Topic: Ian Punnett

[Oversoul]

I think Ian was a much better C2C host when he worked every week. When he hosted the Saturday shows, he only had a week's worth of stuff that he had thought of or that had happened to him to interject into the show. Now, he has to cram a month's worth of self-absorption into four hours.

Last night's show was a good example. Granted, the guest wasn't much - the usual New Age blathering. But Ian spent way too much time talking about himself when she was on.

But isn't that typical of Ian Punnett and his propensity for theological or metaphysical excursions, pseudo-intellectual ruminations, and self-absorption?  He never strongly impressed me individually, as I always considered him part of The Three C2C Stooges: Noory, Knapp and Punnett, plus an occasional other one, Wells.   

[Paper*Boy]

But isn't that typical of Ian Punnett and his propensity for theological or metaphysical excursions, pseudo-intellectual ruminations, and self-absorption?  He never strongly impressed me individually, as I always considered him part of The Three C2C Stooges: Noory, Knapp and Punnett, plus an occasional other one, Wells.   

 
 
Before I finally just gave up on the Deacon I noticed that the weekends when he did both shows, the Sunday show was usually much better (less annoying) - all the 8th grade humor, the big new words he had for us to learn, abusing the callers, making sure the guest knew how smart he was, it was as if he'd get it all out on the Saturday show then be an actual person the next night.

[VtaGeezer]

Oh, Ian...you're supposed to be the intellectual one.  But surfer zen and a shrink with an angel fetish?  And what's with the gushing over that pointless promo video of uberSurfer?  Punnett's status with C2C has slid to "You're getting this clown for a guest, so just STFU and cash the check".  Noory's mediocrity won.  C2C is now firmly set in New Age touchie-feelie drivel.

[Lone Gunman]

I really wish Ian would have been fired over the Steve Quayle flap years ago. Once in awhile, he has an out of the box guest that is tremendous (see: the Runestone episode) but for the most part he overtly avoids paranormal topics.

He's combatitive, annoying, thinks he's hilarious and liberally uses the word dude even though he's in his mid-50s. When he disagrees with a guest, he won't let it go and has a pathetically one-track mind. IP looooves to pick nits. And it shows.

Don't get a soft-rock morning show DJ for a paranormal show. Ever.

When he started out, at least tried to assimilate even though his belief system had him likely avoid the ghost and UFO topics.

More Knapp and John B. Wells, please.

[Oversoul]

I really wish Ian would have been fired over the Steve Quayle flap years ago. . . . for the most part he overtly avoids paranormal topics.

He's combatitive, annoying, thinks he's hilarious and liberally uses the word dude even though he's in his mid-50s. When he disagrees with a guest, he won't let it go and has a pathetically one-track mind. IP looooves to pick nits. And it shows. . . .

When he started out, at least tried to assimilate even though his belief system had him likely avoid the ghost and UFO topics.

I don't understand why Punnett lets his personal religious and/or moral beliefs as an Episcopalian Deacon get in the way of his hosting Coast To Coast.  The show is not a church pulpit or a radio Christian fundamentalist/evangelical program.  Why does he have to wear his Masters of Divinity seminary degree like a crown on his head (an observable syndrome common to afflicted Masters and doctorate degree holders)?  Can't he simply function as an impartial, objective and professional radio program host? 

. . . More Knapp and John B. Wells, please.

Please, please, not more of the other Stooges on C2C, particularly those two hams. 

[Paper*Boy]

I don't understand why Punnett lets his personal religious and/or moral beliefs as an Episcopalian Deacon get in the way of his hosting Coast To Coast.  The show is not a church pulpit or a radio Christian fundamentalist/evangelical program.  Why does he have to wear his Masters of Divinity seminary degree like a crown on his head (an observable syndrome common to afflicted Masters and doctorate degree holders)?  Can't he simply function as an impartial, objective and professional radio program host? 


Please, please, not more of the other Stooges on C2C, particularly those two hams. 

 
 
The way he needs to always bring this up - as a way of letting us know how very educated he is, the way he needs to have everyone think he's just so smart, the way he treats people, the way he needs to be doing all the talking, I think Ian is extremely insecure.

[Oversoul]

The way he needs to always bring this up - as a way of letting us know how very educated he is, the way he needs to have everyone think he's just so smart, the way he treats people, the way he needs to be doing all the talking, I think Ian is extremely insecure.

I think you've hit the bull's eye.  He does project a smug "smart-ass kid" image, which came over the air waves particularly strong when he used to host C2C more frequently.

[Oversoul]

In the context of Ian Punnett being an active Episcopalian Deacon, does anyone here know or recall if Punnett favored same-sex marriages or, at the least, accepted homosexuality morally, theologically and societally?

