Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
10/16/2025

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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 October 16, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Tweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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 DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS Dear Friends collection
“Somebody Put A Mickey In The Ground Zero!”
and “Power Is Trouble & Trouble's Not Funny!”
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/duke-of-madness-motors-the-complete-dear-friends-radio-era-1970-1972-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
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, Tweeny vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Deputy Dang coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Deputy Dang: I'm not sure if I'll join in tonight.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 8:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, October 16, 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?"
||||||||| Catherwood ushers DJTweeny 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.
DJTweeny: Hello, Dear Friends
||||||||| Deputy Dang sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny!
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Beet in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Tweeny, just back from Hellmouth."
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
Tweeny: Yo Beet
Beet: Howdy, folks
||||||||| Mutt steals in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt!
DJTweeny: Hey Mutt
Beet: howdy,Deputy, cease, Tweenu. Hey Mutt
Mutt: Grid evening DEputy and Mr. DJ!
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's cease, just back from Billville."
Deputy Dang: Howdy, cease!
Mutt: Hiya Beet!
DJTweeny: allo cease
Mutt: The Cat Man Cometh
DJTweeny: This is from Dear Friends Too
DJTweeny: *was*
Mutt: Good selection from DOMM, Tween
Beet: Yes, welcome all you newcomers.
DJTweeny: Glad you like 'em, Mutt :)
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You can wait here in the sitting room, or you can sit here in the waiting room."
DJTweeny: Beet: Yes, welcome all you newcomers. << We get so many ;)
Deputy Dang: There's a seeker born every minute!
||||||||| cease leaves at 8:00 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..."
DJTweeny: We've got 9 people tuned into this show on RFD
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'cease', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
DJTweeny: getting stuck in the revolving door, cease?
Deputy Dang: What about the elevator boy?
cease: Firesign has far too few followers. we do what we can
cease: I'm not an elevator boy, I'm just glad to see you
DJTweeny: I think there are a bunch of people who listen to the archives of the shows
cease: perhaps
Mutt: These things seem to be cyclical. The Marxes and WC were out of fashion fir years. Quality will out.
DJTweeny: Just my estimation from the replies to my posts on Facebook
cease: since doc tech drifted off into oblivion, we no longer have my archives or my play.
cease: perfhaps, mutt. did you get my message just now?
DJTweeny: He'll get it sorted out eventually, cease
cease: if we are lucky, tween
Mutt: Cease: No. i did mot.
Mutt: Not
cease: A bon mot, I hope
Beet: Do we know any friends of doc tech who could tell us his doings?
Tweeny: We've had communication with him, but he's just terribly busy with programming projects.
Beet: oh
Tweeny: Everybody's got to pay the bills :/
Tweeny: I myself work part-time at a grocery store to make ends meet.
Mutt: True, Tween
Mutt: Cease: Did you get me teplies?
Mutt: My replies
Deputy Dang: I did not get your reptiles.
Mutt: DD: Lol
cease: but you got my amphibians
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Offer not good after curfew in sectors R or N."
Mutt: My cover has been blown!
cease: Your cover is erect?
Mutt: Yikes!
Deputy Dang: https://marypickford.org/filmography/rags/
cease: Famous Canadian actress
cease: The Firesigns really liked this routine.
Deputy Dang: I like this routine also.
Deputy Dang: One of my college roommates laughed in shock when they put out the cigarette.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It's a beautiful car friends, with doors to match!"
cease: My uncle Louis raised chincillas. I was bitten by one in Jan, 1956, The doc said I'd be dead in a few hours. Still alive, 70 years later. Odd.
Mutt: How did the chinchilla fare?
cease: diseased, eh?
Mutt: Brutal
cease: i remain astonished that i'm still alive, but quite pleased.
Deputy Dang: This week I watched Reefer Madness on YouTube. It hasn't changed, as far as I can tell. I was expecting it to be in color after the first act. Hoping, rather.
Mutt: We survive some amazing things in our lives
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "These insignificant lumps came together..."
cease: true
Mutt: You didn’t smoke en, DD, XD
cease: maybe we die in another universe.
Mutt: enough
cease: do y'all know thwqt joke? the guy pissing in the bar?
Deputy Dang: True. My stupid vape pen seems broken. Actually, the base part is okay but I think the cartridge isn't working, since I tried it on two bases.
Mutt: Live here and die there, you mean?
Mutt: Ah. I have never tried one of those. Still use me own pipe
Beet: I think dying in one universe is enough.
Mutt: Beet: Me too!
cease: the joke is, a little man runs in and knocks over everyone's drink. teh bsrtender asks what is this about? the guy at the bar says, i asked a genie for a 10 inch dick, and that's what I got.
Mutt: Lol
Mutt: Bedazzled with Cook and Moore
cease: is thsat where that joke is from? reminds me of a buddy hacket joke about a guy in a bar
Mutt: No. I meant wishes going awry
Mutt: Buddy Hackett - Paint my House
cease: here's the hacket joke. beautiful woman sits down next to a guy at a bar, she says, I'll do anything you want for $200 if you can tell me in 3 words. he gives her the#200 and says, "paint my house"
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You guys are nothing but a pack of cards."
cease: good joke
cease: as someone who is looking at a far more expensive house painting
Mutt: Great joke. I knew where you were going.
