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Quote from: Lunger on February 13, 2012, 12:52:04 PM

I have actually heard That Idiot Noory pronounce 'Rodriguez' as  'Rod-Reeee-Quez'  just like Nessman.

And this is a person that lives in a state where half the place names are in Spanish.  Not to mention many of the residents have Spanish surnames.

Some professional broadcaster.

Quote from: Morgus on February 12, 2012, 01:18:41 AM
That article is very old from 2004 soon after Noory took over as main host and when he intially planned on retiring at the Mayan calender end date of Dec 21, 2012.
But a few years later he said on the air that he changed that and now has no plans to ever retire and negotiated a contract extension to 2016 at least... 

I took his comments about retiring after '2012' to be a plea from someone that knew he was sub-par bolster his status in the paranormal world, maybe try to generate more likability with 'thuh lissners', and help persuade keep him around as the 'Mayan Calendar Guy'   When he realized they would keep him on no matter how bad he was, he started back-pedaling from retiring at the end of 2012.

Too bad it was just another norryesque lie and they aren't holding him to it.

Quote from: valdez on February 11, 2012, 05:47:43 AM
... George said he was called in by some network folks and asked what he "believed." ...

Why would they do that?  In no way does George push any boundries or step on any toes (except for those ex-fans of a once great radio show), other than vague condemnation of the people that provide medicine.  I doubt any of the execs ever hear the show or even know what the daily topics are.  Even if they did, in no way would they take George Noory seriously.  It's fairly clear that to them it's just filler to provide content in the middle of the night they hope someone is listening to.

If anyone at PremRat had any concerns about the direction of the show, John BS Wells would not be the new weekend guy.  This has the earmarks of just another lie to plump up George's ego.

Quote from: msauve on February 10, 2012, 05:21:53 PM
... it's the only of its kind to have the high-caliber of guests that C2C can draw...

Less and less good guests seem willing to come on with George Noory, it's down to maybe a few a month.  And George manages to derail them to the point where not much of interest gets through..

George refuses to prepare or ask questions designed to get interesting or relevent information from the guest.  He is incapable of asking  even the most obvious follow up questons.

If the guest somehow manages to wiggle away and head toward an interesting topic, George quickly interupts and pulls them back.  George will allow a guest to spend several minutes on background, building towards an interesting point, and just as they are about to make it, another interruption - a cue card question, a commercial break, going to a caller, never to return. 

When is the last time George made a good point, or asked a good question?

Quote from: Ben Shockley on February 09, 2012, 06:17:28 PM
Oh, give Georgie some credit!  At least he's apparently learned that the "sand script texas" weren't really written on sand!
Of course, he still hasn't figured out why they're called "sand scripts," but he's cool and pro enough to play savvy ~~~

Lol.  I wonder if these guests just dread being bored and having idiodic conversations with a nooron, or if some have come around to a point where they can look at them as sort of like a vacation day - a show they come on and not have to think too much.

Quote from: Area51 on February 05, 2012, 02:31:03 PM
... a way to bring you back where you don't directly compete with your old show, hurting what is left of what you have built...

That show has long since disappeared, only the name remains...

Quote from: Gassy Man on February 04, 2012, 12:13:49 AM
Did George just reference the long-dead Ayatollah Khomeini as the current leader of Iran in one of his headlines reads or did I mishear him? ??

George isn't interested and doesn't care.  He's on record as claiming to be an expert in the Mid-East because when he was a kid he went with his father to coffee shops, and dad would talk to his friends about whut was goin' on over there.

If someone were to tell George that the Ayatollah was dead, George's follow up would be something along the lines of wondering if he's be on Facebook and Twitter, and how many friends and followers he'd have.

Quote from: Paper*Boy on February 03, 2012, 02:55:00 PM

There is a difference between 'yellin' and screamin' ' and having a discussion which incudes differing views.  When George is delivering some sermon on one of his favorite topics, or when he has on a guest that he agrees with, he thrashes around all tough and macho putting his views out there in his modulated deep radio guy 'listen to me' voice as if he's some great expert and Defender of Truth.  He also likes to have it reinforced by having several like minded guests on over a short period of time, or short first hour segments with the same guests on repeatedly. 

