George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[Treading Water]

Tonight. (yawn)

Meditation Neuroscience/ Conquering Challenges

Date:   06-17-14
Host:   George Noory
Guests:   Scott Schmaren, Dan Harris
First Half: Co-anchor of ABC News Nightline and the weekend edition of Good Morning America, Dan Harris will talk about his work as a reporter and his research of the neuroscience of meditation. (Next week: Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford!)

2nd Half: Keynote speaker, author and expert in neuroperformance, Scott Schmaren will discuss his journey to transform his life, maintain a weight loss of over 170 pounds, and conquer life's challenges. (With turmeric!)

This is REAL??  Jeeeezzzz.
:

[ZHero]

New age feel good crap.  Noory in a tie-dye tshirt singing
and selling books and snake oil. . Maybe a rainbow will
Shoot out of George's ass .

[onan]

This is REAL??  Jeeeezzzz.
:

Actually, yeah, it is real. And the data is interesting for several reasons. There are strong correlations with cognition, dreaming, hallucinations, but wait there is more. One area that is being studied is the cingulum and according to a doc I work with, meditation increases the surface area of parts of the cingulum. If I understand it correctly there is serious thought connecting the dreamiing state to hallucinations.

Now how Team Noori investigates... Jeeeezzzz.

[albrecht]

Actually, yeah, it is real. And the data is interesting for several reasons. There are strong correlations with cognition, dreaming, hallucinations, but wait there is more. One area that is being studied is the cingulum and according to a doc I work with, meditation increases the surface area of parts of the cingulum. If I understand it correctly there is serious thought connecting the dreamiing state to hallucinations.

Now how Team Noori investigates... Jeeeezzzz.

I'm Norry will take a potentially interesting subject and drive it into the ground. It would perfect sense to me, a layman, that there could be connections between dreaming, meditation, and also even forms of mental illness in non-drug induced hallucinations, delusions, etc. Too bad "psychonaut" Terrence McKenna isn't around to be on the show also. Or maybe it is considering the questions George would likely ask! 

[pyewacket]

Actually, yeah, it is real. And the data is interesting for several reasons. There are strong correlations with cognition, dreaming, hallucinations, but wait there is more. One area that is being studied is the cingulum and according to a doc I work with, meditation increases the surface area of parts of the cingulum. If I understand it correctly there is serious thought connecting the dreamiing state to hallucinations.

Now how Team Noori investigates... Jeeeezzzz.

Too bad you couldn't take Noory's place tonight. It is an interesting subject (with the right interviewer). I find meditation helpful and hope to learn more. I'd like to hear your take on the show.  GNS!

[Dateline]

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Found this message on the Coast to Coast Facebook page.  I love sports, but I don't think this belongs on a Coast to Coast page.

I don't listen to ESPN, so don't promote those ideas.

[Dateline]

Is a BottomFeederSaucer a direct descendant of Suckadactal?   Maybe they are distant cousins?

[Morgus]

Noory it appears tonight is doing an infomercial double-header...

[pate]

Glad I decided to turn off the radio before the sNooron got on air...

[NoMoreNoory]

Introducing Dan Harris, Joorch informs us that 'his website is part of his Facebook page' and then says 'we're talking about his Best Times Seller'. Something somewhere in the recesses of the Snooron brain makes him aware that this makes no sense, so he doubles back and attempts to correct himself. This time it comes out as his 'New York Times Best Times Seller'.
You couldn't make it up. He then grabbed for the opening 3x5.....'What made you write the book?'
And Walter Cronkite was apparently a great news manatee.
Surpassing his own Standards of Suckery.

[zeebo]

Tonight's topic:

Turmeric
Raw milk
An MSG-free diet
Avoiding oiuja boards
Meditation
... is good for you

[popple]

George Ralph Noory Sucks

[Mike.]

This could have been a great show. If anyone but g.n. was the host. Scratch that. Linda Moulton Howes cut and splice would have been worse. But anyone else would have been better.

At least Dan wasn't pushing his book every five minutes.

[Nick el Ass]

George sNoory kicks of the night by bringing up Dr. Oz getting scolded for being a fraud, and then proceeds to have a guest on his show talking about the kind of shit only using hypnosis, heheh. My favorite part though was George asking Dan Harris about how his career took off after his apparent drug related freak out on the air which in turn led to writing a book, and the guy hesitating then going "Yeah, um... you know it has been great." If you heard it my guess is it hasn't. George also seems to have a thing for interjecting himself into others life stories which is really sad.


