It looks like Carl's announced it, so I guess I can, too.

This Friday, I'm going to be hosting (not the "co" kind) .NET Rocks while Carl is out of town.

Joining me as co-host by way of some futuristic communications technology (possible the thing called "phone") will be Chris Sells, and we're going to be interviewing an MVP from down under named Tony Bain.

So don't forget to tune in on Friday at noon EST as I try to figure out how all the technical crap in the studio works. If you've never heard a talk show host completely screw everything up and take a show down in flames, then this might be your chance.

You remember the scene in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" when Short-Round comes running out of the cabin of the crashing plane and shouts, "NO MO' PAWACHUTES!"

Well, yeah. I remember that part, too.

I expect that, from a broadcasting point of view, this show is going to be sort of like the internet radio love child of "I Love Lucy" and "Lost in Space."

Not to be missed (assuming we even manage to get it up and running in the first place).

You'll (hopefully) be able to tune in here:

    mms://radio1.franklins.net/dnr

Or, from behind a firewall here:

    http://radio1.franklins.net/dnr