George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[VtaGeezer]

Has anyone ever watched the reality show "Doomsday Preppers?"  Many of them (preppers) spend tens of thousands of dollars preparing for the apocalypse, be it economic or environmental breakdown.  They drill their entire family in defense, stock years of food.


I bet most of them are C2C fans, or rather Noory is tapping into the fears of this crowd.  They're all nuts but they're his people.  He should be proud.

Just as Bob Vila virtually created the entire DIY industry with "This Old House" on PBS, I'm convinced C2C created much of the doomsdayism, conspiracy addiction and popular pessimism of today, and far more people listen to it than will admit to it.

[Sardondi]

...The main guest was Jeff Wise, an interesting guy who writes for several magazines about a variety of subjects. He was on to talk about his new book about fear...(told story about plane crash)...

(George) did ask a couple of times if the passengers knew if the plane was crashing, and how they must have felt. I'm amazed he didn't badger Wise about how many children were killed in the crash. Noory's ghoulish rubbernecking-from-a-distance is really starting to creep me out - I think he's getting worse.

...Wise: (detailing how pilot saved plane when wing fell off) "... because he was essentially a super-star athlete of flying, because he had learned the systems and the behavior of the aircraft so well, he knew it so deeply and intuitively he was able to, his x-system [the part of the brain that stores habitual learned behavior] essentially had become an expert, so in an instant, you know, you see this sort of thing with chess masters. They're able to just look at a board in an instant and know exactly what's going to hap-"

Simple George (interrupting): " Bobby Fischer - he was one of the best!"...

Typical George. I saw last night's program description and thought it was about human hyper-performance in extreme situations (maybe it was). I tuned in just as the interview with Wise picked back up at the beginning of the third hour of the show. As it happened I only listened to just over 5 minutes and then couldn't take it. Because there was yet another unscheduled appearance of Non Sequitur Noory and his attempts at derailing an interview with totally unrelated questions, and his insistence on hearing about misery, pain and bodily damage not relevant to the interview. Here's what happened:

Wise was talking about how we react to fear in the moment. He used his wife's attempt  at home birth to illustrate what he'd been saying about how humans react in fearful situations. It was not about the details of his wife's labor and C-section, although Noory was fascinated with that instead. Rough transcript follows, beginning at 4:12 at top of third hour.



   Wise: "...(W)e'd just found out my wife was pregnant. So I'm working on the book, and I've gotten up to the chapter that talks with how we handle fear when we're in the moment. One of the lessons of the book is if you really want to handle fear well, you're best off if you prepare beforehand....(stop at 4:31, picking back up at 4:50)...So my wife decided she wanted to have a home birth. And so we decided to have a sort of celebrity midwife..."

   Noory: (interrupting)"That's pretty ri...that's kinda bold, isn't it?"

   Wise: "Yeah. Some of my friends and family tried to do an intervention, to say 'Don't do this, it's crazy'..."

   Noory: " (unitelligible) Yeah."

   Wise: "...but we thought this will be, this is gonna be an interesting experience..."

   Noory: "Why'd she wanna do that?"

   Wise: (ignoring Noory's second attempt at irrelevancy) "..and, uh, long and short of it, it turned out to be really difficult. I mean, it was not one of these, 'Oh, my baby just popped out. Look how beautiful it is.' It was like 72 hours of grueling..."

   Noory: "Labor."

   Wise: "...torture. And..."

   Noory: "Unnnhhh!"

   Wise: "...my wife by the end of it had to get a C-section. Uhm, and...

   Noory: "She had to go to the hospital anyway then, right?"

   Wise: (confused) "Huh?"

   Noory: "Did they do the C-section at home?"

   Wise: "No! No, no, no!"

   Noory: "Oh, no. Okay"

   Wise: "That would be, that would really be..."

   Noory: "That would have been a disaster."


The man is an idiot.






 
         

[Marc.Knight]

The man is an idiot.

I wonder what is more tortuous, being a guest, or a listener? 

[MV/Liberace!]

