¡En Fuego!

I normally don't make fun of our pal Gus Lloyd… he's a good guy and he gets too much of it from Lino and friends as it is. But this clip from today's Seize The Day is just too good to pass up. Gus is discussing one of his upcoming guests: a former Episcopal bishop who converted to Catholicism. It's his second such guest this week, and Gus is just beside himself with awe…

Say what you want about Gus, but you've gotta admit that he's En Fuego for his program and for the Faith.

The MINT virus spreads…

The following clip is from this morning's broadcast of Seize The Day. Gus was taking calls on what people say for their Act of Contrition during confession (be it the traditional text, something spontaneous, etc.). Robert calls in and right off the bat offers us this…

I wonder if a vaccine for this particular virus is in developMINT yet…

Lino's Lenten workout

So, after the listener voting for what Lino should do/not do for Lent ended in a three-way tie between giving up Chipotle, attending daily Mass, and being nice to Jared and/or Gus Lloyd, it came down to Christine to break the tie. What she came up with is intriguing:

1. Lino has to attend daily Mass
2. He can't eat Chipotle on any days of the week containing the letter 't' (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday)
   
3. He can't insult Gus Lloyd on the other three weekdays (Monday, Wednesday and Friday)

Personally I like what Christine came up with, but I don't know if Lino's going to be able to handle a schedule like this. Of course, this just gives him plenty of opportunities to entertain his listeners by screwing the whole thing up. As Lino pointed out, though, the real person who gets screwed in all of this is Jared, who sadly was left out of Christine's decision entirely. Poor guy... I shall eat an Italian BMT from Subway tomorrow on Thursday in his honor.

UPDATE 2/26: Yesterday he added the Liturgy of the Hours to his Lenten obligation. Now I'm really interested to see if he can keep this up.

I waited all week for this?

So, on Monday Lino promises swift retribution after Gus releases his hit "Catholic Guy Who Stole Chirstmas" single last week. Swift appears to be a relative term with Lino, as Monday turns into Tuesday (when we're again promised retribution), which turns into Wednesday (where he drags us along one more time). Finally, on Thursday afternoon as I was getting in my car to go home from work I turned on the radio, and lo and behold he finally delivered...

My first reaction: I waited all week to hear an infomercial?
My second reaction: It took three days to come up with this? Lino has no life; he either should've been able to crank this out in a day or this should've been a much higher quality bit.

More intemperate thoughts:

• My two-year-old daughter can sing better than Lino. Hell, my cat can sing better than Lino.
• I love how he promotes this as "eight songs" or an "entire album" versus Gus' one song. I guess majoring in theology doesn't require more than third-grade math skills. Gus takes the time to write and record a complete song with six full verses. Lino slaps together one verse per song for eight songs. So that's eight verses as opposed to six. I'll give him credit for putting out more "music"... and then promptly take it away for having to hear him sing it.
  
• He only used the tired "Dog and Pony" line twice. He also called Seize The Day "just okay" in one song, and overall his first two songs were really weak compared to the others (where he finally started to throw out random insults at a decent clip). I'm stunned... he must be getting soft.
• He's really got a Tampa fetish, doesn't he? He can't stop talking about it in his clips. I guess he must've been impressed by his spring break visit earlier this year.
  
• To set the record straight: Gus had his bike stolen twice and broke his ankle three times. But since when are details important to Lino?

Bottom line: Lino says he hit it out of the park. Neither Lou nor Fr. Rob were willing to go that far. This was more like a bunt single at most.

UPDATE 12/22: For the third day in a row he's playing his little infomercial. What's the matter Lino? Don't have enough original material to fill up eight minutes of airtime?

Oh by the way, you're making such a big deal of being the only live host on the channel today. Yet you're taking off the day after Christmas, when all of those people who received Sirius and XM receivers for Christmas are activating their subscriptions. I would've figured that you wouldn't miss a prime opportunity to attract (or repel) new listeners with a live show. At least a certain morning show host on the channel is smart enough to have a live show on Friday.