A Twelve Step Plan For Show Improvement

[Meanandnasty]

You asked and now you may receive.  "How can I make Coast better?" asks Noory.  I was going to entitle the thread A Twelve Step  Plan For Host Improvement, but that sounds, too, AA.  Maybe a glass of Merlot before or during would loosen the flow of conversation.

Really, what my intentions in this thread are to come up with twelve of the most useful suggestions that can be read for Coast to improve.  Everyone gets to attend the meeting and submit suggestions.  There is no hierarchy and creative suggestions are encouraged.  No, grow cast-iron balls will not help Coast.

I am sure that this has been discussed in various means on the main Noory thread, but it has not been broken out.  This is the creative team, the brainstorming session, a quiet reflection, whatever works.  If Noory, really means what he tweeks, he will take these twelve and make them his and integrate them into the show. 

[McPhallus]

The answer: Competition.  Big institutions get fat and lazy when they don't have any real competition.  And coast doesn't have any right now.  I'm thinking they're going to start scrambling when Art's new show hits and they start losing audience.

[aldousburbank]

1. Admit that you are powerless over suckiness and that your life has become unmanageable. 

[nooryisawesome]

Stop being Info wars light
Stop having horrid guest like numbers lady, hoaxland, etc
Ask follow up questions that relate to what the guest is saying
Keep the guest/caller on track
If the show sucks cut the interview short and go to open lines
Stop interviewing medical quacks the same way was "entertainment" guests.
etc etc etc

[ItsOver]

1. Admit that you are powerless over suckiness and that your life has become unmanageable.

...and turn in your resignation.

[Tinfoil Hat]

The answer: Competition.  Big institutions get fat and lazy when they don't have any real competition.  And coast doesn't have any right now.  I'm thinking they're going to start scrambling when Art's new show hits and they start losing audience.

Will the last person in the C2C audience please turn out the lights?

[Nucky Nolan]

We needed this thread in 2005. One tip is to lengthen interesting calls and shorten boring and dismal ones. The depressing tales of woe are way too long while the exciting calls are minimized. Jim Harold's show's calls capture the flavor of Coast's past.

[Renaldo]

Instead of John B Wells, have the number lady do the occasional fill in.
Maybe Hoagland would like to host a few shows himself? Personally, I don't think he's had enough time to fully explain sacred geometry and torsion physics.
Have Ed Dames remote view next summer's blockbuster movies and then tell us about them.
More stories about Lyme disease.
Linda Molton Noory? Hmmmm....
Play more classic Art Bell shows.
Bring in anyone else off the street and give them a chance as a host.
Send every listener $10 for every hour they make it.

[expat]

If you actually endorse a book -- I mean, if your line "this is a great book" actually appears on the back cover -- please recuse yourself from then interviewing the book's author and brown-nosing. In particular, DO NOT protect that author from criticism by cutting off a caller who has quite rational and reasonable objections to the book's content.

ref. Interview with the always-wrong Mike Bara, 10 Novem 2010

[UFQuack]

Tweak what?

Maybe I ought to have made this into a poem for the haiku thread but I'll just say it...actually it sounds more like a koan...

Can a rainy day make itself a sunny one?

Here we go 12 steps:

Step 1: Noory leaves the show (period!).
Step 2: Noory REALLY leaves the show!
Step 3: Noory leaves...oops am I repeating myself?
Step 3: A trial period of hosts to try the show for a while (we can be patient and wait until we find a good one! And NO to all George Noorys and Mike Siegels or those types of guys! There's plenty of people in this world to choose from and they have the talent and skills for being a great radio host/broadcaster/interviewer/etc.)
Step 4: A new line up of guests, not same stagnant few over and over. Again there are plenty of great guests they've not had on, where is the research for this show?
Step 5: I know this one is just wishful thinking but...less commercials, that's how it was when Art Bell was host.
Step 6: No call screening.

Alright I'm going to stop there, there's probably a lot more I just can't think of it right now.

[SaucyRossy]

Step 1-12
Listen to Art Bell.

[Eddie Coyle]

         Is throwing Noory down a steep staircase an option?

[aldousburbank]

Step 1-12
Listen to Art Bell.

Step 13- smoke a doob, repeat steps 1-12

[Tinfoil Hat]

Here's my personal one-step plan for show improvement. I simply don't tune in. Problem solved.

Noory either won't or can't get better. He should retire and let someone with talent and skill have the chair.

[Meanandnasty]

I started the thread but I don't think I added a lot of suggestions.

Let's have a Noory is Wild Wednesday.  Kick out the staff and become the Nighthawk again.  It is a like a transformation.  By Monday he is Noory of prior suck and on Wednesday he flies low and lean into the midnight challenging the guests with informative questions.

It would be epic good times and I'll buy a fifth to begin with.  I lovveeee Happy Hour!!

[shell88]

1. Admit that you are powerless over suckiness and that your life has become unmanageable.

This is correct.  Ditto

[shell88]

2. Come to believe that a host much greater than you will restore everyone to sanity.

This is correct.  Ditto

2. Came to believe that Art Bell would restore everyone to sanity.
3. Made a decision to throw my mike and my "scripts" into the care of a garbage bin.

[yumyumtree]

1. Admit when you get your facts wrong.
2. Actually take a stand on issues once in awhile, instead of finding a fence-sitting position on everything.
3. Show some social responsibility when it comes to anti-vaxxers, cancer quacks, people peddling doomsday products and the obviously mentally I'll (Though this could be a problem if they're advertisers )
4. Guests who have had extensive legal troubles should be questioned more thoroughly. Don't let them get away with just saying "I was framed by Big Pharma" or whatever.
5. Get some debunkers on the show, even though I know you and most of your guests think debunkers are The Devil

[UFQuack]

Those are all good points but one point of contention...big pharma is itself a big scam. It's hardly a contrast to the snake oil salesmen. The pharmaceutical industry is a bigger danger than all snake oil salesman combined because they use our government to get away with the shit they do.

[yumyumtree]

I have a chronic illness a d rely on pharmaceuticals, but you're right-they're hardly angels.

After giving it some thought, I wonder if he has made an effort to get any debunkers on. Some would probably refuse, but I'm sure that some would come  on.