12 minutes until Punnett begins the show. For those of you who tuned in last week, I forgot to let you know what celebrity I thought Punnett looked like. I narrowed it down to either Louie Anderson, though Punnett is not quite a pudgy, or present day Jerry Mathers (TV's "the Beaver"). He also looks like my old college professor Evan Smith, but I've not seen him in 5 years so I can't be sure.

Also, last week, Punnett didn't mention his pipe, infuriating me and making at least 3 half nude college co-eds call me a liar. Way to go, IP.

Anyhoo, C2C says that Punnett will have Jeff Nyquist and Wade Queen on to talk about how Al Qaeda is connected to the Russian mafia and discuss tensions in the Baltic States. Sounds interesting.

It's a tad past 1 AM here in Boston, the link just went up ... and wow, Streamlink has some news on for a change. Is this the end of awful bumper muzac ?!

Oh Christ, the news is coming from Fox News. That explains why they played a George Bush clip. Gross.

Ah, the familiar Noory "After Dark" commercial. My C2C world is restored.

And there's the music ... put your pipe down, Ian ... we're on.

Ian says there's lots of e-mail. He says "cabbots" drew most e-mail from listeners. He says no listener e-mail tonight, maybe. Damn, you Punnett.

News stories regarding crypto stuff.

Uh oh, Ian says the 1st hour guests may "make news".

He throws a dis at pyramid hats. A subliminal dis to binnall ? You be the judge.

Flathead Monster sightings. That's the crypto news.

He's reading the Flathead sighting story. I'm spacing out here. "Several humps visible above the water", ouch sounds like a bad weekend in the Finger Lakes Region.

Ian reads the next e-mail and botches Jeff's name, calling him "Jim". It's the anniversary of the "Green Man" incident. I'll never live that down. Ian's reading the story of the Green Man. It involves a man named Elmer Luckysutton. I like that. An odd story here about what sounds like an alien invasion. No raging gun battle, sadly. Apparently this story got picked up by the wires back in the day and that is how it got it's odd name. Wow, educational.

Boo. Ian says the rest of the news isn't entertaining. Geez, what a bummer. He is previewing the 1st hour guests. Ian claims he has a desk and that news crosses it. He says that the guests have proof of that Al Qaeda is really the Russian mafia. Spooky.

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Damn, that little drumbeat bumper sound comes out of nowhere. Ian introduces Jeff Nyquist and Wade Queen. Wade sounds like a redneck. Sorry, Wade, it's true. Ian says "heck". Wade says he's a "certified hillbilly." No kidding. At least he's not a liar.

They've been researching for 4 years, I believe they said. Ian asks about a major crisis involving Poland, Russia, and Belarus.

Wade is breaking it down for us. Uh oh, discrimination against Poles in Belarus. Apparently the president of Belarus is crazy. He may expel the Poles from Belarus. Poland pulled it's ambassador from Belarus.

Jeff sounds like he is speaking through a mitten. He says the KGB is influencing the government in Warsaw. The KGB is generating this little mini-feud between Poland and Belarus, according to Jeff.

Jeff says we're on the verge of the 4th World War. Yes ! I love the folks who skip WW III. He is laying the groundwork for a US v. China and Russia war, as I predicted in a previous News Watch editorial.

Ian wants to hear about this alleged Al Qaeda / Russia connection.

Jeff plugs his site and an article there w. an interview. I'll have to check that out at some point when I have some time. Jeff's getting deep geopolitical intrigue here, but it's some good stuff.

"The KGB is the mother of global terrorism", according to the dude who is interviewed in the article on Jeff's site. (Geez, what is that a 4th hand source)

Ian wants proof. He says it is easy to believe that Al Qaeda was trained by the KGB, but not controlled.

Jeff is going off here. I got a tad distracted, but we're back in business.

Ian essentially says that there is no proof to this theory.

Jeff is going off again about Zawari and a trip by him to Russia. He is talking about Chechnya now. This is highly esoteric of a geopolitical nature. Good stuff.

Planted bombs in apartments, Russian gov't is caught, they say they were conducting a drill. Wow, another drill.

Al Qaeda has nukes. Here we go again. Russia slipped them the nukes, via Chechnya. More groundwork laid for the impending nuke attack. Damn, this is getting serious.

Ian asks if the Russians may have been behind 911.

Wade finally speaks up and says "Possibly."

Jeff quickly speaks over him and then they have to go to break.

Ian says he'll hear them out.

