Topic: George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[SnapT]

Another caller just brought up THE FOURTH KIND *again*, claiming it was a fact-based story, and Noory did nothing to correct him.  You'd think he'd have Wikipedia'd it by now!

[b_dubb]

I'm George. Since I'm a teenager I've always admired how 14 year-old girls spoke. That's why to this day I still pronounce all my "ing" word endings as soundeen like "een". Cute and harmless is how I'm soundeen. It's one of my main mechagnisms.

14 year old girls and good 'ol boys.


he didn't actually say that .... did he?

[valdez]

Captain Sweeney tonight: "Ahoy to you and all your listeners."
 

     I kind of like Sweeney's greeting.
 

Jim Marrs is sounding like a drunken paranoid fart knocker.  equates the mysterious 'launch plume' in the ocean off the coast of California with Hitler invading Poland.  if the plume was from a missile launch it probably came from OUR sub and it was probably a test or whatever...waiting for Marrs to knock over his bottle of Makers Mark.  highlight: Jim hangs up while pimping his cruise.  didn't know he also worked as a travel agent

     I like him too.  Smart guy.  He plays George like a Steinway piano.
 

[valdez]

     A lame, dull, and uninspiring interview with Ken Kasten on the history of space aliens.  So let me see if I got this right: during world war II aliens sided with Hitler and they still got their asses beat?  Eisenhower, as president, met with aliens on many occasions, and they offered us cool technology if we would only agree to do away with our nukes, but Eisenhower decided the cold war was much more important?  And in his farewell speech he warns us of the military industrial complex, and says nothing about all those aliens tracking up the White House floor?  And Kennedy had an exchange program with the little critters?  Ian would have grilled this guy like hot dogs on the fourth of July.  George...well...George is a facilitator.  And he sucks.
     Some lady called in and repeated a story she had told Ian a few months ago about a serial killer at her door.  Weird.
 

No.  Not those kind of aliens.

[toxicmop]

First hour is about angels tonight. 

Coast is so exhausting anymore. That guy last night was so full of crap, and George's softball queestions make me rage. A radio host is supposed to host the show not sit by and say "yeah" "hmmm". How about some actual question? The worst is when he just nods all show until making a joke that only he laughs at.

I cringe when women call in. This pervert was even flirting with that 80 year old woman last night asking her to sing. My god I hate you Mr. Mustache.

[haloedorchid]

Some lady called in and repeated a story she had told Ian a few months ago about a serial killer at her door.  Weird.

What was that about? That actually sounds interesting

[valdez]

Some lady called in and repeated a story she had told Ian a few months ago about a serial killer at her door.  Weird.

What was that about? That actually sounds interesting

     She's trying to sleep.  Her dog keeps barking and acting stranger that it has ever done before.  It freaks her out.  Finally the dog shuts up and sleeps with her.  In the morning she finds a knife outside her patio door (first floor apartment) and she believes it belonged to a serial killer that was trying to enter her house that night.  An interesting story, but is she also gonna call Knapp about it too?  I'm over it already.
     Anyway, here is an exchange between George and last night's guest, Johnathan Emord:
     George:  What percentage of pharmaceuticals are harmful?
     Emord:  About 15 to 20 percent.
     George: What percentage are not harmful?

     

[ringthane]

     A lame, dull, and uninspiring interview with Ken Kasten on the history of space aliens.  So let me see if I got this right: during world war II aliens sided with Hitler and they still got their asses beat?  Eisenhower, as president, met with aliens on many occasions, and they offered us cool technology if we would only agree to do away with our nukes, but Eisenhower decided the cold war was much more important?  And in his farewell speech he warns us of the military industrial complex, and says nothing about all those aliens tracking up the White House floor?  And Kennedy had an exchange program with the little critters?  Ian would have grilled this guy like hot dogs on the fourth of July.  George...well...George is a facilitator.  And he sucks.

That interview with Kasten was terrible. George is moderately informed on the subject but had absolutely **NO** rapport with the guest. There were times the conversation were outright awkward.

As far as grilling, I think Kasten exposed Noory as a terrible interviewer... many times George would float one of his typically bland, generalized questions and Kasten would simply respond with something like 'how?' or 'in what way?' Kasten wanted Noory to be more specific.

One thing is for sure -- you can tell Art pre-screened his guests and Noory has a producer do it. Art rarely had these type of 'uncomfortable' interviews; I don't think Noory speaks to these guests ahead of time and doesn't know what he's getting into.

