Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
03/05/2026

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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 March 05, 2026 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Tweeny sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: From Firesign's XM Radio broadcasts "The Fuse Of Doom (part 3)"
and from the DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS collection of Dear Friends broadcasts
"Deputy Dan Will Find Us No Matter Where We Go"
plus a new collage from Cat called "In History, Patti"
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 scurries out through the french doors and down through the brambles.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 05, 2026 - 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 escorts Unka_Led 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.
||||||||| It's 10:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Unka_Led - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| GrouchoBarx enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Chapeau Manger.
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, GrouchoBarx runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'Deputy Dang', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Deputy Dang: I will find you no matter where I go!
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Cease', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| 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: Hi all
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: Hello.
Cease: Beet-les
Cease: The Fuse
Beet: Hi Cease, Deputy
Beet: WW III has started.
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Mutt jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
Cease: Did you see Oppenheimer?
Beet: Hi, Mutt.
Beet: Yes
Mutt: I am Shiva, Destroyer of worlds
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Surrounded by a thin thin thin 16mm shell. And inside, it's delicious!"
Cease: At the end, Einstein says to Oppy, the war is now over. And Oppy says, it will never end.
Mutt: Hey Beet
Cease: Mutt
Mutt: Cease and Deputy!
||||||||| Frank_from_Texas bounds in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Mutt: Howdy Frank
Beet: Hey, Frank.
Frank_from_Texas: Howdie!
Cease: Frank and Stones! It's monstrous!
Beet: What part of Texas?
Cease: Frak from Texas, meet DJ Tweeny from Austin
Mutt: The ladt part! Of this vintage motion picture High School Madness …
Beet: I hail from Houston myself.
Mutt: The Planet Houston
Frank_from_Texas: I'm in New Braunfels by way of Illinois, Equador, and the East Coast
Cease: All of them a long way from Vancouver
Frank_from_Texas: At some point, it seems obligatory upon hearing a voice from up north, to say..."
Frank_from_Texas: "eh?"
Cease: Traditionally, we play the albums from the beginning, Electrician, forward, from the first show in Jan. This counts as us plaiyng Dear Friends
Beet: Yeah, those Texas freeways go all over the place.
Cease: Bear whiz beer
Mutt: Texas Freeway one-quarter mile …
Frank_from_Texas: Antelope Freeway, 1/8th mile.
Frank_from_Texas: "Stuck Pig Strength" ha
Mutt: And good old Babe or Zeno never gets to the exit :P
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging llanwydd by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
llanwydd: whaz real?
Cease: I htink this is supposed to be George Putnam. Theyu make fun to him several times in these shows
Mutt: It’s Not-Llan!
llanwydd: I used to have some of his mutual funds
Mutt: Lol
llanwydd: then I switched to vanguard
Cease: Hi Llan.My dad's ford dealership used to advertise on the Putnam news.
Frank_from_Texas: "The hanging Athenian gardens"
Mutt: Great decision. I’m a bogle guy from way back.
Cease: It was a competitor to Ralph Williams, who became Spoilsport in Firesignland
llanwydd: didnt they hang that athenian
Beet: Hi, llan
llanwydd: hi beet
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Nancy Kat jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Nancy Kat: "Hey, yo..."
Cease: Hey nancy!
llanwydd: hi nancy
Cease: Fellow feline
Mutt: Grid evening Ms. Haber
Cease: this voice is proctor's mom
Nancy Kat: Heylas, Cease, llan,, Beet an Mutt
Beet: Hi, Nancy.
Cease: This is why Covid wasn't reported. They didn't want to alarm people
Nancy Kat: Was watching an MST3K episode and "Everyone knew her as Nancy" comes up and I pointed at the screen like the Leonardo Dicaprio meme...lol
Nancy Kat: Cease-Like in every Godzilla movie...lol
Beet: Beatles forever!
Mutt: Drop under the seat of your plane and look away!
Cease: You an old Firesign fan, Frank?
Cease: the seat of power?
Frank_from_Texas: I saw Proctor and Bergman in Southern Illinois in.....1975? '76 maybe.
Cease: That was your beginning?
Beet: cool
Mutt: Nice
Frank_from_Texas: "Shake the cocain from those mucklucks"
Cease: I think their travels produced a LOT of Firesign fans
Frank_from_Texas: I'd been getting their records for years
Mutt: The Fatal Line of Coke
Frank_from_Texas: "The department of redundancy department" is probably my most overused phrase
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM uptown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Not Ed coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Cease: Hi Not
Not Ed: DDang, Cease, Beet, Mutt, Frank_from_Texas, llan, & Nancy Kat waz real?
Nancy Kat: Has anyone here seen the TICK episode "Sidekicks don't kiss"?
Nancy Kat: 'Allo, Nicht Ed.
Cease: yes, but long ago
Beet: Hi, Not.
Mutt: Heya Not-E!
Cease: I think all the guys were on that show
Not Ed: Jello!
Beet: Nice gathering this evening.
