George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[zeebo]

We listen with nightly hope that interesting guests are capable of circumventing Noory's idiocy and proceed to take the lead with interesting and entertaining topics.  It happens......but, ya' have to listen or you miss some good stuff.

Exactly. 

Also when it's bad it is often so in weirdly entertaining ways - it's kind of like a live version of blooper shows.

[bateman]

I want to see the ship sink rather than stick my head in the sand and not watch.

Nobody seems to get this - Premiere is not getting rid of him. Not now. Not in the foreseeable future. They love their infomercial host because he works for pennies & won't rock the boat.

[albrecht]

Nobody seems to get this - Premiere is not getting rid of him. Not now. Not in the foreseeable future. They love their infomercial host because he works for pennies & won't rock the boat.

Yep and that late at night on AM they pretty much got the market locked up. Who wants the repeat, or worse live, fast-talking sports "analyst" at that hour or just a repeat of the mainstream right-wing radio? And if you can't get FM whose music usually sucks these days, or don't have satellite radio, you don't have much choices. Except prepare beforehand with books-on-tape, downloaded podcats (from DRMN of course)... I don't see how, though, with such vitriol from hosts and the magic of torrent, youtube, etc where one can get commercial-less program they can still make much money. To have new contract, Hawaiian studio, studio remodels, and flying back-n-forth for shows. But there are still a lot of shut-in, old  and often poor people who buy the products, I guess. So sorta sad to be predatory of those people, really. When is that charity starting for them??

[zeebo]

Nobody seems to get this - Premiere is not getting rid of him. Not now. Not in the foreseeable future. They love their infomercial host because he works for pennies & won't rock the boat.

Hey c'mon on top of the pennies they also have to fork out coupons for shrimp cocktails down at the Red Lobster.

Also, the boat sank long ago, but it was just converted to a sub of suckage.

[bateman]

1)  I'm interested in the kinds of topics that C2C discusses (or used to discuss).  Finding meaningful discussion on them is virtually impossible in any other mass media format.  C2C is pretty much the only game in town, and although 90 percent of the time it's just complete crap, on occasion, the guests manage to bring something to the table that is worth hearing.  Once Art left, there was for a while a balance between the hosts that were good to marginal (Knapp, Punnett) and insipid (Noory).  When Simone and Wells were brought on  and Punnett left, the scales tilted too far in the Noory direction.

Luckily, they are not the only game in town. Clyde Lewis is excellent when he's "on" and there's some good content on DMRN, which will only get better with time.

2)  To hear George's many assaults on logic, reason, dignity, decency, and understanding.  There is something strangely glorious in the way that George destroys the very integrity of the communication process, from his lack of self awareness to his malapropisms and non sequiturs to his mangled pronunciations to his paint-by-numbers approach to the interview.  George could very well be that kid sitting behind a cardboard box and selling lemonade on a street corner, except George would forget the box, end up in an alley, and be selling raw beets with pink sprinkles on them and have no clue that what he is doing is incorrect.  True, I can only listen for so long before I've had my fill, but I don't know that I laugh as hard at intentional comedy as much as I do at George's antics.

See, I used to be the same way, but I hit my limit long ago. Finding a nugget of comedy gold is not worth eating that shit sandwich night after night.

... That said, the Shirley MacLaine "interview" from a few months ago had me in tears I was laughing so hard. 

4)  In the fading hope that the show, by some miracle, can return to something resembling its glory days with Art Bell.

Never gonna happen. This is not "Coast to Coast". It's The George Noory Show with Art's opening music & thunderclap sound effects. That is literally the only connection to Art that exists anymore, besides Knapp on the weekends.

They are putting a Ferrari badge on a Ford Pinto.

[karios8]

What an irritating photo. Perhaps photoshop can make it better.
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[albrecht]

What an irritating photo. Perhaps photoshop can make it better.
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This retro miami-vice look of t-shirt and sports-jacket combo, with the odd angles and rented hotel conference space in background, and heavy mustache makes me think more of a shady, heavily accented rug importer from the Levant running some special "weekend of carpet deals direct" in a former Red Lion hotel, than a radio host.

[karios8]

Don't forget fat ass tommy's gut photobombing on the left.

