A Firesign Chat
02/17/2022




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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 17, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Outside, the 3:00 PM uptown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Rufus_T_Firetween coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Mutt in through the front door at 3:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Mutt - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| 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 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 4:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 3:00 PM: Rufus_T_Firetween jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "3:00 PM and late as usual, it's Zip, just back from Elmertown."
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "3:00 PM and late as usual, it's JZip, just back from Elmertown."
||||||||| 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
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Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Zip
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – FRANK ZAPPA-FREAK OUT!
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
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JZip waves
JZip: I was in a band named Hungry Freaks, Daddy, in the late eighties.
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and announces "Announcing 'DJTweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 3:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
||||||||| Zen Cosmos enters at 3:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Chapeau Manger.
DJTweeny: Hi Zen
||||||||| Outside, the 3:00 PM bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Cease coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJTweeny: allo Cease
Cease: This album had a big influnece on David Ossman in the Electrcian era
||||||||| Catherwood enters with jo close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 3:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the sitting room.
Cease: i read dial up users as drug users
DJTweeny: I can believe that
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski sneaks in around 3:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: but that's just me
DJTweeny: Hi jo
Cease: hi jo
DJTweeny: Hi johan
Cease: i'm not a big fan of sobrriety
Cease: who are the brain police?
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi great to hear early FZ!
Cease: zappa made enough money to live in a big house and drice a rolls. he has nothign to complain about
Cease: neighbour of phil austin
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Deputy Dang close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 3:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the sitting room.
JZip: This record was my first sustained encounter with really outside music.
Cease: hi dang
DJTweeny: Deputy Dang Has Many Friends
johan amadeus myjetski: btw "I" was "jo" due to an inadvertant premature mouseclick
Deputy Dang: Howdy CAT!
Cease: outside is good
Deputy Dang: wHAT??? I thought i heard Deoputy danhg has no friends.
Cease: hi afgain jammy
Deputy Dang: (I apologize for the keyboard fuckjery--I'm not drunk090just not sitting at a reasonable angle for typing.)
johan amadeus myjetski: Zip - i encountered this album at the tender age of 12
johan amadeus myjetski: HI CAT!
Cease: i only drift in and out of stuff
Cease: a gril i was in love with in 1966 turned me on to this album
JZip: I was in junior high--I'm not sure what year.
Deputy Dang: That's called the diurnal cycle, Cease!
Cease: that was so long ago i dont know if she's still alive
johan amadeus myjetski: "hi folks i'm jimmy carl black - i'm the indian of the group..."
JZip: My cousin that played this for me is only recently deceased.
Deputy Dang: I have thoughts like that several times in a week.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Beet inside, makes a note of the time (3:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Beet: Just thought I would drop in and say hello. Hello.
johan amadeus myjetski: hi beet!
Cease: hi beet
Beet: HelloMr JAM
Deputy Dang: Awright Beet!
Beet: Howdy Dr Cease.
Cease: hello is better than jello
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
Beet: Hey, Deputy.
Beet: Yo Dr Tween
johan amadeus myjetski: or yello
Deputy Dang: Howdy Beet! And JetSki and Tweent! and Cease of course, but I think I already.
Beet: I am looking forward to relaxing into some wonderful Firesign tonight.
Cease: this is very 50s early 60s music eh
Deputy Dang: Idk JZip, or ZC or Z by name. Or by deed, now that I think about it.
Rufus_T_Firetween: great parody
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
JZip: I'm an infrequent visitor indeed.
||||||||| 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
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Cease: the gril i was ij love with wanted to be wowie zowie
Cease: i ope she made it
Cease: hi zip
Beet: Hello JZip
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
Cease: come whenever you can. we're always here
Cease: or at least some of us are
johan amadeus myjetski: JZip - what's it like visiting the infrequents?
Cease: having a flash in the afternoon is a good idew
JZip: Well, their decor is sparse. And they take a long time between courses at dinner. That said, they don't expect you to invite them to your place for a long time.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, February 17, 2022 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
johan amadeus myjetski: LOL!
Cease: lol
Deputy Dang: I just realized the reason for my fu-typing... it means the Ambeans are kicking in.
