George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[Sardondi]

He offered Old Yeller as an alternative to Cujo.  Seems like the same movie to me....

Heh.

And he originally called the movie "Old Yellow" before the guest corrected him....

Yeah, George didn't want anyone to mispronounce it like everyone else had. God, I'm so tired of him.

[Nebraska888]

Noory has been even more strange this past week......almost an undercurrent of smart ass, pissed off, and corny all rolled up into a strange Noory mess.  His constant interruptions were doublefold and his comment were really off the wall..... more than usual.

He's always irritating, but this week he sounded odd.  He is losing it.

[Nebraska888]

I can't stand how he goes into breaks.  9 times out of ten I just get this feeling like he's being a dick about it.  I know that he has to take breaks and it's part of the show but the way he does it for some reason always comes off like he just arbitrarily decided it was time for a break... like "fuck you and your story break time!!"

OMG, I have been thinking this same thing for a long time.  You are sooooo right! 

SOMEBODY PLEASE HAVE BALLS ENOUGH TO FIRE THIS MAN!

[ItsOver]

Talk of George and breaks reminded me of the moment on Tuesday night when Peter Fairfield, in response to a Noory question said something like 'OK, but I realise I'll have to brief'
Noory asked why and Fairfield said because he was aware a break was coming up. Noory suddenly turned into Queen Bitch. No there isn't, he told Fairfield, you have plenty of time. He then followed up with 'You do the talking, Peter, and I'll worry about the breaks' and adding 'There's nothing worse than a guest who listens to the show too much' as though he was talking to himself or to Tommy and Lisa off air.
Later, when a break actually was approaching, he said he wanted to test Fairfield's 'broadcasting skills' and asked him to talk them into the break.......

I heard that little episode.  I had very similar thoughts.  Noory is such a jerk.  He keeps trying to play the "nice guy game" facade, but in reality, antics like this show what he's really all about.

[ItsOver]

Noory is totally clueless tonight as usual.
He introduced his guest  Varla Ventura and immediately kept asking her if she was related to his 'good friend' Jesse Ventura.
Noory wasn't even aware that Jesse Ventura is not his real name, he picked it after the city named Ventura in southern California when he was a pro wrestler. 

Last night got off to a great start.  Noory was talking about the Space Shuttle flying to LA.  He talked about the Shuttle flying by the "Golden State Bridge" and other CA landmarks.  This guy can't even get the Golden Gate Bridge right???  He was excited about the Shuttle flying "right by me!!!" and seemed to refer to himself as just another California landmark.  :

The Ventura moment was definitely another eye-crosser. 

[Morgus]

I did a quick google search and found this in 5 seconds:
"Jesse Ventura's original name was James Janos. He created the name "Jesse Ventura" when he entered the wrestling world"

Nitwit Noory should have done a few seconds internet research on his pal, Jesse Ventura before asking guests with a last name of Ventura if they are related to him, unless the guest's last name is 'Janos' 

[Ben Shockley]

"Old Yellow" and what the movie was actually about; not knowing that "Ventura" is a ring name:  you folks are just being unreasonable haters!
Remember: "facts" ("feyucks" in Noorish) mean nothing to Georgie.   He goes by what he feels about stuff.   He vaguely remembered that Disney movie about a dwog from way-gowun-beyuck (Noorish for "long ago") in the dressed-by-mwommy, duck-and-cover halcyon days of his childhood, therefore it was a gwood, fwon moovie.
As for his "pal" Jesse Ventura's name: if it wasn't in his cue cards, Georgie never saw or knew of it.   Even if it was in the cards, it was forgotten as soon as that show segment was over --if not before.   Anyway, I doubt if he ever heard of Jesse Ventura before JV was booked for the show.   Wrestlers use ring names? -- "Mwy gaash!  Why the hyeck do they do theyut?  Isn't it confusing?"   Yet once the guy appeared on the show, for Georgie, that makes the guy fair prey to claims of "pal-ship."

[WOTR]

It seems that nothing could be as classic for a classic coast show anymore than announcing that old yellow is an excellent, happy dog movie...

[ItsOver]

.... just a happy little movie about a turmeric-loving canine in Noory's mind, no doubt.

[ChewMouse]

Just remember: the dog that played Old Yeller was an actor. He was a real dog, but he was simply playing a part for a movie. None of that really happened.

(This is how my parents talked me down after I unfortunately saw the movie.)

[Morgus]

Last night when Noory pronounced the name of the old Walt Disney dog movie he recommended, to me it sounded like he said "Ole Yella"

[stevesh]

Those who are Coast Insiders, check 16:59 in hour two - clearly 'Old Yellow'.

[ziznak]

"old Yellow" was a movie that George starred in... probly never even heard of it... stop talking trash all you haters!!

[Sardondi]

.... just a happy little movie about a turmeric-loving canine in Noory's mind, no doubt.

