George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[Juan]

Broadcasters have been obsessed with the idea of listener participation for a couple of decades.  I once worked for a TV station where management decided that we would take viewer feedback on our lede story by setting up an answering machine for their comments.  Management forgot that all calls went through the switchboard, and the switchboard shut down before the news came on.

Broadcast managers can be idiots.  They can truly not understand that the best listener participation is taking telephone calls.  Yes, the managers can be that dense.

[stevesh]

I cancelled my Streamlink membership this morning (only had two days to go) and in the acknowledgement email, there was a link to an exit survey, the contents of which were:

Streamlink Exit Survey

Why did you cancel your membership?

Cost

Audio problems

Login problems

Don't like new site

Because of advertisements

Comments

I cancelled mainly because the show is becoming increasingly caller-oriented, and the callers (and the new Sound Off feature) are the least informative and most boring segments.

Can we contact you?

[checkbox]Yes

The six 'reasons' had radio buttons, so you could only select one, and you had to select one in order to submit the form. No 'Other' with a text box. Makes you wonder why they bother if this is how seriously they're going to take the loss of a subscriber. Any six CoastGabbers selected at random could run this program better than it's being run now.

I didn't get all up in their faces about Simple George in the Comments box because they've heard it all before, and Noory's suckage aside, I think the show would be listenable if it weren't for the idiocy of almost all of the callers.

George Noory sucks, as do all of his producers. To paraphrase Mencken:

As democracy C2C is perfected, the office host represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people listeners. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House C2C hosting position will be adorned by a downright moron.

H. L. Mencken:
The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920

[Sardondi]

....The study with rats eating GMO potatoes resulted in stomach tumors.  The potatoes were genetically modified to produce a toxin and werent intended to be fed to humans or farm animals.  That study was a worst case scenario with the worst case built into the experiment....

Advocacy "science". Mark Twain knew about it when he said, "Figures don't lie, but liars can figure"; and "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Advocacy is unfortunately what is behind so very many "stories by media release" in which "experts say" things about "settled science" which isn't. Many of these planted stories come from the infamous "Center for Science in the Public Interest". CSPI's media releases, only coincidentally I'm sure, somehow always advocate for increased central government control (or even international/UN/World Court control), less individual freedom, and the ceding of responsibility for what historically have been intensely personal issues and decisions to the sole discretion of said "experts". By which is meant those who hold to CSPI's leftist socio-political agenda.

Broadcasters have been obsessed with the idea of listener participation for a couple of decades.  I once worked for a TV station where management decided that we would take viewer feedback on our lede story by setting up an answering machine for their comments.  Management forgot that all calls went through the switchboard, and the switchboard shut down before the news came on.

Broadcast managers can be idiots.  They can truly not understand that the best listener participation is taking telephone calls.  Yes, the managers can be that dense.

Yep. This is what happens when managers don't have significant personal experience in the trenches of the businesses they manage. (Same thing with teachers who know not one damn thing about the subjects they teach, but can quote a New Zealand study about reading rates when taught by "whole language" vs. phonetics.) Middle and upper managers of retail businesses might have never even held a job in which they dealt with the public, but they've got that Wharton B School diploma. And they're highly paid idiots. Of course it's not like that in all cases, but it is so to the extent that I'd bet every employee in America can give a valid example of at least one superior who has hurt their business because s/he is substantially ignorant of the details, actual requirements and demands of a position which s/he supervises.

[ItsOver]

Noory just asked his guest what she will be doing next week for Halloween.
His little mind is still stuck in October apparently...   

..... That's not bad for Noory.  Just a little off.

[b_dubb]

"audio problems"

[ItsOver]

Hahahaha..."audio problems" of the worst kind. 

[Jasmine]

CoastGab Friday Bumper Music.

This 70's song, which is the B side to the 1974 hit Seasons in the Sun (an apt tune to accompany any suicide) has got to be the most unintentionally crude and dirty ditty ever recorded.

I want to hear Noory sing this one on the air for his lishenin' audiensh.

Put The Bone In - Terry Jacks

Put the bone in

[b_dubb]

w t f ?  crude is right.  Jasmine ... where do you get off poisoning my mind with crap like this?!! 

*** begins scrubbing brain with scouring pad and a box of Spic and Span ***

[Jasmine]

w t f ?  crude is right.  Jasmine ... where do you get off poisoning my mind with crap like this?!! 

