Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
12/18/2025

Archive

||||||||| 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 December 18, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood leads RedPillTweeny into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Tweeny', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Firesign's THE TALE OF THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA
plus the precursor to Giant Rat "By The Light Of The Silvery"
and a new Cat Collage "Dr. Greed"
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'
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Tweeny, who then rushes out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, December 18, 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 leads Deputy Dang in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "cease should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as cease enters and sits on the divan.
||||||||| 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..
Deputy Dang: Howdy, cease!
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Mutt by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?"
cease: let's hope this works tonight
cease: hi dang
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Beet close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the anteroom.
cease: mutt
Mutt: Am I really in here?
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt!
Beet: Dear Friends!
cease: beet
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
Mutt: Hey DD! Evening, cease!
cease: a good start
Mutt: BEET,
Mutt: Last week I was reduced to trying to communicate through the announcement prompt. Seems much better, now.
cease: i remwmber when this was first broadcast
Mutt: Tres cool
Beet: Hey, cease, Deputy, Mutt.
Mutt: As a Holmes fan since I was a sprout I have always enjoyed these
cease: i loved the old basil rathbone flix
Mutt: Me too. I like Holmes in jst about any version. Jeremy Brett is my fave, tho.
cease: yeah, brett was great
Mutt: Rathbone’s earliest Holmes pix are the best by far.
Mutt: But even the later ones are fun.
Mutt: Really enjoyed the Cumberbatch/Freeman version.
cease: there was even a simpsons episode with lisa as holmes
Mutt: Ever see They Might Be Giants with Scott and Woodward? Highly recommended.
cease: yes
Mutt: Off beat but fun
cease: speaking of the simposons, i just watched last weeks, the best in a while, and dedicated to the late frank gehry
Mutt: Haven’t watched them in some time, i must admit
cease: he's mentioned in the final fireisng album and now the simpsons. the twin mt everests of our language and culture
Mutt: You do have a point, there.
Mutt: I spent some time walking around lower Manhattan in late 2022 looking at his building at 8 Spruce. Magnificent.
cease: havent seen it
cease: was in bilbao last year
Mutt: https://www.live8spruce.com/neighborhood/guides/the-history-of-8-spruce
Mutt: The guggenheim in bilbao is iconic
cease: on my cab ride from the airport the cabbie pointed it out with pride
Mutt: I’ll bet
Beet: interesting.
cease: their first album with canadian jokes
cease: first of several
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
cease: i wonder how much coke the lads were doing when they wrote this?
cease: one of my faves
cease: just like silvery it is dense with jokes
Beet: Gotta go, friends. Enjoyed the offerings this evening. Nice to see you guys. Have a great weekend. Seeyou next time. G'Nite.
cease: by beet
cease: 10s and 20s was a lot of money in those days
cease: this is even further back in time
Mutt: See ya Beet!
cease: so many parodies of LA car commercials
cease: first hamnurger i ever had was at big boy
cease: burger
cease: 1962
cease: classic tom waits
cease: anyone here?
cease: more xmasy stuff next week
||||||||| 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 the yaws
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| It's 3:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| cease - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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
Mutt

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://www.live8spruce.com/neighborhood/guides/the-history-of-8-spruce