George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[Dateline]

Yes, around the circuit, he is known in hushed circles as Mr. Paranormal EZ-PLEZE.

And for Frances accentuation, a la Toronto, Mr. Paranome' EZE'-PLEZEA'.

[ItsOver]

I do not understand the root cause of his habit of asking a question that was just answered, sometimes in excruciating detail. I doubt that even he can be that stupid. Some contribute his ineptitude in framing questions as to simply following his 3x5 cards. I doubt it is that simple.

I think he gets distracted by watching instant messages scroll by, checking the twitter feed and searching paranormaldate.com and doesn't realize what the guest had just discussed.

While that is painful, at least you get to hear the answer, albeit twice. What is more frustrating for me is when the guest goes on for 7 minutes telling an interesting story, and then "We have to take a break, but we will pick that up right here when we return...". 8 minutes later and the inevitable segue is "So tell me, how did you get involved in ..." and we are left in the dark as to whether or not the Big Bang was actually a portal for Angels carrying mean babies to another multiverse.

GNS

As the guest is talking, Jorch is no doubt do something else, a number of times.  Catching up on the GNS thread, playing Candy Crush, surfing the net, dreaming of turkee sammiches, or just plain napping.  Anything but putting some mental energy into the guest at hand.  It's then SOP for him to default to his 3x5's.  Jorch is not only pretty dim, he also seems to be quite lazy, unless it's something related to his own aggrandizement.

[zeebo]

...Catching up on the GNS thread, playing Candy Crush, surfing the net, dreaming of turkee sammiches, or just plain napping. ...

Oh you mean 'research'.   

[ItsOver]

Oh you mean 'research'.   

He he he.  The Jorch definition.  Part of his 8 hour show prep, which he does during the show.  4 hours of show time x 2, with his real-time show prep..  Jorch is a math wiz.

I'll give Jorch some credit.  He realizes most of his guests are scammers and frauds, so he just goes through the motions.  He does seem to perk-up a little, though, for the supplement scammers.  The kick-backs from them must be particularly lucrative.

[albrecht]

I do not understand the root cause of his habit of asking a question that was just answered, sometimes in excruciating detail. I doubt that even he can be that stupid. Some contribute his ineptitude in framing questions as to simply following his 3x5 cards. I doubt it is that simple.

I think he gets distracted by watching instant messages scroll by, checking the twitter feed and searching paranormaldate.com and doesn't realize what the guest had just discussed.

While that is painful, at least you get to hear the answer, albeit twice. What is more frustrating for me is when the guest goes on for 7 minutes telling an interesting story, and then "We have to take a break, but we will pick that up right here when we return...". 8 minutes later and the inevitable segue is "So tell me, how did you get involved in ..." and we are left in the dark as to whether or not the Big Bang was actually a portal for Angels carrying mean babies to another multiverse.

GNS

Yeah, I think in those frequent cases Norry has just tuned out the guest and is busy on his phone, looking something up on wikipedia or google so he can make some "profound" statement follow-up, playing a game on the phone, looking a porn, or something. He also uses the time to look something up on the internet so he can "look smart." You notice frequently a guest will mention something and a moment later Norry will interrupt with some fact about the subject, to show-off how smart he is. But I think just tunes out the guest and so then has to rely on his 3x5 cards and repeat the same question the quest had just answered.

[Zetaspeak]

First guest mentioned that he knew Hunter S. Thompson, and George blurted out:
"To Kill a Mockingbird!"

That was my highlight as well.  Which would possibly mean Jorge thinks Harper Lee was a dude.

[GravitySucks]

Richard Belzer is one of the guests tonight. Good thing I have an iphone, or I never would have figured out his website.

http://www.ibelz.com

[21st Century Man]

Richard Belzer is one of the guests tonight. Good thing I have an iphone, or I mever would have figured out his website.

http://www.ibelz.com

Belzer's a cop on tv but plays a nut in real life.

[ItsOver]

Belzer's a cop on tv but plays a nut in real life.

Ha.  Belzer is one of Jorch's celeb supposed buddies.  Right up there with Pat Boone.  By the way, is Mel Gibson still in Boston?

