George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[BobGrau]

I just learned that pigeons are the only bird that can suck.
Someone please catch this ball and run with it.

Edit: turns out it's the pigeon's ASS that can suck. 

[DebbyS]

Cool. I do listen to a political show in the mornings - Stephanie Miller (which you can catch here, weekdays at 8am central), but there's enough humor there that the politics don't get too tiresome.

I liked her until during the last presidential election she said nasty things about Nader and all who would dare vote for him (how dare they think independently!) over her darling Obama. Of course, she admits to voting for Reagan twice... Jim Ward and Chris L. backing her up are quite good and I'd listen to them without her, but these days I find her to be really tiring (she needs to learn to shut up sometimes when interviewing people). She's on live here in Mountain time at 7:05am, but I'm on the bus to work at that time. If Randy Rhodes were on at a better time, or delayed until later, I'd give her a good chance. Ditto Thom Hartman (who's following the horror that is Fukushima, good for him!) and Amy Goodman (who is rerun on our progressive station on the weekend sometimes, though may be live on Community TV (cable), and delayed on local NPR stations. Norman Goldman is okay, but on delay here, so I usually only listen to him if I can't pull in KNX (Los Angeles all-news) clearly and need help get to sleep. 

I need more time and more $ to subscribe to and download all these shows...

Oh, and GN is still audible here via KFI (640, Los Angeles), KOA (850 Denver, not easy to get here) and then some unidentified station I heard with some difficulty this morning out of El Paso, I think. George Knapp was on, so I had to check out what he was saying.

[JustOneFix]

I haven't listened to Coast is Toast in over 4 months now so I'm out of the loop. To hear stations are dropping the program is damn interesting and as others have suspected I too think this is just the beginning of dwindling affiliates.

Should be interesting the next 3-6 months!

[MDL5676]

George was doing his "news" segment at the beginning of the show like he always does and mentioned the story about the 22 passengers from a Carnival cruise ship that were robbed at gunpoint near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico when returning from a jungle tour. After he was done reading the story, Delusional George actually had the balls to make a remark about how this story reminded him of his own experience in Mexico a couple months ago... FML I swear George's propensity for being a compulsive liar and for spewing absolute bullshit apparently knows no bounds... You're a sick, pathetic little man Mr. Noory... Get some help... Noory Sucks!           

[fysisist]

I haven't listened to Coast is Toast in over 4 months now so I'm out of the loop. To hear stations are dropping the program is damn interesting and as others have suspected I too think this is just the beginning of dwindling affiliates.

Should be interesting the next 3-6 months!

Yeah, with any luck maybe C2C with GN will come to an end on 12/21/2012.

[PB the Deplorable]

I like Michael Cremo a lot, much the alternative history really.  Since I don't listen to the show anymore, I don't check the website for show topics either, and missed MCs recent appearance.

So last night I find that show online and listen to some of it.  Good ol' George, same as ever.  Pretending to be some expert with lifelong interest in the subject and failing.  When he is listening he's interupting, feebly trying to guess what the guest will say next and of course failing.

At one point MC mentions something, gives a little detail, moves on, and suddenly George (fresh from Googling the subject) interrupts to stae some minor detail that MC had just said.  Completely pointless.

A little later they are talking about the ancient Indian verana flying machines and George wants to know if they have ever found one.   They start talking about carved objects that look like planes, etc, and George starts talking excitedly about how they 'look exactly like' planes, spaces shuttles, rocket ships, then says how he'd love to go back in time to see one.  Well George, if they look 'just like' planes and thuh space shuttle, why not at least go look at that.

This is the sort of ameteur interviewing that people just can't stand anymore.  There is so much that could be done with this show, and George is just to lazy and uninterested to do any of it.

[analog kid]

I liked her until during the last presidential election she said nasty things about Nader and all who would dare vote for him (how dare they think independently!) over her darling Obama.

Yeah, there was a lot of that going around during that election cycle, when everyone was so invested in their candidate. Going back and reading posts on a site like Wonkette's from that time is pretty frightening.

