George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[NoMoreNoory]

Oh my good giddy God! What a start tonight as Nooron introduces his first guest, Dr Peter Breggin, not once but twice, as a leader in 'emphatic therapy'. His first question to the good doctor is, understandably, 'What is emphatic therapy?' which draws the distinctly bewildered response 'Empathic. Empathic therapy.'

You couldn't make it up, could you'

[PB the Deplorable]

Oh my good giddy God! What a start tonight as Nooron introduces his first guest, Dr Peter Breggin, not once but twice, as a leader in 'emphatic therapy'. His first question to the good doctor is, understandably, 'What is emphatic therapy?' which draws the distinctly bewildered response 'Empathic. Empathic therapy.'

You couldn't make it up, could you'

In George's defense, 8 hous of daily show prep doesn't go as far as it used to.

[WOTR]

I really can not take any more of this idiot doctor this evening.  If he is convinced that nobody should be on medication and that it does no good he can live in a small one room apartment with our unmediated greyhound bus killer (the guy who cut another passengers head off with a pair of scissors and started eating him on a greyhound a couple of years back.)

I was listening to another so called expert on a right wing talk show this afternoon telling me that ADD does not exist and that medication does no good, is unnecessary and is only harmful (you should just man up and pay more attention.)  Now this?  Really?!?  Have I lived a my life in such a manner that I should be subjected to this Sh** twice in one day?

[ShayP]

Last night, during the first hour, the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" came up when banks were being discussed.  Of course, Noory couldn't resist another opportunity to make a fool of himself.  He announced he used to do a good impersonation of Jimmy Stewart and launched into a predictably lousy take of Jimmy.   The good news is that it was so bad and inappropriate, I think even Noory recognized it.  George, I don't think you EVER did a good impersonation of anybody, unless it was one of the stars from "Dumb and Dumber."

Haha! I was going to post about this. I just listened to the podcast in a painful effort to catch up on the programs.  The impersonation was awful.  It was funny to me that Craig Hulet just blew it off and when Noory pushed it a bit he got rewarded with a little chuckle.  George just wants attention and to be recognized for something.  Maybe he just wants to be loved. I doubt his children have anything to do with him either.

[Sardondi]

Oh my good giddy God! What a start tonight as Nooron introduces his first guest, Dr Peter Breggin, not once but twice, as a leader in 'emphatic therapy'. His first question to the good doctor is, understandably, 'What is emphatic therapy?' which draws the distinctly bewildered response 'Empathic. Empathic therapy.'

You couldn't make it up, could you'

Oh, I so needed a belly laugh. Thank you! I'm guessing even after the explanation, although he would have covered, George had no clue what Breggin meant. Internally all George could muster would have been, "Huh?"

Noory's is indeed duncitude of mythic proportions. He is The One Foretold by his forebears in the Idiot Tribe. The ancient Idiot Shamans spoke, as the rest huddled around the pile of wood (they never discovered fire), of the coming day when The Great Idiot would come and free them from the bondage of the apes, who used their superior intelligence to enslave the poor Idiots. While other forces eventually made the descendants of the Idiots mostly the intellectual equals of the apes (well, at least equal to the lesser primates such as lemurs), Noory does fulfill the old prophecies, in that his mental abilities at least bring attention, if not honor, to his tribe.

[HorrorRetro]

Oh, I so needed a belly laugh. Thank you! I'm guessing even after the explanation, although he would have covered, George had no clue what Breggin meant. Internally all George could muster would have been, "Huh?"

Noory's is indeed duncitude of mythic proportions.

This is at least the second time he's been unable to pronounce empathic or know the definition.  Back when I was still listening to the show, he had this same guest on.  I'd guess it was only 3 months ago.  He, again, stumbled all over the pronunciation of empathic, totally mangling it.  So, despite having been educated in how to pronounce it and its meaning just months ago, he was apparently completely ignorant regarding it last night.  This guy is unwilling to be educated.  He prefers to live in blissful ignorance. 

[ItsOver]

Noory really missed his calling.  He'd be a natural as the creepy, idiot uncle living in somebody's basement/attic on a situation comedy or reality TV show.  Someone the family would let let emerge on occasion, much to the dismay of the children and pets, but usually they would just set meals outside the basement/attic door for him. 

