{"id":573894268,"date":"2022-04-19T19:18:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T23:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573894268"},"modified":"2022-04-21T01:06:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T05:06:08","slug":"just-the-regular-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2022\/04\/19\/just-the-regular-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Just the regular stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a sunny day. I know that because I drove in the sunshine. Because I have a late night on campus, I  enjoyed a late start. So I lazed around a bit and read and did some laundry and generally wasn&#8217;t productive enough for most of the morning. A shame, really, because productivity is the mark of your downtime! Otherwise you&#8217;re just staring at the clock, waiting for your chance to spring into action.<\/p>\n<p>And after I&#8217;d sprung, I spent the day in a room with no windows, which always helps productivity. So the sun could have done any number of things over the next six or so hours, and I&#8217;d be none the wiser. But I did see this streaming from a colleague&#8217;s office as I went up to the studio. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr22\/apr09.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This will bake your bean: what if the universe <em>is<\/em> telling you something, but you just don&#8217;t understand the symbols?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;d be too much to think about in the control room, where there was a lot going on this evening.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr22\/apr10.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And, next door, in the studio, they were talking table tennis.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They\u2019re talking table tennis on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IUSTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iustv<\/a>. Why? \u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iustvnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iustvnews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h4qjG0dcVJ\">pic.twitter.com\/h4qjG0dcVJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith\ud83e\udeb5 (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1516549493684154382?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Because we had the recently crowned national champions in for an interview. These guys are twins, born 40 minutes apart. They&#8217;ve been playing internationally for about a decade, already. And one of them was an Olympic alternate during the most recent Games. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gal and Sharon Alguetti, brand new national champions, are in the studio talking about their big <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/collegett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@collegett<\/a> win, and their Olympic dreams. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7L4x7vAOq7\">https:\/\/t.co\/7L4x7vAOq7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2NWvMtigRg\">pic.twitter.com\/2NWvMtigRg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith\ud83e\udeb5 (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1516550659344154628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>They said they practice about three hours a day. Later, the studio gang had a talk about all the things we could all be good at if we practiced it three hours a day. <\/p>\n<p>Aside from autonomous things, like blinking and breathing and so on, what do you do for three or more hours a day? I probably read that much, presumably making me an expert reader. It gets pretty thin after that, though.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Mia told us it is going to warm up just in time for Little 500 weekend. Every year since we&#8217;ve been here, that weekend has marked the precise retirement of winter, and beginning of spring. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I know what to wear this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Still don\u2019t know when I can put my jackets away for the season \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LNOWK8WCRW\">pic.twitter.com\/LNOWK8WCRW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith\ud83e\udeb5 (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1516563501317304325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Why they can&#8217;t have these races, then, in February, or March, remains a mystery to me. <\/p>\n<p>Just as mysterious, where they&#8217;re going next with this show. It&#8217;s a mix of scripted and improv comedy, and we&#8217;re all just going along for the ride. Anyway, this week&#8217;s premise is that we&#8217;re on the search for a new co-host, and all of the awkwardness that you can possibly imagine from that is probably under consideration here. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PuhqS289rYA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the new longform interview show. All of the guests are IU or Indiana type folks, and that&#8217;s not a bad hook. So far they&#8217;re three-for-three on big names, including Michael Uslan, who&#8217;s the guy responsible for all of the Batman movies you&#8217;ve seen since Michael Keaton put on the cowl. So the caped crusader is probably going to come up in this conversation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v0tUdTmhO1Q\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And this is a rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll show. Three bands came into the studio, including one brand new band. This was the first song the three-piece band ever played together. Fooled me.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y65ABajFuko\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was after 8 p.m. when I left the building, and still vaguely daylight when I made it outside. I walked to the parking deck and drove up to the top floor to look to the west. The gloaming hadn&#8217;t even begun.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr22\/apr11.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a great feature here. The best one, if you ask me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a sunny day. I know that because I drove in the sunshine. Because I have a late night on campus, I enjoyed a late start. So I lazed around a bit and read and did some laundry and generally wasn&#8217;t productive enough for most of the morning. 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