George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[beachcomber]

I think it was the same night of the "Sanscrit / sand script" gaffe,  Noory said "It's amazing clay tablets would have lasted this long."
No it isn't   - not if the clay was fired in a furnace first ...you're thinking of Pla-Doh, George.

Sometimes the guest talks back. Robert Bruce said the astral body was made of energy from the physical body so Noory said, "Is it the soul?"

Bruce: "Define 'soul'. We have to define something before we can talk rationally about it."
George declined to define soul even though he used the word.
And Mona Lisa Shultz: She was talking as a former Doctor of neuropsychiatry when she spoke about her 20 year involvement with intuitive diagnosis of health and personal problems, when Noory said,
"How can we convince people ..."
She cut him off and said that she doesn't try to convince anyone of anything. "It isn't possible", she said with a sigh.

That was met by a long pause, and in that rare moment of dead air  it dawned on me that she just demolished GN's whole approach, trying to convince Coast listeners of poorly thought-out ideas and his mastery of those same ideas.

[El Kragen]

Classic Snoory last night.

He had prepared a 3x5 card listing topics for guest Greg Hunter to expand on. The guest started to talk for a good 3-4 minutes about the debt ceiling problem in this country. He was trying to get across to George and the C2C audience the severity of the problem and the potential disaster that would befall us.

Georges response: "Hugo Chavez! What's going on with him?"

What?

Hunters response was something to the effect of "Ummmm... he's doing okay I guess, had surgery..." He then jumped back into the topic of raising the debt ceiling.

[Scully]

... And Mona Lisa Shultz: She was talking as a former Doctor of neuropsychiatry when she spoke about her 20 year involvement with intuitive diagnosis of health and personal problems, when Noory said,
"How can we convince people ..."
She cut him off and said that she doesn't try to convince anyone of anything. "It isn't possible", she said with a sigh.

That was met by a long pause, and in that rare moment of dead air  it dawned on me that she just demolished GN's whole approach, trying to convince Coast listeners of poorly thought-out ideas and his mastery of those same ideas.

You nailed it, Beachcomber!!! George constantly preaches his own half-baked gospel and actually thinks he's doing the world a favor.  Of all his stellar qualities, that is what most makes him what he is -- dangerous.

[Seamus Capone]

Here we go again. One of Noory's "news" items dealt with a child who killed herself to donate some of her organs to her dad and her brother. This is what I refer to as a "couched dead baby story" (crib recalls, disease outbreaks, child ghosts, etc.). Can *anybody* explain his fascination with this subject?

[anagrammy]

I KNOW!  I KNOW!   You remember how Art Bell described Coast as his "baby" that he turned over to someone else?  Well, now that George has killed the baby, he has to express it somehow so it manifests as a fascination with dead baby/child stories.

Anagrammy, Quack Psychotherapist

[PB the Deplorable]

... the whole mis-reading thing was my initial clue that the Noory cared less about the quality of the program than do the producers.  I think the fact that he was born with a bifurcated tongue (he mentioned this one time, and that he talked late because of it) and didn't verbalize well (if he read young he probably only read silently) has left its mark on his ability to understand what he's reading.  Which is fine, but not when you're a nationally syndicated radio host...

I personally have come to the point of not believing any of George's personal stories - non of it ever seems to quite ring true, although they mostly do make him out to be pretty creepy.


George always seems to have an excuse (maybe that's part of the show prep time be brags about).

Can't pronounce something?  It's because he has a bifurcated tongue. 

Won't follow up when a guest says something asinine?  The show is not about yelling and screaming.

Wastes a bunch of time asking how the guest is, how they got started, what's their favorite whatever, what's next for them?  He's trying to be congenial and to put the guest at ease.

Just reads cue cards?  These are questions he wants asked - it's up to the guest to answer then how they want and put out their information. 

Criticism?  Haters.

Always interupting, throwing the guest off?  George doesn't interrupt

Dead babies and mangled animals?  George brings the 'bazaar' stories you won't get anywhere else

No broadcast skills?  Hey, George isn't Art Bell.

George drops a guest out of the blue?  It was too complicated for the audience.

Moving away from the paranormal?  It's all about ratings and people aren't interested in that kind of show.

Too much politics and health?  We still cover bigfoot and aliens, just not as much.

Lazy?  George puts in 8 hours of show prep a day.

Not listening?  George has fast blasts, Tommy in his ear, emails.  He has a show to run.

Lousy producers?  Tommy and Lisa are the best.

Show sucks?  George is #2 in radio.

Unattractive and bloated?  See the new photos on the website.


And so many many more. 

