EP. 371 Best to the Nest: With Gratitude

Best to the Nest with Margery & Elizabeth

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

I asked my son to write the obituary for his father, and so now, I share it with you.

Ian Case Punnett died on December 22, 2023.

Ian hosted weekends on the nationally syndicated show Coast to Coast with Ian Punnett, as well as local shows in the Twin Cities, Atlanta, Nashville, Chicago, and the Quad-Cities over his lengthy radio career.

He received his Master of Divinity from Columbia Theological Seminary and went on to receive his Doctor of Philosophy in Journalism and Mass Communication from Arizona State University. He was ordained as a deacon in the Episcopal Church and served in that role for many years, though to his friends and family (and frankly anyone with his phone number), his ministry was always available.

Ian was inducted into the Kansas Association of Broadcasting Hall of Fame in October 2023. For the last five years, Ian taught journalism at Kansas State University and ran the college radio station there. He took great pride in his student-staff and in Wildcat 91.9. In 2023, Wildcat 91.9 was named one of best college radio stations in the country by The Intercollegiate Broadcasting System.

He was a writer and authored several books including How to Pray When You Are Pissed at God, How Millennials Can Lead Us Out of the Mess We’re In: A Jew, a Muslim, and a Christian Share Leadership Lessons from the Life of Moses, and A Black Night for the Bluegrass Belle. In addition, Routledge Press published his dissertation, Toward a Theory of True Crime Narratives. Children know him as the author of Dizzy the Mutt with the Propeller Butt and Jackula the Vampire Dog.

Ian was a caring, intelligent, and generous man. He never hesitated to extend a hand to those in need or give his time to those in suffering. His deep Christian piety was matched by genuine curiosity and enthusiasm for all forms of faith. He always stood up for a just cause and was fearless in facing all obstacles. He was endlessly creative and never missed an opportunity for a funny bit. He was a loyal friend, a loving husband and excellent father.

Best to the Nest is our podcast all about creating strong, comfortable, beautiful nests that prepare us to fly.

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0:00.0	I'm Elizabeth Reese.
0:11.5	And this is Best to the Nest, the podcast that is all about creating strong, comfortable, beautiful nests that prepare us to fly.
0:20.3	And we want to kick off this broadcast today by
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1:03.2	going to start today by welcoming our dear Marjorie. Our dear Marjorie. This is how I refer to you
1:08.1	now. My dear Marjorie back to back to the best of the nest. Boy, I've missed
1:13.5	seeing your face. Even when it's crying. Even when it's crying. There's always expected to be some
1:19.8	crying here. Yes, I've missed your face. And I've missed you as well. But I just really wanted to today say thank you to all of the kind people that have reached out.
1:33.1	It is, I have a really good friend of mine who called me and has known Ian.
1:42.3	She's the first of my dear friends that I introduced Ian to when Ian and I first
1:46.5	started dating. So she is part of our origin story of our early love story. And she called me and
1:54.1	she had just been visiting another friend whose husband had passed. And she said that her friend
2:00.5	felt so alone. And she said that her friend felt so alone.
2:03.3	And I said to her, that's not where I am.
2:07.5	Yeah.
2:07.9	What I feel is an avalanche of love.
2:11.4	And so to all of the strangers, not strangers, that reached out and said, oh my gosh, Marjorie, the boys,
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