George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[aldousburbank]

Satan is George's agent. NOT his father.

At least that's his story.

[EvB]

Does anyone remember when George was "Interviewing" Zahi Hawass and he didn't know the difference between Giza and Gaza?

The man is just a buffoon.  He is by far the most un-professional broadcaster in the country today.

Do you think PICTURES would help?

[valdez]

Does anyone remember when George was "Interviewing" Zahi Hawass and he didn't know the difference between Giza and Gaza?

The hot air is collapsing slowly like a Macy parade balloon with a leak, distorting to a parody of its former self on the way down...
The ride may be over for Coast-to-Coast. 

During his interview with Dr. John DeSalvo, Truth Seeker (aka George, see post 6859 for Origins of Truth Seeker) spoke of Zahi Hawass and lamented that Hawaas didn't buy into all the weird theories as to how the pyramids came to be built.  "He doesn't have to believe it," said George, "he just has to be open to it."  A seemingly banal statement takes on significance with George, because it is precisely his habit of giving the possible equal weight with the probable that has made him the caricature he has become.  That and his willingness to endorse anything, and his uncanny ability to mangle the simplest cliches, and cutting off guest in mid sentience to go to commercial, and, well...you get the picture.  The ride is not over. The vehicle that Art has built has a life of it's own, and one day it's going to eject Noory like a bottle rocket.  Until then Snoorologist must bear witness.
 

And I got a feeling this ain't gonna go too well either.

[anagrammy]

Tonight's show, which we all remember used to be all Open Lines, will have a guest To Be Announced at the beginning of the show.  I am looking closely at programming changes trying to read tea leaves, and I'm thinking there are two reasons for not having all Open Lines:  Noory can't handle it AND/OR there aren't enough callers.

I was reminded on another thread of the Atlantic article last year on Noory and his supposed "mainstreaming" of Coast to Coast, i.e., making it the alternative to abrasive and opinionated radio talk show hosts.  He would be kind...mellow...someone you could trust.  That was when he was being spoonfed shows by Tim.  Then he tuned in randomly at home and I think the exchange is worth copying here for you (the whole article is at http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/01/the-listener/7840/3/).  This is the very end of the article:

Late one night, as a warm breeze blew through my bedroom window, and only the hum of fans and air conditioners filled the ether, I tuned in to Coast to Coast to hear Brian Greene, the Columbia physicist and science-popularizer extraordinaire, join the program by phone. Greene seemed to me, at first, the perfect guest: a man who could answer questions about time travel and strangelets, black holes and wormholes, with good cheer and scientific coherenceâ€"a man who, like Noory, knew that things unseen animate the cosmos.

As the show progressed, though, and as Greene fielded call after strange call and question after question, he seemed to suck the life out of the show’s nightly connection. Noory brought up the concept of extra dimensions, a topic that would seem to brim with Coast-ish possibility. Greene replied that he had, in fact, studied extra dimensions for 15 years, but saw nothing all that mysterious about them. “The thing to bear in mind is that extra dimensions are less exotic than the name ‘extra dimensions’ might lead you to think,” he said, deflatingly. “They’d be very similar to the ones you do see, there would just be more of them. So that doesn’t in any way link into the afterlife, doesn’t link into paranormal phenomena, it’s just more dimensions of space that we don’t have direct access to with our eyes.”

For three long hours, Greene acted like a parent debunking a willful child’s belief in Santa Claus. Time travel to the past was surely impossible, he said, and scientists had long ago stopped even trying. The prospect of a UFO visitation seemed dim, and he had seen no evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Life after death, much as we might yearn for it, wasn’t plausible scientifically.

But in the show’s final hour, Jim in Hendersonville, North Carolina, challenged him on that last one. A lot of researchers, Jim said, had come to the opposite conclusion about the afterlifeâ€"some of them even had videotape.

“Well, I’ve never studied the data,” Greene said, his condescension not entirely suppressed. “But I’ve certainly never encountered anything that has convinced me, even in a slight degree, that there’s anything beyond death.”

Then something strange happened. For the first time in the years I’ve listened to the program, I detected what sounded, for all the world, like fear creep into George Noory’s amiable voice. “Itâ€"it just seems so empty,” he blurted.