[bateman]

This retro miami-vice look of t-shirt and sports-jacket combo, with the odd angles and rented hotel conference space in background, and heavy mustache makes me think more of a shady, heavily accented rug importer from the Levant running some special "weekend of carpet deals direct" in a former Red Lion hotel, than a radio host.

That is extremely specific, but if we're talking about rug salesmen, I think this is the more accurate comparison:


http://youtu.be/BjjYwz8gxtA

[zeebo]

Don't forget fat ass tommy's gut photobombing on the left.

Haha I didn't notice at first, but yes I'm sure I've seen that exact profile in several of PaperBoy's Eye Pad depictions.

[bateman]

Don't forget fat ass tommy's gut photobombing on the left.

Hahahahaha, good catch.

[popple]

They are putting a Ferrari badge on a Ford Pinto.

I wish it truly was a Pinto. Then c2c would have burst into flames when the bottom fell out all those years ago. Still coastin.

[albrecht]

That is extremely specific, but if we're talking about rug salesmen, I think this is the more accurate comparison:


http://youtu.be/BjjYwz8gxtA

Yes, good scene and awesome movie. I was specific. But, in general, when you try to buy a persian or "oriental" carpet (anywhere!) you will find yourself in characters who look like George. Though a lot better salesmen, faster talkers, and will work "deals" and ensure you of the quality of the product. These guys have been hawking rugs since before the USA. Make used car dealers or our politicians look honest or slow on their feet to questions of authenticity or quality. That area of the world is sort of amazing. You will find them in the rug, diamond, etc dealers ANYWHERE around the world. From the smallest countries to the richest. Even when they are kicked out, like in some African ones, they still get a foothold. And it is not a "religious" deal. It seems every Christian (of various types), Jew, Muslim (of different types), etc from that small patch of ground in the Levant learned quick to deal and trade. The proximity to the Med and Europe and the East trade routes lent them to it, I guess. Of course, I'd rather be taken in a bad deal than the terrorism that the more radical elements from Gulf states, primarily, want to encourage them to export.

[popple]

Don't forget fat ass tommy's gut photobombing on the left.

AHAHAHAHAHHAHA!

[Gassy Man]

Luckily, they are not the only game in town. Clyde Lewis is excellent when he's "on" and there's some good content on DMRN, which will only get better with time.

See, I used to be the same way, but I hit my limit long ago. Finding a nugget of comedy gold is not worth eating that shit sandwich night after night.

... That said, the Shirley MacLaine "interview" from a few months ago had me in tears I was laughing so hard. 

Never gonna happen. This is not "Coast to Coast". It's The George Noory Show with Art's opening music & thunderclap sound effects. That is literally the only connection to Art that exists anymore, besides Knapp on the weekends.

They are putting a Ferrari badge on a Ford Pinto.

I'm an optimist, haha.  In the meantime, I'm enjoying the trainwreck from time to time *(but, and I repeat, not buying any of the advertised products).

[albrecht]

I'm an optimist, haha.  In the meantime, I'm enjoying the trainwreck from time to time *(but, and I repeat, not buying any of the advertised products).

Toomeric I do buy but only when I get some good Indian food. But, I must say, thus far the only benefits I've had from it aside from a nice spicy meal (particularly good late after a night out drinking and going to some curry shop ) is that is certainly purges the system the next morning. I can't imagine what ingesting this stuff directly would do to one's innards.

[ItsOver]

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This retro miami-vice look of t-shirt and sports-jacket combo, with the odd angles and rented hotel conference space in background, and heavy mustache makes me think more of a shady, heavily accented rug importer from the Levant running some special "weekend of carpet deals direct" in a former Red Lion hotel, than a radio host.

Ha, no doubt.  At least Mo's "Save you Mo money!" carpet is providing something potentially useful, as opposed to C-A-R-N-.......

I thought Planet X was moving in on Jorch on the left.  I should have known it was Tommy.

[TheMan WhoFell ToEarth]

See, I used to be the same way, but I hit my limit long ago. Finding a nugget of comedy gold is not worth eating that shit sandwich night after night.

Man, bout half a year ago I moved a bit North, and I can no longer pick up the local station that plays Coast.  Weened me off it for good, and I gotta say I'm just fine with that.  It's been probably 8 or 9 months since I've heard a show.  Maybe some of the peeps around here need a Coast Listeners Anonymous group.

