Temporary Humbolt County

[ivpaul42]

God bless Vespucciland!

[RunawayTrane]

starts out funny, ends up sad, but should be required listening for anyone educated in the US

[you2bReaper]

I love how the Indians are portrayed as the "normal" ones and everyone else is crazy...

[lipwak]

Love the pics, benjim!

[jpcworley]

Hi ,My Name Is John and I am from Chicago too, don,t get on your self righteous -horse. I was referring to style,not content,but if you listen to Stan Freberg Presents the history of the United States Part One, you perhaps will see what I mean! If not you are not really listening!!

[JohnnyChicago]

EDDIE: Hiya, Pop! I'm home!

INDIAN: Hello, Soaring Eagle! It's good to have your back from school!

EDDIE: Aw, come on! Call me Eddie! I'm an American now!

INDIAN: What have they been teaching you?

EDDIE: Just what we need for a better life! French horn, Italian, water polo...

GOVERNMENT AGENT: Yes, at the Custer Memorial Indian School, Eddie's one of our Prize students. We're giving him away next week...."

This is typical of the White man - exploit, steal, dominate, forget.

[jpcworley]

I hope you all realize that this whole style of comedy was invented by STAN FREBERG!! No cut on F.T. but even they would tell you so!!

[JohnnyChicago]

@jpcworley I say no.

Firesign Theater took no easy roads and walked tightropes not even Freberg tried to.

This particular sketch skewers everything America stands for from it's very inception.

Freberg's "Nuttin For Christmas" is harmless Borsht Belt fodder compared to the chances the Theater took.

[lovetoeatallthefood]

"Do you recognize what I'm holdin' over yer heads, lads?"

"It's a cross, the symbol of the quartering of the universe into active and passive principles."

"God have mercy on their heathen souls."

[UnIndio]

This would be funny, if it weren't true!!!

[smujismuj]

Greatest Satirists Ever, along with Mark Twain, and Stephen Colbert.

[idlerage]

I just invented a Tom Collins!

[MrMelon49]

This would be so much funnier, were it not true.

[DerrickthePinecone]

@MrMelon49 ...but typically when something is true, it makes it more funnier than when it isn't!

[jvambrose]

...put it in their well.

[JohnnyChicago]

This is one of the greatest history lessons that should be played to students all over America to show how scum from overseas destroyed and wasted a wonderful opportunity to make this country better than what they did to it...

[MichaelHansenFUN]

not from the radio show

[WinterHawkLady1]

LMAO @ 6:35 but this is just down right rude,,Speaking of heathens..just sayin lol

[mphst6]

"We've been waiting for this for hundreds of years!"

[goldrush186]

I just invented Tacos!

[parablearable]

Hearing this set apart from the rest of the album puts it in a different light.Its hard to hear the humor if one hasn't listened to the whole album.This is not exactly comedy although its brilliantly illustrative in portraying a point of view that was new at the time.

[thurstonite]

It's truly a testament to Firesign Theater that this skit can be so funny while being so genuinely sad.

[christopherm2k]

@thurstonite Absolutely. It is one of the most sardonic and scathing pieces they have ever performed. Even though it contains many funny bits, it still makes me sad. Their next two most popular albums were a bit lighter in substance, but they continued to be harsh on those that deserved to be the butt of FS's own brand of comic retribution. lol It's lamentable that they were not more popular, but who can account for tastes waaaay left of the Bell curve. lol

[375GTB]

Lets put it in our wells....

Beat the reaper....

[bruc2y]

we been waiting for this for hunnerds of years!

[Sanernando]

"Hey Dad!"

"Yes Eddie?"

"Look what they gave away at Indian School with my business degree. It's called a Slot Machine."

CIVILIZATION HO'!"

CA-CHING

[pmessinger]

We always try to stay for the Snake Dance, it rocks. The Peyote Pops are the best!

[The3dphotoartist]

Now these guys threaten Whidbey Island, will the destruction ever end?

[bapyou]

Ahhh ... Clem.

[jeromekerngarcia]

Excuse me don't excuse me, you're making not making the doctor happy unhappy.

[1violaplayr]

I brought this in to my US History class - Westward Expansion in ten minutes!

[chh5555]

So funny but sooo sad cuz it's true!

[MrUnidyne]

"Black stuff coming out of the ground"?

[lovetoeatallthefood]

God bless Vespucci Land.

[MelMelsNRich]

"Hey, Corn! Now we can make Whiskey! We've been waitin hundreds of years for this!" still as funn as when my dad played this on LP for me!

[MrUnidyne]

"I just invented the Tom Collins!"

[stoogehand]

scalp em Tantric

[hookalakah]

Which way's Goshen?

[Idlerage77]

5:03 Civilization... HO!!!! That is so funny to me EVERY time I hear it.

[olderendirt]

This was a wonderful piece of nostalgia. I still have my lp I bought in the 70's, but no working turntable!

All out for Fort Stinkindesert!!!

[rgt252]

May God have mercy on your heathen souls!

[babbchuck]

Ruthless....(I wonder where Ruth is?)

[lovetoeatallthefood]

But... but... HOW can you be in *two* places at once - when you're not anywhere at all?

[Lokiboy8]

Quantum Theory holds that you can -- Superposition, specifically...

A particle can be in any, all or NO position - simultaneously.

Physicists actually have an experiment that has a single particle in over 3,000 locations.

I have always known that these guys were brilliant, but I have to confess that is pretty cool!!

Happy Trails!

Marc

[LovesLuv2]

Temporarily....pardon me.

[LovesLuv2]

Actually, it was Temorarily Humboldt County. David Austin lived in Arcata or Eureka...as I recall.

I'm surprised to see these entire performances on YouTube. I hope the Boys are getting paid for all this. You must admit it is superlative entertainment.

[ronsgrrl]

not to break anyone's balls, but wasn't it TERRIBLY humboldt county? anyway, glad to hear it again after all these years...

[Qermaq]

A truly classic piece of radio history.

[verbaud]

We hold these Truths to be self evident!

[olytanis]

One of my all-time favorites-in the sad but true category. Looking for more! (Hey...I'm a Bozo!)

[bdicat]

They have thirty albums out and still preforming today. long before there was a Monty Python and a Garrison Keeler, there was the firesign theatre, for or five crazy guys whom came together to form the first rock band that used their mouths as instruments.

[GOPnot4me]

Over 30+ years and I hear something new, or know more about a reference every time I listen. The boys are a gift that just keeps on giving. Comedy today just isn't as smart.

[bdicat]

do you know of planetproctor? or try the firesign message board. we meet and greet every thursday night around nine pm. QWe all trade improve and quips, firesign style and sometimes the boys stop in. Just google a firesign chat

[pccp]

You know how so very easy this can be turned into a reader's theatre for children and other living things? An excellent skit!