Topic: Ian Punnett

[CoastCanuck]

I like Ian Punnett and last night's show was pretty good, but did anyone catch how many times the guy he was interviewing said "you know?" It was particularly bad near the end of the show. At one point, he said "you know" nine times in thirty seconds. It was, you know, nerve-racking.

Yes, the 'you know' is annoying.   Ian has an annoying habit also... while guests are giving answers, he repeatedly says 'Right'.

[Paper*Boy]

Yes, the 'you know' is annoying.   Ian has an annoying habit also... while guests are giving answers, he repeatedly says 'Right'.

It's because he's just so smart, and wants to make sure listeners don't get the wrong idea and think the comment was news to him.

[Agent : Orange]

The holy ghosts show on Saturday night was very interesting and well hosted even with the guests annoying habits.

[Paper*Boy]

Yes, the 'you know' is annoying.   Ian has an annoying habit also... while guests are giving answers, he repeatedly says 'Right'.

I don't think it's a habit, it's purposefully condescending and dismissive.  Just one of the techniques he learned getting his undergrad in 'rhetoric'.  I don't know why anyone would subject themselves to one of his interviewees unless they knew ahead of time he wasn't going to be an asswipe.
 
I would love to see him - away from his mute button, out of the pulpit - in a real debate.

[b_dubb]

the holy ghost show was solid.  knapp and punnet made for a solid weekend of listening

[valdez]

    Robert Zubrin on falling space stuff, then Dr. James Fadiman on the possible therapeutic value of hallucinogenic drugs.  It's been mentioned on this thread that Ian sounds like the type of guy who parties.  He never has.  I think he should have tripped sometime before this interview just to get a feel of the subject matter.  Fadiman was kind of a jerk to the callers. "What's your question?  Get to the question."  Hey, man, relax.  It's cool. 
 

[fabucat]

Totally agree. I couldn't take much listening to those 2 authors.

Seems like there is a lot of "humanity is on the brink of an evolutionary shift" these days.

I *really* wish that this site had an option where the reader could the writer points for such smart comments.  Huffington Post does this.  Trust me, people there aren't quite as fun:)

Anyway, how many times do I turn to this site for just laughing my a** off.? Great post, bro'.

[Agent : Orange]

Wow the show on therapeutic LSD was great yesterday. Fringe enough (imo) to be coast-worthy, and a very engaging interview as well. I rarely have complaints about Ian. I noticed the guest prompting callers during the show as well, which I thought was strange.

[Silent]

Yes, the 'you know' is annoying.

I really wanted to listen to this show tonight but I just had to turn it off because of this.  Lots of people have their little fall back words they use when thinking of what they really want to say but this dude is horrible.  He's fitting 'you know' 4 or 5 times in a sentence along with umm, err, like, and the long drawn out 'soooo' and 'annnnnd'  He's filling entire minutes of airtime with what amounts to 15 or 20 seconds of actual thoughts.  Ugh.  I'll try the LSD show instead.

[Eddie Coyle]

 
   Herr Doktor Fadiman sounded like another "Doc" of reknown...Dr Ron Tarner. I was listening on headphones and the guy went on for about 3 minutes without a breath while Ian was trying to get a question in.

[b_dubb]

Doc Fadiman was a pushy dick to callers.  i wanted Ian to put him in his place. Doc ... you flap your gums about LSD and I (Ian) will help callers get to the point

[Agent : Orange]

Loving the show on superheros so far. I know a lot of you are probably as excited about this as a show about zombies, but it does it for me. Ian has the best guests.

[SnapT]

This was a ZILLION times better than Ian's zombie shows, especially once Ian steered away from the boring "superheroes are modern day metaphors for whatever" talk.  "Oh wow, the persecuted mutants from X-MEN are supposed to be like gay people!  And Marvel's THOR is our modern-day version of the Thor of ancient mythology!  How fascinating!"

