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From the unexplained to the mundane, come join us on a journey to the fringe.

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Hello and welcome to Journey to the Fringe.

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We take you to where stars collide with the horizon and hatch into just baby little conspiracies.

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We are your podcast guides to this place, Taylor and Chelsea.

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And speaking of following stars, I think Chelsea can take over from here.

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That was perfect.

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Today's the day.

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The day that we talk about George Ralph Norrie.

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And that was the perfect introduction for him, I think.

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Couldn't get any better.

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George Ralph is the current host of Coast to Coast AM, who was, he was recruited by Premier Radio Network's

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the guest host on Coast to Coast AM.

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And he eventually took over for Lord and Savior Art Bell, becoming the permanent host on January 1st,

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2003.

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Let's, I think we need to take a little step back at this point, Chelsea.

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Coast to Coast AM is a AM radio show broadcast basically across North America,

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but between like midnight and 3 a.m. Eastern time, I believe, correct?

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Yeah, yeah.

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I think, I don't know, I can't remember what it is.

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I've never listened to it.

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And I think from like the late 90s.

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I'm going to finish that sentence.

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I've never listened to it live because I've never up that late.

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I actually used to listen to it live.

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That's that once or twice.

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Because it was on 6.30 chat in Edmonton from like 11 a.m.

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Yeah, I've caught it a few times live, like when we were driving.

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But never the whole thing.

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It's not, no.

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But anyhow, I think from the like mid to late 90s to the like 2010s, somewhere in there,

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you could say they're the big fish in the conspiracy pond.

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Or a big fish in the conspiracy pond.

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Yeah, I don't want to get too into Coast because this episode isn't about Coast because it's about

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Nori, but yeah, I mean, Art Bell started Coast to Coast AM.

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He's like the big kahuna.

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People love him.

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He was really great at hosting open lines is what Coast to Coast was known for without any,

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what do you call it, like any screening.

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He would thoughtfully debate people, just a really good host and have a lot of different

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conspiracy minded alternative guests on as guests.

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I think he would have been a really good skit actor or what do you call it?

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What's whose line is it anyways?

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Oh, that's like improv.

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Improv, an improv actor because he was really good at the yes and like he didn't shut

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colors down.

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He always like kept them going and kind of like getting.

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Oh yeah, he fully interacted with people and asked thoughtful question.

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He was a really good host of Coast to Coast AM and people loved Art Bell and he never

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like would turn people down to get on there.

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He would debate them and he also was a pretty good showman.

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He had a lot of a lot of classic and we'll look at it when we do an actual

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episode on Coast to Coast AM.

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A lot of really famous things happened and came from Coast to Coast AM.

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That's Coast to Coast AM.

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I'm sure in your time on earth you have encountered something to do with Coast to

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Coast AM at one point or another.

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And a lot of the assholes that we have done episodes on definitely appeared on Coast to

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Coast AM.

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I'm getting the Coast to Coast AM sometimes extensively.

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Yes.

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Which is also probably where we have heard from a lot of them.

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And I'll get to it.

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I was a huge listener to Coast to Coast AM for a long time and we will get to that.

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So that's who George Norrie is.

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That's who Coast to Coast AM is.

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Like I said, we're focusing on George Norrie who is the current host of Coast to Coast AM.

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And we're going to leave Coast to Coast AM and Art Bell open for subsequent episodes.

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Which just makes sense, right?

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And in retrospect of doing this episode, I'd like to say that George Norrie seems to

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have such a very controlled presence.

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More than I have actually seen with anybody else that we've done any episodes on.

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It's really quite bizarre.

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Anywhere I went to get the lowdown on George Norrie, I came up with literally the exact

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same script about his life.

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Which is the one that's on Coast to Coast AM.

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Anywhere I went.

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I still have something quite nice put together for you.

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I do know that he does not thoroughly control the Coast to Coast AM subreddit.

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Oh no, which is where I got a majority of this information.

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Okay, so who is George Norrie?

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George Ralph Norrie.

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He was born June 4, 1950, which makes him 73 years old and he grew up in Detroit,

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Rock City, his death is Lebanese Egyptian and mother is Lebanese American.

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you're probably familiar with the three or four stories that Norrie tells over and over

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and over and over and over and over and over again.

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Here's one of them.

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He became interested in the paranormal and ufology as a child and joined the UFO

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organization NiCAP as a teenager.

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but was never able to recreate it.

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That is from memory, my friends.

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And I haven't listened to Coast.

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They're like 10 years.

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At least he has three kids, six grandchildren.

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He served nine years in the US Naval Reserve in norm particular order.

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Detroit in 1972.

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It's all very boring.

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Radio career starts as, I mean, do you think anything exciting happens in this

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guy's life?

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Like I don't think it does.

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His radio career starts as a newscaster with Detroit station WCARAM.

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In 1974 for four years, he works as a news producer and executive news producer at WJBK

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TV in Detroit.

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director at some other letters of dash TV in St. Louis.

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Surprisingly to me, maybe probably also maybe to some other people.

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He won three local Emmy awards for his work in the TV news.

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That would have been like St. Louis at the time.

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Maybe.

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This is very boring information.

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Well in St. Louis, Nori formed Norcom Entertainment Inc.

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which developed a marketed video training films to law enforcement and security agencies.

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I can't find a single thing related to Norcom other than a vague article about a letter of

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intent to merge with another company in a stock exchange transaction from 2015.

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So why he created this business that made these types of training videos is beyond me.

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I did not know he had that background.

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And it doesn't sound like he did anything like meaningful when he was in the naval.

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Naval I think he was in.

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Did I say that yet?

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nursing homes, and educational facilities to be marketed to over 1500 school districts.

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Those are two things you want to emerge, police training and daycare training.

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No, I don't know what the hell.

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Like it's weird and I don't know what comes of it.

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So apparently probably shuts down, but I don't know.

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It's just a permanent cliffhanger.

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You don't see anything else happen.

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And obviously I didn't get that from the Coast to Coast website that's plastered everywhere.

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This is like weird.

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But then there is Norcom Restaurants Inc.

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And he's talked about his restaurant before, right?

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Which I, he never really divulged the full details.

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He, this Norcom Restaurants Inc.

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Which is, I mean, he took the same name as the other one that.

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When you're saying Norcom, is it N-O-O-R?

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Like his last name?

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N-O-R-C-O-M.

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This company opens Cafe Marrakesh and Oasis Bar in Brentwood, Missouri.

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And let me tell you, it is the most bizarre restaurant concept I've ever heard in my life.

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So get this, the restaurant's theme revolves around a fictional English soldier, Colonel William Berry,

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who opened the establishment following an exciting secret mission to Marrakesh.

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Like what the fuck is that?

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Like have you ever been to a restaurant like this?

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What kind of food would they serve?

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Like I don't know if it's like army rations or like.

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Like the Rainforest one where it's all rainforest themed in there but it's not like a show or anything?

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My question exactly, and I would love to read you more information and maybe some Yelp reviews.

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However, this restaurant is as old, if not older than me.

