Open Lines

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

Anyone with a brain would have banned sleep paralysis calls by now, but every week like clockwork some stoned kid calls in and starts asking George about it and he trots out the "old hag" story.

[anagrammy]

Anyone with a brain would have banned sleep paralysis calls by now, but every week like clockwork some stoned kid calls in and starts asking George about it and he trots out the "old hag" story.

Aw give a guy a break, Tao.  It's the only way he gets laid.  BTW - I think the fiancee thing is a cover story.

Ana

[b_dubb]

Aw give a guy a break, Tao.  It's the only way he gets laid.  BTW - I think the fiancee thing is a cover story.

Ana

holy crap! so you're saying that nooron sometimes plays the hag in the old hag syndrome? eewwwwwwww

[General Johnson Jameson]

Fuck open lines
Fuck Noory's secret door nights
Fuck Noory's new music artist nights
Basically, Fuck Noory period

[EvB]

Fuck open lines
Fuck Noory's secret door nights
Fuck Noory's new music artist nights
Basically, Fuck Noory period

Here you go, General Johnson Jameson.  enjoy  :

[General Johnson Jameson]

Here you go, General Johnson Jameson.  enjoy  :

I, I, I.....got nothin.

[aldousburbank]

Fuck open lines
Fuck Noory's secret door nights
Fuck Noory's new music artist nights
Basically, Fuck Noory period

Thumbs up- Best Post Ever!

[b_dubb]

Thumbs up- Best Post Ever!

i don't know. i think that post was a little vague

[onan]

i don't know. i think that post was a little vague

and limited in scope

Basically, Fuck Noory period

I say go beyond the basics.

[General Johnson Jameson]

I'd like to see a new outrageous caller on the show. And one that is not a paid participant. The ideal character that I would like to see is Herb Sewell from the Phil Hendrie Show. Noory would eat that shit up if instead of talking about child molestors, have Herb claim he was part of a UFO sect in the Appalachains before being admitted to Atascadero. Something has to be done!

Oh, PS.....Add UFO Phil to the list of people that need to just Fuck Off.

[General Johnson Jameson]

It would be a close tie between Hoagland and UFO Phil as to which sounds most like a bitch.

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

The "hotline" this week was "Why are people acting so strange?" AGAIN!!!

Give it up, George. The only people acting strange are the shut-ins, stoners, and general f'ing idiots who call your show on "open lines".

[anagrammy]

The "hotline" this week was "Why are people acting so strange?" AGAIN!!!

Give it up, George. The only people acting strange are the shut-ins, stoners, and general f'ing idiots who call your show on "open lines".

I disagree Tao, the ones acting the most strange are the producers of Coast to Coast who seem to be strangely asleep at the wheel and strangely still collecting a paycheck.  We live in exciting times, but you'd never know it from George Noory's news of child deaths and environmental catastrophes.

Here's the kind of news I want to hear from Coast:  PARANORMAL NEWS...WEIRD NEWS...FOLLOWUPS ON PREVIOUS WEIRD/PARANORMAL/UFO/CRYPTO NEWS.  If some horror of a human being puts out cigarettes on their infant, for the love of God and all that's holy, keep it to yourself. 

I want to hear about the woman who was visited by the blue guy--did she end up pregnant?  What happened?  And as I said on the other thread, when a psychic is on the news, the f**g mainstream news, I expect to get some kind of special info from the show that specializes in same.  Is that too much to ask? 

There are amazing results being published regarding theories involving other dimensions, dolphin communication, time travel, possible chupacabra captured....that's what I want to know about.  The rest I can get from ABC.

Anagrammy

[b_dubb]

recent show about roswell lore ... may have been from january ... who cares ... george let some loser ramble on about an
alien that was chasing a spider (because aliens like spiders) and he shot the alien and he turned into santa claus

W T F

does george know he can shut those fuckers up? no. of course not.

[texaskdog]

with one exception, the days back when Art had open-lines was entertaining and partially due to the fact he
didn't screen callers. And if the call was fail, he could push it into something great on many occasions

One of the hosts said he really did screen calls, he was just looser about it than the others.

[b_dubb]

every night with noory is open lines.  open lines means less work for the snooron

[Morgus]

One of the hosts said he really did screen calls, he was just looser about it than the others.

In the old days of the 90's in his own home studio in Pahrump, Art didn't screen calls during open lines, he would screen callers calling for a live guest though.
He also had a delay so he could cut off a caller if he used profanity or something to keep it off the air.

However when Art moved to Manila Philippines, he was forced to use the network call screeners since his remote system requires that. The lines actually are in the USA (not overseas long distance) and are answered by the screeners who queue them and put them on hold and Art (or other hosts not in the LA studio) have a computerized hookup to see the queued caller info and select them indvidually. Art told about that system years ago.