Heh. Maybe if they'd given Old Yeller some of that Miracle Turmeric® Travis wouldn't have had to shoot him...

"old Yellow" was a movie that George starred in... probly never even heard of it... stop talking trash all you haters!!...

Classic.


Maybe Arliss should have turned it up a notch...

[ItsOver]

"old Yellow" was a movie that George starred in... probly never even heard of it... stop talking trash all you haters!!

  Thanks for clearing that up, Ziz.  I think I'll try to call in next week and ask George about "Bambi."

[ItsOver]

Heh. Maybe if they'd given Old Yeller some of that Miracle Turmeric® Travis wouldn't have had to shoot him...

Yep, that and some nice heaping helpings of Carnivora!  I understand it modulates the immune system!

[ChewMouse]

  Thanks for clearing that up, Ziz.  I think I'll try to call in next week and ask George about "Bambi."

Not Bambi!! Oh God, that's the second saddest movie ever created! After that terrible gunshot when Bambi goes running in fear, calling "Mama? Mama?" it's enough to make you want to scream. That poor baby!

Noooo, not Bambi! I cannot bear it!

[Ben Shockley]

"Bambi" ("Beeyumbi" in Noorish) sounds like the first name of a soon-to-be-"favorite" female guest for NoorCoast.   She'll be hyper-bubbly and cheerful, effusive and sounding excited at the slightest cue or dumbest interjection from Georgie or a caller.   She'll have some total bullcrap "system" for telling your fortune from the spelling of your name, and will rapidly progress to the point that she's on every week ~~~~


What?   Sounds just like who..??

[ItsOver]

Not Bambi!! Oh God, that's the second saddest movie ever created! After that terrible gunshot when Bambi goes running in fear, calling "Mama? Mama?" it's enough to make you want to scream. That poor baby!

Noooo, not Bambi! I cannot bear it!

Don't actually think of it as the real "Bambi."  The Noory version will be an abortion he'll call something like "Bimbo."  A nice, family cartoon about a red-nosed deer, whose nose grows a little bit every time it lies.  Noory needs to back-off on those turmeric dosages. 

[Ben Shockley]

...The Noory version will be an abortion he'll call something like "Bimbo."

That was the first parody word my mind went to, but I couldn't figure out a quick way to get a joke out of it.
So, I just described a "bimbo" guest.

[ziznak]

Lately my favorite Noorism has been his pronunciation of the word "being."  It always comes out like he's saying "bean" to me.  I find myself often confused when I happen to hear the words "alien beans." 
I think to myself... wait are we talking about GMO's now?? Do the aliens have vegetables??? How long have I been ignoring the show I have playing? 

[ChewMouse]

Lately my favorite Noorism has been his pronunciation of the word "being."  It always comes out like he's saying "bean" to me.  I find myself often confused when I happen to hear the words "alien beans." 
I think to myself... wait are we talking about GMO's now?? Do the aliens have vegetables??? How long have I been ignoring the show I have playing?

When I was little, I thought we were all human beans. My first grade teacher said all human beans were created equal and I remember wondering what some of the others were since I could clearly see they were not equal beans.

[Hawk]

A poster on one of the Facebook Art Bell groups wrote that on Wednesday, or Thursday's show, Noory made a snide comment about wishing they would accidentally mail him Art's checks.

Did anyone here that?

[NoMoreNoory]

You are so right, Morgus. That movie, as nostalgic as everybody of a certain age gets about it, is better in memory than in the actual experience of it. It is absolutely traumatic for kids under about 10 years old.

True story. My parents took me, thinking, "It's a Disney movie, so it'll be great for little 5-year-old Sardondi , right?" Wrong. As soon as it became apparent the boy was going to have to kill Yeller, I went bazoo. In the theater I was wailing at the top of my lungs, "They're gonna shoot Old Yeller! They're gonna shoot Old Yeller!" Leaving the theater, "They shot Old Yeller! They shot Old Yeller!" In the car all the way home: "They shot Old Yeller! They shot Old Yeller!" At home, in my bedroom, "They shot Old Yeller! Thy shot Old Yeller!" This went on a couple of hours until I just collapsed out of exhaustion. I was in 5-year-old depression for a few days after seeing that horrible movie. Movies were an only-every-couple-of-month thing for me as a young kind, but I think my parents had to find some kid movie to take me to in the next couple of days to try to wash that terrible Old Yeller out of my brain.

So once again we see Noory has a perfect instinct for those things that traumatize children. Something is very broken about that man.

I didn't hear the piece about Old Y, but have read the posts in hysterical disbelief. And, now, Sardondi, you know I don't believe in coincidences, but you have just written my post for me! Word for word. My parents fell into the same trap, and I can still taste the tears and snot in the back of my throat, screaming and wailing in my mother's arms as the father was preparing to shoot the dog. It has stayed fresh with me for my entire life.
He didn't really call it Old Yellow, did he? Mind you, I would believe anything. He has gone from bad to worse and is now plumbing depths of incompetence surely unprecedented in the history of broadcasting.