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And unfortunately I'm dating myself by saying I predate Yelp and Google reviews.

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I don't know.

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It's about like, let's go to the restaurant that's about the Colonel.

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It's so weird.

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So that's the end of that.

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It closed down.

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You can't even confirm George is involved.

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1996 rolls around and Nori is hosting a late night radio show not unlike Coast to Coast AM

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called The Night Hawk on KTRS in St. Louis, which ultimately is what catches the eye of

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executives at Premiere radio networks, which is the syndicators of Coast to Coast AM.

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Something else I failed miserably to find any sliver of piece of information on.

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I couldn't find an old recording.

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I couldn't find anything.

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And in April 2001, Nori becomes guest host for Coast to Coast taking over for Ian Punnett.

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As Sunday Night host, and I mentioned previously in 2003, he becomes

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weeknight host of Coast to Coast AM after Art Bell's many retirements.

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Now, as a side note, since we're on the subject, there was somewhat of a feud between

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Art Bell and Nori. I don't know if you know this.

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George Nori first took over show hosting duties in 2003 as a replacement for Bell,

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At first, Art seemed pleased with the choice of Nori taking over the show, saying he just gets it.

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part of the closing credits of the show because he didn't want to be associated with it.

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doing. One guest even had their Coast to Coast appearance cancelled after an appearance on

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Midnight in the Desert. Art blatantly called it out and referred to Coast to Coast as the other show.

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While there is a lot of hearsay on that, I just wanted to let you in on.

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I can tell you one thing for sure and I can give it to you right out of the big guy's mouth himself

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because there is a clip going around of Art Bell talking about George Nori on his ham radio.

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The audio quality isn't great, but here you go.

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It's ham radio level? Okay. Yep.

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Don't get me started. He shouldn't be an LA. I always try to keep the Los Angeles influence as far from my life as I could.

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I've got a lot of run-ins with them and I'm loving running into the center of that influence, right?

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But you know, Woody Dodd's guest is. You mean in terms of the network? Yeah, the Sherman Open.

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Yeah. Why do you think he wanted to do that? I mean, why would he decide to do that?

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Is that going to mean he's going to do the show from K.F.I.?

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It's going to mean he'll do the show from Pringar Studios, I'm sure, in the thousands.

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I don't know if it's going to be a mistake. Every other radio program is originated in New York or Washington.

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They're the poor LA and poor The Charm. For me, if that show was always my...

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I wanted my own staff, in other words.

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And so I demanded and were successful in demanding a complete buffer from those people.

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And when I left, they took that opportunity to decimate that entire operation up there to close down there.

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There's about 30 people who've lost their job because they were tired.

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And so now that I'm raw, they're able to take very sharp control of it, of course, and to what you're seeing here as part of that.

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I can understand a producer and... I'm a producer.

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Why did his signal go through that?

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Yeah, for sure it did. Instead of delivering my signal by IFDM, the way everybody else does,

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we founded a much cleaner, better way to deliver the signal, and that was by KU-Band Satellite.

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And so the KU-Band Satellite link was in Medford when Premier bought the program, and so we never changed that.

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I wouldn't let them change it.

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I got it. So you were uplinking to Medford, and Medford was...

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That's where your board operator was, and that's where it went back up through Satellite for the station you were on, on whatever network you were on before.

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Not a lot of people understand. I ran my own board.

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However, yeah, there was an engineering staff up there that would do certain things,

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but I ran my own board and answered my own telephone.

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And George didn't do anything. He's got his entire workplace meeting.

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He's got people whose screen is called, and he's got people who do literally everything for a month, commercials, everything.

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I ran the commercials. I ran my board. I answered the phones. I did all of it.

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Okay. All right. That answers some questions. I had gotten on that subject inadvertently since you mentioned that,

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but I had wondered that for some time. What the hell Medford came into play.

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But that makes sense that it was there before.

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Premier picked it up.

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But again, what are George's motivations for being in Los Angeles?

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I can't, I can't, it's the biggest city. I mean, it's not like living in the middle of nowhere.

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I mean, what's the people who want to be here?

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I could only speculate.

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You know, and I really shouldn't, but you know, he may think that he can be closer to the political side of the company and Tom Noff or those folks.

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I can't really think of any other impact I can directly. I can't think of any advantage being in Los Angeles.

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All I can think of is the advantages that it would cause.

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Probably two, three times as much to live in LA as it would cause to live in Los Angeles.

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And until the first survey from the House of State by George, I would not have told my home and moved to Los Angeles.

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Or moved to LA rather than St. Louis.

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And so I thought how I would deal with this superimposed.

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I hear you. I understand that. I would agree with that.

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If I could make the same money I'd make here, I would probably be in, I wouldn't be in a small town like you were in,

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my preference would be to be in a city, but not this one.

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Probably be in some place or maybe 500,000 people or so, something like that.

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Not the 13 or 14 million people I'm surrounded by here.

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Yeah, exactly. What's the point?

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I like Russia a little over time. You know, what gives is to make where I am.

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It doesn't make any difference at all. The most radio program is okay.

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I always tried to keep the, well not try it, I did. I kept a lot of the Angeles in the store.

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It was totally away from me. Completely away from me.

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And I always thought that made a difference. In a way I was on the air. I just, you know, I was myself.

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And you'd have to ask George why I went to LA.

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But he's actually moving this weekend.

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So on Monday, I think it is Monday. I use this Monday or Tuesday to show we'll begin to emanate from the studios of Stinger and LA.

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Well, maybe he's, maybe they're trying to, maybe the network wanted him out here for some reason.

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Maybe it's not so much he wants to be here. Maybe they're trying to persuade him or something to be here.

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Maybe there's some reason they want him here.

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Maybe he likes the weather. The weather is a good thing.

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Maybe they're trying to...

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You know, whatever.

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They couldn't have moved me.

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There's no way I'd help.

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After Art Bell's death in 2018, Nori said that the two were not that close personally.

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And there were major differences in their approaches.

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Despite this, Nori said that Bell was quote instrumental in me being where I am now and quote.

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Yeah, he is because he gave you the radio show to go to giving him his career.

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George says that if he wasn't on a national radio show, he would be in politics.

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Probably something of a mix between Biden and Ron Santos.

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I would imagine why he felt we needed to know that beyond me and why I felt the need to tell you that also beyond me.

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Yeah. I mean, he hasn't been his sharpest the last couple of years,

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but I can't imagine him with his like every now and then he gets an opinion in and they're just the stupidest things you hear.

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And apparently it has declined sharply in the last couple of years.

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He apparently has let his political views out on coast to coast. People aren't happy about.

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I believe I get to it. This is right from the coast to coast AM website. This is where you see everywhere.

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Nori captivates program listeners with his discussions of paranormal phenomena, time travel, alien abductions, conspiracies and all things curious and unexplained.

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He is driven, he has said by the desire to solve the great mysteries of our time.

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I mean, I feel like it's a stretch because he's the least captivating guy I've ever listened to that has zero thoughtful questions.