[21st Century Man]

Ha.  Belzer is one of Jorch's celeb supposed buddies.  Right up there with Pat Boone.  By the way, is Mel Gibson still in Boston?

LOL. That was a close shave for Mel.  I have no doubt Noory would have messed up Mel's comeback.

[CronkitesGhost]

Or when the guest explains his entire life's work on a groundbreaking theory of the state of matter just prior to the Big Bange, the amount of energy required for the Big Bang the early creation of the universe, and George follows up with "What do you think about the Big Bang?"

LOL

[ItsOver]

LOL. That was a close shave for Mel.  I have no doubt Noory would have messed up Mel's comeback.

I wonder if Mel's agent discovered the GNS thread.  Lucky for Mel.  )

[albrecht]

LOL. That was a close shave for Mel.  I have no doubt Noory would have messed up Mel's comeback.

Mel needs to wait for Syrette to come on the show. Then he can rant about the Joose.  For some reason (I think because polite Tasty Canadians won't interrupt guest or caller as much and not used to the interesting or crazy political fringes and free speech that is the USA radio- they have various hate speech laws there.) Syrette seems to let the random anti-Joose callers on a bit longer. The good George cuts them off, and quick. Art would debate them, sometimes quite hilariously. Or dump them but again with some wit. Syrette is growing on me because he often seems shocked when his white-bread, bland, mild-mannered Canadian sensibilities comes against someone "outraged," over whatever subject, caller or guest. And he will faintly mutter, "Good Lord" or something similar, with concern.
-GNS

[CronkitesGhost]

LOL who started calling him 'Dave' and why?

Jorch is so miscast as the host of an overnight radio show with the subject matter Coast delves into. He's a dullard, he has little intellectual curiosity, and he's lazy to boot. It's why he continually asks child like questions about topics the show has covered hundreds of times before, it's obvious he does no reading, and retains little of the knowledge learned on the show. To top it off, he's a boring human being, there's not an eccentric bone in his body.

What Dave Noory should be is the news director of some middle of the road radio station anywhere in the country, just reading the news a few times an hour and filling in on the station's morning and afternoon shows when the regular hosts are on vacation or sick. 

[Robert]

I do not understand the root cause of his habit of asking a question that was just answered, sometimes in excruciating detail. I doubt that even he can be that stupid.

Maybe he's just imitating Bob & Ray, who did that routine a lot, most famously in the interview of the expert on the Kimodo Dragon.

[zeebo]

LOL who started calling him 'Dave' and why?....

As I recall, a couple years ago esteemed bellgabber lonevoice posted an email she received back from some exec at Premier or maybe an affiliate, I can't remember.  She had asked about the lineup and this guy wrote back that he thought "Dave Noorie" was still hosting C2C, something like that lol. 

[CronkitesGhost]

I almost felt bad for Jorch when he blurted out 'Hunter Thompson' as the author of To Kill A Mockingbird, it's not that he didn't know the author, he just couldn't pull Harper Lee out of his memory and came up with another author whose name first name starts with 'H', that happens when you get older, it's that he really has no idea who Hunter S Thompson is, it's just the name of a writer to him he's heard of.  Which is what I posted a couple posts up, he's intellectually lazy, probably hasn't read a book since college, only knowledge he has is the thinnest of a veneer and he attempts to fake it which is where all the 'Exactly''s and 'That's what I think too''s come from.

[Dr. MD MD]

I almost felt bad for Jorch when he blurted out 'Hunter Thompson' as the author of To Kill A Mockingbird, it's not that he didn't know the author, he just couldn't pull Harper Lee out of his memory and came up with another author whose name first name starts with 'H', that happens when you get older, it's that he really has no idea who Hunter S Thompson is, it's just the name of a writer to him he's heard of.  Which is what I posted a couple posts up, he's intellectually lazy, probably hasn't read a book since college, only knowledge he has is the thinnest of a veneer and he attempts to fake it which is where all the 'Exactly''s and 'That's what I think too''s come from.

Nope. He's just an idiot. Always has been. 