*** begins scrubbing brain with scouring pad and a box of Spic and Span ***

Sorry, darling. Like a gorgeous Vera Wang dress I saw in the window on Fifth Avenue, I just couldn't resist. 

[someguy]

      I nominate Billy Mumy, he's younger and I think Dr Smith rubbed off on him.

Hahaha! gross.

[Jasmine]

Okay, let me try this again. I cleaned up my act, boys. 

The Cure - Friday I'm in Love
The Cure- Friday I'm In Love (HQ)

[ShayP]

I guess Noory is going shopping on Black Friday because I just noticed Ian Punnett is hosting.

[At the stroke of midnight]

George Noory sucks, as do all of his producers. To paraphrase Mencken:

As democracy C2C is perfected, the office host represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people listeners. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House C2C hosting position will be adorned by a downright moron.

H. L. Mencken:
The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
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Thanks for this Stevesh! H.L. had America's pulse like no-one before or since.

[Nucky Nolan]

I guess Noory is going shopping on Black Friday because I just noticed Ian Punnett is hosting.

You might be right if he's off next Friday. A *Pink* Friday would lead to a blue Christmas for Noory. It would lead to a merry Christmas and happy new year for others. Talk about giving thanks.

[ItsOver]

I guess Noory is going shopping on Black Friday because I just noticed Ian Punnett is hosting.

One less night of Noory AND UFO Phil is always a good thing. 

[Nucky Nolan]

Guest: "Since when do angels have wheels?"

She must have missed the show with Jeremy Vaeni. Hey, wasn't Ian supposed to host tonight's Coast?

Noory: "If the sun came down that far, miracle or not, there would be cooked people."

[Hugo Fitch]

Hoagie caught Detroit in his telescope and mistook it for Mars.

[Sardondi]

Guest: "Since when do angels have wheels?"....

I'm sure the guest was asking about "heels". Because the angels wanna wear my red shoes, and need to know if they're stilettos...

[Nucky Nolan]

I'm sure the guest was asking about "heels". Because the angels wanna wear my red shoes, and need to know if they're stilettos...

Let's make sure that everyone knows that was an Elvis Costello reference. Not that I'm judging any transvestites who might post here.

[Morgus]

Noory mentioned Friday night that he will be hosting the annual c2c New Year's Eve caller predictions show this year for the first time.
That was always hosted by Art Bell until last year when Ian Punnett hosted instead after Art stopped hosting completely.
I predict this year's New Years Eve C2C show will be the absolute worst, even though Ian was pretty bad last year.
But Noory will make it horrible, just he did to the Ghost-To-Ghost Halloween show last month...

[Juan]

But, but, but ... sNoory said, " I've learned more in the last 10-years than I ever have before."  He said it last night.
Idiot.

[Sardondi]

...." I've learned more in the last 10-years than I ever have before."....

In fairness to George and newborn infants, English can be very tricky for deaf mutes who have been lifelong illiterates, and it's very difficult for victims of landmines who have suffered catastrophic brain damage to use adjectives or make comparisons. 

[thefamilyghost]

Stumbled across this page http://eternian.wordpress.com/tag/george-noory/ as i was looking for GN related things. It's an example of how GN readily agrees with anything a guest or caller has to say, regardless of how ridiculous their opinion might be.

[thefamilyghost]

It warms my heart to see how many 'George Noory sucsk!' threads/forums there are across the interwebs...though this is the best one 

[thefamilyghost]

[b_dubb]

too far

[Sardondi]

Feelings of unpleasantness.

[SnoopDawgg]

I second the "Too far".

Criticize his hosting skills to your heart's delight, but posting pics of him with his family, and photoshops that suggest homosexuality or pedophilia, is crossing the Reasonable Human Being Line of Acceptable Conduct.

The Hopi Prophecies show (main guest) was actually decent.

[sleeplessinca]

He's hosting Art's prediction and G2G?

Maybe Snoorey 's making his final assault and claiming C2C as his own.

What a butt.

[stevesh]

I second the "Too far".

Criticize his hosting skills to your heart's delight, but posting pics of him with his family, and photoshops that suggest homosexuality or pedophilia, is crossing the Reasonable Human Being Line of Acceptable Conduct.

Eye of the beholder. I thought thefamilyghost was suggesting that Noory, Tommy and Lisa had started a tailor shop.