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Some questions, some may argue would bring into question whether or not he's even listening to the individual being interviewed.

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So George gets the full time coast gig and he slowly just monetizes the shit out of absolutely everything he can get his hands on.

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He co-writes a bunch of books. Don't worry, reviews included one star because they're the best.

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These are the ones cited on his Wikipedia page. 2006 Nori and George Burns, William.

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Worker in the light. Fran rates this two stars out of five.

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Not interesting enough to get very far into the book. Sorry, I expected more. I'm thinking he is really into himself and in my honest opinion, has a holier than thou attitude.

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2009, same authors. Nori, George, George Nori. Oh my God, I read that like an idiot.

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George Nori and William Burns. Journey to the light. I just realized what I did.

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Two out of five stars. Too many stories. I was interested in finding out how to journey to the light, although there were many stories from people's accounts.

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There wasn't any detail how to reach the next hemisphere.

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2011, George Nori and Rosemary Geily talking to the dead. Two out of five stars.

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This book talked more about the people who developed the equipment to talk to the dead than actual conversations. This book was disappointing.

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2013, oh this is one of my favorites George Nori books. Also co-authored with William J. Burns, George Nori's late night snacks.

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George Nori has put together the ultimate after midnight cookbook.

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That's why you said that to me.

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Late night snacks for late night radio. Whether you're hankering for some nostalgic treats like homemade toaster tarts or rib-sticking dumplings.

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Love you? What? Or something more exotic like spicy hurried curry pockets or Asian fusion salad.

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George Nori shows you how to whip up quick delicious snacks with whatever ingredients are lying around your kitchen in the wee hours.

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I had to give you the description for that one.

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Now, Mike Moseley reviewed this quite extensively and I'm going to read this to you because I quite enjoyed it.

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To start, I will give you my overall feelings for this book.

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I found it to be a pleasant change from many cookbooks even though it's called a book of snacks all capitalized.

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There are many recipes that make excellent meals in themselves.

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He capitalizes snacks in every instance of beers in this review.

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I highly recommend the book.

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For anyone who was bored with their current recipes, it will give you ideas how to spice them up.

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Included are many tweaks to change your average snack to a tasty meal.

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Being somewhat of a cookbook collector, I've seen quite a few boring cookbooks.

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When I read the description of the book, it sounded interesting and I was not disappointed.

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What I found useful was that even though a number of recipes were pretty ordinary,

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George Norrie added an interesting twist to them by adding ingredients other than what you would normally think.

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An example, a great example might I add, is his meatloaf recipe which includes pepperoni.

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That's a simple addition.

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As quite an exchange to a plain meal.

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Another snack I found to be quick and easy was his chicken fried rice.

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Admittedly, it's more work than opening a pre-made package in heating,

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but as he says, this recipe allows you to adjust the flavor to your own taste.

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I mean, was he expecting this to be like just opening the package in the microwave?

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Just put uncle Benz in the microwave.

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The book advertises over, remember this is capitalized, 150 snacks,

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but actually includes numerous recipes that are great for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and dessert.

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A large variety of snacks was very impressive, including recipes for candy, ice cream, butter,

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meat, bread, cereal, nuts, sauces, soups, seasonings, dressings, eggs, sandwiches, salads, and many more.

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That's his review.

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Mike, thank you for your duty.

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That was exactly what I needed to know about that book.

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And I was going to say there's no way he came up with these recipes,

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and then he said the pepperoni and the meatloaf, and I was like, yeah, you know what, these are George Norris.

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Yeah, that sounds like a George Norris pepperoni and the meatloaf.

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That just reminded me there was like a month or a few weeks where he was off because he microwaved a hot pocket,

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and it was too warm inside.

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He microwaved it too long.

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We've all been there. We're hungry and we can't wait for whatever came out of the microwave.

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He was out for at least a week.

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Of all the things he doesn't comment on, that was probably the one thing he shouldn't have commented on.

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Yeah.

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And just made something up.

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Okay, next one, George Norris.

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This one all on his own, night talk and novel.

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I know how I love good reviews, and I'm about to give you one of the best reviews you will ever hear in your life from Winston O'Boogey.

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Thank you for doing the Lord's work with this splendid review, one out of five stars.

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And I can't figure out what he actually titled it because it's start out.

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It's S, star, star, star, E, talk.

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I don't know what that stands for.

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Maybe shut it off.

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I think it's shite talk, yeah.

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Okay.

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Because it's night talk, but shite talk.

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Raise yourself, this is good.

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I've been familiar with George Norris for many years.

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As the host of Coast to Coast AM, I have come to regard him as the single most incompetent...

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Sorry, let me keep my posture.

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As the single most incompetent rockcaster in the history of radio.

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Unable to speak coherently.

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I don't know how I'm going to get through this.

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Unable to speak coherently, pronounce words correctly, or understand the idioms of the English language.

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He is also the laziest and dullest interviewer.

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I lived most of my life in the UK and trust me, he couldn't get a job making the tea at the BBC.

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He makes Alan Partridge sound like Alistair Cook.

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All of this you might think would be something of a drawback when you host an interview and talk based show.

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And yet he keeps announcing that Premiere Radio have awarded him yet another long term contract.

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Either he is an incredibly cheap yet lucrative way of filling the night hours or he knows where the bodies are buried.

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Given all of this, how can I not be intrigued by the prousteck of Mr. Norris venturing into the literary world?

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Curiosity got the better of me and I dually purchased the copy of Night Talk.

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A ghost writer does not appear to have been involved.

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No one is credited or acknowledged as such.

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Indeed, his scant four lines of acknowledgments, mostly his family does not even mention an editor.

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The lack of such is immediately apparent.

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A ghost writer or an editor might be expected to have a basic understanding of the structure of a novel.

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And it's very clear that no such person got near this thing.

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Moreover, the manuscript, far from being professionally proof read, has clearly not been so much as glanced at by anyone

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with the passing acquaintance with the English language.

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No, it was immediately apparent that this turd can only be the product of one man.

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I was reminded of nothing more than Truman Capote's famously sneering dismissal of Jack Kurorat quote,

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that's not writing, it's just typing, end quote.

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Those familiar with Mr. Norris as a broadcaster will know what I mean when I say that only he could describe an object.

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Being a round cylinder or talk about a character who waits while he...

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or talk about a character who waits while he booted up his computer tablets,

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we're referred to that well-known cinematic genre, car chase films.

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Chapters are annoyingly, pointlessly short.

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Chapter breaks appear in the middle of a conversation with the next chapter being a continuation of the same conversation in the same location.

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Much of this feels dictated and then transcribed verbatim and sent to press with no revisions or passes.

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How else does the sentence quote, we can imply from what we've seen that no one didn't know the woman.

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Escape without someone pointing at that, imply is correct or should infer or deduce.

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Or the use of horribly clumsy words like getting the whole news media to hold it didn't sound doable.

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Again, the EMTs, cops and coroner people who showed up at the scene.

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Have you ever seen anyone purse their brow?

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One of Mr. Norrie's characters does it. Does anyone know what a police attitude test is?

