I called into the yesterday in the Random Acts of Thankfulness segment. The conversation turned to SMS messages from Facebook. If you're a Facebook user, you can choose to have friends' status updates sent to your cell. I do this for Lino and several others.

Our own Dan Sealana talked about this on his own Facebook recently. Mocking himself for having friends from his virtual world send him all these text messages. It's great to do if you have an unimited messaging package. I like to do this at work, during lunch and at the end of the day. All those beeps with messages from Lino and all my friends!

It's a great way of wading through all those Farmville posts I get from my sister :)

We got called out in the first 30 minutes of the show.

No holds barred, teeth gnashing, rage and anger filling the streets much like blood filled the rivers of the Nile eons ago.

Nobody got stabbed, mind you, but Lino, during the segment "Lino is sorry" called us out, reading the post "Lino snubs the Popcaks" word-for-word.

"Apparently they griped about it on their little show last night," Lino bemoaned. "At my own fan club, I read 'Lino snubs the Popcaks!'

Even technical director Lou was taken aback.

"Those are pretty harsh words coming from your own fan club," Lou said. "Are you sure that isn't Popcakfans.com?"

Lino explained his side of the story, which gets a passable grade.

"I wanted to make a theological point. I didn't want to go backwards and make fun of James Taylor," Lino explained. Lou even pointed out that Lino did feel bad after the show for not being able to take the call.

So, in hindsight, I guess we should have confronted Lino first before ripping him to shreds without his side of the story. But getting Lino flustered over the air is worth it :)

The rest of the show involved Nose-tradamus predicting the future for callers with some interesting results.

"Hey Lino," one caller began. "I'm going to be camping with my children this weekend, and I-"

"Yes," Lino replied, cutting the caller off. "Yes you will be camping this weekend. Thank you for your call."

It was a fun segment, despite Jeff and Pete calling in and complaining about the segment.

And that set the tone for a fun Friday show. Fridays can be hit or miss, due to it being the last show before the weekend, but the quiet, deadpan tone of Nosetradamus, plus this blog getting smacked around like The Rock wrestling the Mean Street Posse, made for a great Friday show.

After two days of internet exile (using the Wii to mooch off of the neighbor's signal is useful, but sorely lacking in the "I'm able to post to the blog" department), I make my return to the world of Lino blogs!

In honor of the return, feel free to visit a brand new fan club, entitled "Ryan Stewart Rulz!" That's right, a group where our beloved producer, without whom there could be no show, can go and not be mocked, but instead be praised. Unless he does something terrible, which in that case, he will be criticized and chastised, just as Lino is at this site on a day to day basis.

The address is groups.myspace.com/ryanstewartrulz. Because, as everyone knows, as a producer, Ryan Stewart truly rulz.

Godspeed everyone. More after the show!