It did, late at night, all alone. Greene’s view of the universe, for all his scientific enthusiasm, imperiled the Coast to Coast ethos in a way no UFO skeptic ever could. No ultimate mystery inhered in it, no potential savior inhabited it, nothing in its great expanse seemed to endow our little lives with meaning.

“That is a brute, cold, hard fact of the universe,” Greene said. “When you pull the battery out of your computer, it shuts off. When you end a life, it shuts off. And I think that’s just it.”

Noory didn’t want to let it go. “A lot of great cases, though, of near-death experiences documented by doctorsâ€"” he offered, hopefully.

“I think ‘near’ is the operative word there.”

Seconds of dead air ticked by, an eternity at night.

Then, in a rush, almost like he couldn’t help himself, Noory said, “But they do leave their body, they say.”

“Well, that’s what they say.”

Finally, reluctantly, George Noory conceded defeat.

“San Francisco we go. Max?”

I turned the radio off. And I lay awake in bed, for a long time, in silence.


We who have heard dozens (if not hundreds) of shows have heard Noory proclaim many times that he is "very spiritual."  And yet--he CHOKED when confronted the most common plain vanilla scientific argument against the argument for an afterlife.  Dismissal due to lack of evidence.  I submit that most of us on this forum could have done a much better job of defending our own belief.  Noory is able to coast on Coast, (bad) because he can get by with statements like "there HAS to be something out there" and it's highly informative partner, "there IS something out there" and in closing, "Something's going on."

This is exactly the hot air Art was talking about. 

Don't miss tonight's show-- I'm dubbing it a Hot Air Fest and I have a feeling it's going to be, in Noory's own words, "so empty."

Anagrammy

[jdfearl]

Watch out, George  will place a cease and desist upon you!!

[Marc.Knight]

For three long hours, Greene acted like a parent debunking a willful child’s belief in Santa Claus.

People such as Brian Greene or Michio Kaku walk a very fine line as guests on C2C.  On one hand they enjoy the benefits of a relatively large audience, and on the other, they must stay clear of any paranormal talk.  The consequences for their scientific careers would be disasterous.

[bmd88]

HAHA - Oh my God! What a horrible Photoshop- and why would I want THAT staring at me 11:00 at night? And hundreds of people liked it? We truly are in End Times.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/photo.php?fbid=10150151610582349&set=a.419111792348.213366.105212777348&theater

[EvB]

We who have heard dozens (if not hundreds) of shows have heard Noory proclaim many times that he is "very spiritual."  And yet--he CHOKED when confronted the most common plain vanilla scientific argument against the argument for an afterlife.  Dismissal due to lack of evidence.  I submit that most of us on this forum could have done a much better job of defending our own belief.  Noory is able to coast on Coast, (bad) because he can get by with statements like "there HAS to be something out there" and it's highly informative partner, "there IS something out there" and in closing, "Something's going on."

This is exactly the hot air Art was talking about. 

Don't miss tonight's show-- I'm dubbing it a Hot Air Fest and I have a feeling it's going to be, in Noory's own words, "so empty."

Anagrammy

I like what Ian has said on science and topics like this.  He says he's usually not impressed by "scientific" evidence, pro or con, on experiences that are, by definition, matters of faith.  And faith implies a trusting reliance upon future events or outcomes, it is often taken by some people as inevitably synonymous with a belief not resting on logical proof or material evidence.  (wording form Wikipedia)

As for the rest, I have faith that George, at least when it comes to c2c, will not fail to disappoint.

oh, wait!  There is EVIDENCE for that , isn't there? 

[robey1129]

Wow.....I just happened to mention what I thought of the Noroon on the yahoo group Art Bell Talk. I forgot what it was like to poke jabs at the anti-christ in the midst of its minions. Amazing still...and I forgot...that there are actually living, breathing human entities that think this piece of rodent dung is doing a good job.

[MV/Liberace!]

This picture was almost chub-worthy... but I didn't like her elbows.

Sent from my Droid X.

