George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[Tom from Hong Kong]

Everyone on this site and many others (e.g., The Paracast Forum) complain incessantly about Noory.  And frankly, I agree 100% with all of it.

The real question is how we collectively garbage bin the guy.  I logical replacement, if Noory goes, is Knapp.  We can either sit around on these internet forums and bitch, or we can try to take action.  Any ideas?

[EvB]

I logical replacement, if Noory goes, is Knapp.

Here is the problem with that:  Knapp has a regular TV gig.  I've no idea if he'd give it up for c2c or not - but - I imagine there are contract issues all around.

[valdez]

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[the] logical replacement, if Noory goes, is Knapp.

Knapp has that long introdution (something about nano particles, and supernovas, and slot machines) that drives me nuts.  No way I want to hear that five nights a week.  He is also very much stuck in ufo land.
     I vote for Ian.

[Marc.Knight]

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/coast-coast-conspiracies-9962651

[Tom from Hong Kong]

Whoever the replacement is -- Knapp or otherwise -- will still be better than Noory, in my opinion.  I personally find Punnett boring: I just don't listen to his shows, and his guests don't draw in the listeners.  Nonetheless, Premier has to be able to find someone better than Noory.  Again, any ideas on how the listeners can facilitate a change, absent mass exodus from the program?

[Marc.Knight]

Whoever the replacement is -- Knapp or otherwise -- will still be better than Noory, in my opinion.  I personally find Punnett boring: I just don't listen to his shows, and his guests don't draw in the listeners.  Nonetheless, Premier has to be able to find someone better than Noory.  Again, any ideas on how the listeners can facilitate a change, absent mass exodus from the program?

Lisa Lyon
Producer, Coast to Coast AM
lisa@coasttocoastam.com

Tom Danheiser
Producer, Coast to Coast AM
tom@coasttocoastam.com

[MV/Liberace!]

Lisa Lyon
Producer, Coast to Coast AM
lisa@coasttocoastam.com

Tom Danheiser
Producer, Coast to Coast AM
tom@coasttocoastam.com

i think it's likely a waste of keyboard strokes to send off any missives to these two.  they probably receive them all day, everyday, and are powerless and/or unwilling to do anything about it.  besides, what could they do even if they were willing?  they're technically lower on the totem pole than noory himself, and to interfere with his paycheck would only risk interference with their own.  all you can REALLY do is stop subscribing to streamlink and stop listening to the show when snoors is hosting.  then, in the RARE case you are surveyed for your listening habits, don't list the nights when snoors was hosting, or don't even list the show at all.  tell them you were listening to RadioTrainWreck.com.

[Tom from Hong Kong]

I agree: e-mailing a producer or webmaster at C2C is pointless.  I tried looking for an appropriate contact at their corporate parent but wasn't able to find one (if anyone has any good ideas . . . ).  Absent that, it appears the sole recourse is stop listening and wait for Snoory to be booted, which may come only after it's too late for the show's salvation.

I find it disgruntling that there is a dearth of sane, grounded, well produced shows on the paranormal. In large part, the lunatic fringe and the incompetents have engulfed the field.  I personally enjoyed the Paracast, but with David Biedny's recent 'retirement' the future of that podcast is in the balance.

[MABUSE]

I can think of a few people I feel that way about.

What, no elaboration?  C'Mon!!!!!

**M**

[valdez]

     From what I saw of the Nightline interview, and with the exception of his defence of the leprechaun guy, Noory came across as some sort of force to be reckoned with, an important guy, big cheese in the deli, fatest pig in the pen.  The more attention he receives from the mainstream media, the more powerful he becomes.
     Here's a excerpt from a recent New Yorker article:

     ...he enjoys entertaining guest on his yacht.  On this particularly warm afternoon Billy Gibbons, La Toya Jackson, and Ron Paul accompany him on a quick jaunt to the Florida Keys.  He sits on a deck chair.  A fly has landed on his forehead.  He swats it away.
     "Yes, I have my detractors.  But they are small, and of no consequence.  I will rule the night until I no longer care to."

     O.K.  I made up the New Yorker thing.  But he's definitely consolidating his position, and he ain't going anywhere.  Our only hope is for someone on the "inside" to make a move.  Perhaps Hogland, or Howel, or even Alex Jones.  I have noticed that Jones has been sucking up to him recently.  Sucking up is always a sign that someone is about to make a move on your position.  Unfortunately,  I can't stand him, so I hope he fails, and being the slob that he is, he most certainly will.

[Zaqir]

So tonight he had Micheal Cremo on.

Around 2:45 am Cremo was discussing some artifacts that people have collected throughout the years. He stated "I do not know if there was a cover up or if the items were lost and displaced"

Not 30 seconds later George asks "Were the artifacts lost due to a cover up?"

What a douche.