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An aptitude test I'm familiar with.

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At one point, the hero and heroine are trapped in a burning building and our author displays the astonishment breath and invention of his vocabulary.

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In the space of a single page we get, quote, the room was filled with smoke which made them go into coughing spasms and quote, quote.

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He took a deep breath and choked on smoke going into coughing spasms and quote, quote.

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Choking on the smoke and quote, quote. The space was dark and thick with smoke, sending them both.

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Yesping for air into coughing spasms and quote, quote.

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Coughing is smoke from the fire burn their lungs and quote.

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Smoke makes you cough in spasms, get it?

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Absurdly long sentences with no punctuation leave you feeling slightly dizzy or just keep going on and on for no apparent reason.

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This is at its worst when Norrie wants to impress you with his detailed knowledge, as in this example.

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Quote, so was the clutter that surrounded the house and barn like a lake of castoffs from the sea.

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The anchors and port holes, Greg mentioned, rusty old cannons removed from Davy Jones' locker,

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the helm to steer an ocean liner or a dayfisher, propellers to drive a ship in brackets.

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Helpful that in case you don't know what a ship's propeller does.

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Re-bracket.

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Winches to raise the sails on a 10 meter sloop, lifeboats and dinghies, oars, lines, mass, booms, boys, engines.

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In brackets, did you know Mr. Norrie was in the Navy? He knows these things.

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Hold on. We're not done yet.

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Win brackets. Figure heads from the boughs of sailing ships, bow spirits, galley stoves on gimbals to rock with the sea

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and a host of other salty artifacts. Nautical treasures are junk depending on your perspective.

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End quote from the book. Rule of Free George, Rule of Three.

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He says, oh I could go on. Let me give Mr. Norrie a brief moment of credit.

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There is a germ and a half decent idea in here.

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If he was able to recognize his own limitations and seek the assistance or guidance from someone who knew what they were doing,

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he might have produced a passable novel to pass a long plane ride, but he has no clue what he's doing, so this isn't that.

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His characters are entirely one-dimensional.

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The plot, such as it is, is laid out in the first 20 pages or so, and barely developed over the remaining 300.

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The action keeps stopping so his protagonist can have long conversations about all the author's favorite kinnards.

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Towards the end, there is a bizarre, irrelevant, and geographically mystifying drive-in fog up the mountain somewhere,

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which is only there so Mr. Norrie can throw in an alien encounter for his hero.

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And then it just well ends. No real conclusion or resolution.

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Indeed, as George Norrie's alter ego, Gregg Noel, equals GN.

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GN. Gregg Noel. Clever, huh?

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Walks into the light in the final sentence.

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I was filled with the profound sense of dread as the possibility of a sequel to the night talk crept into my brain.

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In summary, a waste of paper.

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I can only add the usual caution that I only awarded this a single star because no stars or more appropriately negative stars are not an option.

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That has to be the most detailed, hilarious review I've ever read in my life, and I loved it.

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Okay, so those are all the books that were mentioned on his Wikipedia.

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I'm not sure how these others escaped.

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If you just search them, honestly, I don't know if Norrie along with these others are just looking to slap his name on there or what's going on.

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2014 UFOs for the 21st century mind, a fresh guide to an ancient mystery.

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This is written with Richard M. Dolan and George Norrie.

440
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,200
One out of five stars never received it.

441
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,200
I had to include that.

442
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,200
Another one out of five stars.

443
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:22,200
I was expecting facts and logic, not enough facts and not enough logic for this 21st century mind.

444
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,200
Oh, and I must mention there are practically zero conclusions.

445
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,200
2015, someone is hiding something.

446
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,200
What happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?

447
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,200
Richard Belzer, George Norrie and David Wayne.

448
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,200
One out of five stars.

449
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,200
Childishly serious, self aggrandizing.

450
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:46,200
Throughout nonsensical logic, internally contradictory and full of gratuitous, biased, irrational, irrelevant political tripe.

451
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,200
2017, mad as hell.

452
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:53,200
America's number one all night radio host takes on the dangerous world we live in.

453
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,200
This is just original.

454
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,200
I don't feel like it would be good.

455
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:58,200
Two out of five stars.

456
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,200
This is misleading. Save your money.

457
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,200
This is a catch all book and the title is very misleading.

458
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,200
It contained the entire history about UFOs.

459
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:14,200
He spoke about his anger about how things were today, but the last part of the book and it seemed like at least half of it was a self biography.

460
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:19,200
He should have kept it short, but seemed to repeat himself several times and rambled on and on.

461
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:23,200
The book was just too long and I found myself skipping many pages just trying to get through it.

462
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,200
George has many talents, but writing isn't one of them.

463
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,200
2022, UFOs for the 21st century mind.

464
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,200
The definitive guide to the UFO mystery.

465
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:37,200
New and expanded edition Richard Dolan, George Norrie. This one actually didn't have anyone who wrote out reviews.

466
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,200
It didn't have a very good star rating though.

467
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,200
2022, past life in ancient lands and other worlds.

468
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,200
Understand your soul's journey through time.

469
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:49,200
Shelley A. K. R. P. H. D. and George Norrie.

470
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:50,200
Two out of five stars.

471
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,200
The information about the agents is minimal and vague.

472
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:58,200
The exercises are the same thing repeated with a couple sentences added in.

473
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:02,200
On the whole, it was not insightful and it was a little biased towards new age thinking.

474
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,200
It definitely was not worth the $15 I spent.

475
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,200
You can get more on YouTube meditation for free.

476
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,200
I do not recommend this book.

477
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:10,200
Good day.

478
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:11,200
Good day.

479
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:15,200
2022, the body code.

480
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:18,200
Unlocking your body's ability to heal itself.

481
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,200
Dr. Bradley Nelson and George Norrie.

482
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:26,200
This one is somehow his most highly rated book with his name on it on Amazon,

483
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:31,200
which I find interesting because there were a lot of angry reviews.

484
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:32,200
Well, let me just read this one.

485
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:33,200
One out of five stars.

486
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:34,200
Disappointed.

487
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,200
This book is in no way complete.

488
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:42,200
It is fragmented and you must purchase the app, which is about $30 per month.

489
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:43,200
What?

490
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:47,200
He should have the complete info and diagrams at his website free of charge.

491
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:54,200
As he says, the publisher limited the size of the book and only charge for the app if someone wants something more convenient.

492
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,200
The book does not deliver the information.

493
00:34:56,200 --> 00:35:01,200
I don't understand why someone would be motivated to write such a book that is so incomplete.

494
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:08,200
It's like selling a card that doesn't have an engine or transmission and promising that it will take you from point eight to point B.

495
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,200
So those are the books.

496
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,200
We're seeing a lot of things with the book.

497
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,200
We're seeing that he's not a great writer.

498
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:21,200
He does also, he writes a lot of four words to books just so they can get his name on there.

499
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:26,200
We're also seeing him just blatantly throw like shit to the wind and hope that he makes money off something.

500
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:27,200
Yeah.

