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If it's possible for Noory to suck more than usual, it happens when he has a guest who's as much  an egomaniac as Noory is. Most of the three hours that Noory didn't burn jabbering about himself, Wilcock wasted doing the same thing. Seems a smart guy, but we don't care about your childhood, pal.

Quote from: Flaxen Hegemony on August 23, 2011, 09:59:32 PM
He could be found trolling the beaches, proudly wearing his colorful "I'm the guy on the radio." t-shirt.  By night, he breaks out the corduroy blazer and takes his irresistable game to the old folks casinos.

I suspect he'll be wearing his black wife-beater, and everyone will be asking him if he is the guy from the P90X ads.

That Andrew Colvin interview was strange. The guy obviously didn't have anything to say, despite George Knapp's heroic efforts to make something of the show. It was kind of like a bizarro world version of Noory's usual fare - smart, engaged host struggling with an inarticulate, unprepared guest. If the guy had been on with Noory, we'd have had three hours of dead air (oh, wait, that would be a good thing, wouldn't it ...).

Quote from: Resickened on August 21, 2011, 05:22:24 PM

Another pet peeve is how drained he seems once he hits the 1 hour mark.

Yup. One 'tell' that suggests George doesn't really enjoy the cushy job he has is his habit of referring to calls in the last hour as 'final phone calls' or the 'final segment'. He never misses a chance to call some aspect of the show the 'final' whatever. Seems to me to be the mark of someone who can't wait for the workday to end.

I have a friend who thinks that Art personally selected Noory to be his successor so as to make himself (Art) look better in retrospect. If so, it obviously worked.

My own theory is that Noory got the job because his non-challenging ('don't make me think') 'amiable doofus' persona appeals to listeners who are dumb enough to buy the high-commision gold securities, believe the claims of the snake-oil sellers and fall for the credit repair and work-at-home scams which comprise most of the C2C advertisers.

This guy thinks his alleged encounter with 'Mothman' gave him a photographic memory.

Check his first book on Amazon - one reader review, which is obvious Astroturf.

I try to give the 'channelers' and 'mediums' the benefit of the doubt, but this clown is a blatant fraud.

Another classic moment from Friday's show. During the opening 'news' section, Noory teased a story about a shortage of important, live saving drugs and said he would ask Robin Falcov about it. Actually sounded like it might be an interesting discussion. When she came on, he did indeed ask her about it. Her reply ? "I don't know. I'm not following that." No more was said.

The damned women was right there in the studio. Wouldn't a real broadcaster have let her know he was going to ask about that story before going on the air ?

Quote from: 11angeleyes11 on August 20, 2011, 10:19:29 PM
Here's another version of the story from a female perspective:

The date was set and reservations were made at a romantic restaurant by George;it was not Hooter's. 

You'll never see SNoory in a Hooter's. No valet - he'd have to park his Escalade himself. Then there's the embarrassing attire sported by the waitresses. The Prudish One would have to stare at his table the entire time he was there.

Sorry, I meant Babylon Five. All those lesser sci-fi shows look the same to me. TNG forever.

True, Jerry Doyle isn't perfect, but I'm coming from George Noory and John & Jeff ...

We have two AM talk stations here. One plays Coast To Coast and, until yesterday, the other played a completely worthless program called 'The John and Jeff Show'.

Go to any large university in the country, walk into the nearest frat house and grab the first two guys you see and give them a radio show. That's John and Jeff.

Starting yesterday, we get Lars Larson and Jerry Doyle. Larson is OK and Doyle, despite being a blowhard and a terrible name-dropper (he was in Deep Space Nine and lives in Las Vegas), is smart and funny. So long, Noory.

Quote from: onan on February 15, 2011, 09:41:15 PM
Or given enough time 100 monkeys each typing on one of one hundred typewriters will reproduce all of shakespeare's plays.

I heard Dick Cavett say that he once tried putting an infinite number of monkeys in a room with an infinite number of typewriters. He didn't get any Shakespeare, but he got three copies of 'Valley of the Dolls'.

Quote from: Michael Vandeven on August 16, 2011, 01:22:18 PM
well, i have to admit, snoors does frequenly lay an egg.

I doubt very much if Noory lays anything (or anyone) frequently or otherwise, unless the chicks get a look at him in the wife-beater in the P90X ad.

