Topic: Punnet Dec 12 show with Mary Roach

[Agent : Orange]

Ian Punnet did a great job with Mary Roach tonight. I'm a space-geek so maybe I just naturally had a soft spot for this guest. Hearing about these obscure details of the space program and challenges in the future was absolutely fascinating. Even the second half guest Rick Collingwood was passable, even though I don't buy much of the hypnosis stuff.

I hope Ian will interview Mary Roach again in the future. Does anyone know if she's been on the show in the past?

[Silent]

She's done 4 shows.  3 with Ian and 1 with Noory.  I have one from 2010-09-07 with Ian hosting.  It looks like the other 2 are from 2005.

I thought she was an entertaining guest but something really started bothering me and it took a bit to see why.  While entertaining she's not very knowledgeable on the topics she talks about.  She's constantly evading questions from Ian and callers when she has no idea what the answer is.  She does it in a tactful almost unoticable way.  Basically she's just regurgitating facts she's picked up from actual experts.  There's nothing wrong with that in general but I get the impression from her and from Ian that she's some kind of expert when she's clearly not.

[Agent : Orange]

She's constantly evading questions from Ian and callers when she has no idea what the answer is.  She does it in a tactful almost unoticable way.  Basically she's just regurgitating facts she's picked up from actual experts.  There's nothing wrong with that in general but I get the impression from her and from Ian that she's some kind of expert when she's clearly not.

Wow great observation. I didn't notice this at all. I'm going to have to listen to this show again.