George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[MABUSE]

Oral Roberts Prayer Tower
...The Prayer Tower also rewards the faithful with a startling vision -- the Journey of Faith sound-and-light extravaganza.

Couple of questions:
is the line for this SHORTER than the line for Pirates of the Caribbean?  How many E-tickets?  Will my nephews & nieces like it, cuz, MAN! we've been standing here for like 2 hours and it seems like the line is just NOT moving at all!

**M**

[EvB]

Couple of questions:
is the line for this SHORTER than the line for Pirates of the Caribbean?  How many E-tickets?  Will my nephews & nieces like it, cuz, MAN! we've been standing here for like 2 hours and it seems like the line is just NOT moving at all!

**M**

1) The line keeps growing and never gets any shorter cuz the people who were running the show have been raptured. 

2) It's free - but for a limited time and you're too late.

3) The kids are gonna hate it cuz when they figure out what's going on, there is that whole wailing, rending of garments and gnashing of teeth thing.

[Curtis Loew]

Oral Roberts Prayer Tower
Tulsa, Oklahoma The Oral Roberts Prayer Tower in Tulsa is a powerful magnet for those seeking spiritual shock therapy -- or fundamentalist fun. This "20th Century Cross", with a stylized crown of thorns and an outer skeleton of plastic PVC pipes (you can still see the printed specs scrawled on them), offers visitors a heavenly view of Oral Roberts University. A recording of Oral's son Richard in the observation deck reveals its construction philosophy: "No second-class buildings for God." One highlight of the deck is the door to Oral's special prayer room. Visitors are asked to submit prayer requests (the envelopes are paper-money-size) and told how Oral scatters them, hundreds at a time, across the carpeting and furniture. When he waves his arms over the envelopes, the Prayer Tower's elevation combines with Oral's direct line to God to help get those prayers answered. The Prayer Tower also rewards the faithful with a startling vision -- the Journey of Faith sound-and-light extravaganza.

Thanks,  what an awesome spectacle that must have been.   

[valdez]

     Back in July Ian did a show about how the Shroud of Turin was a hoax perpetrated on Christiandom by none other than Leonardo da Vinci using some sort of crude photographic technology, and the image on the shroud was actually his own.  Tonight's guest, Barrie Schortz, was having none of that, and believes that the cloth is the genuine article worn by Christ.   
     Among the poignant questions posed by George were:
     "If they found Noah's Ark, and they proved the shroud to be real, wouldn't that mean that the Bible was based on fact?"
     And, "What if Jesus was actually an alien, and after he died he was beamed back aboard  his space ship, and he was fixed up, and then they beamed him back down again?"
     And what if somebody in that studio had the nerve to tell him how much he sucked?  Oh well, Art is on tomorrow.  Joy.
     

[mikemcc]

         Among the poignant questions posed by George were:
     "If they found Noah's Ark, and they proved the shroud to be real, wouldn't that mean that the Bible was based on fact?"
     And, "What if Jesus was actually an alien, and after he died he was beamed back aboard  his space ship, and he was fixed up, and then they beamed him back down again?"
       

OMG, if your message referred to ANY other radio host, people would think you were exaggerating for effect. But we know GN's interviewing skills so we know you are giving us an accurate picture.

Wait -- did I actually write the words, "GN's interviewing skills"? We all know those words don't actually belong together...

[EvB]

Okay - I think I have it figured out.  The want to sell more and more scamarama crap on the sight - therefore - GN being a dumb-ass - and therefore attracting a dumber audience - will give them higher revenues!

Right?

Well hell-  there has got to be SOME excuse for this abortion of a show.

[Marc.Knight]

Okay - I think I have it figured out.  The want to sell more and more scamarama crap on the sight - therefore - GN being a dumb-ass - and therefore attracting a dumber audience - will give them higher revenues!

Right?

Well hell-  there has got to be SOME excuse for this abortion of a show.

Cool word.