[ChewMouse]

A poster on one of the Facebook Art Bell groups wrote that on Wednesday, or Thursday's show, Noory made a snide comment about wishing they would accidentally mail him Art's checks.

Did anyone here that?

I did. It struck me as curious for two reasons: First, is Art still collecting a check? Second, why would GN sound so bitter about it either way?

But yes, the statement was made.

[PB the Deplorable]

Those who are Coast Insiders, check 16:59 in hour two - clearly 'Old Yellow'.

George can be so misunderstood by Thuh Haters. 

This time he just didn't want his young lissners to miss out on seeing what has become one of his favorite movies. 

Ma Noory thought Old Yeller was about an old man sitting on his porch all day shouting obscenities at the neighborhood kids, and wouldn't take him to see it.

[NoMoreNoory]

I am literally crying and struggling to breathe with all the Old Yeller posts, but I came here for an entirely different purpose. That was to draw attention to Noory's introduction to Ms Ventura. He cited works by her such as The Vampyr and The Malevolent Banshee. But the Mush Mouth kicked into overdrive. Firstly, 'The Vampire' went through his newly acquired 'Latin' accent and came out as 'The Vumpiirrrrre'. Fine.
What happened next almost defies analysis. My girlfriend and I have listened to it repeatedly on headphones like ghost hunters listening to EVPs. 'What was that?' 'Did you hear that?' 'Did he say.....or was it.....?'
He completely mispronounced it, appeared to give up halfway through and then just make noises in the hop that it would carry him through. The closest phonetic reading we can come up with would be 'Thuh Malahvunun Benshee.'
It's about 7 mins on the YouTube posting, just before the Ventura fiasco.
I agree that this week has been extraordinary. Comedy gold, day upon day, hour after hour. I think a full breakdown cannot be far away. I suggest that to hasten it along, we all bombard the show with Skype calls featuring the naked body part of your choice.....

[MV/Liberace!]

"Bambi" ("Beeyumbi" in Noorish)

hahahaha

[ChewMouse]

The closest phonetic reading we can come up with would be 'Thuh Malahvunun Benshee.'
It's about 7 mins on the YouTube posting, just before the Ventura fiasco.
I think a full breakdown cannot be far away.

Naturally I had to go listen to GN trying to pronounce the title of the book; it was sooo bad and I missed it at the time because I had no idea what the guest's book title actually was. GN just couldn't say "malevolent." Just couldn't do it.

I was thinking about your comment about a pending breakdown and I wonder about this as well. He's been more short-tempered lately, even with guests. And of course he treats callers miserably. It's so obvious he's just marking time...but until what? Retirement? The breakdown you mentioned?

There was also obvious tension when Tommy mentioned the Skype thing (seeing naked people) and GN pleaded some form of ignorance and Tommy said, "Well George, you saw it" and GN denied it. This constant lying is getting utterly transparent. But I also had the feeling that  he was giving Tommy a very evil eye because Tommy did not pursue it.

In short, I do sense that GN is actually getting worse, something I'd not believed possible. The interrupting, the cutting off of guests and callers, the failure to track any more than two sentences in a row, the inability to read on the air, the Tourette's-like outbursts, the all-'round bitchiness...it just seems like he's starting to truly crack.

I used to wonder if he read CoastGab and decided that no, he doesn't, or he'd either address at least ONE of the things we've said or we'd see him trying to improve. I know that if I were GN, and if I read these boards, I'd quit the job immediately.

I think his off-air time is spent almost entirely trying to catch up with the innumerable UFO/paranormal conferences and "networking." His closest friend is Tommy...at least every other night GN mentions that they had dinner together at some restaurant. (That Tommy apparently has no personal life bothers me less because he seems, on the whole, like a fairly centered guy. Just my take.)

One thing does seem certain: GN feels completely secure in his position as "captain" of Coast To Coast AM. Likely the higher-ups have given him this impression and unfortunately, they probably mean it.

Short of a massive meltdown on air, complete with swearing and screaming, George has a job. And while he might take a little mental health vacation here shortly, I think he'll still be in that chair a year from now, and a year from that.

God it's depressing.

[EnterDragon]

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.

Oh my, I thought George was so rude with that caller! I mean, I understand it's his job to make sure the calls are of a certain quality but why did he seem to get so agitated? I just listened to the most recent Art Bell Somewhere In Time podcast and Art encountered a similar situation. A caller had his radio on during the call and Art seemed to get a bit impatient. He informed the caller that he should lower the radio but he caller did not. Instead of just dropping the call, Art warned him again and reluctantly said he would have to drop the line. Although he seemed a bit irritated by it, he still showed more respect for the caller. If anyone here is a Coast insider, check it out, it occurred during the first hour during the most recent Somewhere In Time show.