George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[valdez]

     When I heard psycho lefty Craig B. Hulet say that "Iraq and Afghanistan were better of with Saddam Hussein and the Taliban," I figured I'd be posting about his sorry ass, then Richard C. Hoagland called in from his 2012 Cruise thing and George told him to be careful because of some earthquake that had hit japan and a tsunami that was coming.  Richard said that the best place to be was on a ship at sea with lots of booze and women.  Then George takes a moment to make fun of the may 21 cult again.  Then he has on some English lady, speaking softly, on a bad connection, and I can't hear a thing she's saying.  Then George says he looking at the t.v. and japan just got hit by the tsunami and he'd "never seen anything like it" in all his years in broadcasting.  He ditches the English lady and goes into Tsunami/open lines. "That's what we're here for."  Hawaii gets hit at 3am local (about 8am eastern).
 

[Mops]

Ha Ha!  The Nooron stated on Thursday night that he is now on the mailing list of the group that says the world will end on May 21, 2011.  He wanted them to come on the show March 23, 2011 but they refused saying they would no longer be here.  Georgie did get a brochure from them though via the postal service requesting a donation from him if he wants to join "the family."  I hope Mr. Doom & Gloom gets caught in his own web this time.  Hopefully that group will send various members to knock on his door and try to convert him to their view of things.  That would be justice served IMO.

On May 20, one day before the "rapture," I plan on taking some of my unwanted clothes (a pair of old shoes, socks, belt, etc.) and leave them in a pile in the parking lot of a whacko church.  With the help of my kid (and her expertise in current communications technology) I am hoping to turn this local stunt into a national event designed to make these doomsdayers think the rapture came a day earlier than expected and they were left behind.

Please feel free to play along and spread the word.

[awguy]

The Nooron says it is a horse race and he and Limbaugh are coming into the stretch for first place. Well, in my mind the reprobate is not accounting for the huge number of listeners that tune in every night hoping that the show will once again have meaning, that listen just to hear him say something stupid or the ones that have faith that one day he will be replaced by someone with a eighth grade or higher intelligence.

This is all word play. Don't confuse number of affiliates with number of listeners. Coast may be gaining ground on Rush for affiliates. But c2c will never approach anything near daytime talk show numbers... mainly because 95% of people are sleeping.

I personally think the rating situation at c2c is dire right now. If you need any proof that ratings have declined from the Art Bell days, just look at the quality of the open line phone calls. The quality of open lines was better even just 5 years ago. They almost never do them now, and when they do, it's just painful to listen to.

[Marc.Knight]

This is all word play. Don't confuse number of affiliates with number of listeners. Coast may be gaining ground on Rush for affiliates. But c2c will never approach anything near daytime talk show numbers... mainly because 95% of people are sleeping.

I personally think the rating situation at c2c is dire right now. If you need any proof that ratings have declined from the Art Bell days, just look at the quality of the open line phone calls. The quality of open lines was better even just 5 years ago. They almost never do them now, and when they do, it's just painful to listen to.

There HAS to be some dissension within the ranks at C2C.  It is only a matter of time before someone of some prominence finally cracks and lets the world know what a buffoon Noory truly is, and how he has single-handedly destroyed the show.

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

Get ready for a night of "SOMETHING IS HAPPENING, YOU CAN FEEL IT" bullshit from George, like this is the first earthquake in the history of the world.

[g1rock]

It's hard to believe he is a college graduate, ....It's like he's to busy emailing on his computer to listen to the guests..Sometimes the guest will go over a topic thoroughly only to have George Snore'y ask a question that was just gone over......The guest must be thinking W.T.F.?.......I want Art Bell back! or John B. Wells a close second.....or George Knapp......

[Bart]

There HAS to be some dissension within the ranks at C2C.  It is only a matter of time before someone of some prominence finally cracks and lets the world know what a buffoon Noory truly is, and how he has single-handedly destroyed the show.

Can someone somewhere dig out the truth about exactly how many weeks or months George actually held a job BEHIND A MIKE before c2c?  "41 years as a broadcaster" sounds again like another whopper.

[b_dubb]

He ditches the English lady and goes into Tsunami/open lines. "That's what we're here for."  Hawaii gets hit at 3am local (about 8am eastern).

i hate George Noory.  i know it's bad for my karma to say that but i really do.  people who use the misfortune of others for personal gain are shit

[Eddie Coyle]

One disaster(Noory) deserves another...

