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Quote from: CronkitesGhost on June 27, 2017, 12:46:14 AM
Jorch's spiritual journey is that of a 4 year old running around in circles making airplane noises.

Oh god his idiotic intelligent design again, that there are plants that can cure diseases means that somebody/thing put it there for us - the physicist of course gave him the answer, there are thousands of plants that are poisonous.

Not to mention that there are plants that can cure diseases BECAUSE WE EVOLVED ON THE SAME PLANET THEY DID! What a dick.

Quote from: th'ONE on June 27, 2017, 12:20:01 AM
George Noory /or Tommy/ we know you guys ARE checking this thread, here this is for George..

But, Zeebo, I can't wrap my mind around the Big Bang!

Quote from: ShayP on June 27, 2017, 12:12:40 AM
I wish one of these accomplished guests would turn the tables on Noory.  Just stick him out for his nonsense.  Maybe say something like "Yeah George, I've heard the show before (or been on) and you keep asking the same questions.  What's up with that?"  

Been hoping for that for SO long.

Quote from: DarkBroodings on June 29, 2017, 01:22:41 PM
That Tricia McCannon is nuts. That story about the Antarctic Nazi base is so freaking ridiculous. And did you know the ice sheets on Antarctica are up to eleven miles thick? That's 58,080 feet! Who knew Antarctic ice sheets were 20,000 higher than Mt. Everest! And apparently there are holes on both ends of the earth. Which is fine (!) in Antarctica, but how do you pull that off in the Arctic that is, oh nothing, just an ocean! And there's a dim sun inside the earth. I wish Jorch would ask her how water doesn't pour through that Arctic hole and put out the inner sun, but that would require him paying attention to his guests' nonsense stories. Oy vey! And the way she constantly praised Jorch's questions made me angry. His questions are many things but never praiseworthy!!!

As someone who's considers himself to be "pro-phenomena" on many C2C topics, without being so open-minded as to let my brain fall out, I'm so sick and tired of Noory coddling guests who make certain statements and claims as if they were documented, proven facts. Last night's program was one of the best examples of this in a while, though it happens to some degree most nights. Not even a single polite challenge to any statement made. The Admiral Byrd stuff drove me up a wall. And he constantly gets facts or names wrong on subjects that he's supposedly "into."

Quote from: NoMoreNoory on June 29, 2017, 12:14:59 AM
The tale of Joorch and the Navy gets a new wrinkle tonight. At least, I don't think I've heard this before. He claims he was unable to join as he wanted after graduation from college because of a heart murmur. But then the murmur went away and he was 'given a direct commission from Ronald Reagan through the Senate' and he took it.
I'm guessing they had a recruiting drive and had stopped worrying about heart murmurs by then. Not that that would have been an issue for him sitting behind a desk at the weekends anyway.

Then, on drones, he asks his guest:
'In terms of speed and sound, how fast are they?'

-GNS

He's just the worst in big radio when it comes to using the language.

I continue to listen because the show's an easy way to keep up on many of my topics of interest, but it's gotten to the point where I think my reaction to Noory is actually doing me psychological harm! Doesn't Premier realize how truly mediocre he is?

A classic from last night:
"...it's on to Philadelphia next week for the Democratic nomination...and then the games are underfoot."
No such expression exists! Even if he meant "the game is afoot" that would still be inappropriate in that context.
The man cannot get through 10 minutes without either
a. murdering the language
b. factual error
c unnecessarily interupting
c. overusing expressions (e.g. of course, incredible, etc.)
OR
d. all of the above

I'll quit now. Be well...

Quote from: Robert on June 23, 2016, 11:18:51 PM
Is funny because is true!

Almost choked on that one

P.S. The show DOES have way too many segments on health and the economy.

