A Firesign Chat
11/06/2025




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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 November 06, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Tweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: A Replay of a show from October 28, 2021
** Halloween Show **
Firesign Theatre's THE BRIDE OF FIRESIGN
plus a Cat Collage “Halloween 17”
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
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||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, November 06, 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 enters with nolomolistari close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the vestibule.
nolomolistari: we[l...when you're nowhere at all....
nolomolistari: ummm...hungry for some steaming vestibule,..
||||||||| nolomolistari scurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's nolomolistari?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Tweeny steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| Deputy Dang steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "llanwydd should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as llanwydd enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, llanwydd!
llanwydd: hey guys
llanwydd: hows everybody?
Deputy Dang: I don't know about everybody. I'm tolerable.
llanwydd: lol
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "nolomolistari should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as nolomolistari enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, nolomolistari!
llanwydd: hey nolo
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I see you are a sailor."
||||||||| 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..
Tweeny: Evenin' folks...
nolomolistari: sale on
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny!
llanwydd: hey tween
Tweeny: Beautiful weather here down in south central TX
Tweeny: 80's, sunny & breezy
llanwydd: cool
nolomolistari: snuggles in the lurkers' corner...
Tweeny: lurk away :)
||||||||| 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 ceaase falls out at 8:00 PM.
Tweeny: allo cease
Tweeny: got your computer fixed?
nolomolistari: puts away timetravel fidgit
ceaase: good song'got new one with windows 11. stil learning how to use it
ceaase: hi no
||||||||| 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 Mutt disembarks at 8:00 PM.
Tweeny: kewl
Tweeny: Hey Mutt
ceaase: hi mutt
Deputy Dang: Howdy, ceaase!
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt!
Mutt: Evening Tween, Cease, Llan, Deputy and “Don’t bother me”
nolomolistari: aha
llanwydd: hey Cat
ceaase: like some poor russian
ceaase: hey llan. i'll send you your iines soonest
llanwydd: thanks
ceaase: anyone else want to be in my new play?
Tweeny: I'd be happy to contribute, cease
ceaase: pigs twinkiling in the wnd
nolomolistari: i was stuck in playdough once
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It's a beautiful car friends, with doors to match!"
llanwydd: lol
ceaase: i may ask you to be the producer, tween.
Tweeny: I'd love to, cease
ceaase: i thought maybe doc tech would have my play Smetana done by nov 5 but not so.
ceaase: i wonder if he is still alive.
llanwydd: yeah that is mysterious
Tweeny: Yeah. pretty sure he's still with us as he's paying for the AWS
ceaase: this was my most important play in terms of giving some Ukrainians humour before they are blown up. doc somehoe dissappeared
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let me hear it for me!"
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Beet jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
Mutt: Hiya Beet!
Beet: Howdy!
llanwydd: hey Beet
Tweeny: Yo Beet
Beet: Hey, Mutt, llan Deputy, cease, Tweey, nolo.
Beet: Sorry for misspelling your name, Tweeny.
nolomolistari: ...waves..
ceaase: the beet man
Mutt: He is, and shall always be, the Tween of Tweens!
Beet: Absolutely
ceaase: hail to the tween he's the queen of all the queensters
Tweeny: haha
Tweeny: ummmm. Tween is not a queen ;)
ceaase: tweensters.MASH ref
Mutt: Tween: Did you ever see Million Dollar Legs (1932) with Jack Oakie and W.C. Fields?
Tweeny: Don't remember it, Mutt
nolomolistari: ...you ever meet your beet?..
ceaase: i was just rhyming queen and tween. no crown implied
Tweeny: I do love Fields
Mutt: You must. Oakie’s character’s name is … Migg Tweeny!
Tweeny: The Bank Dick is my favorite
Tweeny: Oh yeah, now that you mention it!
ceaase: wc fields forever
Mutt: Accent grave over the e
Tweeny: I pointed that out to Ossman but he said that wasn't where he got it from :)
Mutt: It is one of my favorite movies
ceaase: phil an dave remain active on facebook
||||||||| nolomolistari is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
ceaase: ny no
Mutt: Close the windows!