[Scully]

Hello, Scully!

There's no way to determine *exactly* how many people are listening ,but there are several ways of getting a good estimate.

I'm sure you've heard of Nielson ratings for television. They have these for radio, as well. The company is called  Arbitron. I believe the way these work is, listeners are asked to log their radio time for a week and write down which stations they listened to. Then, they submit the journal back to Arbitron, who compiles the data. This is performed in a way to try to get a accurate indication of demographics, etc.

The next way which they measure the number of people listening is unique to radio, I think. They look at how many people call the program and on which station. This is why whenever you call nationally syndicated show, they will ask the call letters of the station you hear the show on. By matching with the Arbitron ratings mentioned about, they can estimate that one caller is equivalent to 100 or 5000 or 100,000 or however many listeners.

Finally, there are newer ways to measure -- A lot of people listen over the internet. It's very easy to count how many people are listening to a internet stream. Also, Arbitron has made a special device which will automatically record the station a listener is tuned to.

Thank you, Digitech, for your kind help.  Now, though, I'm frustrated to find out that in this high-tech world where everything seems to be pulled out of a magic hat, the radio and tv people are still in the horse and buggy days. Even the fairly new "special device" is only a true indicator if all the demographics of whom to loan it to have been carefully chosen. 

Many years ago my household was selected by Neilson to keep a diary of all our t.v.'s for a couple of weeks.  We had 3 t.v.'s and 4 people, and keeping accurate records was such a chore that when they called to do the same thing a couple of years ago, I just told them I was too busy.  As for Arbitron, I've heard of it, but wasn't sure what it was.

Since the C2C drama has been playing out, I've wondered many times how close to the ball park they can come these days in gauging who's listening.  My hope was that they used something like the "pings" from cell phone towers that I hear so much about in true crime stories.

My, my, it seems to me that ol' George sure does have the loaded dice on his side.  Not only are they still working with old-fashioned tracking methods, but he has also (judging by the callers he gets) no doubt attracted so many "low-information" people to his version of C2C that he can claim plenty of loyal listeners.

And then too, as Robey says, there are those of us who are addicts and keep tuning in hoping for the miracle of change for the better.  DAMN! 

[robey1129]

This is all word play. Don't confuse number of affiliates with number of listeners. Coast may be gaining ground on Rush for affiliates. But c2c will never approach anything near daytime talk show numbers... mainly because 95% of people are sleeping.

I personally think the rating situation at c2c is dire right now. If you need any proof that ratings have declined from the Art Bell days, just look at the quality of the open line phone calls. The quality of open lines was better even just 5 years ago. They almost never do them now, and when they do, it's just painful to listen to.

My bad....the way I understood things, C2C was now part of a package deal that Premier was offering, meaning---If a radio station takes Limbaugh, they automatically get the Nooron at night.

[robey1129]

And....judging from last night's show, the world could be coming to an end and the Nooron would still be taking calls on the "I pissed my pants in grade school" hotline.

[Mops]

George is leaving a time capsule to be opened in the year One Trillion A.D.  His message reads:  "I told you so."

[misssirveaux]

I haven't been here very long, so I don't know if anyone's ever mentioned this, but it hit me today that the future was foretold in 1989 when the writers of Ghostbusters II had visions of George Noory circa 2011 and wrote this scene:

Bill Murray - World of the Psychic - Big Lizard Aliens

The whole thing reminds me so much of Noory.  The phony "I care" voice, the thoughtless responses,  the hairstyle, the style of clothing, the spaced out guests (callers), the set that's trying way too hard to be "weird" and "paranormal", and even the end of the scene: "Where do you find these people?"  Something tells me that the real George says that every night before he heads out with Tommy to look for twenty-two-year-olds.  All this scene needs is a few mispronounced words and some name-dropping.

I'm listening to the show tonight.  Like Scully said of herself, I still listen to the show frequently, even though I get very frustrated and disappointed with it.  Tonight there are probably listeners playing drinking games based on how many time George mentions 2012, earthquakes, or the end of the world.

