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Quote from: Sardondi on May 11, 2012, 05:54:49 PM
Yet another incident wherein Noory reveals that whatever he's talking/asking about has been prompted from a short note/quick glance at an internet page/a brief heads-up from Danheiser; and that he is completely ignorant of the subject apart from what he has in front of him or what he's just been told by Tom. He is a shockingly poorly read man; and I am continually gobsmacked at how little knowledge he has of everyday, non-paranormal things. He really does not seem to have the "walking around knowledge" which the average person possesses. And he's slow to recover when he finally understands he's just shown he didn't know what he was talking about: it's like he forgets from day to day what happened in similar goofs, and he doesn't know to try to prepare more thoroughly. But, then, for a man who prepares...I've forgotten how much he claims...8 hours a day, 24 hours a day, I guess he has no more preparation time.

Next time PremRat goes looking for a radio show host, they may want to give them an IQ test, a multiple choice quiz on the show topics, a grade school level exam on general knowledge, something to measure speaking ability and basic broadcasting skills...

I'd add evidence of work ethic, but that's clearly not important to them..

Quote from: 999 on May 11, 2012, 01:24:35 AM
Coast to Coast - Ian Punnett Shows
5/13/12

"Ian Punnett weclomes [SIC] author Peter Levenda, who will discuss how thousands of Nazi war criminals fled to remote parts of the globeâ€"including quite possibly Adolf Hitler. It is a story involving Soviet spies, Nazi priests, and a network of Catholic monasteries and safe houses known as the Ratline and how some Americans helped provide cover for Nazi war criminals."

Ian will be in full Punnett mode, harumphing indignantly just to make sure we all know where he would have stood on this. 

How long into the show before he manages to put words into the mouth of a caller, make him out to be a Nazi sympathiser, hang up on him, then claim all he wanted was to have a conversaton.

Quote from: Usagi on May 10, 2012, 10:50:46 PM
Fucking crystal skulls tonight...

Quote from: Sardondi on May 11, 2012, 12:06:50 AM
... Particularly since every one that has ever been tested comes back "cutting and/or polishing done by modern high-speed tools not available until at least 1900 C.E."

Isn't that just further evidence helpful aliens and their technology were here hundreds of years ago... (kidding).   I'm sensing a topic for a new Ancient Aliens episode..

So it turns out the Mayans had plans for the next calendar after the current one runs out this year.  Since the gloom and doom arriving with the upcoming end of the calendar was George's self stated raison d'être, I suggest he retire now.  Today would be good. 

It might be fun for someone to call in and catch him flat-footed on this.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/10/11639788-maya-calendar-workshop-documents-time-beyond-2012?lite/

George would enjoy euthanizing pets at a shelter

Making sandwiches for a movie film crew

Quote from: Jasmine on May 09, 2012, 12:07:34 PM
For me, it's any lame tale concerning his "legendary" late auntie, Chaka Khan (I honestly forget her real name). Apparently, the old metaphysical girl met her maker one dark and stormy night in her bathtub...

My guess is she was listening to George interview someone she was particularly interested in and ended up trying to throw her radio at the wall..

Quote from: Jasmine on May 09, 2012, 12:19:46 PM
Anyway, as for a date with George, I'd love to see an old, boozy and botoxed West Hollywood transvestite win the bid and really show George a good ol' time.

Yeah, but George was hoping for something different this time

Quote from: Sardondi on May 07, 2012, 11:45:11 AM
Re how often Simple George twists a story into something about him, or celebrity(?) name-drops (which is really the same thing), it's astounding how often he does this....

Maybe we need a nightly pool to keep track of these Noory bombs. The first time he does it in a show, or how many times total he does it...
Tonight, Monday the 7th, I give him until midway through the bottom of the second hour before he turns the show around to him - or about 1:35 in, or 1 hr & 35 minutes into the program, and the program begins with the playing of "The Chase".

Anyone?

From the C2C Website:

Messages From The Dead
Mon 05-07

(In the second hour) Ph.D. researcher at the University of Northampton, Cal Cooper, will discuss his work on paranormal activity at the time of death including telephone calls from the dead, as well as sightings of ghosts and apparitions in ancient and modern Egypt.



