Ian Punnett

[stevesh]

annoyed by his constant "look I'm hip" references.

Me too, but I guess we should remember we're talking about a man in his fifties who addresses other people as 'Duuuude'.


From ianpunnett.org:

Ian Punnett provides a forum for people to voice their frustration with current world situations via prayer. His website,PrayersofTruth.com [not currently online], reveals that even those who strive to lead faith-based lives can experience anguish and even rage about politics, crime, and other circumstances. He recommends that people send these thoughts to God through what he calls "angry prayer." He intends to expound upon his ideas about prayer in a book, How to Pray When You're Pissed Off at God, which is scheduled for release by Crown Books in 2013.

Can't wait for that one. Think he'll interview himself when the book comes out ? I doubt if any of the other hosts are hip enough.

[PB the Deplorable]

Ian has also interviewed 'Jesus Christ', and any number of people out to debunk the bible.

It's fine, I don't expect to be interested in every topic covered on Coast, but he sure seems focused on distancing himself from what I'd call typical Christians.  Sometimes I wonder why he thinks he needs to.

[Harmness]

As a non-american, I must admit I wasn't offended by it in the slightest. But it doesn't take a genious to realise that a lot of people would be deeply upset. Idiot.

I wonder if he's actually trying to get fired from coast? Couldn't blame him.

You ought to be offended by how bad a joke it is if nothing else.

[BobGrau]

You ought to be offended by how bad a joke it is if nothing else.

Yeah but this is Ian Punnett we're talking about...

[BobGrau]

What offends me most about all this is, I had to learn who fuckin snooki is... thanks, America. Thanks.

[Eddie Coyle]

What offends me most about all this is, I had to learn who fuckin snooki is... thanks, America. Thanks.

No shit, it's beneath awful...but she was born in Chile! So they deserve blame, too...and Spain. And...

         

         

[BobGrau]

What offends me most about all this is, I had to learn who fuckin snooki is... thanks, America. Thanks.

Come to think of it, Breaking Bad more than makes up for it all.

[ziznak]

What offends me most about all this is, I had to learn who fuckin snooki is... thanks, America. Thanks.

On behalf of Americans everywhere, we apologize deeply for Snooki and the ramifications involved with her and all of her spray tanned guido ass clown friends.  We are ashamed... very ashamed.

[ShayP]

If he really said this...he should be fired from his one day a month spot on C2C.  The one day he works because he has tinnitus.  So working 3 less days per month helps you Ian?  Pssshhh.  I guess the frustration of his affliction makes him tweet bullshit more and feels justified.  He has God on his side ya know.  :  Fuck you Deacon Punnett.

[b_dubb]

it only takes one really stupid tweet to burn a bridge

[999]

Wow, Ian's an asshole. :/

[Scully]

For the record, I thought Ian's Sunday night show was refreshingly entertaining.  Maybe it's me, but it seems like Ian has gotten better since he's only on once a month. 

I do wish, though, that he'd leave his Twitter BFF's at the studio door.  His penchant for wasting time on stuff like that and his pronounced tendency to regress to the juvenile are his worst failings, IMHO.

It pains me deeply to remind you guys that I had Ian's number down long ago.  (Just ignore that first paragraph.)  

[Eddie Coyle]

        Anybody expecting a mea culpa from Ian this week for his unseemly Neil Armstrong tweet?

          Yeah, me neither.

[ziznak]

If he's smart he should say something.  He's owned up to things in the past.

[UnscreenedCaller]

We lost an authentic hero in Neil Armstrong. He deserved better than a joke in very poor taste to mark his passing. I've enjoyed Ian's shows in the past, but he does have a problem when someone confronts him when he crosses the line, which he did with that tweet, and this is not the first time for him, either. It's not about being 'one of those', which I think is a dig at George's "haters". It's about showing respect to a modest, unassuming man who had incredible courage and has now passed into history. Ian should man up and admit he was disrespectful to the memory of Neil Armstrong, but he won't because he has a total blind spot when it comes to his own offensive remarks.

[ChewMouse]

We lost an authentic hero in Neil Armstrong. He deserved better than a joke in very poor taste to mark his passing. I've enjoyed Ian's shows in the past, but he does have a problem when someone confronts him when he crosses the line, which he did with that tweet, and this is not the first time for him, either. It's not about being 'one of those', which I think is a dig at George's "haters". It's about showing respect to a modest, unassuming man who had incredible courage and has now passed into history. Ian should man up and admit he was disrespectful to the memory of Neil Armstrong, but he won't because he has a total blind spot when it comes to his own offensive remarks.