[misssirveaux]

So, the infamous JC is a Facebook friend of mine - that is, whoever it is that plays JC the character.  Here is his most recent Facebook post, regarding his call to Noory tonight:  "JC WAS JUST OBN COAST TO COAST AM AND JC CHASTIZED NOORY FOR SEX TALKING HIS FEMALE CALLERS !!! JC !!  YES GEORGE IS ALL ABOUT PROFIT, MONEY ESEX AND POWER !! HIS FANGS DRIP WITH IT !! THAT GIGGLING SEXCAPADE OF A CAVALCADE OF ROLE PLAYING ON THE RADIO PLAYING " BILL COLLETCOR "  DISGUTIPATING !! " 

Oh, yeah.

[rangers1919]

And....judging from last night's show, the world could be coming to an end and the Nooron would still be taking calls on the "I pissed my pants in grade school" hotline.

The horrible calls are probably due to the horrible host and fewer intelligent (IMO) listeners listening for any amount of time. I do have to wonder if there is any chance that they are paying callers to just say stupid stereotypical things. Premiere Radio Networks & Clear Channel Communications have already been revealed as paying people to call their shows, I can't imagine that they wouldn't test these people out in the middle of the night on a show where a bad caller, or crazy caller is hardly noticed.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Limbaugh-Hannity-Parent-Co-by-Gustav-Wynn-110305-942.html

[Silent]

...DISGUTIPATING !! " 

This is just further proof that JC is a fake.  That word, to my knowledge and reinforced by some google searches, is completely made up by the band Tool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgustipated

If JC were for real he'd call Tool the mouthpiece of the devil or some horseshit and would never associate himself with them.

Editing this post here to add a further connection that I took for granted as common knowledge, just in case it's not.  On the band's album Lateralus they used a clip of the famous frantic Area 51 caller that Art Bell had in the final track, Faaip de Oiad, to great effect.  The result is eerie and strange.  I'm sure the people who run CTC (of which JC is part of in my opinion) are well aware of this and possibly are fans of their music.  There's certainly many listeners aware of this song at least.  This all sounds a bit too conspiritorial for my tastes but I doubt many of you need convincing that JC is fake.  My point is only that Tool and CTC have a pre-existing connection that can explain the use of Disgustipated.

On a side note, the fact this clip was used is a testiment to the greatness of the old Art Bell show.  It's very out of character for Tool to use clips or samples of anything not of their own creation.  In fact I can't think of a single other example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralus#Track_listing

Edit number 3 here!  I need to work on finishing thoughts before posting.  I wanted to comment on that specific Area 51 caller.  This was the situation where some guy called up Art in a total panic trying to explain what was going on at Area 51 with some impending doom situation while worrying about government agents triangulating in on his position, or something to that effect.  The guy was cut off and Art's feed was knocked off the air for a half hour or so.  A few years later a guy called in and fessed up to making that call and it being a hoax.  Even if that is true the coincidence that Art was knocked off the air isn't explained.  No matter the reason for it all this single situation and caller summed up the greatness of Art Bell in the late 90's and proves how compelling a simple home-made radio show can be.

How ironic that, in my own mind at least, this was connected to JC.  JC these days to me is the antithesis of what CTC used to be.  He's so worn out and transparently false that it's not even fun anymore.

[ItsJustKK]

I hadn't listened to this show in months. It just got to the point that Snoory would make me so angry with his ridiculous comments and ramblings that I couldn't take it anymore. I could actually feel my blood pressure rise and I would find myself yelling at the radio. Well, I was unable to sleep last night, so I turned on C2C hoping it would lull me to sleep. It was open lines Friday. The first caller I heard was a guy who was telling the story of a friend of his walking into his bathroom and seeing an smoky apparition of a woman who just waved at him and vaporized. George's response? "I don't know. Maybe she was deaf." First of all, I'm sure the guy's point was the fact that she was there in the first place, not  that she waved at him. Also, I was not aware that waving was a hand gesture reserved only for the deaf. That was it, off went the radio and it won't be on C2C again until Snoory is history.

[aldousburbank]

Letter I wish somebody would read aloud to George:

Dear George,
You seem like a real nice guy.  I don't hate you, and I don't want to bum you out, but I can't stand to hear you on the radio, and neither can a good portion of C2C's former listening audience.  Let me try to explain.

