George Noory ruined Coast to Coast AM

Art Bell was a legend. He was a gracious host who knew how to handle his guests. Coast to Coast AM always attracts a lot of super-crazies, but Art Bell always put on the persona where you knew he didn't believe it, but would lead them on to make for an entertaining show. C2C was full of interesting 'fun' X-files esque shows about Bigfoot, aliens, cryptids, mind control experiments, etc. When guests began to really go off the end of crazy, Art would turn into the skeptic to begin pushing back against them. You never had to believe any of this shite to enjoy listening.

Under George Noory (Snorey), the show is a complete joke. Noory is a dumb a-hole who actually sounds like he believes literally everything on his show. When guests begin peddling pure bullshite he never calls them out on it, even when you can tell they're just out to deceive people.

Worse, the format of the show was massively cut. Bell would run the entire broadcast, Noory has cut it massively and two hours of the show are literally rebroadcast to fill the gap. Additionally, the show is about 33% commercial breaks. The show will cut back from several minutes of commercials just to play a recorded 'call now!' voice, and then go back to another several minutes of commercials. Even when the show is running, Noory has to stop the show to tell you to sign up for Coast Insider, Paranormal Date, or hock vitamins or Carnivora.

Additionally, Art would routinely run open lines... any caller, any topic, go nuts (literally). Now the callers are not only aggressively vetted and filtered, but given the number of 'repeat' callers, many suspect that only a couple of "legit" calls are allowed a night, and most of the callers are fakes calling in from the studio.

Finally, the content is now literally just a cavalcade of obvious frauds who are just there to hock books and supplements at gullible idiots. Many of them, you can tell, are completely insincere and are just making shite up to sell stuff, and Noory lets it slide every time. Every now and then whole chunks of the show are dedicated to 'alternative medicine' where some "pharmacist" (note: pharmacists don't know shite. That isn't an authoritative profession for advice on healthcare) tells everyone to eat vitamins to cure everything.

I think the worst are the shows with the psychics where some hack fraud begins giving listeners false hope over the phone and shitty advice. I think the most depraved one was some guy who you could tell really loved his cat and had to put him to sleep, and this 'animal medium' talked to his dead cat and began telling him a bunch of bullshite. It was pathetic and predatory.