A Firesign Chat
04/02/2026




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 April 02, 2026 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Tweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Nick Danger in "Down Under Danger"
plus David Ossman's "Time Machine"
Proctor & Bergman's GIVE US A BREAK
with part 2 of a new Cat Collage "Resistance"
and Proctor & Bergman's WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS
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 rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 02, 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 stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging Cease by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
||||||||| 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 Deputy Dang disembarks at 8:00 PM.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Deputy Dang: I don't recognize the titles "Down Under Danger" or "Time Machine"
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'Mutt', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt!
Mutt: Hey Deputy!
||||||||| 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 Beet disembarks at 8:00 PM.
Beet: Yo, Folks
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
Mutt: Hiya Beet!
Beet: Howdy, Cease, Deputy, Mutt.
Beet: This is rich.
Deputy Dang: I definitely haven't heard it before.
Mutt: DD: https://firezine.net/issue4/fz4_11a.htm
Deputy Dang: Cool, thanks!
Cease: hey guys.
Mutt: No probs DD
Cease: this is quie obscure, alas.
Mutt: Howdy catmaster
Cease: something very bad happened to me yestereday
Mutt: You ok?
Cease: in the rachel maddow collage thst i've split into 3 pats, rachel says she has he spine of a 111 year old man. that's what muy doc told me yesrterday morning. my spine is fukced
Mutt: Oh no.
Cease: ct scan, bone density said i have osteoporosis, arhritis, spine full of problems.
Beet: Sorry to hear that, cease.
Mutt: Damn.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "There's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut."
Cease: doc says i will need serious stuff.friends asked if i was scared and i said, no, more annoyed
Cease: but i can stil sit here and compose radio shows, eh?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "At your cervix."
Mutt: So mote it be, but hopefully more than that
Cease: mote?
Mutt: Great word.yup, mote :)
Cease: arthritis has done in his wrists, doc said neck arthritis has closed some veins in my neck whcih is not good
Cease: do ou know the benny joke about thst?
Mutt: Not sure here
Cease: he gets an award, and he says, i dont deserve this award, but i have arthritis and i don't deserve that either
Mutt: Lol
Mutt: Jack usually gets me laughing. Love To Be or Not To Be.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You people are soooooo superstitious!"
Cease: Big influence on me. I had Proc play Jack in my play Neal Amid. I met Harry Shearer in a DAT store in 97'
Cease: I told him I had just recorded proc as benny. shearer said he could do a better benny. i said, yesh, but i'd hve to pay you.
Mutt: That’s great XD
Mutt: The Near-Marx Brother!
Mutt: Benny was friends with the Marx family as a kid. They asked him to join the act when he was a teen. He declined
Beet: Velly intellesting.
Mutt: They were life-long friends/family
Cease: didnt know that but not surprising
Cease: comdiens tend to hang out
Deputy Dang: Was that Arte Johnson?
Cease: dont know
Cease: thatr was the group that got prco and berg on tv. afternoon delight
Beet: Starland Vocal Band?
Cease: yep
Cease: Big connection with proc/berg
||||||||| 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: HOw are you all doing? Better than me, I trust
Beet: That album is quite a collection of bits
Cease: i think rachel is a general in the resisanc
Cease: one of my only poems. hope you like it.
Beet: It's that time again. Gotta go. It was fun tonight. Nice to be with you. Have a groovy weekend. See you next time. G'Nite.
Cease: bye beet
Cease: i do my best to create these collages from what I discover
Mutt: Nite Beet
Mutt: Kinda dozed off dere
Cease: that happens. you're far away. i am ofen aslleep by 8.
Cease: how fascism might even come to this country
Mutt: Today I have been unusually sleepy
Mutt: It’s here
Cease: i was told i have bone disease. way fucked. but i survive
Mutt: Is there anything you can do?
Cease: doc will suggest stuff soon
Cease: i remain optimistic
Mutt: That’s important and good to know.
Mutt: When you called it annoying I understtod you perfectly
Cease: i want to go to istanbul in oct but don't know if that;s possible
Cease: hope the medical world can reduce my daily pain.
Mutt: Make sure to advocate for yourself with the docs.
Mutt: Prescient stuff
Mutt: Let’s make cars!
Mutt: Nice
Cease: Yeah, i will do so. This is Gil Scot Fireign
Mutt: Whitey on the Moon
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Gee Mom, isn't that bridge built yet?"
Mutt: I never got the chance to see P&B live.
Cease: I never saw them but saw Firesign several times, mosly in settle and its suburbs
Mutt: The Pillz Brothers
Cease: i appreciate the drug jokes
Mutt: Me, too
Mutt: Best line ever
Mutt: Let me scare you with a little story
Cease: am worknig on part 3 of this. hope you enjoy
Mutt: Actually that’s the best line
Cease: kerouac?
Cease: oh, i read, "beat" instead of "best"
Mutt: Ha!
Mutt: Good stuff tonight
Mutt: Thanks Tween
Cease: i spend much of my life prodcuting this show. hope you enjoy it
Mutt: Thanks cat, Deputy. See you next week
||||||||| Mutt leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Elmertown.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - 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
Mutt
URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://firezine.net/issue4/fz4_11a.htm



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