I wonder what is more tortuous, being a guest, or a listener?

hey, marc.  hope things are well.  good to see you around.

[b_dubb]

C2C needs a "Johhny Fever" moment where the show's format suddenly has a radical change.  ... Noory in mid-slur at 3 am... sounds of scuffling and muffled arguing in the background... sounds of rattled coffee cups, cue cards, and a fat ass hitting the floor... then... after a brief moment of silence... a cigarette smoke hardened voice announces definitively: "Never say Never".

I'd like to nominate the above for Best Post Ever

[PB the Deplorable]

... Simple George (interrupting): " Bobby Fischer - he was one of the best!"

George Noory - one of the worst

[Marc.Knight]

"C2C needs a "Johhny Fever" moment where the show's format suddenly has a radical change.  ... Noory in mid-slur at 3 am... sounds of scuffling and muffled arguing in the background... sounds of rattled coffee cups, cue cards, and a fat ass hitting the floor... then... after a brief moment of silence... a cigarette smoke hardened voice announces definitively: "Never say Never".

I'd like to nominate the above for Best Post Ever

LOL. 

[HorrorReporter]

Just listened to a bit of the 'fear' show.. I thought the guest was interesting. I didn't think much of the questions, as no one else did either.
..and I seem to remember Noory's stories about the typewriter being said before. But I don't care.


It's frustrating.


But I kind of like Mitch Battros.

[Seamus Capone]

"So my wife decided she wanted to have a home birth. And so we decided to have a sort of celebrity midwife..."

   Noory: (interrupting)"That's pretty ri...that's kinda bold, isn't it?"

   Wise: "Yeah. Some of my friends and family tried to do an intervention, to say 'Don't do this, it's crazy'..."

   Noory: " (unitelligible) Yeah."

   Wise: "...but we thought this will be, this is gonna be an interesting experience..."

   Noory: "Why'd she wanna do that?"

   Wise: (ignoring Noory's second attempt at irrelevancy) "..and, uh, long and short of it, it turned out to be really difficult. I mean, it was not one of these, 'Oh, my baby just popped out. Look how beautiful it is.' It was like 72 hours of grueling..."

   Noory: "Labor."

   Wise: "...torture. And..."

   Noory: "Unnnhhh!"

   Wise: "...my wife by the end of it had to get a C-section. Uhm, and...

   Noory: "She had to go to the hospital anyway then, right?"

   Wise: (confused) "Huh?"

   Noory: "Did they do the C-section at home?"

   Wise: "No! No, no, no!"

   Noory: "Oh, no. Okay"

   Wise: "That would be, that would really be..."

   Noory: "That would have been a disaster."

The most WTF part came right after the guest finished the story that you quoted. Noory asked him if he was "scared". Really, Noory? The guy recounts an obviously tense and terrifying event, and you want to know if he was scared?

[MDL5676]

Tuned in just in time to find out that the next guest was... Lionel-Fucking-Fanthorpe (AKA the "Greatest Storyteller Ever Born") And then to add insult to injury, George took all of 2 seconds to start fellating Lionel and admit that he needed his "Lionel Fanthorpe Fix" because it had been a couple months since George has heard his voice... << insert involuntary gag reflex here >> Um, thanks but no thanks... I'll let those guys carry on with their BROmance in private, espcially since that blowhard Fanthorpe will just end up telling that same, old Spring Heeled Jack story for the 592nd time and Simple     

[MDL5676]

Tuned in tonight to find out that tonight's next guest is... <drum roll please> ... That's right, Lionel-Fucking-Borethorpe, AKA "Greatest Storyteller Ever Born"... And to make things even worse, I was unfortunate enough to still have the radio on as George waited all of 2.1 seconds before he started fellating Ol' Borethorpe right there on air and admit how he had Tommy schedule Fanthorpe to be back on the show because he hadn't "heard (Fanthorpe's) voice in a couple months" and he needed his "Lionel Fanthorpe Fix"... I shit you not... He actually said that... << INSERT INVOLUNTARY GAG REFLEX HERE >> Um, yeah, thanks but no thanks... I'll leave you two alone to carry on your BROmance in private... Besides, that blowhard Fanthorpe will probably just end up telling that same, old Spring Heeled Jack story for the 1,528th time, and as sure as the sun will rise in the east, Simple George will act as if he's hearing that story for the very first time, complete with George's full repertoire of "sounds" indicating feigned astonishment, incredulity, disgust and/or intrigue... Noory Sucks       

