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George Noory: "If there's a pole shift, will the earth turn upside down?"

Guest: (after long incredulous pause) "Um, no" (pause) "the magnetic poles shift, not the planet."

George Noory: "Well that's good!"


I was listening that night, I remember being embarrassed for him.

I love it - UFOs and Extra Terrestrials at the top of the favorites, glad to know there are still listeners out there like me. I expressed my scathing George Noory opinions for all the good it will do.

Quote from: Robert on April 16, 2016, 08:35:17 AM
Anybody could be uneasy with a word spelled with a "c" as in French "morceau" rather than being consistent with the "s" in English "morsel" -- uneasy enough to hedge by switching to stress on a different syllable after pronouncing it one way a couple times.

But it should be easy to rip him off for change if he thinks as he said last night that Geo. Wash.'s profile is on the nickel.

We're not talking about "anybody", we're talking about a radio professional of 40+ years. Someone making a half million dollars a year plus endorsements should be held to a higher standard of linguistics than you or I. My first nightly radio talk show was the Nitecaps hosted by Herb Jepko, that was a very long time ago. In all these years of listening I have never heard a host switch pronounciations of the central term 25 minutes into the interview. We're talking about a national - no an international radio talk show host who isn't even performing at a local level. That's why we have so many pissed off people on the internet talking shit about George Noory every chance they get.

Quote from: albrecht on April 13, 2016, 04:52:09 PM
Indeed you did. CDs are not in the "digital world" according to the crack team at C2C. The conversations between Norry and Tommy are even more painful than some of the callers because you know they actually are making big $$ and the callers seem to be, often, older, poor, shut-ins and calling C2C seems to be their own social contact with the world, so I cut them a bit of a break.

albrecht I'm a wretchedly mean person sometimes (no really I'm being serious) and I shouldn't make fun of the listeners who enjoy that show. I should confine my venom to the big man himself, the guy making a half million a year plus endorsements just to be George Noory. Seriously, thank you for reminding me of that.

It's possible financial security made working less attractive. His current net worth is listed at $10 million and some analysts think that's conservative. Do you want to be working at 70 years old?

Quote from: Just Me on April 13, 2016, 01:25:21 PM
Crazy Annie called in last night on shoe shine clown boys open lines. She didn't insist the world be alarmed over hand pumps on gas pumps when the grid goes down. She still sounded nutty but must still be in love with the clown act while being his most loyal admirer and supporter of shoes shine boy bizarroness.

It was in the middle of her call that I could finally take no more and I switched to BBC World Service on NPR. I was going to come here today and make fun but I couldn't force myself to pay attention and now I can't remember what she was talking about. Just before lunging for the radio I remember thinking: an idiot talking to idiots, why the FUCK am I listening to this?!

And have you noticed the increased frequency of sloped-head lines? Less listenership, less revenue, less money for guests would be my guess. Plus I would assume most thinking individuals recoil at the notion of attempting conversation with George Noory even in exchange for money.

Which reminds me, a few Saturdays ago Jimmy Church told an entertaining story about George interrupting what had formerly been an enjoyable barroom conversation with filmmaker Jay Weidner. Jimmy went on and on, intimating George was a total wet blanket and they couldn't wait for him to leave. I guess we can deduct George's off-air personality is just as bad as the on-air manifestation.

One more thing about last night, did I hear George ask Tom Danheiser "You were using CDs [compact discs] but aren't you going to the digital world?"

Surely somebody already brought up George's classic question about the polls flipping but I can't seem to find it. I'd love to make fun of it but not if someone beat me to it.

Quote from: pate on April 11, 2016, 01:22:18 AM
I somehow agree, YP

Yeah I'll try to pick up the pieces and get on with my life.

Well certainly whenever I see an F-14 I think of something greasy like Nazareth. You're not a groupie are you?

A: None, his bulb is too dim.

Oh c'mon you knew where I was going with this.

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on April 10, 2016, 12:42:38 PM
Select it? I created it. Tsk.

I bet her name is Jacqueline. Or Babette. She takes Discover because men like getting cash back.

Quote from: Robert on April 10, 2016, 11:55:22 PM
You may not be off as concerns that, but that's not what I'd consider corn-pone.  The Red Eye sounds pretty much like a lot of daytime shows on the same topics.  They do have the sponsorship you wrote of, but the presence of that in place of the traffic & weather reports one would get in a morning show is about all that distinguishes it from them.

