||||||||| 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 September 25, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging Tweeny by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?" ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: THE HISTORY OF PROCTOR & BERGMAN https://www.firezine.net/issue5/fz5_09.htm plus from LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM “Tile It Like It Is” https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc a new Cat Collage “Tennessee Studio” and a Nick Danger story “Down Under Danger” https://firezine.net/issue4/fz4_11a.htm 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' ||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Tweeny!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on... ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, September 25, 2025 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" -- then he looks around at the empty room, looks at his watch, and mumbles "...am I early?" ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Tweeny waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. ||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM uptown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Mutt coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. Mutt: Id ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Decode your answer now." ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Deputy Dang, just back from Funfun Town." Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt! Tweeny: Hey Dang, Mutt Mutt: Is this ‘icrophone ‘orking? Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny! Mutt: Hiya DD and Tween ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Everyone knew her as Nancy." Tweeny: Catherwood, please get The Electrician for Mutt ||||||||| Catherwood gets the electrician for mutt. Mutt: Ah! My iron lung is working again … thanks Tween! ||||||||| DJTweeny steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. ||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Deputy Dang by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door ||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving cease coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. DJTweeny: allo cease Mutt: El gato! ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. cease: cest moi cease: i r writer ||||||||| Beet sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident." Beet: Howdy, Friends. Mutt: Hey beet! cease: hi beet cease: the tween voice Beet: Hi, Mutt, cease, Tweeny. cease: oh no. this isn't the right show, tween DJTweeny: OOOPS, wrong show :/ DJTweeny: Will text Pat Mutt: ¿Por qué el pájaro papilla pone sus huevos en el aire? Beet: No se. DJTweeny: Waiting for a reply from the program director (or somebody like him)... Mutt: Mire y escuche antes de cruzando la calle! Beet: bueno Mutt: El director del progamma es sus amigo! cease: last year, in spain and santa fe, i heard a lot of spanish, and understood little. same here DJTweeny: Still haven't heard back yet, but if you want to listen to tonight's show go to www.kurtericson.net/firesign Mutt: Just don’t follow the balls when they make the street ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Not Ed, just back from Billville." Mutt: No worries Tween DJTweeny: Hi Ed Not Ed:Tweeny, Mutt, cease, Beet waz real Beet: Hi, Not. Mutt: The last reel … of this vintage chatroom. DJTweeny: What's play on RFD is last week's show. If you want to listen to tonight's show while we're waiting for RFD to correct, go to http://www.kurtericson.net/firesign DJTweeny: OK, the correct show is playing now :) Mutt: I have dogs sleeping on me and no headphones so my sound is MOS (mit out sound) Mutt: Trying to flag down the spouse to get me my earphones. Success. cease: at last. Beet: congratulations Mutt: Sounds great Mutt: That is a fascinating idea. That the audience thought Phil and David were up there, too. ||||||||| llanwydd12@gmail.com enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Hat Pack Annex. cease: true cease: hi llan Mutt: The Man from L.L.A.N. How you feeling? DJTweeny: Hey Llan, how's the bod treating you? Beet: Greetings, llan. How are you? ||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Not Ed - dead from jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Mutt: That’s a great story Beet: Sorry to see Not Ed go. Mutt: We’re dropping like flies cease: some of us are still flying Beet: buzzing Mutt: No offense intended! Mutt: Not to be torturing me! cease: you know the tim buckly song Buzzing Fly? great tune Beet: I'm picking up a visitor from Japan tomorrow at Dulles airport. Mutt: I do not ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I think we're all Bozos on this bus." cease: i lived in japan for a long time. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Close the door, and the light stays on!" cease: must be on youtube Beet: That's why I wanted to tell you. cease: proc is summing up his career beautfiullyl here ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Inferior people should not be employed." Beet: Maverick artists indeed. Mutt: You in Virginia, Beet? Beet: West Virginia. Mutt: Close enough Beet: A town called Romney. Mutt: I know it. I’m originally from Pittsburgh but last several decades in Maryland Beet: Nice little place. Mutt: It is Beet: So, you've been through here? Mutt: Yup Beet: Cool! cease: This is my recording, xmas eve, 1967 DJTweeny: Mutt, you know where Bowie, MD is? Mutt:Tween, I worked in Upper Marlboro for almost 40 years. Bowie! DJTweeny: Wow :) I grew up in Bowie, and took piano lessons in Upper Marlboro Beet: My V A health clinic is in Cumberland. DJTweeny: Lived there from 1962 to 1981 Mutt: Beet, came thriugh Romney many times on my eay to Oakland and Morgantown Mutt: Whereabouts in Bowie? DJTweeny: Did you get over to the Eastern Shore much? We often to went to the crab houses there Mutt: You were the early settlers! Beet: Maybe we could meet up sometime. Mutt: I still go to the Eastern shore a few times a year. Not as much as I used to.. DJTweeny:https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/12613-Bunting-Ln-Bowie-MD-20715/37404236_zpid/ DJTweeny: It was a new Leavitt house community in 1962, made from carving up a famous horse farm called Belair, where Man Of War came from DJTweeny: The mansion was turned into a city hall, and the stables became a museum Beet: Nice looking home. DJTweeny: but that was a very long time ago, no idea what it's like now Mutt:Tween, I know where you lived. Near Jerry’s seafood! Mutt: Belair Mansion is still up. It is used for a lot of events. Been to a few when I was a working stiff DJTweeny: Back in the 60s and 70s, we went to Robertson's Crab House - https://www.yelp.com/biz/robertsons-crab-house-newburg DJTweeny: Nothing like cracking fresh boiled crabs right off the dock Mutt: Much is the same but a lot has changed. That area is ok DJTweeny: I went to a couple of what they called 'crab houses' in Austin and Corpus Christi, TX, and was hugely disapponted Mutt: That’s way down on Pope’s creek in Charles County. A long drive from me! ||||||||| 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.. cease: crab with melted butter and squeezed lime Beet: I had that experience once in a crab shack. Amazing and delicious. DJTweeny: Mutt: That’s way down on Pope’s creek in Charles County. A long drive from me! << Yeah, it was a day trip for sure, but worth it for 'fresh off the dock' crabs Mutt: Blue crab with J.O. Seasoning 1 and 2 Beet: Everyone had wooden hammers on wooden tables an making a huge, joyous racket. Mutt: Lump blue crab in butter is heaven on Earth Beet: You guys are making me hungry. Mutt: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 DJTweeny: Let's Eat! Mutt: There is a place about 10 miles from me that makes, I kid you not, half-pound crab cakes DJTweeny: Yipes! cease: Oh Don! Mutt: Broiled with almost zero filler. They use the whole crab basically to hold the damn thing together. cease: I had Proc do the same line in Neal Amid. DJTweeny: That's wild, Mutt. Have you had soft-shell crabs? cease: When I met Harry Shearer and told him Proc was playing Benny in my play, Harry said he could do a bettr Benny. cease: I said, yeah, but I cease: i"d have to PAY you. Mutt:Tween, yes. TBHnot really my thing but yes. DJTweeny: I still think Shearer should get together with the remaininf members of FST cease: nah DJTweeny: Bet thy could make some very fun stuff together Mutt:https://gandmcrabcakes.com/ DJTweeny: He was so good in How TIme Flys cease: harry is busy promoting new flick and endless other stuff. can't see him getting togther with oxxman and or proctor DJTweeny: Yum Yum, Mutt Mutt: They are amazing crabcakes. Beet: OK, that time sgain. Gotta go. This was fun. Hope everyone has a great weekend. See you next Thursday. G'Nite. DJTweeny: pricey, but I'll bet delicious Mutt: Nite bEet! cease: stay well, beet ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You can wait here in the sitting room, or you can sit here in the waiting room." DJTweeny: Have a great week, Beet ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What about my pickle?" Mutt: Pricey and not something that you would want to eat regularly. DJTweeny: BTW folks, Pat will let the show play after the normal end of the show until it's finished, so stay tuned Mutt: But theseafood here is pretty good in general ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Not to be torturing me!" cease: great. Mutt: Thanks Pat! cease: first heard this song from the circle be unbroken album. 73? Mutt: Timeless album Mutt: Had a friend and we used to get stoned and listen to it over and over cease: love history songs,or history-approximate like this. cease: acadian driftwood my fsve band song. Mutt: Is anyone from the band still with us? Robbie? cease: no they're all dead Mutt: Thought so. The Ramones, too, at least the originals. cease: robbie made a great auto-biopic. you should check it out Mutt: Once Were Brothers? cease: yes Mutt: It was very good cease: new bio of richard manuel. heard author on the radio recently. Mutt: I had heatd something about the Manuel book either coming out or being out, something about harth, too. Mutt: Garth cease: remember the scene in Zabriskie point when the women is driving into the desert and the song sweeps on ? cease: briliant shot Mutt: Yes Mutt: And yes ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It goes in - it must come out." cease: can't heqr that song without thinking of that scene cease: i played this song on my appearance no japanese radio in 1975. Mutt: No Japanese Radio! cease: required listening to japaneee students. show called English Hour, though it was nlyh 30 