I ask the question curiously in the light of the current news item "Episcopal bishops OK trial gay blessing prayer," carried today by:

• AP [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gB_rtzw1lgPEA2WxPhozFYOdhDFw?docId=2af91084840747ea9a2eb7853913e64e] and
• The Washington Post [http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/episcopal-convention-affirms-ordination-transgendered-adopts-anti-discrimination-policy/2012/07/09/gJQA4So0YW_story.html].

Any info or recollection from Ian's show episodes at C2C or elsewhere publicly?

[HAL 9000]

In the context of Ian Punnett being an active Episcopalian Deacon, does anyone here know or recall if Punnett favored same-sex marriages or, at the least, accepted homosexuality morally, theologically and societally?

Any info or recollection from Ian's show episodes at C2C or elsewhere publicly?

One could infer something very slight by Ian's response to this picture taken at an Episcopalian conference (from his Twitter feed):

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Ian Punnett ‏@deaconpunnett: "Says so much."

My guess would be his personal and public opinions on this topic are at odds.

[Oversoul]

My guess would be his personal and public opinions on this topic are at odds.

A conflicted man of the church, eh?  It would be interesting to hear him spill out his brains on the matter publicly, in case he hasn't yet.

[DangerousBlossom]

Oh, Ian...you're supposed to be the intellectual one.  But surfer zen and a shrink with an angel fetish?  And what's with the gushing over that pointless promo video of uberSurfer?

He's mentioned several times that both his teenage sons are very much into swimming.  My guess is that father + sons wish they were surfer dudes.  But there is no ocean near MN.  Maybe after 12-21-12.  (joking)

[Zircon]

In the context of Ian Punnett being an active Episcopalian Deacon, does anyone here know or recall if Punnett favored same-sex marriages or, at the least, accepted homosexuality morally, theologically and societally?

I ask the question curiously in the light of the current news item "Episcopal bishops OK trial gay blessing prayer," carried today by:

• AP [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gB_rtzw1lgPEA2WxPhozFYOdhDFw?docId=2af91084840747ea9a2eb7853913e64e] and
• The Washington Post [http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/episcopal-convention-affirms-ordination-transgendered-adopts-anti-discrimination-policy/2012/07/09/gJQA4So0YW_story.html].

Any info or recollection from Ian's show episodes at C2C or elsewhere publicly?

Good question but are you sure "favored" is the proper term? "Accepting" might be more in line with his personal philosophy. To be truthful ... I haven't heard one way or the other on this. This picture referred to by HAL might suggest his feelings on the matter. Pointing it out.

[BobGrau]

Last night I listened to Ian's most recent show, the surfer + angel person. Well, to be accurate I listened to the first hour. I couldn't stomach the angel person for long.
 
Anyway, did anyone catch Ian's ghost story?

[CoastCanuck]

Anyway, did anyone catch Ian's ghost story?

I just listened to it... kind of weird, but the part that struck me the most is that it took him over 7 minutes to tell the story...  I kept saying...'get on with it'.

[HAL 9000]

Seems to me, long ago, I posted the Ian vs. Quayle smackdown series, which included the contentious show in which Quayle was a pompous ass. The following weekend, Ian apologized on two successive nights.

Well, I found those three shows in an archive I made four years ago - yes, hard to believe, but this happened about four-and-a-quarter years ago.

Here then, is the link in which you'll find all three shows:
http://www.mediafire.com/?d76amwhnh177heg

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Last night I listened to Ian's most recent show, the surfer + angel person. Well, to be accurate I listened to the first hour. I couldn't stomach the angel person for long.
 
Anyway, did anyone catch Ian's ghost story?

Yeah like CC said it was a 7 minute story of "a door closed by itself".

[WOTR]

This is true.  However, I will take Ian talking about a door close for seven minutes given the alternatives.  I could listen to 7 minutes of Wells grunting, making false starts, stuttering, sputtering, dead air and finally managing to get a question out to the guest.  I could listen to 7 minutes of George mangling the English language while talking about mutilated dead children and agreeing with every last word his guest utters (even when he agreed with last nights guest taking a complete opposite stance.)

No sir, give me another seven minutes of self closing door on an undisclosed island any day.

[Oversoul]

This is true.  However, I will take Ian talking about a door close for seven minutes given the alternatives.  I could listen to 7 minutes of Wells grunting, making false starts, stuttering, sputtering, dead air and finally managing to get a question out to the guest. 
x     x     x

Sometimes, you wonder if Wells is having a heart attack, constipation, or some serious breathing problem on the air, when he does those things. 
 