I wish Uslan would've gone into more detail on the nuts and bolts of producing the BATMAN films, though, and I applaud Ian for trying to rip details out of him.  Uslan's really long-winded and it was like pulling teeth getting him to answer most questions directly.

[conscious comic]

Doc Fadiman was a pushy dick to callers.  i wanted Ian to put him in his place. Doc ... you flap your gums about LSD and I (Ian) will help callers get to the point

Agree! Especially where he told the caller that his story was 'boring'? And you are trying to sell your book? Maybe you forgot to include the part (in your book) about how doing LSD causes self-sabbotaging behaviors? Not to mention the fact that the C2C audience loves other people's stupid, boring stories or they wouldn't be listening.

It might be a generalization, but has anyone else noticed that too many of these 'consciousness studies geeks' carry themselves with an arrogant air of superiority - as if they *see* things that other people can't see? We old hippies had a name for that type of trip...it was called an ego trip!

[Silent]

I'm am listening to an older Art Bell somewhere in time replay right now from 21 July, 1997.  Sometime during the final hour of the show Art reads a transcript from a radio show done on WGST in Georgia done by Ian Ponnet (Art spelled the last name out).  I'm guessing the transcript got the spelling wrong as Ian Punnett worked at this station during those years.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Punnett

The radio spot was something about UFO sightings in Georgia.  This must have been enough to get Art to ask Ian about hosting CTC since Ian started in 1998.  Interesting!

During the same show Art talked about using some computer phone software called Iphone, or maybe Eyephone.  He was always ahead of the times.

[valdez]

     Another show about police abuse, the second one Ian has done on this subject.  This time with former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper.  Ian is perplexed as to why cops lie for each other when everybody else is expected to tell the truth.  We all, to some extent, lie on behalf of our co-workers.  Or would Ian care to tell us what he really thinks about George Noory?  Yeah.  I know.  It's different with cops.  They do occupy a special status in our society.  But still, lets not get too high and mighty.  Seething radical Robert Sheer on the glorious wall street protesters.  He wonderes why some people have so much wealth.  I don't know.  Hard work?  luck?  If they stole it,  put them in jail.  If not, give it a rest.  The media is quickly making these protesters their darlings, with little if any of the scrutiny that the horrible tea party experienced.  A guy called in saying that people were quitting their jobs to join the protest.  Ironic?
 

I don't know what it says either, but they sure look happy about it.

[Frys Girl]

     Another show about police abuse, the second one Ian has done on this subject.  This time with former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper.  Ian is perplexed as to why cops lie for each other when everybody else is expected to tell the truth.  We all, to some extent, lie on behalf of our co-workers.  Or would Ian care to tell us what he really thinks about George Noory?  Yeah.  I know.  It's different with cops.  They do occupy a special status in our society.  But still, lets not get too high and mighty.  Seething radical Robert Sheer on the glorious wall street protesters.  He wonderes why some people have so much wealth.  I don't know.  Hard work?  luck?  If they stole it,  put them in jail.  If not, give it a rest.  The media is quickly making these protesters their darlings, with little if any of the scrutiny that the horrible tea party experienced.  A guy called in saying that people were quitting their jobs to join the protest.  Ironic?
 

Valdez, this is my favorite editorial by you yet. Thank you.

[valdez]

...Thank you.

     Thank you, Frys Girl.  You had disappeared for a while.  Good to have you back.

[Frys Girl]

     Thank you, Frys Girl.  You had disappeared for a while.  Good to have you back.

Thanks! I forgot to add that the "Ironic?" at the end was a great jab at George's "Ironic?" after talking about the death of Steve Jobs coinciding (dare I use the word?) with the release of the iPhone 4GS.

[Eddie Coyle]

 
 
     Ian has a "Serpico"-wannabe...how the Hell is this a C2C topic? Punnett now makes a mockery of the foundation Art put forth. Retire,Reverend,retire.

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

      If they stole it,  put them in jail.  If not, give it a rest. 