I have 10c on George mentioning his father was born in Egypt at 11:11 LA local time (by the way, how long has Egypt been considered modern?).

Quote from: Morgus on May 07, 2012, 12:48:07 PM
Noory on Sundays is apparently now doing his own version of American Idol? 

The newest Ancient Aliens - Dinosaurs - managed to omit any comments from George Noory again.  At least the third, possibly the forth straight show. 

I guess they finally tired of George's 'peepul are innereschted in this stuff' / 'sumpthin happened' type comments, and realized he really doesn't have much of a fan base to bring to the show.  Now if only PremRat...

Quote from: Lovely Bones on May 07, 2012, 09:19:16 AM
Barbara Simpson better than Ian and Knapp?

Uh.  Okay.

Well, I never had to turn it off because the guest was yet another lame obvious fraud (most of Knapp's shows), or wanted to reach thru the radio to choke her for being an ass (like with Ian).

Quote from: Frys Girl on May 06, 2012, 09:19:35 AM
Just because Wells sucks so much, doesn't mean he beats Noory. We should hate Noory more because he set the stage for an ass like Wells to come through. Art would not have had this type of environment. I don't know if Noory had a hand in hiring this guy, but if he did, or even if he said "yup. he's great!" it makes me dislike Noory more.

Then again, Art Bell wasn't great in talent selection either - Mike Seagel, Whitney Strieber, Ian Punnett, George Knapp, George Noory...  A couple of them seem ok sometimes, but really it's only in comparison to the others.. 

The ones that did fewer shows seemed better, at least a little better, Hilly Rose, Barbara Simpson, Rollye James

Quote from: blackshap9 on May 03, 2012, 03:29:52 PM
Having a degree in Psychology it is in fact Intellectually Challenged; and that is precisely how I feel after reading a post by paperboy.

Haha, Dumbsheep makes a return to defend PopZombie. 

The Noorytards have a way of quickly self-identifying themselves.  In addition to my posts, I'm guessing you find even the basics - doorknobs, silverware, operating a toilet, catching the right bus home - intellectually challenging.

Quote from: McPhallus on May 03, 2012, 01:17:17 PM
Blutsauger?

Back on that other web site, a poster would come along every so often - different name each time - with exactly this same M.O.  To ingratiate themselves, they would first agree that George sucked, but ony a little.  Then they'd bash the other hosts as worse than Noory.  Then they would target one regular poster, try to get the response, try to derail the thread. 

After maximum damage before people caught on, they'd disappear for awhile - only to reappear later with under another avitar.  Pretty sure they mostly all originated from Sherman Oaks.  My guess is someone with fat stubby fingers and low self esteem.  But any single one of them, including our current visitor, could just be some random Noortard.

Quote from: Galaga on May 03, 2012, 04:14:10 AM
... the whole call sounded like a pathetic setup and that seemed confirmed when Noory replied (paraphrasing):

"Sometimes I ask questions that people think come out of left field. Like maybe I'll ask them (pause) 'Did you play baseball when you were a kid?' But you know what? There's a reason I ask those questions. It loosens up the guest and helps them to relax. I explained that once to a to another host I was talking to at a convention and he said, 'You know what? That makes sense!'"

I can't imagine the expression on my face but needless to say, I ain't picking up what Noory's puttin' down. Doesn't he realize that his absurd excuse doesn't even remotely explain all of his turd-festooned habits? Repeating questions, asking questions that literally have just been answered, missing obvious follow up questions and interjecting his own marginally related experiences and recollections as though he is adding to the conversation (it doesn't). That's the height of stupidity... when you are so stupid that you can't even properly account for your own dumbsmithing.

So George was displaying his complete lack of self awareness while he's doing a show again.  Does he really not notice these useless questionscontinually come just as the guest is about to make the point he has spent several minutes building up to?  Does George really not realize it wen he confuses and distracts the guest and they lose focus on what they were talking about?  Does he really think he is helping when he interrupts and ruins the flow of the show?

After the first 'how are you?', 'what 's new with you?', 'what's next?', the guest is either warmed up and ready to go or they will never be.

George may be a lousy host and iterviewer, but he sure spends a lot of time making excuses for his Suckage.  Time that would be better spent in show prep or just learning a little bit about the world around him.  A good start would be simply paying attention when the guest is speaking.  For the full show.  Every night.

