Unfortunately, he came back.
I heard Bill Handel making fun of Bill Carroll this morning on the radiop. He seemed very releived when he did not have to do a toss to Carroll... guess even Handel hates him.
Bill Carroll Sucks: A Blog That Looks At LA's Most Boring Talk Show Host
Friday, August 26, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
What To Do With Three Hours Of Your Life...
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| Hi! My Name is Bill Carroll, and I am the most Boring person at KFI. Can I suck your brain today? |
1) Not the best alternative, but we put this here for completeness: Silence. Turn your radio completely off. This will seems hard top deal with for a while, but you will soon get used to it. And if you feel the cold turkey shakes or DT's, remember the alternative: Bill Carroll. 'Nuff said.
2) There are other radio shows you can listen to, so change the channel from KFI. Two big alternatives are Michael Medved and Shawn Hannity, though to be honest, I do not really like either of them. Medved can be pretty laid back himself (but nowhere NEAR as boring as Bill Carroll!), and Hannity's show is the same thing, day-in and day-out. But used sparingly, this can give you some talk you crave without having to listen to the triteness that is Bill Carroll.
3) Put on some music, either on the radio or your iPod. Come on, everyone has an iPod (or something like it). Got a smart phone? Try Pandora. Anything but Bill Carroll.
4) Take your lunch right at noon. Take a LONG lunch. Whoa, it's three already? Safe to turn on the radio again!
5) KFI also furnishes some alternatives in their streaming section. You can listen to some Bill Handel or John and Ken you missed... or the always fun Wayne Resnick show. If you are a techie, catch up on Leo LaPorte. And call me crazy, but sometimes I even like that Army dude... what’s' his name in Seattle. Or listen to Rush again. Lots of stuff to fill in the background noise you crave, without sapping your brain cells like BC does.
So there you go, many different ways to fill those three bromidic and clichéd hours that we know as The Bill Carroll Show. The important thing here is to make sure to turn off KFI for the Bill Carroll Show- let them know they can't foist this trainee talker on us anymore. I first thought KFI might have brought him on during Hire The Handicapped week, but that insults all the handicapped people out there; Bill is ponderously stale and inept of his own accord not through any physical deformity. I guess KFI just wanted to save a couple bucks and Bill works for minimum wage...
Monday, June 27, 2011
Why.
Why? Why make an anti-blog? Why promote hate? Why be so negative? Why can't you just turn the dial?
Put in those terms, this seems like a rather ill-conceived project. But then noon rolls around, and I forget to switch the station after Rush... and this pompass windbag of a Scotsman comes on the radio, and I know why.
KFI is a radio station here in Southern California with a decidedly right-wing bent. They are arguably the nation's largest talk station. As such, they have their pick of the best conservative conversationalists in the country, and they have quite a stable of thoroughbreds in the stable. We also expect this of them... we expect professional, articulate, thought-provoking, interesting and sincere hosts. And by and large, that is what we get.
Bill Carroll is the unfortunate exception, the anti-host. Bill scores lacking on all points in the list of expected traits of a good talker, and then some. If he were just bumbling, or stupid, or ill-informed, he would be twice the entertainer he is. But Carroll fails at all levels of measure for a good host. Add his oversized estimation of his own self-importance, and you can see why.
We, as listeners, deserve better than hackneyed radio hacks. And we should expect so much more from the leader in the field. KFI has let us down with Bill Carroll. We need to make our voices heard so that we can have a professional, articulate, thought-provoking, interesting and sincere radio host in LA from noon to three.
Put in those terms, this seems like a rather ill-conceived project. But then noon rolls around, and I forget to switch the station after Rush... and this pompass windbag of a Scotsman comes on the radio, and I know why.
KFI is a radio station here in Southern California with a decidedly right-wing bent. They are arguably the nation's largest talk station. As such, they have their pick of the best conservative conversationalists in the country, and they have quite a stable of thoroughbreds in the stable. We also expect this of them... we expect professional, articulate, thought-provoking, interesting and sincere hosts. And by and large, that is what we get.
Bill Carroll is the unfortunate exception, the anti-host. Bill scores lacking on all points in the list of expected traits of a good talker, and then some. If he were just bumbling, or stupid, or ill-informed, he would be twice the entertainer he is. But Carroll fails at all levels of measure for a good host. Add his oversized estimation of his own self-importance, and you can see why.
We, as listeners, deserve better than hackneyed radio hacks. And we should expect so much more from the leader in the field. KFI has let us down with Bill Carroll. We need to make our voices heard so that we can have a professional, articulate, thought-provoking, interesting and sincere radio host in LA from noon to three.
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