GNS.

[21st Century Man]

More self-help crap.  Every other guest seems to be some self-help quack. Somebody please take Noory off the air.

[UFQuack]

More self-help crap.  Every other guest seems to be some self-help quack. Somebody please take Noory off the air.

Yep...selling people on "success", "dreams", "you can have whatever you want" type of ideas but all that really does is enforce more of the usual "all or nothing" thinking cause if you're not making progress then it's your own fault for being "negative" and not following their instruction. But that's okay because they have another solution for that, write more books and convince people they need those too!

[pyewacket]

Our power went out last night- bad storms, but we were able to listen on our "crank" radio. Neither guest could fill more than an hour. The first segment with Dan Harris was a bit more fun because George kept injecting himself and his same old stories into the "interview". George really and truly thinks he's on the same level as a war correspondent and national news media anchor. It was embarrassing to listen to him. He thought his Cronkite non story was important enough for him to interrupt the interview. Dan H was very patient with him. He probably knew what he was getting into. Dan H did say that positive thinking didn't work and George agreed.

The second guest, Scott Schmaren didn't really impress. It's great that he lost that much weight but it's the same story, more or less, as Jarred of Subway fame and many others pushing diet programs. Scott S was pushing positive thinking as a key to success and guess what- George totally agreed!!! LOL

This is why I think of the show as The George Noory Show because of GN's poor interviewing skills, his inane comments and laughing, and George's habit of making himself and his weak anecdotes part of the interview. All guests must share their time as George competes with them for attention. Worse and worse. There is no quick back and forth or any spontaneity. George derails the conversation with long, boring stories about himself.

GNS!!!!   

[paladin1991]

Yeah, I've been told one space is sufficient.  My first college taught me to do two spaces, and two spaces is a little easier to read, it's a very ingrained habit now.  I just finished a composition/journalism class and the teacher did not ding me for using two spaces.  After summer break I will ask her about that. 

*a bit of snippage*

This is always the longest thread for me to ketchup on.

Sirs, I am a defrocked English Major.  I was trained by Irish Catholic and German nuns that when working with the written word, punctuation was everything.  Having gone to several schools to hone my skills, I have found that there are two distinct worlds that writers live in.  There are the multiple sub-genre that have their own separate existence, as well.

It was hammered into me that writers write.  Successful writers ...  get paid.  I have learned fm the younger professors, 50 and under, that one writes for his audience, not for the punctuation gods.    The grading of my efforts reflects the focus that each instructor placed on punctuation vs how the language is actually employed by the target audience.  Plus, the yoosh, plot, structure, development, etc.

Anyway just tossing in my deux centime.

[laserjock]

*a bit of snippage*

This is always the longest thread for me to ketchup on.

Sirs, I am a defrocked English Major.  I was trained by Irish Catholic and German nuns that when working with the written word, punctuation was everything.  Having gone to several schools to hone my skills, I have found that there are two distinct worlds that writers live in.  There are the multiple sub-genre that have their own separate existence, as well.

It was hammered into me that writers write.  Successful writers ...  get paid.  I have learned fm the younger professors, 50 and under, that one writes for his audience, not for the punctuation gods.    The grading of my efforts reflects the focus that each instructor placed on punctuation vs how the language is actually employed by the target audience.  Plus, the yoosh, plot, structure, development, etc.

Anyway just tossing in my deux centime.

Many great writers have shown us how not being a slave to punctuation and grammar can lead to great writing, but the gentleman in question is not writing like one of those great writers, but writing as though they don't care about the readers.

[albrecht]

George sNoory kicks of the night by bringing up Dr. Oz getting scolded for being a fraud, and then proceeds to have a guest on his show talking about the kind of shit only using hypnosis, heheh. My favorite part though was George asking Dan Harris about how his career took off after his apparent drug related freak out on the air which in turn led to writing a book, and the guy hesitating then going "Yeah, um... you know it has been great." If you heard it my guess is it hasn't. George also seems to have a thing for interjecting himself into others life stories which is really sad.


GNS.

