George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[PB the Deplorable]

First, I'd just like to say thank you for creating and maintaining this website. I've spent waaaaaay too much time over the last couple of days reading these threads and laughing hysterically.  I thought I was the only person who felt this way about C2C, but it's somehow comforting to know others feel the exact same way. 

I discovered Art Bell's show coming home from a gig one night in '94 and listened as often as I could until about '99. I turned my room mates on to it and we would stay up till dawn partying, playing X-Com (an alien invasion pc game) and listening to Art on WWTN, here in Nashville.  It  provided me with so much info and entertainment over those years, from Father Martin scaring me shitless, to Ed Dames' crazy but interesting predictions, to the chupacabras, bigfoot, bottomless holes and sounds from hell.

I recently began listening again and even subbed to streamlink so I could catch old shows and stuff i had missed. Something just wasn't the same but I continued to listen. After a while I really began to be irritated by George, and eventually Ian, to a lesser degree. I couldn't quite put my finger on it at first, but it was like that point in a relationship when you notice the way your gf chews her food bothers you, and you know it's over. 

It got to the point where I would physically cringe whenever George would do his "woo woo woo" thing when he was trying to interrupt someone, something he seems to do increasingly more often as the weeks went by. I mean really, he interrupts people so often now it's like he went to the Richard C Hoagland school of conversation domination.  So I unsubbed and have been looking around the web for some of the good Art Bell stuff and I found this site.  I am so glad I did. Who knew there was a whole group of people who loved Art and hated what C2C has become? 

I am an audio engineer by trade, and people's voices and their  vocal inflections are something I subconciously tune into and I thought maybe I was just being harsh, but you guys have pretty much brought up everything I thought was just me being overly critical of.  From George's constant woowoowooing and mangling of every 3rd word to Ian's obvious indifference towards certain callers and guests and his propensity to steer any subject he can towards some kind of sex joke, other's see (hear) it too.  It's like one big support group! 

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that George Noory SUCKS!

I also once thought I was being too harsh with George, the way he would ask questions that had just been answered, repeat questions he'd already asked, interrupt guests with stupid comments then not allow them to finish their points. 

Not listening every night, it took me awhile to fully realize what a dumb lazy POS George was.  In addition to all the rest, I began to notice he would never ask the obvious follow up, or any follow up, when a guest said something interesting or astonishing.  That was really just too much, just so rude to the guests and listeners for him to either not be listening or not care enough to be involved in the conversation.  If he's not going to do that, then why waste everyone's time having a guest and having listeners tune in.

Later, finding some huge threads (now gone) documenting George's suckage, I realized their existance didn't influence George, convince him he needed to get better.  I wondered why.  I mean who in show business wants to be publicly rejected and ridiculed by the people that tune in to their program?

George was a washed up, bankrupt (?), loser, begged for the overnight slot in St Louis just to have some kind of job.  Over time, the way events developed, he somehow parlayed that gig into the Coast job.  I don't think he was ever interested in the topics, or even in doing radio broadcasts.  Sure, he likes to think he's some celebrity now, he likes that part of the job, but he hates the job itself, is basically a lazy person, and is not going to put any more effort into the show than what he thinks is the absolute minimum.  And that is less and less as the months go by, and it really shows.

George Noory sucks so much.

[PB the Deplorable]

Around 2006, "J.C." started harassing liberal talkers on Air America.  Randi Rhodes unfortunately couldn't handle it...

That's hilarious.  JC just got a lot funnier.

[Frys Girl]

I just listened to the podcast.  The guy said "It's Howard Stern's BEEEEEEEEP (penis)"  Then you hear George say "Dump it." 

People care less about Howard Stern now than George, so I'm not sure what would possess someone to waste a golden opportunity to fuck with George with HS nonsense.

Thank you punkin! George Noory sucks so much. He should be flattered that someone cared to prank him. What a moron.

[General Johnson Jameson]

I don't do this often, but we have a good instance here with Noory taking the last half hour of the show off because he couldn't handle someone to do another installment of W.W.A.D. What Would Art Do?
Simply..in my opinion..Art would have nonchalantly ended the call and at worst, had gone to the Wildcard Line sounder. Who knows, he might have kept the guy and spun it around and make him out to be an ass. I do know, Art would have not ended the show early in a pissy tantrum.
Noory, you Sir, are No Professional. You most certainly do not have a sense of humour.
And you suck!