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Funky '80's music acts as bumper music, perhaps to take away from the idea of the impending nuke attack in America or because Ian lost his virginity to it. You decide.

Voiceover guy gives us the phone numbers.

Ian pushes Dr. Fred Bell for later in the show. He is still puzzled by Wade and Jeff's outlandish theory. I'm still puzzled by why the comical redneck Wade has barely said anything. Ian's asking a bunch of questions. Good teaser as we head into the second half of SNP

Ian lays it out. Russian intelligence behind 911. He seems to think these two are the first to allege this. Geez, Ian, I'm sure someone else has.

Jeff, of course, has some stories that point to Russian involvement in 911. An anecdote about a captured Russian who knew about 911 ahead of time. This dude claims Atta was trained in Russia.

"overture" theory here, interesting. Terrorist groups

Ian asks why would Russia do this.

Jeff goes on a rant against Russia. He's living in the Cold War.

Ian says they had a different form of leadership there back in the day.

Jeff says "Russian television has been taken over by President Putin". Yikes.

Ian cites the "downed sub" story from last week. Says it sounds like an uncontrolled media.

Jeff cites a book called "Kremlin Rising". He says that the folks in Russia are "on a leash."

Ian says that's different from Communist Russia. He can't wrap up the motivation of Russia.

Jeff says it's about competition between US and Russia. Where the hell did Wade go ?!

Jeff points out a bunch of indicators of an aggressive Russia.

Wade asks if he can "jump in". Ian says "Please do". I concur.

Wade is tossing out some facts and anecdotes. M203 Grenade Launcher, that's all I got out of Wade here. He goes very fast. He probably realizes that Jeff will overrun him at any moment so he's trying to get everything he planned to say out in this one chance.

He says someone is supplying Al Qaeda with "brand new weaponry."

Nice. Ian asks for the probability that Russia was involved in 911.

Both say "90%". Wade says impending attacks are coming soon. Yikes, Wade.

Ian asks how Russia knows that it's "stooges" will go along w. the attack. Jeff says it will be done by Russian commandos hired by Al Qaeda.

Lynn from West of the Rockies asks "Why would Al Qaeda blow themselves up for Russia ? Are the higher up Al Qaeda's in on it ?"

Jeff says yes, the Russians have hijacked Al Qaeda. Wade botches the old "enemy of my enemy" expression. I love this man.

Jeff mentions the Russian mafia. Wade starts talking about the drug trade being controlled by the Russians. They're just freestyling now. Jeff jumps in saying that via drug running, WMDs are brought to the US.

Ian asks if WMDs are in the US now.

Both say yes. Wade says dozens of suitcase nukes are missing.

Ian asks when. Good job from Ian tonight.

Wade says something like "war day".

Ian asks again.

Jeff says it depends on when China and Russia are "consolidated" and ready for war. He cites a bunch of rumors of war coming from China.

Caller Bill asks if they've traced this back to the Clintons.

Jeff is confused. I am too. Wade says nothing. Caller clarifies.

Ian asks "what grapevine do you have? Some guy at the bar?"

Jeff sorta blows it off. Wade talks about the big China / Russia War Games going on right now. Apparently there is some deadline. "Something may be ready to unfold. By Aug. 17th" Wow. Note the date, folks.

Ian, "This coming Wednesday."

Wade says yes. He says the State Dept. issued a warning on Aug. 4th.

Ian, "This Wednesday. Circle your calendars."

Wade, "The dogs are lining up". He was prompted by Ian to say that.

Ian asks if the weather makes them crabby.

Jeff makes a lame joke.

Buster from Kentucky calls in with an opinion and a question. He's never trusted Russia, big surprise. He wants to know if Poland is in NATO.

Jeff says Poland is a "Trojan horse inside NATO."

Wade tries to say something, but Jeff squeezes him out. He's rambling, folks. Wade wants to finally reiterate his warning.

Ian mentions some petroleum truck story, just to further freak everyone out as we end this week's Saturday Night Punnett.

Wow. That was a lot of stuff to write down in just an hour. I'm exhausted. Excellent 1st hour. Ian put in an outstanding performance, though it was hampered by Jeff's verbose nature. Poor Wade, who seemed like he had ten times the charisma of Jeff was left with a criminally small portion of the interview.

I hereby request that Noory bring just Wade back on Tuesday. He could be the new Steve Quayle. You heard it here first.

No pipe mention for 2 weeks in a row. You're killing me, IP.