[Marc.Knight]

Normal brain scan:



George Noory brain scan:

[MABUSE]

Okay - I think I have it figured out.  The want to sell more and more scamarama crap on the sight - therefore - GN being a dumb-ass - and therefore attracting a dumber audience - will give them higher revenues!

Right?

Well hell-  there has got to be SOME excuse for this abortion of a show.

The profundity of your observation is so intense it clouds my rational thought:  Were you talking exclusively about C2C or was that a more general comment on American Life in toto? (I'll smack the first person who says "We're not in Kansas anymore...")
**M**

[11angeleyes11]

Las

The profundity of your observation is so intense it clouds my rational thought:  Were you talking exclusively about C2C or was that a more general comment on American Life in toto? (I'll smack the first person who says "We're not in Kansas anymore...")
**M**

We're not in Kansas anymore, but. . . Coast! And this is my C. Crane radio-- and you're all here! Hoagland, Corsi, Linda, and all of the rest. And I'm not going to leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all! And -- Oh, Coast-- there's no place like home!

[MABUSE]

Las
We're not in Kansas anymore, but. . . Coast! And this is my C. Crane radio-- and you're all here! Hoagland, Corsi, Linda, and all of the rest. And I'm not going to leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all! And -- Oh, Coast-- there's no place like home!

Ok, I DID warn you, didn't I?
**M**
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

[EvB]

LOTS of great lines in that film - "You gonna do somethin' or just stand there and bleed?" is one of my favorites.

[MV/Liberace!]

Normal brain scan:



George Noory brain scan:

HAAAAAhahaha.  classic.

[Curtis Loew]

  What will GN do or say next?  How bad can it really get???  How slurred and discombobulated can one of GN's sentences be?  How horrible can an interview get? 

I always had the feeling that he's drunk while  on  air.

[valdez]

     Discussing the passage of time, and his own mortality, Art seems to find some comfort in what he considers the most "convincing" of all the ghost investigative genres: EVP.  Yet you can hear a slight horror in his voice as he comments on how these "ghost" sound so sad, or tormented, or tortured, except for one who seems to be spending eternity singing polish Christmas songs.  Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath do a good job at creeping me out, but they shouldn't be so quick to tell me what I'm suppose to be hearing.
     Speaking of tormented voices, wasn't that George during the commercials selling everything from Sleep Number Beds to Snuggies?  Shame on you,  George.  Shame on you.

[Marc.Knight]

     
     Speaking of tormented voices, wasn't that George during the commercials selling everything from Sleep Number Beds to Snuggies?  Shame on you,  George.  Shame on you.

[MV/Liberace!]

I always had the feeling that he's drunk while  on  air.

i always felt like it was probably more of a pill thing.

[Marc.Knight]

i always felt like it was probably more of a pill thing.

Yes, but which one?

[MV/Liberace!]

Yes, but which one?

let me get out the medical journal and look for the section on "pills that make you sound as though you're having a stroke and pulmonary embolism simultaneously."

i'll get back to you with specifics.

[Zaqir]

I just heard the commercial he does for the emergency food products I think it was, I was not paying attention because it was George's voice but something hit me like a freight train!

GEORGE DOES IT AGAIN!

He said "Will the global warming hoax change how we get our food"

I am not sure what to think about this, if its a damn hoax it won't change a damn thing. If global warming is real then its not a hoax.

[Mops]

I just heard the commercial he does for the emergency food products I think it was, I was not paying attention because it was George's voice but something hit me like a freight train!

GEORGE DOES IT AGAIN!

He said "Will the global warming hoax change how we get our food"

I am not sure what to think about this, if its a damn hoax it won't change a damn thing. If global warming is real then its not a hoax.

Couldn't have said it better.  George Speak has a troubled history with facts and logic.