[Morgus]

As was predictable Noory is having Lionel Fanthorpe tell the tired old Springheeled Jack story for the 1000th time again tonight.
Noory thinks he has lots of new listeners all the time, so has the repeat guests tell the same old stories over and over...

[Oversoul]

Thats why Art is the master. He could easily take a "bad" guest and still make it a great show. He had a great gift for that.  Whereas a Host like Noory and many other's rely on thier guests Mo-Jo to make the show a good one.

Hell,  some of Arts best shows have been nothing but open lines. No guest's at all! Thats how good he was.

How very, very, very true!   Art Bell was a truly great host of the show, the master of the C2C airwaves, whom I miss very much for the intelligence, consummate hosting skills, quality showmanship, and value he gave the show.  Compared to Art, the three stooges: Noory, Punnett and Knapp, are third-rate clowns who wouldn't even be competent enough to make the children laugh at a children's hospital.  I consider myself fortunate to have enjoyed a couple of years of Art's hosting before he finally retired.  He is incomparable.  I miss Art Bell as the show's host.

In contrast to Art's professionalism and performance, Noory is an insult to the show's intelligent listeners.  He borders on the moronic.  Oftentimes while listening to him at the show, I swear I could picture Noory simultaneously working on a crossword puzzle while interviewing his guest.  Every now and then, almost as if on cue or timed by his desk clock, he would glance at a prepared handy checklist of standard pet questions or issues with which to interrupt his guest.  I swear you could hear him ask the same questions or raise the same issues over and over again with his guests, from show to show -- things like: "What do you think 2012 is about?" or "I think we'll be destroyed by a CME from the sun." or "I believe in God; don't you?" 

Noory wastes precious air time on useless or stupid matters with his guests many times: precious time that could have been better spent extracting more information out of the interview or eliciting a fuller response from his guest.  He frequently misses out on opportunities to ask penetrating or incisive questions of his guests.  I've noticed he plays favorites with his guests.  He can dislike a guest for not cooperating with his catastrophobic beliefs or for not sucking up to his taste for sensationalism.  I recall when he had Kymberlee Ruff as his guest on the subject of the Hopi-Tibetan prophecy.  Ruff refused to accommodate Noory's insinuations of impending world catastrophes as she stuck firmly with her optimistic, upbeat message that humanity was entering the "Time of Never Ending Peace."  Noory revisited the issue with Ruff more than once during her interview.  Halfway through the interview you could sense in Noory's tone of voice that he had lost interest in Ruff's interview.  That sucked.

I get a laugh when I listen to how some guests, such as Richard Hoaxland (Hoagland) or David Wilcock, deliberately or unwittingly attempt to manipulate or dominate Noory as the host by pulling on his plugs or strings.  There are times when a guest quacks too many times or too loudly, as in being a "quack," yet Noory lets his quack guest get away with all the quacking.  I recall Art Bell would have started cutting down or slicing up such a guest. 

Then, of course, Noory can get very excited over something close to home or personal to him that he starts to transform the interview into "his" own interview instead of his guest's.  The poor guest can only wait for the end of Noory's musings so he can say "Amen." or "ditto" to Noory at the end.  George Knapp, another ham host of the show, does a similar thing under the pretense of being eloquent and verbose just like his banner imagery of a "sirocco blazing through the Nevada desert."  (Jeez!  Speak of being corny.)  Punnett was such a pain to the ear because of his hosting, his stammering (when he gets emotional or excited), and his lousy choice of guests generally; was I ever glad when he had to back off from the show as a regular weekend host. 