Last night's first segment (haven't gotten to the 2nd yet and may forgo it) was yet another example of George's intellectual and verbal skills. Speaking about his book on the CIA's manipulation of the Press, the guest was challenged by a caller who, obviously missing the point, cited the good work done by the Agency in Vietnam and other areas and criticizing the author's lack of first-hand knowledge. Our host, instead of simply saying something like, "Sir, Mr. Schou, isn't denying the positive things the CIA may have done over the years," he got into a long bit trying to understand the caller's intention, forcing the guest to turn apologetic.

Sarah, the problem is (or as S. Quayle would say, "the problem is, is...") that the focus of your well-intentioned survey, i.e. guests and topics, is not the primary shortcoming of the show. The major problem is the mediocre intellectual and verbal skills of the host, and he doesn't seem to think he needs any improvement. I still marvel at how C2C's parent company can't see the flaws. Or maybe they do but he works cheap, so...

Quote from: diowulf on April 28, 2016, 09:39:55 AM
No! Lol it was worse than that! He says "The only thing I try to watch for is people who are truly hucksters, and try to make a lot of money...people who claim they captured bigfoot and that they were going to do a live pay per view..you know charge you 20 bucks and you'll see bigfoot running around the back yard...that's when I shut it down" Ha! so no mention of the medical crap and remote viewing missing children and the numbers lady...he also complimented the guy for bringing back "mem-bories"

Everyone's done a great job of covering the high (low?) points of last night's first segment, which was definitely one for the time capsule.
My ears perked up when Our Host announced the topic because I'm a great fan of sci fi and horror, but I almost stopped listening after about five or six choice Noory utterences in the first 45 minutes. But something told me there were many wonderful tidbits to come. I was rewarded.
Besides the ones already noted, some of my favorites were:

George implying that there isn't much science fiction and horror on TV now. No? Only everywhere you look.

ANnoorying constantly adds the adjective "very" when unnecessary and/or inappropriate (most often when reading a guest's introductory bio). Last night's example was a classic: "...the very late Ed Wood..." Yes, I've heard Wood was notorious for not being on time.

In the middle of a conversation about SF and horror hosts George asks the guest if his city had a Bozo the Clown. (We know who the Bozo is.)

Talking about great British films like the Quatermass series, he comments that Brits have a weird sense of humor.

Insisted on pronouncing Roku "Royku."

And finally, for Triffid lovers everywhere, something from my personal collection:

Quote from: ACE of CLUBS on April 23, 2016, 08:03:07 AM
George Noory could be a blob of pond scum ....
But, you know what?
He's a thousand times better than Art Bell ....
George can hold down a job, has an audience, and sponsors.
George has resolve .....
George has an income from broadcasting.

Art?
Unemployed, unemployable ...
Never ending drama.
Brilliant?  Not anymore ....
Interesting? ....... meh

A thousand times better? Seriously?
Art had/has his faults, as we all do, but nobody at George's level in broadcasting can hold a candle to him when it comes to:

Murdering language and pronunciation
Reading copy badly
Interrupting at inappropriate moments
Kissing guest ass
Lack of knowledge of subjects he claims to be into
Asking stock questions
Failing to ask obvious important ones

I could go on but I don't want to seem like a mere hater.

Quote from: Segundus on April 27, 2016, 06:35:57 AM
Yeah.  I got so sick of Bloom making a fool of himself that I emailed George to ask him to tell Howard the correct pronunciation.  Almost everyone knows how to pronounce that name.  It reminds me of Heather not knowing how to pronounce Scalia.  How do these folks get into the business?  Certainly, not because they are really plugged in to what they are doing.

Couple of nights ago Our Host pronounced the famous play, Blithe Spirit, "blith". It never ends. Maybe I'm just being a picky hater.

Quote from: NoMoreNoory on February 12, 2016, 12:01:39 PM
Can I give myself a self-congratulatory *ding ding*? Noory reported the story, and tried to sound like an expert, giving the standard 'imagine a bowling ball on a rubber sheet' explanation of what gravity does to space. Not really the point here, George, but well done: pat on the head and a gold star. He also suggested this would 'change time travel'. I didn't know it was even established yet!
And he pointed out that this observation confirms Einstein's prediction and, yes, declared 'He didn't even have a computer!'