501
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,200
Well, I have to be honest with the four words.

502
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:35,200
My theory is that somebody just pays him and sends him what they want to say and he'll just sign it.

503
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:39,200
Based at what we get through in this, I really think that that's what's happening as well.

504
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:45,200
And then we're seeing on the last one just a blatant money grab after somebody's bought a book.

505
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,200
So what else has he monetized?

506
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:54,200
December 2012, Giam TV, which is now referred to as Gaia, launched Beyond Belief with George Norrie,

507
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:58,200
a new TV show exploring the unknown and mysteries of the universe.

508
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:05,200
The one hour weekly series features Norrie's informative, investigative and dynamic conversations.

509
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:10,200
I would honestly listening to him not describe any of that as him.

510
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:18,200
As well as some of his favorite guests from the radio program, obviously since he is in it for the money, it's not being done at gunpoint.

511
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,200
No, but this would, I never actually saw an episode of it.

512
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:22,200
I was aware of it.

513
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:23,200
Yeah.

514
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,200
But this would at least show us how invested he is in his actual interviews and like,

515
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:27,200
it's true.

516
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,200
I guess it's on his phone the entire time.

517
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,200
And then just popping up to ask a cool question when you hear silence.

518
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:34,200
Yeah, to be sure.

519
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,200
Membership starts there at $15 per month.

520
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,200
This TV show is still going.

521
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,200
He has also hosted quote unexplained with George Norrie.

522
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,200
Not sure why I put a quote on that.

523
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,200
That sounds right up his alley actually.

524
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,200
A lot of the things he does, I can't explain.

525
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:54,200
No, he also has appeared on history channels,

526
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:58,200
Ancient Aliens, Syfy, Larry King Show and numerous others.

527
00:36:58,200 --> 00:36:59,200
I don't know.

528
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,200
I guess they didn't want to list the numerous others on the website,

529
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:06,200
but he is in Extraordinary The Revelations.

530
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:10,200
The follow up to Extraordinary The Stanley Tiger Story,

531
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,200
which we also need to do one on that as well.

532
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:14,200
It's on the list.

533
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:15,200
Maybe one day we'll get to it.

534
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,200
I'm going to make an over here.

535
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:18,200
Extra.

536
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,200
I don't know if you say it extraordinary or extraordinary.

537
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:21,200
It's extraordinary.

538
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,200
Extraordinary.

539
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:26,200
And I mean, tomato tomato, I guess at that point.

540
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:27,200
Okay.

541
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:30,200
So he started ParanormalDate.com.

542
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,200
Oh, I forgot about that.

543
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,200
Oh, you're going to love this part.

544
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,200
This is the blurb on the front page.

545
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:41,200
George Norris, syndicated radio host of Coast to Coast AM

546
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,200
and SiriusXM Satellite Radio.

547
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,200
He started a dating app because you notice how lonely everybody

548
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,200
who's calling to talk to him is.

549
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:53,200
Basically, this takes an interesting turn.

550
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:54,200
Okay.

551
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,200
He's syndicated radio host of Coast to Coast AM

552
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,200
and SiriusXM Satellite Radio,

553
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:04,200
entertaining millions weekly on nearly 700 radio stations,

554
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,200
created ParanormalDate after seeing a need

555
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,200
from his massive loyal audience.

556
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:11,200
They were so lonely.

557
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:12,200
Norris says,

558
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:16,200
I keep hearing the same thing at speaking events around the country.

559
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:20,200
George, I need a place to meet people of like mind

560
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,200
that understand me and my interests.

561
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,200
And from that, ParanormalDate.com was born.

562
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:27,200
That's what he says.

563
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,200
I say it's free and yes, it is to sign up,

564
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,200
but you cannot communicate for free.

565
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,200
And in poking around the website,

566
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:38,200
I saw it was powered by whitelabeldating.com,

567
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,200
which I then went to the website to see what it was about.

568
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:45,200
Basically, it runs the website, ParanormalDate.com,

569
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,200
and it shares from a database.

570
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:51,200
So when it says there are however many members

571
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,200
on ParanormalDate.com, it's platform sharing.

572
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:58,200
So it's not counting those on ParanormalDate.com.

573
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,200
When it says communicate with however many members

574
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:02,200
that are active on there.

575
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:08,200
It also means that members who join and pay for ParanormalDate.com

576
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,200
to communicate with people are less than likely

577
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:15,200
to be communicating with someone from ParanormalDate.com.

578
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,200
In the terms of service, you do have to agree

579
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,200
to have your information added to the network.

580
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,200
So you have this collection of like dating websites

581
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,200
of all sorts of themes, whoever is powered by this,

582
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,200
and you're getting messages that you have to pay to see

583
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,200
and ask them about, you're like,

584
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,200
hey, you like aliens? Do you like ghosts?

585
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,200
Which is why everyone's going to be on this dating website.

586
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,200
And a majority of the time, the response is like,

587
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,200
what the fuck are you talking about?

588
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,200
That is weird stuff, man.

589
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,200
I just assume it's a white supremacist dating site

590
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,200
outside of that as well.

591
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:49,200
I did as well.

592
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,200
I don't know if it is or not. I can't.

593
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,200
I don't know why it's called. I cannot confirm nor deny.

594
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,200
No, I cannot.

595
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,200
I tried to see if I could get pricing,

596
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,200
but it's hidden without signing up.

597
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,200
I saw someone post three years ago,

598
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,200
it was $30 a month or $199 for a year.

599
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:05,200
Jesus.

600
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,200
So it's probably increased by now.

601
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,200
And turns out people are highly unsatisfied with it.

602
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:13,200
There are only one and two star reviews

603
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,200
anywhere I was able to look. And now I have some reviews.

604
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,200
Laura M says, worst dating site ever,

605
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,200
fake profiles and scammers beware.

606
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:24,200
Same experiences as others that I would receive a notification

607
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:27,200
then go to the site and their profile was no longer active

608
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:28,200
many times.

609
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,200
No one on the site mentions anything about paranormal

610
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:35,200
interest, only communicated with one person who was real.

611
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:38,200
Last one wanted to Google chat because his phone line

612
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,200
had funky static and I couldn't hear him.

613
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:41,200
First red flag.

614
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,200
He later gave me a sad story that his power was cut off

615
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:45,200
and asked to borrow money.

616
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:46,200
Bye bye.

617
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:47,200
I'm canceling.

618
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,200
George Norrie should be ashamed of this site.

619
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:50,200
Tip for consumers beware.

620
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:51,200
Don't use the site.

621
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,200
Jim predatory bogus.

622
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:54,200
Don't pay.

623
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,200
You will not get a refund.

624
00:40:56,200 --> 00:41:00,200
I joined on Saturday requested a refund $199 on Sunday

625
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,200
per message, but did not request cancellation.

626
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,200
Customer service responded Tuesday,

627
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,200
4am by email since I had used the site,

628
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,200
viewed messages probably sent by employees and replied

629
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:13,200
to messages.

630
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,200
I was not eligible for a refund of one year membership.

