Topic: When did you turn on George?

[Treading Water]

  I can see him looking through his magic mirror and saying, "Hoagland, and Dames and Linda Howell, I have a medicine that is good for your bowel!"

Hahahahaha.  Perfect!

I think when Art was saying George "got it" he meant he "got" how radio works now.  Or maybe always has but Art disguised it well.  George is the infomercial guy..................

[fysisist]

My mother was a special education teacher for over 20 years, and one cannot talk to these children in the same way one can talk to a "normal" child. Because she spent so much of her time around children with weaker intelligences, that cadence, pronunciation and voice inflexion that you mentioned became a part of her. My mother routinely began to talk to my father, myself, her friends, even the order-taker at McDonald's in the same way she would talk to her "special" children. It really grated on our nerves, especially when my mother would over-explain even the simplest of tasks because that was what she was used to.

Therefore, when I began hearing George more often, it instantly clicked:  He talks to the audience the way my mother talks to her family or the way a special education teacher would talk to her class. It is polite to the point of condescension and extremely "milquetoasty."  Art had a much rougher edge and I enjoyed that, but George would be better served hosting Romper Room. I can see him looking through his magic mirror and saying, "Hoagland, and Dames and Linda Howell, I have a medicine that is good for your bowel!"

That's a great observation, but the difference here I think is that we are hearing Noory's true level of intellect in his manner of speaking.  He's not talking down to everyone, he's just talking.  That plus the fact that he's not only not the brightest guy around, he's also a pompous jackass, which makes it 10 times worse. 

[morphiaflow]

The more time has passed, the more I wonder if there's not a ruthless, steely, I-really-do-know-what's-going-on underside to Noory, like the old Phil Hartman SNL sketch which has Reagan being all charming-dumb-and-lovable with schoolkids visiting the white house, then they leave, his staff comes in, and suddenly--it was all an act, he's a ruthless demon who is calling all the shots and knows EXACTLY what's up...the joke being Reagan was a better actor than anyone ever guessed. And that he was a demon.

But that's probably giving GN too much credit. He was never an actor...

[Roger]

Beehive sums it up perfectly.  And your theory about listening causes brain damage is spot on also.  A coule nights ago a listener wanted to say documentary.  He said, phonetically, docuemn-terry.  George is the human stump.  He is a scouge on humanity.

Not to put anything against bees who are our friends.
Yet fer us 'humungous beings', going to the LI-BARY
(is that LIB-RARY?) helps deminish a seeming constant
trend of conceit that ere we were born: no world ever
existed!

The oncoming world might yet be a marvel.  How they treat
their forebears will be the most telling thing: cherished
as living beings or simply disposibles along with their
misappropriated errors?

Who the 'past' were might simply be 'dissolved', and
all remnant merely quaint 'collectibles'.

The past faces the future.  When the future also faces the
past: maybe some good pasture in such. When the future
faces only the future, abandoning all past: see a desert.
Dry, humorless, unforgiving, barren.

[aldousburbank]

Collect all the gold you want, but if it stands for a lie and mean
character: dirt is better. Then worms are richer than so-called 'kings'.

Roger,

Just wanted to say that I enjoy your posts- sometimes I go back over them a few times and don't get it all, but you put considerable energy into sharing your thoughts with us.  After an initial rough start, I think we've all grown comfortable with you keeping the place lit by throwing the occasional log on the fire.  Thanks.

[Roger]

Me too!

What in the hell did i write? i wrote that?

C'mon man. i'm hep to reverse pscyhology and all that junk.

I get it all the time from my parents.

i'm a piece of shit just like you, fucker.

[Roger]

yer book comes out, i'm first in line to read line by line. great stuff.
don't hesitate: just do it.

[awguy]

I hope the bastard chokes on all the free e-food and diet supplements he must be swimming in.  He's a life support system for that ridiculous mustache.

Just before my Streamlink membership expired a couple months ago,  George did a video chat with his fans. One person asked him about what supplements he takes. He came back with a rather big box overflowing with supplement pill bottles. There had to have been a least 40 bottles in there... he apparently takes all of these DAILY!

I wish I could remember just how big the box was. If I ever re-instate my membership to grab some old Art shows, I'll be sure to grab a screenshot.