{"id":573891570,"date":"2019-09-24T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T21:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891570"},"modified":"2019-09-28T17:46:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T21:46:05","slug":"the-first-of-the-last-new-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/09\/24\/the-first-of-the-last-new-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The first of the last new things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For your viewing pleasure, here are the first episodes of the last new shows semester.<\/p>\n<p>First, here&#8217;s the late night show. If you don&#8217;t get it, it&#8217;s not for you. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DwXaSesHY2o\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Then again, if you don&#8217;t chuckle at it, that says a lot about your sense of humor, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not. That show has specific goals. Specific goals. Consistent goals. This is the third or fourth semester of that show, and they&#8217;ve developed running themes and callback jokes and, most importantly, they really enjoy themselves. It&#8217;s a creative, entertaining show, if you understand their brilliance.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the award-winning Breakfast Club. This is now fully a legacy program. All of the original crew and hosts and contributors have graduated. It was the spring term of 2017 when I was insisting that they needed more than a simple idea, and needed a concept, outlines, shot sheets, a show bible, something more than &#8220;We wanna.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>They fought hard to make it happen, and it did. And just before the last of the original people graduated last spring they started winning prominent awards. This week they&#8217;ve started the cycle again:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6dPQrILnSkQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And these ladies will be bringing us the news a bit later in the week:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/M_Struewing14?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@M_Struewing14<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allison_rose14?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@allison_rose14<\/a> are blowing it up on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iustvnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iustvnews<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IUSTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IUSTV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gqNdtsuUnU\">pic.twitter.com\/gqNdtsuUnU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1176628949994082304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your viewing pleasure, here are the first episodes of the last new shows semester. First, here&#8217;s the late night show. If you don&#8217;t get it, it&#8217;s not for you. Then again, if you don&#8217;t chuckle at it, that says a lot about your sense of humor, doesn&#8217;t it? Probably not. That show has specific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,76,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573891570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iu","category-television","category-tuesday","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573891570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573891571,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891570\/revisions\/573891571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573891570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573891570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573891570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}