Joorch perfectly skewered by Bob Berman last night. You knew it was coming, of course, and we didn't have to wait long.
'This is what I don't get, Bob. I have talked to physicists. You can count them on your toes and your fingers [so a maximum of ten then, Joorch, if we allow thumbs to be included?]. So many. I do not understand when they talk about The Big Bang, or how the universe started thirteen-and-a-half, fourteen billion years ago, I don't get what was before that. I don't get it.'
Berman responded that this was a question a student would occasionally ask when he was teaching - which brought Noory's reasoning down to an appropriate age and intellectual level, I thought. In essence, Berman gave the obvious answer that so far we have no answer to the question of what preceded the Big Bang. The big problem, he said, is that there was no time before then. And here was the moment. He said:
'Your question is meaningless.'
Yup.
This should be played on a loop throughout all Joorch's interviews.
YOUR QUESTION IS MEANINGLESS. YOUR QUESTION IS MEANINGLESS. YOUR QUESTION IS MEANINGLESS. YOUR QUESTION IS MEANINGLESS
Later, we had the return of a familiar Nooryism:
'Bob, I've made it a personal pilgrimage on this show to attempt to get legislators to listen and get something done to protect our power grid.'
I think this is the third time I've heard him talk about a 'personal pilgrimage' when he means no such thing. 'Campaign', perhaps. Once again, it is quite stunning that he can get to his age and not understand what a pilgrimage is.