Quote from: michio on May 01, 2012, 10:48:19 PM
On the last show, Noory was talking with Horowitz about the Rosicrucians.  I think it was Noory who brought first brought up the subject  when he said "Ross-icrucians." I immediately noticed the error. Shortly after Noory's gaffe, Horowitz said the word correctly by pronouncing it "Rose-icrucians."  I was sure that Noory, being the attentive listener he is, would be instantly alerted to his mispronunciation. No luck. Noory kept saying "Ross-icrucians," even after Horowitz had said the correct pronunciation multiple times. ..

Then there was the Masters dude who kept saying "FukuJIMA" all night long.  It's actually "FukuSHIMA." The scholar Noory never caught this error, either, or just didn't give a crap...

George - trying to burnish his cred - used to ask guests if they knew of his 'aunt' Shafica Karagulla (I assume he probably still does this).  Finally, one day, a guest did.  He had studied under her and claimed to have known her well.  George was pleased and a conversation ensued.

At some point, the guest said she had preferred her name pronounced like Ka-rig'-u-la and he continued to pronounce it that way the rest of the show.  George just went right on pronouncing it Kara'-gu-la.  Back and forth they went.  Good one, George.

Quote from: expat on April 30, 2012, 05:54:11 PM
I think many of us liked the "Mysterious disappearances in National Parks... that NPS is highly reluctant to talk about." I thought it was the best this year.

That was a good show, spooky to listen to late at night.  As close to an Art Bell show as we're going to get.  Like you said, probably the best of the year (not that there is much competition in the category).

However - big however - Knapp just does not have any credibility.  He just doesn't.  Not for a long time.  Not after having his local Raelian cult spokeslady on multiple times to talk about the human cloning they are 'currently doing'.  Not after not even mentioning the role of Title Insurance in his alarmist reports on chain of property title problems on foreclosures, not after way too many delusional guests (like the lady that claimed to be  CIA sex slave forced to have sex with every promanent Republican from Hoover to Reagan), not after too many just plain stupid UFO guests and shows.  This guy even had John Edwards' campaign manager on after the election one year.  The year John Edwards was the most obvious phony of the bunch running.

The reason the National Parks aren't keeping records on these disappearances, aren't answering questons, and seem to be covering them up are probably because the Bigfoot hunter guest made them up sitting around the campfire.  Once again George Knapp is completely credulous and a little too easily taken in by some huckster he stumbled across. 

Quote from: VtaGeezer on April 30, 2012, 12:37:52 PM
... clearly run out of gas, as have most of the off-beat story lines that have made C2C interesting...

Which is another way of saying George Noory and his bloated staff have developed zero interesting new topics over the past 10 years. 

Well, other than infomercial/doom topics designed to sell sponsor products, and the pseudo-medical topics designed to show off George's ignorance and fear of science and medicine.

Did the Ancien Aliens folks dump George, or did they finally realize after looking through the rest of his clips that he doesn't ever really add anythng to their show?

The most recent 2 episodes - 'The Da Vinci Conspiracy' and 'The Time Travelers' - were Noory free, unless I dozed off just as he came on and woke up right after he finished (which is quite possible).  And the episode before that - 'Aliens and Bigfoot' - not sure if he made an appearance on that one either.

They visit some interesting ancient ruins and show footage of petroglyphs, etc, but the show trying to compose a theory involving Bigfoot, Da Vinci, Nazi's, time traveling aliens - they're just about out of ideas.

We know George isn't much interested in most to the show topics.  We know he ehjoys stories about kids getting killed in unusual ways.  George probably loves to talk and thinks he's among friends and walks around trying to be funny around the office.

So before the Shroud of Turin shows he's joking around about the 'shroud of urine', other times it's a petting zoo with vicious animals.  So there he is, on air, slow on his feet, not really thinking, he means to say 'Shroud of Turin' or 'zoo', but out it comes - just the way he's been joking about it.

Quote from: EgoFartSnooryBoy on April 28, 2012, 12:18:58 PM
WHAT
THE
F-U-C-K
IS
WRONG
WITH
ALL
OF
YOU?!!

