Ed just ordered Dr. Firesign's Follies
Cease: Not Ed turned me on to a series about the 50s, so am working on collaging that.
Not Ed: xcellent C
Cease: should be in your eardrums here starting in sept.
Beet: Good news
snook: Craziness. I must withdraw for the nonce. My phone is making noises. There's a 42-page script to finish and....anyway, I will return in Future, once things subside to a dull roar.
||||||||| snook leaves at 9:58 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: hope to see you here again, snook
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net
Beet: Nice
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign’s live concert album from 1999
RADIO NOW LIVE! (Disc 1)
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out RADIO NOW LIVE! at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-rv
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: That girl is at least in college by now.
DJTweeny: Hard to believe it's been 20 years
Cease: thats 20 years ago
Cease: where i first met doc, fred, chris, airship al et al.
DJTweeny: nice
Cease: brian westley, tiny dr. tim, bunnyboy, etc.
DJTweeny: Must have been a great time
Cease: it was
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RADIO NOW LIVE!” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
Not Ed: love this
Not Ed: so much love to-night
DJTweeny: a wonderful live recording
Not Ed: yeah!
Cease: great to have richard fish here. a major ally of the lads
Not Ed: the dollar sank
Not Ed: hear hear
||||||||| 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 llanwydd plummets into the garden at 10:14 PM.
Cease: welcome back, llan
llanwydd: thanks
llanwydd: My gear shift got stuck in park this afternoon in a supermarket parking lot and so I went to google to find a fix
llanwydd: just got back from fixing it. quite easy actually
Beet: The case of the reappearing man.
llanwydd: my car is very, very old. 2005
llanwydd: seeing the name Panditt up there reminded me I was listening to ravi shankar on youtube yesterday and found that his title or nickname or something is Pandit.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Its very easy learn bilocation ask me how!
Cease: doesnt that mean teacher?
llanwydd: lol JAM
llanwydd: dont know, cat
Beet: More like scholar.
llanwydd: isnt that a pundit?
Cease: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pandit
llanwydd: what do I know?
llanwydd: thanks,cat
Cease: i think our modern english term pundit derives from pandit
Beet: Yup. Indians have different spellings for the same word.
llanwydd: aha! I get it now
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : It is an honorary title, it can mean instructor.
Cease: gag grass makes a great gift
Cease: the word sensei is like that in japanese.
llanwydd: is that a non-sequitur, cat
llanwydd: oh, yes I have heard the word sensei
Cease: just quoting bergman there. he always wants us to expand our brains.
llanwydd: lol
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Instructor. It’s a very endearing term, an honorary title
llanwydd: heard of sensei but not gag grass
Cease: i was a teacher so i was called sensei but so are doctors and other respected people
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Means instructor, an honorary title.
llanwydd: so is there a difference between a pandit and a guru?
llanwydd: sure there must be
llanwydd: Happy Pandit must be a flight instructor
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Guru is a spiritual teacher, pandit is an expert of any sort
Beet: Guru is spiritual experience guide. Pandits usually deal with nuts and bolts of tradition and scripture.
llanwydd: aha
Cease: david's parents used to live in india. he talks about it in his book.
Beet: JAM sounds like he knows stuff!
Cease: also in his recent autobiographical show.
Cease: around the electrician era, all the lads were way into doing indian voices.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I do beet, but i’m no pandit
Cease: i vaguely remember bergman having the maharishi on his show.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Talk about an unmeeting of minds...
Not Ed: punjabi power
Cease: that wouold be bergman's interview with andy warhol. who refused to talk
Cease: bergman thought he was a vampire.
Not Ed: what's he going to say lol
Beet: I would like to have heard that one.
Not Ed: i actually dig warhol - what he did for art
Not Ed: affected everything
Beet: Fascinating dude.
llanwydd: US Plus and its pork campaign reminds me of MORE SUGAR
Not Ed: pork?
llanwydd: somwhat like Shoes For Industry as well
llanwydd: we own the idea of Shoes
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone some shoes for industry
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone some shoes for industry.
llanwydd: thanks, cathy
Beet: lol
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I going to have to go, my wifi won’t stabilize. Next fireweek, fireheads!
llanwydd: nite JAM. good luck
Not Ed: later JAM
Not Ed: be groovy alwayz
Beet: Safe journey, Jam
Not Ed: double the now
Cease: by jammy
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : My wifi is hiccuping, so g’nite all, & thanks! Next fireweek!