Cease: we barely exist. joih us whlie we do
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: drugs are good
johan amadeus myjetski: yes cease ":we are so lightly here" as leonard cohen put it
Deputy Dang: Don't bounce my balls on the street!
Cease: teh tween voice
Cease: geh voice of austin
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre's IN THE NEXT WORLD YOU'RE ON YOU'RE OWN
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out NEXT WORLD at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-rv
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Cease: get intto some serious fiesign tonight, folks
Deputy Dang: Have I mentioned how easy it is to grow mushrooms? Ask if you're interested.
johan amadeus myjetski: fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumby night...
johan amadeus myjetski: bumpy
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre's IN THE NEXT WORLD YOU'RE ON YOU'RE OWN
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out NEXT WORLD at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-rv
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Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about IN THE NEXT WORLD YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-ln
Cease: mushrooms are good
Cease: bumps are good
Zen Cosmos: selfish ask- could you provide the exact daylight savings quote, please?
Rufus_T_Firetween: catherwood, please give us the correct time
||||||||| Catherwood gets us the correct time.
Rufus_T_Firetween: catherwood, what time is it?
||||||||| Catherwood says "It's precisely 3:00 PM!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: oops
Zen Cosmos: no, guys, the actual David Ossman quote at the show's beginning
Rufus_T_Firetween: "The correct Naval Observatory Time is 10am"
Zen Cosmos: yes, but the rest, too...
johan amadeus myjetski: not the only FST quote that was never an FST quote...
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's at the beginning of their soap opera parody 'Over The Edge' on the Pink Hotel Burns Down album
Cease: i really really realy hate soaps
Rufus_T_Firetween: That's the opening line from that skit, which I use to open the show
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Zen Cosmos: thanks I could look it up but please type it out if can...
Zen Cosmos: is this it??? -- brought to you by Daylight Savings, the largest purveyor of time, reminding you that no time is entirely free"
johan amadeus myjetski: well, if you hate 'em, cease, we might as well make fun of 'em
johan amadeus myjetski: i thought it was ';no minute is entirely free.."
Cease: that's an idea, jam
Rufus_T_Firetween: 'reminding you that no minute in entirely free...'
Zen Cosmos: THANKS, spaceba, tovarich...
||||||||| 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 llanddfyl gets out at 3:00 PM.
llanddfyl: good evening
DJTweeny: Hey llan
johan amadeus myjetski: damke! Zen!
Cease: hi llA
johan amadeus myjetski: hi llan!
Beet: Hi Llan.
Cease: hi llan
johan amadeus myjetski: danke. whatzit with the keyboard tonight?
llanddfyl: what music did I miss tonight tween?
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'OutOfWine', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 3:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
johan amadeus myjetski: be right back.......
OutOfWine: hello
Cease: winey
llanddfyl: Ii OOW
llanddfyl: I mean hi
Beet: Hey OutOfWine
||||||||| 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."
OutOfWine: I'd just as soon you call me Roger
llanddfyl: roger that
OutOfWine: But everyone knew me as Nancy, yeah, there's that ...
DJTweeny: Welcome Wine
OutOfWine: When 714 was a thing ... "Just the fax, ma'am!" "What's a fax? This is 1968!"
llanddfyl: what time is it catherwood?
||||||||| Catherwood says "It's exactly 3:00 PM!"
llanddfyl: thanks cathy
Deputy Dang: when???
llanddfyl: It was actually 920 when I asked that question so it must be time for a late party
Beet: Cather is very accommodating.
llanddfyl: yes
OutOfWine: "It's 9:20 somewhere!" -- Tommy Chong, five hours late
||||||||| 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 Lulu falls out at 3:00 PM.
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Lulu!
OutOfWine: Hello Lulu. Have a free groat cluster!
Lulu: Greetings Earthlings presumably
johan amadeus myjetski: i'm an earthoid myself...
OutOfWine: <<< is working as hard as he can go get off-planet.
Lulu: Thanks OutOfWine, but I'm pickin chicken
Cease: i try not to be out of wine
johan amadeus myjetski: at a boy outta wine!
llanddfyl: very true OOW
OutOfWine: Well, ain't that pluckin' good?
johan amadeus myjetski: is that another chicken joke?!?
