Ian Punnett

[kf5iwe]

we already have three wars why would we need another?  how would that BOOST the economy?  if war were the answer we'd be flushing solid gold toilets and sleeping in fine silk pj's


i'm doing neither at the moment.  am i missing something?

Perhaps he means a war with Mexico? I mean we been shipping plenty of weapons down there over the last few years, might as well send troops. Just sayin'

[Treading Water]

Oooo, look.  Did Ian cut his hair?

[bmd88]

There are people who think we should go to war with Iran (look at Mitt Romney's foreign policy team)......although they don't give a rat's ass about the US economy because they already have their hands in many global corporate interests who would profit from it regardless.

I know that.  This is my last time posting on the topic, but what I was saying was:  there is no one saying we should go to war because it will benefit/ fix the US economy and create jobs.  I thought this was the original point we were discussing here... oh well... maybe I just misinterpreted

[General Johnson Jameson]

Ian Poonit is a strange, little man.

[Agent : Orange]

Ian Poonit is a strange, little man.

That's exactly what makes him awesome.

[redgiant]

I have mixed feelings about Ian. He seems to have "issues", that if he had his own show of Coasts size, he would work out. He's an interesting host in his own right (mostly because he actually READS his guest's books)-but NOT right for C2C.  In my opinion, once he became a minister-he became careful. Ian wasn't that way early on as a guest host. He is annoying when he argues with guests or routinely takes topics , while sometimes really interesting and provocative, still very safe in terms of Coast interests. If there was another 'main' host then it wouldn't be such an issue. However, I wait to see if George Knapp is on Sundays and cross my fingers that Ian has a topic that I find interesting to me. As a Canadian, he seems very anti-Canadian these days so if I get annoyed with him, I look for something else on stream link or on Red Ice radio. (From Sweden/US). and nooo Red Ice is not a socialist show-I am sure it must have been discussed here somewhere(??) ..... just to be sure everyone understands-Canadians are not socialists or communists either!!!!!!

[valdez]

...he [Ian] seems very anti-Canadian these days so if I get annoyed with him, I look for something else ...just to be sure everyone understands-Canadians are not socialists or communists either!!!!!!

     I don't know much about Ian's feelings on communist Canada, but he's got cop issues.  Another segment on the misbehavior of police with Norm Stamper.  He also threw a slight muffled jab at cool guy republicano, Herman Cain.  Then is was all about pirates with Adrian Tinniswood, and a cameo by none other than the stalwart Captain Kelly Sweeney.
 

oh, Canada!

[Eddie Coyle]

     I don't know much about Ian's feelings on communist Canada, but he's got cop issues.  Another segment on the misbehavior of police with Norm Stamper.   

Why does it feel like Ian got a speeding ticket recently? Something happened between him and "The Law"...

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

Kelly Sweeney got real testy last night with the guest about dealing with modern day pirates. Quite frankly I thought it was unfair as the author, Mr Tinneswood, only said he'd have concerns about arming private security forces on large ships, and that really wasn't what he was on to talk about anyway. The guy spoke his peace politely and had moved on. Of course, once you bring up guns, the paranoid nutjobs who make up George's audience have to start calling in to talk about the joy of shooting people. So a pretty interesting history of Barbary Pirates was broken up by the slackjawed audience, and I blame Ian for it. Plus, his non-sequiter ramblings were turned up to 11 last night.......

[Fractal]

Last night Ian said he was going to have more cops on the show next Saturday.  What is his problem?  Why is every Saturday night a cop show?

Is Ian a fascist or what?

I'm really sick of these stupid cop shows.

[b_dubb]

Last night Ian said he was going to have more cops on the show next Saturday.  What is his problem?  Why is every Saturday night a cop show?

Is Ian a fascist or what?

I'm really sick of these stupid cop shows.

How does having a few shows about cops equate to being fascist?

[SnapT]

Ian was particularly bland last night, I listened to the entire show and don't remember a damn thing about it today.  It was like radio wallpaper.  At least Noory makes me laugh with his idiocy!

[Lovely Bones]

Last night Ian said he was going to have more cops on the show next Saturday.  What is his problem?  Why is every Saturday night a cop show?

Is Ian a fascist or what?

I'm really sick of these stupid cop shows.

He said he was having cops on to discuss their paranormal experiences.  Sounds like classic C2C fare to me, nothing fascist about it IMO. 

[BobGrau]

I kind of like the idea of Fascist Ian. He'd keep the trains running on time.

[Eddie Coyle]

 
    How does Ian doing segments on the alleged racism,sexism,homophobia etc of police departments equal fascism? It's more in league with ANSWER than John Birch.

[valdez]

Ian was particularly bland last night, I listened to the entire show and don't remember a damn thing about it today.  It was like radio wallpaper.  At least Noory makes me laugh with his idiocy!