631
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,200
So I swear this is my experience.

632
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,200
I am still a member and quotes victim.

633
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:24,200
So I get to talk to probably ghost non-existent members,

634
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,200
whores, predators, catfish and chumps like me.

635
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,200
You will do better looking for companionship at a grocery

636
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,200
store and there's no evidence anybody wants to talk about

637
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,200
paranormal or date stuff either.

638
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,200
A bogus dating site in my opinion.

639
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,200
George Norrie millionaire.

640
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:40,200
You should be ashamed.

641
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,200
I would give the site a negative rating if possible.

642
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:47,200
And I just threw this one in because here's another mention.

643
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,200
Lucy mostly hookers and scammers.

644
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,200
Not sure why that keeps coming up.

645
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:58,200
I go on the website thinking I might could date an outer space

646
00:41:58,200 --> 00:41:59,200
alien.

647
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,200
I believe that this is someone signing up for

648
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:05,200
barenormalteach.com.

649
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:09,200
Instead, it's all of these 90 year old wheelchair bound

650
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:13,200
ladies in Brooklyn, Perth, Amboy, Trenton and hookers.

651
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,200
I put a little profile on there and in two days have been

652
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,200
solicitated 200 times.

653
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,200
It's hard to keep up with because of their profiles

654
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,200
deleted in two hours.

655
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,200
They are gorgeous in the profile photos.

656
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:26,200
Not real no doubt.

657
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,200
I picked up the patterns and banter in a few minutes.

658
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,200
They want you to contact them through coded Gmail and they

659
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:35,200
disguise their phone numbers by saying things like I was on

660
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:40,200
highway 888 and passed 780 donkeys and then saw 1001

661
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:41,200
crows.

662
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,200
I am trying to communicate with two of them but haven't

663
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,200
gotten beyond a cursory introduction.

664
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,200
One lady just told me that her mother is sick in LA and she

665
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,200
needs help getting out there.

666
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:52,200
Hard pass.

667
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:53,200
Tip for consumers.

668
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:56,200
Most of the profile that interested me were taken down

669
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,200
in a matter of minutes and they were all so pretty too.

670
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,200
Hard pass.

671
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,200
Now that is someone who would be listening to coast.

672
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,200
I never got as alien.

673
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:07,200
Nope.

674
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,200
He didn't get his date with an alien.

675
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:10,200
Overview.

676
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:14,200
A normal date has a rating of 1.02 stars from 42 reviews

677
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:17,200
indicating that most customers are generally disfatticied

678
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,200
with their purchase.

679
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,200
A normal date ranks 690 second among dating websites.

680
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,200
There are that many dating websites?

681
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:27,200
I assume there's a ton.

682
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,200
I mean how else would white label dating be a thing?

683
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,200
I mean we could probably start a journey to the front.

684
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,200
690 second out of how many?

685
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:36,200
690.

686
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:40,200
Okay so he also does live appearances which he shamelessly

687
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,200
gloats on coast to coast AM about.

688
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,200
Especially his singing during the event which is weird to say

689
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:50,200
the least because I mean I doubt not one single person

690
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,200
bought a ticket to hear him sing.

691
00:43:52,200 --> 00:44:03,200
I'm going to get to George Norris singing right here.

692
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:45,200
George Norris singing.

693
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,200
The coast to coast AM website is riddled with ads

694
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,200
which they obviously make a profit of.

695
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,200
And there are multiple complaints and criticisms of Norris

696
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,200
that coast to coast has become one big infomercial

697
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,200
Norris and coast is profiting off of.

698
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,200
I can't confirm for sure but lots of speculation that

699
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:05,200
guests pay for their spots pointing that books and websites

700
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,200
are linked and talked about but during open lines

701
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,200
guests are quickly cut off mentioning any such thing.

702
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:13,200
Other than that Doc Wallach is on so frequently

703
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:16,200
promoting his health products and his dangy dangdureen.

704
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:20,200
I think that's one of the main guests now that they have quite frequently.

705
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:23,200
I forgot about that guy who's like you can't eat these things

706
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:26,200
don't worry I have vitamin packs for anything that could

707
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,200
possibly be wrong with you.

708
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,200
You can't use any oil in your cooking you have to be vegetarian

709
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,200
not vegetarian but.

710
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:38,200
Yeah I can't remember what it is now but he is on very frequently now.

711
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:42,200
They have had guests who were regulars on their leave as well.

712
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:46,200
So yeah I'll have another commentary on that shortly.

713
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:51,200
So after all of that I was curious as to George Norris' worth.

714
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:52,200
What do you think?

715
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,200
I will put him somewhere around like 8 million probably.

716
00:45:55,200 --> 00:46:00,200
His reported net worth as of late 2016 so it's going to vary from then.

717
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:01,200
He's probably higher now.

718
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,200
In 2016 was 2 million.

719
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:04,200
Okay.

720
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,200
With a salary of 500,000.

721
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:09,200
Wait the fuck did he do with all his money?

722
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,200
He's been doing it for more than four years at that time.

723
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:18,200
That's the version of like what he's been involved in and everything.

724
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:23,200
And I can't do sightings of George Norris which is always my favorite part

725
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:28,200
but what I can do is what do people think of good old Norris

726
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,200
which I was able to find through what Taylor said the Reddit.

727
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:34,200
People go to the people's place.

728
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:35,200
The Reddit.

729
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:41,200
And coast to coast AM Reddit is wild because I haven't seen a positive post

730
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:45,200
or comment about George Norris on there at all.

731
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:49,200
I think no I saw one post that said I feel so bad for George

732
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:53,200
because what if he reads this and it keeps me up at night that it makes him sad.

733
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,200
He has no idea what Reddit is.

734
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:56,200
Do not worry.

735
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:57,200
No.

736
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:58,200
No.

737
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:03,200
So the list of criticisms is long especially when compared to Ert Bell

738
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,200
from the canned comments Norris heavily relies on

739
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,200
the strange and out of touch responses to his guests

740
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,200
as if he's not listening.

741
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:15,200
The heavily screened open lines with the same callers time and time again

742
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:19,200
and the shameless self promotion and money grabs it goes on.

743
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:22,200
Personally I was a long time insider.

744
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:26,200
I paid for it which is why I didn't really listen to it at the early hours

745
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:30,200
because I just paid to listen to it whenever I conveniently wanted to.

746
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:34,200
And eventually I canceled it because I just couldn't continue with Norris anymore.

747
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:35,200
I had enough.

748
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,200
It continued to get worse and worse and I was out of there.

749
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:43,200
In the 2010 article about Norris published in the Atlantic

750
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:45,200
Timothy Lavin wrote quote,

751
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,200
Norris can be an uneven broadcaster.

752
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,200
Sometimes he seems to not pay attention fully to his guests.

753
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:55,200
Offer strangely obvious commentary or

754
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,200
and this has alienated some fans.

755
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:04,200
Let's clearly delusional or pseudo scientific assertions slide by without challenge.

756
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:08,200
But he listens with heroic yes to all of his callers and quote.