Lulu: Someone already plucked it up good.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Lulu
OutOfWine: Radio was so 20th man. It's all wireless now!
Lulu: Yo Rufus
OutOfWine: And wireless is so much better than radio because you have to pay for it!
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Lulu: And there's harder work and more of it.
DJTweeny: Good point, WIne :)
||||||||| "Happy" Harry Cox pops in and say "I was right! Everything I knew WAS wrong! You CAN get "Profiles in Barbecue Sauce", chock full of meaty Firesign scripts!"
DJTweeny: *Wine
OutOfWine: **Whyne?**
Cease: For a Canadian
Beet: Hi Lulu
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
DJTweeny: Why Whine?
||||||||| At 3:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, JZip!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Lulu: How you doing Beet!
DJTweeny: lol @ Billy Jack dog food
llanddfyl: hey Zip
OutOfWine: Sounds like ah ... like ahh ... like a Kenn-ahhh-deee ....
llanddfyl: or is he going out?
OutOfWine: "That woman is trying to kill me!"
||||||||| 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!"
johan amadeus myjetski: and a little like woody allen
Beet: OK, Lulu. Thanks for asking.
Cease: Hey Lulu'
Lulu: Whazzup Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Dr. Happy Harry Cox says “I was right about the comet! Check out my new video DVD set EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: THE DECLASSIFIED FIRESIGN THEATRE 1968-1975 before it’s too late!!” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!"
DJTweeny: I'm thinking Woody Allen, johan
johan amadeus myjetski: WA was known to 'powder in nose' backstage from time to time
||||||||| "Hey Cease!" ... Cease turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 3:00 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| Cat steals in around 3:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
OutOfWine: Yeah, I agree. They popped up a little Woody on us!
Cat: never likeed tihs album. but so what
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
johan amadeus myjetski: welcome cat!
OutOfWine: You never know when that Woody will poke his way right in there!
Rufus_T_Firetween: It has its moments Cat
johan amadeus myjetski: cat this album does seem a little darker than other FST albums
Cat: tes
Cat: yes kind of a bummer all through. but
Cat: thart'
Cat: what they wanted. it was a dark time then, eh?
Lulu: Seems like I went to the 24 hour FT channel and it was closed.
johan amadeus myjetski: that was my thought
Cat: bumer about that lulu
Cat: i was a big part of that. it's gone now, alas.
johan amadeus myjetski: certainly not a rosy view of a hopeful future
Cat: but i'm still sort of alivve so
Lulu: No prob, I just saw the promo.
Cat: ossman said this was a vrewy dark view of the times
Zen Cosmos: i'm not lurking or ghosting, I prefer to listen/read not talk /type...
Lulu: That's nothing compared to these times.
||||||||| 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!"
Cat: this is a bummer about a bummer
johan amadeus myjetski: nothing wrong with that, Zen
Cat: yeah lulu. but we were a diffrerent age then
Cat: ok zen
Cat: we;re not charging for appearance here, unlike some sites
johan amadeus myjetski: my prog band was breaking up when this came out
Lulu: This was in the 70s?
Lulu: So was mine, johan
johan amadeus myjetski: 76 - ish?
Rufus_T_Firetween: 1975
Lulu: No, in78 I think
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about IN THE NEXT WORLD YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-ln
Rufus_T_Firetween: "WRITTEN AND PRODUCED (On location in the Hellmouth Valley Recreational Basin, and at Burbank Studios, Winter 1975) by PHIL AUSTIN & DAVID OSSMAN"
Cat: the great thing avbout the firesign is that tghey never stopped producing
Lulu: Remember PJ Probys big hit?
Cat: i always drink wine. its bettre than smoking it
Rufus_T_Firetween: I do not
Lulu: Didn't Proby write Eve Of Destruction?
johan amadeus myjetski: p j probys? my brain's not making the connection...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Well Cat, you can always put wine in your bong :P
Cat: you're too straight for us, tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
Cat: mahybe yes,maybe no
Cat: hey lulu
Lulu: Hey Cat
johan amadeus myjetski: you don't want to put wine in the bong, we put a dozen 4-way hits in the wine...
