George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[aldousburbank]

Last night (Sunday) C2C program was like a 4 hour infomercial like they play on many TV stations late at night nowadays.
Plastic surgery on C2C? Is Noory considering that? He was asking the doctor a lot about making lips bigger... 

Maybe somebody should post some photos of possible future Noory looks after plastic surgery. 

I heard this, before passing out from WTF boredom- I guess I thought that I hallucinated the horrid episode.  I wonder what body part Georgey is planning on elongating fixing up first?  Inquiring minds want to know.

[JustOneFix]

Last night (Sunday) C2C program was like a 4 hour infomercial like they play on many TV stations late at night nowadays.
Plastic surgery on C2C? Is Noory considering that? He was asking the doctor a lot about making lips bigger... 

Maybe somebody should post some photos of possible future Noory looks after plastic surgery. 

What's better than roses on a piano? Tulips on an organ. That's probably what Noron had in mind. You know while he's over looking at the blinds "Tommy" had installed from e-blindsdirect.com

[anagrammy]

Last night (Sunday) C2C program was like a 4 hour infomercial like they play on many TV stations late at night nowadays.
Plastic surgery on C2C? Is Noory considering that? He was asking the doctor a lot about making lips bigger... 

Maybe somebody should post some photos of possible future Noory looks after plastic surgery.  

Trout pout! Trout pout! Trout pout! 

Someone go find Usagi or Valdez or Marc Knight-- stat!

Anagrammy

[Eddie Coyle]

What's better than roses on a piano? Tulips on an organ. That's probably what Noron had in mind. You know while he's over looking at the blinds "Tommy" had installed from e-blindsdirect.com

    Tommy's great on the piano,but sucks on the organ.

    Tommy with a broken tooth? An organ grinder.

[Seamus Capone]

My only thought is that Red Rubber Ball was one of the songs of my childhood - and now - i dunno if it will ever be the same again.   

It's a catchy pop song written by the genius who gave us "Bridge Over Troubled Water". I'll take it over the ukulele version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" any day.

[Seamus Capone]

during open lines he speculated that "everybody is acting weird" because maybe we're all under some government mind experiment

Somethin's been goin' on since I first heard Noory in 2005 or 2006. "People have been acting strange lately" for the past five years. How many times can he milk that cow? It's gotta be as dry as that scene from "Network" by now.

[Wade Collins]

 Art's bumpers tended to add an aural  counterpoint to the vibe of the show.  He was a DJ in little stations like KUDE in Oceanside in the 70's, I think that was a big influence on him. (Think Harry Chapin's W.O.L. D). Art's use of  selective 70's pop & country really hit the sweet spot It was brilliant.  . Noory on the other hand has allowed Premiere to apparently sell some music slots, thus the odd new music he plays. Bell would never have allowed it. I think I know the answer, but does Premiere own all of Art's old shows or only a portion?. I have the feeling if they control it, soon all his shows will become unavailable. Who knows, Noory could re-purpose it, by having the interviews  edited in such a way to eliminate Art.

[Seamus Capone]

The Gordon Sinclair bit is older than I am, and I'm in my thirties. Noory might as well play old Paul Harvey shows on Fridays. I half expect to hear ads for mood rings and pet rocks during the breaks.

Noory Voice: "In honor of our nation's birthday, we'll be playing a recent patriotic song by Lee Greenwood."

[Eddie Coyle]

The Gordon Sinclair bit is older than I am, and I'm in my thirties. Noory might as well play old Paul Harvey shows on Fridays. I half expect to hear ads for mood rings and pet rocks during the breaks.

    There were TWO separate versions of this on the Billboard singles charts in 1974. Ouch. It pains me,and,well, most I come into contact with that I was conceived in such an annus horribilus.

   But we had joy,we had fun...

[Seamus Capone]

    There were TWO separate versions of this on the Billboard singles charts in 1974. Ouch. It pains me,and,well, most I come into contact with that I was conceived in such an annus horribilus.

   But we had joy,we had fun...

It's weird to see an Irish guy use a phrase that Queen Elizabeth II made famous. I hope that no one from your neighborhood reads Coast Gab.