[PB the Deplorable]

...but sNoory clearly has created a fake show full of actors, fake callers, and unending praisers...

Those photos and stories of his parents, kids, and grandchildren.  Actors paid to submit fake bios and photos of themselves?

[Frys Girl]

I don't do this often, but we have a good instance here with Noory taking the last half hour of the show off because he couldn't handle someone to do another installment of W.W.A.D. What Would Art Do?
Simply..in my opinion..Art would have nonchalantly ended the call and at worst, had gone to the Wildcard Line sounder. Who knows, he might have kept the guy and spun it around and make him out to be an ass. I do know, Art would have not ended the show early in a pissy tantrum.
Noory, you Sir, are No Professional. You most certainly do not have a sense of humour.
And you suck!

George Noory is insecure. He can't take a prank caller without censoring it or getting in the mix and thinking on his feet? Screw him. I hope Richard and Sal continue to call in.

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

Another thing that annoyed me about Friday's show was when a personal friend of George called in and they chatted for 6 or 7 minutes. Banal stuff about the granddaughter, he bought George tickets to a Lions game and are they gonna go this year. It was like listening to a private phone call between two friends. As far as entertaining radio goes, it was just death on-air.

That's a guy from California......he's a Raiders fan (the Lions are coming to Oakland this season, so that must be it about the tickets) who calls a lot more often it seems than he says......always during Friday open lines and it's an ass kissing fest between the two.

[Morgus]

Noory's show tonight with his guest looks like yet another 3 hour infomercial.
Too bad Knapp can't handle all the Sundays each month, since Noory seems even worse on Sundays then during the week. 

[M Knight]

Noory's show tonight with his guest looks like yet another 3 hour infomercial.
Too bad Knapp can't handle all the Sundays each month, since Noory seems even worse on Sundays then during the week. 

I've been listening for the past hour.  Noory's questions are like a drunken bull that just jumped the fence into the audience.  Chaotic.

[michio]

"get you the most truth possible." Nothing could be further from the truth. George Noory is just there to sell his crappy products: freeze dried beef straganov and french fries.

Amen.  The Nightly Hawker perches upon his high pedestal of truth built of rotted toothpicks while he pollutes the airwaves with a limitless cascade of half-truths and lies.  I think he's a gentler form of a Beck or Limbaugh but just as deceptive and dangerous.  Never underestimate the gullibility and ignorance of people because Noory depends on it.  I feel so badly for the people who call in, worried about something Noory had drilled into their minds through fear porn and senseless paranoia, and I realize that it probably doesn't bother Noory in the slightest.  It's show biz for him. The people he fools are nothing more than another ladder step to reach the stars of Hollywood.

Another infamous "truth" from him is that it's not his job to tell the listeners what he thinks.  I could swear that's the only thing he likes to do on the program.  During every single show he tells us exactly what he thinks, and has to have his callers sound as if they think exactly like him.  When that delicate process becomes interrupted, as it did with the NASA safe guy, all pandemonium breaks loose and Noory has a mental breakdown. If anyone is the evil 'mind manipulator' it's one neuron Noory. As said by thousands (maybe millions) to Noory, "You truly can't handle the truth!"

[Frys Girl]

George Noory just asked if emotion and passion are the same thing. Now this guy is telling us how to hypnotize ourselves against our childhood abusers. Healed in 20 seconds. Gee, this guy should be more famous! gee, Coast to Coast AM guests claim major things but they sure are not known! Being psychic about stocks, curing cancer, curing childhood abuse...... hmmph.

[M Knight]

Amen.  The Nightly Hawker perches upon his high pedestal of truth built of rotted toothpicks while he pollutes the airwaves with a limitless cascade of half-truths and lies.  I think he's a gentler form of a Beck or Limbaugh but just as deceptive and dangerous.  Never underestimate the gullibility and ignorance of people because Noory depends on it.  I feel so badly for the people who call in, worried about something Noory had drilled into their minds through fear porn and senseless paranoia, and I realize that it probably doesn't bother Noory in the slightest.  It's show biz for him. The people he fools are nothing more than another ladder step to reach the stars of Hollywood.

