George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[Scully]

"... it was the best of times, it was the worst of times."  The thing is, "they" don't say that.  Dickens said that.  When Dr. Herndon properly attributed the quote the silence that emanated from Noory told me that he didn't know that.  I don't expect regular Joe to know such things, but I do expect a c2c host to have a working knowledge of basic western civilization.

It's the opening line to A Tale of Two Cities (1859).

Shouldn't anyone who graduated high school know that, for Pete's sake???  :

[Mops]

With all this nuclear power escaping into the air, it's a good we have a goddamn stock broker coming on tonight to tell us what's going on with reactors.


Jesus Christ, I used to listen to this show to not get sick about the news. Now I'm gonna hear about how if I live through the nuclear fallout, my portfolio is still basically dicked.

Strangely enough it doesn't even sound like Noory is buying Kacher's sunshine and lollipops appraisal of Japan.

(Disclaimer) But then again I probably will delete this comment by hour's end.

(Update) Good grief, he just played "Red Rubber Ball."

[tmock00]

Okay Mops, you've talked me into listening, but I don't know how long I'll last.

Update: George just said at one time he owned horses, and then he referred to a jockey as a "horse driver." This shiow sucks so bad it's almost painful.  I lasted about 50 minutes.

[misssirveaux]

If I hear George or his guest say "tickle your amygdala" one more time, I'm going to hurl.

And just before I could post this, the guest says "Tickle, tickle, tickle!" twice in a row.  I imagine even George is thinking about hanging up on him.

[999]

If I hear George or his guest say "tickle your amygdala" one more time, I'm going to hurl.

And just before I could post this, the guest says "Tickle, tickle, tickle!" twice in a row.  I imagine even George is thinking about hanging up on him.

"Go to your local zoo one day, OK... you really have to identify the reptilian brain processes and differentiate them from the mammalian brain processes."

George: "How do you do that?"

GOOD QUESTION GEORGE.

[misssirveaux]

You know a guest is bad when even George sounds like he thinks they're stupid.

[Digitech]

Wow, this is a wierd guest. Is it a man or a woman?

I just tuned in and have been listening for about 5 minutes. And he has said 'tickling amygdala' about 10 times, as well as 'tickle tickle tickle'. Now he's talking reptile brains and 'brain radar.'

The way he talks sounds like he's on some PBS show for 5 year olds.


Edit: The words 'horse driver' from one of the posts about made me laugh out loud.

[misssirveaux]

George just asked his quest: "If you could save one part of your brain, what part would it be?"  What part did you save, George?

[valdez]

...tonight Neil Slade will be on to discuss releasing neurocircuits in the brain to use all the energy of the mind...

You know a guest is bad when even George sounds like he thinks they're stupid.

If I hear George or his guest say "tickle your amygdala" one more time, I'm going to hurl.
And just before I could post this, the guest says "Tickle, tickle, tickle!" twice in a row.  I imagine even George is thinking about hanging up on him.

And he has said 'tickling amygdala' about 10 times, as well as 'tickle tickle tickle'. Now he's talking reptile brains...

      Yup, Neil Slade sure was annoying, but you can't argue with the science...

[George Drooly]

harsh.  i think Dames is circling the bowl in the next stall

Gives new meaning to "Kill Shot"

[hamr]

I like Noory... but I do miss the 'old days'.

Here's a fun poke at all of us in some form or fashion.

Peace.

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[Marc.Knight]

[Scully]

Cute catchy little song, Hamr.  Always feels good to grin. 

[fabucat]

Valdez, you're a witty fellow!  Slade stunk.  I've never heard so much psycho-babble in my life.  Until Tor comes back.  He did his job though.  After listening to the doomsayers of Japan, that Slade dude put me to sleep and I didn't even have a nuclear nightmare.

[fromthatshow]

WTF is the point of this forum if this is all people that hate the show?  Why are you here if you hate George?  I love George.  He doesn't inject his own opinions too often, just lets the guests talk and get their point across.  There are some really interesting people on the show.  I absolutely love it, and love George!

[Marc.Knight]

WTF is the point of this forum if this is all people that hate the show?  Why are you here if you hate George?  I love George.  He doesn't inject his own opinions too often, just lets the guests talk and get their point across.  There are some really interesting people on the show.  I absolutely love it, and love George!

ok.

[JeffreyLXV]

(Update) Good grief, he just played "Red Rubber Ball."

I turned program off at this point last night - That song he plays so much... I don't have the words...

I was looking for an interesting discussion about what is happening in Japan. Same thing tonight. Linda Molten Howe is just not impressive...

[Eddie Coyle]

WTF is the point of this forum if this is all people that hate the show?  Why are you here if you hate George? 

   What part of "George Noory Sucks" did you not understand?

[Marc.Knight]

[anagrammy]

WTF is the point of this forum if this is all people that hate the show?  Why are you here if you hate George?  I love George.  He doesn't inject his own opinions too often, just lets the guests talk and get their point across.  There are some really interesting people on the show.  I absolutely love it, and love George!