Mutt: Sorry
cease: no doubtg a well known joke
Mutt: When Carson was in his final week Buddy was on and told that joke. I have it on vhs somewhere
cease: wow
cease: did ou ever see carson live?
Mutt: Nah. Taped it off air on one looong tape. Still have a few dozen tapes around
Beet: I saw Carson live once. Quite a thrill.
cease: my cousin's boyfriend got us tickets to a taping. great stuff
Mutt: No. I never got to either NyY or LA until afterwards
Mutt: Beet: Wow!
cease: saw leno here i van. i've seen a lot of stand up,but leno was the best.
Mutt: Cease: wow and wow!
Beet: Definitely bucket list fulfillment.
cease: fell on the floor laughing. that hasn'tappened with another comic
Beet: Before he took the Tonight show he was pretty edgy
cease: Leno? He was Really Funny. Even his autobi is very funny.
||||||||| 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: you all aware of the new john candy biopic? he mentions Firesignin it
Deputy Dang: I am not.
Mutt: I hope that movie does well and is respectful, candy was a good guy.
Deputy Dang: It's on Amazon Prime video.
Mutt: I had no idea. Thanks DD
Beet: This was fun. Nice to see everyone. Have a great weekend and I'll see you next week. G'Nite.
Deputy Dang: Gnite, Beet!
cease: by beetg
Mutt: Be well, Beet!
cease: not many of here tonight.
Deputy Dang: The newcomers are invisible. And strangely quiet...
cease: pete and phil A also silent, from wherever they are.
Mutt: What can you do?
cease: twen an i have been doing this show for 10 years and it started, thakns to Elayen, in 95.
cease: i ttried to play this on radi here in van in 72 but was denied permission cuz of rhe word "urinate"
Mutt: It’s radio. Harder to put across to youngun’s these days?
cease: i have been promoting firesign almosrt as long as they have existed.
cease: but podcasts are just radio shows where uyou can say fuck, and they'e a big deal now, like radio in our era
Mutt: Pete could talk some shit
cease: no shit
Mutt: Coal, man
cease: cool, man
cease: This is from the novel Germinal, which I had read not long befofe hearing this.
Mutt: What a blast!
cease: geart black dope
Mutt: I really like that routine. Always have
cease: tha reminded me of my play Red Shift, where the Dalai Lama, Phil Austin, was reincarnted as a Martian microbe
Mutt: Spud Raleigh!
cease: you know the comedy sketch, the irish language lab?
cease: funiiestr potatoe jokes i've ever heard
Mutt: Is that the one about whether a bride comes with potatoes or not?
cease: no
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Gee Mom, isn't that bridge built yet?"
Mutt: Who did it?
cease: look up irish language lab. fucking hilarious. don't know who the guys are
Deputy Dang: I didn't do it! Nobody saw me do it! You can't prove anything!
cease: De mangement
cease: fly cxounter spy was acrually one of their scripts
Mutt: It was on Mike Nesmith’s TV Parts. It is the one Imthought
Mutt: Does the bride come with … potatoes?
cease: lol
Mutt: That series needs to be released.
cease: isnt everything on youtube now?
Mutt: That series, no. Some pieces here and there but not even close to everything
Tweeny: Benjamin Franklin: The only President of the United States, who was never President of the United States
cease: i have no expeience with opium, alas.
Tweeny: (probably accurate ;)
Mutt: I agree, Tween
Mutt: If I could meet one person from history he might be the one
cease: franklkin? good choice. i'd proabably go with Twain
Tweeny: Yes, he had a huge impact on early America
Tweeny: and Twain in his time also
Mutt: First world celebrity
Mutt: The Ken Burns piece was awesome
Tweeny: one of the members of the American Anti-Imperialist League
cease: about twain? why didn't i see it. i get pbs
Tweeny: American Anti-Imperialist League - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Anti-Imperialist_League
Tweeny: He wrote scathing articles about the Spanish-American War
Mutt: Does anyone remember the Steve Allen show Meeting of Minds?
Tweeny: "Mark Twain, perhaps the most prominent member of the league, offered his voice through the publication of his essay "To the Person Sitting in Darkness," which appeared in the North American Review in February 1901."
cease: thwt was beautiful
Tweeny: "In his essay, Twain satirically portrayed the moral and cultural superiority of Americans compared to Filipinos to comment on what he believed to be the great irony of the Philippines' annexation."
Mutt: Irony is a word
Tweeny: Been fun folks, everybody have a great week :)
cease: off we fly
Deputy Dang: That was fun! Thanks Tweeny!
Mutt: Thanks Tween!
Deputy Dang: Gnite Cat! Gnist Mutt!
||||||||| cease is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
||||||||| Deputy Dang rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
Mutt: Be well everyone
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What is reality?"
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Mutt vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| DJTweeny is thrown out the window just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
||||||||| Tweeny rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| 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 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Anti-Imperialist_League
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/duke-of-madness-motors-the-complete-dear-friends-radio-era-1970-1972-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
https://marypickford.org/filmography/rags/