What a great Coast Noory moment just occurred. His second guest is a journalist/historian who researches Great Lakes shipwrecks including the famous Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The guest is from Michigan, Noory's neck of the woods growing up. So as usual Noory reaches a point where he has nothing ready to ask about the current subject matter so goes off the board and just shits out a non-sequitur of a question. He asks the guest about a radio station in Flint, Michigan. The guest told Noory he actually worked at the station at one time as a news reporter. Noory replied 'Great station. I tried to get into the Flint market but couldn't do it so I went into the TV news industry as an executive and climbed up the ladder.' The guest was amused and told Noory 'Yes, we were all ASTONISHED that you climbed the ladder.'
lol a whole industry in Michigan knew Noory for the loser he is, so much so that the only reaction to Noory having any success in radio is ASTONISHMENT.
I've only contacted Noory once. I suggested long time Detroit weatherman Sonny Eliot as a guest. Eliot would mix silly jokes and antics with the forecast and was on Detroit local television for decades. He would merge two weather conditions into a single word in his forecast. "Tomorrow will be hot and muggy for a combination of
huggy weather". He often would work in a number of small, obscure towns into the forecast and I learned a great deal about Michigan geography by watching him. He also had a squeaker in the Keweenaw Peninsula on his Michigan map that he would remove and give it a little squeak which sounds silly but it worked well in his schtick. After he got too old for TV, he moved over to one of the local radio stations and did his act there up into his 90's.
He was born Marvin Eliot Schlossberg and joined the Army Air Corp the day after Pearl Harbor. He became a B-24 pilot and on his 16th mission over Germany his plane was shot down. He had to fly the plane until the crew bailed out, so he got separated from them after he jumped. Figuring that the Germans may not be too thrilled with a Jewish bomber pilot, he ditched all his identification and became Sonny Eliot, whom was Lutheran. The Germans figured out his identity soon enough but he was not mistreated. He ended up in the same Stalag POW camp as actor Donald Pleasance and some of the people the characters in the Great Escape were modeled after.
Figured that he would be a pretty good guest to interview so I sent an email to Noory. "Sonny is a GREAT friend of mine" was the response. Not great enough to bring him on for an hour or so and ask about his fascinating life. Wonder if he tried and Sonny told him to take a hike?
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