Quote from: Caruthers612 on August 12, 2011, 02:35:03 AM
                    Once, many years ago, Art Bell interviewed a little known pseudo-documentary film maker whom Art knew nothing about. It wasn't long before this disgrace to the great country of Australia, one David Icke, began waxing poetic about what a grand old world it would be were it not for those pesky Jews. Art, promptly, hung up on him, and never spoke to him again.

Must have been before my time. I didn't know that about Icke, and I've always kind of enjoyed his particular brand of lunacy, but that changes everything I've thought about him. I'll have to do some research.

Quote from: valdez on August 12, 2011, 05:16:14 AM
    3.  He was talking to Taylor, and I'm driving around when the show is on so maybe I was distracted and missed something, and George tells Taylor, "please watch your language when you're on the show.  It throws off my whole scheme."  I didn't hear Taylor say anything bad.  I think it was cut out.  "Scheme?"  Maybe he said "theme."  It was right before the end of the third hour.  Who knows....

Noory bleeped whatever the guest said with the delay button. Knowing Noory's prudishness, it may have been something as innocuous as 'God Damn'. It happened a couple of minutes before the end of the segment - wouldn't a professional have waited a few minutes and talked to the guest about it during the break, rather than scolding him on the air ? Just askin'.

Quote from: Caruthers612 on August 11, 2011, 05:37:09 AM
      For the last several years, ever increasingly, we've been listening to a show called Coast to Coast AM which, along with millions of other listeners who became fans during Art's tenure, we took to be said show, but which has increasingly become a forum for Christian evangelism. This is when it hit me: Some other radio syndicator bought the rights to the name Coast to Coast AM and began slyly altering the content of the show from the genius that Art created to the Let's Worship Jesus Hour. And why not? With its built-in fifteen million listeners, the biggest overnight show there is, if you're enough of an amoral douche bag what better way to purchase wholesale a massive audience, granting both a huge advertizing base and a huge bunch of suckers to be surreptitiously slipped the Jesus Juice.
        The more I've listened the more convinced I've become of this. Two things am for sure, this ain't Coast as we've known it, and the evangelism is palpable.
        If they'd just be honest enough to come right out and say "This is a religious broadcast, prepare to be Bible'd", it'd be one thing, but (forgive me, this is my personal bias) that kind of honesty is too much to expect from them religious types.
        I have spoken. You may now hurl rotten tomatoes or provide me with nineteen-year-old Brazilian bikini models--your choice.

C

I'm all out of bikini models, but I have to say I'm not seeing the evangelical slant you're talking about. There are the usual regular guests who seem to need to spout that stuff (Steve Quayle, I'm looking right at you), Stan Deyo and some others, but they were that way when Art interviewd them. It's the callers lately, I think, that are all too often Jesus thumpers, and I'm tired of it too. Might be a screener thing.

Kind of reminds me of the good old days when Art was bedeviled on a regular basis by the moronic Scientologists.

Quote from: TaoOfLuxLisbon on August 11, 2011, 07:47:51 AM
Furious, how? Like what was his reply?

Furious might have been a little exaggeration, but he wasn't happy and kind of sulked for a while afterwards.

Quote from: Morgus on August 10, 2011, 05:24:49 PM
Noory has the only ultra-G rated late night program.
He even says "heck" instead of "hell" 

Sunday night, Dr. Charles Tart, when Noory asked what he thought of Uri Geller, replied, in so many words, "Not much", but attempted to give Geller the benefit of the doubt about his obvious sleight-of-hand on the Tonight Show by asking Noory how he (Noory) would do if he appeared on the Tonight Show and was asked to produce an erection. Noory was furious.

He does have a very strange prudishness for a man his age. Any mention of anything sexual seems to fluster him.

Quote from: Gassy Man on August 05, 2011, 11:15:17 PM
Nah, he's too nice a guy, but I will say that he is among the more intelligent of George's guests.

So it's not Jim Berkland ...

Quote from: Morgus on August 04, 2011, 02:54:12 PM
Noory never gives an explanation for when that happens too...

I think that's because most of the time the reason is that the guest confused Noory by speaking of subjects beyond Noory's ability to understand. If I had a dollar for everytime I've heard that happen, I'd have my own studio in Hawaii.

