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So Christian Wilde comes on the show last night for an update on Covid, and tells George he has photos from the Spanish flu pandemic that shows everyone wearing masks. He noted this was before George Noory and Coast to Coast were around to give people information.

Ha! George gleefully refused to wear a mask. He loved to talk about how people in supermarkets would scurry away when they saw him not masked. If George were around back then, he'd be harping on the media reporting every Spanish flu death and calling masks useless.

George calls Lionel Fanthorpe the greatest story-teller who's ever been born, yet asks him to tell the Spring-heeled Jack story every time he's on the show. Lionel must be an incredible storehouse of interesting tales, so why do we keep having to hear about Spring-heeled Jack?

Quote from: Uncle Duke on February 01, 2021, 12:20:42 PM
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I don't know if this is the security guy Knapp interviewed and we talked about (see above) in Sept 2020, but this article does raise questions about the credibility of Skinwalker Ranch stories. Sounds like guys telling Bigelow what they thought he wanted to hear was going along to get along, and good for job security.  Funny how Knapp didn't cover this story or ask Bigelow about it when he was a guest a week or two ago.

The security guard on the Sept. 27, 2020 show was named Christopher Bartel. His stories about Skinwalker Ranch were kind of a letdown, and I didn't think his photos were especially eerie, except for a pic of one of the abandoned homesteads where the early ranchers lived.

That reminded me of something Robbie Williams said when he was on the show. The musician said he visited the ranch hoping to get "goosebumps," but instead it gave off a "peaceful vibe." When he saw the old dilapidated structures, he finally got his goosebumps!

Quote from: albrecht on January 31, 2021, 03:52:39 PM
I give you credit, considering he tends to pronounce with some difficultly but I, and others at the time, recall being 'mail' and logically Dave could take a free, unread book and send it to a translator, get in printed in braille, and then send to a random blind caller so quickly?

Blind callers have often requested guests to make audio books or braille books but that would be coming from their publisher (or the free, subsidized ones for the blind from the library etc.) Not from TOMMEE or Dave.

Oh, I was just kidding. I really don't see George going out of his way to accommodate a listener's disability.

I liked the other night when he said that, ever since his live stage shows were cancelled, he enjoys connecting with the listeners through phone calls such as Open Lines. Then without fail he cuts off Open Lines to play some old recording.

Quote from: albrecht on January 31, 2021, 02:51:40 PM
The caller pointed out he was blind, again, to which Dave hurriedly said 'we'll get those books in the mail.'

Maybe he meant to say "We'll get those books in braille."

If Robert Bigelow succeeds in finding proof of the afterlife, it could help clear up another big mystery. Trump claimed that thousands of ballots were cast by people whose names and birth dates match those of deceased individuals.

Someone should contact those dead people and ask, "Did you really vote?"

Quote from: Jackstar on January 13, 2021, 05:48:08 PM
I think I see a squirrel.

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Quote from: CronkitesGhost on January 13, 2021, 04:56:59 AM

She also claimed 'I've lost 8 people in my life to the virus George.'

It must've taken every last ounce of George's restraint not to say "Six of those people probably died of the seasonal flu."

Quote from: Jojo on January 07, 2021, 04:55:51 AM
Anyhow, I'm up to "here" with Norway's gruesomeness.  It's frustrating.  It's also weird because he seems like a positive kind of person, but not with those stories.  But I still like him.  I just send critical e-mails through Insiders and then I feel better.

One of George's recent guests is a neuroscientist, and he kept asking her about the brains of serial killers. Her new book is called "Biohack Your Brain," so maybe he thought she was an expert on serial killers because they do a lot of hacking.

Quote from: albrecht on January 06, 2021, 01:32:43 PM
I'm sure there is a version out there if people really wanted to hear Dave's awful version of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." I wonder why he cut out early last night? The guest was good and some callers were good. Guest wasn't even phased by the strange dream from Mary or Angie (?) from NY and said it was very interesting at related it to some story by Goethe (I think,) which Mr.Norway pretend to know about. And we had this amazing question from Mr.Norry to guest: "If the pillars were still visible would we still be able to see them?"

The worst is when George ends Open Lines early and plays some old recording. That's inconsiderate to the listeners who have been waiting patiently to get on the air.