JOHN "FAKE DEEP VOICE COCK SUCKING QUEER" WELLS IS THE WORST C2C HOST E-V-E-R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One way to test for which host is worse would be for that pedophile caller to call in and see if Wells gives him as much air time as George Noory did.

Quote from: ZombiePoppa on April 29, 2012, 02:02:48 PM
... This forum has outlasted its usefulness.

Not until George Noory is gone.  Then there will be plenty of posts recalling his Suckage, gloating, and spiking the football.

Can't wait.

Quote from: EgoFartSnooryBoy on April 28, 2012, 12:18:58 PM
... He is LESS PREPARED THAN NOORY! HE NEVER HAS ANY INTELLIGENT QUESTIONS EVER AND NEVER PREPARES FOR AANY INTERVIEW< AT LEAST NOORY HAS Q-CARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

Noory takes great pride in not knowing a thing about the subject, not listening, not preparing.  The cue cards are there for George to use to interrupt, confuse, try to make the guests lose their train of thought, ensure they aren't able to finish making their points, and turn the conversation to be about George, 

I've never listened to Wells, but I'd be surprised if he could even be less prepared than George Nobody.

Quote from: Usagi on April 27, 2012, 04:49:38 PM

Yeah, that bugs me quite a bit.  Most people seem rather particular about when and what diminutives are used for their name.  His wanton use of nicknames for people he's never even seen or talked to is actually downright insulting.  Just another example of how Georgie doesn't have a clue.

And another example of George not being a 'nice guy'.

Even Tom Danheiser becomes 'Tommy'.  Working for George Noory must be awful.  Even if the program didn't suck.

At $2850 DrDarryl is leading the pack to dine with Noory and get some cookware.  Lady Die seems to have topped out at a mere $1350.  Only 9 hours left to bid.


Not only will the winner be charged shipping and handling on a cook set they may or may not even want, it looks like they are going to be charged sales tax on the whole thing. 


"charitybuzz® Inc. is registered in the state of New York and California. New York or California sales tax will be charged on your winnings in addition to the final bid amount and shipping cost..."


In Calif, isn't sales tax only assessed on personal property purchases, and specifically not services - i.e., applicable to the dishes and dinner (the restaurant will also add sales tax to the bill), but not to George's presence?

Dr Darryl may want to bring some extra cash if he wants something to drink or some dessert.  Probably should be prepared to leave the tip too.

Ian also writes a monthly column for Irritable Bowel Today.

Quote from: HorrorReporter on April 25, 2012, 03:19:07 PM
Wonder if he sang like Elvis at the wedding holding his dildo-like object

Nope, didn't get to it.  The power mysteriously failed in the middle of Muscrat Love.

Quote from: Lovely Bones on April 25, 2012, 07:26:56 AM
... On another note, I was interested in this passage from Ian's article:

Since my therapeutic strategy has been to follow up on every lead, I made an appointment with (let’s call him “Dr. White”) a psychiatrist. As an old school shrink, Dr. White asked me questions about my mother and my sex life and finally concluded that if the tinnitus was not organic, my mind could be creating “a delusion” to provide an excuse to end my successful but demanding media career.  

[bolding mine]

Was he looking for an excuse to cut ties with Coast?

I wonder if Ian told 'Dr White' about that Friday night promo call in to George.  The one where George brings up Paul the Octopus, Ian does a very ernest and enthusiastic - yet nonsensical - monologue from his dream state, and George agrees with him.

Quote from: Morgus on April 24, 2012, 06:15:46 PM
Noory's first 2 hour guest last night talking about a secret Nazi process developed to synthesize liquid fuel was probably from him watching an old 1980 movie starring George C. Scott and Marlon Brando.
Look at the summary of this 1980 movie called "The Formula" and see if it sounds just like that:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080754/
Plot Summary for The Formula (1980)
A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil--and oil companies. A major oil company finds out about it and tries to destroy the formula and anyone who knows about it.

You've just won yourself 6 books from George - the ones he couldn't sell to the used bookstore...

Quote from: HoustonTexasOne on April 24, 2012, 03:22:01 PM
... Anyways,whenever a host is on C2C I at least expect for the host,whoever it is,to ask RELEVANT questions and not nebulous commentary...

Whenever a host is on C2C, I expect the opposite of all that...