I think it's sad that it's come to this. At one point when 'Johnny the Bethelite' first appeared, I was willing to give Rick the benefit of the doubt and assume that he had simply been naïve in believing his guest was actually an active Bethelite with (supposed) new dirt to dish on what is going on behind closed doors at Crooklyn. It became apparent that 'Johnny the Bethelite' was yanking everyone's chain and was a fraud. At that point, Rick should have said "yep, I got duped and I'll be alot more careful next time I invite someone like this on my conference call'. (this is assuming that 'Johnny the Bethelite' wasn't some cheap invention of Rick's in the first place to try and drum up more business).
He didn't. Instead, he did what the Governing Body does when they back themselves into a corner: Rather than admit they've been wrong, they stubbornly dig their heels in even more, insist that they are right and everyone else is wrong, and verbally bash anyone who dares to point out inconsistencies, errors or outright nonsense.
I fail to see why Rick is continually trying to promote 'Johnny the Bethelite' as a legetimate person when it is obvious he's anything but. I find it also troublesome that when Lovelylil exposed the way she had been treated by Rick and Co. for her daring to question 'Johnny', he outright lied about it and then simply ignored it along with her request for an apology. Instead, he seemed to get some sort of weird thrill that the topics on here were giving his Six Screens of the Watchtower free publicity even though it was all negative publicity and not good for his cause. This too is a leftover mentality of the WTS itself: ignore all the bad exposure and pretend that you're still right and the rest of the world is wrong.
Rick, if you have any decency, you would publically apologize to LL for what happened and admit that your guest speaker is no more real than Puff the Magic Dragon. Mouthy/Grace has always been after me to call into your show and I was actually considering it, but I certainly won't now.