Ian Punnett

[PB the Deplorable]

Well - he didn't use the word wuss - which to me would imply that he thought being tougher was preferable.   But yes, he did imply that he found the image of John as an Irish or English working class "have a few beers and beat the crap out of someone" kinda guy amusing.

My guess is that Ian would not find your observation that he ranks close to John  - and perhaps the Pillsbury Dough Boy - so far from wrong!

Well yes, Ian seems very non-violent, which is good.  That's why it's on this thread.

But is was funny him talking about Elton John.  Get Ian some earrings, outlandish glasses, and sit him at a piano...

[valdez]

     Ran into lots of static last night on all of the stations where I normally pick up c2c, even the station out of Tennessee, usually very clear, was giving me grief.   I missed a lot of David Serada.  Something about our body's electrical output emanating from our heart, and how we have the power to create stars with our thoughts. The Florida yokel  with the aliens in his backyard was a joke.  The BBC video was very cool.
     I noticed how Ian will formulate a thought, and idea, a question, by bending it, stretching it, turning it inside out, and around his head, and sometimes it goes nowhere, and sometimes it makes sense, but it seems to be evidence of a mind at work, and welcomed after a week of "Good point!", and, "Indeed!"
     Mongolian Death Worm.  Cool name for a band?  Restaurant?  Flu virus?

[JAL1628]

I'm not a fan of Ian. He frequently asks people about their last name and their race. Sometimes he makes them pronounce it using the proper foreign accent. WTF how annoying. It was rad when Paul Stonehill refused to answer. Who cares about Ian's nerdy geneology hobby. This is America, we have all kinds of people. I'm tired of paranoid nerds drawing attention to race. They are the real racists.

[valdez]

     George H.W Bush at Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22 1963?  Involved in Watergate?  Part on a secret hidden agenda to controll the world and still managed to loose an election to a hillbilly from Arkansas?  Yep.  That and a whole lot more from Russ Baker, who also managed to take a few jabs at Bush 43, who seems to be getting blamed for just about everything these days.  No respect. Whatever.  Good job, Ian.

[MV/Liberace!]

Part on a secret hidden agenda to controll the world and still managed to loose an election to a hillbilly from Arkansas?

those who believe in all of the illuminati crap will tell you that this is but a ruse to fool us into thinking things are as they seem.

[Marc.Knight]

Ian Punnett's downward spiral reversed direction Saturday/Sunday, April 19/20.  His guest, Steven Quayle, must have come on the show believing he would receive the automatic affirmations Mr. Noory so readily dispenses like rubber stoppers at a cane convention.

"Tweren't meant to be," said great great great great grandfather Pirate Punnett.

Our raft, the IAN PUNNETT, saved our briny carcasses from the Great Sucking Eye of the Goat, and we found ourselves aboard a masterful ship, known simply as THE HOST (an appropriate seminary title for a ship bearing three TAU-styled masts.)

The show was to be about new attitudes toward preparedness.  No longer was it just your crazy Uncle Horus stockpiling water, food, and weapons, but average post-911 post-Katrina post-Michael Jackson individuals.

Uncle Horus believed we were slowly spiraling away from the Sun.  (A reverse cosmic maelstrom.)

"Just a matter of when," he would say confidently.  "Then it's lights out.  Cold as a giraffe's ass on Pluto."

As Punnett focused on Survivalists: The Next Generation, Quayle kept trotting out the four ponies of the Apocalypse, along with the dog "Fear."

(Here boy!  Here boy!  That's the scary Hound of Hell I adore....)

Ian made a brief stand, early on, but deferred, allowing the robotic drool of Quayle to shine through.  The resulting monologue was as effective as any Sharper Image Sound Soother in almost knocking me out for the night.

The show just wasn't working.

Ian went to open lines an hour earlier than what is typical.  A few crazy guests called in.

Suddenly, Ian was on the attack, spiraling inward if you ~Will~, countering Quayle's Mad Max scenarios regarding A) money, B) food  & C) your spouse (and killing your neighbor who wants A, B or C.)

