Topic: Any topic that makes you immediately turn off the show?

[rangers1919]

As soon as I hear the Numbers Lady, or numerology I turn off. Lately as the show has transitioned into a religious show I turn off any religious based host within a few minutes if it isn't interesting. In the last few weeks I've pretty much turned off any religious show within minutes if it wasn't hosted by Ian because they are uniformly bad. The weather patterns topics generally do it to me too, but they aren't on too often. The show has been talking about economics lately, and the lack of knowledge is astounding to me, but I do listen depending on the guest--that one is closer to 50/50.

[Il Dottore]

Fun topic. Recent shows which fit the general category I dislike of and "(not para)normal" shows that I turned off or just didn't turn on after going to the website include include Metaphysical Journey, Rock Music & 1970, and Missing Persons in Nevada.

I used to love open lines with Art but now that there is a call screener I essentially never listen to the program on Friday nights, which is a shame because I used to very much enjoy the unexpected randomness that you just don't get anymore- it's gotten very predictable (and proselytizing)

[texaskdog]

I'm not into EVPs & ghosts at all,  health-relatevd guests, or any of George's open lines, or anything Linda Moulton Howe, even though the topics themselves are good.

[Il Dottore]

...anything Linda Moulton Howe...

It's kind of a trainwreck thing for me with LMH... last week there was a show with her where the first hour she interviewed an astrophysicist at CU Boulder who essentially lectured on the abundance of black holes at the centre of galaxies... only to be followed  by a "a technical specialist in security for a Homeland Security subcontractor" who "was presented as black writing on a metallic slate" from a "Dragonfly-shaped aerial craft" that told him “Those from Oltissis are downloading their life essence into the dragonfly drone craft in order to control (from afar?) and do the tests that they need to do with these (dragonfly drone) craft.”

I can only imagine the astrophysicist telling some of his colleagues that he was going to be doing a radio interview that they should listen in, only to be followed by Oltissis and Ethos guy.

Something to love about the show is how it treats PhD Astrophysics guy with the same level of credence it treats Oltissis and Ethos Dragonfly Drone guy. But also something to fear if you take it too seriously.

[Treading Water]

Catherine Austin Fitts.  Or anyone who makes mega bucks working for someone, then loses that job and makes more mega bucks telling the world how awful/evil/criminal that person was.  I was not a fan of "W".  But, HEY, if you have a whistle to blow...how about BLOWING it BEFORE you're out of a well-paying job!

[Avi]

Near-Death Experiences. I know, I know. A lot of people love these shows, but I find it bogus in the extreme. Jerome Corsi makes me flip the dial, as well, whatever the subject. Anti-vaccination fruitbats and medical hucksters, can't stand 'em. I'm talking to you, Colloidal Silver Horowitz (or no, I'm not, because when I see his name, I don't listen).

[The General]

George Noory.

[onan]

George Noory.

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This.

[Nephilim]

Lately there seem to be more and more shows I don't even bother listening to, especially all the shows about politics and religion. Other candidates are shows about angels and numerology. I actually once liked shows about NDEs, but there were so many of these within the last few weeks that I don't need another one in the near future. I also don't like the way the Linda Moulton Howe parts are done with her only presenting playback interviews.

On the other hand even some callers can make me quit listening to a show. Somehow no matter what the show's topic is, at one point some guy, who sounds kinda drunk, will call and ask something like "knooooow whaaaaat the bible saaaaays bouuuut thaaaat, Geoooorge ", which is always a major turn-off for me.

Also George Noory saying "Good point" or "That's true" for the millionth time is hard to bear.

I also don't like guests mentioning their latest book all the time. Once is ok for me, but some guests seem to start every second sentence with "What I'm also saying in my new book <insert title here> is..." - Generally I can't even remember one show lately which didn't feature a guest talking about his latest book all the time with George always asking "So where can we get that new book of yours ?" which is always answered by the "very surprising" statement "From Amazon, Barnes & Noble or any other bookstore you can think of".

It's really hard to stumble across some real gems these days when it comes to Noory shows.

[Eddie Coyle]

   To paraphrase Lawrence Tierney in Reservoir Dogs, C2C with Noory is as "DEAD AS DILLINGER"

    The only topic he can speak about with any type of authority or understanding is how a radio version of Ted Baxter could weasel his way into a full time syndicated gig. He's an expert on that topic...

[Gassy Man]

Quite a few guests and quite a few topics make me either turn the show off or yawn knowing that it will help me get to sleep:  Steve Quayle, Whitley Streiber (both of whom should have a "Deliverance"-style duel to see which shares their stream-of-consciousness bullshit fastest), Michio Kaku (who manages to make the same points over and over again while referencing space operas like Star Wars), Linda Moulton Howe, Glynnis McCants, Ed Dames, Michael Cremo, Ice Age and earthquake guy (who is so boring and repetitive I can't even remember his name), Lionel Fanthorpe (sweet guy but he should be restricted to an hour), Jon Hogue, and uber-turd Mish Shedlock come to mind.  It's not always them personally or their topics, but it is one or the other.