[valdez]

     I have no idea what Adam Catlin was talking about.  Memo to guest: speak up.  Why would George play the "Art Bell/area 51/guy in a plane" clip? Wouldn't that just remind his listeners of the show's potential and magic and George's lameness?  And what's with all these callers waiting hours on the phone to ask George questions he has no answers to?   Google it, people.  During the last hour George said that the New World Order was coming and there was "nothing we could do about it" except try and make it work, "like Star Trek."  Good advice, George, and thanks for putting up the good fight.  Your masters are pleased.  Just give us a 24 hour headstart before you turn us in.

[aldousburbank]

More "Letters I Wish Someone Would Read Out Loud To George"

George,

You're fired!

Donald Trump



George, Tom, and Lisa,

What is the difference between a radio show and a hot air balloon?  If you took all the hot air on a summer day in Parumph, you still could not make a radio show fly.

Best regards,

Art

[aldousburbank]

Why would George play the "Art Bell/area 51/guy in a plane" clip? Wouldn't that just remind his listeners of the show's potential and magic and George's lameness?  And what's with all these callers waiting hours on the phone to ask George questions he has no answers to?   Google it, people.  During the last hour George said that the New World Order was coming and there was "nothing we could do about it" except try and make it work, "like Star Trek."  Good advice, George, and thanks for putting up the good fight.  Your masters are pleased.  Just give us a 24 hour headstart before you turn us in.

George truly, sucks so so very much.

[Marc.Knight]

Some of these older interchanges are hilarious.


http://www.coastgab.com/index.php/topic,1623.0.html

[Marc.Knight]

Wow.....I just happened to mention what I thought of the Noroon on the yahoo group Art Bell Talk. I forgot what it was like to poke jabs at the anti-christ in the midst of its minions. Amazing still...and I forgot...that there are actually living, breathing human entities that think this piece of rodent dung is doing a good job.

they are a wee bit protective of the old Nooron.

[anagrammy]

Well, Friday's show has made me a prophetess.  My belief in my own paranormal powers is soaring!  That was the worst piece of self-glorifying shit I have ever heard in my life.  I hope some of you who ran from the stink a while ago heeded my suggestion to tune back in for a show that was so bad it went all the way over to good.

Like extremists of both parties who are startled to find themselves agreeing that Obama is a disappointment.

Condensed, here's what transpired:  caller after caller with low IQ and Southern accent, actually sounding like the same person, lavishing on the praise.  Sample exchange:

Caller:  It is such an honor to talk to you, George, such an honor, really...an honor.
George:  Thank you, what's on your mind?
Caller:  I just want to say that this is the best radio show ever.  IN the United States...maybe even in the world.  Yeah, the best radio show in the world.
George:  There's a glitch in my headphones, I didn't catch that.  Could you repeat it?
Caller:  Huh?
George:  I say I have a problem with my headphones, I didn't hear you--could you repeat that?
Caller:  Sure.  I just want to say that Coast to Coast is the best radio show in the United States--maybe the best radio show in the world. 
George:  I missed that again, can you repeat it?
Caller:  Sure.  I just want to say that ---
George:  I was just messing with you.
(silence)
Caller:  Oh... well, I've been a listener since Art Bell was the host, I'm a long-time listener.
George:  That is a long time.
Caller:  I listen every night and never miss a show and it's such an honor to speak to you tonight, George, such an honor...

Can you fucking believe the very next caller ALSO said it was the best radio program of all time and George asked HIM to repeat it ALSO!  The explosion of ego damaged the studio walls and the cleanup guys are coming in today.  It was pathetic but I have to admit I was giggling out loud and muttering OMG's.

Most mature people realize that people don't make grandiose, self-glorifying statements unless they have DOUBTS!  Bragging always comes from insecurity.  Since I have carved out a niche of dramatic and completely unsupported speculation, I issue my standard warning to the reader:

I'm giggling because Premiere has obviously expressed some concern about the quality of the program.  They do not have to come here, although I imagine some portly executive gets up in the morning and promises himself he will NOT peek at Coastgab, that he will support his POSITIVE views, just like his therapist says, but before he down the second cup of coffee, the guy is checking out the reaction from the non-Noory-ass-licker site.  His wife pleads with him, "Honey, please, you know what this does to you--especially in the morning--!  Put down the iPhone and have a nice breakfast."  He rolls his eyes but the minute she kisses him goodbye, he is back on it.