Lulu: Well don't bogart that bong.
||||||||| It's 9:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Zip - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 3:00 PM and Cease steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cease: Hey Lu and you too Lu
Cease: Dont overestimate,etc
||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!"
johan amadeus myjetski: we were outside looking in the whole weekend, driving from memphis to austin
Cease: we do what we can, as it were
Rufus_T_Firetween: sounds like quite a 'trip' there, johan
Cease: memphis is a city ih egypt
Cease: i am still wondering if i shold go to egypt or not
johan amadeus myjetski: memphis = home elvis & the ancient greeks...
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from Firesign Theatre's LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - “A SHADOW MOVES UPON THE LAND”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out THE MUSHROOM PLAYS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio
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Cease: i've wanted to go there sine 1950 but,uh
Lulu: No, I was wrong, that was PJ Sloan.
Cease: PJ dude just died. bummer
Lulu: PJ Proby did The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.
Cease: Hunter Thompson friend
johan amadeus myjetski: i hear tourists in egypt suffer a lot of dysintery (sp?)
Cease: lots of pyjamas
Cease: i am i loove with your vast knowledge of old stuff, lulu
Cease: so that's a thing
Lulu: Don't recall Thompson's friend PJ
Cease: dead indians
johan amadeus myjetski: good indians?
Cease: hyes he was in a bunch of flicks about hunter
Lulu: This is pretty dark too.
Cease: pj o rourke.
Lulu: Oh sure, the actor?
Cease: i think they were both at roling stoen
Beet: author
Cease: no, writer
Lulu: Oops thats somebody else.
Cease: ok
Lulu: I was thinking od Nick Nolte.
Cease: you are alllowde to make mistakes
Lulu: Free association anyone?
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Cease: hmm, this is an interesting version of tihs
Cease: maybe my favourite fireisign pieece
Lulu: Free association is guaranteed in the 1st amendment
Lulu: Stop me, I'm off my meds.
johan amadeus myjetski: cherish is a word my association sings
Cease: i live in a difrferent country, lulu
Cease: good group
johan amadeus myjetski: the past is a different country, cease...
Cease: yah tha happens
Rufus_T_Firetween: Lulu: Free association is guaranteed in the 1st amendment << Why, yes it is :)
Cease: i live in canada. actualy a difrferent county
johan amadeus myjetski: yep past happens ;-)
||||||||| 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!"
Lulu: I thought the present country is different.
Cease: wew dont have ammendments in canada
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: it is a diferent country, eh
||||||||| It's 10:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| OutOfWine - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Justin's got his hands full these days
Cease: jam, sounds like faulkner about the past. its still not the past, at least where he lived
johan amadeus myjetski: i lived in a little town in north mississippi for many years, where as it happens, wm. faulkner died.
Lulu: Where he lived they set broken legs in cement.
Beet: Past lives matter.
johan amadeus myjetski: right on, beet!
johan amadeus myjetski: hi budddy hi, howdyya do, & while we're on the subject...
Cat: did you like living in miss, jam?
Cat: i try and never leave north vancouver
johan amadeus myjetski: it was close to memphis, but no, not really enjoyable living there
Cat: i ive here cuz i prefer ilvling here to other places
Cat: lived in maybe 20 other towns. this is best i think.
johan amadeus myjetski: i am now livinf in the mountains of western NC. it's beautiful, isolated quiet. i'm here also because i want to be here more than anywhere else
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show. If you'd like to make a small contribution to help with the server fees, there's a PayPal link to donate here >> http://dishnuts.net
Beet: good one
johan amadeus myjetski: no, broken stations!
Cat: when my daughter was killed in 1998, my wife and i thoughjt, at least she grew up in a beatufiul place. if that's a thing for ou
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
PEACE PIPE
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out Cat's Collages at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/
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Cat: thanks tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: yw
johan amadeus myjetski: it is indeed a thing, a good thing! to paraphrase Gandalf, what we do & experience in the4 time we have, is important.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Funny, I was just watching LOTR Part 1 yesterday
johan amadeus myjetski: to provide that much beauty for another soul is a loving thing to have done
Rufus_T_Firetween: and I thought that was a great line
||||||||| It's 10:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cat: HOw many part are there? I ve read the books moe than 30 times
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
Cat: bury that hatchet
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
GERONIMO SPOILSPORT
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out Cat's Collages at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/
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Cat: geronimo, eh
Lulu: Still playing Magic Mushroom show?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “Geronimo Spoilsport” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
johan amadeus myjetski: moe said that, & Curly put his hands on top of his head & said 'oh no, not that!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: No, these are Cat Collages
Lulu: Or is this a collage?