Very well said! And amen to all that you wrote.

[Eddie Coyle]

We lost an authentic hero in Neil Armstrong. He deserved better than a joke in very poor taste to mark his passing. I've enjoyed Ian's shows in the past, but he does have a problem when someone confronts him when he crosses the line, which he did with that tweet, and this is not the first time for him, either. It's not about being 'one of those', which I think is a dig at George's "haters". It's about showing respect to a modest, unassuming man who had incredible courage and has now passed into history. Ian should man up and admit he was disrespectful to the memory of Neil Armstrong, but he won't because he has a total blind spot when it comes to his own offensive remarks.

This is exactly the issue I've always had with him, a hypersensitivity to criticism and stubborn refusal to even slightly acknowledge he could be wrong. I think he's a pretty good host, albeit a touch solipsistic, but overall he's good. But he's almost like a teenager in his pertinacious "I'm right, you're wrong" declarations. I'm hoping the Neil Armstrong tweet doesn't get mentioned, because I can only envision him digging his heels in and telling us it was "satire" or some weak bullshit like that.

             Depressingly, the only time I recall him being apologetic was with his(justified) Steve Quayle dust up in the spring of '08. Clearly, somebody made Ian say he was sorry.

[ziznak]

          ...somebody made Ian say he was sorry.

you're right that wasn't him owning up to it...
If he caught shit for the Quayle "smackdown" then I hope he caught shit for his VERY disrespectful Armstrong tweet... even though it wasn't on C2C live with a guest he is an official host and I would think if the shows production morons have half a brain they would understand that his childish "look at me" tweet was in poor taste and reflects poorly on the show... phew... take a breath...

Steve Quayle < Neil Armstrong

and here's hals post with the link to the related shows.

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

[ChewMouse]

Depressingly, the only time I recall him being apologetic was with his(justified) Steve Quayle dust up in the spring of '08. Clearly, somebody made Ian say he was sorry.

Eddie, I don't think it was justified. Quayle is a doggie downer and everyone knows it. Ian knew it. And instead of just saying, "Look, Steve, you're a doggie downer and I'm going to let you go so I can take open lines", Ian proceeded to pout like a schoolchild throughout the entire program. I know people have said he booted Quayle, but he did not (and the link to that show is above in Ziznak's post). Ian just stayed silent. I've seen him do the big pout with other guests, including one who said, "Ian, before we go on, can I answer someone who has emailed me since this show began?" and Ian said, "Well, no, we don't....oh well, okay, if you want to" and when the guy was finished, Ian said bitchily, "Is that it? You don't want to read any more of your email?" and I just shook my head.

Ian is the captain of the ship top officer in the rocket ship and he sometimes just lets it fly out of control simply to show that he is the top officer. (that metaphor lacks but I can't seem to fix it) He's a jerk.

And I've never met a "man of the cloth" who isn't a jerk, either right up front or deep down inside. I can only conclude that they were jerks first, religious "leaders" second.

[Eddie Coyle]

And I've never met a "man of the cloth" who isn't a jerk, either right up front or deep down inside. I can only conclude that they were jerks first, religious "leaders" second.

Predisposition indeed. They're essentially from the same sociopathic branch that produces politicians and bankers. Power, power and a little more power is what they seek. Even, a small timer like "Deacon Punnett" has these traits.

          The bright side of the 11 years spent in Catholic schools? I learned what utter bullshit organized religion was up close and personal.

[PB the Deplorable]

       Predisposition indeed. They're essentially from the same sociopathic branch that produces politicians and bankers. Power, power and a little more power is what they seek. Even, a small timer like "Deacon Punnett" has these traits.

          The bright side of the 11 years spent in Catholic schools? I learned what utter bullshit organized religion was up close and personal.

Not just bankers, nearly all the big shots in the corporate world, jockeying for position, always coming up with ways to screw everybody else over - each other, bosses, staff, customers, suppliers, shareholders..  And cops, even rent-a-cops, don't forget that mentality.