[Seamus Capone]

I KNOW!  I KNOW!   You remember how Art Bell described Coast as his "baby" that he turned over to someone else?  Well, now that George has killed the baby, he has to express it somehow so it manifests as a fascination with dead baby/child stories.

Anagrammy, Quack Psychotherapist

You get an A for creativity and imagination. Your theory is much less dark than other explanations. Some people proposed that Noory simply kept the "if it bleeds, it leads" journalistic philosophy from his old days as a newsman. I would agree with this theory if he read more stories about "bleeding" *adults*.

[valdez]

Classic Snoory last night.

Noory has been using the word "classic" all week.  He went through this same delusion about a year ago, declaring that his upcoming shows were "classic", driving me nuts on the keyboard, wondering if he had completely lost his mind.  Now he's doing it again.  Hey, why put in the effort to create a classic show when you can simply declare it so.  Yeah, any true and honest compilation of "Classic George Noory" is going to be collection of befuddlement, mumblings, non-sequiturs, and dead air.
     Robert Bruce (Wendsday night) was cool.  A lot of emphasis on how being a drunk opens you to possesion.  No shit.  I thought Dr. Bruce Goldberg was going to talk about reincarnation, but instead I'm hearing about time travel, and teleportation, and how not to do drugs in the middle of the night (is there a better time to do them?).  He was very energetic.  That counts for a lot.  I don't drink much anymore, and I don't for a moment miss the idiots, fools, liars, and clowns that I had to put up with in order to "score".  Good riddance.

[onan]

     Noory has been using the word "classic" all week. 
 

I always thought classic meant referring to a past example of some excellence. Like a classic 1965 Mustang, or some rock n roll song from the 60's.


When noory uses classic I would hope it meant a guest host.

[El Kragen]

Here we go again. One of Noory's "news" items dealt with a child who killed herself to donate some of her organs to her dad and her brother. This is what I refer to as a "couched dead baby story" (crib recalls, disease outbreaks, child ghosts, etc.). Can *anybody* explain his fascination with this subject?

A few things that bugged me about him telling this story...

When George tries to tell a story like this one, he attempts to use a "storytelling" voice, sincere and emotional. Problem is he always screws it up. He tries to ad lib and it comes out choppy and disjointed.

In telling the story George said the girl was from "this foreign land (or faraway land, can't remember). The girl was from India! Do we have to add this to the long list of words he can't pronounce?

and lastly he didn't even tell the whole story. The girl was cremated before her wishes were known.  Now granted that makes the story even more tragic but if you're gonna tell it, tell it. Maybe George wanted to create an uplifting story for the audience. Very surprising considering Georges fascination with death, gloom and doom. Seemed like a perfect opportunity for Snoory to do his patented half chuckling "and you're not gonna believe this..."

[Camper]

I KNOW!  I KNOW!   You remember how Art Bell described Coast as his "baby" that he turned over to someone else?  Well, now that George has killed the baby, he has to express it somehow so it manifests as a fascination with dead baby/child stories.

Anagrammy, Quack Psychotherapist

Genius

[Gassy Man]

I think it was the same night of the "Sanscrit / sand script" gaffe,  Noory said "It's amazing clay tablets would have lasted this long."
No it isn't   - not if the clay was fired in a furnace first ...you're thinking of Pla-Doh, George.

Sometimes the guest talks back. Robert Bruce said the astral body was made of energy from the physical body so Noory said, "Is it the soul?"

Bruce: "Define 'soul'. We have to define something before we can talk rationally about it."
George declined to define soul even though he used the word.
And Mona Lisa Shultz: She was talking as a former Doctor of neuropsychiatry when she spoke about her 20 year involvement with intuitive diagnosis of health and personal problems, when Noory said,
"How can we convince people ..."
She cut him off and said that she doesn't try to convince anyone of anything. "It isn't possible", she said with a sigh.

That was met by a long pause, and in that rare moment of dead air  it dawned on me that she just demolished GN's whole approach, trying to convince Coast listeners of poorly thought-out ideas and his mastery of those same ideas.

George was in rare ill-form this week.  What was especially funny about Mona Lisa Schultz -- who was one of the more irritating guests in a while -- was how much she was getting on Noory's nerves every time she hit him with "Do you get it?" and "Do you understand what I am saying?"  Her mile a minute blathering combined with such verbal tics was like a poke in the eye to him.

[Gassy Man]

Classic Snoory last night.

He had prepared a 3x5 card listing topics for guest Greg Hunter to expand on. The guest started to talk for a good 3-4 minutes about the debt ceiling problem in this country. He was trying to get across to George and the C2C audience the severity of the problem and the potential disaster that would befall us.

Georges response: "Hugo Chavez! What's going on with him?"

What?

