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#241
Wow, some pharmacist commercial for I don't even know what has got to be the worst commercial I have ever heard . . . I thought it was a joke a first, this guy repeatedly talking about his ass or something, but I think it's meant to be legitimate. 
#242
Wow, did an online search, and he pretty much looks like what I expected.   One of those types skulking on the fringe of show business.  Blehhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
#243
He talks a lot but doesn't say much.  Seems that weird combination of self-importance and victim-hood that usually translates to charlatan.  I'm waiting for him to say something interesting, but so far, he just sounds like a guy jonesing for his next hit of cocaine.   I'm going to bed in a minute.  I won't learn anything from this guy except how to con people with verbose blather.
#244
Who's the rambling guy on right now?


#245
Party of the Living Dead.
#246
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Dave Schrader
May 03, 2015, 01:27:14 AM
I don't even know what this guy is babbling about.  he is ponderous, though.
#247
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Dave Schrader
May 02, 2015, 11:59:37 PM
Ugh, the first guest, Christie whatever her name is, comes across as exactly the bleached-out, southern soccer mom with an unquestioning mind that makes for boring interviews.
#248
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Art Bell
April 27, 2015, 02:18:21 PM
Quote from: Art Bell on April 27, 2015, 12:16:48 PM
Well I just posted on FB. How can people do this kind of thing? It's just wrong. I don't like doing these kind of events, never have.

Art
If you haven't already, you might tell your lawyer to send a cease and desist to them.  They could drag your reputation through the mud.  Of course, then you might be able to sue them, too.
#249
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Art Bell
April 26, 2015, 09:19:45 PM
The whole thing is funny.  If someone in George's camp is responsible, all he or she is doing is creating fodder for free publicity for Art's show.
#250
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Is George Autistic?
April 25, 2015, 01:22:38 AM
Ah, that explains a lot -- thanks, Georgie for President 2216.  I wondered, in part, because the words and tone on the messages GNoory leaves don't quite sound like him  . . . but apparently it is he.
#251
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Is George Autistic?
April 25, 2015, 12:08:42 AM
Unrelated, maybe, but why does George Noory refer to himself as Dave, and is GNoory really him?
#252
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Is George Autistic?
April 24, 2015, 01:15:51 AM
Quote from: wotr1 on April 23, 2015, 10:55:10 PM
Being high functioning (Aspergers) I would agree that you can learn social skills over time (God, I hope that I have...)  You also develop a "rolodex" of "proper" responses to give even if you do not feel them (for example, George would have "learned" that finding joy in dead children is inappropriate and changed his response in order to better fit in.)

Also, unless something major has changed, ADHD is not on the spectrum.  Aspergers is now officially Autism (perhaps you are confusing the two?)  I only pulled up a few links, but ADDitude magazine has lots of articles trying to help people (parents?) determine if it is ADD or Autism. autism.org.uk tells you in the article that many kids with Autism also have ADHD (it differentiates.)  Psych central also says that many kids with Autism show ADHD traits (it differentiates). 

http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/7952.html
http://www.autism.org.uk/About-autism/Related-conditions/ADHD-attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder.aspx
http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/10/18/adhd-kids-often-show-autistic-traits/60851.html

As I said... I think that you will have to keep him as a defective "normal."  Possibly one with ADD (but I even question that.)
Your points are well taken about ADHD and autism -- I, too, could find nothing online other than the concept of one being confused for the other or the two potentially co-existing.  Thanks for clarifying.

I have a young relative who was diagnosed with autism, and her physician had indicated to the family that ADHD falls under the spectrum.   Perhaps we misunderstood or he mispoke -- I can see how he might have been trying to explain that it's possible for both to exist at the same time, and we took that as it's on the spectrum, but I thought he had literally said that it was.  I certainly don't want to spread misinformation (we already have George to do that), though.