[Morgus]

The Gordon Sinclair bit is older than I am, and I'm in my thirties. Noory might as well play old Paul Harvey shows on Fridays. I half expect to hear ads for mood rings and pet rocks during the breaks.

Noory Voice: "In honor of our nation's birthday, we'll be playing a recent patriotic song by Lee Greenwood."

Noory still lives in his mind in the 50s-early 60s apparently. Always playing the same old junk on holidays, like Kate Smith. 

[Eddie Coyle]

It's weird to see an Irish guy use a phrase that Queen Elizabeth II made famous. I hope that no one from your neighborhood reads Coast Gab.

   Never mind Coast Gab.No one from my neighborhood reads...

[Seamus Capone]

And, tonight is Michael Cremo....a guy I find so fascinating.  I can't wait to hear Michael in the middle of discussing some amazing finding and George will interupt him for a commercial.....AND THEN NEVER RETURN TO THE TOPIC!  Ugh!

Noory just asked him why he got into his field. Cremo then told his life story. Noory must be contractually obligated to ask this canned question. He asks it each and every night.

[Seamus Capone]

Noory still lives in his mind in the 50s-early 60s apparently. Always playing the same old junk on holidays, like Kate Smith. 

He asked, "what would Independence Day be without Neil Diamond?". I was going to make a joke about James Cagney bumper music, but reality trumped me!

[Seamus Capone]

   Never mind Coast Gab.No one from my neighborhood reads...

Not even the box scores? I thought that you lived in Red Sox country.

[Eddie Coyle]

I thought that you lived in Red Sox country.

  They're fans of whoever they have money on.

[Seamus Capone]

  They're fans of whoever they have money on.

So much for team loyalty. Your post confirmed one stereotype and denied another.

[Eddie Coyle]

So much for team loyalty. Your post confirmed one stereotype and denied another.

   The Red Sox 2004/2007 championships hurt the fanbase around here. We prefer lost causes and martyrdom. It's why Bobby Sands is beloved and Gerry Adams is despised.

[Gassy Man]

George Noory really is driving me away from the show . . . to some degree, I can excuse his lazy and often stunningly shallow approach to hosting if the program itself is interesting, but his guests are SO repetitious and boring . . . I really am sick of hours of blather from James Van Pragh, Mish Shedlock, Steve Quayle, Glinnis McCants, and  tonight the droning and self-important Michael Cremo, who can't get it through his thick skull that the reason his lunatic theories aren't taught in science classes is because they aren't science.  I really do miss the days of Art Bell, who could at least put an intelligent spin on interviewing.

I think I also heard George pronounce "food" instead as "feud."

[Seamus Capone]

We prefer lost causes and martyrdom.

I see. There must be a lot of Coast listeners where you live.

[Dr_H]

I'm really tired of this guy Noory or as i call him George Snoory or George Boring. Art had a way to make each show seem as if something really special and dynamic was going to be revealed and I used to tune in every night with enthusiasm. Now it has become so dry and bland with all this financial and political rhetoric.  All they have to do is to just go back to the basics and tell us ghost and UFO stories, its not that hard. Instead we have to hear about all the ins and outs of the politics of investigation groups or some mundane subject that you would hear on any daytime talk radio show. JUST TELL US FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS OF UFOS AND GHOSTS AND STOP GETTING OFF TRACK WITH TIRED POLITICAL AND FINACIAL STORIES. Also George, try to pretend you have a little skepticism with your guests, when a guy tells you he has 16mm film footage of the crucifixion of Christ and you pretend to believe it, it doesn't give us any faith the show has any integrity left.

[Eddie Coyle]

I see. There must be a lot of Coast listeners where you live.

    No, more likely Brother Stair(his paranoia is ecumenical) and JT the Brick. Loud imbeciles. I've given up on Noory, and Phil Hendrie was cancelled in my market, so it's music fo' me.

[Morgus]

noory is so predictable.
as usual he ends the show with his old red skelton recording about the pledge of allegiance and the use of "one nation under god" that he has played dozens of times before.
he even cut off the guest 10min early to play the whole thing. 

[PB the Deplorable]

... Still more interesting is that as he opened the 4th hour of the show, George announced that his emails were running about 50/50 as to whether or not "harmness" really is a word, dictionary confirmation or not.  He definitely has found his audience.