Hunters response was something to the effect of "Ummmm... he's doing okay I guess, had surgery..." He then jumped back into the topic of raising the debt ceiling.

That was absolutely hilarious -- I almost choked on the sandwich I was eating when I heard it.

[PB the Deplorable]

     Noory has been using the word "classic" all week.  He went through this same delusion about a year ago, declaring that his upcoming shows were "classic", driving me nuts on the keyboard, wondering if he had completely lost his mind.  Now he's doing it again.  Hey, why put in the effort to create a classic show when you can simply declare it so.  Yeah, any true and honest compilation of "Classic George Noory" is going to be collection of befuddlement, mumblings, non-sequiturs, and dead air...

Yet another case of George Noory not using a word correctly.  When he first started using it, he would call any Coast show on the Paranormal a 'classic', i.e, to him a 'classic show' was one on a topic Art would have done.  Now it's just another meaningless word to throw out there, something to say to hopefully keep people tuned in past the break.

I sent him an email once telling him NONE of his shows were 'classics', and anyway it was for the listeners to decide AFTER the fact.  His email back was that I was a lowlife.  Heh, I miss getting those email responses from George.

[Morgus]

Noory tends to call an upcoming program a "classic" when its a longtime guest returning it seems.

[Lovely Bones]

Noory tends to call an upcoming program a "classic" when its a longtime guest returning it seems.

Heh heh.  I tend to think he uses the label "classic" when the show isn't about

a) political or economic conspiracy

b) alternative medicine and how much better it is than "traditional" medicine. 

He has no clue, apparently, what classic implies.

And (off-topic), can anyone here replicate the way he says the word "powerful"??

I can't even make my tongue do it. 

[Bart]

You get an A for creativity and imagination. Your theory is much less dark than other explanations. Some people proposed that Noory simply kept the "if it bleeds, it leads" journalistic philosophy from his old days as a newsman. I would agree with this theory if he read more stories about "bleeding" *adults*.

You get an A for creativity and imagination. Your theory is much less dark than other explanations. Some people proposed that Noory simply kept the "if it bleeds, it leads" journalistic philosophy from his old days as a newsman. I would agree with this theory if he read more stories about "bleeding" *adults*.

If he ever was a "newsman" and not just one of the paper pushers at a tv station.

[Bart]

I KNOW!  I KNOW!   You remember how Art Bell described Coast as his "baby" that he turned over to someone else?  Well, now that George has killed the baby, he has to express it somehow so it manifests as a fascination with dead baby/child stories.

Anagrammy, Quack Psychotherapist

Has he ever spoken of Caylee Anthoney?  I haven't heard it, and it surprises me.  But then his voice puts me to sleep quickly so that could explain his silence.  (or is he so important that his opinion could influence something or someone?)

[BobGrau]

Here we go again. One of Noory's "news" items dealt with a child who killed herself to donate some of her organs to her dad and her brother. This is what I refer to as a "couched dead baby story" (crib recalls, disease outbreaks, child ghosts, etc.). Can *anybody* explain his fascination with this subject?

I KNOW!  I KNOW!   You remember how Art Bell described Coast as his "baby" that he turned over to someone else?  Well, now that George has killed the baby, he has to express it somehow so it manifests as a fascination with dead baby/child stories.

Anagrammy, Quack Psychotherapist

there should be a 'best of' thread for stuff like this.

[Morgus]

Has he ever spoken of Caylee Anthoney?

Noory only mentioned the trial on the air to say he lets the mainstream cover it endlessly.
He only mentioned a little in his start of the show news reports like after the verdict came out.

[Seamus Capone]

If he ever was a "newsman" and not just one of the paper pushers at a tv station.

He supposedly won a couple(?) Emmys. Maybe someone here knows more about it.

[Seamus Capone]

A few things that bugged me about him telling this story...

When George tries to tell a story like this one, he attempts to use a "storytelling" voice, sincere and emotional. Problem is he always screws it up. He tries to ad lib and it comes out choppy and disjointed.

In telling the story George said the girl was from "this foreign land (or faraway land, can't remember). The girl was from India! Do we have to add this to the long list of words he can't pronounce?

and lastly he didn't even tell the whole story. The girl was cremated before her wishes were known.  Now granted that makes the story even more tragic but if you're gonna tell it, tell it. Maybe George wanted to create an uplifting story for the audience. Very surprising considering Georges fascination with death, gloom and doom. Seemed like a perfect opportunity for Snoory to do his patented half chuckling "and you're not gonna believe this..."