One non-crazy guest called in and said Quayle was like Maria Antoinette.   I didn't quite get the connection, but it was an effective thrust, because Quayle blew a fuse and quoted some Latin about ad hominem attacks.

To give a blow by blow here would take at least two more pages.  Six pages the way I write.

To sum it up:  Quayle suffered a significant meltdown.  He cracked open like a clam hungry for Sea Monkeys.  Quayle essentially said Ian didn't have knowledge about the subject, at which point (or was it before?) Ian mentioned the mistakes made regarding Y2K.  I noticed an almost OCPD aspect to Ian's repeatedly pointing out that Quayle was off what Ian believed was going to be the agreed upon topic.

If you have access to Streamlink, run to your nearest CD BURNER and save this show.

I assure you, such a CD would be far more entertaining than the "JC CD" being pushed via After Dark subscriptions.

It could very well be one of Ian's last appearances on C2C, depending on the fallout from the Quayle camp.

Did I say fallout? 

(reaching for the lead umbrella - shades of Uncle Horus)

Christ on a green Apocalyptic horse!  Quayle's knee jerking had me laughing so hard I ejected my glass eye, the one with Edward Teach's seal serving as an apt if not precisely circular pupil.

It wasn't paranormal talk, but it was entertaining radio.   Pure energy.

(then again, I can be a rubber neck at times and the Quayle train definitely jumped the tracks)

Some of these "old" posts are hilarious.

[MV/Liberace!]

Some of these "old" posts are hilarious.

heh heh, yeah... this site has attracted some brilliant people in the course of its run.

[EvB]

heh heh, yeah... this site has attracted some brilliant people in the course of its run.

Yeah - and Cam is on my list of "most missed"

[MV/Liberace!]

Yeah - and Cam is on my list of "most missed"

he did return just before the site imploded.

[Marc.Knight]

Ian has clearly had his balls put in a vice by George.

I agree.  If you listen to the old shows with Art, he frequently challenged guests and did not back down if he believed he was right.  Of course, such a conversation would take intellectual engagement, and the generation of an opinion.

[EvB]

I agree.  If you listen to the old shows with Art, he frequently challenged guests and did not back down if he believed he was right.  Of course, such a conversation would take intellectual engagement, and the generation of an opinion.

Yet Ian is between the proverbial rock and hard place.  When he stands up to guests, people say "We didn't tune in to her your opinion, you know-it-all" and when he does not, we say he's turned into George.  Is it any surprise that he sometimes wavers between irrasable and bland?

[Marc.Knight]

Yet Ian is between the proverbial rock and hard place.  When he stands up to guests, people say "We didn't tune in to her your opinion, you know-it-all" and when he does not, we say he's turned into George.  Is it any surprise that he sometimes wavers between irrasable and bland?

Exactly.  The "Great Quivering Sword of Damocles"  hovers ominously above the heads of Ian and G. Knapp.  Its steely monotonal voice sings out:  "Don't outshine me, its my show."  The lowest common denominator (Noory) is the gravitic, default level of incompetence for C2C.  Therefore, the other hosts either have to comply with his philosophy, or they might find their position in question.

[Marc.Knight]

This is going to be good.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2010/01/10

[EvB]

This is going to be good.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2010/01/10

Thanks for the heads up Marc - that does look good!

[Marc.Knight]

Ian's show last night was fairly good for the first three hours, but the last hour was the most entertaining.  This author was interviewed during the final hour: http://www.amazon.com/Your-Flying-Car-Awaits-Predictions/dp/0061724602/ctoc

For those of us who have been around long enough, notions pertaining to how some technologies would be effecting our daily lives have fallen miserably short.  Whereas some advances have been extraordinary, e.g. the internet, many of us are still wondering how we are going to make the next house payment.  The discussion about "demand" related technological advancement was great - especially the cultural connection to the advancement of home robotics in Japan. 

[Ruteger]

I am impartial to Ian. but what the hell is up w/all the "uh", "eh" stutterances when asking questions? Speech impediment?!