[Sardondi]

Maybe there is some connection to the recent dropping of c2c by many of the affiliate stations and Noory's mysterious disappearances on Friday nights nearly every other week since the start of this new year?
Maybe Noory is starting to do interviews for other jobs around the country during his nights off?
There are no coincidences, according to him, remember...

I've been thinking about this post in connection with George Knapp's remarkable statement about dropped affiliates. And I wonder whether maybe the C2C suits finally get that there's something wrong at C2C. And maybe the suits get that what's wrong is that a significant segment of what was in the past a larger listening audience simply cannot stomach the massively incompetent host.

Now where do you think they might have gotten the idea that thousands of folks think George Noory sucks harder than diamond-coated titanium armor?

[BobGrau]

Now where do you think they might have gotten the idea that thousands of folks think George Noory sucks harder than diamond-coated titanium armor?

Fantastic Forum?

[PB the Deplorable]

I've been thinking about this post in connection with George Knapp's remarkable statement about dropped affiliates. And I wonder whether maybe the C2C suits finally get that there's something wrong at C2C...

One would think so, but after 8 years of George Noory remaining employed I doubt it.  At the big companies in Coporate America, the people that don't just go along with all the nonsense are the ones who are punished, people know better than to speak up.  About anything.  All these PremRat execs ever hear about George is how great he is from all quarters - from George himself, from his staff, from his boss, from his peers like Alex Jones, Ian Punett, George Knapp, probably even Art Bell up until recently .  They see him invited to paranormal conferences, 'writing' books, making TV appearances, showing up every night.  They know he goes along with anything and follows orders.

We're just written off as 'haters', people that can't stand the idea of anyone replacing Art Bell. 

Loss of sponsors, dropped affiliates, even lower ratings are considered just part of the economic slowdown.  For most, it takes awhile listening for the true horridness of George Noory to really sink in.  A few flubed pronounciations here, some stupid questions or dumb comments there, failure to ask intelligent follow ups, creepy personal stories, the gleeful reporting of children dying horrible deaths, all that has to be heard repeatedly for it to sink in that it isn't just the normal mistakes anyone would make. The decision makers at PremRat aren't interested in the paranormal, they have day jobs, they don't ever hear George, certainly not enough to recognize how truly terrible he is. 

He will clearly never get another job offer.  Short of piping his previous night's dreck into the executive suite every day, we are stuck with him until he keels over.

[HorrorReporter]

Everything is wrong with Coast to Coast Am.
And something.... maybe a little birdy.. tells me Art Bell agrees.

But how things correct itself? ... that I don't know. The next few weeks will tell... and contract negotiations will tell, too

[VtaGeezer]

Until someone finds recent rating national and major urban rating for C2C, I think all talk of Noory's demise is conjecture.  I couldn't find any national market ratings listings below the top ten, which doesn't include C2CAM.

[VtaGeezer]

Forgot to mention that I'm looking forward to tonight's program...sounds like doomsday preppers in Giza. 

[Morgus]

Forgot to mention that I'm looking forward to tonight's program...sounds like doomsday preppers in Giza. 

Wow - looks like Noory suddenly dropped his Giza pyramid guests after only one hour without any warning or explanation.
He brought in one of his regulars, Joshua P. Warren, to take over the last two hours tonight.
Wonder what the guests did to incur Noory's wrath? Or was Noory just bored with them perhaps? 

[Ben Shockley]

Morgus beat me to it.   But I already had it typed, so, here goes--

Well, just for the hell of it -- I turned on the show for the beginning of hour #2, giving Georgie time to finish with the non-empirical New-Agey first hour feel-gooder.
And what do I hear?  The non-scheduled Joshua Warren.

How long are people going to keep playing along with Noory??  How long are people going to keep offering themselves as fodder for him?   The first-timers have to get hip to how he regularly treats them!!   The go-to folks (and it's so often Warren) need to tell Noory to stop calling them at 2 AM whenever he gets in over his head!!

Above all, any and every Insider subscriber needs to cancel and use a free alternative!!
Damn that idiot Noory!!

[choa25]

can someone please tell me the reason they put this Writin on The Rainbow song garbage on whats its purpose man someone please help me or am im the only one whose nerves it gets on...