Then someone will come on the show and at some point it turns out they have a different opinion on some topic George regularly beats his breast about, and George is absolutely silent. It's more weird than anything else, but it it just further evidence that George Noory doesn'thave the abiliy to articulate his thoughts or defend them.

Quote from: VtaGeezer on February 03, 2012, 12:04:38 PM
A few pointed questions...OK...but I think don't think Noory's job is to debate or challenge guests.  Wells has adopted that approach and I think it really damages the format.  Besides, Noory never seems to gain any real knowledge to support his positions'; eg Sitchen's blatherings; and would be blown out of the water by almost any if he tried to challenge on points.

There is a difference between 'yellin' and screamin' ' and having a discussion which incudes differing views.  When George is delivering some sermon on one of his favorite topics, or when he has on a guest that he agrees with, he thrashes around all tough and macho putting his views out there in his modulated deep radio guy 'listen to me' voice as if he's some great expert and Defender of Truth.  He also likes to have it reinforced by having several like minded guests on over a short period of time, or short first hour segments with the same guests on repeatedly. 

Then someone will come on the show and at some point it turns out they have a different opinion on some topic George regularly beats his breast about, and George is absolutely silent. It's more weird than anything else, but it it just further evedence that George Noory doesn'thave the abiliy to articulate his thoughts or defend them. 

Sherman Oaks, CA, PremRat building. 

Somewhere right now George Noory is being coached, practicing saying the word February.   

During the show, without a net - other than the 20 second delay - George will panic and continue to just say 'Feb'.


Welcome to February, George.

Quote from: Jasmine on January 31, 2012, 03:48:42 PM
I wonder if the zombie flick on my date with Georgie would be Premiere's production of
'Night of the Living Noorys'...

Oh how I would love to hang out with George Noory for a night or two.  Compliment him, talk to him, gain his trust, open him up, ask him about the show, his career over the years, growing up, find out what he does all day, what he's doing during the show, his ideas of self promotion, his concept of show prep, how he developed the show long term into what it is now.

George is just quite the character study, how did one person get to be like that, all those quirks and flaws, so wrong for his job, the awfulness, willing to be publicly mocked and ridiculed, yet seemingly so self satisfied... 

Quote from: HorrorReporter on January 31, 2012, 06:12:10 AM
George also said the Mayan '144,000 DOLLAR cycle' comes to an end 'next year'.  What the hell was going on with him last night ? Drunk or tired.. Or beyond giving up

Bored and boring?

Quote from: BobGrau on January 30, 2012, 12:55:39 PM
I'm going out on a limb here: I actually quite like ufo phil. His tongue is firmly in his cheek, where it should be.

noory sucks.

Had a good laugh the first time I heard it, obviously making fun of George Noory.  Then he adopts it as his end of the week tune.

Quote from: 11angeleyes11 on January 30, 2012, 04:37:55 PM
He needs a sultry and warming song like "Midnight in the Cave." to close out the weeks in St. Louis.

Carrying onward, George could have a version of "Midnight on the Ocean" to close-out the Los Angeles shows.

Tommy on Ukulele doing Tiny Tim covers to close out the Hawaii shows.

Quote from: Morgus on January 30, 2012, 12:28:52 AM
George Knapp has had many technical problems for some of his past C2CAM programs - wonder if it could be caused by some kind of sabotage?
Tonight Knapp started on the air and couldn't hear his guests at all, though listeners on the radio could hear them.
So for the first 15minutes or so, he continued an interview by asking each guest a question (they could hear him, though he could not hear the reply) and waiting a few minutes before asking another question.
That must be similar to how Noory interviews guests, since Noory seems to never hear or remember the guest's answers... 

Thankfully for Knapp, the technical problem was fixed after 15minutes or so.

I used to try to listen to his shows, and it seemed like he was forever having technical difficulties.  Too often for it to be sabotage -seems like that would only work a few times before everyone got wise.

I picture George at some local makeshift studio at a Las Vegas station, the people that know what they are doing long gone for the day.  I don't think the ratings are anywhere near what is claimed for Coast anymore.  So there George sits, not really a radio guy, at the mercy of late night interns on a show no one is listening to anyway.