First they came for the farm implements and I said nothing because I was not a farmer.
Then they came for the rain and I said nothing because I was not a rainmaker.
Then they came for the soil and I said nothing because it wasn't mine to give.
Then they came for the sunshine and I said nothing because I was becoming confused.
Then they came to sell me seed and I said nothing because there are several supermarkets in the neighborhood.

[MV/Liberace!]

holy shit zaqir... i haven't seen you around here in FOREVER.  how you doing?  you registerd here the day after this site originally started.  wow.  i hope more people like you come back here.

and this thread is dead-on.

[MV/Liberace!]

First they came for the farm implements and I said nothing because I was not a farmer.
Then they came for the rain and I said nothing because I was not a rainmaker.
Then they came for the soil and I said nothing because it wasn't mine to give.
Then they came for the sunshine and I said nothing because I was becoming confused.
Then they came to sell me seed and I said nothing because there are several supermarkets in the neighborhood.

HAHAHAHA

[Zaqir]

Hey MV,
Ya I have had a rough year, Lost my job the first day of june and my schedule has been a bit bleh trying to find a job and everything (Although good things might be happening on that front tomorrow)

The fact of the matter is I try to avoid Coast to Coast am on the radio as much as I can. Everytime I hear George I go nuts.

Art made c2c the premier long form interview show out there.

Now all I hear are pre recorded mini interviews in the first hour, HORRIBLE attempts at long form interviews by a guy with the intelligence of loose diareah, or to cover it up he will do his "Panel" interviews where he will have 4 guests and ask them the same questions over and over as he goes through each one.

Then there are the callers, no only are they the most pre screened bunch of sheep I have ever heard, George can't even keep up with them.

Even if Art had a bad caller he found a way to make it interesting, George has NO CLUE.

I only try to listen to IP or Knapp. IP is ok as the weekend guy but I feel he lacks the mystery and unpredictability to make the show fun.

Knapp is generally good and I wish to high heaven he was the main guy as I think he just doesn't phone the show in like Snoory.

That Richard Sarett guy I have heard once or twice before being up here in Canada and I could have sworn I caught him doing a show while visitting my relatives in toronto. He really ups the mystery, conspiracy vibe, maybe a bit too much.


Either way, I am pretty sure I could fart for 3 hours on the toilet and do a better show then George.

[Marc.Knight]

the intelligence of loose diareah

Perfect encapsulation of Noory's mental capabilities.

[valdez]

     A decent show on Saturday with Ian and that old coot raconteur Jim Marrs taking about Nazis and secret societies and all that other good stuff.  My eye balls rolled to the back of my head when I realized George Knapp was going to do a show on the most boring of all c2c subjects: Chemtrails.  Thankfully it seemed Knapp was just as skeptical as I am about the whole thing and that made the show tolerable.
     Every time George does a show on straight science he gets around to asking about the Big Bang.  Tonight David Sereda explained it to him, about singularities, and the concept of no time, and no space, and it was long and complicated, and when he was done George went "west of the Rockies" without any follow up questions and I am pretty damn sure he did not understand anything he was told and he always does that, and I think what's important to him is that he ask the question in his most serious radio voice and he doesn't give a crap what the answer is.
     The year is not quite over, but tonight I might have heard the Open Lines Caller of the Year:
     "Yeah.  Hey.  How are you?  Yeah, I was just calling about the Aztecs, you know, because I don't understand why we care about their opinions, because they killed each other for sacrafices, and they were so brutal, running around naked, and also cannibals, so why do we spend so much time worrying about what they thought about 2012?"
     No shit.
     

[mikemcc]

    Tonight David Sereda explained it to him, about singularities, and the concept of no time, and no space, and it was long and complicated, and when he was done George went "west of the Rockies" without any follow up questions and I am pretty damn sure he did not understand anything he was told and he always does that, and I think what's important to him is that he ask the question in his most serious radio voice and he doesn't give a crap what the answer is.
       

Yes, GN has a terrible habit of doing that, doesn't he? This, for me, is the biggest knock against him as an interviewer. Here's another example from a show he did with Jim Marrs back in, oh, maybe June or July:

Marrs was talking about Nazis, Operation Paper Clip, and various other things. During the last hour of the show a caller asked a question that led Jim into a discussion of why Germany opened an Eastern front with Russia -- believed by many to be the primary reason that Germany eventually lost the war. Marrs startled me when he revealed that Germany was actually making a PREEMPTIVE attack -- that Russia had massed over 200,000 men on the border along with thousands of tanks in preparation to attack Germany.

Now, those of you who have an interest in WWII know that is completely counter to the received wisdom about why Germany attacked Russia. It is essentially a revision of history, and a quite important revision at that. I was incredibly interested and thought Marrs was going to provide a bit of detail. When he introduced this topic, he followed by saying something to George like, "Now that's pretty interesting, isn't it?" George's response was, "Sure is! East of the Rockies, go ahead." I sat there, nearly stunned that George could just gloss over this important information from Marrs.

Anyone who has any knowledge about WWII, coupled with a modicum of curiosity, would want to know more. I absolutely understand that George has to get to callers during that final hour, but geeesh, this has to be one of the most important revelations ever made on C2C -- it warranted at least some discussion. Art would have jumped all over this... George did nothing but show his own ignorance and reinforce the idea that he is just a horrible interviewer. I have since learned much more about this issue by doing my own research but it would have been great to hear a bit more from Marrs. 

[Zaqir]

You don't even need knowledge of a subject to know how to follow up or pursue a topic. If George even bothered listening to his guests he would be able to follow up with perfectly rational questions or topics, to a degree that even asking him to elaborate would be fine.

George doesn't do ANY of that, for we know George is drawing with crayola crayons while a guest is speaking.

That was Art's strength, if he didn't know something he tried to know something, he cared to understand a topic not only for himself but for the listeners and those questions made it a good interview. George is the master of dropping the axe down on a topic and will either cut it off entirely or because of his ignorance will rehash a point made in a previous statement just because he was too much of a fool to catch on to it earlier.

[MABUSE]

First they came for the farm implements and I said nothing because I was not a farmer.
Then they came for the rain and I said nothing because I was not a rainmaker.
Then they came for the soil and I said nothing because it wasn't mine to give.
Then they came for the sunshine and I said nothing because I was becoming confused.
Then they came to sell me seed and I said nothing because there are several supermarkets in the neighborhood.

I plotzed...I totally, absolutely plotzed...I plotzed so hard I almost kacked.

**M**

[11angeleyes11]

     A decent show on Saturday with Ian and that old coot raconteur Jim Marrs taking about Nazis and secret societies and all that other good stuff.  My eye balls rolled to the back of my head when I realized George Knapp was going to do a show on the most boring of all c2c subjects: Chemtrails.  Thankfully it seemed Knapp was just as skeptical as I am about the whole thing and that made the show tolerable.
     Every time George does a show on straight science he gets around to asking about the Big Bang.  Tonight David Sereda explained it to him, about singularities, and the concept of no time, and no space, and it was long and complicated, and when he was done George went "west of the Rockies" without any follow up questions and I am pretty damn sure he did not understand anything he was told and he always does that, and I think what's important to him is that he ask the question in his most serious radio voice and he doesn't give a crap what the answer is.
     The year is not quite over, but tonight I might have heard the Open Lines Caller of the Year:
     "Yeah.  Hey.  How are you?  Yeah, I was just calling about the Aztecs, you know, because I don't understand why we care about their opinions, because they killed each other for sacrafices, and they were so brutal, running around naked, and also cannibals, so why do we spend so much time worrying about what they thought about 2012?"
     No shit.
   

That caller sounds like a recent guest and at the moment I do not recall who, but of course George asked him about 2012.  He came back at him with the comment something like the Maya would throw their dead into their drinking water wells, and then drink the water.  If they do that why should we care or be concerned about their calendars.

I think that gave a new perspective to the issue of 2012.