Corn pone (sometimes spelled cornpone) is an adjective meaning anyone or anything lacking sophistication. I heard nothing sophisticated during the broadcasts but if you found something sophisticated that is absolutely fine with me.

If Art didn't have an edge to his personality he wouldn't have made such an impression and become so popular. Many talented people are eccentric.

Art is getting older and as one ages it becomes more difficult to keep up with the rigors of a demanding job. Maybe everyone should just get off his back.

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on April 10, 2016, 01:18:32 PM
Oh wow, you really don't know anyone here. First rule of joining a party when you don't know the other guests. Keep your mouth closed and be thought of as a fool, rather than open it and leave no doubt.

Post often.

You have to know somebody before you'll speak? How sad for you. I bet it was the delayed potty training.

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on April 10, 2016, 12:42:38 PM
Select it? I created it. Tsk.

Is it a fantasy? Or a reality? Is he married? To her? If not then what's her story? Is she a slut? Does she take credit cards? Or are we witness to two hearts beating as one. Inquiring minds want to know.

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on April 10, 2016, 01:01:14 PM
Oh god, another "I've been here five minutes and go to the default 'I haven't a fucking clue what I'm talking about, but I'll say it anyway" newbee.

Compare what you like. You don't know me well enough (or at all), so you haven't yet fathomed the depths of the fuck I don't give. 

You've still got your panties in a wad, unwad them and come join in the fun.

And as far as me being a noob, I was listening to Art Bell back when you were still just a suckling piglet  

Quote from: Robert on April 10, 2016, 03:36:05 PM
Of all the criticisms I might have of that show, I don't think that description fits at all.

Well I tell you what Robert, I haven't listened to Red Eye Radio in quite some time, maybe my memory is inaccurate.

What I think I remember is two incredibly obnoxious men engaged in mindless manufactured banter HOUR after unbearable HOUR, with commercials for Freightliner Trucks and their applicable lubricants mercifully interspersed throughout.

How far off am I? I think I tried listening twice, maybe three times, then decided the better choice was to go back to Snorge or just turn the radio off.

Amendment: Just visited Wikipedia, I must have listened both before and after the 2005 format change. Either way it was positively wretched.

Quote from: L1NGUS on March 07, 2016, 02:35:59 AM
Sociopath? An asinine supposition. Also irresponsible and inconsiderate. Doesn't take much to amuse you, does it? I'll bet you play "switch", too.

Drama Queen? Fuck off. If shit were music, you'd be an orchestra.

I've been listening to Mr. Bell since the summer of 1989 and my life is all the better for it. There is no one like him; nor, I sincerely doubt, will there ever be anyone like him again. You are all lucky to have had the chance to hear him broadcast but none of you have deserved it.

Art Bell on his worst day is several orders of magnitude greater at performing his craft than any broadcaster could ever hope to be on his best day. And as a human being, he outclasses the majority of you hypocrites.

I never called in to his radio show, but I got lucky enough to be able to talk with him privately when he was testing his Skype lines and I will always be grateful.

Art Bell is class act and that's something the majority of you will NEVER come close to being associated with. Not even close.

I pray Art doesn't see half the shit that is written here about him, but if he should ever happen to stumble across this someday - Thank You, Art.

I might not know you L1NGUS but I like you. Don't sweat the small stuff, Snorge probably recruited a festering group of "Insider" minions to come here and defend their superstar-wannabe while minimizing Art Bell.

When Art Bell was host we could listen to past shows for free. Snorge had to start charging money in an effort to recoup some of the lost listenership revenue. Plummeting ratings, lost dollars - better start an internet TV show featuring regurgitated radio material, yeah that'll fix it. And don't forget to take your Carnivora, Ronald Reagan took it and now he's dead - another satisfied customer.

Don't let these idiots bother you L1NGUS, just laugh at them. That's what they're here for, just keep laughing. 

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on April 10, 2016, 12:35:50 PM
Oh I laugh like a drain if I find something funny, though my sense of humour is dry and a bit off the wall.

But Noory has no reason to be anything other than he is because his audience is always there.

An "Insider" sycophant, just as I suspected. Or might you be the idiot himself.

Yes let's compare George Noory's numbers with Art Bell's numbers. Or would you like to quickly change the subject.

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on April 10, 2016, 10:44:38 AM
No idea what to compare him with. I don't listen to him.

How long did it take you to develop that legendary creativity? Probably as long as it took to select that pubescent avatar.