One thing, we know PremRat doesn't have a lot of interest in C2C, and must not be putting much money into it either.

After a month of reading about Wells' "Crank-to-Crank AM" Saturday night programs, I have to say Coast is still dead..

Quote from: Nebraska888 on January 27, 2012, 11:45:48 PM

I SOOOOOO AGREEEEE!!!!  We can turn on ANY radio or television program to learn about economics, politics, health issues, etc...etc.....

I WANT THE STRANGE, THE UNUSUAL, THE BIZARRE, THE UNCONVENTIONAL......COAST SHOULD BE UNIQUE....NOT A REPEAT OF WHAT WE HEAR ALL DAY LONG!

That would require effort.  George has made it clear around the office that no effort is to be put into the show.

He knows he sucks, so he's afraid to be away for long too often.  So he takes Friday's off here and there to use up vacation days.

Probably out investigating something paranormal, like... how to make it rain in Vegas..

Quote from: b_dubb on January 25, 2012, 08:40:10 PM
... the guy sounds reasonably coherent when he's being interviewed on shows.  maybe he's reading from a script there.  and struggles when interviewing cause he can't think on his feet.  or sitting on his ass.  whichever applies...

George is great when the topic is George Noory

Quote from: b_dubb on January 25, 2012, 05:37:05 PM
A tweet from Ian...

Any word on his 'tinnitus'?  I wonder if it's all but cleared up, not having to deal with the Noory staff on a weekly basis.

Quote from: Morgus on January 25, 2012, 01:10:44 AM
Noory reported they taped him today for his bits for the next season of the TV show Ancient Aliens.
They must record him for an hour talking about anything and they later edit bits of that in to different shows.
Thats how it appeared in previous seasons when Noory showed up as a talking head, often not seeming to relate very well to that episode's subject. 

He doesn't seem to know much or have anything to add - just like on his own show.

The only reason they have him on - the ONLY reason - is to plug the show on C2C and have their producer Giorgio Tsoukalos on a few times.  They know he's boring, sucks, and adds nothing.  Everyone knows.

Quote from: Morgus on January 24, 2012, 06:20:17 PM
Art had his own frequent regular callers with their own strangeness over the years.
JC started out with him for example in the mid 90s, however the current JC caller might be a fake impersonator - his voice sounds different than the "old" JC and the new one behaves different as well.
In the early to mid 90's Art Bell's open lines were more about politics, so he had callers like Doc Democrat and Charlie Liberal that critized Art often in their calls for his conservative stance on issues.
In the classic days when Art ran the show out of his home studio in Pahrump, Nevada he famously took unscreened calls for open lines but he had a 10sec delay or so that he could use to prevent bad language from getting out if needed.
Art would play with a strange caller at times especially with JC - often using a voice changer to sound like a devil.
If a caller had a strange but interesting story he would go with it - the unscreened callers made possible some of the classic tales in the mid 90s including the Mel's Hole story, Mad Man Markham's time travel experiments, Bug's bigfoot burial story, and much more. Such interesting callers would be brought back later to tell more of their story as a guest.
Art's special topic lines like for time travelers, area 51 employees, etc brought out some fascinating caller stories - trying to figure out if they were real or not was part of the fun. Art even sometimes played a game called "truth or trash" where a caller would tell a story and then other callers could vot if it was truth or trash. Art sometimes had an onair debate for a half-hour between two callers with opposing views. In the mid 90s, many nights were all open lines including these caller driven segments with no guest inteview - in fact the guest interviews were a rarity back then. The show started as a strictly caller driven show with Art reading a few news stories and discussing news and political events with the callers.

When he had a guest interview and took caller questions for the guest, Art would screen calls himself, but he never had anybody else as a call screener, he ran everything himself - unlike today where Noory has a big staff who do all the background work for him and put callers on queues.
In the classic days with Art, if you called one of his several phone lines you would not be put on hold, you had to keep ringing until he answered the line and then the caller was immediately on the air.

