Jimmy Church

[Juan]

Where did he get all his information on celebrities and their ancient past lives in Atlantis, etc. from channeling?

We all know that people are incapable of making up stuff themselves.  It's much like the transistor which had to be reverse engineered from Roswell.  Who taught us to reverse engineer?  It must be channeling.  Or a portal (TOS "All Our Yesterdays").

[McPhallus]

Who was that guest that was on last night?
Where did he get all his information on celebrities and their ancient past lives in Atlantis, etc. from channeling?
He said George Lucas was the reincarnation of a real Anikan Skywalker...

That was Boland.

[qaddisin]

tl;dr version of this post: I stopped listening to FTB, but not because of the twitter thing.

Now, if you have an attention span longer than that of the average internet user, I present my critical analysis of why I no longer enjoy the program.

I started listening to the show at the very beginning, and at that point I thought it was pretty good (think I was one of the first posts in this thread). It wasn't Art in his heyday, but certainly better than Noory and Clyde Lewis. I figured he'd work out the rough patches as he went, and eventually polish himself into a decent talk show host.

So the more I listened, the more I noticed some things. First, that the "conversation on my couch" statement really meant  "It's my house, so I'm going to eventually let you talk, but not until I have the chance to talk about every personal thing that's ever happened to me related or unrelated to this particular subject." Second, he sounds more and more like a top 40 pop station DJ trying to conduct an interview. I kept waiting for him to interject "Twelfth caller wins two tickets to the monster truck extravaganza this Sunday" in the middle of his guest talking. Third, the "sitting in for Art Bell" thing got real old, real quick. Even though Jimmy sounds like he has an ego the size of southern California, he still needs to placate the audience with a "don't worry, Art will come back soon". And finally, the website is the absolute worst thing in the world to try and navigate through. I figured Keith would have stepped in at some point and at least given Jimmy the current artbell.com template to work with, but instead it's like an old geocities website. Whenever I went there to look for guest information, I expected to be greeted by midi music. And don't get me started on the clunkiness of the forum.

Overall, his style is not suited to a long form interview. He's better off just having a topic for a show and taking callers offering their opinion and riffing on that. Unfortunately he's basically doing a live podcast instead of drive time AM radio, so that option is out the window.

If you enjoy his show, that's cool. I'm not going to be the internet asshole and tell you that you're wrong. Nor will I criticize his program on the basis that he may or may not have artificially inflated his popularity. I guarantee you that every person that posts here would engage in some form of shameless self promotion if they undertook a similar endeavor. I listened to the show and gave it more than a fair chance, and have just not found it enjoyable enough to continue supporting.

[Camazotz Automat]

Although I will say.... Von Daniken is a rationalist compared to that batshit crazy Boland guy.  Boland is up there with Mel Waters.

hahaha

[cweb]

He said George Lucas was the reincarnation of a real Anikan Skywalker...

So... Jake Lloyd or Hayden Christensen?

I prefer to think of Sebastian Shaw.

[Yogitad]

It was embarrassing listening to Boland . He sounded like the John Loveitt character on SNL , " Aaaaa......yeah, that's the ticket!".

[Tarbaby]

tl;dr version of this post: I stopped listening to FTB, but not because of the twitter thing.

Now, if you have an attention span longer than that of the average internet user, I present my critical analysis of why I no longer enjoy the program.

I started listening to the show at the very beginning, and at that point I thought it was pretty good (think I was one of the first posts in this thread). It wasn't Art in his heyday, but certainly better than Noory and Clyde Lewis. I figured he'd work out the rough patches as he went, and eventually polish himself into a decent talk show host.

