recovering noorholic

[RecoveringNoorholic]

I have long been not-so-secretly attracted to George Noory. I listened to Art Bell back in the '90s in high school and then off-and-on as time permitted in college. Shortly after that the circumstances of life forced me to leave C2C and, when I returned a few years ago, BAM! there was George, Tommy and Maricka, George's adopted Children's International daughter who never ages (or Maricka also doesn't like George and stopped sending him new photos).

I almost drove 3 hours to get "Worker in the Light" autographed. (In the end I neither drove nor bought the book.) But I started to question my own feelings around the time Steve Irwin died when George pronounced "crikey" as "crick-ee". When he started-in on John Titor with Dr. Brian Weiss the other night (for instance), whom I've long admired, I thought to myself, "isn't this more of a conversation best left for Richard C.?"

Yesterday I found this site and I feel like a shroud has been lifted from my eyes. So, anyway, a great thanks for this mind liberation.

[Spikegirl]

Hi. Welcome aboard. Many of us gave George a chance in the beginning, but there are but so many times that one can look the other way when George is asking non-sequitor questions, talking over the guest, doodling in magic markers loud enough so that the listening audience can hear, asking old ladies to get up in the middle of the night to sing for him or play the piano, gleefully reporting on some mangled or dead child, not listening to what the guests are saying and repeating a question that was already answered, etc.

That's why he sucks.

[RecoveringNoorholic]

> doodling in magic markers loud enough
> so that the listening audience can hear

OMG - I thought that was just me hearing that!

[Spikegirl]

> doodling in magic markers loud enough
> so that the listening audience can hear

OMG - I thought that was just me hearing that!

Oh no, Noory is quite famous for his loud doodling. There has been speculation as to what it is exactly that he is doing.

[RecoveringNoorholic]

I'm sure this has already been discussed but ... do you remember when Art was hosting his predictions show and some dude called in and predicted George and Linda Moulton Howe would hook-up? Then a few weeks later a caller  told George about it. Then a few months after that George told Linda with a kind of lecherous giggle and Linda seemed horrified.

When the caller told George, George responded with "noooo, Linda is like my sister!" It caused me pause - how far back to George and Linda go that she's like his "sister"?

[Spikegirl]

I'm sure this has already been discussed but ... do you remember when Art was hosting his predictions show and some dude called in and predicted George and Linda Moulton Howe would hook-up? Then a few weeks later a caller  told George about it. Then a few months after that George told Linda with a kind of lecherous giggle and Linda seemed horrified.

When the caller told George, George responded with "noooo, Linda is like my sister!" It caused me pause - how far back to George and Linda go that she's like his "sister"?

Noory drools over anything in a skirt. He flirts with Linda, Glynnis, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Pamela Anderson (with whom he was particularly lecherous), etc. Did he also flirt with Shirley McLane? I don't remember.

[danDNA]

he dont flirt with evelyn paglini for some reason.

[Spikegirl]

he dont flirt with evelyn paglini for some reason.

He's afraid she'll turn him into a frog.

[Pirate King Atomsk]

I think sometimes he feels like he holds a power over women because of his position at C2CAM. Delusions of grandeur, maybe. Or perhaps he's just awkwardly friendly. Who knows. I'm no Casanova, either. We all break down a little in the presence of the fairer sex.

As far as the doodling, I always imagined him drawing pictures of himself with huge muscles destroying tanks and stuff.

Anyways, welcome! 

He's afraid she'll turn him into a frog.

Hahahahaha!! 

[RecoveringNoorholic]

How much $ does he make?

On one show he said, in reference to someone who was making $35,000 a year, "that's about what my son makes, in fact, before I got this job - it wasn't that many years ago that's what I made." [rough paraphrase]

On another occasion, with the always excellent Loren Coleman, he said something like "Loren, people out there think you and I are rich ... but that's not the case!" and the unflappable Loren said something deflective and then George made a dumb joke, "in fact, Loren could I borrow a hundred bucks from you after the show? He he he."

Also, does anyone not feel warm and comforted when he starts talking about the "Coast family?" I remember XMAS Eve last year he was saying how he was at his daughter's but kept looking at his watch and his daughter said "Dad, you keep looking at your watch. Second family?" ... "oh she knows me too well."

[RecoveringNoorholic]

This has nothing to do with George per se, just something I've always wondered - can anyone tell me why Lisa Lyon and all the C2C offices - short of George's studio at Premier in LA - are in Grants Pass, Oregon of all places?

[EvB]

> doodling in magic markers loud enough
> so that the listening audience can hear

OMG - I thought that was just me hearing that!

First, Welcome Recovering!

Second, this post gives me a clue.  I have ADD.  I doodle constantly.  I can't concentrate without some OTHER activity going on as counterpoint to what I'm really doing. (As others here have noted, George is actually good for that - familiar noise and activity sounds in the background without being so engrossing you get pulled away form what needs to be done) 

We may have discussed this before - but maybe one of George's issues is ADD.  It would explain a number of things about him - the non- sequiturs- the reliance on same or similar questions in a variety of settings - those moments when we listen to somone who seems to have woken up and thinnk "gee - George, THAT wasn't half bad."  -- Most people with ADD are at least slightly better than average bright (and please don' think of average as your peers, or this group - I think WE tend to be better than average bright, so it woud follow our real life peers would be as well). 