Don't fuck with me little boy you're not smart enough.

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on April 10, 2016, 10:41:33 AM
Yeah but who's the smartest? Him for having a show you don't like, or you for listening to it when you don't like it?

What is it you're assuming Yorky, that I don't like the show? When and where did I say I didn't like the show? I love that show, I love to hear that stupid assclown make such a flipping fool of himself right out in public for all of us to hear. I like to laugh, don't you like to laugh Yorky? You ought to try laughing more, and wash some of the starch out of those britches.

Quote from: Paper*Boy on April 09, 2016, 11:33:02 PM
Well, to be fair in California about half the towns, rivers, forests, etc have Spanish names, and The Snorge has only lived here about 15 years.     

I hope laughing isn't bad for me because after reading that I can't seem to stop doing it

a) a thousand fingernails on a thousand blackboards
b) having a tooth drilled with an injection of espresso rather than anesthetic
c) being forced by George to look at his burnt uvula ("that little flapper thing in your throat")

Quote from: Azzerae on March 31, 2016, 02:35:31 PM
Yo, Noory did an excellent interview with Paulides on March 23rd.

Yes I particularly enjoyed George's reaction after they played the bizarre Henry McCabe voicemail clip:

"and David, I HAVE to tell you, that sent SHIVERS up my spine!"

Such an unusual and original reaction George, it's so enriching when you share.

A: Being in the office the day he ran around with the flashlight making everyone look at his burnt uvula ("that little flapper thing in your throat")

You know, years on the radio makes one more articulate.

Quote from: paladin1991 on April 09, 2016, 10:48:14 PM
Was the town Martinez, Ca by any chance?  I could swear I have heard him greet George 'Falkie' Senda fm Marpenis, Ca.

You, Sir, are BRILLIANT! Martinez it was, he pronounced it martin-ez rather than mar-TIN-ez. Now I remember, when he said it I couldn't believe my flippin' ears. The buffoon lives in California and you mean to tell me he's never been around anyone named Martinez? Was his one and only brain cell busy with another task? I just never realized they made idiots quite that stupid.

Quote from: Little Hater on April 09, 2016, 06:54:13 AM
Q: What's worse than listening to George Noory?

A: Where I live, listening to Red Eye Radio on the other talk station. Two idiots talking to each other.

Oh geez I HATE Red Eye Radio, it's one of those down-home corn pone talk shows for truckers. I'd rather have TWO teeth pulled.

Not that there's anything wrong with being a trucker. At least if you're a trucker then you're not George Noory.

Q: What's worse than listening to George Noory?

A: Listening to George Noory and open lines.

An idiot talking to idiots. I'd rather have a tooth pulled.

Quote from: paladin1991 on April 08, 2016, 12:11:04 AM
You must be new around here.

I've been visiting and laughing for quite some time, always meant to sign up but just now getting around to it.

The man is an idiot. I know it. You know it. The world knows it. And they pay him 500 goddamn thousand dollars a year plus endorsements in exchange for being that idiot. Would you tell me please where I can find the justice in that equation?

Quote from: WOTR on April 08, 2016, 02:19:20 AM
Indeed... Welcome, and post often, Sarcastic P.

Also, you should hit the Noory sucks thread and vote in the poll asking if Noorie can pronounce anything correctly.  The correct choice is the first "no" and NOT the second "no" (no matter what anybody else may tell you.)

I will visit the poll and thanks WOTR for the welcome. Several years ago I remember being taken aback by his mispronunciation of a very common city name, I think it was a town in California, I wish I had written it down. I remember being appalled, any five-year-old knew the proper pronunciation of this particular town, but not our resident moron. Did he even graduate high school or was Navy the alternative for someone needing help wiping his own ass?

Thursday March 31, 2016 first hour guests were Doctors Hooman Noorchashm and Amy Reed talking about a bad surgical instrument called a morcellator - pronounced mor-cel-A-tor with the accent on the "a". George was pronouncing it just fine through the first 20 minutes of the interview then all of a sudden the word becomes mor-CEL-a-tor sounding like "mor-SELL-ater" -- oh but George wasn't done yet, he pauses a moment then mispronounces it a SECOND time just to make sure everybody hears him screw it up. Live on national radio we're listening to the man lose what little mind he has left. 300 million people in America and George Noory was the best and brightest the producers could come up with to replace Art Bell.

When exactly did Coast to Coast turn to garbage? Well let's see that would have been January 1, 2003. And it's been downhill from there.