Actually I thought the guest put up with George's brilliant questions and to his same stories he's told before with a lot of patience. He also was pretty clear that he thought medicine is often a very good thing for people who suffer with things like panic attacks, depression, etc. But that mediation also helps. Use "every arrow in your quiver." He also clearly could sense George's "no medicine" sensibilities and even mentioned that but stuck to his guns that medications have saved many lives. He also self-admitted that his drug use and actions caused his problems and wasn't blaming mommy, society, conspiracies, God, the devil, etc.

[VtaGeezer]

Our power went out last night- bad storms, but we were able to listen on our "crank" radio

GNS!!!!   

I once picked up of those South African crank radios; the one that Bell pitched; on the Good Guys clearance table.  I can't imagine putting such work into hearing Noory.  BTW, After a few months of occasional use, the crank spring on the radio snapped with a big bang and scared the bejezus out of me and they sent me a new one that broke too.

[pyewacket]

I once picked up of those South African crank radios; the one that Bell pitched; on the Good Guys clearance table.  I can't imagine putting such work into hearing Noory.  BTW, After a few months of occasional use, the crank spring on the radio snapped with a big bang and scared the bejezus out of me and they sent me a new one that broke too.

Sorry to hear about your radio. Ours is an Oreck- had it for many, many years- never had a problem. It comes in handy for the news reports. We've been getting some severe weather sometimes resulting in tornadoes, so it's good to get the warnings. George was on the clearest station- kept us entertained. Probably not in the way he intends.

[VtaGeezer]

Sorry to hear about your radio. Ours is an Oreck- had it for many, many years- never had a problem. It comes in handy for the news reports. We've been getting some severe weather sometimes resulting in tornadoes, so it's good to get the warnings. George was on the clearest station- kept us entertained. Probably not in the way he intends.

It just dawned on me that a "crank radio" is truly THE most appropriate device for listening to Noory.

[pyewacket]

It just dawned on me that a "crank radio" is truly THE most appropriate device for listening to Noory.

I think all the "cranks" out there would object to that characterization. 

[pate]

This is why I think of the show as The George Noory Show because of GN's poor interviewing skills, his inane comments and laughing, and George's habit of making himself and his weak anecdotes part of the interview. All guests must share their time as George competes with them for attention. Worse and worse. There is no quick back and forth or any spontaneity. George derails the conversation with long, boring stories about himself.

You're not supposed to hear the fNoords...

fNoory sucks

[laserjock]

How many of you out there have the same dilemma as me:  You listened to Noory over and over, thinking: "I'll just give him another try, another chance, maybe it's my imagination and he isn't that bad..."  And try as you may, every night he delivers more bone deadening assaults to your head.  It's like that stupid girl at work who keeps getting back with the abusive boyfriend despite everybody pleading with her to get a life.  We need the show, but Snoory won't deliver.

[albrecht]

How many of you out there have the same dilemma as me:  You listened to Noory over and over, thinking: "I'll just give him another try, another chance, maybe it's my imagination and he isn't that bad..."  And try as you may, every night he delivers more bone deadening assaults to your head.  It's like that stupid girl at work who keeps getting back with the abusive boyfriend despite everybody pleading with her to get a life.  We need the show, but Snoory won't deliver.

Yep. TOMORROW I'll quit smoking. I can quit drinking any time I want. But he really loves me. Yep, many of us are caught in a very dangerous addiction caused by Art Bell and cannot get the monkey off our back even though it has turned into a mushed-mouth, mustachioed imbecile with an obsession about the meanness of babies.

[laserjock]

You know, we should all fast blast him with a link to this thread, if he reads the thread he might get the message.  He might get scared straight...  He needs to stop taking those qualoods or whatever he is on...

[21st Century Man]

How many of you out there have the same dilemma as me:  You listened to Noory over and over, thinking: "I'll just give him another try, another chance, maybe it's my imagination and he isn't that bad..."  And try as you may, every night he delivers more bone deadening assaults to your head.  It's like that stupid girl at work who keeps getting back with the abusive boyfriend despite everybody pleading with her to get a life.  We need the show, but Snoory won't deliver.

That describes me to a T.  I haven't been listening much this week though because of the lame topics.

[21st Century Man]

You know, we should all fast blast him with a link to this thread, if he reads the thread he might get the message.  He might get scared straight...  He needs to stop taking those qualoods or whatever he is on...

He has posted here in the past so I imagine he reads from time to time.