757
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,200
He'll let a lot of things go with zero pushback,

758
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:16,200
which doesn't mean you are biased or you are biased if you don't give any pushback.

759
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:20,200
It's literally that's your job as a journalist or an interviewer.

760
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:25,200
Yes, is to test what they're actually saying to see if it's actually true.

761
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:30,200
Not only that, but like most people started listening for Art Bell

762
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:34,200
and they're loyal to coast, not necessarily George Norris.

763
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:41,200
I would go out on a limb to say they keep talking about how loyal all George Norris listeners are.

764
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:44,200
I really think that it's coast at that point.

765
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:50,200
The reason he's done so well in my mind is because I believe coast to coast finds a lot of its viewership

766
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:55,200
from old lonely people who have had a supposed guy who are awake during the night

767
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:58,200
and he is a soothing voice for them and will listen.

768
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:03,200
His conversations that go best are conversations with old people call it.

769
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,200
He has been down hard.

770
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:10,200
He does and they're probably buying up everything that he slings.

771
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:14,200
Yeah, and like that one guy said in the review on paranormal dates.

772
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:18,200
How it's 95 year old women.

773
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:23,200
Now, this little fact could be chalked up to millions of different causes,

774
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:27,200
but going from Belle to Norrie, I was able to find these stats.

775
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:33,200
Coast to coast AM declined by 7.5 million listeners.

776
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:38,200
Do you have a time period over or is it just kind of in general?

777
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:40,200
No, it was in general.

778
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:41,200
Okay.

779
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:48,200
But they're quickly to say that he's on one of the biggest syndicated radio shows in the universe.

780
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:53,200
I would say that one of the possible not, I fully want to put this all on George,

781
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:57,200
but over the course of his time with coast to coast,

782
00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:02,200
I believe a lot of these listeners have moved to podcasts or things that are not time related

783
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:07,200
or are just kind of free because like pretty much all their guests who come on have their own podcast.

784
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,200
Yep, absolutely.

785
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:12,200
And there's a lot more available than there was during the time of coast to coast.

786
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:14,200
No, that absolutely could be.

787
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:18,200
And like I said, it could be a million different cause.

788
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:21,200
Not to be a George Norrie and give your opinions no pushback.

789
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:26,200
There could be a million different causes for that, that being exactly some of what you just said.

790
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:28,200
So what else do we got?

791
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:31,200
We got on it.

792
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:39,200
Mikker trusted in on Reddit and he says George has a passing interest in the paranormal,

793
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:43,200
or at least he did, but he was never as intriguing as a host as art.

794
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:44,200
Never.

795
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:46,200
But the dude is a businessman.

796
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:50,200
If you've listened long enough, you hear him talking about his failed business ventures.

797
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:55,200
The restaurants, the race horses, coast is just a business venture to him.

798
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:58,200
The live shows, the supplements, that's why it's so formulaic.

799
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,200
There is no passion anymore.

800
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:04,200
What little there was to begin with wasn't that great anyway.

801
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:08,200
But it's just a vehicle for George and his partners to make money for.

802
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:09,200
For what? I don't know.

803
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:12,200
I know some of his grandkids have fallen off the rails.

804
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:15,200
Maybe he's trying to create a financial cushion for them.

805
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:23,200
KP Murphy underscore has said no inside knowledge, but it seems like once art officially and finally stepped away from coast,

806
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:30,200
the show began to change in terms of the average nightly topic and it really shifted pandemic 2020 election.

807
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:38,200
This is where this is before I stopped listening and I keep seeing that this was a shift and it's gone down.

808
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:40,200
This is after you stop listening.

809
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:41,200
This is after, sorry.

810
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:44,200
It is just taint since then.

811
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:48,200
I actually, since I stopped listening, I haven't really listened at all.

812
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:53,200
I've always felt, this goes on for KP Murphy underscore.

813
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:58,200
I've always felt George didn't care about the paranormal subjects nearly as much as art did.

814
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:06,200
I know he never had the GIS people on the EVPs because he said he didn't believe in them or something along those lines.

815
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:11,200
It just seems like plenty of other people would have done a better job of keeping the spirit of the show alive.

816
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:12,200
I agree.

817
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:17,200
Thankfully in the podcast era, there are different avenues to scratch the paranormal itch,

818
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:22,200
but nothing will ever match the magic of listening to Art Bell broadcasting in the middle of the night.

819
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,200
Caustious Thoughts 362.

820
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:27,200
Yeah, I miss art too.

821
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:30,200
I've listened faithfully after he left, but it's not the same.

822
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:31,200
I agree.

823
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:34,200
It really seemed to change during and after the pandemic.

824
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:37,200
I've always thought it was apolitical, but it got very political.

825
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:42,200
It became evident which political side George was on and who he supported.

826
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:47,200
It was a huge disappointment for me and my feelings for the show have gone steeply downhill ever since.

827
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:48,200
Yeah.

828
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:55,200
I still listen, but it's only a matter of time until I start a serious search to find something else to listen to in the middle of the night.

829
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,200
I can take or leave the show these days.

830
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:58,200
And it's just become blatant.

831
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:00,200
He has always had those views.

832
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:01,200
Yeah.

833
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:05,200
Whether by a mission or what he didn't push back on, he has always had those views.

834
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:07,200
He just didn't vote.

835
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:08,200
Yeah.

836
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:09,200
Exactly.

837
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:10,200
Apolitical and unbiased.

838
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:12,200
For some weird reason.

839
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:15,200
I guess that made up for something in his mind.

840
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:16,200
George and Open Lines.

841
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:18,200
This is a question put on Reddit.

842
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:25,200
So I used to listen to CausticLot back in 2014 and I recently just started listening again and I noticed something off.

843
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:32,200
Am I the only one who gets the idea George isn't that interested in talking to Open Line callers that much anymore?

844
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:38,200
Could just be me, but it just seems like he isn't at all there and he seems to even avoid Friday nights a lot.

845
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:41,200
I've heard a lot in the Reddit subgroup as well.

846
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:47,200
He only does a couple hours a lot of the time and then puts on a rerun for the last couple hours.

847
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:53,200
Nashamura says he never seemed very interested in doing the show, period.

848
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:56,200
He's been half-assing it ever since he got the gig.

849
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:58,200
He's not even paying attention most of the time.

850
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,200
It sounds like he's reading a script.

851
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,200
Angie underscore vague says,

852
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:08,200
As an on-topic aside, I'd like to note that Art Bell was intelligent and engaged in the conversation.

853
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:10,200
Nori is neither.

854
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:16,200
I tried to listen to Nori on several occasions, but his general dumb assery is so off-putting.

855
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:22,200
User deleted says Nori basically took coast to coast in a direction Art always resisted.

856
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:26,200
He turned it into a late-night infomercial with guests like Doc Wallach and Ben Fuchs.

857
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:30,200
No doubt Nori reads from Hu-cards on some shows.

858
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:31,200
I would say all of them.

859
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:34,200
Constantly interrupts guests with inane questions.

860
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,200
He also got rid of the sacred cow of coast to coast.