: woooooah
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and nolo steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Mutt: He bounces!
nolo: i seem diminished
ceaase: are those windows? i thought they were kidneys
ceaase: as opposed to extinguished
nolo: these grippoes seem defective
Mutt: Great pretzels, Grippos
Mutt: If you like them salty
ceaase: Sweish excelent jets going to Ukraine. the Grripedns
ceaase: Gripens.
nolo: everybody must get bombed
llanwydd: I wouldnt know Grippo from Harpo
Mutt:
Mutt: Lol!
ceaase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen
Mutt: Grippo, the Wrestling Marx Brother
llanwydd: lol
ceaase: lol
nolo: the man with the flamable hands
ceaase: light my flyer
nolo: juggle? watch what i do with these lettershktnbpo
ceaase: jughead?
nolo: in a kline bottle, no less
ceaase: pass me the jug
Mutt: Pass me the Fuggs
nolo: say, does Mark Time materialize here?
Mutt: On occasion
ceaase: Bfrgman was fired from a radio show for playing the Fugs
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM bus from Billville pulls away, leaving DJTweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Mutt: Boobs a lot
nolo: fuggs..lol...rrver of shmitz
Mutt: Oops. Holy Modal Rounder. My bad.
ceaase: do you like boobs alot?
nolo: we like
Mutt: Be bop a loo bala!
llanwydd: dr demento played boobs a lot and he never got fired
nolo: singing hulahoops?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right."
Mutt: The Rounders were a fun band
Beet: Speaking of hats, I just started watching Blacklist again.
Mutt: Nice one, Beet!
nolo: bonso doodah band
Beet: I love it when Peter says " SHADDUP!
ceaase: a bergmanesque word
ceaase: canadian radio. that's me
nolo: well, i'm a minor......i mean, mainer
Mutt: Nolo in ME and Cease in BC is about as far as you can get
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "He can shout, don't hear you."
llanwydd: I am in FL
nolo: i'll row faster
llanwydd: lol
Mutt: And Llan makes it the Firesign Triangle!
nolo: kinky kinky makes you stinky
Mutt: Now now
nolo: (dials time machine) then then
ceaase: there is a part of japan called Kinki. iused to viit my friend in Nagoya which is in the Kinki area
llanwydd: lol
ceaase: i was always amused by the sign, Kinki Nippon
llanwydd: so many jokes you could make out of that
Mutt: That is too much
nolo: they do something with noodles
ceaase: japan does good noodels
ceaase: on cat nip? my first name is cat and m last name is nipponese
nolo: that could be twiddled many ways
nolo: dang limp noodles
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I take your hat and goat?"
Mutt: Where in Japan did youli e cease?
Mutt: You live
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and announces "Announcing 'MarkTime', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
llanwydd: hey mark
MarkTime: what's the link for the audio
Mutt: Hiya Mark
nolo: cease ya
ceaase: mostly a toky0 suburb. hey mark
MarkTime: hey Crew....everything you know is WRONG
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Not responsible! Park and lock it!"
ceaase: so you are not mark time?
DJTweeny: Hey MarkTime, good to see ya :)
MarkTime: got it!
MarkTime: duh
nolo: there's a timing mark on this here planet
DJTweeny: Glad you're tuned in
nolo: holy mercader
MarkTime: say Kurt...did you get my Paypal messages?
MarkTime: not in the mood for humor?
Beet: Greetings, Mark.
nolo: ...something about being shiny new...
ceaase: remind me of new cars, nolo
nolo: beepbeep
DJTweeny: MarkTime: say Kurt...did you get my Paypal messages? << Yes, Dana. Picked up the scooter from the shop today after the 500 mile maintenance. Cost $300, but well worth it. She's running like a champ.
nolo: ...how do i get out of second gear..
ceaase: 1955, ford gave my dad a new t-bird to drive accross canada and establish a market for trhe car
DJTweeny: neato, cease :)
MarkTime: good for you Kurt....
ceaase: yes, we canadians can really write]
nolo: t-bird with the porthole?
ceaase: i may or may not have new collage for next week. maybe the following week. about german philospheyr Walfer
ceaase: Benjamin
DJTweeny: love this parody of PBS's Antiques Roadshow
ceaase: yes, nolo
ceaase: never watched it
||||||||| 8:00 PM: nolomolistari jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
nolo: drove one once; at 1oo, the nose lifts off the road
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
ceaase: the high low desert
nolo: i got an eyeball hat!