There's plenty of evidence the "people" (well, that's how Mitt Romney refers to them) he was referring to did steal it. But don't those radical "socialists" Obama or Eric Holder to do anything about it.

By the by.....the media did whatever they could to ignore OWS for almost 2 weeks until it became impossible to ignore. Meanwhile, CNN will cover any gathering of more than five Tea Partiers......which is getting hard to arrange.

[SnapT]

Ian has a "Serpico"-wannabe...how the Hell is this a C2C topic? Punnett now makes a mockery of the foundation Art put forth. Retire,Reverend,retire.

Preach it!  I'd rather have had another Ian zombie War of the Worlds broadcast than last night's down to Earth snoozefest.  He only hosts C2C once or twice a week, why is he wasting time with non-C2C topics?

[Scully]

Preach it!  I'd rather have had another Ian zombie War of the Worlds broadcast than last night's down to Earth snoozefest.  He only hosts C2C once or twice a week, why is he wasting time with non-C2C topics?

About a year ago, a caller asked Ian pretty much the same thing.  An obviously irritated Ian said there just aren't enough paranormal stories to talk about.
 
If it were television we would have been able to see Ian's nose growing even as he spoke.

[bmd88]

There's plenty of evidence the "people" (well, that's how Mitt Romney refers to them) he was referring to did steal it. But don't those radical "socialists" Obama or Eric Holder to do anything about it.

By the by.....the media did whatever they could to ignore OWS for almost 2 weeks until it became impossible to ignore. Meanwhile, CNN will cover any gathering of more than five Tea Partiers......which is getting hard to arrange.

You are absolutely correct. And OWS is the "media's darling"?  You've got to be kidding me.  Every piece of coverage I've caught from half of the outlets has tried to downplay the whole thing. You've got FOX continuously pushing the story that it's just hippy "kids" (sorry, people in their mid twenties and early 30s are not kids.  They are young adults and next in succession to inherit the mess your inept generation has concocted.) with nothing better to do, who don't have a job (as if that is something to vilify someone for in this economy), and who are all "socialists" and have no idea what they want.  I watched FOX all night tonight and this is what I heard from Huckabee and guests of Geraldo.  What a circus (as usual). 

MSNBC, the other wing of lunacy, is trying to coopt the movement and turn it into something the Dems, labor, and Soros can own to help boost Obama.  The whole thing has become one big clusterfuck in the media if you ask me.  The original message has been distorted and fragmented and OWS is loosing its cohesiveness due to groups as opposing as labor & anti-capitalists and Alex Jones & Paul supporters trying to claim the movement at the same time.

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

You are absolutely correct. And OWS is the "media's darling"?  You've got to be kidding me.  Every piece of coverage I've caught from half of the outlets has tried to downplay the whole thing. You've got FOX continuously pushing the story that it's just hippy "kids" (sorry, people in their mid twenties and early 30s are not kids.  They are young adults and next in succession to inherit the mess your inept generation has concocted.) with nothing better to do, who don't have a job (as if that is something to vilify someone for in this economy), and who are all "socialists" and have no idea what they want.  I watched FOX all night tonight and this is what I heard from Huckabee and guests of Geraldo.  What a circus (as usual). 

MSNBC, the other wing of lunacy, is trying to coopt the movement and turn it into something the Dems, labor, and Soros can own to help boost Obama.  The whole thing has become one big clusterfuck in the media if you ask me.  The original message has been distorted and fragmented and OWS is loosing its cohesiveness due to groups as opposing as labor & anti-capitalists and Alex Jones & Paul supporters trying to claim the movement at the same time.

Yeah, liberal movements never have any money behind them to start like the Tea Party did with the Koch Brothers and such "outsiders" as Dick Armey.....and of course the health care industry who was bussing people in to break up every town meeting held by a Democrat in 2009 until they got the infamous "seat at the table" they wanted. Lefties get co-opted at the back end, while righties get left high and dry when the money men get their payoff or the curtain gets pulled on them.

