Ian Punnett

[Treading Water]

I had no idea! But I do love a nice hollandaise.

Good one, Wahnfried.  Oh, and WELCOME!

[Caruthers612]

             I always liked Ian, for the most part. His manner is light and self-effacing, he has a sense of humor, and seems to really enjoy finding out about the subjects of his shows. It was only after hearing him mention in passing attending seminary one night that I even learned he was a minister. To his credit, for the most part he really does keep his personal religious life and views to himself, which I feel is the appropriate thing for a clergyman doing a secular radio show to do; however, now and again, he will let a remark slip which, well, let's just say those of us from a different background find not quite innocuous.
          All in all, though, he's streets ahead of...what's his name? Oh yeah! Noory.

[James G.]

I feel I understand Mr. Ian Punnett. He needs the money Premiere Radio Networks pays him. He sold out.

Mr. Punnett has his reasons. I respect that, although I don't agree.

[Morgus]

Ian got into another shouting match with a caller near the end of the first hour last night.

[Scully]

Ian got into another shouting match with a caller near the end of the first hour last night.

It was Ian against more Noory-splatter, and one more time I admired Ian for standing his ground against that type of hateful lunacy.

[valdez]

Ian got into another shouting match with a caller near the end of the first hour last night.

It was Ian against more Noory-splatter, and one more time I admired Ian for standing his ground against that type of hateful lunacy.

Good point.

     Did anybody else think it inappropriate for navy seal guy, Howard Wasdin, to go on and on about exactly how to take down a black hawk helicopter?  A mere, "yeah, they can be taken down", would have been enough.  Astronaut Al Worden spoke about his time at NASA, his mission on Apollo 15, and how he got booted out of the program for packing "postal covers" on the mission so they can later be sold for the big bucks.  Cool thing learned:  The astronauts weren't given suicide pills on their missions in case of certain cold space vacuum death.  I swore those rumors were true.  Thank you, Ian, for never leading into a break with Noory's cheesy Ted Baxter type fained overexuberance over the last sentience the guest uttered.  God loves you too.
 

"All this crap will be worth it when I finally

unload those postal covers...hey, where exactly

do we keep those friggin' suicide pills?"  Just in

case this rustbucket goes down, I mean."

[M Knight]

    ... Ted Baxter type fained overexuberance

Yes.  Perfect.

[BobGrau]

Yes.  Perfect.

Is that Noory just out of shot there?

[Treading Water]

Yes, of course.   

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

It was Ian against more Noory-splatter, and one more time I admired Ian for standing his ground against that type of hateful lunacy.

I wish Ian had let the moron hang himself. All he really did was say "We're going to have a conversation", then proceeded to yell over him.

[fabucat]

     Good point.

     Did anybody else think it inappropriate for navy seal guy, Howard Wasdin, to go on and on about exactly how to take down a black hawk helicopter?  A mere, "yeah, they can be taken down", would have been enough.  Astronaut Al Worden spoke about his time at NASA, his mission on Apollo 15, and how he got booted out of the program for packing "postal covers" on the mission so they can later be sold for the big bucks.  Cool thing learned:  The astronauts weren't given suicide pills on their missions in case of certain cold space vacuum death.  I swore those rumors were true.  Thank you, Ian, for never leading into a break with Noory's cheesy Ted Baxter type fained overexuberance over the last sentience the guest uttered.  God loves you too.
 

"All this crap will be worth it when I finally

unload those postal covers...hey, where exactly

do we keep those friggin' suicide pills?"  Just in

case this rustbucket goes down, I mean."

Really enjoyed what I could catch on Ian's show last night.  I used to think that George's popularization of the Illuminati conspiracy theory was good for a laugh until I went on Alex Jones' site and another Coast fan site and found people who took it seriously.  Now I realize that there are nice, wonderful people on this site who take this Illuminati conspiracy theory very seriously.  The people on other Coast sites who take a lot of this stuff as gospel truth are, for the most part, are creative wonderful folks, who happen to WRONG in swallowing whole a lot of these theories. 

I think that the Illuminati theories and other so-called "conspiracy" theories have elements of truth about them, but they are figurative truth rather than word-for-word literal truth.  I guess that's what keeps me listening to the Snoron and his hardcore porno version, Alex Jones.

[fabucat]

Yes.  Perfect.

Good call!  But I still prefer listening to avuncular pablum like George than to screamers of the right and left.  George puts me to sleep, which is both a compliment and an insult to him.

[fabucat]

Good call!  But I still prefer listening to avuncular pablum like George than to screamers of the right and left.  George puts me to sleep, which is both a compliment and an insult to him.

Let me add that there is NO WAY that Snoory would make it during daytime hours!

[Scully]

I wish Ian had let the moron hang himself. All he really did was say "We're going to have a conversation", then proceeded to yell over him.

Some people like that caller will never meet the host at the net. Ian gave him 3 or 4 opportunities to calm down and have a conversation. 

And I'm no Ian-lover. He runs hot and cold in my book. 

[Scully]

I like Ian's point though.  These nuts see government lying and conspiracy behind everything.  makes you wonder if there is not some low level paranoid schizophrenia going on.  I think Ian cut him off, but the caller was making no sense.  Snoory would have let him ramble on for 4 or 5 mins..while Snoory caught some shut eye perhaps.  I am glad Ian cut him off and disconnected.  Too many nuts and bible thumpers listen to this show now because Snoory is one of them.

Agreed, mbrown.