     The Deonna Kelli Sayid interview was quasi-interesting.  Her focus was on the paranormal from a Islamic angle.  According to her, Islam allows for only one "paranormal" entity: the "gin".  Boring.  I found Ian's basic questions about Islam, and her coy reluctance go there ( on the status women in Islam ) more revealing.  Ian also shot down the "interdimensional" (a Noory favorite) aspect of creatures like bigfoot when he wondered why "someone would travel to another dimension just to take a piss in the woods?"  Or something to that effect.
     I thought the Ellen Schultz segment on coporate abuses was going to be the same old "class warfare/support your local OWS" drivel, but some of the stuff she researched was amazing.  Companies actually taking out life insurance policies on workers (without the employees knowing it) to fund CEO pensions?  What?  I'm a right wing capitalist tea party portrait of Cheney over my fireplace loon, but that kind of stuff will put me in "french revolution guillotine mode" quick.

[SnapT]

Companies actually taking out life insurance policies on workers (without the employees knowing it) to fund CEO pensions?  What?  I'm a right wing capitalist tea party portrait of Cheney over my fireplace loon, but that kind of stuff will put me in "french revolution guillotine mode" quick.

I learned about that from a Michael Moore movie years ago, the CEOs call it "dead peasants insurance."  Here's a list of some of the known companies that do it: http://deadpeasantinsurance.com/which-employers-bought-policies-on-the-lives-of-employees/

[WOTR]

I learned about that from a Michael Moore movie years ago, the CEOs call it "dead peasants insurance."  Here's a list of some of the known companies that do it: http://deadpeasantinsurance.com/which-employers-bought-policies-on-the-lives-of-employees/

I first heard of this 5 years back or so.  A lady who worked for Walmart needed some procedure to continue living.  She asked Walmart (I don't recall why she thought they might help.) They laughed at her and she discovered that they had taken out life insurance and needed her dead to collect.  It made the news (or at least one of the news magazines like 20/20.)  I was a little taken aback, but never really looked much further into what the companies were doing.

I just did not realize how widespread the practice is (or how many companies take part in it.)  I suppose if you offer a lean enough health plan and don't pay for very many life saving prescriptions you stand a better chance of profiting sooner.

[TheBlackFlag]

I think Ian is by far the best of the current C2C hosts.  (Not a real high bar to clear, I know)  At least he is not the King of the Creampuff Questions (Noory).

And he has the stones to challenge guests. 

It seems to me that the C2C people want hosts they can control, and to never have a situation again where a host is bigger than the show.  They would rather have a meat puppet like George.

I understand the complaints of those of you that arent real high on Ian, but I like him better than the rest.

[SnapT]

I think Knapp is best.  Ian is in second place, beating Noory by a hair.

That's 90% because of Ian's topics, though.  If he did more paranormal topics, I would rate him higher.

[valdez]

     Another cop show (that's three this month..almost), but this time Ian isn't beating up on them. Ingrid Dean on freaky unexplained police stories which included three officers relating their experiences.  Two short segments in the first hour: Frank Henenlotter on the films of  Herschell Gordon Lewis (I think Ian had Lewis on about a year and a half ago...funny guy) and Julia Scheeres on psycho preacher, Jim Jones.  She said that such a thing (mass suicide) could not happen today because the proliferation of cell phones would not allow that many people to be so isolated and under the spell of such a goon.  I'm not convinced.  With all our technologies we still have rot holes like North Korea.
 

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

Ian was very good last night.

[SnapT]

Yeah, fun Ian show last night.

[valdez]

    Tony Williams on Jack the Ripper, and also something about a Welsh guy who stole a ship from the vikings and travelled to Alabama and lived with the indians.  I didn't understand anything David McRaney was talking about.  I suppose that's better than listening to George cover something he's covered a thousand times.  Nothing.  Didn't get it.

[Lovely Bones]

    Tony Williams on Jack the Ripper, and also something about a Welsh guy who stole a ship from the vikings and travelled to Alabama and lived with the indians.  I didn't understand anything David McRaney was talking about.  I suppose that's better than listening to George cover something he's covered a thousand times.  Nothing.  Didn't get it.

To his credit, Ian started out trying his best to translate McRaney into American English for the listeners ("Let me see if I've got this right . . . ").

But eventually he stopped trying, and I stopped listening. 

 

[PB the Deplorable]

... and also something about a Welsh guy who stole a ship from the vikings and travelled to Alabama and lived with the indians...

Was that Madoc? - there is a legend about that along with some possible relics and fortifications, supposedly hundreds of years before Colombus, almost wish I'd listened to that.

[Frys Girl]

I am listening to the show from last night. If I didn't know so much about radio/Coast to Coast AM, I would think Ian Punnett and George Noory are hosting different shows.


The ability Ian has in terms of articulation, expression, and intellect is worlds better than George Noory.


Ian mentioned that he hired reputation.com to check his name on the WWW because he has a book coming out. I wonder if he ever googled George Noory? George Noory sucks stuff comes up RIGHT AWAY.

[b_dubb]

i'm having a hard time understanding the welsh guy.  he seems pretty scattered

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

Ian seemed convinced the "You're not as smart as you think" guy was going to spark excessive outrage, but he didn't say anything remotely groundbreaking or radical about human perception and conditioning. It wasn't a bad show, but it was far from memorable.

[Scully]

Last night was one of those shows where I thought Ian was quite listenable.  I never know when that happens if it's just because he's so much more normal (by my standards) than George or not.

Or maybe I was just happy because the topic hadn't already been done to death and had nothing to do with zombies.