They have a meeting where they play clips of Noory flubs from the last, oh, month or so.  They talk about the guests that have turned down invitations and they talk about public feedback from AB fans and others.  George Noory says this "Hey, I don't quarrel with any of that-- I don't come from the "informed" background, I'm just a stupid guy like the listener.  I'm mainstreaming the program and it's working--look at the ratings. 

They call in the stats guy, who says the ratings peaked and are now dropping.  Management points out that the show has no competition, really, and is bundled.  That makes it difficult to assess the popularity of the show by itself.  But they are looking at the obvious mistakes, the lack of substantive comment by George compared with other hosts and George gives the coup de gras, "The listeners are loyal.  They love me."

This meeting probably took place earlier in my novel--this is a flashback.  It was the beginning of the George Noory Cult in which meeting George and speaking with George and seeing George and reading George's book and hearing George's voice was a blessing as he referred to the audience as "we" and promised to hold "our" hand through the End Times, 2012, and possibly eternity.

Back to the present time, this week was not a good week in the land of Noorylove.  As documented herein, many hilarious low-IQ moments were presented by Noory as he not only added nothing to discussions, but was unable to even ask a pertinent, interesting question.  The mocking on Coastgab was specific, using quotes, and people speculated herein on how best to take ACTION against Noory's continued destruction of the show we loved.

So....what could Noory do more of?  His photo is in three places on some pages, nested appropriately beside the bedbug ads.  He is attracting new sponsors, that's for sure, like Liberty safes.  While hawking the new sponsor's safe as the safest of safes (the writers suffer from low vocabulary also), he asked the listeners to "trust me, I know it's safe."

You can just picture the management sales team scratching out their previous sales scripts and replacing them with "people TRUST George Noory and he will do your ad PERSONALLY, appealing to that trust.  Appealing to an audience who is already paranoid, just your target market."  (OK- I made that last part up)

BUt then, I made the whole thing up.  Carry on.

Anagrammy

[JustOneFix]

Anagrammy- that situation may very well go down at some point. I can see Nooron pulling a shitty trick like that.

There was a caller last night that George had one hell of a time saying his name.

Snoory- "Ok we now go to Havoline, Avalene?, Havalee?
Caller- "It's Olivine"
Snoory- (crickets chirping)

[b_dubb]

Caller:  It is such an honor to talk to you, George, such an honor, really...an honor.
George:  Thank you, what's on your mind?
Caller:  I just want to say that this is the best radio show ever.  IN the United States...maybe even in the world.  Yeah, the best radio show in the world.
George:  There's a glitch in my headphones, I didn't catch that.  Could you repeat it?
Caller:  Huh?
George:  I say I have a problem with my headphones, I didn't hear you--could you repeat that?
Caller:  Sure.  I just want to say that Coast to Coast is the best radio show in the United States--maybe the best radio show in the world. 
George:  I missed that again, can you repeat it?
Caller:  Sure.  I just want to say that ---
George:  I was just messing with you.
(silence)
Caller:  Oh... well, I've been a listener since Art Bell was the host, I'm a long-time listener.
George:  That is a long time.
Caller:  I listen every night and never miss a show and it's such an honor to speak to you tonight, George, such an honor...

i think i speak for everyone when i say that no one likes a kiss ass.  especially when the ass kissing is without merit

[Marc.Knight]

Well, Noory's statement last night might explain a great many things, or it might just be a ratings gimmick.

According to George Noory, he has been increasingly seeing shadow people.  This happens to be a classic Bipolar disorder delusion.  A simple Google search will provide you will volumes of data associating the visualization of shadow people with Bipolar disorder and Schizophrenia.

I'll let everyone come to their own conclusions.