[valdez]

     Ian's shows can be hit or miss.  Lasts week's antidepressant show was boring.  Tonight I wore out the preset buttons on my radio, tuning in to every Clear Channel station on the east coast in an effort to stay two steps ahead of the "fade out static" so I could hear every word that Charles Pellegrino was saying about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  The shadows of those vaporized.  The blades of grass that cut through people like butter.  The blood seeping through the skin.  The 200 people who fought to take a train out of Hiroshima, only to arrive at Nagasaki in time to be hit again.
     Ian has done many good shows.  Tonight was one of the best. 

[11angeleyes11]

     Ian's shows can be hit or miss.  Lasts week's antidepressant show was boring.  Tonight I wore out the preset buttons on my radio, tuning in to every Clear Channel station on the east coast in an effort to stay two steps ahead of the "fade out static" so I could hear every word that Charles Pellegrino was saying about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  The shadows of those vaporized.  The blades of grass that cut through people like butter.  The blood seeping through the skin.  The 200 people who fought to take a train out of Hiroshima, only to arrive at Nagasaki in time to be hit again.
     Ian has done many good shows.  Tonight was one of the best.

Valdez, I enjoy your nightly summaries and this really seems to support everything I thought the interview would be.  I am going to Streamlink it most definitely.

[The Bodach]

Last Train Out of Hiroshima -- This is why I like Ian.  Definitely a show to streamlink.  I'm trying to imagine how George Noory would have gone about this interview had he been in.  But then I stop, and enjoy the fact it didn't happen.  Archiving this mp3.

[EvB]

Last Train Out of Hiroshima -- This is why I like Ian.  Definitely a show to streamlink.  I'm trying to imagine how George Noory would have gone about this interview had he been in.  But then I stop, and enjoy the fact it didn't happen.  Archiving this mp3.

I'm with you 100%  -- THIS is Ian's kind of show, or at least one of them. I can only imagine being so offended I'd be ill if George had done it.

[valdez]

     I like Ian too much to post anything in the "not pro punnet" thread, and I thought he had a good weekend, especially that Andrew Zimmern guy who eats bugs, and sludge, and monkey heads, and toenail clippings, and other weird crap from around the world, but I didn't appreciate Ian's bashing of Sara Palin.
     I will be contacting him directly about this.

[MV/Liberace!]

...but I didn't appreciate Ian's bashing of Sara Palin.

what did he say about her?  i didn't hear the show.

[valdez]

what did he say about her?  i didn't hear the show.

After the bug eating guy segment, Greg Hartley, a former government interrogator, came on to talk about how you can tell if someone is lying through their body language.  At one point Ian brought up John Edwards and Sara Palin as two politician who were liars.
     Grouping Palin with slime ball John Edwards was wrong, and although Sara Palin is not perfect, and some of her recent speeches have been erratic, and maybe she ain't as ready to be president as Obama obviously was , I don't consider her to be a liar.
     At a time when socialist, with the backing of the main stream media, have taken power in D.C., it ain't a bad thing to have a gun toting conservative mom from Alaska to give them hell every now and then.
     I believe she was also mentioned on MVRT (A fine show, by the way) a few weeks back.  She's a polarizing figure.  I get that.  I dig her.

[EvB]

      I didn't appreciate Ian's bashing of Sara Palin.
     I will be contacting him directly about this.

I didn't hear that part - but if all he did was point out body language - I'd hardly call that "bashing"  --

I know just enough about NLP (what this guests theories were based on) to be slightly less dangerous than someone who has only heard interviews like this. The most important thing to remember is that whatever info you get form these "signs" should be backed up by other evidence.  It's not consistent - and not 100% accurate.   

Remember when the guest asked Ian where his eyes went when he thought of the 5th word of The Star Spangled Banner  ?  Ian replied "up and to the right"  The guest told him only 10% of people went to the right (though UP is typical)

Guess where mine went as I listened and followed along?

Up and to the right.

A lot depends on how the information was ACCESSED too.  Was Ian listening to the song from his memory? (Auditory access) or was he seeing it written down? Visual access)

What you, I, and the post-person should care about is that NLP is used by politions (by anyone who has the need to influence - like advertisers) in speeches all the time.  We need to listen to what they say outside of the context of how they say it (don't count on blocking out an image of them to do this - a lot of how NLP influences perception has to do with the rhythm of words -  it can be done with sound alone)

For a bit more - see here.