Yup, gone are the days of the classic Art Bell shows.  The three stooges have certainly made Art into the stuff of "pure legend."

[Oversoul]

I think you're right about this--he IS getting worse. 

It's kind of fascinating: for all his professed belief in a grand design, a maker of the universe, life after death, non-local consciousness, etc., the man seems increasingly terrified of death.  He regularly mentions how fast time is going by, regularly mentions his age, takes a gazillion supplements to "improve" his health, a focuses with ghoulish fascination on death stories. 

You'd think a true belief in God and life after death would bring him some kind of peace, not ever-increasing fear.

Do you honestly think Noory has a TRUE belief in God?  I doubt if he even knows what kind of God he believes in.  He says it's not the garden-type variety of an old man "out there" in the sky.  However, he isn't completely sold either on the idea that God could be pure consciousness itself or even the infinite intelligence underlying all of creation.

So, tell me:  Noory claims that he believes in the potency of the applied collective consciousness of people, based on previous "experiments" he claimed to have conducted before with C2C listeners and followers.  If that's the case, why can't he start a worthy consciousness project for lasting peace and prosperity for humanity and the world?  Why does he invest air time and the airwaves on scenarios of doom and gloom, on imagined or probable disasters and catastrophes, ranging from the astronomical to the financial or from the material to the psychic and spiritual?  Is sensationalism an overriding value of his?  Where is his belief in the so-called power of applied consciousness?  Is his own consciousness actually rooted in evil and disaster, such that his true colors cannot help but show?

So, tell me:  Noory claims that C2C has millions of devoted followers in the USA alone.  He also professes his love of country and his belief in the qualifications of Ron Paul to become the best President of the country at the present time.  Why can't he galvanize all those C2C devotees to support Ron Paul and thrust him to victory, beyond his lame indorsement of Ron Paul?  Is Noory making an empty boast of the show's following and influence nationwide?  Is he not fully convinced of his personal belief in Ron Paul's qualifications?  Oprah certainly went out on a limb for Obama during the last presidential election?  Is Noory only a smelly fart compared to Oprah?

It would look like Noory is nothing more than a fear-monger, a sensationalist proponent of doom and gloom, and a hypocrite for all his hype about a personal belief in God, his love of country, the C2C's alleged huge loyal following, his belief in Ron Paul, etc.  What a disappointment Noory is in relation to the C2C show!

But I'm not surprised; after all, Noory is an entertainer playing the ratings and money game, and not a true investigative journalist.

[WOTR]

...
   Noory: (interrupting)"That's pretty ri...that's kinda bold, isn't it?"

   Wise: "Yeah. Some of my friends and family tried to do an intervention, to say 'Don't do this, it's crazy'..."

   Noory: " (unitelligible) Yeah."

   Wise: "...but we thought this will be, this is gonna be an interesting experience..."

   Noory: "Why'd she wanna do that?"

   Wise: (ignoring Noory's second attempt at irrelevancy) "..and, uh, long and short of it, it turned out to be really difficult. I mean, it was not one of these, 'Oh, my baby just popped out. Look how beautiful it is.' It was like 72 hours of grueling..."

   Noory: "Labor."

   Wise: "...torture. And..."

   Noory: "Unnnhhh!"

   Wise: "...my wife by the end of it had to get a C-section. Uhm, and...

   Noory: "She had to go to the hospital anyway then, right?"

   Wise: (confused) "Huh?"

The man is an idiot.
         

Suddenly I'm really glad that I only tuned in for around 30 seconds.  I turned on the radio and made it down the hall just in time to hear the guest babbling something about George having overcome fear by singing for his family and "now you sing to millions of (people- fans?)"  I immediately walked back into the room to turn the radio off.  Reading the witty banter between SG and the guest makes me glad that I missed the most painful parts of the interview.

[PB the Deplorable]

... Noory wastes precious air time on useless or stupid matters with his guests many times: precious time that could have been better spent extracting more information out of the interview or eliciting a fuller response from his guest.  He frequently misses out on opportunities to ask penetrating or incisive questions of his guests...