It's weird that he finds these tragedies to be "uplifting" or "heart-warming". He really used the latter word to describe one of his dead baby stories. No kidding! The news on the Indian girl, who committed *suicide* (for criminy's sake), was anything *but* uplifting. Now, you tell me that she was cremated too. That pertinent fact was omitted last night. Her dad and her brother lost a loved one, and they're still looking for organ-donors. What a heart-warming tale.   

[Seamus Capone]

there should be a 'best of' thread for stuff like this.

Someone should start a new forum just for the psychoanalysis of George Noory.

Noory Voice: "Heart-warming news out of Timbuktu, as an orphanage exploded in a ball of flame last night."   

[Scully]

He supposedly won a couple(?) Emmys. Maybe someone here knows more about it.

This topic has come up before on Coastgab.  I and a few others tried to see if there ever really was some contest in hell where such a thing might have happened. The most any of us could come up with is that's what Premiere puts out as part of their "Sell the Schmuck to the Masses" propaganda.  This, of course, has been duplicated by Wikipedia.

All efforts to track down any official listing of Emmys presented to Noory on this planet have failed.  Updates, anyone? 

[PB the Deplorable]

Apparently it was 3 Regional Emmy Awards.  For Programming and Production.  They couldn't possibly be for him being on the air.

http://www.stlmedia.net/pages/article-nooryIR0804.htm

Reading through this dreck, George must spend his days putting a most positive spin on his career.  And filling the gaps with wishful thinking.  Most of it is laughable.  He sure thinks highly of himself though.

I wonder if Tommy thinks he's going to get any Emmy's working for George. 

[Bart]

I believe that the only on air time he has ever had was the short time in st louis, and coast to coast.  Can't prove it, but i really feel that he just had "jobs" at the tv stations he worked at---no air time.  Anyone out there that worked with him that can fill in all the blanks?  (not the ones in his head)  He used to say things like---he raised?owned?race horses, had a production? company, then at 46, laid around to take stock of his life for awhile til someone took pity and gave him the late nite slot in st louis. There were a few other crumbs that i can't recall now----probably because they were insinuations instead of outright statements and most of them are invented on the spot.  He is good at blurring the picture isn't he?  I figured out why he avoided the Casey Anthoney story tho.  She lies as much as he does and he didn't want to discus the subject of lying.  That might rile the haters.

[valdez]

     Dr. Gregg Korbon's story of his child, Brian, who had predicted his own death, was heartbreaking.  Mercifully, George kept his mouth mostly shut while Korbon told it.  George litterally interrupted him in midsentence during the second hour to begin taking calls.  This was a interview better suited for Ian's sensibility and pacing.  Richard C. deserved more time on the end of the shuttle era.  Open lines was a zombie fest.
 

Brian was a big fan of Calvin and Hobbes.

[rangers1919]

I noticed that George thanked a long list of like 10-20 online C2C sites tonight, but forgot to mention coastgab. He did mention Night Hawk Zone, a site that has been listed repeatedly on Google as loaded w/ viruses and harmful to your computer, as well as being listed as a domain name that is for sale meaning it is a dead site.

[noorysmoustache]

I could have sworn I heard George trying to persuasively (well, as persuasive as he can be) suggest to Bruce Goldberg the other night that it was all doom and gloom in the future.

Thankfully, Dr Goldberg is one of those infuriatingly positive people and soon reassured George. Despite being batshit insane, George seemed quite happy for Dr Goldberg to peddle his merchandise on teleportation without asking any challenging questions - and couldn't wait to hear the good doctor regurgitate that Dexter Monterray crap...

[Avi]

George has become commercialism personified. There's even going to be a sequel to Worker of the Blight, hoping to make hay from whatever New-Agey thing is hot now. As Rollye James's email indicated, George was chosen for his embrace of Premiere's/Clear Channel's commercial schemes and for his acceptance of CC's control of program content. This is what Clear Channel does, after all; they produce banal, sophomoric, canned programming. Their radio personalities are nothing but hucksters. Worse, they force this banality onto independent radio stations by tying desired shows to crap, "If you want Limbaugh, you've got to take Kidd (please, he's 50, if he's a day) Craddick." CC decided it was going to make overnights profitable and George just said, "Great idea!" Never mind that they forced C2C into markets that didn't need or want it by tying it to programs that the stations did want. Naturally, this increased the banality factor off the charts. C2C is no longer about the paranormal, because, apparently, the paranormal demographic does not buy gold or supplements or whatever it is they're pushing this week. The demographic that Clear Channel is trying to reach does not want to hear intelligent callers or intelligent discussion on intelligent topics, it wants abiotic oil and reassurance - nothing too controversial (even the recent Satanist was, when all was said and done, a nice guy). With George's acceptance and/or collusion, marketing is now in the driver's seat at Coast.