Whatever is George's issue, it may well be more pathological than simply a quirk of personality.  He seems pretty consistent in his behavior and without either the motivation, the self awareness, or both to do anything about it.
#253
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Is George Autistic?
April 23, 2015, 08:53:18 PM
The thing is, there are different degrees of autism.  ADHD, for instance, now falls on the autism spectrum, and high functioning autistic people often learn social skills over time.  George's seeming inability to read social cues in his interviews would be common to high-functioning autistic people. 

If George is autistic, then many of the criticisms about him may be unwarranted.  We may assume that he is consciously choosing to be incompetent when, in fact, he's limited beyond choice.
#254
And now some jackass is going on and on about how we don't teach the right classes at college, as though college is a trade school.  ::)  There goes a non-college graduate.  Silly.
#255
Quote from: UFQuack on April 23, 2015, 12:31:02 AM
Robert Putnam might as well have been burping out his asshole for an hour and half and it would accomplish as much. Why don't Jorch and Mr. Putnam give up their jobs so all these "poor children" can get to work. Hell I'm sure some of them would do a better job hosting than Jorch does--even right now as little kids!
Mr Harvard is also a bit clueless.  George makes some asinine remark about how college graduates can't find a job in their field anymore.  Anyone who has read the research knows that a sizable amount of college graduates -- around 40 percent according to one study -- historically has either not found a job or not found a job in their major.
#256
For a Harvard professor, Robert Putnam doesn't seem like the most articulate or even thoughtful man in the world.
#257
Quote from: Humilia Lepus Foramen on April 21, 2015, 11:58:34 PM
Think that was his parents he said was an arranged deal.

Also by his own admission he has some sort of speech impediment and ADHD, that partially explains why he is how he is, especially if he doesn't believe in meds as his show topics would imply.
ADHD now falls on the autism spectrum, so in one form, he does have it.
#258
Quote from: zeebo on April 21, 2015, 11:58:09 PM
I wondered last nite if anyone noticed when the guest (the one who got bumped) mentioned that much of his time is spent in physical therapy as he recovers from somehow almost dying and George very oddly just completely ignored it, skipping right to the next question without showing an ounce of common human interest or empathy for the guy.  It was really quite strange I thought, showing a kind of complete detachment. 

My theory is maybe George is some kind of android prototype, who's emotion chip hasn't quite been worked out.  Kind of like an early Data from Star Trek.  Perhaps his neural net has not quite evolved enough, or maybe one time he drank a slurpee too fast at that gas station and it froze up his primitive personality circuitry.
Well, if he's an android, my bet is it's closer to Uniblab on The Jetsons.
#259
Quote from: Humilia Lepus Foramen on April 21, 2015, 11:49:36 PM
^Yes, for the most part I'd agree, but he somehow convinced a woman to have his kids so he's not totally socially inept.
I think the topic deserves full conversation, so I've started a thread about it.
#260
Radio and Podcasts / Is George Autistic?
April 21, 2015, 11:57:12 PM
Consider:

1)  Socially inept
2)  Low tolerance for criticism
3)  Poor conversationalist (non sequiturs, failure to follow up with meaningful questions)
4)  Flawed pronunciation (malapropisms, slurring of words)
5)  Awkward speech patterns (wrong emphasis on syllables, disaffected emotions)
6)  Clueless about social mores (loves stories about dead children, for instance, without considering how distasteful they might be for the audience)
7)  Repetition (personal stories, terms -- portals, angelic beings, etc., phrase -- there are no coincidences)