[MV]

I don't understand why Punnett lets his personal religious and/or moral beliefs as an Episcopalian Deacon get in the way of his hosting Coast To Coast.  The show is not a church pulpit or a radio Christian fundamentalist/evangelical program.  Why does he have to wear his Masters of Divinity seminary degree like a crown on his head (an observable syndrome common to afflicted Masters and doctorate degree holders)?  Can't he simply function as an impartial, objective and professional radio program host? 


Please, please, not more of the other Stooges on C2C, particularly those two hams. 

so what if his religious beliefs come through as he hosts.  it's just a part of who ian is.  his beliefs are no more or less valid than 3/4 of the shit they talk about on that show, anyway.  it's not like anything precious is being tainted.

[ziznak]

Here then, is the link in which you'll find all three shows:
http://www.mediafire.com/?d76amwhnh177heg

I've only heard/read you guys talk about this here on the boards and I've been dying to hear the related material.   thanks!

[Oversoul]

so what if his religious beliefs come through as he hosts.  it's just a part of who ian is.  his beliefs are no more or less valid than 3/4 of the shit they talk about on that show, anyway.  it's not like anything precious is being tainted.

True, nothing precious is tainted.   

But it just makes Punnett sound self-righteous when he does it to a caller or guest -- like a pulpit moral chastisement of the congregation member or the public berating of a sinner in the flock.  Not a good image for a supposedly impartial and gracious host of an open talk show.  It might be okay if the show or host is clearly pursuing an avowed agenda, as is normally the case for a political talk show.

Just my personal impression of style when he does that.  It leaves a bad after-taste, like when Noory pontificates about his personal religious beliefs in God or about the righteousness of his unforgiving nature toward a wrongdoer, in the middle of an interview, many times of which are out of place to begin with.  They make things squirmy in the seat when they do that, and they momentarily light up a WTF? bulb in the mind.

[b_dubb]

I have never heard Ian preach during a Coast show

[Paper*Boy]

When is Ian on again? 
 
I expect our true cime and comic book expert to mount a stiring defense of violence in movies, TV, video games, and rap music, and how that couldn't possibly influence anyone to commit violent crimes in general, or the Aurora Batman movie massacre in particular.

[Lovely Bones]

When is Ian on again? 
 
I expect our true cime and comic book expert to mount a stiring defense of violence in movies, TV, video games, and rap music, and how that couldn't possibly influence anyone to commit violent crimes in general, or the Aurora Batman movie massacre in particular.

Listen to Ian's two interviews with Dave Cullen, who spent 10 years researching Columbine and uncovering the myths that have pervaded the media and hence society regarding the alleged causes of that tragedy.

After listening to Cullen, you just might side with anyone who doesn't bite at the media-driven hype over video games, bullying, etc. 

The country got sold a lot of crapola regarding Columbine, starting with who the mastermind really was. 

[Morgus]

When is Ian on again? 

Ian now hosts only the second Sunday night of each month and occasional fillins for Noory when he takes a Friday off.

[Rasputin]

Did Ian retire for good? I have not heard him for over a month.

[Morgus]

Did Ian retire for good? I have not heard him for over a month.

Ian cut back to one c2c show a month, he does the second Sunday of the month so he hosts this coming weekend.

[999]

First Half: Ian Punnett is joined by Prof. David Barash who'll discuss evolutionary mysteries, and explorations into things that we don't yet know about humanity.

2nd Half: Religious scholar and Egyptologist, David Elkington, will give an update on the Jordan Codices, ancient books that could change the world’s view of biblical history. He'll share how the books make a case for the resurrection of Christ and depict the earliest known image of him.

[999]

First Half: Ian Punnett is joined by Prof. David Barash who'll discuss evolutionary mysteries, and explorations into things that we don't yet know about humanity.

2nd Half: Religious scholar and Egyptologist, David Elkington, will give an update on the Jordan Codices, ancient books that could change the world’s view of biblical history. He'll share how the books make a case for the resurrection of Christ and depict the earliest known image of him.

That's tonight's show, 8/12/12. Forgot to put the date....

[SheilaVG]

Ian is a different sort of animal than the original or even current hosts. The basis of everything he does is a professed faith in God and Good. That may very well be the case with Noory also who will alternate saying he is Catholic with saying he is "spriritual" (I prefer either one to any more blather about the "wireless Internet) so Ian brings into the mix a different sensibility. He is more about learning new things, being respectful, having fun and not going too far. I enjoy the fact that, even though some of his topics bore me, he doesn't even touch aliens and cow mutilations and all that. C2C may not even be the best place for him but he is there and he is a breath of fresh air. And remember, before there was Simple Snoory there was Ian the Man .