[Traveling Executioner]

Classified employment advertisement: Prominent radio network seeks on-air talent to discuss subjects of speculative nature for late-night broadcast. Must suck.

[valdez]

     No big whoop from Micheal Cremo.  Very old stuff found in the dirt indicating that perhaps human existence goes back much further than commonly thought.
     More interesting was John R. Lott talking about guns and the current case before the Supreme Court.  Let us now take a moment to thank the good lord for Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas and sometimes Kennedy.

[CoastToCoastWeekend]

I fell asleep with the radio on and woke up at about 300 am EST.  The guest (as per usual) had talked for about 5 minutes straight.  Some really interesting stuff about ancient history (can't really remember, but it sounded well thought out).  George comes out of nowhere and says, "is there anyway to tie this in to 2012."  Not that 2012 isn't somewhat interesting (despite being beaten to death already, two years out...) but his question had nothing to do with the conversation and totally botched the flow.

[EvB]

"is there anyway to tie this in to 2012."

Is absolutely CLASSIC George and says a lot about the way he does (or does not) think. 

"um - wait - I haven't noticed a chance to beat one of my favorite dead or dying horses - so give me one! - I don't work for a living you know."

[starrmtn001]

UPDATE: Here is a sight to make your gorge rise, your blood boil and your chocolate hostages make a break for freedom:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/photo/view/george_presents_zecharia_sitchin_with_award/43881?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+C2C-Photooftheday+%28Feed+-+Coast+to+Coast+-+Photo+of+the+Day%29

words fail me, I am simply out of invective at this point other than to make the following serious inquiry:

Does that award carry more or less critical weight that the Nuri regional-boobie-prize-Emmys or the Hoaxland misappropriated Angstrom thingum? 

How many high colonic box tops do I have to save to get one?

Does it come with a magic Sumerian/Akkadian de-coder ring so I can interpret dead languages?

If only Leni Riefenstahl had been there, we could have had a real masterpiece--Triumph of the Shill!


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**M**

Is THAT what one wears to present an award at a formal ceremony to honor someone?  What a bum.  Snoory is dressed like . . . like . . . Simon Cowel!
Oh gawd, maybe Snoory is the new replacement on American Idol.  Good! 
Bad for Idol but great for C2C.

[Traveling Executioner]

Hilarious call! Especially when Art did the demon voice. Those exchanges with J.C. were always a high point. I'm sure 'J.C.' was entirely a put-on, but that Art found his calls so amusing, he'd put him on the air.

Speaking of 'What the--?',  I loved Marc Knight's hilarious 'Never Forget' Batman nipple photo so much, I couldn't resist squeezing George into it...

[valdez]

     Last year a blind guy called George and told him he didn't have the money for an operation that would give him sight, and George said he would try to help.  Tonight George announced that the guy will be undergoing the first of two surgical procedures courtesy of a c2c listener.  I hereby refrain, today, from writing anything mean, or derisive, about George Ralph Noory, who has, in these days of darkness, and unimaginable horror, done a good thing. 

[MV/Liberace!]

Hilarious call! Especially when Art did the demon voice. Those exchanges with J.C. were always a high point. I'm sure 'J.C.' was entirely a put-on, but that Art found his calls so amusing, he'd put him on the air.

Speaking of 'What the--?',  I loved Marc Knight's hilarious 'Never Forget' Batman nipple photo so much, I couldn't resist squeezing George into it...

haha, there's a lot of history behind batman photos on this website.  welcome to the forums.

[EvB]

     Last year a blind guy called George and told him he didn't have the money for an operation that would give him sight, and George said he would try to help.  Tonight George announced that the guy will be undergoing the first of two surgical procedures courtesy of a c2c listener.  I hereby refrain, today, from writing anything mean, or derisive, about George Ralph Noory, who has, in these days of darkness, and unimaginable horror, done a good thing.

Well - that is nice.  And, when you have a good sized audience - it's positive to use that for good. 

Sadly, none of that makes him an interesting radio host.

[Marc.Knight]

Hilarious call! Especially when Art did the demon voice. Those exchanges with J.C. were always a high point. I'm sure 'J.C.' was entirely a put-on, but that Art found his calls so amusing, he'd put him on the air.

Speaking of 'What the--?',  I loved Marc Knight's hilarious 'Never Forget' Batman nipple photo so much, I couldn't resist squeezing George into it...

BWWWAAAHAAHAA

[Marc.Knight]

haha, there's a lot of history behind batman photos on this website.  welcome to the forums.

[Marc.Knight]

He is everywhere.

[Marc.Knight]

What's wrong with this picture?

[RecoveringNoorholic]

He is everywhere.

BTW - what is with that picture of George? In that picture he looks like the most suave, debonair, interesting, aristocratic adventurous, worldly man possible.  In every other picture he looks like trailer trash from outside Dearborn, MI. I don't know if he put on a lot of weight between this picture and his current ones, or this is just highly airbrushed or he's aged very poorly or what but I've always found it disconcerting. 