[zeebo]

... he's intellectually lazy, probably hasn't read a book since college, only knowledge he has is the thinnest of a veneer and he attempts to fake it which is where all the 'Exactly''s and 'That's what I think too''s come from.

When he had the 19th century gothic Lit. guy on, who was discussing Charles Dickens, George blurted out "Oliver!  Now that was a great movie!"  I was like really?  Forget actually reading, you couldn't even have spent a half hour scanning the wiki pages of a few notable authors and their major works?

I will say this though, I realized it the other nite.  George is the master at filling airtime.  Sure the content is mostly disjointed questions and lightweight observations, but he really is solid at providing a continuity of filler.  When a call drops or an interview goes off the rails he just plows on with random comments like a champ.  This sounds like a backhanded compliment, which it is, but it really is a skill in its own way, I don't think I could do it.

[albrecht]

When he had the 19th century gothic Lit. guy on, who was discussing Charles Dickens, George blurted out "Oliver!  Now that was a great movie!"  I was like really?  Forget actually reading, you couldn't even have spent a half hour scanning the wiki pages of a few notable authors and their major works?

I will say this though, I realized it the other nite.  George is the master at filling airtime.  Sure the content is mostly disjointed questions and lightweight observations, but he really is solid at providing a continuity of filler.  When a call drops or an interview goes off the rails he just plows on with random comments like a champ.  This sounds like a backhanded compliment, which it is, but it really is a skill in its own way, I don't think I could do it.

Haha. Yeah. It is like he is asleep during the content but if silence, a bad line, a dropped call he has got his 3x5 cards ready to go with "this always happens when we talk about..." "are you there? Guess he's not. This always happens whe we get into this subject." "Tommie, get him back on another line, I really want to hear" (caller not gotten back but now onto new caller.) Etc.

[ShayP]

This sounds like a backhanded compliment, which it is, but it really is a skill in its own way, I don't think I could do it.

You are right and that's how Noory keeps the job.  Other than being a shill and all. 

[CronkitesGhost]

When he had the 19th century gothic Lit. guy on, who was discussing Charles Dickens, George blurted out "Oliver!  Now that was a great movie!"  I was like really?  Forget actually reading, you couldn't even have spent a half hour scanning the wiki pages of a few notable authors and their major works?

I will say this though, I realized it the other nite.  George is the master at filling airtime.  Sure the content is mostly disjointed questions and lightweight observations, but he really is solid at providing a continuity of filler.  When a call drops or an interview goes off the rails he just plows on with random comments like a champ.  This sounds like a backhanded compliment, which it is, but it really is a skill in its own way, I don't think I could do it.

I say this all the time to friends when they bust on talk show hosts, sportscasters, comedians, anybody who is on air or on a stage. If we the audience/critics recorded our own conversations and listened back to them we'd be embarrassed or at least disappointed because we don't sound as glib or entertaining as we think we do.  It's a skill/talent, some people have it naturally but it can be learned, it's just doing it, getting in a radio or TV studio and doing it and learning how to feel comfortable talking on demand, filling air.  Jorch has been at this for 40+ years so that he's able to fill air time isn't much of an achievement. Why I say his talents are those of some veteran radio guy in a medium sized radio/tv market, the bar is quite low for that.

Writing/texting gives you a little time to form thoughts and sentences, interesting or funny or whatever, broadcasters don't have that luxury unless you're just reading the news off a teleprompter.

[albrecht]

I say this all the time to friends when they bust on talk show hosts, sportscasters, comedians, anybody who is on air or on a stage. If we the audience/critics recorded our own conversations and listened back to them we'd be embarrassed or at least disappointed because we don't sound as glib or entertaining as we think we do.  It's a skill/talent, some people have it naturally but it can be learned, it's just doing it, getting in a radio or TV studio and doing it and learning how to feel comfortable talking on demand, filling air.  Jorch has been at this for 40+ years so that he's able to fill air time isn't much of an achievement. Why I say his talents are those of some veteran radio guy in a medium sized radio/tv market, the bar is quite low for that.