[Eddie Coyle]

About a year ago, a caller asked Ian pretty much the same thing.  An obviously irritated Ian said there just aren't enough paranormal stories to talk about.
 
If it were television we would have been able to see Ian's nose growing even as he spoke.

     Yes, the only thing that irritates Ian more than paranormal subjects are callers who ask about paranormal subjects. If he had his druthers, he'd completely eschew C2C subjects and become the "Jim Bohannon-lite" show he craves.

[Eddie Coyle]

Yeah, liberal movements never have any money behind them to start like the Tea Party did with the Koch Brothers and such "outsiders" as Dick Armey.....and of course the health care industry who was bussing people in to break up every town meeting held by a Democrat in 2009 until they got the infamous "seat at the table" they wanted. Lefties get co-opted at the back end, while righties get left high and dry when the money men get their payoff or the curtain gets pulled on them.

    Liberal movements have major benefactors like the Ford Foundation and George Soros. Both of whom exert far more power and influence than the odious Koch Brothers. La Raza's existence almost solely comes from Ford Foundation coffers.

[Paper*Boy]

    Liberal movements have major benefactors like the Ford Foundation and George Soros. Both of whom exert far more power and influence than the odious Koch Brothers. La Raza's existence almost solely comes from Ford Foundation coffers.

 
Don't forget International ANSWER, the people bringing peace protests to a city near you - you know, the ones that end up with burning cars and buildings.  Funded by North Korea.
 
Soros just lost another attempt to overturn his insider trading conviction in France at the European Court.  The 'Progressives' in this country sure have some great friends. 

[Agent : Orange]

     Yes, the only thing that irritates Ian more than paranormal subjects are callers who ask about paranormal subjects. If he had his druthers, he'd completely eschew C2C subjects and become the "Jim Bohannon-lite" show he craves.

I wouldn't have a problem with Ian if he went in his own direction at all. He's a great host on his own. He can make almost any topic interesting, even some I wasn't excited to hear about beforehand. Ian has good interview skills, especially if it's on something he's interested in. It's clear when he is shoehorned into topics as his distaste for the guests and callers shows.

Instead Ian should be left to do his own thing. He is interesting enough to carry his own show. Whether that show needs to be about the paranormal is for the host to decide. Frankly some of the regular guests on Coast are terrible and I'd look forward to a night of open lines instead (let's never hear from the numbers lady ever again). Ian's approach is more of an examination of a general pop culture which the paranormal is a very small part of, and I like that angle. I know it's impossible for Ian to carry his own show because of his obligation as the morning guy in Minneapolis but I really do think that's too bad. Coast may not be the best vehicle for him but there is a lot of potential with Ian.

I always found Ian to be more accessible than Knapp, though I've warmed up to George over the past few years. People point the finger at Ian because it's easier to identify when he's not into a show but Knapp does this as well, and has had some real stinkers as a result.

Aside from all that the best shows on Coast were with people who were not involved in the paranormal at all, like Michio Kaku or the show Art did on caving. As long as an eye is kept to the unknown and mysterious the show will hold someones attention. Granted maybe not the current audience. But right now I think that may be an improvement on the whole.

[Frys Girl]

As much as I hate Wall Street for its unethical, risky practices, it is among the few, mega billions earning industries left in this country. I don't want to see Wall Street enter jail because our dollar will suffer.


My family never participated in stocks and trading because it is too much like gambling. I'll never do it either. I remember Rush Limbaugh talking about financial planners and that speech always stuck with me. Never trust anyone with your money, especially if he is telling you that you'll get more if you give him yours. Millions of people do it, and it helped America, but it also hurt this country. Unfortunately, there isn't enough business left in America to do away with Wall Street, so until this rough transition passes, nothing will happen.


My only worry is that we'll end up going to war again to boost the economy, and that is an even bigger gamble.