So the more I listened, the more I noticed some things. First, that the "conversation on my couch" statement really meant  "It's my house, so I'm going to eventually let you talk, but not until I have the chance to talk about every personal thing that's ever happened to me related or unrelated to this particular subject." Second, he sounds more and more like a top 40 pop station DJ trying to conduct an interview. I kept waiting for him to interject "Twelfth caller wins two tickets to the monster truck extravaganza this Sunday" in the middle of his guest talking. Third, the "sitting in for Art Bell" thing got real old, real quick. Even though Jimmy sounds like he has an ego the size of southern California, he still needs to placate the audience with a "don't worry, Art will come back soon". And finally, the website is the absolute worst thing in the world to try and navigate through. I figured Keith would have stepped in at some point and at least given Jimmy the current artbell.com template to work with, but instead it's like an old geocities website. Whenever I went there to look for guest information, I expected to be greeted by midi music. And don't get me started on the clunkiness of the forum.

Overall, his style is not suited to a long form interview. He's better off just having a topic for a show and taking callers offering their opinion and riffing on that. Unfortunately he's basically doing a live podcast instead of drive time AM radio, so that option is out the window.

If you enjoy his show, that's cool. I'm not going to be the internet asshole and tell you that you're wrong. Nor will I criticize his program on the basis that he may or may not have artificially inflated his popularity. I guarantee you that every person that posts here would engage in some form of shameless self promotion if they undertook a similar endeavor. I listened to the show and gave it more than a fair chance, and have just not found it enjoyable enough to continue supporting.

Aha! Good to see you post again.

[Sumthins Goin On]

His website blows.
I am just lost in navigation as well. When I refresh the page, it takes a looooong time to redraw. Don't even ask about starting my browser with the restore previous tabs function.... it's the only one that gives up loading. After everything else loads in about 30 seconds (some 50 tabs) I have to refresh his tab just to see it.
It's 2014 get with it man. See line 1 above...

And finally, the website is the absolute worst thing in the world to try and navigate through. I figured Keith would have stepped in at some point and at least given Jimmy the current artbell.com template to work with, but instead it's like an old geocities website. Whenever I went there to look for guest information, I expected to be greeted by midi music. And don't get me started on the clunkiness of the forum.

[Yogitad]

I'm with you guys , the website IS clunky - why

[The Neverender]

tl;dr version of this post: I stopped listening to FTB, but not because of the twitter thing.

Now, if you have an attention span longer than that of the average internet user, I present my critical analysis of why I no longer enjoy the program.

I started listening to the show at the very beginning, and at that point I thought it was pretty good (think I was one of the first posts in this thread). It wasn't Art in his heyday, but certainly better than Noory and Clyde Lewis. I figured he'd work out the rough patches as he went, and eventually polish himself into a decent talk show host.

So the more I listened, the more I noticed some things. First, that the "conversation on my couch" statement really meant  "It's my house, so I'm going to eventually let you talk, but not until I have the chance to talk about every personal thing that's ever happened to me related or unrelated to this particular subject." Second, he sounds more and more like a top 40 pop station DJ trying to conduct an interview. I kept waiting for him to interject "Twelfth caller wins two tickets to the monster truck extravaganza this Sunday" in the middle of his guest talking. Third, the "sitting in for Art Bell" thing got real old, real quick. Even though Jimmy sounds like he has an ego the size of southern California, he still needs to placate the audience with a "don't worry, Art will come back soon". And finally, the website is the absolute worst thing in the world to try and navigate through. I figured Keith would have stepped in at some point and at least given Jimmy the current artbell.com template to work with, but instead it's like an old geocities website. Whenever I went there to look for guest information, I expected to be greeted by midi music. And don't get me started on the clunkiness of the forum.

Overall, his style is not suited to a long form interview. He's better off just having a topic for a show and taking callers offering their opinion and riffing on that. Unfortunately he's basically doing a live podcast instead of drive time AM radio, so that option is out the window.

If you enjoy his show, that's cool. I'm not going to be the internet asshole and tell you that you're wrong. Nor will I criticize his program on the basis that he may or may not have artificially inflated his popularity. I guarantee you that every person that posts here would engage in some form of shameless self promotion if they undertook a similar endeavor. I listened to the show and gave it more than a fair chance, and have just not found it enjoyable enough to continue supporting.

Now you've just ruined it... This will be in the back of my mind every time I listen...

[McPhallus]

Bespoke Radio for the Asses

[Sumthins Goin On]

The website is not that bad.... RIGHT! No Jimmy it plain outright sucks. One mans opinion.