[robey1129]

Wow...I just wrote a helluva long post and it disappeared after I got a note saying someone else posted.
Oh well....I vent again. Here is the short version.
Yes, anagrammy, I heard that crap and everytime he pulls that bullshit my gut wrenches. Does he not know "The World's Greatest Radio Show" does not have to announce it. He must have spent his nine years in the Navy behind a desk in a cubicle.
His life lessons are in the minus department.
Also, did you hear him proclaim "Time will end, but we will still be here". Not only is the show the greatest....it is also immortal.
That was right before he stated the world was predicted to end by a huge "earthquack".
And, in a heroic and almost rebellious tone, how about this one "I asked time and again for those guests who predicted the world to end to be on the show the day after and no one, not one will agree to be on".
Hello, idiot, it's probably not because their prediction isn't going to happen....it's because they would rather die than be back on the show with you....you freakin' dolt!

[b_dubb]

George was in the Navy RESERVE.  so if anyone out there thinks he's some kind of military genius ... let me ask you ... how many Soviet subs did he destroy/capture whilst rowing about Lake Michigan in a kayak?  none. 

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

Last night was painful. He let some guy in a thick Boston accent ramble for a half hour about The Jones Act, Merchant Marines, etc. Some other nutty woman called in talking about hair products from China and how they want us all to lose our hair. The whole thing was a mess. More and more self-centered shut-ins using the open lines as a forum to proclaim the importance of their lives. The guest at the start of the show, talking about ghosts, sounded like he could have been interesting if George had actually listened to him and not repeated the same questions ("Have YOU ever seen a ghost?" and "Has anyone ever been hurt during one of your investigations?") as well as the usual "These spirits......people are seeing the everywhere......WHAT IS GOING ON OUT THERE?" and a digression about how great Facebook is?

[b_dubb]

yeah ... but Tao ... you knew it was going to be bad.  why listen?  seriously.  throw down your sword.  the battle was lost.  the morons won

[EvB]

What ah you bitchin' about? Beantown accents ah WICKED awesome!   

[b_dubb]

What are you bitchin' about? Beantown accents ah WICKED awesome!   

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"FAAAHHHKK YOU!!!"

[awguy]

I finally got around to listening to Noory's show the other night about Serial killers as I am a bit interested in the topic. Two great Noory quotes from that show:

1.) "Were there any unsolved murders in Germany while he was there"?
- Well yeah of course, there are unsolved murders in every corner of the world.. duh!

2.) "Did he look like a serial Killer?"
- No commentary needed on this one!

[EvB]

"FAAAHHHKK YOU!!!"

heh

[SomeVelvetMorning]

Also, did you hear him proclaim "Time will end, but we will still be here". Not only is the show the greatest....it is also immortal.

That would possibly prove my theory that around the time Noory took over, we were all unknowingly transported to hell.  Now we are stuck with having to hear that imbecile yammer on for eternity.

[robey1129]

So awguy...I am interested to know. You listened to a show about serial killers hosted by George Noory...something you are interested in...it lasted about, what, two hours maybe. Did you actually learn just one thing new....something you did not know, prior to listening to the Nooron's "questions" he asked of the guest?
The sad thing is...when I know what the topic is gonna be beforehand...I can almost write down what info will be revealed. Give me the topic and I'll tell you what Nooron will reveal during the show.
Nothing new....ever!
Same old shit....over and over and over.
The ufos might be angels! Serial killers kill people! Angels might be ufos!
When Art was host....I got some learnin', and some entertainment and a yearning to learn more.
The Noorignoramus is about as inspiring as a camel fart in the Sahara.

[Scully]

Agreed that Friday night's first hour guest sounded like he could have provided the first program of real paranormal  interest  in a looong time.  I can only assume that's why George gave him only one hour.  It didn't really matter, though, because as usual Noory was subpar with everything he did.

As for the painful 3 hours to follow, you've already told how bad it was.  One point, though -- I get the distinct impression  that Noory is reacting to all the criticism he's been getting, both here and elsewhere.  Even the playing of Art's Area 51 flier seemed to me like an effort to show that "all the good stuff" is still a part of C2C.

How 'bout them callers, though?  Hasn't George fished them up from somewhere special?

One more thing:  as I listened to George sign off once again invoking Art  Bell's name as part of the cast, it occurred to me that it's always just a replayed tape so that he can be out of the studio asap.  What a solid gold slacker he is. IMHO