Rufus_T_Firetween: after this will be another Mushroom broadcast
Rufus_T_Firetween: see the banner at the top of the screen Lulu
Lulu: Nice song.
Cat: hey
||||||||| Cat leaves at 3:00 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..."
Rufus_T_Firetween: Michael Martin Murphy has made some great somgs
||||||||| Catherwood leads Cease into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, grumbles something about 3:00 PM, then departs.
Rufus_T_Firetween: some songs too
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Cease
Cease: ijndeed, tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Cease: i seem to floart in and out
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/
Cease: juist like reality
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S VIDEOS at >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
Cease: not a problem
johan amadeus myjetski: sounds like shawn phillips
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Beet: This one's cool
Cease: yep
johan amadeus myjetski: bonzos!
Cease: now, bonzos
Cease: it is a collafe, eh?
Cease: lots of stuff
johan amadeus myjetski: shawn phillips actually came to hear me play in memphis in the mid 90s
Cease: stuff gets miixed with other stuff
Lulu: I keep losing connection. Grr.
Cease: good for you, jammy
Cease: by lovely lulu
Lulu: It's back.
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
johan amadeus myjetski: had a nice conversation with him
Cease: my conscousness only drifts in and out
Cease: intoxicanfrs are possibly connected with that
johan amadeus myjetski: you gotta make the journey, out & in, out & in...
Cease: we do what we can
Cease: well, maybe, jammy
Cease: like the guy says, it's all a ride
johan amadeus myjetski: i may losose my connection myself, so i'll say bye & THANKS to tween, cease, & all the chatters! Thank youiu all!
Cease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER6uv2xtuCg
Rufus_T_Firetween: Be well and we'll see you next week johan...
||||||||| Lulu runs out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Lulu?! It's 3:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Cease: by jammy
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Lili close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 3:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the anteroom.
Cease: we love having you here
Rufus_T_Firetween: wb Lili
||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!"
Lili: Thx Rufus
Cease: we adore having you here too, lilil
johan amadeus myjetski: love love love to all!
Beet: See ya Mr JAM>
Lili: This sounds a lil like Neil Young.
Cease: as it were
Lili: But yeah its Michael Murphy
Rufus_T_Firetween: Michael Martin Murphy
Lili: I was in high school.
Rufus_T_Firetween: same guy who had the hit Wildfire back in the day
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from Firesign Theatre's LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - “FREEK FOR A WEEK”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out THE MUSHROOM PLAYS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio
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Beet: Good stuff
Cease: i was in high school. not high but
Cease: yeah good tune, that
Cease: hitrs are good in the sense that we continue to hear them
Rufus_T_Firetween: some hits are better than others
Cease: at best, one is always high, and always in school, ie learning stuff
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - THE FIRESIGN THEATRE LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - Paperback Book + DVD-ROM Disc >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
Cease: id li,e an orange. or the sun
Lili: No ego was actually killed during the making of this show, was there?
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol Lili
Cease: Lol, Lulu
Rufus_T_Firetween: as safe as chinchillas, Lili
||||||||| 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.net/firesign
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Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm going to do a show next Tuesday, honest ;)
Cease: we can chanfge the worlld
Cease: roach holders for everyone
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
Cease: ok,tween i'll try and show p
Cease: we do what we can
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Beet: This was fun. Thanks everyone. Thanks Cease for the collages. Thanks Tween for dj'ing. G'Nite.
||||||||| At 3:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Lili!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
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 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from jaundice
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Beet - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| jo - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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 12:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanddfyl - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 3:00 PM and johan amadeus myjetski waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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
Cat
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
JZip
Lili
llanddfyl
Lulu
OutOfWine
Rufus_T_Firetween
Zen Cosmos
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
http://kurtericson.net/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-ln
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-rv
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
http://www.seemreal.com
https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER6uv2xtuCg



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