Another infamous "truth" from him is that it's not his job to tell the listeners what he thinks.  I could swear that's the only thing he likes to do on the program.  During every single show he tells us exactly what he thinks, and has to have his callers sound as if they think exactly like him.  When that delicate process becomes interrupted, as it did with the NASA safe guy, all pandemonium breaks loose and Noory has a mental breakdown. If anyone is the evil 'mind manipulator' it's one neuron Noory. As said by thousands (maybe millions) to Noory, "You truly can't handle the truth!"

Though, in principle, I agree with you, I think you give Noory too much intellectual credit.  I don't think he has a guiding philosophy or manipulative motive behind what he says or does.  He's perpetually stumbling head-first into the darkness. 

[Morgus]

Noory always tells a guest that some famous person is a good friend of his, like he just did tonight.
Thats someone who was one on C2C once or twice years ago and Noory never even met him in person... 

[Frys Girl]

This show is awful. The guest asked him how many listeners approximately were listening. George said "MILLIONS!" I think he was kidding. He must know this millions quote is a fucking joke. Alex Jones used to say "16 million." LMAO.

[PB the Deplorable]

This show is awful. The guest asked him how many listeners approximately were listening. George said "MILLIONS!"...

Thuh trooth George.  Jus' tellus thuh trooth...

[Morgus]

did Norry's guest just claim over 10,000 listeners would be healed tonight because he yelled HEAL! over the air? 
Noory was scared when he did. But it didn't work with him apparently - his brain is still defective it seems... 

[Frys Girl]

did Norry's guest just claim over 10,000 listeners would be healed tonight because he yelled HEAL! over the air? 
Noory was scared when he did. But it didn't work with him apparently - his brain is still defective it seems... 

Don't question thuh trooth.

[WOTR]

did Norry's guest just claim over 10,000 listeners would be healed tonight because he yelled HEAL! over the air? 
Noory was scared when he did. But it didn't work with him apparently - his brain is still defective it seems... 

Yup, that was the claim made.  I believe there are now listeners who have thrown away their crutches and stood up from their wheel chairs.  Screaming HEAL! undoubtedly has the same effect as a faith healer... Only in this case the audience does not need faith- it just needs to hear him say the word heal over the radio (does this work in time delayed broadcast such as in my market?)  Perhaps I will commit this conversation to a CD so that when I am dying of heart failure in a few decades I can amaze the doctors with my ability to heal myself by simply listening to a rebroadcast of tonight's show...

On a side note, he also just claimed that a lack of empathy is what defines evil.  I should probably mention that in addition to ADD I am Aspergers.  That means that most "empathy" that is display is learned, is false... I am, by nature, lacking empathy.  However, most politicians and used car salesmen have empathy by the bucket full.  They choose to use it to manipulate others for their personal gain.  They use it to get into your mind and heart so that you buy the Cadillac over the compact and have years of payments on something you don't need.

Yet I am the evil one because by nature (a nature I try to suppress) I am more capable of hurting another without feeling badly?  Another guest I would like to reach across the airwaves to slap upside the head... but I promise to scream HEAL immediately as my attempt at empathy...

[Scully]

I just don't believe in witch doctors. Period. 

[MrSparrow]

This link -
Coast To Coast AM - 16.2.2011 - 3/12 - Planet X, Solar Flares, & Energy - at seven minutes, George says in response to a guest describing some bullshit pseudo-scientific gravitational theory regarding the formation of planets -

'Could be like a walnut, where the shell is around. . . the peanut basically. . .'

This guy should be managing a fucking all you can eat buffet at Reno, spouting his half-witted bullshit to deaf retirees before they sit down to a plate full of creamed corn, blissfully ignorant by virtue of their deafness of the aneurysm they so nearly averted, not on a fucking nation wide talk show.  That this is not the case is proof that planet X is real, and we are all tragically fucked.   