Writing/texting gives you a little time to form thoughts and sentences, interesting or funny or whatever, broadcasters don't have that luxury unless you're just reading the news off a teleprompter.

But now, unlike even a decade ago, the radio guys have internet, drudgereport, etc to go for weird or update content and "news" so less having to come up with content. They even have documented "callers for play" system (not sure if still done) and even an Adobe system that can insert their voice into commercials etc if they flub it. Worrying because it could be used to fake stuff on higher levels (supposedly their is a digital fingerpint to prevent this, but sure there will be a hack.)

[CronkitesGhost]

But now, unlike even a decade ago, the radio guys have internet, drudgereport, etc to go for weird or update content and "news" so less having to come up with content. They even have documented "callers for play" system (not sure if still done) and even an Adobe system that can insert their voice into commercials etc if they flub it. Worrying because it could be used to fake stuff on higher levels (supposedly their is a digital fingerpint to prevent this, but sure there will be a hack.)

oh yeah, AM talk radio is almost a fetish for me, been listening to talk radio my entire life. None of my friends did, not that I know of anyway, they were listening to top 40 stations and then FM rock stations. I will listen to anything talk on radio and most of the on air talent are lazy hacks and that's become even worse with the Internet, that's all they do is surf the web and then riff on whatever they find and usually badly.

i don't follow radio industry news but it's obvious radio is a dying industry, i mean the radio we grew up with. I go to that TalkShowsLive website and just put on stations randomly. I've found personalities I've heard of for ages but never listened to, some I'm not sure if they have ever been on in my area or on some station I just don't listen to. Only so much time to zone out and listen to radio in my days/nights. I now listen to John Batchelor who has a pretty good show and Michael Savage who I'm still trying to figure out what he is - he's a performance artist to me, I have no idea if he believes half the shit that comes out of his mouth. His politics aside he is a master monologist.

What occurred to me recently as I'm listening to AM stations all over the country is how few real commercials are on these stations,  even big city stations, what I hear mostly is PSA's ad nauseum.  That has to be because they can't sell enough commercials to fill in the allowable time for commercials. And the actual ads I hear are for financial scams and the snakeoil crap advertised on Coast.

I have a bunch of friends much younger than me, late 20's early 30's, they barely know what AM/FM radio is let alone listen to it.  They listen to Pandora/Youtube for music and podcasts for whatever interests they have. It's sad to me, commercial radio is almost dead, about a century will be its existence.

[pate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUshGP2UJEo

[zeebo]

...What occurred to me recently as I'm listening to AM stations all over the country is how few real commercials are on these stations,  even big city stations, what I hear mostly is PSA's ad nauseum.  ...

Oh dear how insufferable these are after awhile.  Seems so much worse now than they used to be.  Somewhere along the line a bloated, radio-based nanny state decided to instruct us on everything from brushing our teeth to stopping at train crossings. 

I don't so much mind the info I guess - probably does some good in the aggregate.  I'm more annoyed by the childish, patronizing style they all have, with their little cheeky dialogues and silly kids' songs, etc.  There's one about eating your veggies with some kid talking about carrots, who cheerfully says "My favorite flavor is 'crunchy'!"  Puh-lease.   :

[PB the Deplorable]

Oh dear how insufferable these are after awhile.  Seems so much worse now than they used to be.  Somewhere along the line a bloated, radio-based nanny state decided to instruct us on everything from brushing our teeth to stopping at train crossings...

Think how many time-shares you'd have by now if you'd just listened

[zeebo]

Why do I do this to myself?  Listen to George interview scientists, I mean.  He's got a theoretical physicist on and, instead of asking him about a whole range of possible physics topics, he just goes to his standard happy place questions:

* If primordial soup is everywhere then life must exist, right?
* Do you believe in God?
* What is the Big Bang?
* But, but how can something come from nothing?

[GravitySucks]

Is it safe to say something happened at that moment?

What a Frikking moron

GNS

If I was the guest, I would have had to simply say yes and leave it at that.   

[Dateline]

Not listening.  All the show has become is supplement sales between ole man bumper music songs.