George refuses to ask penetrating or incisive questions.  He perpetually misses the obvious follow up, no matter how interesting or astonishing the guests comment was.  He isn't interested and doesn't have the background to have the conversation.  He usually isn't even listening - his way to deal with not being prepared and not being able to think on his feet.  His noortorious blunders have mostly come when he's gotten away from the cue cards.  No one can point to single good question George has ever asked.

How he must hate his job and dread the days knowing he has to show up and fill 4 hours again that night in order to keep getting paychecks.  All that silliness and time wasting is to just get through it and make it out the door in one piece.  Art Bell used to end 4 and 5 hour shows saying he wished they had more time.  Ever hear George say that, or sense he hadn't gotten it all in on one of his shows?

[kf5iwe]

C2C needs a "Johhny Fever" moment where the show's format suddenly has a radical change.  ... Noory in mid-slur at 3 am... sounds of scuffling and muffled arguing in the background... sounds of rattled coffee cups, cue cards, and a fat ass hitting the floor... then... after a brief moment of silence... a cigarette smoke hardened voice announces definitively: "Never say Never".

My spec ops team awaits Art's call 

[Morgus]

Noory just revealed his favorite board games as a kid was Clue and Stratego.
But he said he didn't like "Chutes & Ladders" - that one was for babies...
He probably enjoyed "Candyland" however. 

[Seamus Capone]

As was predictable Noory is having Lionel Fanthorpe tell the tired old Springheeled Jack story for the 1000th time again tonight.
Noory thinks he has lots of new listeners all the time, so has the repeat guests tell the same old stories over and over...

He probably has some *extremely* new listeners since all of the old listeners left in droves, and most of the "new" listeners decided to split too when they discovered how bad Coast now is when Bad George hosts it. Maybe that's one reason why the show sounds like "Groundhog Day". Noory just runs on a hamster wheel, blurting out the same old tired comments and questions, talking about the same predictable boring subjects. He could have played a repeat of any Fanthorpe show last night. Other than a few references to current events, it would have sounded just like any of the other programs, with no deviations whatsoever. Fanthorpe must have, what?, a thousand stories of the paranormal. Yet, Noory always asks him to tell the exact same six or so stories each time he appears on the show. It could be that this illustrates the high turnover in listeners, *or* it could be that Bad George refuses to change his cue cards. Just once, I'd love to hear Fanthorpe refuse to tell the same bedtime stories to Rain Man.

[Fanthorpe Voice] "You seriously want me to talk about Springheeled Jack *again*? Look, I have a thousand stories, and you ask me to tell the same stale tales each time I come on your show. You should know those five or six stories by heart by now. No, *you* tell *us* the story of @#$% Springheeled Jack, and stop waking me up to save your ass when you can't handle your guests!"

Lionel is too much of a gentleman to do that, but he has to shake his head in wonderment when Bad George acts like these tales are new to him and the audience.

Tonight, Noory is babbling in an incoherent nonsensical manner about board games, solar flares, technology, etc. Patterson, the rock'n'roll guy, is his guest, so it makes no sense at all. Maybe he had a nervous breakdown after he learned that we survived the super duper solar monster. This show didn't just jump the shark; it was found next to the remains of the stunt double from "Jaws". Even Valdez doesn't have a pain threshold great enough to listen. I really don't see how anybody can listen to Coast when Noory hosts it.

[Sardondi]

Tuned in just in time to find out that the next guest was... Lionel-Fucking-Fanthorpe (AKA the "Greatest Storyteller Ever Born") And then to add insult to injury, George took all of 2 seconds to start fellating Lionel and admit that he needed his "Lionel Fanthorpe Fix" because it had been a couple months since George has heard his voice... << insert involuntary gag reflex here >> Um, thanks but no thanks... I'll let those guys carry on with their BROmance in private, espcially since that blowhard Fanthorpe will just end up telling that same, old Spring Heeled Jack story for the 592nd time and Simple   

The first few times I heard Lionel, I thought, "What a charming, grandfatherly character!" Then I noticed he recycled the same stuff, as well as shamelessly and relentlessly flattered a humiliatingly susceptible Noory. He had an odd backdoor-yet-still-very-egotistical way of boasting about his physical prowess and virility by shoehorning in references to his weightlifting, body building and general physical strength. (Truly, listen to him and see how he works his weightlifting into virtually every appearance...and it's never relevant.) 