[PrairieGhost]

Isn't this a repeat?

[nooryisawesome]

1,000 CONSECUTIVE Russian egg accounts on his profile. ONE THOUSAND.
Did I mention Russian?

All those others words just outlined what I have already said about the Twitter audit sites, so that was a waste on your part, too.

Did I mention the ONE THOUSAND consecutive Russian egg accounts? Don't want to believe me? Just go look at his followers and then come back with your new excuse.

FAKE TO BLACK with FAKEY FAKE.

Ok so will you not eat at chillis because they have fake followers?

Or buy a ps4 because sony has some fake followers.

I don't think anyone cares about fake followers, other than the fact the botched coverup was slightly amusing.

[Bart Ell]

Ok so will you not eat at chillis because they have fake followers?

Or buy a ps4 because sony has some fake followers.

I don't think anyone cares about fake followers, other than the fact the botched coverup was slightly amusing.

I won't eat at Chili's because I have taste buds.

Where are your updates on the number of YouTube subscriptions he has? You seemed really pumped up about that a short while ago...

[onan]

I tried to care, I just can't.

[nooryisawesome]

I won't eat at Chili's because I have taste buds.

Where are your updates on the number of YouTube subscriptions he has? You seemed really pumped up about that a short while ago...

Look I'm just saying it's absurd not to eat at a restaurant, buy a product , listen to a radio show, etc because of fake twitter followers.

Also not sure why your infatuated with the issue.

[Juan]

It's like my friends who are boycotting Amazon because they believe, somehow, that Amazon giving an indy writer 70% of the sales price of a book is exploiting the writer, while supporting traditional publishers who pay about 12-15%.

[nooryisawesome]

I think noory lieing on air about how coast to coast has "more listners than ever" is worse than fake twitter followers. Mother trucker has 7 million LESS than Art did.

[Bart Ell]

It's like my friends who are boycotting Amazon because they believe, somehow, that Amazon giving an indy writer 70% of the sales price of a book is exploiting the writer, while supporting traditional publishers who pay about 12-15%.

Did the "indy writer" come here and made up the poorest excuse in the history of the internet., too?

The issue is not fake followers, it's the bad corporate rock attitude the Chuuch carries himself with. Shitty website, pretends there is a back office full of monkeys and producers working on his "show", the stupid Google Earth discovery, over talking the guest, his knuckle dragging graphic fartist... but go ahead and focus on fake followers as the point here.

But but but... the Noory lies are much worse that the Twitter lies so that makes Fake to Black the betterer show, ok????1 and Chuuch has sooooo many subscribers on YouTube, see? see? Those are real ok??? and if they are not then what does it matter, I am sure Popeye's fakes them too but you still want their chicken.

[nooryisawesome]

Did the "indy writer" come here and made up the poorest excuse in the history of the internet., too?

The issue is not fake followers, it's the bad corporate rock attitude the Chuuch carries himself with. Shitty website, pretends there is a back office full of monkeys and producers working on his "show", the stupid Google Earth discovery, over talking the guest, his knuckle dragging graphic fartist... but go ahead and focus on fake followers as the point here.

All of that is valid. The fake twitter followers are irrealavent.

[vegasrocker]

The issue is not fake followers, it's the bad corporate rock attitude the Chuuch carries himself with. Shitty website, pretends there is a back office full of monkeys and producers working on his "show", the stupid Google Earth discovery, over talking the guest, his knuckle dragging graphic fartist... but go ahead and focus on fake followers as the point here.

But but but... the Noory lies are much worse that the Twitter lies so that makes Fake to Black the betterer show, ok????1 and Chuuch has sooooo many subscribers on YouTube, see? see? Those are real ok??? and if they are not then what does it matter, I am sure Popeye's fakes them too but you still want their chicken.

LOLOL   

[Bart Ell]

[vegasrocker]

[Bart Ell]

[jazmunda]

[basswood]

Second best thread ever. 

[Catsmile]

[vegasrocker]

Take your Man Crush and shove it!!! 

[Bart Ell]