When George is in St. Louis, I thought he does the show from his home. Why would he need to cut out early to go home if he's already there?

I thought the Pillars of Enoch guest was good, too. He was even able to give a meaningful comment to the woman who talked about Mars.

That was a pretty abrupt ending to George's second-half interview. Even the guest seemed kind of surprised. They had barely come back from the commercial/news break!

Those listeners who requested George's "The Tell-Tale Heart" should record it. Then they can play it any time they want. I bet most listeners would rather hear something that's live to the end of the show, not a stale old recording.

Quote from: albrecht on January 02, 2021, 11:31:26 AM
Is everyone in the Norway family named a version of George? It is like the Foreman family, without the boxing chops, indoor grills, or ability to quip funny lines.

LOL! So George's father's father was named George, and George's father married a woman named Georgette? I wonder if George, who doesn't believe in coincidences, would say that's just a coincidence.

Quote from: albrecht on January 02, 2021, 05:22:24 PM
Worst New Years show ever. Mr.Norway set a new low. It was expected but still disappointing. That, I guess, is impressive. To perform worse than even presumed suckage. He also cut off the "Learned Elders of Zion" caller so was paying attention, so can't blame inattention or booze or whatever was going on to cause bumbling, slurring, and lame questions.

That cracked me up when "mystic" Elizabeth Joyce said Dick Cheney took all the U.S. gold and built an underground city in Virginia.

She also noted that last year, she predicted President Trump would have some sort of illness around March and that Mike Pence would take over. I think she tried to relate her prediction to Trump getting the coronavirus, but that didn't happen until October and Pence didn't take over. Close enough, I guess.

I didn't know C2C had a New Year's tradition of listeners calling in with their predictions, or that George would have some of their predictions from last year. "Mike the Millennial" thought Pete Buttigieg would be elected president. So idealistic, to think that in 2020, America would put a gay man with a husband in the White House.

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on January 01, 2021, 04:29:56 PM
I don't believe that I've heard the turtle tale before. I guess he redeemed himself when he cured that barkeeps cancer by laying hands on him.

The turtle tale was very sad. I don't remember if George actually said his pet passed away, but I presume it did because I'm not sure if turtles can live without their shells.

Ha, I haven't heard George's story about curing anyone's cancer. I've heard those two quackpots from Critical Health News imply they've cured people of cancer as well as diabetes.

Quote from: Jojo on January 01, 2021, 12:56:28 AM
He needs to stop telling that traumatic pet story.  If he is going to share the story at all, he should remind people of the adult moral to the story, instead of getting stuck inside a child's brain.  He shouldn't tell the story at all, but if he has to, the moral should be, "be sensitive to when a pet is frightened and leave your temper at the door when interacting with small animals, women, and children." 

Jojo: 2
George: 0

Well, the reason I liked that turtle story is because I thought it softened George and made him seem more human. But of course the moral you stated is one that everyone should learn, and I imagine he did even at that young age.

Quote from: Morgus on December 31, 2020, 05:09:03 PM

Yep Dawn Wells looks good in this photo taken about 3 years ago with Norway's little buddy Billy Mumy...

This photo of Dawn Wells was taken three years ago? I wonder what kind of moisturizer she used!

Quote from: albrecht on December 31, 2020, 12:56:43 PM
That story was the first normal anecdote I've heard Mr.Norway say. I recall being a ring-bearer and, like the guest who was a flower-girl, drinking at the reception. Me as a little kid not realizing what a champagne fountain was for the adults. Dave wanted to make it clear that he was not named after his mother Georgette. 

Dave's comments about Dawn Wells being 82 but 'still looking the same' in the re-runs of Gilligan's Island was hilarious. I'll give him an excuse and hope he was trying to express that maybe she still looked good at her current age as she did back then, as a compliment. But in his bungling way he just couldn't express it properly. I find it hard to believe that an adult, even a kid, wouldn't understand that people always will look the same on a recording. But it is certainly possible in his case.

Yep, that was funny how George emphasized that he wasn't named after his mother.

There's this one anecdote from George's childhood that I like because it's very touching and poignant. I've only heard him tell it one time. When he was a kid, he had a pet turtle who bit his finger. In an effort to dislodge the turtle, George accidentally flung his beloved pet against the wall and broke its shell.

