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I only heard of Art's passing on the 16th. Even though I remembered his hospital bed speech and knew that he was a heavy smoker, his death still hit me hard. I had listened to almost everyone of his shows from about 1994 onwards ( Security Guard, nights). I enjoyed him and his program tremendously - as well as his gift for entertaining and informing. Straight shooter. I wish the best for his surviving family and other loved ones.

I was going to post this on the "George Noory Sucks" thread but, a bit of reading of that thread put me off of that idea. So, here are some of my observations of that Noory guy. First of all, I felt uncomfortable with the guy - right from the get go. Back in the day when he would come on C2C from time to time, I instinctively knew he would be Art's replacement but, I just couldn't warm up to the guy. My feelings proved true(at least to me)! He took Art's creation and turned it into the 21st century version of the 19th century parlor seance - allusions to hucksterisms. Whereas Art would have a well rounded out itinerary, this guy seemed to be concentrating on mediums, psychics, ghosts.... Recently, he's changed the format of C2C and broken it down into 2 segments; one topic one segment, another topic the next segment!? Attention Deficit Disorder? Can't stay awake?
When Art had something which interested him, he would cut his intro music short and get to the subject; this Noory guy seems to let the intro music just drone on...and on. I haven't done any stopwatch work as to how long the intro lasts but....
There's a bunch of other stuff I'd like to get off my shoulders, but I'll leave them for another time.
P.S.  I am just so peeved at the guy for commercializing C2C that I rarely listen anymore-not even weekends because his influence is felt there too( how some of the other weekend hosts stroke his ego).
P.S.P.S.   Just to give you an insight as to what gets me about this guy: I'm writing this on July 04/17 23:50ish(EST). One or two days ago I just happened to try and listen to C2C at about 03:45, I believe; I was hoping for a good topic and, this time I wasn't disappointed. Noory had on someone who was talking about Ancient explorers in America(I'm Canadian, eh). Well, the guest was attempting to try and give credit for something to those due the credit but the guest appeared to have said that it was difficult trying to find the identities of those due the credit. Noory made some (I guess) smarta.. remark to the guest that he should take the credit; that no one's going to know. I suppose that Noory thought it was humorous and I'm sure that many in the listening audience may have thought so also, but...really? What kind of comment, even jokingly, was that? I feel that this Noory guy just doesn't get it. Hope Art's doing well.