Predicting the suckage is always fun!

Maybe just a pat on the head because he referred to "the universe", rather than the space surrounding individual planetary bodies, as a rubber sheet. I'm not aware of any research showing that everything is spiraling into the center of the universe. More like the opposite, actually.
Also loved, "That's what's happening to gravity," and how he ended that bit, along with the time travel thing, saying "rocket ship" propulsion. Hey, I love the old Flash Gordon stuff as much as  or more than anybody, but in 2016 we call them spaceships or space vehicles.
But maybe I'm being picky.

And what we need is more open lines nights! What could be better informational radio than nothing but George and callers. Better yet, how about no guests, ever, thus doing away with any reason to tune in, as our host might say, "at aaallll."

Quote from: 21st Century Man on February 05, 2016, 02:30:28 AM
Jorch was told by the guest that blacks were only given 3/5  of a vote in the early days of the USA.  George replied  "Really?  Geesh!"

They're just a couple of his many incisive responses, such as his amazedly puzzled, "Huh!", or "so true," "no doubt about it," "love it," or the ever-popular "amazeen!" Have to stop there to work on my list of adjectives disGeorge can use in place of "incredible."

Quote from: Segundus on January 21, 2016, 03:01:01 PM
Oh, how I long for someone more like Long John Nebel who will occasionally give a guest a hard time.

Love how he used to say things like, "I don't buy it, but it's a great story."
From back in the day, here's my actual membership card to his "Society of 8 Listeners" club. This referred to an old radio thing about there never being more than eight listeners to a late night show at any given time.

Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on January 21, 2016, 02:36:27 PM
For some reason, that reminded me of this movie! 

HA! Maybe I'm revealing too much here, but I have the original poster from this flick!

Quote from: loveslibraries on January 12, 2016, 01:37:51 AM
Did he just say "nip and tuck" instead of "neck and neck"?

Few nights ago, in reference to two Presidential hopefuls, he said, "neck to neck." Now we all are guilty of a slip of the tongue every so often, but Our Host is a slipfest. You can't listen for even 15 minutes without hearing a malaprop, mispronunciation, and/or error of fact, etc. In fact, sometimes I can't listen for 15 minutes, period. Not sure, but that last punctuation may have been redundant.

Quote from: Grandma on January 14, 2016, 11:35:51 PM
I,too, shudder at Noory's weird pronunciation of powerful, and theatre, as well. Last night, he added another head shaker in the first ten minutes of the second half hour with Ed Barnhart. He sounded like he was reading a note that Dan wrote him. Noory, "Wasn't ________ also revered ("revurred") as a god?" (Me, "WHAT?) Barnhart may have been having the same reaction, as there was a slightly delayed response. In the third or fourth sentence of his reply, he stated that so and so was indeed revered as a god, emphasizing revered! That was about 37 minutes past the hour. As if that wasn't a big enough offense, ten minutes or so later, he said something else, which I can't recall, that corrected ol' George. It was not in the least bit harsh, but I would be surprised if Ed Barnhart is ever invited back. When a caller asked a question, Ed started answering, at the same time GN started to chime in, and Ed pleasantly apologized, and asked what he wanted to say, and received a lame answer, of course. I think Barnhart figured out just the intelligence quotient he was dealing with, and was quite patient with the dope. I would kind of like to listen to it again, as there were probably more eye rollers in this interview.
George may be just the fellow to conduct an interview with a giant mantis head in space, IMO.

Hi, gang. Haven't visited in some time.
So glad to read of others who cringe at GN's "pahrful" and "theerter."

Last night's first segment was typical disGeorge. A guest with wild claims (OK, I know MK Ultra mind control was/is a thing, but...) and not a single hardball question, even in a nice way, about any corroborating evidence of his story. Then the guest is is "mysteriously" cut off when Noory finally asks about any specific acts he has been forced to perform, but when they get him back on the line our brilliant host doesn't repeat the question that was never answered, and the guest sloughs it off with, "it's in the book." I hope Noory doesn't consider himself a journalist.