Again, this isn't to excuse.  My own feelings about people who are - for lack of a better term at the moment - "diferant" (and I'm speaking as someone who was decalired totally disabled  - not from ADD - that's incidental - and is now working her way back to full time work force) is that whiel public awareness of differances is vital, it is also on the person with the differance to elarn how to make thimeselves fit in better - function better.

George could - for example - have someone who can focus on reading better go though a guests pubications and highlight point for him.  He coud make notes. he could make an outline of tlaing points and use that marker to keep track of where he's been ad where he'd like to go.  And, if is also wants to doodle (you should see my school notes - they look like a child's version of The Book of Kells - lots of writing with decorations all around the edges) it's not that hard to do it in a way that isn't picked up by the mike - OR since it's not easy to hear (i'm tlaking you workd for it, I never noticed) if he were a more engaging host maybe we just wouldn't care about a little scritch-scratch.

Oh well - just a few thoughts.

[EvB]

Also, does anyone not feel warm and comforted when he starts talking about the "Coast family?" I remember XMAS Eve last year he was saying how he was at his daughter's but kept looking at his watch and his daughter said "Dad, you keep looking at your watch. Second family?" ... "oh she knows me too well."

It's one of the many things he says that makes me feel condescended to.  "Oh, I know if you are listening to me on Christmas or Christmas Eve you're a looser - so we'll be here for you"

Geeze - these people come on at 1 am where I am - 11pm where they are.  Is it ODD that people are done with their holiday celebrations, particularly if they have family, between 11 and 1?  While I am often up late at night, I don't much care to be foreced into real life sociability late.  That part of me kicks in around noon and fades - depending on how much has gone on durring that day, between 6 and 9 - 10 at the latest. 

I do know there are horribly lonely people out there who do depend on talk shows for company - and I'm glad that option is there for them.  In fact - Art had a huge follwoing of truckers, for whom this kind of ife is just a way of life, and saying nothing aobut them personaly ohter than choice of occupation. But it makes me squirm when George speaks as if we're all huddled around a radio eaitng turkey noodle soup straight form the can. 

[MV/Liberace!]

Oh no, Noory is quite famous for his loud doodling. There has been speculation as to what it is exactly that he is doing.

[Spikegirl]

[Frys Girl]

Googly godzilla that was awesome MV. You really are a fan of TBL. Even I didn't think of that, and I live that movie on a daily basis! <claps>

[MV/Liberace!]

Googly godzilla that was awesome MV. You really are a fan of TBL. Even I didn't think of that, and I live that movie on a daily basis! <claps>

haha that's cool.  actually, my TBL references are more of a shout-out to you than anything else because i KNOW you're gonna get it.

[EvB]

okay - I give up.  Spending as much time as i do with a college crowd I usually get these references - but what the hell is TBL?   

[Frys Girl]

The Big Lebowski!!! Happy 10th TBL!

[EvB]

AH!  okay  -- know some about it - never saw the whole thing.  Will have to remedy that.

Thanks.

[11angeleyes11]

First, Welcome Recovering!

Second, this post gives me a clue.  I have ADD.  I doodle constantly.  . . . .Oh well - just a few thoughts.

I read your post with compassion and empathy, however I do not interrupt George's ADD in the same way.  I think looking at the whole situation a better synoposis is ADD (A Dumb Dork)

[EvB]

I read your post with compassion and empathy, however I do not interrupt George's ADD in the same way.  I think looking at the whole situation a better synoposis is ADD (A Dumb Dork)

ROTFLM@O!

Fair enough. 

BTW - though it took me a loooooooooong time to learn these tricks - if you know how to ride the waves ADD can be used to your advantage.  I don't feel particularly "afflicted" at this point in my life.  I ask people to repeat themselves when needed - and refused to be shamed by those looks that say "didn't I already tell you X?"  If they piss me off badly enough - I've been known to reply to comments like "I think I've made myself clear" with an equally harsh "well apparently not, since I don't understand and I'm not stupid."

I also take great advantage of "hyper focus" mode (a common 'flip side' of ADD - where you tune out everything but what you are doing at the time) to get things done.

There are those who say that ADD is actually the start of a new evolution in intelligence.  That's, IMO,  a bit much. But I do often suspect it's a normal variation that society needs to adapt to - as much as we who have those kinds of minds have to adapt to society.

[PhantasticSanShiSan]

ITS ALL FROM FOOD COLOURING!!!!!!!!!!!

[EvB]

ITS ALL FROM FOOD COLOURING!!!!!!!!!!!                      

Yeah - and they told us not to eat yellow SNOW!

[Art is the Best]

There are those who say that ADD is actually the start of a new evolution in intelligence.  That's, IMO,  a bit much. But I do often suspect it's a normal variation that society needs to adapt to - as much as we who have those kinds of minds have to adapt to society.

I agree; I remember when it wasn't even a 'condition' or 'disease' or whatever it is. I think it's just something pharm companies realised they could make money off of. Like selling energy drinks to people who have to work two or three jobs.

[Frys Girl]

Alex Jones has some very scary ways of talking about ADD - they wanna make us crazy! But then, he blames the lack of female sexuality on fluoride in drinking water - they wanna control our beds! Yes these are paraphrases from his recent broadcast on Talking Wars dag nabit.