I've noticed something with Noory lately and it all came together with the Kasten interview the other night -- he has a stock set of questions and I swear he has his 'stock question list' next to his mic like a cheat sheet. The stock questions include:

* "How did you get into field X?"
* "What's the most surprising thing you uncovered while researching topic X?"
* "What's it all **MEAN**???"

It's pretty clear the difference between Noory and Punnett when it comes to interviews. George drives the interview mostly from a stock set of rote questions; Ian and Knapp drive the majority of the interview based on live, real-time responses from the guest, ie, it can be illuminating and surprising. Twists and turns, nooks and crannies and tangents.

Noory's interviews have the depth of a kid's coloring book. Ok, maybe one of those pop-up books, those are a little more interesting.

[Renaldo]

I listened to the Marrs interview today at work and really wanted to shoot myself in the face.  Marrs is intelligent, yes.  But I think everytime he opens his mouth he loses more and more credibility, regardless of what the facts are.  That combined with his willingness to call anything a conspiracy, without having any facts, diminishes any actual, factual work he has done, in my mind.

I'm really tempted to call in on open lines one night to tell the 15 million hayseed listeners to stop calling about The Fourth Kind because it's entirely fiction, regardless of what your brother's friend told you.  Then I'd introduce them to my two friends Google and IMDB. 

[MV]

My god I hate you Mr. Mustache.

[MV]

I've noticed something with Noory lately and it all came together with the Kasten interview the other night -- he has a stock set of questions and I swear he has his 'stock question list' next to his mic like a cheat sheet. The stock questions include:

* "How did you get into field X?"
* "What's the most surprising thing you uncovered while researching topic X?"
* "What's it all **MEAN** "

from my terrestrial radio days, i reall most booking agencies routinely sent us pamphlets containing their library of guests they're shopping around to stations/tv shows, etc..  included in these pamphlets are, literally, questions exactly like those quoted above.  most guests, even if not represented by a booking agency, supply their own set of suggested questions.  george clearly goes to those questions.  i can remember listening to art talk about his tendency to deliberately steer away from suggested questions.


george noory sucks.

[foxhanson]

starting second hour of tonight's show with Linda Moulton Howe...Noory says she's on for a FULL SHOW? 

[toxicmop]

Linda Moulton Howe isn't a guest but a replacement host for George. I have no idea why he's there when she comes on, because every time she shows up her mouth doesn't close the entire show unless she's interviewing another guest she brought on. I think she's nitwit and completely full of crap.

[HAL 9000]

I listened to the Marrs interview today at work and really wanted to shoot myself in the face.

I can imagine your initial desire to "end the pain," but the results from the reconstructive surgery, depending on weapon and calibre, should you survive, could leave you looking like MSNBC reporter Andrea Mitchell, and you DON'T want that.

Instead, I offer the following exchange as a rational alternative:

Patient: "Dr. - it hurts when I do this."

Doctor: "Then don't do that."

 

[ringthane]

Linda Moulton Howe isn't a guest but a replacement host for George. I have no idea why he's there when she comes on, because every time she shows up her mouth doesn't close the entire show unless she's interviewing another guest she brought on. I think she's nitwit and completely full of crap.

I half agree. LMH has some crap, but I generally like her UFO stuff... as far as the veracity of the info, journalistic standards etc i can't speak to that, but i usually like the information she presents. I think the Naples UFO 'gyroscope' story she's been investigating has been some of the best stuff on coast in some time.

But yeah, what you pointed out with her is the main problem with Coast -- GEORGE DOESN'T HOST. He sits there and lets the guest blab blab blab ad nauseum. Why is he even there?

[M. Knight]

Linda Moulton Howe isn't a guest but a replacement host for George. I have no idea why he's there when she comes on, because every time she shows up her mouth doesn't close the entire show unless she's interviewing another guest she brought on. I think she's nitwit and completely full of crap.

I half agree. LMH has some crap, but I generally like her UFO stuff... as far as the veracity of the info, journalistic standards etc i can't speak to that, but i usually like the information she presents. I think the Naples UFO 'gyroscope' story she's been investigating has been some of the best stuff on coast in some time.

But yeah, what you pointed out with her is the main problem with Coast -- GEORGE DOESN'T HOST. He sits there and lets the guest blab blab blab ad nauseum. Why is he even there?