[gerry maul]

I agree, Im new here but I absolutely hate what has become of coast.  Who friggin cares about some douche bag guest talking about his dreams as interpreted through his high conciousness or repetitive holistic healing shows or that lame numbers lady. Gone are the regular UFO shows, the bigfoot guests, conspiracy theorists and the like. Now its just boring garbage. Typical corporate idiots. George sucks period. So does Ian, the only one worth a shot is Knapp. He still keeps his shows interesting. EFFF U Lisa Lyons, the producer who has screwed up coast. Thank you not!

[NoMoreNoory]

Last night contained another perfect example of the appalling way Noory treats his callers. I could only describe this as brutal in its rudeness and insensitivity. The call started with one of his cringeworthy introductions:
'OK, let's go to the area of Lake Jackson, Texas. It's, er, Melissandra (Strokemouth tried to give this something of a Latin flavor, so it came out as 'Mullusandrrrrrrrruh) with us on Coast To Coast. Hi, there, Mel. Go ahead.
She proceeded to tell a heartbreaking tale. Aged 26, she said she had been on 'psych meds' for 20 of those years. A stable, high energy child, she had had some psychological disturbances to the extent that her mother had had to give her up. Placed in Austin State Hospital, she had been put on Ritalin to stabilize her........
And that's as far as we got. The volume on her call dropped and the signal broke up slightly. Literally within a couple of seconds, Noory barked at her, in a horribly harsh voice, 'Where'd you go? where'd you go? Get back to your phone.' he allowed a couple more moments. She was still breaking up, although words were coming through. Noory curtly remarks 'OK. Yup. Can't understand you.'
When Breggin asked her 'Did you have a question.' Noory said, dismissively, 'She's gone, Peter. Go.'
I found this really distressing. Is it me, or does he reserve this kind of thing for his most vulnerable callers, invariably female? Here's a young woman with a life of rejection and abandonment, reaching out for help. And what does she get? Rejection and abandonment from Noory who suddenly drops the nice guy mask and becomes just plain nasty. I've found myself thinking about her through the day, wondering what the rest of her story was and what question she was asking. I bet George hasn't given her a second thought. Callous bastard.

[PB the Deplorable]

Last night contained another perfect example of the appalling way Noory treats his callers. I could only describe this as brutal in its rudeness and insensitivity. The call started with one of his cringeworthy introductions:
'OK, let's go to the area of Lake Jackson, Texas. It's, er, Melissandra (Strokemouth tried to give this something of a Latin flavor, so it came out as 'Mullusandrrrrrrrruh) with us on Coast To Coast. Hi, there, Mel. Go ahead.
She proceeded to tell a heartbreaking tale. Aged 26, she said she had been on 'psych meds' for 20 of those years. A stable, high energy child, she had had some psychological disturbances to the extent that her mother had had to give her up. Placed in Austin State Hospital, she had been put on Ritalin to stabilize her........
And that's as far as we got. The volume on her call dropped and the signal broke up slightly. Literally within a couple of seconds, Noory barked at her, in a horribly harsh voice, 'Where'd you go? where'd you go? Get back to your phone.' he allowed a couple more moments. She was still breaking up, although words were coming through. Noory curtly remarks 'OK. Yup. Can't understand you.'
When Breggin asked her 'Did you have a question.' Noory said, dismissively, 'She's gone, Peter. Go.'
I found this really distressing. Is it me, or does he reserve this kind of thing for his most vulnerable callers, invariably female? Here's a young woman with a life of rejection and abandonment, reaching out for help. And what does she get? Rejection and abandonment from Noory who suddenly drops the nice guy mask and becomes just plain nasty. I've found myself thinking about her through the day, wondering what the rest of her story was and what question she was asking. I bet George hasn't given her a second thought. Callous bastard.

Any other show the host would have known from the screener what the question was before they even took the call, and would have told the guest.  Either Tubby is the same kind od D-bad as George, or is a different brand of one for staying on all these years.

What say the poster the other day talking about George being a nice guy, just incompentent?

[ChewMouse]

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Is it me, or does he reserve this kind of thing for his most vulnerable callers, invariably female?
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I, too, was so disturbed by that call, and it isn't the first time. Yes, he saves this dropping-off-the-line thing mostly for women and furthermore, as someone commented in another thread, he has this Tourette's-like thing he does (interrupting guests with "yeah" and "that's true" and "mmmm") almost exclusively to women guests.

I suspected, even as I heard the call you described, that GN was physically jiggling the phone cord connection just to cut her off. That's what it sounded like. Usually GN saves that for times when he wants to steal a caller's question...we've all heard that happen.