[MV/Liberace!]

     Grouping Palin with slime ball John Edwards was wrong... and maybe she ain't as ready to be president as Obama obviously was , I don't consider her to be a liar.

i agree with everything you said here other than the notion of obama having been more ready to be president.  other than his ability to read a teleprompter, i know of nothing else that qualified him.  i'm guessing there is sarcasm intended in the above quoted paragraph, though.

[CoastToCoastWeekend]

Say what you want about Ian, but the man actually takes his duties seriously.  He does have weak jokes, but that is because he is from the MidWest, not because he is Ian.  George Noory has done more to destroy Coast To Coast AM than I would have ever imagined.  The sad part is, I don't think the show could ever go back to unscreened calls after him.  The goodwill of the listeners has been ruined to the point that any host will need to have a call screener.  Art got pranked (and still does), but at least people believed he cared.  Ian and Knapp are so much closer to Art than Noory could ever hope to be.  The man actually said (on the nightline interview) that Leprechans and the possibility of a shadow government are on the same level.  One is a cute joke, the other one (as shown by history) could quite possibly be a fact that we need to know about.

[EvB]

I am a big-time cheerleader for Ian.  Yes, his jokes are corny - but he knows that. It's a style, what can I say?  As for the midwest thing, Garrison Keillor does it better - but damn - he's GARRISON KEILLOR!  The Art Bell of his genre.   Ian can also be cranky, but I figure he's a very hard working human being with a whacked out schedule, and even if that were not the case, who is NOT cranky from time to time?

And BTW - there is one thread here titled "pro-punnet."  It came about (okay -- *I* started it) because there were a few people who would just bash and slash anything good anyone had to say about Ian no matter what - and derail anything positive in a way that just stopped all conversation.  You can say balanced things - as I have here.  It's not a worship fest.  But it it is a no-bashing zone.  There are plenty of threads where non-fans of Ian can bash away with impunity.  One is even named "NOT pro-Punnett" in reaction to my thread and its "special" rules. That's fine.   It's also fine to say pro-Punnett things elsewhere.

I'm not at all consistent about moderating the "pro" thread. It depends on my mood and the general activity. However - if I do see bash posts, I will move or remove them (depending on which function I can get to work most easily at that moment.)  If I end up using "remove" the poster is welcome to re-post in another thread.

All that is intended as an FYI, not a challenge.

Post often - and enjoy!

PS:  We don't have a lot of "special" rules here.  We're pretty easy going - so no worries.

[MV/Liberace!]

speaking of john edwards, allow me to give readers further insight into just what a creepy, "lawyerly" guy this really is.  here's an excerpt from a story written in time magazine back in 2007 entitled, "kerry's regrets about john edwards."

Kerry talked with several potential picks, including Gephardt and Edwards. He was comfortable after his conversations with Gephardt, but even queasier about Edwards after they met. Edwards had told Kerry he was going to share a story with him that he'd never told anyone elseâ€"that after his son Wade had been killed, he climbed onto the slab at the funeral home, laid there and hugged his body, and promised that he'd do all he could to make life better for people, to live up to Wade's ideals of service. Kerry was stunned, not moved, because, as he told me later, Edwards had recounted the same exact story to him, almost in the exact same words, a year or two beforeâ€" and with the same preface, that he'd never shared the memory with anyone else. Kerry said he found it chilling, and he decided he couldn't pick Edwards unless he met with him again.

Yikes.  You dems sure dodged a bullet.  Well, sort of.  Anyway... you can read the full article here.

[sanddollar]

He must be a tad insecure to always have to bring up how many Facebook friends he has.

If there was an enemies list feature on facebook, I'm sure that would be quite impressive as well.

His voice, I can't take his voice anymore, it sounds like he's got a slab of butter stuffed up his nose.  Can a voice smirk?  Seems like his does.
About 5 minutes is all I can take, which is actually good, because now I'm reading more.

[Marc.Knight]

A therapeutic clip to rid the soul of C2C...



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