George said he tried to glue the shell back together, but apparently was unsuccessful. I get sad thinking how disconsolate he must have been.

Quote from: CronkitesGhost on December 31, 2020, 04:15:13 AM
brilliant Norry observation, reports the death of Dawn Wells, actress who played Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island, she was 82.

'82? That's hard to believe. You look at the re-runs of Gilligan's Island and they all look the same age as they did!'

incredible.

That cracked me up! And he said it with such sincerity, like it was a wondrous thing that if you watched a TV show from the 1960s, the actors would look the way they did in the 1960s.

During one of his top-of-the-program news readings the other night, George read a report about how the Nashville bomber believed in 5G conspiracy theories, such as the idea that it "fuels the spread of Covid-19."

Ha! George neglected to mention he's had those 5G conspiracy nuts on his show.

Quote from: albrecht on December 30, 2020, 11:42:42 AM
Mr.Norway was on a weird, morbid tear last night. Mentioned, yet again, the millionaire in Hollywood that killed himself by 'throwing himself out his window.' But then went into a long monologue about how he is going to die on air. He even got TOMMEE to admit they have plans of what to do and tell the audience if he "falls down or something" and dies. The guest was taken aback and then TOMMEE went on about how 'producers are a dime a dozen' and nobody would miss him.  But Dave assured TOMMEE that he would miss him because 'he has been his right-hand man.'

Then Dave Norway went on to brag about how he knows words, like superfluous (which the guest also knew,) but he wants to 'talk normal.' And that they would 'lock him away' if he used words like superfluous on the air. As expected he had trouble pronouncing his special word superfluous.

He asked the brain expert this amazing question:
"Is an Albert Einstein brain look different than somebody' elses?"

That made me laugh, as if you'd have to be some kind of walking dictionary to know what superfluous means.

George also seemed to be fascinated with the brains of murderers and serial killers, but I guess everyone wants to know why people do heinous things.

On the plus side, I liked his cute story about serving as a ring bearer at his aunt's wedding and crying because he thought his Mom had left him (she was sitting in a church pew with George's Dad).

Quote from: CronkitesGhost on December 27, 2020, 03:51:49 AM
I watch It's A Wonderful Life every year, never fails to deliver the feels at the end no matter how many times you've seen it. I love Donna Reed/Mary, the world used to be made of Mary Hatches, sadly they are rare as hens teeth today.

Always weird to see a grown man at a high school graduation dance,  Jimmy Stewart had just returned from WWII, it was his first movie after the war, he was 38 years old. Donna Reed was only 23. In the scene where she loses the robe and is naked in the bushes George Bailey is about 22-23, but there he is, middle aged looking Jimmy Stewart.

That movie spans 26 years, it's 1919 when George saves his brother from drowning, and 1945 when he is ready to kill himself on Christmas Eve. Nobody ages though, Mr Gower the druggist George worked for as a kid was old then, but there he is at the end of the movie not having aged a day in 26 years. Same for Uncle Billy, Mr. Potter.

It's A Wonderful Life bombed at the box office. Jimmy Stewart blamed Donna Reed for its failure and refused to ever work with her again. What an asshole.

George Bailey was some kind of incredible human being, without him in the world the entire town of Bedford Falls turned into Sodom and Gommorah. Mary who was a beautiful girl, college educated, couldn't find a man to marry her, and developed astigmatism i guess from thousands of hours of reading books as a spinster librarian. Uncle Billy locked away in a lunatic asylum.

One of my favorite scenes is when George Bailey upbraids the board members of the Bailey Building & Loan for considering Mr. Potter's proposal to dissolve the company. He reminds them that, thanks to the Building & Loan, people could afford to buy homes and get out of Potter's slum housing.

"You're all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers?"

I always think of that when I hear about a company's stock price soaring after it announces a massive round of layoffs.

Quote from: CronkitesGhost on December 27, 2020, 03:27:31 AM
quite an accomplishment, somehow Noory found 2 women as stupid and untalented as him to host the show on weekends. i tuned in a few minutes ago, I don't know which one this is but it's unlistenable.

