Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
11/27/2025

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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 27, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "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: THANKSGIVING DAY SHOW
A Cat Collage “Nothing But Indians”
plus a Proctor & Bergman Interview “Great Radio To Watch”
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'
||||||||| Tweeny is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Mutt should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Mutt enters and sits on the divan.
Mutt: A very happy Thanksgiving to all!
||||||||| Mutt departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| Tweeny sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Tweeny: Happy Thanksgiving, Mutt :)
||||||||| Tweeny is kicked out just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, November 27, 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?"
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's BuzzyKrumhunger , just back from Hellmouth."
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Tweeny in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Tweeny: Hi Buzzy
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "These insignificant lumps came together..."
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Cease by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
||||||||| 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 12:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| BuzzyKrumhunger - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease : Hey tween I’m doing this from the phone
Tweeny: Hey Cease
Tweeny: Sorry your computer is still having issues :/
Tweeny: Buy a Mac ;)
Cease : What’s on tap today? I haven’t configured sound and chat at present
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Shoes for Industry! Shoes for the Dead!"
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging Cease 2 by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
Tweeny: See the topic at the top of screen :)
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and pipes up "Presenting 'Kitten', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Cease 2: Got audio now on the old little phone Kitty
Tweeny: Hi Kitten
Cease 2: One of you and 3 of me
Cease 2: Could you download the revised inquisition show from Taylor s post?
Tweeny: send me the link, sure
Cease 2: Can’t from the phone
Cease 2: Without the computer we’ll have to plan new show via this phone
Tweeny: I don't have an email about it :/ Maybe you can find it on FB from your phone?
Cease 2: I don’t have facebook on the phone.
Cease 2: It was Ossman’s post to Facebook. I did send it to you as you read from it introducing last show
Cease 2: This is 30 years since this chat started and it has always lightly attended on US thanksgiving
||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Kitten - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease 2: This is really good. Too bad it’s unheard
Tweeny: OK, found the link and have downloaded it :)
Cease 2: Wonderful
Cease 2: When I was creating this collage , I learned that this Craig dude was a terrible guy who took advantage of Firesign and Many women
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Howdy Boys Howdy Boys close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the sitting room.
Howdy Boys Howdy Boys: This is DD. I'm in Indianapolis visiting a former coworker. I haven't turned on the audio yet.
Cease 2: It’s Howdy Doodle Time
Howdy Boys Howdy Boys: He's Indian, btw.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Deputy Dang close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the vestibule.
Tweeny: Howdy Howdy, Deputy
Cease 2: The Dangman Cometh
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It's a beautiful car friends, with doors to match!"
Deputy Dang: Howdy Boys!
Deputy Dang: Okay... I have the stream going now. I'm not on my usual computer.
Deputy Dang: It looks like it didn't log me out of Howdy Boys. brb
Tweeny: Cease apparently has a very unusual computer
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Direct readout - Doctor Memory."
Cease 2: I’m re-reading Pynchon’s Vineland it reminds me a bit of Firesign
Howdy Boys Howdy Boys: Wow--it doesn't watch me change disguise!
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Howdy Boys Howdy Boys!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Cease 2: Yeah it finds a new way to fuck u. All the time
Deputy Dang: Variety is the spice of life!
Tweeny: Win 11?
Deputy Dang: I'm on Windows on this laptop. Next to me I have a MacBook Air that's more than 10 years old. I'm trying to get Linux on it, but for now, it's MacOS 10.5 Catalina, which Apple no longer supports. It's a pita to install software now because everything wants the latest version of MacOS. I'm not "really" a "mac person". I inherited it when the company that laid me off failed to send me my final paycheck.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving llanwydd coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Tweeny: Hey llan
Deputy Dang: Howdy, llanwydd!
llanwydd: happy thanksgobblin
||||||||| It's 12:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanwydd: how can we go on after cat has died?
llanwydd: so how is everybody?
Cease 2: Llan
llanwydd: hi 2
Cease 2: Trying to chat with the phone but it ain’t easy
llanwydd: interesting
Tweeny: Doing OK llan, and hope you are as well
llanwydd: actually I have had that experience too
Cease 2: Bought new hard drive a few weeks ago and it’s worse than the dieing one so took it back on Monday and
llanwydd: missed you last week tween
Cease 2: Yes llan your health is our priority
llanwydd: thanks cat
Cease 2: Dang and llan this is a repeat but it’s Really Good
Cease 2: Do you recall hearing it before?
Tweeny: llanwydd: missed you last week tween << I'll be working next Thursday as well :/
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "There's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut."
Tweeny: but at least I made it tonight :)
llanwydd: great!
Tweeny: What OS are you using, Cease?
Cease 2: Firefox
Cease 2: I was doing a lot of writing on your role but computer problems curtail such
Cease 2: This is wonderful
Cease 2: Their eyes are like eagles now
Deputy Dang: That was awesome!
Cease 2: True
Tweeny: Firefox is not an OS, it's a browser. What's your computer's OS?
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease 2: Don’t know tween
Deputy Dang: These days, browsers are pretty much an OS inside an OS.
Cease 2: I got this video from elate in the 90s
Cease 2: I love this
||||||||| DJTweeny steals in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Cease 2: I have a tape of The Drrifters, a Japanese comedy group my daughter loved
Cease 2: Bergman worked in the jfk administration
Cease 2: Coming mother
Cease 2: Ruth’s not here
Cease 2: I’m doing a riff on Dave’s not here in my new play, starring Llan as usual
Cease 2: God said to Abraham, kill me a son
llanwydd: I'm going to be doing cheech and chong?
llanwydd: cool
Cease 2: No llan you’re the German chancellor . My grand daughter s do church and Chong
llanwydd: highway 61. one of my very favorite albums
Cease 2: I’m waiting your parts now, llan
Cease 2: But no computer for a few days
llanwydd: ok cat. expect it this year
Cease 2: That is the objective, llan
llanwydd: still experiencing diminished capabillity
Cease 2: I hope they improve soonest
Cease 2: You improve
llanwydd: I am improving, cat. thanks
Cease 2: Keep doing so
Cease 2: You still here, Dang
Tweeny: Great to hear that you're on the mend, llan :)
llanwydd: thanks, tween.
Cease 2: They force you to intelligent whether you want to be or not
Cease 2: A pervert?
llanwydd: lol
Cease 2: Unzipping somebody
Cease 2: Are we done!
Cease 2: Bambi died
Cease 2: Bad things always happen
Deputy Dang: I enjoyed myself, and even kept my pants on!
llanwydd: lol
Deputy Dang: Thanks for the shows. I'm not sure if I remembered the collage, but I liked it. Cheers, y'all!
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Deputy Dang left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
llanwydd: nite everybody.
||||||||| llanwydd 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: 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..."
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease 2 - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
Cease 2
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Howdy Boys Howdy Boys
llanwydd
Mutt
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign