George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[Major Ed Damien]

George gets cause and effect mixed up, e.g. he might say "I put jelly on my peanut butter jelly sandwich."

My god, I was having a peanut butter and jelly sandwich when I read this.

[zeebo]

... he only does it to humor the audience.

This is totally the vibe I've gotten for years.  He just holds his nose and patronizes the guests and the audience to keep those checks a-comin'.

[21st Century Man]

A star with cloven hooves. Sounds like she is talking about Beyoncé.

[MTB]

He mentioned selling shoes because the guest mentioned feet? I hope no guest ever mentions penises.

[zeebo]

God we really need a "Dark Matter Radio rules the night!" right now.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

George says he used to sell shoes to put himself through college.  His grandfather was a shoemaker.  His father probably got him a job in the family business.  No wonder they were pissed when he lied to them and secretly went into communications.

[zeebo]

He mentioned selling shoes because the guest mentioned feet? I hope no guest ever mentions penises.

The doofus just asked the guest what her favorite part of her own book was.  What a friggin lazy ass. 

[21st Century Man]

She brings up that she was involved in exorcism and George just says lets take another caller.  No followup question at all.  You suck, George.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

That's another classic for the books.

[nooryisawesome]

paraphrasing ...

Noory:  Bats are weird.
Guest: Um.
Noory:  Ever been out to Austin?  There's a bridge out there with a ton of bats. 
Guest:  Well I think I've heard of ...
Noory:  Yeah they come flying out from there, you definitely don't want to be under them.
Guest:  <awkward silence>
Noory:  We'll be back ....

The bat cruise is the best way to see them.
http://www.capitalcruises.com/bat-watching/

[Major Ed Damien]

George sold shoes to pay for foot fetish therapy.

No, it doesn't make any sense.

"So what's your favorite part of your book?"

Translation:  "I haven't read a word of any of this shit." 

"It's a book, after all.  If me = vampire, then book = crucifix."

[21st Century Man]

George sold shoes to pay for foot fetish therapy.

I had a foot fetish until I saw this.  That's all the therapy I needed.

[Major Ed Damien]

That was one of the most amazing shows yet.

Thank you, George Noory!

You made "Mystery Science Theater" sound like a public service announcement for the Fair Housing Act.

[area51drone]

I had a foot fetish until I saw this.  That's all the therapy I needed.

Real life THING?

[Major Ed Damien]

From "Banno, the frontman for the group U2," to George hypothetically finding a cloven hoof inside a shoe, this shoe . . . . er, "show," could not have been more entertaining.

[21st Century Man]

Real life THING?

That's what I thought too when I saw those feet.  Especially looks like The Thing from the early issues of the FF.

[Major Ed Damien]

I'm just glad George is the host of "Coast-to-Coast AM" and doesn't do anything important like practice medicine or fly for the airlines -- any job where somebody could get seriously hurt or killed by his stalwart incompetence.

But I do wonder how quickly these calls from driving truckers would disappear after a big-rig collision captured live.  They'll sure need the delay button for that instant horrifying carnage.

It'd be the only thing that could make Tommy drop his doughnut -- a screaming trucker whose admonishment to the rest of us about the Book of Revelations just got interrupted.

Well, maybe Tommy wouldn't quite drop the doughnut but just mash it with his fat fingers as he caught it.

[nooryisawesome]

FYI Sirius on free until December.

[wr250]

I just noticed this thread is stickied again.

like lifting the lid only to find a floater.

[WildCard]

paraphrasing ...

Noory:  Bats are weird.
Guest: Um.
Noory:  Ever been out to Austin?  There's a bridge out there with a ton of bats. 
Guest:  Well I think I've heard of ...
Noory:  Yeah they come flying out from there, you definitely don't want to be under them.
Guest:  <awkward silence>
Noory:  We'll be back ....

Bats ARE weird.

I was at some cave in some State park at sunset, right before the bats flew out.
Anyway, some cruel bastard thought it would be funny to give the Park Ranger with the cleft palate the mike and have him tell the tourists about "bas".
Everybody did their best not to laugh. I had to get up and walk away.

My point is GNS.

[VtaGeezer]

From "Banno, the frontman for the group U2," to George hypothetically finding a cloven hoof inside a shoe, this shoe . . . . er, "show," could not have been more entertaining.

I heard this and, not being familiar with all the U2 members, didn't have clue who he was talking about until this morning's new, which thankfully has people who can both read and are somewhat familiar with current culture.  Has to go down as the worst gaff ever from the dope.

[laserjock]

One of my favorite George Noory greetings is:

"Ralph in Bismarck, North Carolina . . . you're on Coast-to-Coast AM."

George may not always get the hard sciences right, but he nails geography.

I know, right?  Next time he'll say Detroit, Oklahoma...

[albrecht]

So went to WND to see how the more far-right types are dealing with Obama's planned proclamation announcement tonight for amnesty for criminals. Interestingly, they had a promo for "G.Norry" banner:
http://www.wnd.com/2014/11/pilot-disappears-after-confronting-strange-lights/
I don't know what, if any, WND relationship has with CC but it appears that they are promoting Norry's beyondbleef "tv show" (internet only but you can have, like "lots of others" "watch parties" on your "flat-screen." And explains why Jerome Corsi is now the in-house expert on everything and C2C's shift into more political topics?
-GNS

[laserjock]

You know what I'm thinking:  IF the show takes a hard right turn into politics or even current events Noory is gonna have an even worse time with it, and it COULD spell his demise.  Thought, even IF they fired him, they'd just replace him with a turd like Lisa Garr.  It's now been 3 weeks with no C2C except an hour of the Church turd show.  Yeah, I'm listening to PRN network now, and sure, some of the content is from real moonbats, but there ARE some gems on the network.  I don't have streamlink so I can't listen, and I refuse to waste my usenet block account for these crap shows, so sadly I don't have much to contribute to the story every night here, but I will say this:  You guys are all smarter and more entertaining than Noory ever was.

[albrecht]

You know what I'm thinking:  IF the show takes a hard right turn into politics or even current events Noory is gonna have an even worse time with it, and it COULD spell his demise.  Thought, even IF they fired him, they'd just replace him with a turd like Lisa Garr.  It's now been 3 weeks with no C2C except an hour of the Church turd show.  Yeah, I'm listening to PRN network now, and sure, some of the content is from real moonbats, but there ARE some gems on the network.  I don't have streamlink so I can't listen, and I refuse to waste my usenet block account for these crap shows, so sadly I don't have much to contribute to the story every night here, but I will say this:  You guys are all smarter and more entertaining than Noory ever was.

Not that I would suggest it but there are ways (youtube, torrents, etc) to listen to C2C if one desires. Often these have the commercials edited out. So you can enjoy the suck but not make the overlords at CC any ad revenue or help their sinking arbitron ratings.
-GNS

[laserjock]

I didn't know there was a consistent torrent supplier.  I know that, on Usenet, at least there used to be every show (up to the rentention level of whatever provider you used).  I'm on a severely tight budget so I'm not going to waste my block usenet account on Noory.  I'll look around for torrents, sadly, the Digital Copyright Act has forced the shut down of a lot of the good torrent sites.

[albrecht]

I didn't know there was a consistent torrent supplier.  I know that, on Usenet, at least there used to be every show (up to the rentention level of whatever provider you used).  I'm on a severely tight budget so I'm not going to waste my block usenet account on Noory.  I'll look around for torrents, sadly, the Digital Copyright Act has forced the shut down of a lot of the good torrent sites.

There is a person on tpb who still is posting show torrents (or so I've seen.) I'm not suggesting anything, of course. I haven't messed with newsgroups for a decade or more, so no idea what is available there or how they work anymore.
-GNS

[ComeBackArt]

Photo of the current vampire expert guest.

I think she actually looks a lot like you, Morgus. Long lost sister, perhaps? Separated at birth...





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[coaster]

She looks like a caricature of a human. Prolly a reptilian..

[pyewacket]

You know what I'm thinking:  IF the show takes a hard right turn into politics or even current events Noory is gonna have an even worse time with it, and it COULD spell his demise. 

I remember George stating that he could be considered an expert on the middle east because his father was Lebanese and that he regularly heard conversations at a barber shop where the old men talked about the old country. I know that others here have mentioned this as well.

Does her really think this qualifies him? I don't know about your stations, but for a while, they were playing clips of George musing about current events during the daytime shows. The clips were totally vapid- "sumthin's happenin"! I think they were supposed to make him sound worldy and knowledgeable but fell way, way, short of the mark. I'd always giggle when I heard them.

Does he think he's on the same level as Christiane Amapour? She's just the first journalist I thought of when he made the comment above.

Let's see her qualifications:

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/christiane-amanpour-biography-anchor-week-christiane-amanpour/story?id=11208824#.T2jWRSuXR_c

Christiane Amanpour is the global affairs anchor for ABC News, providing international analysis of important issues of the day for ABC News programs and platforms, and anchoring primetime documentaries on international subjects, as well as host of "Amanpour" and chief international correspondent for CNN International. Previously, Amanpour anchored ABC's Sunday morning political affairs program, "This Week," from August 2010 to December 2011.
Her illustrious career in journalism spans three decades. When she became an international correspondent for CNN in 1990, her first major assignment was covering the Gulf War. She has since reported from the world's major hotspots, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Somalia, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Asia, Rwanda, the Balkans, and the U.S. during Hurricane Katrina. She has interviewed most of the top world leaders over the past two decades, including securing the only interview with Hosni Mubarak and an exclusive with Muammar Ghadafi during the Arab Spring.
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Amanpour has received every major broadcast award, including an inaugural Television Academy Award, nine News and Documentary Emmys, four George Foster Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards, the Courage in Journalism Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award and nine honorary degrees. In 2011, Amanpour received a Giants in Broadcasting award and was the 2011 recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from Arizona State University. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a commander of the most excellent order of the British empire and a honorary citizen of Sarajevo.
Amanpour was born in London and spent part of her childhood in Tehran, Iran. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island with a B.A. in journalism.

Now George:
Noory was born in Detroit to an Egyptian-born father and his American-born wife. Noory grew up in Dearborn Heights with two younger sisters as Roman Catholics of Lebanese descent.[1] He graduated from the University of Detroit in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in Communications, and began his radio career as a newscaster for Detroit station WCAR-AM. He would later move into Detroit television and take a position as an assignment desk editor and news producer at then-CBS affiliate WJBK-TV.[2] Noory would later serve as news director for KMSP-TV in Minneapolis,[3] and later as news director at KSDK-TV in St. Louis. He would win a total of three local Emmy Awards for his work in TV news.[2] He also served 9 years as an officer in the United States Naval Reserve.[1] In 1996 he hosted a late-night program called Nighthawk, over KTRS in St. Louis,[1] which caught the attention of executives at Premiere Radio Networks, syndicators of Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell. Noory would serve as a substitute host for Bell.
In January 2003, following Art Bell's retirement, Noory took over as the permanent weeknight host of Coast to Coast AM.[1]


Edited to add: Plus anything said on a political show can be scrutinized and challenged. People can check sources quoted, etc. You can't just skate by on airy fairy claims and ask the same questions of every guest.