[stevesh]

Wow - looks like Noory suddenly dropped his Giza pyramid guests after only one hour without any warning or explanation.
He brought in one of his regulars, Joshua P. Warren, to take over the last two hours tonight.
Wonder what the guests did to incur Noory's wrath? Or was Noory just bored with them perhaps? 

It sounded to me like the Giza guys hadn't provided the list of questions requested of C2C guests for Noory to 'ask', so Simple George didn't have any index cards. Once he had asked all his standards (How did you get into this field? Why are so many people fascinated by the pyramids ? (asked that one twice), Have you ever met Zahi Awass ?), he had shot his wad so he just gave up and threw them under the bus.

I've been hoping that the Cumulus station exodus from C2C would be a wake-up call for someone at Premiere, but ...

[valdez]

Wow - looks like Noory suddenly dropped his Giza pyramid guests...Wonder what the guests did to incur Noory's wrath? Or was Noory just bored with them perhaps? 

...Once he had asked all his standards (How did you get into this field? Why are so many people fascinated by the pyramids ? (asked that one twice), Have you ever met Zahi Awass ?), he had shot his wad so he just gave up and threw them under the bus.

How long are people going to keep playing along with Noory??

can someone please tell me the reason they put this Writin on The Rainbow song garbage on whats its purpose man someone please help me or am im the only one whose nerves it gets on...

     I think Scott Creighton and Gary Osborn may have also ticked Noory off when they didn't feel like speculating as to how the pyramids were built, and when George asked it a second time, one of them said it "wasn't important." These folks have to learn to play when they enter "George Noory's Circus of Fear and Speculation," or the ringmaster will send them back to from where ever they came from. Joshua P. Warren seems to really care about the stuff he deals with, and I appreciate his thoughtful answers to callers questions, as opposed to George's "who knows?" answer to everything.
     Rainbow song? You don't mean Brother Iz's "Over the Rainbow," do you? That's the only thing George does right. That, and lounge singing.
 

Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole

[HorrorReporter]

Joshua P warren should host the show.. That would be interesting

[stevesh]

These folks have to learn to play when they enter "George Noory's Circus of Fear and Speculation," or the ringmaster will send them back to from where ever they came from.

Yeah, and I think that aspect of Noory's dysfunction is getting worse. Every discussion of Egyptian antiquity has to center on how the pyramids were built, any show about any kind of sprituality has to include a lengthy discussion of angels, etc.

The Giza guys last night sounded like they could have easily carried the show if SG had just got out of the way.

I wouldn't mind hearing Joshua Warren take a shot at hosting the show, either.

[Tara]

Wow - looks like Noory suddenly dropped his Giza pyramid guests after only one hour without any warning or explanation.
He brought in one of his regulars, Joshua P. Warren, to take over the last two hours tonight.
Wonder what the guests did to incur Noory's wrath? Or was Noory just bored with them perhaps? 

Noory will tolerate only two theories on the Egyptian pyramids:  aliens or an ancient technologically advanced civilization.  If a guest is not preaching Noory's ideology; it's off the air for them.  He's incapable of dealing with contrary theories, and/or uncertainty. 

I wonder why someone (producers?) doesn't screen the guests before hand.  If they won't spout the Noory line, why even put them on the air only to be quickly dispatched?

[PB the Deplorable]

It sounded to me like the Giza guys hadn't provided the list of questions requested of C2C guests for Noory to 'ask', so Simple George didn't have any index cards. Once he had asked all his standards (How did you get into this field? Why are so many people fascinated by the pyramids ? (asked that one twice), Have you ever met Zahi Awass ?), he had shot his wad so he just gave up and threw them under the bus...

And yet he's 'bin innereshted' in this his whole life, is 'the leading investigator' in the field, and was 'born tuh do thuh show'.  George has interviewed countless people and been exposed to various ideas on the topic.  If for some reason he doesn't have any of his own off the top of his head, he has had days if not weeks to prepare a few questions.  George Noary is stealing from PremRat everytime he cashes his paycheck and wasting the time of anyone bothering to turn the show on.