GN has cut off people that are unstable or clearly in tears. I know that Art appeared to do the same, but I've read from several listeners that he often actually used his seven-second delay to tell them to hang on and he talked to them off the air. Whether he dispatched them to proper help or just talked them off the ledge, I don't know, but he sure didn't hang up on them.

Another aggravating behavior of GN's is his way of letting guests frame an entire question in response to a caller, then allowing silence to prevail, then saying, "He's gone, he hung up" (regarding the caller). Well of course he's gone; GN can't hang up phones fast enough. He wants to "blast through the calls", as he often admits. I suspect it's the only thing he's been scolded about by his higher-ups. I can just see it on his annual evaluation: "Need to take more calls." So he does.

That poor woman last night would've been better off if she'd not gotten through. Which leads me to my final point: I don't think GN's phone lines are ever full. I think every caller gets on the air because almost nobody calls. People have repeatedly said, "Wow, I got on!" or "Man, I got right through to you, George!" and I'm thinking: yeah, because only you and two other people are even trying.

Welles is terrified of taking calls, which is actually easier to bear than GN's ham-fisted approach to those lonely little night-owls who finally find the courage to call.

It was a mess and I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed.

[ziznak]

I was listening reluctantly to the Breggin stuff.  He had some good points in regards to certain drugs and societies addiction to them both legally and illegally.  I think he's a bit extreme with wanting all people to get off of the pills though.  There ARE a lot of people that without them are "beheading people with scissors" as was discussed on this thread earlier (i think it was this thread).

That female caller had me say out loud "YO asshole!"  Not only did he really not give the poor girl a chance to sure up her connection but then he rushed the doc to respond and his tone said "get on with it already."  There was another girl on afterwords who was coming off of "everything" and hadn't moved off the couch for 2 years I felt bad for her too.  Of course her connection was fine so we got to hear the whole call but I wonder if GN catches crap for letting  sketchy reception calls go on too long or something?  And what about the screeners can't they tell that a cell phone reception is bad or go through some rudimentary instructions with the call to make sure they keep a good connect?

[eddie dean]

wow George just made a very strange comment that gives us some insight into his weird mind. during the news segment, George made a comment about his producers trying to "trip him up" by scheduling  interviews with 2 guys with similar names, Mish and Mitch. George concludes the segment by stating,  in a  conceded, pompous and cocky tone,  "they tried to trip me up, but I got it right!!".

well George don't break your arm trying to pat yourself on the back I'm sure you'll fuck up soon enough.

one conclusion from this peek inside  Noorys brain is, the producers have talked to George about his mush mouth, no doubt more than once. I'm sure the producers realize it cannot be fixed and just roll their eyes everytime he mispronounces a word.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall during that conversation.

[Mind Flayer Monk]

well George don't break your arm trying to pat yourself on the back I'm sure you'll fuck up soon enough.

This deserves to be the forum motto.

[Morgus]

Tonight Noory cut his one good guest for this week, Dr. Robert Schock down to only 2 hours to go to a dumb final hour of wacko sound off open lines.
Why couldn't he do that with one of the other quack guests some other night instead?

[HAL 9000]

Tonight Noory cut his one good guest for this week, Dr. Robert Schock...

Good guest? Check out the guy's background... lengthy history of mental problems, suicidal ideations while with his long-time common-wife; their legal wrangling over a domain name that bears his name; his new wife, who also has a list of litigation. That's as far as I went. Maybe he's got a tax-free foundation I should look in to... 

[ziznak]

Good guest? Check out the guy's background... lengthy history of mental problems, suicidal ideations while with his long-time common-wife; their legal wrangling over a domain name that bears his name; his new wife, who also has a list of litigation. That's as far as I went. Maybe he's got a tax-free foundation I should look in to... 

Really? I've seen him on like every single show about Egypt ever.  He's about as common as Hawass was during his regime.  ah man, now I wanna know all about him.  Seen a pic of him with his recent wife on his site and I gotta hand it to the guy he snagged a hottie... not sure how that happened.

[RedMichael]

Tonight Noory cut his one good guest for this week, Dr. Robert Schock down to only 2 hours to go to a dumb final hour of wacko sound off open lines.
Why couldn't he do that with one of the other quack guests some other night instead?

I think George has callers because he is so bad at them it makes the rest of the show look good. Knapp and Bell make me happy for callers. If I was the producer I would sit him down and say "Here is what your bad at, and here is what you are even worse at" then fire him..OR just have him limit his callers. Let's be honest, he HAS to heavily filter most calls because the one's he take are usually more boring than other hosts (opinion), he is only going to fuck them up anyways(fact), and piss off people, possibly discouraging more call-ins opinion).