[NoMoreNoory]

'Baffling investigators are running all over the place'

[Gassy Man]

Toomeric I do buy but only when I get some good Indian food. But, I must say, thus far the only benefits I've had from it aside from a nice spicy meal (particularly good late after a night out drinking and going to some curry shop ) is that is certainly purges the system the next morning. I can't imagine what ingesting this stuff directly would do to one's innards.

Haha, tumeric's been around a lot longer than Noory -- feel free to purchase it without any guilt about its association with Coast to Coast.

[zeebo]

Ugh Jorchie plays another sentimental pop song from his fave era - "Beyond the Sea" (I think the Bobby Darin version).  Now look, I'm not against it, I mean it's a catchy tune and all, and it was in both Goodfellas and Finding Nemo, two films that I liked (yes, kinda hard to pin ol' zeebo down personality-wise based on that isn't it?).  But, main thing is if you want to play all those crooning ballads and such then get yourself a Sun. afternoon golden oldies show and go for it - but this is Coast to Coast and it just doesn't belong except very sparingly under specific circumstances whose nuances are beyond you trust me.  (By the way crooning ballads by later bands like the infamous whistling Scorpions song that makes me go a little funny in my poor squirrel head are not a valid subsitution.)

[NoMoreNoory]

Might I put a counter-question to those slightly self-righteously proclaiming that they are on the Noory wagon?
Why are you still regularly reading - and posting at - this thread? It seems a little illogical to come among a GNS! thread with your nose in the air muttering 'George Noory? Pshaw. Never listen to him myself'
Not wanting to pick a fight. This is said with a smile and the tongue in the cheek but it does seem a little odd.

[Immy]

"...crazy enough to push the trigger?"

Bwahahahahahahaha!

How does he do it??? This is why we listen.

[NoMoreNoory]

"...crazy enough to push the trigger?"

Bwahahahahahahaha!

How does he do it??? This is why we listen.

Bingo!
You just reminded me of a gem I forgot to post the other night: 'Sit by for this one'
Nowhere else on the radio are you going to hear quality broadcasting like this

[zeebo]

"...crazy enough to push the trigger?"

Bwahahahahahahaha!

How does he do it??? This is why we listen.

See, I told you, the fails are oddly creative.  It's like those scientists that pore over the curious patterns of atoms smashed together.  Each one is a mini-disaster yet they compel one to catalogue the fallout, just like the weird flow of Nooryisms that swirl about us each night.

[onan]

Might I put a counter-question to those slightly self-righteously proclaiming that they are on the Noory wagon?
Why are you still regularly reading - and posting at - this thread? It seems a little illogical to come among a GNS! thread with your nose in the air muttering 'George Noory? Pshaw. Never listen to him myself'
Not wanting to pick a fight. This is said with a smile and the tongue in the cheek but it does seem a little odd.

I am half asleep, so, perhaps I am missing something.

I think you are mixing metaphors. "On the wagon" or on the "water" wagon as used during the temperance movement meant abstaining from alcohol, which lead to "falling off the wagon. The other metaphor is "on the bandwagon" which means aligning oneself with some particular idea. What confuses me is the premise that some are on the noory wagon but as you suggest never listen.

Many of us are confounded that someone as limited in radio talent has remained on air for so long. It would be one thing if he did local weather... I digress. Many of us, not only being confounded are also frustrated that noory continues to hang on; even though the majority discussion on this forum always shows proof of how inept noory is. So confusion abounds. I can assure most of us that ask why anyone continues to listen are not looking down our collective noses... oh hell maybe we are.

[NoMoreNoory]

"On the wagon" or on the "water" wagon as used during the temperance movement meant abstaining from alcohol, which lead to "falling off the wagon. The other metaphor is "on the bandwagon" which means aligning oneself with some particular idea. What confuses me is the premise that some are on the noory wagon but as you suggest never listen.

Yes, I meant 'on the Noory wagon' to mean 'abstaining from Joorch'. Somewhat imprecise, I grant you.

[yumyumtree]

He said "portal."

[UFQuack]

Wuz it that the extruhturrestials which abduhcted the passengers had passport problems?

[Gassy Man]

Wow, George just got testy with the guest . . . which is so funny considering how often he screws up.  What an ass.