In terms of the topics, I couldn't care less about D.B. Cooper, comic books, zombie apocalypses, the so-called phantom planet and Zecchariah Sitchen, giants, ice ages, meteor strikes, John Titor, so-called "ancient archaeology" and others.  It's not always these subjects that bothers me so much as the discussion is pretty much the same and goes on way too long.  If there interviews were more interesting or the people themselves had something more original to say I might actually enjoy listening . . . however, for the most part, there's nothing enlightening to these show topics.

[texaskdog]

Quite a few guests and quite a few topics make me either turn the show off or yawn knowing that it will help me get to sleep:  Steve Quayle, Whitley Streiber (both of whom should have a "Deliverance"-style duel to see which shares their stream-of-consciousness bullshit fastest), Michio Kaku (who manages to make the same points over and over again while referencing space operas like Star Wars), Linda Moulton Howe, Glynnis McCants, Ed Dames, Michael Cremo, Ice Age and earthquake guy (who is so boring and repetitive I can't even remember his name), Lionel Fanthorpe (sweet guy but he should be restricted to an hour), Jon Hogue, and uber-turd Mish Shedlock come to mind.  It's not always them personally or their topics, but it is one or the other.

In terms of the topics, I couldn't care less about D.B. Cooper, comic books, zombie apocalypses, the so-called phantom planet and Zecchariah Sitchen, giants, ice ages, meteor strikes, John Titor, so-called "ancient archaeology" and others.  It's not always these subjects that bothers me so much as the discussion is pretty much the same and goes on way too long.  If there interviews were more interesting or the people themselves had something more original to say I might actually enjoy listening . . . however, for the most part, there's nothing enlightening to these show topics.

I like Titor in that it is so obviously a hoax its funny to listen to.  Would be funnier to have a real john titor instead of "i have the family here, let me ask them..."  I like DB Cooper too, and most of Ian's shows.  Ancient aliens...boring...lets prove the ones that are here now and post-1947.

[Gassy Man]

Titor shows have no substance -- one might as well be discussing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin -- but they can be enjoyable for kitsch value perhaps.  I could have taken D. B. Cooper as one show and then a brief update from time to time, but sniveling Ian decided we had to keep getting these multiple hour segments where the "investigator" never really said much that put the story forward from the last time he was on . . . the problem with Ian's shows, beyond Ian, is that too often they are only marginally Coast to Coast relevant . . . they're often not about the paranormal but about the non-mainstream normal, or things not many people care about . . . on occasion, he gets a topic that is decent, but generally, it's the kind of stuff some nobody with a degree talks about at a local public library or Barnes and Noble. 

I'm a nobody with a degree and I don't deserve to be interviewed for hours.                                                                 

[texaskdog]

Titor shows have no substance -- one might as well be discussing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin -- but they can be enjoyable for kitsch value perhaps.  I could have taken D. B. Cooper as one show and then a brief update from time to time, but sniveling Ian decided we had to keep getting these multiple hour segments where the "investigator" never really said much that put the story forward from the last time he was on . . . the problem with Ian's shows, beyond Ian, is that too often they are only marginally Coast to Coast relevant . . . they're often not about the paranormal but about the non-mainstream normal, or things not many people care about . . . on occasion, he gets a topic that is decent, but generally, it's the kind of stuff some nobody with a degree talks about at a local public library or Barnes and Noble. 

I'm a nobody with a degree and I don't deserve to be interviewed for hours.                                                               

Agreed about Ian but they turn out to be some of my favorite shows, like the 1970 music show.  Beats 4 hours of Linda Moldy Howl

[morphiaflow]

End times, rapture, the Mark of the Beast (aka anything with Catherine whatsername, Austin Fitts or the other one), Corsi, Quayle, veiled Tea Party campaign shows, evangelical shows, creationist shows, "aliens-are-demons-from-satan" shows, abiotic oil shows, anti-vaccine shows, the-environment-is-fine shows, most angel shows, most political/financial shows, most food/health shows, birther and other anti-Obama conspiracy shows...I think most of you see the kind of thing that bugs me.

Jones and Hoagland are entertaining Trainwrecks, LMH is her own special brand of crazy but it's listenable. But all those (and probably others I'm forgetting) are just OUTTA HERE.

On the other hand...as for shows I WILL listen to...aliens and everything related, ghosts, hauntings, time travel, REAL crypto shows, parallel dimensions, multiverse, quantum physics, etc, etc, etc....those are all great topics.

Even miracles and angels can be all right if they're not overdone and not presented with a slant.

