It's been two whole weeks since Ian Punnett graced our eardrums. Did Ian finally grow that beard ? Did he get anything good of Christmas ? Will he still use that awful introduction ? Find out this week when SNP returns. Welcome back, Captain Sticky Pants.

I smell something funny in the air. Incense ? Peppermints ? Oh no, Ian's flashed back to the '60s with this week's FoP.

Wow. That's rather crappy. It's getting harder and harder to come up with ways of spicing up the Punnett. I'll see what else I can come up with next week.

Ian's a lonely boy tonight as he is in solitary for the first hour. Sounds like we got a lot of catching up to do with Mr. Punnett. He's got Peter Lance on for the 3 hour interview. I'll probably vomit five or twelve times listening.

Ah ha. Ian botched the intro at the very beginning. Ian, get your sh*t together, we're live.

Ian is in grief over the loss of Ramona Bell. As we all are, Ian. I'm there for ya, bud. Ian correctly calls Ramona, "Art's muse." How true. I'd been thinking the same thing earlier today.

Ian is previewing Peter Lance. He's been working on Able Danger. He's got a new book coming out. Ian suggests a wild affair with callers who disagree with him.

News and E-mail coming up. Ian will tell us the story of when he met Ramona Bell, also.

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Lesley picks me up when I am down. That is proven with this week's Grey Matters where Lesley rolls out a boatload of suggestions for how to improve C2C for 2006. Somewhere along the way, I forgot to do it, but Lesley didn't. She rules. The improvements are awesome. You'll have to wait until Tuesday @ BoA to read them though.

You don't have to wait to go to The Debris Field. You can go there now (or right after finishing this week's SNP).

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Crypto news.

Kid dies of bird flu in Turkey. Maybe more kids with bird flu. Some kids were playing with the severed head of a bird with the flu.

Ian plugs physorg.com once again. I think he's getting kickbacks from them. Nano story here.

Robots are going to build a large telescope on the moon for Italy. Then they can look at Earth.

Grizzly story ... uh oh. Oh crap, it came from boston.com. Some books in the 19th century were bound with human skin. Eh. That's not that grizzly. Apparently you can find these books at the libraries of some of America's finest colleges.

Three Christian ministers snuck into Senate and tried to anoint chairs. Yikes.

White House criticized Pat Robertson. That guy's out of control.

Ian says Ariel Sharon weighs 1000 pounds and compares him to that girl from Willy Wonka. Ian asks if that means God isn't as "good a shot" ? Damn, Ian's a riot tonight.

Odd rusty powder in Chicago. Ian mentions his friend Randy Eckles. Hi, Randy.

Space craft sends laser back to Earth over 15 million miles. Ian makes a politically charged joke, but it still isn't funny.

World's longest concert. This sounds awful. Ian makes a few bad jokes here. Wow, he's cracking a bunch of bad jokes.

Ian's gots e-mails.

Regina : She wants good to come out of the tragedy of Ramona's death. Perhaps donations to a worthy asthma charity or a cat shelter.

Other e-mail : mass donation to Humane Foundation.

More e-mail : Guy quotes letter written on the dying miner.

E-mail : Go to google.com, type in "13 miners", and your find some odd coincidence.

E-mail : Jennifer wrote a book on ghostly antiques. Creepy story.

E-mail : Vegan ice cream plug. Ian liked it.

E-mail : Re: Grand Theft Auto. Ian calls it "GTA". Apparently, they use the C2C theme song on the game.

E-mail : Re: A mysterious plane crash.

E-mail : Re : John Michael Greer from October ?! Geez, Ian really was behind in his e-mails. Apparently, this dude changed from being a horse into a human. Yikes. Bizarre. "I have been propositioned by mares." Uh oh. Ian's reading the lengthy e-mail and it is all crap.

Ian wants to have that clown on the show. Damn, Ian picked up on the "propositioned by mares" line too. I think like Ian. I am scared.

E-mail : Chappelle Theory. Wow. Ian picked it up.

E-mail : Ian has a rodent face, but not necessarily a ferret.

E-mail : An insult at Ian.

Ian's going to give us his story of how he met Ramona Bell. I won't mock him, I promise. Damn, this is a tough ride tonight.

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Khyron is a force to be reckoned with, I assure you. The K-Files is bearing down on 1 year of existence and gets better every week. Last week, he took us to a UFO cult, talked about an explosion on the moon, and brought some hard data on what people believe in. Who knows what he'll find for this week's K-Files. We'll find out Wednesday @ BoA.

Until then, you can always go to khyron.net for the K Man's signature reviews of today's top flicks, his keen insight into the gaming industry, and the return of the Sci Fi Showdown ! There's also rumours that he's working on some sort of film, so the man is really a renaissance man of the highest caliber. Pay him a visit @ khyron.net.

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Ian opens up the phone lines. He notes that people feel like the loss of Ramona is like losing a member of their own family.

Ian tells us his story of meeting Ramona and his reflections. I'm just going to listen, folks. You'll have to hear it yourself. No commentary from me on this.

That was nice. Thanks, Ian.

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If you knew the huge names that are in the works for when BoA : Audio returns on 1.21.6, you would probably crap your pants. Seriously.

And, when I unleash the details of the Super Secret New Year's Weekend Project I was working on, you really will crap your pants. Seriously.

Pants ... they're not just for wearing anymore.

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Ian expects a lot of phone calls re: 911 when Peter Lance comes on later on tonight.

Brian is on the phone : Wants to talk about the film "Enemy of the State" that Ian was talking about earlier in the night. Apparently, the "bad guy" in that movie had a birthday on 9/11. Brian, the caller, says it shows up in the film "The Big Lebowski".

David is on the phone : Burlington, VT. The enemy of my hometown, Burlington, MA. Ian likes a restaurant in Burlington, VT, that pudgy little bastard. David had an epiphany on time travel. I smell a rambler. He says if you meditate, you stop time. O-kay. David wants to know about the "Epistle of St. James". Ian gives us a lecture on how the Bible works.

Now Ian is rambling about the nature of time.

Jack is on the International line : He's talking about how kids are going hungry all over America and no one mentions it. That's so true.

Ian wants to know what Jack is doing about it.

Jack has a cause. His "New Year's Resolution" was to commit himself to getting the word out.

Ian wants him to do more. "Let's not feed them on our rhetoric." Oh, snap, Ian.

Jack wants enlightenment from Ian. Good luck, Jack.

Jason on the wildcard line : He has a short message of hope for us in light of Ramona's death.

He moves on to mention some show from the Summer. Then he forgot about the other thing he was going to say and it just got all awkward. Ian tells him to e-mail him. That was weird, but real.

Doug on the wildcard line : Doug's gone.

Dave on West of the Rockies : He was a 13 year listener to C2C. He suggests Ian get a hold of "The Siege". He says it is a prophecy of what is about to go down in the US.

That's all for this week.

Damn, this was a tough week to pull off SNP. Ian choked me up a few times there. For all his wanton whininess, Ian is the kind of guy you want around in these tough times. Thanks for being there, Ian. G'night, folks.