Sometimes I wonder if the religious leaders believe this stuff.  Does the Pope?  I'm guessing not.  Or the Alatollahs, Mullahs, Imams?  They seem crazy, but again guessing no.  What about priests - pedaphile and othewise?  How about Romney and that weirdo Morman stuff?  Hard to believe he does.  It seems to me Deacon Punnett just found another job with short hours where he has a fairly captive audience he can yak at for an hour or so and have them hanging on his every word. 

I quit going to church in Jr High when I realized the church kids were mostly jerks and the kids at school were mostly nicer.

[ACE of CLUBS]

Ian has always been a 'peckerhead'....he cannot take any form of instruction, and he feeds his constant need 'to be right' ...
Combined with his weird form of speaking, and his expressions of 'youngness' ...... it becomes quite tedious to listen to him.  I find it more pleasurable to ram a sharpened pencil into my ear, than listen to him trying to phrase a simple question.....
Ian ......Pfffffffffffttt.... (fart with intent)

[Eddie Coyle]

Not just bankers, nearly all the big shots in the corporate world, jockeying for position, always coming up with ways to screw everybody else over - each other, bosses, staff, customers, suppliers, shareholders..  And cops, even rent-a-cops, don't forget that mentality.

Sometimes I wonder if the religious leaders believe this stuff.  Does the Pope?  I'm guessing not.  Or the Alatollahs, Mullahs, Imams?  They seem crazy, but again guessing no.  What about priests - pedaphile and othewise?  How about Romney and that weirdo Morman stuff?  Hard to believe he does.  It seems to me Deacon Punnett just found another job with short hours where he has a fairly captive audience he can yak at for an hour or so and have them hanging on his every word. 

Cardinal Bernard Law, who oversaw a truly horrific widespread scandal of covering the tracks of innumerable predator priests, exemplifies how rank and dishonorable these "leaders" can be. The guy always struck me as nothing more than politician/salesman...but in reality he was worse, a manipulator who was more immoral than amoral who had one concern and that was protecting his fiefdom. How the Boston diocese has ONE follower remaining is beyond me.

[ACE of CLUBS]

'Call a spade a spade' ......
Fact: The Pope professed to know nothing about the widespread and rampant abuse by some predatory clergy.
Fact: The Pope rose up through the ranks, so to speak.
Fact: Many of 'the common' people around the world know of the abuse in the Catholic organization.


Anyone with more than a dozen brain cells would ponder the question:  Is 'His Holiness' a liar, how could he not know of the abuse?


Presidents, Kings, Heads of State, and a host of other 'ner do well's'... bow down to the Evil Clown to kiss his ring.
Makes me sick!

[UnscreenedCaller]

Very well said! And amen to all that you wrote.

Thanks. 

             Cardinal Bernard Law, who oversaw a truly horrific widespread scandal of covering the tracks of innumerable predator priests, exemplifies how rank and dishonorable these "leaders" can be. The guy always struck me as nothing more than politician/salesman...but in reality he was worse, a manipulator who was more immoral than amoral who had one concern and that was protecting his fiefdom. How the Boston diocese has ONE follower remaining is beyond me.

If anyone belongs in JC's boiling pit of sewage, it's Bernard Cardinal Law and every other cardinal and bishop who moved these sick bastards around and covered up for them.

[b_dubb]

Everyday we're surrounded by millions of sounds - ambient ones like the hum of the air conditioner, as well as more attention-grabbing sounds, such as human speech. Neuroscientist and musician Seth Horowitz joins Ian Punnett (Twitter) to discuss how sound affects us, and in turn, how we've learned to manipulate sound to alter the way we think and feel.

In the first hour, former director of studies in biochemistry and cell biology at Clare College, Cambridge University, Rupert Sheldrake, talks about ridding science of constricting assumptions and dogmas.

tonight's show sounds unbelievably dull

[ziznak]

tonight's show sounds unbelievably dull

I think the sound stuff is very interesting!

[ziznak]

Meh!  This show wasn't that bad but it wasn't that great either... beats any Noory hosted show as usual. 

...And I didn't notice an apology but I missed most of the first hour.

[stevesh]

I thought the main guest was pretty good. I can't imagine Simple George 'interviewing' him, though.

Punnett didn't mention the Armstrong thing at all.

[Marc.Knight]

       I learned what utter bullshit organized religion was up close and personal.

very wise.