If you actually read this thread you would know.  I take you at your word that you are "from this show" and I'm seizing the opportunity to explain to you (hopefully a Premiere or Clear Channel suit) specifically what our beef is with George Noory.  Everything you say is true.  And some people love a person who doesn't inject an opinion, whose favorite word is an exclamation like, "Absolutely," or a comment that is meaningless like "Something's going on."  One could understand if the guest were, say, Stephen Hawking or a literary great, but when it's a jerk who answers questions with

"That's all in the book, George, the listeners can go to XXX.com, and check out page 53, over the radio I can't really do it justice, George, George are you there?  Did you catch that part about the space visitors being described on page 53?  I'm making as special offer to Coast listeners tonight and tonight only where they can learn the message from the Zetans and find peace in these end times, like Barney and Betty Hill did, and my life is dedicating to getting that message out to everyone before it's too late." 

George:  Absolutely.  And T. F. Jerkwater here is a longtime friend of Coast listeners, who remember his prediction back before my time when he said there would be an earthquake, didn't you Jim-Bob?  Oh, Jim-Bob's not your name, sorry...."

Absolutely nothing of interest has been said in the above exchange and we here at CoastGab are angry that you hired a person of such low intellect that he doesn't know where Turkey is (maybe you already showed him) and THIS WEEK said this, "You know what they say, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."  I'm sure you recognize this quote which most high schoolers could immediately identify... or do you? 

The audience that loves George Noory is not the same audience that loved Art.  George did not widen the appeal of the show, he diluted its punch and has made a mockery out of the show that Art and Ramona created.  And perhaps you yourself don't get the difference.  It's one thing to present a wacky, way-out guest with an improbable theory--that's the Ripley's Believe It or Not schtick and it has a niche.  What Art did was to finesse the madman, the scientist, the liar, the creep, the conman and interview them with his full attention and the focus of his comprehensive cultural literacy, excellent memory and hone in on the inconsistencies or the absolutely amazing nature of their claims.  Show them to be a charlatan or a hero, but REVEAL THEM.  And he gave his damn fine opinion every time.

One of my favorites is the time the publisher told Art that he had printed in the new book a photograph of Jesus Christ at the crucifixion, taken with a time-machine.  Art exclaimed, "WHAT!  Why haven't I heard about this--this is EXTROARDINARY!"  and the guy then said, "I probably should tell you it's been proven to be a similar representation to what the actual photograph showed."  Art said, "Ohhhh--in other words, a fake?"  Publisher:  "Yes- a nun saw a crucifix that reminded her of what Father Ernetti said he photographed and she painted it and we took a picture of the painting, so in the deepest sense, it's authentic, it's the same thing."  Art:  "Wait a minute, Paul, if the picture's a fake, the whole thing is a lie!"

Close your eyes and imagine that interview with Art saying instead, "Well, I always say there are no coincidences."  Feel the difference?

There are many people who are offended when a spade is called a spade.  They are Politically Correct and we are sick of them.  We people of the night like our truth straight, maybe on the rocks, but not blended with Jesus, Mary and Joseph and topped with End Times signs 24/7.  You have a new audience now, one who wants to be hugged through the night and needs George to "get them through this" as he promises.  "This" being everything from your cat having hairballs to the end of the planet as we know it.  This new audience doesn't mind every third caller being a George gushing "you're the best--I love you so" and hearing Noory ask them to repeat it , once, twice, maybe three times.  That's a big laugh for this new audience whereas we, the old audience, are hurling.

We are hear to take note of the sinking of the Titanic Radio Program that used to be Coast to Coast Am.  Already you are lacking in photo submissions, intelligent callers and substantive guests who aren't hawking their books/websites with every answer.  It is fascinating to us as watching your own home burn. You can't look away, even though it's horrible.  Or, you know what they say,

"It was a dark and stormy night..." 

Anagrammy
(PS. Welcome to CoastGab.  Find out what thinking people are thinking. You might find you are secretly one of us!)

[JeffreyLXV]

We are hear to take note of the sinking of the Titanic Radio Program that used to be Coast to Coast Am.  Already you are lacking in photo submissions, intelligent callers and substantive guests who aren't hawking their books/websites with every answer.  It is fascinating to us as watching your own home burn. You can't look away, even though it's horrible.  Or, you know what they say,

"It was a dark and stormy night..." 

Anagrammy

I just come here to read Anagrammy's eloquent posts.

[anagrammy]

I just come here to read Anagrammy's eloquent posts.

Awshucks Thanks, Jeff, no matter how we say it, George Noory suuuuuucks.  Hope I hear back from Art.

A

[valdez]

WTF is the point of this forum if this is all people that hate the show?  Why are you here if you hate George?  I love George.  He doesn't inject his own opinions too often, just lets the guests talk and get their point across.  There are some really interesting people on the show.  I absolutely love it, and love George!

...PS. Welcome to CoastGab.  Find out what thinking people are thinking. You might find you are secretly one of us!...