Quote from: valdez on August 03, 2011, 04:39:59 AM
      I know I've heard on c2c a bunch of times that all nuclear material has some sort of signature that will identify the country of origin, and if I can remember that as a listener, why can't George? 

Because that fact has never been mentioned in an episode of 'Twilight Zone'. GN is neither a listener or a reader.

The show last night with the terrific Barbara Marx Hubbard was a new low (that's right) in interview radio. Noory, like Jim Bohannon, shows much less respect for guests who happen to be women. He's much more likely to interrupt women (save Linda Moulton Howe, who takes over the show when she's on) and spends a lot more time interjecting his (impossibly boring) personal stories when the guest is a woman.

I thought Ms. Hubbard handled the experience with grace and humor, but I doubt if we'll hear her again. Our loss.

He also seems to be incapable of even trying to say the word 'February'. He'll always say 'Feb', even when he's announcing an event taking place that month.

I used to listen to Bohannon when the local talk station carried his show (replaced with Michael Savage  :). When he first took over Larry King's show, he was pretty good. He did one hour of general stuff, then a three-hour interview with a guest, usually politics or current events related. When they switched the format to three one-hour interviews (surely some radio consultant's idea) the show went downhill fast.

Bohannon can be a real dick on-air (though throwing that asshole Noam Chomsky under the bus after Chomsky called him a Nazi wasn't one of those times), but he's smart and pretty well plugged in politically.

The only thing I won't listen to is Open Lines.

Topics i'm likely to turn off:

Angels
Comic Books
Movies and TV, especially Twilight Zone
True Crime
60-year-old UFO sightings
Anything Uri Geller has to talk about

I think it's mostly about Noory actually thinking of himself as a journalist, all evidence to the contrary. He may have been one years ago, but now he's just a sad joke of a talk show host, even when dealing with breaking news. He lives for the chance to 'report' something all the cable TV shows are jabbering about. I wonder if he ever thinks of the show prep he must have actually had to do back in his TV days ?

Started listening in 1996 (Graham Hancock's first appearance) and have heard at least 80% of the shows since. I'm kind of a 'captive audience" since I deliver newspapers during the time C2C is on, and we only have two talk stations here and the programming on the other one is worse than Noory (you heard me - ever hear The John and Jeff Show?). Since I'm in the car I can easily switch to a music station during the commercial breaks, so that isn't an issue.

Noory is a tragedy, of course, but I've developed a sort of ability to tune him and his stupidity out and concentrate on the guest. Doesn't work all the time though, and many drivers on either side of me at stoplights have heard me screaming at George.

The worst shows are those where a new guest comes on expecting to actually be interviewed. The silence when they realize what they've gotten into is awkward and embarrasing.

Since I don't work Saturday night/ Sunday morning, I only listen to Ian on Streamlink when his guest sounds interesting. His fascination with true crime and comic books doesn't work for me.

I like George Knapp a lot, especially now that he's been (partially) freed from the UFO ghetto. Shows on UFOs are the lamest part of C2C for me, and George Knapp is way too good an interviewer to be stuck with them.

The two regular fill-in hosts (Wells and the other guy) are OK, but Wells has a strange interviewing style and the other guy, like Noory and Ian, spends way too much time talking about himself.

The real villians in the C2C saga are, to me, the call screeners. Much of the time i turn off the radio when the calls start coming in for a guest, and I rarely listen to Open Lines at all. Do they really think that when the guest is speaking about goverment UFO cover-up, or disclosure or Roswell, that we want to hear a dozen goobers blathering on about the lights they saw in the sky in 1974 ?

Amen, and don't forget that most of C2C's advertising is fear based, too. Buy gold because the dollar is going to be worthless. Buy a crank-powered radio for weather emergencies. Buy storable food in anticipation of catastrophic events.

George "Tank Top" Noory - full time pimp for P90X workout scam.

George "Show Prep? What's That?" Noory - C2C Host (oh, wait ...)

The guy was a complete moron.

Only Noory knew less about computers and spamming than this character. He calls himself a spammer in the title of his book and, in the next breath, denies it.

Every spammer, scammer. phisher and, apparently anyone who doesn't like the guy is a 'hacker', and it seems almost everyone in the world is out to kill him.

A complete waste of two hours.