Bell was great with callers. It is great radio at best, and funny at worst as they dance around a real crazy. I think Knapp can be too with a more regular schedule. It is probably hard to go from normal callers to crazy overnight.

[BobGrau]

Good guest? Check out the guy's background... lengthy history of mental problems, suicidal ideations while with his long-time common-wife; their legal wrangling over a domain name that bears his name; his new wife, who also has a list of litigation. That's as far as I went. Maybe he's got a tax-free foundation I should look in to... 

Sounds like the average CoastGabber to me 

[onan]

Some of our most brilliant minds have been afflicted with some form of mental illness. Abraham Lincoln and and Winston Churchill come to mind. I am not saying this guy is a great mind. Rather suggesting to dismiss someone for suicidal ideation may be a bit rash. To that end, finding information on the internet... although perhaps somewhat accurate, would not paint an entirely true picture.

Then again maybe the guy is a whacknut. I am just a bit weary of the depression means not as good as mindset.

[ziznak]

Ah whats that statistic for mental illness?  It's something like 2 3rds of the population suffer from some sort of mental illness you just don't know it cause they're not all diagnosed or in jail for eating somebody.

[onan]

Ah whats that statistic for mental illness? 

From my perspective? everybody.

[Sardondi]

Some of our most brilliant minds have been afflicted with some form of mental illness. Abraham Lincoln and and Winston Churchill come to mind. I am not saying this guy is a great mind. Rather suggesting to dismiss someone for suicidal ideation may be a bit rash. To that end, finding information on the internet... although perhaps somewhat accurate, would not paint an entirely true picture.

Then again maybe the guy is a whacknut. I am just a bit weary of the depression means not as good as mindset.

You make an excellent point. We still know so little about ourselves. I've often wondered whether depression, or maybe even some degree of bi-polarity, is associated in some way with "great" men and women. Certainly the two great men you name had serious problems with depression throughout their adult lives. I'm not sure if what I've noted is about "driven" people, or intelligent ones. I understand that the folks who quantify human factors tell us personal experience is meaningless, but I've noticed, that of the most intelligent people I know, the smarter, the more likely to be troubled with depression, as well as the worse the depression, the smarter they tend to be. But that easily could be a "confirmation bias" on my part. 

But I absolutely want to strangle the happy-horseshit positive-attitude crew who self-righteously tell the depressed to "just snap out of it", or "everybody gets the Mondays", or even, "I feel sad too sometimes, but you don't see me blah blah diggy diggy diggy...."

It's obviously a case of "he jests at scars who never felt a wound".

[kf5iwe]

Ah whats that statistic for mental illness?  It's something like 2 3rds of the population suffer from some sort of mental illness you just don't know it cause they're not all diagnosed or in jail for eating somebody.

Eating somebody is BAD??!! Uh oh

[RedMichael]

Ah George asked the guest if he uses his dreams in his profession. The guy asked George and he said "All the time...all the time".

This explains why he sounds groggy and half asleep a lot of times.

[Morgus]

Noory rushes the callers very fast with the guests and again tonight tells a guest the caller has "moved on"
what he really means is he hung up on the caller already...

[stevesh]

Really terrible show last night, even by current C2C standards. The three 'psychics' were all obvious cold reading frauds, and the guy in the third hour wasn't even trying to pretend he wasn't making stuff up when callers asked for a 'reading'. Reminded me of Sylvia Brown.

The woman in the second hour was so tentative and uncertain while answering Noory's questions that even Simple George was getting testy with her. Reminded me of this classic:


Bob & Ray - The slow talker

[RedMichael]

Somebody surely has the means and ambition to keep tabs on classic george moments and edit them together for greatness?

I can see it now, Jimmy Stewart impression, asking a question that was answered 10 seconds ago, flustered George.

I bet one could get a few minutes each week.

[Sardondi]

Somebody surely has the means and ambition to keep tabs on classic george moments and edit them together for greatness?

I can see it now, Jimmy Stewart impression, asking a question that was answered 10 seconds ago, flustered George.

I bet one could get a few minutes each week.

"Who will help me plant the wheat?", asked the Little Red Hen.
"Not I", said the dog.
"Not I", said the cow.
"Not I", said the goose....

[ItsOver]

Classic George moments.... what Noory really means when he says "another classic C2C show."  It should be easy to do classic George moments.  Just take each C2C show and edit it out "The Chase" opening music.