861
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:38,200
Unscreen calls.

862
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:40,200
Okay, I just had to keep reading.

863
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:44,200
Unscreen calls and especially unscreened open lines.

864
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:51,200
Also, you cannot do the famous ghost to ghost AM and New Year's prediction shows without unscreen calls like Art used to do.

865
00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:54,200
Art prided himself on his open line segments.

866
00:54:54,200 --> 00:55:01,200
Just like his guitar solo on the show, Nori actually makes callers submit ghost to ghost stories before Halloween to tell on the show.

867
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:05,200
I can go on and on about how much Nori throttled coast legacy.

868
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:12,200
The many appearances of Dr. Morgas, the same four callers every night because most of the coast loyalists have fled.

869
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:16,200
Nori also takes Fridays off a lot so he won't have to do open lines.

870
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,200
He obviously avoids it like the plague.

871
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:24,200
His guests hosts are terrible. The only ones I find tolerable if I do decide to listen are Richard, Sarah and George Knapp.

872
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:28,200
Just a few of my frustrations I have accumulated over the years.

873
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:32,200
I do not hate George Nori. I just think he was a bad choice.

874
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:40,200
The popularity of other shows like John B. Wells, Art Midnight, Clyde Lewis Ground Zero, Jimmy Church Fade to Black proves coast sucks now.

875
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:45,200
Jimmy and John B. were actual good hosts at one point and were dismissed for some reason.

876
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:49,200
Oh, I forgot too. Linda Moulton Howe jumped ship also got her own show.

877
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:50,200
Okay, that's for now.

878
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:53,200
Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah, there's a whole thing behind that.

879
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:55,200
Linda Moulton Howe? Yeah.

880
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:56,200
Not going on coast?

881
00:55:56,200 --> 00:56:04,200
Yeah, no, she did like a whole hour episode of YouTube video about how she had a very large disagreement with George and she won't be on there anymore.

882
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:06,200
Oh, really? I didn't listen to that one.

883
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:07,200
Yeah.

884
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:08,200
You have anything else to say about it?

885
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:09,200
I can't remember.

886
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:10,200
Okay.

887
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:11,200
I liked John B. Wells.

888
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:14,200
He was kicked off really quickly actually.

889
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:16,200
I don't think he was a co-host for very long.

890
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:21,200
What I enjoyed about him is he actually challenged guests and asked decent questions.

891
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,200
What else did he say?

892
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:25,200
People aren't willing to pay if they're going to be questioned.

893
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:32,200
Raphmont My favorite example is when he asked a guest about Sanskrit.

894
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:37,200
Quote, is it called Sanskrit because it's script made in the sand?

895
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:43,200
And the guest was like, uh, he always did stupid things like that.

896
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:45,200
That was the end of that comment.

897
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:50,200
Anonymous put George Norrie took over after art left.

898
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:51,200
Yes, he did.

899
00:56:51,200 --> 00:57:03,200
He turned a great show into a four hour infomercial, hawking scams like Carnivora, Home Witchcraft Kits and $95 DVDs about technical remote viewing by Conman, Major Ed, Dames.

900
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:09,200
Norrie is famous for being unprepared for the interviews and for falling asleep while the guest is talking.

901
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:13,200
He also fails to ask any critical or perceptive questions.

902
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:19,200
Instead, he responds with comments from his list of stock answers his fans have christened Norrie-isms.

903
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:29,200
He further damaged the reputation of the show by hosting videos made by full time Conman, part time pervert, cat hoarder and e-baker, George Senda.

904
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:34,200
I refer you to Senda Leeks and other websites devoted to exposing him.

905
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:39,200
Google it, keywords, Falkie, George Senda and the guy from Pittsburgh. Actually, he's not.

906
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:41,200
Gotta look into that guy.

907
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:44,200
We're ending with George Norrie is a disgrace.

908
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:47,200
I don't think most of his open callers are legit.

909
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:51,200
They are paid actors who are giving canned questions to ask George.

910
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:54,200
Even if a few are actually real, they are heavily screened.

911
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:56,200
Art took calls himself live on the air.

912
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:58,200
George doesn't have the balls to do that.

913
00:57:58,200 --> 00:57:59,200
He's a disgrace to the show.

914
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:01,200
That's my episode.

915
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,200
That's where my research took me.

916
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,200
It was surprising places.

917
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:10,200
Yeah. Any closing thoughts, any general tastes that have left in your mouth?

918
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:19,200
It just brought back some nostalgia of some like just clearly weird things that happened while listening to it years and years ago.

919
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:24,200
Oh yeah. There was always, you would always be like, did he actually just say that?

920
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,200
Like that doesn't even make sense.

921
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:28,200
But he just said always, all the time.

922
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:30,200
Yeah. Every episode without fail.

923
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:36,200
I don't really know that he has other than being this radio host in which he's being paid.

924
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:41,200
Or I wouldn't say that he necessarily has any interest in the paranormal.

925
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:48,200
To be honest with you, he's never said anything that's quite compelling that he's so driven to find answers.

926
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:51,200
I don't know if you're a disdainful thought process on that.

927
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:54,200
Yeah. I would say that's an apt point.

928
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:57,200
There's a couple of things I find very annoying about George.

929
00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:00,200
If I do agree, he says that he leaves out personal bias.

930
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:08,200
I have seen interviews that he does where it's either the omission or the point of questions clearly show he does not agree with the topic.

931
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:15,200
And like one that comes to mind very clearly was a guy who was on there about vegetarian diets and how they're good for the planet, good for the body.

932
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,200
And he just kept trying to shit on the guy the entire interview.

933
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:23,200
And then when they went to open lines, he picked just people who do not agree with a vegetarian diet.

934
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:25,200
Nobody with questions just saying like this.

935
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:33,200
Jesus. He very slyly doesn't offer an opinion, but you're right on things like that is what I didn't mention.

936
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:39,200
It's very like you wouldn't really notice it because you're so used to George saying he doesn't give opinions on things.

937
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:43,200
Yeah. Well, and then he does say like he tries to keep an unbiased appearance.

938
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:48,200
Like one of the things he's always said he doesn't vote, but that doesn't mean you don't have opinions.

939
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:54,200
Right. Exactly. And why you won't vote because you're on coast to coast to you doesn't make sense.

940
00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:57,200
That's absurd.

941
00:59:57,200 --> 01:00:01,200
And he very clearly has one party that he likes over the other one.

942
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:03,200
Yeah.

943
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:05,200
But yeah. Oh yeah.

944
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:07,200
I don't think I have anything to add.

945
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:13,200
Great. Yeah. So that's George Ralph Norrie and we did it.

946
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:17,200
One day we'll do a coast to coast episode. But for now, I have been Taylor.

947
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:21,200
Here with Chelsea. We are Journey to the Fringe. Thank you all for listening and we'll see you next week.

948
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:24,200
Bye.

949
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:58,200
Thanks everyone for listening and giving us ideas for new episodes or tell us that we're wrong and terrible either way.

950
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:04,200
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