Cease: indeed, beet
Mutt: The name’s Jello. Mello Jello
Nancy Kat: Cease-Yes...I'm not much a fan of the show myself, but my BF is. It came up in a YT compilation of "saturday morning cartoons" By the channel Orbital Bacon. And then I hear a VERY familiar voice and I start freaking out...lol one google later and I start explaining to BF why i'm so enthused.
Nancy Kat: Mutt-OH, so you head the athletic department?
Mutt: I am the Athletic Department Head
Cease: Better than being the Athletic Department foot
Frank_from_Texas: And they could sing!
Mutt: Singing feet!
Cease: they loved to sing, particularly Proctor
Beet: Proctor's delivery is a very Broadway Musial style.
Beet: Musical
Mutt: I like Musial
Cease: not surpriising, as he was in broadway musicals
Cease: Stan Musial style wouldn't work on Broadway
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Hello, we're glad you made it!"
Mutt: Stan Musial as you’ve never seen him before!
Beet: That's exactly what I meant.
llanwydd: stan musial sounds familiar
Cease: i had forgotten this was from DF.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600"
llanwydd: spiderman?
Beet: Tweeny must be working tonight.
Cease: yep
Cease: Ossman refers to this in the interview you'll here in the next hour.
Not Ed: Echo
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Indonesia for the Indonesians!"
Cease: The Firesign overtheme of Power
Cease: i hear that Jakarta is now the most poplulace city in the world
Not Ed: Roadkill zoom!
Cease: Ms Power
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: Proctor and Adele saw Patti in concert in DC recently
Cease: I think Proctor and Bergman were on the same bill as her long ago
Frank_from_Texas: Look for the bottle, shaped like a paper bag
Not Ed: lavoris junkie?
Beet: Time for me to go. This was fun as always. Very nice seeing such a great group in here this week. Hop everybody has a safe and enjoyable weekend. See all of you next week. G'Nite.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scalp 'em, Tantric!"
Not Ed: Take care Beet
Mutt: Becwell Beet!
Nancy Kat: BB Beet!
Cease: by beet
Not Ed: Bergman lol
Not Ed: Awesome C
Cease: This is the single Austin did pre-Firesign. It let to the record contract for Electrician.
Cease: I think with his army buddies
Cease: the single was released as being by The Buddies
Not Ed: neat - I think you turned me on to Duckman
Cease: the TV show was Much better.
Not Ed: wow
Cease: this is sort of Firesign as fetus
Cease: Austin was always proud of his duck voice
Not Ed: as well he should, whatever that means
Not Ed: seriously I was going to ask you about that
Not Ed: when was Duckman?
Cease: this or the TV show. this single might have been 65?
Cease: TV show was in the 90s
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And while we're on the subject..."
Cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duckman
Cease: single was 66.
Not Ed: I was thinking early 70's but yeah thankswill have to track down the TVshow
Not Ed: Ahh thanks!
Cease: tv show wazs really good
Not Ed: noted
Cease: rummage mall
Not Ed: Austin was certifiable
Not Ed: right C
Cease: did you watch the visuaizartion of Dwarf by Bruce Snyder? Posted link to it inprevious chat
Not Ed: no! cool! will go see
Cease: he told me he took it off YOutube because he's re-doing it with Ossman
Not Ed: neat
Cease: Ossie has conceived of Dwarf as a flick for a long time
Cease: Elayne and I drove down to visit Ossman in 95. He told us of ihs plan for theflick
Not Ed: Btw, great interview
Cease: tis
Cease: i',m always in search of stuff to make collages out of. this worked.
Not Ed: lol love this one
Cease: put a lot of work into this
Not Ed: I hadn't even thought of doing something like that - it must be!
Cease: yep
Cease: but good for my brain
Not Ed: Wonder if Ossman has kept any artworks from fans?
Cease: he has.
Cease: that poem made me want to visit Turkey. Don't know if I will or not, too feeble now.
Cease: blossom city
Cease: i think i was in bakersfield once. not sure.
Cease: this is the very end of proctor's autobiography
Cease: very much like Firesign. they want to inspire us to do work as good as theirs
Not Ed: I've got a series of short clips of DO's artifact-packed office and such - it's like a museum
Cease: ive been in that room. it is amazing
Not Ed: I think they're on YouTube
Not Ed: she is a fascinating woman - very wise
Cease: i saw guernica in spain 2 years ago
Not Ed: she sure is
Cease: she is
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed: Hey everyone great to see you!
Nancy Kat: Good to see everyone. Have a great night peepholes!
Cease: no idea what next week will bring, but someting.
Cease: you too nancy
Not Ed: Right on!
Cease: by all
||||||||| Cease rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
Not Ed: stay groovy!
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Mutt runs out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Mutt?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| 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 intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Nancy Kat - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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...
||||||||| It's 3:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Frank_from_Texas - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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
Frank_from_Texas
llanwydd
Mutt
Nancy Kat
Not Ed

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/Duckman