[Seamus Capone]

I immediately turn off Coast when they discuss health subjects. New Age shows, featuring amorphous words like "consciousness" and "frequency", are on the skip list too. Ditto for programs on which the guest claims that demons are responsible for all paranormal events. I skip some science shows, but I listen to others.   

[texaskdog]

28 hours a week I would figure would be worth the money but I havent seen one topic i care to hear in days.  Might drop this month.

[Lovely Bones]

One thing everyone on this thread seems to agree about with respect to Coast topics: C2C shouldn't be used as a smorgasbord for marketing.

I understand that some nights, even the best host is going to choose topics I'm not invested in.  That's life. It's not about *me.*

But I'll be danged if I'm going to sit through a show the guest is using merely to hawk his/her product line.  I remember one guy who answered every question with something like, "Well, that's too complex a question to answer in 30 seconds, but if you go to my website and buy my book. . . ."  I had to turn him off.

Perhaps one other general area of agreement: I suspect many of us find the alternative health claims minus science back up offensive and potentially dangerous.  There's a world of idiocy, fear, and hopelessness out there listening to Noory these days, and telling people they can cure cancer by whatever silly means dismissed by the heartless traditional medical community and big pharma out ONLY to take people's money is as bad as Ed Dames or psychics preying on families of missing and murdered loved ones, IMVHO. 

Nobody's going to be hurt by George pushing his turmeric as far as I can tell, but his position on vaccines (no matter how many times he says, "I'm not telling people not to get vaccinated) borders on dangerous. 

[beachcomber]

I timed the show using a stopwatch one night awhile back and found that for the hour I clocked, fully 20 minutes of it was commercial content.
That's 1 hour and 20 minutes of bad noise (to 2 hours and 40 minutes of show) over the 4 hours total - more if you count selling books by the guests during the interview, or unfocused narrative by Noory.

[anagrammy]

I cannot bear the loud commercials, so I use Funkybaldy's site instead of streamlink.  It was very, very hard to pick the topic that makes me fly to turn the show off the most, since there is so much religious garbage with Bible quotations.

God, it has to be Glynnis the Numbers Lady.  I can actually feel crawling under my skin when she comes on.

Anagrammy

[El Kragen]

Of the guests it's the numbers lady, Quayle and Dames.

Most of the topics don't interest me anymore. I've been listening since 97-98 and I realize that has a lot to do with my lack of interest. It's all been done before and much better. Now most of the shows focus on stuff like spirituality, NEDs and the rest of that airy-fairy crap. I think that's why I like Ian's stuff better. It's always a little different.

Paranormal topics are still fascinating it's just that they are handled so poorly under George's C2C.

[MV]

i haven't listened to the show in any active form since 2005 or 2006, so i can only tell you what types of shows/guests caused my departure.




well, first off, it was the host, george noory.


2) health topics
3) religious topics
4) 911 conspiracy idiots who went unchallenged
5) numerology
6) any "new age" bullshit
7) angels
8 ) hollywood
9) health topics (repeated for emphasis)
10) george noory (well, again, you see the pattern here)

[Eddie Coyle]

 911 conspiracy idiots who went unchallenged

   Head of that class is the boa-wearing ex-governor of Minnesota, who does his "what branch did you serve in?" copout when challenged slightly. I really despise Ventura and the fact that he's become the "face" of conspiracy theory.

[MV]

   Head of that class is the boa-wearing ex-governor of Minnesota, who does his "what branch did you serve in?" copout when challenged slightly. I really despise Ventura and the fact that he's become the "face" of conspiracy theory.

did you see him on opie and anthony?  he made himself look like such an arse log.

[Eddie Coyle]

did you see him on opie and anthony?  he made himself look like such an arse log.

     Oh yes, the way lil' Jimmy bothered him was awesome. He couldn't take it.

[Hugo Fitch]

The word 'portal' exiting anyone's mouth.

[rangers1919]

I completely forgot about health topics, I switch away from them pretty quickly too. I think it is hilarious almost every person says the numbers lady, and almost nobody knows her name. I don't mind if guests advertise their products or site because that is the reason most of them come on. I do agree with the poster saying it is bad when they answer every question with "In my book..."; I think it is fine if they say it before every break though.

NDEs wouldn't be as bad if they didn't do one seemingly every week, and if they were shorter. Ghost shows kind of suck now, but that is solely due to the terrible host.

One thing I do appreciate about Ian's non-Coast type shows is that he always has pretty clearly read the book they are discussing, although it gets annoying when he has to constantly point the fact out. Some of those can be bad too though of course.

[pabigfoot]

  For me, when Matthew Alper(God part of the brain) comes on, it's bedddy-bye time for me. OK, you said it once, what more can be said ?

[Art Crow]

I only listen to the streams, but

David Adair.  Sylvia Browne.

Anyone with a cadence like Strieber or Scott Stevens.

[Digitech]

For me, it's numerology as well. Ugh.