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Highs: At long last we were reunited with one of our favorite segments, as Lino puckered up and cranked out an entertaining version of What's Lino Whistling. And as always, Lino Is Sorry generated scores of laughs as we got to hear Lino (and Father Rob) apologize for their on-air indiscretions.
Lows: For someone who's worked in local news before, Lino's inability to understand why a seemingly local news story was featured on ABC's national news broadcast was beyond us. (Our take: A. It was unusual, and B. It was illustrative of the oppressive heat that the entire northeast was experiencing at the time.) And Lino's conversation with Father Rob about the way he always wonders about the mundane details of Jesus' life was only slightly more interesting than actually hearing him throw out a detail or two.
Our take: A good show that ran out of gas 30 minutes before it ended.
Grade: B-
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Show review for 6/21/2012
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Highs: The hilarious "Mystic Wayne" prank clip was a great way to lead in to some high quality Minor Confessions, with the added bonus of being forced to listen to Lionel Richie's Hello five times over. And who doesn't enjoy spending an hour talking about Lino's love life (or lack thereof) with Anthony Buono?
Lows: None that we could hear.
Our take: The last few minutes of the show seemed a little soft (almost like Lino ran out of things to talk about), but overall a very solid outing.
Grade: B+
Highs: The hilarious "Mystic Wayne" prank clip was a great way to lead in to some high quality Minor Confessions, with the added bonus of being forced to listen to Lionel Richie's Hello five times over. And who doesn't enjoy spending an hour talking about Lino's love life (or lack thereof) with Anthony Buono?
Lows: None that we could hear.
Our take: The last few minutes of the show seemed a little soft (almost like Lino ran out of things to talk about), but overall a very solid outing.
Grade: B+
Show review for 6/20/2012
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Highs: In a "damning with faint praise" sort of way, Boring Catholic Radio actually wasn't too bad overall, with the quality of the segment improving as it went on. We had been critical in the past of the segment because it was beginning to sound very forced, but that wasn't as evident this time around.
Lows: The sound clips segment that took up most of the first hour wasn't as entertaining as we hoped it would be… they were all decent, but not decent enough to spend an entire hour on. And although Boring Catholic Radio wasn't bad, it still doesn't hold a candle to the first time Lino did this segment way back in 2007. We've said it before and we'll say it again: if Lino wouldn't try as hard it would sound more natural and he'd have another true classic on his hands.
Our take: We're oscillating between giving this one a "B" or a "C". Fortunately for Lino, we're in a good mood today.
Grade: B-
Highs: In a "damning with faint praise" sort of way, Boring Catholic Radio actually wasn't too bad overall, with the quality of the segment improving as it went on. We had been critical in the past of the segment because it was beginning to sound very forced, but that wasn't as evident this time around.
Lows: The sound clips segment that took up most of the first hour wasn't as entertaining as we hoped it would be… they were all decent, but not decent enough to spend an entire hour on. And although Boring Catholic Radio wasn't bad, it still doesn't hold a candle to the first time Lino did this segment way back in 2007. We've said it before and we'll say it again: if Lino wouldn't try as hard it would sound more natural and he'd have another true classic on his hands.
Our take: We're oscillating between giving this one a "B" or a "C". Fortunately for Lino, we're in a good mood today.
Grade: B-
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Show review for 6/19/2012
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Highs: In what was easily the most hilarious Eleventh Commandment segment we've ever heard, Father Rob proposed that you should always eat what is put in front of you when you're somebody's guest... but Lino and the callers shot so many holes into Father Rob's commandment that it was unrecognizable by the time the segment was over. As an added bonus, Father Rob got so irritated when Lino advocated just serving pizza when hosting guests that he mocked a phone call placing a pizza order... and started a new catchphrase for the show by inadvertently addressing the pizza at the beginning of the call instead of the restaurant that makes them: "Hello, Pizza? I'd like to order..." We think it's going to be a while before he can live that one down.
Lows: As brilliant as the last hour of the show was, the first half of the show was a complete dog. To begin with, Lino spent waaaaaay too much time pondering why he finds daily Mass so boring and taking calls that tried to convince him otherwise. We won't judge him for the subject (who hasn't gotten bored at Mass before?), but that segment deserved 20 minutes tops, not an entire hour. Following that was a completely lackluster edition of Lino's Casting Couch, a typically good segment that was done in by the rather uninteresting story choice of Joseph, Potiphar, and his wife. We're wondering why he didn't choose something like the story of Naboth, King Ahab, and Jezebel, which is not only more intriguing but would've coincided nicely with the day's Scripture readings. And to top it all off, it didn't help that Lino (and Father Rob to a lesser extent) kept pronouncing Potiphar's name as "Potimer" the entire time. All in all, our brains were pretty much on autopilot during the show's first 100 minutes... and that's not a good thing.
Our take: The third hour by itself is a classic that would've earned an easy "A" from us. Too bad it was preceded by an hour-and-a-half of us looking at our watch wondering when it would end. At least Lino got some good hate mail out of it.
Grade: C+
Highs: In what was easily the most hilarious Eleventh Commandment segment we've ever heard, Father Rob proposed that you should always eat what is put in front of you when you're somebody's guest... but Lino and the callers shot so many holes into Father Rob's commandment that it was unrecognizable by the time the segment was over. As an added bonus, Father Rob got so irritated when Lino advocated just serving pizza when hosting guests that he mocked a phone call placing a pizza order... and started a new catchphrase for the show by inadvertently addressing the pizza at the beginning of the call instead of the restaurant that makes them: "Hello, Pizza? I'd like to order..." We think it's going to be a while before he can live that one down.
Lows: As brilliant as the last hour of the show was, the first half of the show was a complete dog. To begin with, Lino spent waaaaaay too much time pondering why he finds daily Mass so boring and taking calls that tried to convince him otherwise. We won't judge him for the subject (who hasn't gotten bored at Mass before?), but that segment deserved 20 minutes tops, not an entire hour. Following that was a completely lackluster edition of Lino's Casting Couch, a typically good segment that was done in by the rather uninteresting story choice of Joseph, Potiphar, and his wife. We're wondering why he didn't choose something like the story of Naboth, King Ahab, and Jezebel, which is not only more intriguing but would've coincided nicely with the day's Scripture readings. And to top it all off, it didn't help that Lino (and Father Rob to a lesser extent) kept pronouncing Potiphar's name as "Potimer" the entire time. All in all, our brains were pretty much on autopilot during the show's first 100 minutes... and that's not a good thing.
Our take: The third hour by itself is a classic that would've earned an easy "A" from us. Too bad it was preceded by an hour-and-a-half of us looking at our watch wondering when it would end. At least Lino got some good hate mail out of it.
Grade: C+
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