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Quote from: Doomed on January 15, 2013, 01:56:50 AM
Greetings Zeebo. Nice opener 
With Wells, I think his performance is directly related to what he has in his pipe at that moment.
As far as noory goes, he comes off as tho he's been beaten with a pipe.

Thanks Doomed, your comment had me giggling.  They both seem dazed at times, but like u say probably for different reasons.  Wells to me does seem like a pretty intelligent guy, it's just he sometimes builds these pretzel-like sentences where the exit is hard to find.  Noory, well I don't know what the deal is with that guy.  I'm hoping I can try and unravel the mystery with more time spent on this board.

New here, and just wanted to drop in and say I've read through much of this awesome thread and the hilarity found within has tempered my despair at what this fool - I believe here he is referred to as "The Nooron" - has done to my once favorite show (listened to Art for many years).  As many others on here feel, I am amazed how he's taken such a cool show and mangled it with, amongst other things,  his colossal failure to show any true conversational ability/interest with his guests. 

His trite conversation-killing responses like "Well it sure is" or "Uh-huh, absolutely" when his guest has offered such low-hanging fruit beckoning for a thoughful follow-up question, or new direction in topic, just drives me nuts.  It's like a whole vista of possibilities has just opened up, and instead of the old days where Art would have taken us along on the journey of discovery, we get this bumbling fool jarringly moving on to the next unrelated topic on his cheat sheet list, killing the whole flow. 

The parade of suck-ups calling in on the 10 year anniversery show saying what a great job he's done at the helm was more than I could bear.  I think that's when I searched around and ended up here, wondering if I was the only one who thought differently.  Luckily I have found other like-minded souls here who have shown me I'm not alone in my disbelief that people actually think this guy's a good host.

Anyway, I have more annoyances (like his horrible bumper music), and will chime in more later, but just wanted to say thanks for all the laughs - to keep me from weeping at the wreckage that has been wrought on Coast.  Also, my quick thoughts on a few of the other hosts

* Knapp - Coherent and interested, usually pretty well-prepared for his interviews - for the most part I like him
* Punnett - Relatively articulate, interesting conversationalist, but often rather pretentious and dismissive
* Wells - Interesting if gloomy topics, interested in and respectful to his guests, but unfortunately rather incoherent at times, cool bumper music though