... He's incapable of dealing with ... uncertainty...

Ding!  Not exactly what one would look for in someone doing live interviews

[El Kragen]

can someone please tell me the reason they put this Writin on The Rainbow song garbage on whats its purpose man someone please help me or am im the only one whose nerves it gets on...

If you are, as Valdez suggested, talking about Brother Iz's "Over the Rainbow," then the answer is YES you are the only one on the planet who doesn't like that song lol

[VtaGeezer]

Last night Noory pissed me off...again dropping guests whose theories and research don't fit his 100% wishful template.  It was the last straw. This morning I bailed from my long-time Coast Insider subscription that would have rolled over next week.  Noory's never getting a penny from me again.

Creighton and Osborne seem to know the non-establishment Egypt researchers and I hope they can get their friends to boycott C2C, though it seems many already do. The subject was once a C2C mainstay, but is rarely the topic now and the Egypt specialists like Bauval almost never appear.  Their UK accents were probably a challenge for parochial Noory as well.

I've contacted C2C guests who were unceremoniously dropped by Noory.  For those of you who don't know, He just leaves them hanging on the line at a break and never comes back.  Not a peep. Just dead air.   What a jerk!  Those guys were probably frantic about a phone problem while Noory just ignored the light flashing and connected with that waiting clown Warren with more of his childish scary campfire stories. I guess the scintilating Lionel Fanthorp was tied up.

[PB the Deplorable]

... For those of you who don't know, He just leaves them hanging on the line at a break and never comes back.  Not a peep. Just dead air.   What a jerk!  Those guys were probably frantic about a phone problem while Noory just ignored the light flashing...

Another example for anyone that still thinks George is a nice guy that just happens to suck at broadcasting.

[awguy]

Everything is wrong with Coast to Coast Am.
And something.... maybe a little birdy.. tells me Art Bell agrees.

But how things correct itself? ... that I don't know. The next few weeks will tell... and contract negotiations will tell, too

How long has Noory been negotiating a new contract? It's been going on for well over a year now... how long does it take to get a friggin 5 year deal done?

[coaster]

I tuned in last night because I wanted to hear the 'secrets of giza' part of the show. instead it was joshua p warren. now I dont have a problem with the guy, and I like his brown mountain lights investigations, but I was confused as to what they were talking about. He seemed to have hastily created a toy box and fake sound recordings so they would have at least something to talk about. The whole subject of the call sounded rushed and I could smell the bullshit through the radio. I still dont understand what his "satans toy box" was supposed to be. The one thing I did enjoy was the way Joshua treated the callers. He actually listened to their questions and had a relevant answer. That is unusual for coast.  I's like to see Joshua host a show. I think he would do really well.

[Ben Shockley]

If you are, as Valdez suggested, talking about Brother Iz's "Over the Rainbow," then the answer is YES you are the only one on the planet who doesn't like that song lol

Sorry, Kragen: I'm with choa25 on this one.  It's particularly irritating that Bruddah Iz ~uh~ freestyled (a/k/a botched) the lyrics.

Georgie is looking forward to meeting Iz --someday-- when he moves Team Noory to the new, secure agricultural commune in Hawaii.

[Ben Shockley]

Ironically, Georgie took one look at the name "Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole" and labeled the guy "Iz" on his own.   He still doesn't know that that was the guy's real nickname.
Imagine if Iz would have ever been a guest on NoorCoast: the pre-show discussion* about how Georgie could / should intro the guy before going to (simple) nickname mode ~~


*Pre-show kvetching among staff members, because, as we know, Georgie can't be bothered by pedestrian crap like that.

[Ben Shockley]

...I was confused as to what they were talking about...The whole subject of the call sounded rushed and I could smell the bullshit through the radio...

I would LOVE to be in that studio and see what happens when a life-raft guest like Warren or Hoagland won't answer that late-night call, or even better, tells Danheiser to go fuck himself.
Of course, they'd just drop in an old taped show and be done for the evening and go to Denny's early.   But shit like that HAS TO register at some point with even the most casual listeners!!