George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[EnterDragon]

LOL, George admitted he smoked weed a "little bit" in college . That was funny to hear.

[ziznak]

he looks like he just woke up with that witch lady on the other side of the bed... he's gotta be drunk

[b_dubb]

those photos of george ... damn he looks bad. did they put those eyebrows on with a paint brush?

[HorrorReporter]

He just got a question on Art .. He answered that it's been months since they heard from him.. Noory said  'we don't bug him' said he's in Nevada and said 'when he's ready to surface he'll surface '..

[EnterDragon]

George skips over questions sometimes even though Lex posts them lol.

[coaster]

I was able to get a screengrab of Noory's live video chat..

[rangers1919]

I have to defend Noory a little here, although it makes me sick. I don't think he looks as bad as people say, he is over 60 now.

As for his mental ability, nothing to defend there.

[jinwicked]

Oh hey, I happen to be awake tonight, let me check out Coast to Coast AM.

All right George is introducing the guest, and asking about how she got interested in [ears glaze over].

In the time it took me to type this George has already turned the conversation to himself twice.

Talk about your interests and your dad some more, George. I really care.

[jinwicked]

Is this one of those "everything bad is my fault because I am a grumpy bitch" conversations?

[michio]

I doubt he went longer than a minute and a half without plugging his DVDs. A guest asks what he should do about his personal debt and the fraud tells him there are two great people he can recommend, and all he has to do is buy his DVDs to learn their names.

This is where Punnett doesn't take shat from the guests when they withhold information. He tells them that they aren't on to plug their book or whatever, they're on to talk about what's in their book, and you as a guest will do it or you'll find another radio show to hawk your wares. As you pointed out, Noory doesn't dare create waves and prefers to go with the flow, basically handing over control of the show to the guest, with occasional brief interruptions for his 3x5 questions (as Wells is fond of doing). Some frickin' "captain."

[stevesh]

Yet I must say, her message was a harmless one; be good and focus on and create positive energy in your sphere and wear rings! Many, many rings ...

[stevesh]

I caught the end, and then some of the start on the replay last night (5/21), and it was one of the worst infomercials, errr programs I've heard on the radio on any station, in any format, at any time. The guest Leslie Something was an absolute fucking fraud. I doubt he went longer than a minute and a half without plugging his DVDs. A guest asks what he should do about his personal debt and the fraud tells him there are two great people he can recommend, and all he has to do is buy his DVDs to learn their names.

Lindsey Williams is one of the worst turds to appear on C2C. He has managed to turn three years as a chaplain at an oil drilling operation thirty years ago (and we really don't even know if that's true) into a career as a channeler of the 'elite'. A complete and utter fraud, and even C2C should be ashamed to give him air time.

[analog kid]

He just got a question on Art .. He answered that it's been months since they heard from him.. Noory said  'we don't bug him' said he's in Nevada and said 'when he's ready to surface he'll surface '..

He's on the radio chatting every day; sounds the same as ever and is very friendly, and helpful to HAMs with questions. You can talk to him any time, but you have to have a HAM license, and of course, George wouldn't know anything about that.

[Wild Card Guy]

"George, I sweah to Gawd, I sweah to the coven I begged Teddy NOT to drive that whorah, Mary-Jo Kopehcne, anywheh NEAHR that Chappaquiddick! But, I ask you, did he listen to me? NO!" Teddy nevah listened to me, Bobby nevah did, and John nevah did, and just look how they awl ended up! IN THE GUTTAH! In the MOAWRGUE on the coranah's table! I'm tellin' ya, George, those three nevah embraced the white light! They was too damn busy embracing BROADS!"

LOL! I can well imagine Bruno saying that.

Lindsey Williams is one of the worst turds to appear on C2C. He has managed to turn three years as a chaplain at an oil drilling operation thirty years ago (and we really don't even know if that's true) into a career as a channeler of the 'elite'. A complete and utter fraud, and even C2C should be ashamed to give him air time.

Uh huh. I listened to one of his *slap your forehead* ramblings on an Alex Jones show on Youtube, just out of curiosity. A one hour interview, and this old fossil spent 99% of the time talking about absolutely NOTHING! And Jones did nothing to control-rectify the waste of air time. My wife was listening in, and it drove her absolutely crazy. And assheads like Noory and Jones just keep on bringing him back. Williams should be led out to the pasture and left there.

[expat]

"The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling" --tonight with Noory

Fuck, yet another loony woman talking a lot and saying nothing. Thank gawd for the BBC World Service on FM.

[Wild Card Guy]

Fuck, yet another loony woman talking a lot and saying nothing.

I don't know why, but what came to mind when reading that was the hilarious skit on the old "Carol Burnett Show", where the late and great Madeline Kahn is a quack acting teacher, and advises her thespian students to create "circles within their circles within their circles". 