You're just not good at hosting a national radio broadcast, or reading, or having an imaginative conversation with a guest.  You're not good at challenging horseshit (a vexation) or engaging in creative bullshit (an Art).  You're not good at listening or responding within context of the preceding discussion, except in a non-logical manner.  It's a little like watching a tennis match where the play cannot proceed past the 2nd volley.  It is not entertaining and it is not informative.

So please let somebody else take the wheel George, and you I'm sure, can get a fine gig hawking some company's health products or producing human interest stories for the E channel.  But don't try driving the big rigs when all you've got is the honking horn.  Ok?Again, please understand that I don't hate you, as that wouldn't be the Hopi Way, I just can't stand your buttsmelly show.  Thanks for understanding, and please let Tommy know that I really am nauseated by what he has done to the show as well.

Your friend,

Aldous

[Marc.Knight]

[EvB]

Letter I wish somebody would read aloud to George:


  It's a little like watching a tennis match where the play cannot proceed past the 2nd volley.

PERFECT description!  You have a way with simile.

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

The guy who said the Illuminati caused the earthquake is the epitome of the typical Snooron caller.

[Treading Water]

Oh yeah.  I knew I'd like it here. 
Aldous, I wish I had your way with words. 

[b_dubb]

The guy who said the Illuminati caused the earthquake is the epitome of the typical Snooron caller.

can't be proven / disproven.  and made without evidence.  this profile also applies to paranoid schizophrenics

[Marc.Knight]

[robey1129]

Maybe this is just wishful thinkin'...but I got the impression that the Nooron was actually hurtin' for callers on Friday night during open lines. I mean, right in the midst of the whole thing, his producer, Tom, came up with one of those lame, obviously fabricated, emails from a listener who wanted to know if George "really thought the world was going to come to an end". Of course, the Nooron never really answered the question. He spent the time ranting about the end of the world people not agreeing to come on the show, the day after May 21st. This came right after George "flirted" with the woman who had the "nice laugh". I wonder how much he pays out every month just for a little lovin'?

[Scully]

You are all so brilliant, and I've literally "laughed out loud" more since I found this site than I have in years.

Kudos to all of you and to Michael for both bringing you all together and also for cracking wise.  I'm still laughing about his exchange re conservatives and liberals both being welcome here. Someone jokingly accused him of selling out to the man, and he shot back with "Commie!"  Since I'm a leftie, that tickled my funnybone.  I've been called so much worse.  Mwahahahaha ...   

[Mops]

Maybe this is just wishful thinkin'...but I got the impression that the Nooron was actually hurtin' for callers on Friday night during open lines. I mean, right in the midst of the whole thing, his producer, Tom, came up with one of those lame, obviously fabricated, emails from a listener who wanted to know if George "really thought the world was going to come to an end". Of course, the Nooron never really answered the question. He spent the time ranting about the end of the world people not agreeing to come on the show, the day after May 21st. This came right after George "flirted" with the woman who had the "nice laugh". I wonder how much he pays out every month just for a little lovin'?

Those phone lines get quiet when the free Thunderbird runs out at the corner phone booth.

[aldousburbank]

I wanted to comment on that specific Area 51 caller.  This was the situation where some guy called up Art in a total panic trying to explain what was going on at Area 51 with some impending doom situation while worrying about government agents triangulating in on his position, or something to that effect.  The guy was cut off and Art's feed was knocked off the air for a half hour or so.  A few years later a guy called in and fessed up to making that call and it being a hoax.  Even if that is true the coincidence that Art was knocked off the air isn't explained.

Good point Silent!  Taken at face value, my thinking goes like this- If the original freaked out caller was for real, and possibly snuffed, perception management agents would have definitely followed this call up with a mock "confession" from a caller with a similar voice.  Note that the confession did not occur until sometime after the original call, and as of yet, unexplained specific signal outage on the satellite relay.  Art's handling of this outstanding live radio strangeness with his understated coolness and grace is exactly what separates broadcast morons from the uniquely gifted.

(Added info: Original call- Sept. 11, 1997, Confession call- April 28, 1998.  I happened to be listening live both times.)
One more update- I found this youtube audio with both calls (The second call apparently happened only a week after the first, and the guy does sound the same.  Still very weird.)  Art Bell Area 51 Caller

[aldousburbank]

Aldous, I wish I had your way with words. 

Thanks, now if I could get my kids to understand me...