{"id":573897813,"date":"2025-02-05T22:21:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T03:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573897813"},"modified":"2025-02-11T02:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T07:58:20","slug":"tomato-soup-in-a-bread-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2025\/02\/05\/tomato-soup-in-a-bread-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomato soup in a bread bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this date last year, we stumbled upon a video that <em>The Daily Show<\/em> had recirculated from, I believe, 2013 or 2014. It&#8217;s a classic bit of satirical comedy now, and so much of what TDS and it&#8217;s descendants do is on display here. Plus, there&#8217;s Jon Stewart&#8217;s pronounced cheesy New York accent. It kills me. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pzXIpp59eoU?si=cBLFDBXYmuPCulsQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I know this was a year ago because, for some one-off joke about ordering a pizza, I made a gif about how he wants a real pizza, with the gestures and the over-enunciation. It still cracks me up. <\/p>\n<p>I mention it here because there&#8217;s not much to the day. Ten years ago today I was still trying to catch up from a trip. Five years ago today, in 2020, was just another typical day &#8230; we had about five more weeks of those before everything got atypical, of course. Too much time in the television studio. I miss the people involved, the students, but not the rest of everything else that came with those long days and longer nights. <\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s Jon Stewart thundering away about &#8220;an above ground marinara swimming pool for rats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, it&#8217;s a tight 10 minutes. Give it a look. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerrowan.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On campus today we talked about media and culture, and that&#8217;s the last day we&#8217;ll discuss that. It&#8217;s interesting, but it doesn&#8217;t hold the students all that much, I don&#8217;t think. Probably my fault. Next week we&#8217;ll start talking about different forms of media. Which, once we get beyond print, I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll start to think to is much more compelling. <\/p>\n<p>Today, though, we talked about how we view other places through what we learn about them in our media exposure. And I mentioned the Super Bowl so I could bring this back up again Monday, when I&#8217;ll ask, &#8220;What does the world take see in us when they watch one of our largest spectacles?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Today I asked them, &#8220;Does the globalization of media undermine national cultures?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After that we had an afternoon-long meeting discussing the pressing issues of the day. Some of them about curriculum and university stuff. Some on national matters. Rather than the whole faculty and a formal meeting, it&#8217;s just whoever is around. And putting in the face time is good, so I make sure to be around for these more casual sit downs. Plus someone brings snacks. And I got to talk about the difference between administrative and judicial warrants. That&#8217;s not something I would have predicted last year, when watching that pizza video. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the A-block of last night&#8217;s episode. Desi Lydic is on the desk this week, and she&#8217;s been great there since they started this rotating panel process in 2023. I&#8217;d like them to go back to skewering media, since the strength of the show was always being media satire, but since no one else is covering the news, they&#8217;re doing more and more of that. It&#8217;s better in small doses. But there&#8217;s a lot of news these days, and, again, someone has to do it. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lS0_h3aJ2Yg?si=OtSIUyBmnm81f7Eb&amp;start=30\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lydic&#8217;s first turn at the desk was one of those magical weeks where the content gods smiled upon the show. She had four fantastic episodes, and she made it seem obvious: after 27 years and three hosts, our most prominent satirical news show, finally, at long last, a strong female voice, particularly post-Dobbs. I&#8217;m so glad she&#8217;s still doing this. If they ever lock in a host she should get an opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s apparently from Louisville. I wonder what her feelings on deep dish pizza are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this date last year, we stumbled upon a video that The Daily Show had recirculated from, I believe, 2013 or 2014. It&#8217;s a classic bit of satirical comedy now, and so much of what TDS and it&#8217;s descendants do is on display here. Plus, there&#8217;s Jon Stewart&#8217;s pronounced cheesy New York accent. 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