what a different show when Punnett hosts, tonight's guest was an author with a book on robots/AI, Ian was well prepared as usual so the interview became more of a conversation. Ian challenged the guest, he likes to get in his philosophical moralistic flex which can be annoying/cloying but it sure beats the nightly Noory display of stupidity.
so during open phones a caller got on air and was complaining about what Coast has become under Noory, he referred to the infomercials and how guests are never challenged and said Ian's shows are 'what we want'. Ian told him he was glad he enjoys what he does but informed he wasn't going to be addressing how others hosts do their shows. He did say since he doesn't do Coast that often that he has the luxury of being able to actually read the books of the guest and really dig in to topics and as for the infomercials he said the radio biz is changing and to survive as an industry things are being done that wouldn't have 20 years ago.
no excuse for Noory or the producers - somebody should be reading the guests books and preparing synopses and talking points/questions for Noory. of course the majority of Noory's guests are woo peddlers so how do you prepare for that nonsense unless you're prepared to be a skeptic and if Coast had a skeptic as host the show would be over. The solution is to get rid of New Age charlatans.