Doing taxes... writing memoirs... reading a newspaper...

[MV]

Linda Moulton Howe isn't a guest but a replacement host for George. I have no idea why he's there when she comes on, because every time she shows up her mouth doesn't close the entire show unless she's interviewing another guest she brought on. I think she's nitwit and completely full of crap.

her quivery throat cancer voice also makes me nuts.

[MV]

I can imagine your initial desire to "end the pain," but the results from the reconstructive surgery, depending on weapon and calibre, should you survive, could leave you looking like MSNBC reporter Andrea Mitchell, and you DON'T want that.

HA!!

[haloedorchid]

her quivery throat cancer voice also makes me nuts.

Lol, best discription of her voice ever.
 

But yeah, what you pointed out with her is the main problem with Coast -- GEORGE DOESN'T HOST. He sits there and lets the guest blab blab blab ad nauseum. Why is he even there?

He has stated that he feels his job as host is to sit back and let the guest tell their story. Unfortunately the guests are on a TALK show and not in a LECTURE hall and George doesn't seem to get the difference. Guests need to be guided through a conversation and have pieces expounded upon and teased out -- sometimes going in completely different directions than the guest and host had even planned on. It's the art of conversation. The guests and topics deserve better than the patented questions George asks every single guest every show, like the ones you mentioned above.
 
I wish a guest would call him out on it because clearly the callers who would have been screened out long before they'd ever reach George's ears.

[George Noory]

Im tried of reading the nonsense on this website. It needs to stop.

[onan]

Im tried of reading the nonsense on this website. It needs to stop.

It would be better if you mp3'd this. Get Lex to help.

[Stevenqbosell]

Im tried of reading the nonsense on this website. It needs to stop.

I should have thought of that alias ages ago.

I hope you're a cool parody alias.

[b_dubb]

see ... the cool thing about George Noory ... he can just load a single page of a web site .... and then he just KNOWS everything that the rest of the site says ... he doesn't need to read the whole thing

[punkinpie]

MV, have you ever been contacted by anyone from C2C with the request that you moderate negativity away?

[M. Knight]

Im tried of reading the nonsense on this website. It needs to stop.

The misspelling adds credibility that this is indeed the Nooron... "I'm tried". 

[starrmtn001]

Im tried of reading the nonsense on this website. It needs to stop.

We are tired of listening to the nonsense on c2c Monday through Friday.  It needs to stop!   

[haloedorchid]

Im tried of reading the nonsense on this website. It needs to stop.

Step it up. We're all watching you!

[toxicmop]

I myself don't like crapping on Noory all the time, but he's bad. Occasionally I'll hear a show, like the JFK shows, where he's pasable, and I'll give him credit for those. 98% of the time he's either going through the motions, not paying attention, or slobbering all over the guest. There's never been a Noory program where he's taken it to the guest and asked actual questions...well, ONE time I think he called out Sylvia Brown, and I don't think it was to her face either.

[onan]

I myself don't like crapping on Noory all the time, but he's bad. Occasionally I'll hear a show, like the JFK shows, where he's pasable, and I'll give him credit for those. 98% of the time he's either going through the motions, not paying attention, or slobbering all over the guest. There's never been a Noory program where he's taken it to the guest and asked actual questions...well, ONE time I think he called out Sylvia Brown, and I don't think it was to her face either.

Although I understand your point of view, imo Noory parked himself in the big chair. In some real sense he has an obligation to hold a standard which Art Bell established. And simply put Noory doesn't do that, more to the point it almost appears he has no investment in developing interesting and engaging interviews. He often seems to have no understanding of his guests subject matter and rather than use that lack of undstanding to clarify and edify, he nervously espouses some inane sentence. So yeah people may be blunt and it may seem unkind to some who didn't spend lots of time with Art and by extension the corporation that syndicated the program. No one needs to have baseless accusations hurled at them but this forum does not do that... not even close.

[punkinpie]

Linda Moulton Howe isn't a guest but a replacement host for George. I have no idea why he's there when she comes on, because every time she shows up her mouth doesn't close the entire show unless she's interviewing another guest she brought on. I think she's nitwit and completely full of crap.

Yeah and now she's on the Ancient Aliens TV show.  My husband and I watch it all the time.  If she's a regular now that will end.  I want to pull my hair out when she's a guest on C2C.  The visual along with the voice is far too much for me.