However in later years (post 2003) when Art retuned from retirements or was guest hosting especially remotely from Manila, he didn't have the complete control anymore. He had to rely on the same staff and call screeners plus caller queue system the other hosts do now from remote locations. So the days of unscreened calls are long gone now. 

I sure miss Art. 

And to go from that to George Noory.  No wonder George's suckage is being documented all over the internet...

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on January 24, 2012, 11:21:23 AM
    That's it. Either the call screeners are the dumbest bastards on Earth, repeatedly getting tricked by mental defectives..or-more likely- they are under instruction to put those loonies on because the "hierarchy" at C2C believes that they are a vital component to the broadcast. And it shows the contempt toward the audience...or maybe they really are under the impression that only maladaptives are listening.

I don't think there are all that many listeners out there that tune in for the whole program and care enough to call. 

We've seen the articles about PremRat having paid callers.  We know Tommy will mostly only put on callers that either sound insane or have a lower IQ than George Noory.  We know George Noory will have someone call Lionel Fanthorpe or Richard C if he runs out of cue cards, dumps the guest, and needs to fill out the rest of the show. 

Would it be a stretch to assume when things get slow, the call screeners have a list of previous caller/listeners they call to see if they want to come on the air again?  Or does Bill from West Hartford  really have a knack for out speed-dialing hundreds of other callers? 

Quote from: WOTR on January 24, 2012, 01:14:21 PM
... Letting somebody away with that while claiming that he is "Nostradamus like" is just wrong.

"Sumpthin's gonna happen"

- George Noory

Quote from: Morgus on January 21, 2012, 01:40:52 AM
Noory must have this guest on to talk about curses, since purportedly he himself tried to put a curse on a young woman years ago because she spurned his advances? ...

Wasn't that from his own book, the first one?

George really should read through the books he 'writes' before they come out.

Quote from: Lovely Bones on January 21, 2012, 09:35:19 AM
I know this is the Wells thread, but this line struck me after a comment Georgie Boy made last night:

I want this show to inform you, tell you about things that are going on in the world, help make your health better.  Oh sure, you'll occasionally hear the weird thing . . .

IOW, in Georgie's mind, it's not Coast anymore, but his chance to play Super Journalist and Infomercial Master.

George 'Wer Jus Havin Some Fon' Noory is also downplaying the 'weird' in an attempt to stay politically viable, in case duty calls... 

Remember, George is not interested in any of this stuff (or the world around him for that matter), never has been.  He's pretty interested in advancing George Noory though (although he sure goes about it in an odd way).

Quote from: expat on January 21, 2012, 11:46:56 AM
        Last night Noory told one of his favorite stories -- the one about how he walked out on a gorgeous date after she said she hated animals...

Given George's glee when there are stories of mutilated or dead animals to read during the 'news' segment, or his obvious discomfort when he was relating stories about having a dog named 'Casey', it's pretty clear George is either afriad of animals or just very uncomfortable around them.

If I had to guess, it would be a woman walking out on HIM after finding out his attitude towards them, except I can't really picture him out on a date (thank goodness, that mental image is a blank).

Quote from: tmock00 on January 21, 2012, 02:12:39 AM
... I'm turning it off. 

This show sucks so hard.

On the way home, I turned it on just to hear how ol' George was doing.  Been awhile.

Open lines and first caller I heard just called to tell George what a gracious man he is and to thank and congradulate his mother on raising him.  She almost had to be one of Ian's ernest church ladies. 

Gracious George seemed pleased yet tongue-tied, but finally managed a story about his mom teaching him baseball and how to throw the Knuckle Ball.

The next caller was worried because 3 of the last 4 numbers in his SS number were 6's.  George jumped in and assured him he sounded like a good guy.  Caller told us so far the near 666 hadn't seemed to have negatively affected him, but he was concerned...

Quote from: Sardondi on January 20, 2012, 12:12:55 AM
... Yes, this forum takes some mean and nasty shots at George..that's why it's funny...

I sort of thought we were being overly nice to him considering - offering advice, pointing out areas where he could improve, daily focus group critiques, instant feedback, suggestions of other more appropriate lines of work, all free of charge. 

He probably uses his his ability to absorb criticism and get his name out there on the net in his contract negotiations..