     A stunning defense by Anagrammy.  And I think most of us don't hate George (we should really do a poll and settle this), we are just amazed at his dullness, and predictability, and willingness to sell himself to most any advertiser, and his...well, maybe it's not his fault.  He's filling some big shoes.  It's sort of like Gilbert Gottfried taking the physics chair at Princeton after Einstein.  We've been in a state of shock, is all, and when a guest is strong enough to dance around George's landmines, it all works out.  Stick around, Noory lover, and defend your guy.  You are welcomed here.

     LMH on the dangers of radioactivity and how we should wash our vegetables.  Nostradamus type french guy Louis Turi predicting things that I can't recall right now, because everytime I hear a French accent I think about the "this guy isn't even an American" scene in Close Encounters, but I'm sure whatever he said was dire and horrible.  Major Ed "we're screwed" Dames taking a victory lap after supposedly, according to George, foreseeing the Japanese catastrophe.  I don't remember this prediction.  George should have played the tape.

[onan]

WTF is the point of this forum if this is all people that hate the show?  Why are you here if you hate George?  I love George.  He doesn't inject his own opinions too often, just lets the guests talk and get their point across.  There are some really interesting people on the show.  I absolutely love it, and love George!

George's mom just got the interwebs.

[b_dubb]

Dames and (to a lesser extent) Noory's careers are hinged on revisionist history.  if they didn't ignore the facts (that they're full of shit), they'd have to get real jobs like the rest of us

[Lunger]

Tomorrow's guest's last name is Malarkey. I'm almost tempted to listen.

So, I listen to this show about the kid who goes to heaven and sees Jesus and God and comes back to tell the story.  The Buffoon doing the "Interview" goes off on this tangent and that....  Does he EVER ask 'What was Heaven like?'  'What did God/Jesus say?'

These are the very first questions that come to mind.

But Norry, The Les Nessman of late night, probes right to the heart of the matter with "What is his (the boy's) favorite season?"

Truly incredible.

I can't picture anyone more retarded then Noory.

[Marc.Knight]

So, I listen to this show about the kid who goes to heaven and sees Jesus and God and comes back to tell the story.  The Buffoon doing the "Interview" goes off on this tangent and that....  Does he EVER ask 'What was Heaven like?'  'What did God/Jesus say?'

These are the very first questions that come to mind.

But Norry, The Les Nessman of late night, probes right to the heart of the matter with "What is his (the boy's) favorite season?"

Truly incredible.

I can't picture anyone more retarded then Noory.

He thinks he is being creative by mixing up his pre-written questions once and a while.  It has gotten to the point now where anyone could pre-record the guest, sprinkle in a few Noory "absolutelys" and "could it be angels" after the fact and you have a show.

[Lunger]

WTF is the point of this forum if this is all people that hate the show?  Why are you here if you hate George?  I love George.  He doesn't inject his own opinions too often, just lets the guests talk and get their point across.  There are some really interesting people on the show.  I absolutely love it, and love George!

You have to understand that Norry is an idiot.  He has no idea how to conduct an interview, never listens to what is being said, and has no understanding of the topic.

After years of being in the business he still has very little knowledge on paranormal subjects.  He needs to stay out of the strip clubs and keep his nose in a book.

The biggest problem with George is that he has no depth whatsoever.  His ‘interviews’ don’t get much more challenging that an average 2th grader’s  inquisition.
  How many non sequiturs can he produce in one night?
How many words will he pronounce incorrectly?
How many words will he use incorrectly?

And the callers.....  Jesus!  I weep for America.

[aldousburbank]

WTF is the point of this forum if this is all people that hate the show?  Why are you here if you hate George?  I love George.  He doesn't inject his own opinions too often, just lets the guests talk and get their point across.  There are some really interesting people on the show.  I absolutely love it, and love George!

Finally, a reasonable poster on this forum!  Welcome!  The moderator has mentioned his wish to have some George defenders, and I say it's about time.  Ignore the detractors here, they are simply jealous of George's talents and possibly his handsome looks.  The man is a radio genius!  It's about time that Coast had a host who doesn't challenge his guests with intelligent questions, as this mostly just derails the sales pitch and confuses me.  George is definitely the host with the most, just the man to deliver the blow by blow for the upcoming, long anticipated apocalypse.  I can't wait!

In the meantime, I'm re-watching some of my favorite movies- that awesome J-lo and Ben Afflek masterpiece Gigli, and Battlefield Earth, Travoltas's best!  I'm looking forward to more of your insightful posts FromThatShow.  Now I'm off to prepare my favorite meal- Tuna and Grape Jelly Sandwiches- Yeah!

[fromwomewhere outthere]

WTF is the point of this forum if this is all people that hate the show?  Why are you here if you hate George?  I love George.  He doesn't inject his own opinions too often, just lets the guests talk and get their point across.  There are some really interesting people on the show.  I absolutely love it, and love George!

Thank you George Noory.