The Coast to Coast programme has been beloved by many of us here in the People's Republic of China. As a Professor of Language Arts at a small university I am privileged to teach China's brightest young minds. Day after day we converse in English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese. My department concentrates on English and Spanish.
We use Coast to Coast as a teaching tool and it had long been a staple for my students. Then one day it happened ... Art Bell (beloved and revered talk show host, icon) went into a semi-retirement state and appointed his successor (Dear God say it isn't true) George Noory.
At first we thought, 'okay, give this bloke a shot, a chance, and see what happens. After all, nobody lives forever (may Art live forever) and we bore that characteristically open mind of the Chinese people.
No way in Hell! George Noory has succeeded in making a mockery of the entire programme. He has introduced his cute little characters such as this mad professor, someone claiming to be Jesus, and a host of 'scripted' characters and bits.
Art never screened or orchestrated calls, he sat there like a trooper and did the 'dangerous, spontaneous, and imaginative' thing by taking calls directly to the air. Art could take even a bad call and make it worthy of listening to. George Noory can't even read from the paper.
George Noory, please, do us all a favour and retire now! Your grammar is in sad need of reconstruction. Your speech is not clear and you seem to slip in and out of your midwest accent. Where are you really from? You make a mockery of some callers and treat subjects and guests with a snide almost sarcastic attitude which keeps the best of the best from wanting to have anything to do with you. You are NOT Art Bell. You will NEVER BE Art Bell. You will never even stand in the Shadow of Art Bell. You are a poorly educated, ill spoken, conceited moron! How you got this spot can only be explained by a conspiracy to torpedo the life work of Art Bell.
For your work in carefully dismantling and smashing the flaming remains of the Coast to Coast programme we curse you. The Chinese are difficult to anger or disappoint. It is in our nature to forgive again and again and again. For you this forgiveness has had to happen day after day, night after night, week after week. Well, as you Americans say, "All good things must come to an end." In your case we pray that your 'good thing' will soon do so.