It's Connie Willis. I usually like her breezy, conversational style, but she seems a bit "off" tonight. She's babbling, rambling, chortling for no apparent reason, tongue-tied to the point that she couldn't even get out one of her questions (which even the guest noticed), and endlessly promoting her Blue Rock Talk thing.

Quote from: albrecht on December 27, 2020, 12:21:04 AM



Onna my phone but I recall that this might have been a result of Disney suit even though, I think, NBC or Sony was fighting to the rights to it? Charlie Brown special also recently got hit. But they allowed PBS to show. This season I've noticed that they actually played "It's a Wonderful Life" more, but more obscure channels.

I looked it up on Wikipedia, and it said the movie is owned by a company called Republic, which sold the long-term broadcast rights to NBC.

I don't have a television and can't watch it, but I'm glad to hear the movie is being shown more often.

Quote from: albrecht on December 26, 2020, 11:23:58 PM
According to his story Mamma Norry "put him in front of the tv and told him to watch this movie, Georgie." But remember, much of his anecdotes are based on movies (or tv) and he often gets details wrong.
Having said that the movie is anti-suicide, George (Bailey character-not Norry) is contemplating it as "I wish I was never born," sadly typical of suicidal types, but you are correct that movie was about what happened if he was never BORN- not dead at his current age by suicide. And the connections about one's life and such down the line, both in his own lineage and by his work, actions, etc.

A great movie, with a great theme.

Yep, one of my favorite Christmas movies. There was a time years ago when all the TV stations played it nonstop during the holiday season, because it was in the public domain. Sadly, it somehow got taken out of the public domain, and now it's hardly ever on!

Last night, George played the ending to "It's a Wonderful Life" and said the movie is about an angel showing George Bailey how everyone he knows would be affected if he killed himself.

Inexcusable. The movie's whole premise is how things would be different if he'd never been born (not committed suicide), and how one man's life touches others.

I thought this was one of George's favorite Christmas movies. He sure mentions it often enough.

Quote from: albrecht on December 26, 2020, 09:34:49 PM

The endearing thing about Charles from Elgin is that his stories won't end and take a long winding path to even apporach ian ending. But I was glad to hear he was still around. And it is a shame that the gallery of usual callers that Mr.Norway pets haven't accepted or helped him.

I was glad to hear "Charles from Elgin, Texas" is still around too! It seemed like he hadn't called in for a long time, but I thought maybe he was finally recovering from the trauma of his father's death.

Quote from: pate on December 26, 2020, 08:25:32 PM
"Somewhere In Time" which is a rebroadcast of old C2CAM shows.  It does not air in all markets, used to here and you would occasionally hear an old Art Bell show...

-p

Oh, thank you! You know, I have never heard Art Bell except for the tribute show when George played a few of his iconic interviews. It made me wish that I had known about C2CAM back in the day.

Quote from: albrecht on December 26, 2020, 05:49:10 PM
Unthinking=DaveNorway.

The Nashville explosion would've been fun radio with Art and some conspiracy callers, bomb experts, LEO input, terrorism experts, UFO theories, etc. Norway hardly even touched it. Tonight's SIT is Robert Ghost Wolf, RIP, always were fun shows. Interesting this appears when you try to go to his site now:
"wolflodge.org/         
Apache is functioning normally"

What does SIT mean?

Quote from: albrecht on December 26, 2020, 03:48:08 PM
And nothing says Christmas like a Jewish guy, I assume by name and lineage not practice, who writes about occult subjects and new-agey thinking who practiced ritual to a cat god in complete darkness in Egypt but believes that "your imagination is god."

Are you talking about Mitch Horowitz? George wished him a Merry Christmas, which I thought was a little unthinking. Not that this would be unusual for George, who read a report about the Nashville explosion and said authorities consider it an "international" act, before changing it later to intentional.

Quote from: Ciardelo on December 26, 2020, 01:40:01 PM
Ha ha, that's what I was thinking! But it was just gooks, so it was okay. smh

Here's an old copy of it.


https://youtu.be/w0p3XmCzjMA

Thank you. I'd never heard of this old chestnut before. With its message of peace on earth, I can't imagine why it hasn't been turned into a Hallmark Christmas movie.