[Sardondi]

...This woman's thick Bostonian accent (with a dash of Jewish Mama) really cracked me up....

When I heard her, I knew that Rhoda had finally found a gig after The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Hoagland with his head in George's crotch: Is that what they mean by "The Face In Sit-On-Ya"?

"The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling" --tonight with Noory

Fuck, yet another loony woman talking a lot and saying nothing. Thank gawd for the BBC World Service on FM.

BBC Radio 4 Extra is my oasis. It's comedy, drama and non-fiction as interviews, plays, stand-up or dramatized books, 24-hours-a-day. It's where I went more than a year ago when I just couldn't stand Noory another second. Streaming and mp3 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4extra/

[fysisist]

LOL, George admitted he smoked weed a "little bit" in college . That was funny to hear.

I doubt it was the real thing.  It was most likely oregano that some frat boy sold him. 

[Jasmine]

When I heard her, I knew that Rhoda had finally found a gig after The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

LOL! She does sound like a geriatric Rhoda, come to think of it.



Ah! My mom loved watching that show in the 70's; she got me hooked on it - I own all seven seasons on DVD. I love Rhoda's Bohemian attic apartment and her gig as window dresser down at Hempel's (sp) department store. I also love Nancy Walker as Ida Morgenstern! Great show. Rhoda Morgenstern ties with Ethel Mertz for television's best second banana.

BBC Radio 4 Extra is my oasis. It's comedy, drama and non-fiction as interviews, plays, stand-up or dramatized books, 24-hours-a-day. It's where I went more than a year ago when I just couldn't stand Noory another second. Streaming and mp3 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4extra/

Indeed, indeed. I also love Canada's CBC Radio One - fantastic and informative programming. They also feature, after midnight, a host of foreign radio programming from around the world - Radio Netherlands, Radio Prague, Radio South Africa, etc. (all programs in English).

Oops...we're gonna get in trouble here for hijacking. Therefore...George Noory SUCKS!

[ziznak]

 

[Sardondi]

...Indeed, indeed. I also love Canada's CBC Radio One - fantastic and informative programming. They also feature, after midnight, a host of foreign radio programming from around the world - Radio Netherlands, Radio Prague, Radio South Africa, etc. (all programs in English)....

*face smack* Dang! I completely overlooked Canada's CBC, which I'm sure is an attitude Canadians tire of; but any people who read Robertson Davies in high school walk tall anywhere, anytime.

...Oops...we're gonna get in trouble here for hijacking. Therefore...George Noory SUCKS!

So hard. Okee dokee, we should be good for the next 8 hours or so.

[thefamilyghost]

George Noory doesn't believe in coincidences.

[Morgus]

Noory again tonight ran out of questions or interest apparently for his main guest and so dumped him after only two hours and went to open lines.
Then he gets lazy and plays some tired years old stupid taped bit for the last part of the show.

[Sardondi]

Noory again tonight ran out of questions or interest apparently for his main guest and so dumped him after only two hours and went to open lines.
Then he gets lazy and plays some tired years old stupid taped bit for the last part of the show.

You know, George is phoning it in an awful lot these days. He's acting like a guy who can't be fired...or doesn't care if he's fired.

[Lovely Bones]

You know, George is phoning it in an awful lot these days. He's acting like a guy who can't be fired...or doesn't care if he's fired.

I don't care if he's fired, either.

Let me rephrase: I would love seeing Noory fired. 

[Wild Card Guy]

You know, George is phoning it in an awful lot these days. He's acting like a guy who can't be fired...or doesn't care if he's fired.

Noory has been phoning it in from day numero uno, although I concur his abject apathy has increased ten-fold in the last while. Mentally deficient and void of any reasoning faculties, him being appointed the chief host position also speaks volumes about the inept producers. I realize many of us here tune into C2C for our nightly dose of train wreck, jaw-dropping entertainment, so do I. However, what makes me angry is that here you have a superlative media platform to convey significant and truly thought-provoking subject matter to a discerning demographic, and Premiere Radio and the show's producers have simply eradicated that mind-set from their plan of action.

C2C is radio schizophrenia; it brings on (rarely) viable guests who have something tangible to throw out there, and yet, in my opinion, with the exception of perhaps Knapp, the other hosts simply don't have the mental goods to catch these waves and ride them. C2C simply doesn't know whether it's a drama or a comedy; the latter is achieved by default. The producers and its host of hosts from the bottom of the journalistic trash bin truly have no idea as to how they are themselves the stand-up joke. It's not that they don't care to know how a growing number of frustrated listeners feel - they simply are not equipped with the mental and objective tools to even have this cross their minds.