min. cease: one of my fave dylan tunes Mutt: What is Glutamoto, horror of Toyko, compared to the total fiendish quality a you brain? Mutt: Have you ever seen Dylan? cease: did you see the new dylan biopic? Mutt: No cease: yes, in seattle, with the band in early 74 Mutt: Cool Mutt: Was he goid that night or awful? Mutt: Good cease: song selection sucked, but the tunes i liked were really good. band really rocked. Mutt: My experience with bob is that he is very uneven cease: very ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Deputy Dan has no friends." cease: the Circle version of this song didn't have that verse about indians. also he said, "whooped her pa" as i recall ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I take your hat and goat?" cease: prefer thst one but wanted to use that indian verse Mutt: I saw him several times up till about 1990s. Saw him with dead and petty in d.c. and he was having a good day. cease: the wilburys? Mutt: No, wilburys never toured. Dylan and the Grateful Dead and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cease: really? Mutt: Yes Mutt: Orbison died just after the album was released ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I think we're all Bozos on this bus." cease: i heard a story about wilburys. everyone was ready to go minus dylan. one of the other guys said to goerge, why can't we leave and we siad we're waitubg fior dylan, the other guy said, but you"e a Beatle ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Not responsible! Park and lock it!" Mutt: No I don’t think that is even close to what went down cease: my george harrison story is act one, scene one of my new play, whenever doc tech gets around to producing it. cease: were you there, mutt? Mutt: The guys did wirk together in varying combinations but Roy died a month after the first album came out, and Dylan was already on tour when they made the first cease: i'm just reporting what i read, whatever relevance it has to truth. my ohnly story really happened to me. Mutt: Im not pooping on your parade. And im not sure exactly what you are referring to in terms of a story. I just remember when orbison died and how it affectedthe group cease: i just thought that was an interesting story, in terms of george deferring to dylan when they performed togetrher with whomever cease: george did that humble shit really well Tweeny: Orbison's work with the Wilburys was a great swan song for his career cease: i remember him from the 50s? cease: good tunes Tweeny: What an incredible grouping of people Mutt:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_Wilburys Tweeny: My favorite Orbison tune is "You Got It" cease: though incredible groupings dont alway lead to good music Mutt: True Tweeny: nobody before or since sounded like him cease: true Mutt: Orbison was unique Tweeny: indeed cease: wonderfully distinctive voice Mutt: The emotional power if jis Mutt: His songs Mutt: Tragic life cease: lots of lives are tragic. few have his tunes Mutt: By all accounts a decent man, too ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scalp 'em, Tantric!" Mutt: Phil’s wordplay always makes me laugh cease: Funny guy cease: still here, llan? Mutt: There’s the slightly off-ness about his obvious statements that just make it work cease: well spotted Mutt: Even when I know what is coming that slightly off delivery or punctuation goes in a totally different direction cease: probably the most macabre of the firesigns DJTweeny: 'noir' Mutt: That’s a good descriptor - macabre. Yes. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. cease: there is a kind of dsrk cloud haning over phil's work, combination of jung's shadow and suaron's end Mutt: You are scaring me. Seriously he was raised in a hindu household so familiarity with the death aspect of god seems natural cease: i know cease: have you heard this before? DJTweeny: I'm really surprised they didn't include this in the Box Of Danger collection ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They never come up into the hills." cease: we heard why, tween, i forget. cease: an outside production for some reason. by packer, not the usuals Mutt: That was really fun. Thanks Tween! Thanks Cease! cease: by tween DJTweeny: ah, OK DJTweeny: So maybe they didn't own it cease: packerf would know. he's on facebook. DJTweeny: like some of the Columbia stuff they've had trouble with cease: yeah ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Not to be torturing me!" DJTweeny: Thanks for listening everybody :) cease: tom petty? DJTweeny: yep DJTweeny: Until last time, again... cease: let's tslk abouit next week's show later, tween ||||||||| 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 ||||||||| DJTweeny scurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's DJTweeny?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!" ||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs cease by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door Tweeny: Be well, all ||||||||| Tweeny scurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Tweeny?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!" ||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Beet - dead from the yaws ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| llanwydd12@gmail.com - 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
DJTweeny
Mutt
Not Ed
Tweeny