That, or it's just another lie... let's see, 'George lying again' vs. 'audience of morons'... tossup?

[PB the Deplorable]

i don't know who called Noory the "Les Nessman of Late Night" but that's not fair.  Less was a serious newsman (if a little dull).  Noory is not even fit to be compared with the janitor at WKRP.  a character which to my recollection never made an appearance during the run of that entire show

Maybe more of a droopy-eyed shoe-polished Ted Baxter...

[valdez]

     Don't get me wrong, I love this country, and what it stands for, and hope that every drone missile strike brings hell and damnation to all of our enemies, but I've had it with Lee Greenwood's cornball "Proud to be an American" song.  Ray Charles singing "God Bless America", James Brown's "Living in America", West Side Story's "America", Woody Guthrie's "This land is Your land", to name a few, rock.  But Greenwood can take his cash and pack it in already. Susan Smith Jones told us how to eat a hot dog, and Micheal Cremo on ancient forbidden wacko archeology.  A neanderthal skull with a bullet in his head?  Hey, I guess somebody pissed off the wrong people.

e   n  o  u  g  h

   

[Eddie Coyle]

Maybe more of a droopy-eyed shoe-polished Ted Baxter...

    I've always gotten a Hank Kingsley vibe...I know George is a "news man" , but Noory doing news was probably out of necessity or a total dearth of capable people. On the worst baseball teams,somebody has to bat cleanup...doesn't make 'em good.

[FrankOMundO]

clevah !! Ha ha !!! SNOORY is a Buffoon man .

Or should I say Noory error

[PB the Deplorable]

... George said, as he has on many other occasions, "you know what they say, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times."  The thing is, "they" don't say that.  Dickens said that.  When Dr. Herndon properly attributed the quote the silence that emanated from Noory told me that he didn't know that.  I don't expect regular Joe to know such things, but I do expect a c2c host to have a working knowledge of basic western civilization.
    It's the opening line to A Tale of Two Cities (1859).

It's also a great description of C2C - the best of times under Art Bell, the worst of times with the turdmaster.

My question is - where does George Noory fall on the literacy scale? 

He doesn't seem to have ever read a book, certainly none of his guests - when he does claim to, the more he talks about it, the more obvious it is he has not read it (see '1984' - he thinks it came out in 1984, 'Chariots ofthe Gods' - he claims he read it as a young boy, long before it came out)

From his questions and comments, it's pretty clear he does not visit the guests web sites, which for a lazy person wanting to do as little show prep as possible, reading through some of that would seem like an easy shortcut.

No way this numb nut reads newspapers or even magazines.  If he did, he would appear to be somewhat more informed, at least once in awhile - he would even know the pyramids were not in Gaza.

I wouldn't necessarily say he is one of the millions of Americans, ashamed and hiding the fact that they are functionally illiterate, living life in fear of being found out, but that would explain some of it. 

It seems he can read at least a little, since he does manage to stumble through his cue cards every night, although most of the time he doesn't appear to realize it even when he mispronounces something badly, reads the word wrong, or wonders whether something that is clearly not a word is one.

Maybe he DOES spend time on show prep - maybe he is a functional illiterate, but with enough practice he can make it through the news and question cards.  Maybe that is why he is so hesitant, so relieved to get to the break, why he sounds so uninterested, so distracted. 

But it probably doesn't matter, is there really a difference between a person that can't read, and a person that chooses not to ever read?  I'd feel sorry for him if he wasn't such an ass.

the kind of mistakes he makes reading the news and his cue cards are just simply not the mistakes a person that can read would make (of course the other stupid comments and mistakes he makes are not the ones a normal regular person would make either - he seems to have very little knowledge of just about anything, no friends, no communication skills, nothing, so who really knows what the problem is).

[JustOneFix]

Paper Boy you bring up some valid points. I never quite looked at things the way you have in your last post but it does make a great deal of sense. I always thought of Noron having signs of dementia or perhaps a mild stroke, but your theory about him being essentially illiterate is sound.

I seem to remember Noron saying he does 8 hours of show prep everyday, which I find laughable.