Quote from: Robert on June 17, 2015, 08:45:54 AM
...I don't think Noory is experiencing seizures or has any brain damage that would cause him to forget so quickly, but rather that he's just good at superficially feigning interest in guests he's not paying att'n to.  I suspect Noory has a helper who actually pays att'n to the show hand him questions written on slips or cards, and that sometimes after reading one & getting an answer, Noory puts it mistakenly in the "unused" rather than "used" pile.

While I agree completely with the "superficially feigning interest in guests he's not paying att'n to"
thing, I still wonder if some of the other issues may a symptom of a brain deficit of of some kind (OK, hold the jokes), which would be very sad despite our opinions of him.

Next-to-finally, some of the moments that annoy me most are when my mind is teeming with even obvious questions or comments that Noory could ask/make that never come.

NOTE TO GEORGE:

A few ways to greatly improve C2C:

1. Start paying more attention to what your guests have to say.

2. Find another adjective to use besides "incredible".

3. Retire and bring in Knapp.

Quote from: 136 or 142 on June 17, 2015, 06:06:27 PM
It turns out we were all wrong aboot George Noory.  He's just been elected president of Mensa.  There's an article on it in an online newspaper called something like The Radish.

Possibly "The Onion"? They do some pretty funny stuff.

Quote from: Georgie For President 2216 on June 16, 2015, 12:15:06 AM
"A lot of people are saying 'how did Spieberg come up with the name Jurassic?'"

Yeah, this isn't going to be a total waste of three hours.

Oh, man, am I sorry I missed that episode. It must have been a classic.

Quote from: albrecht on June 15, 2015, 03:18:00 PM
Or worse if they sing. Recall that night of suckage that featured a contest of callers singing of Auld Lang Syne. Riveting radio.

I do recall it. "Local" radio at its worst. Hey, George! You're on hundreds of stations and heard internationally!

Quote from: albrecht on June 13, 2015, 03:53:18 PM
Great. Norry announced he is going to have a new show feature. It is creatively named "We Get Emails" in which Norry is going to read a few emails he receives on the air. Riveting radio, I'm sure.
I love this email Norry got from a person who likes paranormaldate:

"this is the greatest idea to met people who are into what I'm in for"
In For (in prison, in a mental health facility, or what?)

Almost as creative as "Conversations With Linda". You know he calls it that because it's all about conver.....uh, never mind.

Quote from: albrecht on June 13, 2015, 03:09:50 PM
Too bad Norry can't pronounce the word "powerful." So, I knew it was coming, he just asked Mitch "what drives you." (A variant of the "how do you do what you do?" question.
And we learn that Norry supports Freemasonry and and further went about Masons to say "they got a bum rap." I'm sure the next time a more conspiratorial guest is on talking about the evils of Masonry he will heartily agree that Masons are bad.
-GNS

I've been gagging about "pahrful" for months. Thanks for mentioning it. Now I'm off to the "theerter."

OK, fellow "haters," I admit I don't get back here often enough, so what's with the "Dave" thing?

Quote from: HopHey on June 07, 2015, 05:42:34 PM
I think one of the funniest things I've heard George do (and he's done it more than once) is when a blind person calls the show and says up front, hey I'm blind. Then they ask if there's a phone number to call to get tickets to one of his appearances.  Then George tells them to go to the website to get that info.  Then the blind person says, uhhh I'm blind, I need a phone number.  Does George ever listen to what the caller is saying? lol

Not often. Or to guests, either.

Quote from: albrecht on June 06, 2015, 12:28:47 PM
... Also, truth of your claim is an absolute defense (however this could be difficult/expensive to prove and going to court in general can cost $$.)

Truth of our claims should be obvious to any thinking person who listens to Noory for a couple of shows.

Maybe I'm just out of the loop, but what's the number to call?