All this time, we may be thinking that George is simply lazy, unintelligent, and incompetent, but maybe he has autism and this is the best that he can do.   
#261
Quote from: Route 66 on April 21, 2015, 06:10:44 PM
Last night George did it again, when the truck driver from Utah related a tale from the summer of '69. After dropping off a buddy at a girlfriend's house, he turned a corner and found his '53 Ford surrounded by about 20 zombie-like kids, "like on Halloween."  He drove slowly, expecting the kids to back away.   Instead they moved in, one even climbing on his hood & scratching the windshield with "long bony fingers." The caller said he'd always been freaked out by the incident & wished he could be hypnotized to find out exactly what happened. "We can get you hypnotized" George bellowed, then cut off the caller and asked Joshua P. warren to tell him a story about "wishing wells."  I listen to Coast  some nights due to insomnia, always hoping for creepy tales like that one but of course the imbecile will cut it off for an infomercial.  Where is the curiosity?  Why not ask what the kids looked like, how old, did they say anything, what else does he remember?  It's too sad, really...
George has got to be the worst conversationalist in entertainment.  He has no instinct for it, which is remarkable given that that used to be a pre-requisite for having a talk show.  But let's assume that he had to learn to have conservation, the gift of gab not being something he was born with.  He's had decades to do so.  Decades.  And his capacity to hold a conversation is still lacking.  I sometimes wonder if George is autistic.   

I've posited before that he might be an alcoholic -- and I still think that's possible.  But he seems so disconnected socially, like he is just disaffected by human relationships, that it starts to seem like something that is simply part of the way his mind works.  I'm not joking or cracking on him.  That would mean George is not being conventionally lazy.  He is simply operating to the best of his ability.  It would also explain why he slurs words, as speech problems often turn up in children with autism and become an issue throughout their lives.  It might explain why he responds to criticism so sharply, as he may lack the capacity to express his feelings appropriately, and why he is fascinated by socially inappropriate things -- like horrible stories concerning children -- but seems to have no clue that such things might actually be highly distasteful to his audience.
#262
Who's the kiss ass that keeps telling George "wonderful question," regardless of how banal or obvious the question is?
#263
Radio and Podcasts / Re: George Knapp
April 19, 2015, 11:55:55 PM
I'm enjoying the guest -- not her voice, which is like listening to a groaning fan belt -- but to the fact that she's discussing issues of the brain from a scientific point of view and not the usual bullshit of guests on Coast to Coast.
#264
There aren't many topics I want Art to stay away from, so long as he applies his usual style and professionalism.

I would like him to apply whatever fitting logic and inquiry, scientific or otherwise, suits the subject as opposed to Coast to Coast's current reliance on speculation, New Ageism, random chance, mumblety-peg, non sequiturs, fill-in-the-blank, Magic 8 Ball, or whatever forms of irrationality that George and crew brings to the conversation.
#265
To hear George tell it, he's got the impeccable professional ethics of, well, some other journalist.  The best part is where he says he weighs the merits of scaring people.
#266
I was going to ask if George ever realized his dream of being a professional broadcaster.  I'm not aware he did.
#267
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Art Bell
April 06, 2015, 01:40:50 AM
Royalties for anything digital skyrocketed in the past few years.  For example, in print work that has a digital counterpart (e-book), royalties for photos and illustrations tripled.   I admire Art for sticking to his guns, but I caved and used more generic images and illustrations.  Even the argument that the resulting publicity can generate sales is lost on the companies that own the rights.  There is public domain stuff out there, but I don't think it would apply to the sort of music Art wants.
#268
It's astounding.  Someone with George's deficiency should be doing something else for a living if he can't perform the simplest function of shutting up and/or staying on topic, a requirement for the job.  I can not wait till Art's show is on. 
#269
George, in typical moronic fashion, asks a question of his nutrition expert or whatever, and instead of letting the person answer, interjects some stupid comment that changes the direction of the conversation.  The original question never gets answer, and the conversation turns into "Can you smell if peanut butter's bad?"

He has no self control.  It's one of the reasons he is such an awful interviewer.  He doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut and let the guest talk, and when he should ask a follow up question, he just goes in another generally unrelated and sophomoric direction.
#270
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Richard Syrett
April 04, 2015, 11:50:58 PM
Quote from: paladin1991 on April 04, 2015, 11:38:46 PM
Your feed of C2C is already running?  I don't know if you are lucky or screwed.  Here in the PRC we are listening to Bryan Suits and his show 'A secret dark hole', as a lead in to C2C.  C2C having been pushed back 2 hrs here.
Yep, it started on time.  I could only take a few minutes and then had to tune it out.
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