[valdez]

     Never boring, allways confident, and with little patience for George's silliness, Richard C. Hoagland co-hosted a three quest night on NASA, a possible Mars mission, and the importance of thereof.   At one point George began to tell about how he had heard that Stanley Kubrick had supposedly filmed some footage of a lunar landing for NASA to broadcast in the event we were not able to successfully land Neil and Buzz on the big cheese, and Richard cut him off quick with a resounding, "Its not true!"  George responded by saying he personally believed we landed on the moon, , but that it was possible for  some of that fake footage to have been "mixed in" with the real footage.  Richard paused for a moment in which he contemplated ripping George to pieces, then said, "that's another show."  Yeah.  Another show entitled: George's idiotic habit of giving credence to dumb ideas just because they're "possible".
    Richard managed to get in a "one of Mar's moons is actually a martian made satelite" wack theory, but otherwise he did a good job and I would like to hear him do more.  Once a month, perhaps replacing George's "emerging artist sunday" thing.

[Faster345]

He he! What a douche indeed. I don't know how he managed to get this job. He is about the least qualified person on earth for C2C. Cheers.

[hideousmonster]

I vote for Knapp. I'd rather have Noory than Punnett, though. Ultimately I tune in for the guests more than the host, and Punnett doesn't seem interested enough in the paranormal, nor in alternative ancient history, to intrview the kinds of guests that catch my interests the most. Punnett seems like he doesn't take some paranormal topics seriously at all. He's similar to the local news guy who does a little joke about the recent UFO sighting, rather than reporting it like a serious news story.  I also think Punnett isn't libertarian enough for the job. And I say that, not just in the political sense, but in the conversational sense as well. I mean despite Noory's drawbacks as an interviewer, he at least knows never to set himself up as the opposition to his guests' claims.

[Ghost to Ghost]

Another great example: I was listening to the 2004 "ancient mysteries" interview with Graham Phillips, and Phillips was talking about New Kingdom-era ancient Egypt and pre-classical Greece. All of a sudden, our buddy George interrupts Phillips to ask, "Now the Romans were pretty strong back then too, weren't they?"

WTF WTF WTF WTF?!?!?!

Sorry for quoting myself, it's just that I still can't fathom how Noory is so ignorant. It's like the retards who complained, "OMG Cleopatra wasn't a white woman!" after watching HBO's Rome.

What I can't understand is how Noory can be this ignorant when he is the host of a show that regularly deals with ancient history. For fuck's sake, look at a timeline or pull up a Wikipedia page, you don't have to be Victor Davis Hanson to do the show.

It would be like interviewing a guest about Saladin and asking, "The samurai were pretty strong back then too, weren't they?"

[MABUSE]

     Never boring, allways confident, and with little patience for George's silliness, Richard C. Hoagland co-hosted a three quest night on NASA, a possible Mars mission, and the importance of thereof.   At one point George began to tell about how he had heard that Stanley Kubrick had supposedly filmed some footage of a lunar landing for NASA to broadcast in the event we were not able to successfully land Neil and Buzz on the big cheese, and Richard cut him off quick with a resounding, "Its not true!"  George responded by saying he personally believed we landed on the moon, , but that it was possible for  some of that fake footage to have been "mixed in" with the real footage.  Richard paused for a moment in which he contemplated ripping George to pieces, then said, "that's another show."  Yeah.  Another show entitled: George's idiotic habit of giving credence to dumb ideas just because they're "possible".
    Richard managed to get in a "one of Mar's moons is actually a martian made satelite" wack theory, but otherwise he did a good job and I would like to hear him do more.  Once a month, perhaps replacing George's "emerging artist sunday" thing.

Clash of the Titans, sounds like...Titans of Mendacity.   The Hoaxland condescension re: Gilded Turd has been there for some time.   Hoaxland always has a certain persona with Nuri seems to me to play out this way:   
Hoaxland: I am a total fraud with the ability to spin and weave together a lot of disparate, elaborate and complicated things with my own spin and make myself appear to be erudite and legit whereas you, George, are a Twat, but a Twat that gives me a self-aggrandizing platform.  You are dumber than a door-post but you are the hyper-hysterical "portal" I can use... but  I really detest you because, as a shill (as in every other way ),  you are a substandard wonk.  I, as Tricky Dick Hoaxland, am I real and true master of the scam and George, you are, really...just an announcer.
Nuri: Fantastic!  Amazing!  I feel it in my gut!  Tell us how this relates to 2012! Our award-winning science advisor, Richard C.! (Can I go PeePee now?)

Any reasonably prudent person is drowning in their own bile by this point in the "interview".

**M** --Angry & Cleanin' his guns....