MarkTime: us military....Real Patriots?.....it takes courage to have Revolution.....special farces indeed!
ceaase: my wife wanted one and the firesigns promised to give here one but it never happened
ceaase: Fumiyo and I have been married for 50 years. That's a long time. Most of it has been spent promiting
ceaase: Firesgin
Tweeny: very cool, cease :)
nolo: catching up...47 here
Mutt: 35 plus a few living on sin years
nolo: 1 in sin just to test-drive
Mutt: Married, that is
nolo: or...48 linked
Mutt: I like linked. 42 linakges for me
Beet: It's time. Gotta go. This wasfun as always. Nice to see everyone. Have a nice weekend. See you next time. G'Nite.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with AndroTweeny close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the anteroom.
Mutt: See ya Beet!
nolo: ....your mileage may vary
nolo: if this tardis works, next time hello
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, nolo dashes out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
ceaase: by beet
ceaase: by nolo
ceaase: we are shrinking'
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| nolomolistari - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 8:00 PM: nolo jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
MarkTime: DEPUTY DANG is fading away....
ceaase: so is the world
ceaase: I used this song in my last collage, with Rcikie lee jones
ceaase: how's it going, Mark?
MarkTime: fantastic.....when I've got a bit of Liberty to Pusue my Happiness....
ceaase: good to hear
MarkTime: Mightily Bound....
ceaase: i'm happily composing my new play
MarkTime: to the Good
MarkTime: what's the name of your Play cease?
MarkTime: pursue...sp.
ceaase: new play is Centennial, about the cenennial of the
ceaase: Weimar republic. no hitler,thus on ww2
MarkTime: suspense....
MarkTime: yes I love it....goethe and all that?
ceaase: i want Llan here to be chancellor Johan Amadeus von Beethoven, the chancllor of Germnany to star in my play
MarkTime: have you read Goethe's autobiography...."fact and fiction"?
ceaase: a couple of refs to
ceaase: i quoted from it in my play
ceaase: Red Shift
ceaase: are you familiar with my plays, Mark?
MarkTime: not at all.....but I certainly have an interest.
ceaase: https://seemreal.com/seemreal-selections.html
MarkTime: you're candian?
ceaase: yep. vancouver
ceaase: lived in LA when
ceaase: Firesign started
MarkTime: ahhh Canadian....
ceaase: very old radio guy
MarkTime: kewl
Tweeny: Yeah, cease listened to the Firesign radio shows when they were first broadcast.
ceaase: tihs sounds like one of my collages
ceaase: and taped them
Tweeny: In fact, they've use some of his recordings of the broadcasts for their releases
ceaase: several
||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| nolo - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Tweeny: stuff nobody else had
ceaase: i can hear the background distortions in the shws
ceaase: bummer, tween.many should have recorded the shows
ceaase: many people had tape recorders in la in 67
llanwydd: am I still here?
llanwydd: cool
Tweeny: You Are Here, Player...
ceaase: lpl
llanwydd: yeah those were mostly reel to reel
ceaase: i'm 74 and i'm not transferrig
ceaase: verfy happy to still be alive,but dont expect it to last long
llanwydd: 74 was a good year
ceaase: indeed
MarkTime: has everone been Blue Moss'd?!
MarkTime: everyone
ceaase: no
Mutt: He’s being alienated!
ceaase: i amone of the founders of the occupy movement
ceaase: off we drift
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "There's one crawling up my leg!"
||||||||| ceaase leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Hellmouth.
Tweeny: Thanks for listening, everybody :)
Mutt: Thanks Tween
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I had to think for a minute ... what cruel game was he playing?"
Tweeny: Let me and Cat know what you'd like to hear for future shows
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| AndroTweeny - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| DJTweeny 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..."
||||||||| Mutt rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Tweeny scurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| MarkTime - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - 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.
||||||||| It's 3:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, 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
ceaase
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
llanwydd
MarkTime
Mutt
nolo
nolomolistari
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/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen
https://seemreal.com/seemreal-selections.html



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