But what grosses me out most is the gum-jobbing he and George do to each other. "Oh, George, how wonderful to be in your warm and loving presence again! Aheeheeheeheehee! You have created such a magnificent program, and we're not worthy to be on it! Aheeheeheeheeheeheee! There's no better radio host in America! Aheeheeheeheehee!"

GAG!

[EnterDragon]

Good morning all, I'm new here and have read a few of these posts but not all. I was wondering if some of the things I read on here were reasons to dislike Noory. I think Noory is perfect for the show because he actually experienced some paranormal activity and understands it. You can't say the same for the other hosts.

The one thing I don't like about Noory is the fact that he could be really rude!

[Agent : Orange]

Welcome to the board!

I was wondering if some of the things I read on here were reasons to dislike Noory.

Of course not. Whether you like the show or not is totally subjective. If you get something out of it, good for you. However, I think you may find that others have a less rosy view of what is being called Coast to Coast nowadays.

[stevesh]

The one thing I don't like about Noory is the fact that he could be really rude!

Welcome. That's interesting, as most people who can tolerate Simple George as a host justify their opinions based on the 'fact' that Noory is so nice and courteous. I've never heard anyone else describe him as rude.

[dan7800]

Welcome. That's interesting, as most people who can tolerate Simple George as a host justify their opinions based on the 'fact' that Noory is so nice and courteous. I've never heard anyone else describe him as rude.

I remember AB kicking a few guests off his show once he realized they were full of BS. I cannot imagine Snoory doing that.

[BobGrau]

I remember AB kicking a few guests off his show once he realized they were full of BS. I cannot imagine Snoory doing that.

Noory only does this when they're NOT full of bs

[BobGrau]

Welcome. That's interesting, as most people who can tolerate Simple George as a host justify their opinions based on the 'fact' that Noory is so nice and courteous. I've never heard anyone else describe him as rude.

Back before I was a hater, I used to think 'yeah, he's a bit dense, but he's a nice guy'.
Eventually I realised that his rudeness comes in the form of:
completely ignoring what the guest has to say,
not bothering to read the books,
thinking that repeating word-for-word news items from MSN homepage constitutes 'research'...
oh, and addressing the issue of Art's sudden departure with an 'art who?' attitude.

I would go on, but my meds are starting to kick in. Oh look - a rainbow.

[tmock00]

George made FARK today. 

The story they link to is the one about his supposed "kidnapping," (old news), but a lot of the comments made by the Farkers in the forum about George are pretty humorous. 

www.fark.com/comments/6985254/Coast-To-Coast-AM-radio-host-George-Noory-narrowly-avoids-kidnapping-in-Mexico-Im-not-saying-it-was-aliens

[fysisist]

Good morning all, I'm new here and have read a few of these posts but not all. I was wondering if some of the things I read on here were reasons to dislike Noory. I think Noory is perfect for the show because he actually experienced some paranormal activity and understands it. You can't say the same for the other hosts.

The one thing I don't like about Noory is the fact that he could be really rude!

Rude?  That jackass insults the intelligence of anyone within earshot every time he opens his pie-hole.  But on the other hand, to each his own. 

[EnterDragon]

Noory completely scolds his quests whenever they accidentally push a button on the phone, or coughs. He also gets gets on guests who have small websites. As for callers, he hates it when a caller asks more than 1 question and hangs up on people often!

[Seamus Capone]

That jackass insults the intelligence of anyone within earshot every time he opens his pie-hole.

Noory doesn't just insult your intelligence. He throws it in a dungeon and slowly tortures it for four hours.