As I posted earlier, I admire Ian for doing what it took for reason to prevail.  I especially liked how Ian said that a reasonable person doesn't believe that our government is always up to mischief.

Also loved it when he said that anyone who doesn't think the Seals killed Bin Ladin earlier this year should walk up to a Navy Seal and tell HIM that! Right on, Ian!

By the way, I don't think Noory sleeps while callers ramble on, I think (as someone else said) he sharpens pencils! 

[rolindos]

I was trying to get into Ian, since a lot of people seem to appreciate him and I thought maybe he's not so bad. Then the next show I heard him do -- interviewing some rather flaky woman on a rather flaky topic -- he really sort of berated her whole gig throughout the interview. If I was her, I think I would have considered hanging up on him. Does he do this often?

he does it often enough that I tune out..he seems a little cranky, as men sometimes do when denied the intimacies of marriage if you get my drift

[Frys Girl]

I am so impressed with Ian these days. He is easily agitated, and in the past I have made fun of him for thinking he is hosting 60 minutes, but I have to hand it to him for taking the show seriously. He prepares well and the guests he's been having are great. I like how he smashes the Alex Jones flies and maggots that wander on open lines. I think Ian is rational and funny, and he has stopped being preachy about his religion and his role in the Episcopalian church. He still hates Dan Brown ("he hates catholics! lol), but after the Lost Symbol, I think the world does too.

[Wahnfried]

Is there a site, here or elsewhere, where folks live blog the shows? I'd love to catch some of these gems as they happen

Thanks for the welcome, everyone!

W

[The General]

Is there a site, here or elsewhere, where folks live blog the shows? I'd love to catch some of these gems as they happen

Thanks for the welcome, everyone!

W

One guy did it almost nightly for a few weeks, and he went mad.  He Wandered out into the desert with some oil paints and a Johnny Cash t-shirt on and we haven't seen him since. 

Michael Vandeven tried to do a live commentary simulcast on the Coastgab stream but it gave him an ice-cream headache and he gave up after 10 minutes. 

So, no not really.  You could try in a new thread here, but I'm warning you that it doesn't appear to be good for your health.

[Wahnfried]

>>>>So, no not really.  You could try in a new thread here, but I'm warning you that it doesn't appear to be good for your health.

Gosh, I had no idea the stakes were so high! Thanks for the warning

[Scully]

One guy did it almost nightly for a few weeks, and he went mad.  He Wandered out into the desert with some oil paints and a Johnny Cash t-shirt on and we haven't seen him since. 

Michael Vandeven tried to do a live commentary simulcast on the Coastgab stream but it gave him an ice-cream headache and he gave up after 10 minutes. 

So, no not really.  You could try in a new thread here, but I'm warning you that it doesn't appear to be good for your health.

General, your humor always cracks me up! 

[Frys Girl]

Ian Punnett is obviously telling his barber to give him the Alex Jones cut. Is it just me or does he look like Alex Jones these days?

[Avi]

Yeah, both Ian and Alex have a Flowbee.

[GSD]

Does anyone recently remember Ian talking to Noory and Ian was completely sleep deprived?!? OMG it was hilarious, he was talking complete giberish and Noory cut him off PDQ. He was still more entertaining than "Snoory"! LOL

I think Ian's OK, but he's sort of like a half-douche too. It's great when he calls idiots out, but sometimes his logic is off and he calls people out for things he probably shouldn't. He has a great radio name... Ian Punnett. Sounds very distinguished!

[b_dubb]

The incoherent speech thing happened almost a year ago

[Frys Girl]

Ian laughed about it and said "since last night, the theories have been plentiful and entertaining, but I was just really tired, nothing interesting really." lol Ian. Sure....... haha. Glad he was OK.

[Treading Water]

General, your humor always cracks me up! 

I'm a rider on that train!   

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

The best part was that George wasn't even listening as usual and just went "That's right...."

Ian looks like a young William Windham.

[PB the Deplorable]

Ian laughed about it and said "since last night, the theories have been plentiful and entertaining, but I was just really tired, nothing interesting really." lol Ian. Sure....... haha. Glad he was OK.

That was right around the time Mel Gibson's girlfriend recorded him drunk calling and being an ass. 

For some reason Ian needed to bring up that call, compare it to his, and declare himself a much better person than Mel Gibson.  He did this several times over several nights.


Deacon Punnett puffed out his chest and called Gibson on the racist portion of the rant, said it would never even occur to him to say anything like that just 'maybe if someone was holding a gun to his kids head'.  Seriously.  Not long after, Friar Punnett was making ethnic jokes of his own 'what was the Welsh Roswell incident? - it was just like the one here, only cheaper'. 

Yeah, not a big Ian fan somehow.

[GSD]

I thought he was having a stroke or TIA.  I still think it could have been a TIA.  Happened to an even younger person I know when he was driving and talking gibberish to people on his cell phone..when he arrived at his girlfriends house she took him straight to the ER but it cleared up soon after with no real treatment..and they can be a warning for a more serious stroke later.  BUt maybe it was just sleep...if IAN drank alcohol we could blame that.

I laughed so hard I nearly shit my pants. It was just hilarious to hear it. You can still hear it on YouTube here:
http://youtu.be/dGhkUdNfvnc

He's such a fucking tool. I couldn't help but think he must have been up all night wired for sound and completely out of it and George pulled rank on his ass and made him call in "for the team" and Ian never wanted to in the first place but had to, LOL.

As I said, his logic is a bit skewed at times but his tool factor makes up for it in spades.

Good stuff, this thread CAN NEVER let him live that shit down, LOL.