Not Ed: your wife is hiccuping? well get her some water!
llanwydd: computer ameggedon!
Not Ed: lol llan
Not Ed: Dr Onan!
Not Ed: the ME century
llanwydd: Mindless Egotism, huh Jerry?
Not Ed: all you have to fear is me is disturbingly relevant again
Cease: true, not
Beet: President Me.
llanwydd: miss Shelob is from Lord of the Rings
llanwydd: giant spider if I remember right
Cease: yep
Not Ed: nasty STINGer
Cease: on one of the hour hour shows, bergman wonders why the elves didnt smoke
Not Ed: ha
Cease: only hobbits
Not Ed: indeed
llanwydd: nothing smokeable grows at the north pole
Not Ed: aragorn puffed from time to time
Not Ed: oh right llan
Beet: Are elves already high?
llanwydd: oh yes. Those elves
Cease: so did the wizards, but supposedly got it from the hobbits.
Not Ed: high elves....lol right
Not Ed: see the hobbits had the old toby
llanwydd: still trying to find out where middle earth is
Cease: mayb e they couldn't get higher with smoke
Not Ed: cbd but no thc?
Not Ed: dang
Cease: what disturbed me when i heard bergman say that, was, much as i loved the books, the elves are not real.
llanwydd: Portland!LOL
Cease: the idea that a fictional people doesn't do something is ridiculous.
Not Ed: they're not real??!!
Not Ed: dang
llanwydd: elves are real
llanwydd: anyone who calls himself an elf is an elf
Not Ed: next you're going to tell us the Easter Moose isn't either
llanwydd: or herself
llanwydd: hers elf
Not Ed: yeah an elf is and elf and that's what it elf
Not Ed: er
llanwydd: haha
Not Ed: hers elf right
Not Ed: mice elf
llanwydd: lol
Not Ed: they snatched my axe hahaha love that
llanwydd: like daffy duck was just a drawing
Not Ed: this is so hot, Tweenman
Not Ed: yeah llan
llanwydd: I remember I was in a pizzeria that stayed open past midnight on the eve of y2k
Rufus_T_Firetween: Great material :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RADIO NOW LIVE!” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
llanwydd: you so smaht
Not Ed: haha
Not Ed: truly RufTF
llanwydd: wonder if you can still say the g word these days
llanwydd: k-k-k-k
Not Ed: context - audience - environ.....
Not Ed: it can be used
||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! **
Thanks to Radio Free Dishnuts, www.dishnuts.net, for providing the streaming server for the simulcast :)
Be sure to join me (Kurt in Austin) for my live RADIO FREE ROADKILL show from 7-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net
Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign
'
llanwydd: right ed
Not Ed: Awesome thanks Tweenerino
Cease: that was wonderful.
llanwydd: thanks, tween
Not Ed: Good to see you all!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Part 2 of the KRLA show next week
Beet: This was a good one. Thanks to all. Looking forward to new collages, Dr. Cease. Thanks as always, Dr Tween. G'Nite.
Not Ed: ty Rufus
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Not Ed: ty Merle & Dish
Not Ed: oops!
llanwydd: see yall next thirsty
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
||||||||| llanwydd says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, llanwydd exits at 10:57 PM.
||||||||| Cease leaves at 10:57 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..."
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| aleknight - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| It's 12:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 12:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Paisley Sunrise - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 12:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from measles
||||||||| 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 4:32 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:
aleknight
Beet
Cease
DJTweeny
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
llanwydd
Not Ed
Paisley Sunrise
Rufus_T_Firetween
snook
The Snook
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://wfhb.org/follies/firehouse-follies-fireheads-tales-june-2nd/
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-rv
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
https://egressstudio.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/david-ossman-book-launch-party/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Be-In
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRLA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrapin_Station
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/D%27oh_Canada
https://wfhb.org/category/follies/
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pandit



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