If someone at Premiere Radio had an ounce of intelligence, media savvy, and foresight, they'd quickly ascertain the fact that there's more gold in them there airwaves ratings if they would scrap the entire present format, hosts, and producers, and re-invent the wheel to cater to the larger group of intelligent and discrimating listeners, who, in my opinion, far exceed Coast's large (yet smaller) number of listeners who reside further down the human food chain.

George Noory is a pathetic, small-minded, and professionally inept little man, but he is being enabled by a team of equally small-minded and inept producers. Producers who continually insult the intelligence and integrity of members of OUR demographic by green-lighting the parade of insipid and deranged guests. If C2C is a year long bad Christmas present to us, then this team is consistent; it's the gift that just keeps on giving.

Somewhere, out there in space and time exist a host of remarkable and engaging on-air hosts and producers who could have, should have made C2C one of the world's most outstanding alternative media sources.

And it's our loss.

That said, Like others here, I simply throw my hands in the air, don my humor suit, and get a thrill out of listening to this train wreck of an absurd comedy. I am spellbound by the trash element that George, Ian, and John B. toss out into the alleyway each night.

[VtaGeezer]

The fundamental problem is this: The only thing worse than Noory is anything else that's on late night radio. 

Face facts folks; Noory & Co. have achieved a virtual lock on what was an ignored market; growing in affiliate numbers as Noory's mediocrity increased.  He ain't going anywhere unless some late night competition appears for the "alternative listener" market.  Any interloper would have to secure a few 50K watt clear stations, and with Prem Radio's deathgrip on most markets, that ain't happenin'.  The circumstances of the radio market that allowed Bell to break out and develop a large national rating will never reoccur.

Ain't it funny how all the threats of imposed uniformity, conformity and mediocrity that we were told throughout the Cold War that the communists would bring have been imposed by corporations?

[fysisist]

Well, I don't think you will find that the vast majority of Noory's listeners are Mensa members, and I can only conclude from the apparent popularity of the show and Noory appearances on TV, conferences, etc, that there are a lot of people that like and enjoy his show and "talent".  He has a market.  The other aspect of this is that the main reason most (if not all) guests come on the show is for the publicity and to sell their products.  Most of them are not going to make any waves with Noory or his staff or overlords because that they want and need the exposure $$$.   Any concerns about interesting and probing discussions, intelligent dialogue, etc, are secondary and minor.  Besides that, most of the schmucks don't want to give away too much about their book, etc.  Bottom line is, if people quit listening, Noory would fade away.  If every time a guest was on his/her book didn't shoot up in the Amazon list, the show would die.  As much as I hate to think that it might be true, the show has a big following, God help them all (and us).

[Jasmine]

The fundamental problem is this: The only thing worse than Noory is anything else that's on late night radio. 

Face facts folks; Noory & Co. have achieved a virtual lock on what was an ignored market; growing in affiliate numbers as Noory's mediocrity increased. 

Ain't it funny how all the threats of imposed uniformity, conformity and mediocrity that we were told throughout the Cold War that the communists would bring have been imposed by corporations?

I've always maintained the fact that there is no difference re M.O between the former Soviet news agency, TASS (which still is going strong) and media outlets in the West. The same subterfuge is applicable. As the old saying goes, the media can't control what you think, but they can certainly control what you think about. Now, I won't paint everyone with same brush here - many do in fact think outside the proverbial box; far too many more do not.

Which brings me to Wild Card Guy's thoughtful comments. I mostly agree with you, however, I'm afraid "our demographic" is in the minority - here in the U.S. And indeed abroad. The masses are more concerned with "American Idol" and the parade of "reality" shows than they are with, for example, the growing crisis in Greece and the economic tightrope the Euro zone is walking. Bread and circuses, my friend, and C2C is produced and aired from under a big top tent. Noory drives the car, and the array of clown guests stumble out of the vehicle.

Sadly, VtaGeezer is correct. There is a huge market for Coast out there in its present format. Every day, all around me I see a huge amount of my fellow humans who cannot read, write, or spell properly. Many colleges and universities today offer both junior and high school level English remedial courses for an alarming high number of its students who were shoved through the system. I know I've mentioned this before, yet it's worth repeating. Far too many around me do not even possess the basic yet imperative skill of being objective - about themselves and the world in which they inhabit. Coast caters to this group with absolute pleasure and ensured profit margins. As the collective learning curve slants further downwards, their gross and net quarterly results ascend.

Sad, but there it is. I too listen to the show for sheer entertainment and to wonder at how many out there are soaking it all up without batting an eyelash.

Pass the popcorn.

[McPhallus]

The masses are asses.  More money can be made by catering to the lowest common denominator and aiming for volume.