Art was unique with the unscreened open lines calls, but that was only possible back at his home studio setup in Nevada. Probably will never see that again. No more classic callers like Madman, Mell and his hole, Bugs, etc..

[texaskdog]

In the old days of the 90's in his own home studio in Pahrump, Art didn't screen calls during open lines, he would screen callers calling for a live guest though.
He also had a delay so he could cut off a caller if he used profanity or something to keep it off the air.

However when Art moved to Manila Philippines, he was forced to use the network call screeners since his remote system requires that. The lines actually are in the USA (not overseas long distance) and are answered by the screeners who queue them and put them on hold and Art (or other hosts not in the LA studio) have a computerized hookup to see the queued caller info and select them indvidually. Art told about that system years ago.

Art was unique with the unscreened open lines calls, but that was only possible back at his home studio setup in Nevada. Probably will never see that again. No more classic callers like Madman, Mell and his hole, Bugs, etc..

Makes sense.  Thank you.  So I suppose the show is George's as long as he wants to do it

[toxicmop]

I always get the feeling George tries to avoid open line calls cause he has no idea how to respond to or answer questions. Mainly because he doesn't know what he's talking about. He either says "wow" or "isn't that something". Whether they ask him a question or tell him a story, he'll never have anything to say about it.

[Seamus Capone]

recent show about roswell lore ... may have been from january ... who cares ... george let some loser ramble on about an
alien that was chasing a spider (because aliens like spiders) and he shot the alien and he turned into santa claus

W T F

does george know he can shut those fuckers up? no. of course not.

I heard that one. You wonder if the caller made a bet that Noory would buy any story he told him.

[Il Dottore]

Open lines used to be my favorite part of the show with Art Bell! Now they are not fun at all! I miss old open lines that were the last truly open lines out there on a national broadcast.

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

I always get the feeling George tries to avoid open line calls cause he has no idea how to respond to or answer questions. Mainly because he doesn't know what he's talking about. He either says "wow" or "isn't that something". Whether they ask him a question or tell him a story, he'll never have anything to say about it.

And the nervous laughter.......oh, that laugh....

[rangers1919]

Is there a thread for biggest idiot/crazy callers. There was a lady tonight that was nuts. She said that the traffic lights were being changed for her as she drove. I don't think she specified whether it was so she could make or miss them. Next she said that she paid for her gas w/ a check and she thinks they pumped her tank full of air b/c after driving down the street she only had 1/4 tank left (or maybe 1/4 tank gone already). No idiot, the handle wasn't in straight, it stopped pumping, and you drove off without checking the amount that you put it. She said she knew she was right because she saw the manager out of the side of her eye looking at her and he went into the back immediately as she was about to go outside.

[Avi]

Sure, what have you got against people who spend their lives in a paranoid fugue? After all, the manager was looking at her. I'm sure he was on the phone immediately to the people who flip the stop-lights, in the hopes of catching her so he could unleash a laugh so diabolical, Vincent Price would have to surrender his crown.

Seriously, an occasional caller of this nature can be amusing, but C2C seems to want to rival Geraldo and Jerry in sensationalism. Sadly, I must agree with the title of this thread. Fook open lines.

[Art]

Ian's Callers - Switched My Gasoline

Ian's lines were full but he only got about three decent callers last night. 

[rangers1919]

Nice, even her speaking cadence screams mental illness. "Repeatedly, repeatedly", what was that? I would love to have this lady call Howard Stern or somebody that would be less polite about her insanity.

[Scully]

Ian's lines were full but he only got about three decent callers last night.

And I'll bet the callers you've captured here actually vote, too. 

[rangers1919]

For the record, I consider delusional paranoids decent callers. They're one of the trademarks of C2C.

[b_dubb]

These are among the most excruciatingly painful moments in radio history, I'm quite certain.  And you know that Jackass George is sitting there in his studio with a stupid smug grin on his face, maybe winking at the board op, thinking how effing clever he is.  Fuck me.

no. fuck him. fuck him.

[onan]

Nice, even her speaking cadence screams mental illness. "Repeatedly, repeatedly", what was that? I would love to have this lady call Howard Stern or somebody that would be less polite about her insanity.

I just listened to the file of the woman you mention. Her speech has a normal rate and rhythm. Although she does have a certain cadence it isn't notable. Certainly she is very circumstantial, irrational, probably delusional and paranoid. She may have a bit of grandiosity but without more info it is just as likely her day to day belief system.

Why anyone would want her to call Howard Stern for yucks is probably more pathological than her presentation.