[b_dubb]

good morning good evening ... where ever you may be ....

ummm ... i'm in a sizzler and you're my waiter ... now shut the fuck up and take my order idiot

[Frys Girl]

That jackass hypnotist last night had the same voice as the subliminal messages guest who said "honky" on the air to which  George Noory said "I don't know the new lingo." Maybe they are recycling these temp workers as "doctors?"

[Frys Girl]

Serious question: Does George Noory know how to use a computer? Does George Noory use computers?


My answer: No.


Evidence: The way he references twitter and facebook and his favorite line "www.coasttocoastam.com. PUT IT IN YOUR FAVORITES SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO TYPE IT IN EACH TIME!" This is not just some basic grandpa George W. Bush speak ("on the Internets!"). It's obvious ignorance.


If you use a browser, you obviously know that autocomplete is much faster than favorites. I'd get it if he said "save it as your homepage, so it's there each time you open up the Internets!" but no. George Noory sucks, and I don't think he knows how to use computers. Saying "facebook followers" doesn't make sense. He recently fixed his twitter lingo to "twitter followers. Poor Lex, he has to do the web site and listen to George idiot speak at night.

[Morgus]

Serious question: Does George Noory know how to use a computer? Does George Noory use computers?

noory only knows enough to use his computer during the live show to visit his fav forums like FF2 and post hi to his fans there. 
if you listen closely often you can here his keyboard clicking away while the guest he is interviewing is talking. thats partly why he doesn't listen to what the guest says and asks a question the guest already answered before.

[b_dubb]

noory just called the US Marshalls and DOJ NAZI's while discussing the Gibson guitar police raid. and of course they immediately turn it into a gun rights story. 

i just want to take this time to say ... noory SUCKS

[PB the Deplorable]

... Poor Lex, he has to do the web site and listen to George idiot speak at night.

From Lisa Lyin lining up the awful guests to Tommy screening out anyone coherent, I'm thinking Lex and the rest of the staff are probably at about the same level as George and his producers. 

A website busy with eye-jarring graphics, everywhere the lousy photoshopping of George Noory, my guess is Lex is the one writing up the cue cards dealing with any computer or tech topics.

I'll bet they all despise George but feel stuck with him now.

[coaster]

'Could be like a walnut, where the shell is around. . . the peanut basically. . .'

[Morgus]

That dang Noory has to always change the c2c schedule at the last minute.
For tonight he is now cutting back the main guest to only 2 hours in order to get that wacko Steve Quayle back on for the first 2 hours. 

[Rico999]

When Ralph really doesn't want to be in the studio, but can't get out of it,  he just brings in the lunatic Quayle.  The "Long Walker" will jabber all night long if he has enough Red Bull and crank....All George has to do is mumble a few sniveling one word comments now and then and interrupt him for the breaks.

[fabucat]

Amen.  The Nightly Hawker perches upon his high pedestal of truth built of rotted toothpicks while he pollutes the airwaves with a limitless cascade of half-truths and lies.  I think he's a gentler form of a Beck or Limbaugh but just as deceptive and dangerous.  Never underestimate the gullibility and ignorance of people because Noory depends on it.  I feel so badly for the people who call in, worried about something Noory had drilled into their minds through fear porn and senseless paranoia, and I realize that it probably doesn't bother Noory in the slightest.  It's show biz for him. The people he fools are nothing more than another ladder step to reach the stars of Hollywood.

Another infamous "truth" from him is that it's not his job to tell the listeners what he thinks.  I could swear that's the only thing he likes to do on the program.  During every single show he tells us exactly what he thinks, and has to have his callers sound as if they think exactly like him.  When that delicate process becomes interrupted, as it did with the NASA safe guy, all pandemonium breaks loose and Noory has a mental breakdown. If anyone is the evil 'mind manipulator' it's one neuron Noory. As said by thousands (maybe millions) to Noory, "You truly can't handle the truth!"

A+++++++++++++++++++++++++  comment.  Though as far as righty talkers go, Noory's still one of the nicer ones...Medved & John Batchelor are (much) smarter, but Medved's snide and Batchelor's even more pompous.  What's really funny is that there will be some guest who actually admits that global climate change might be anthrogenic in part and George is just too stupid to stop him.