Kennington Lloyd Smith III | WUW 339

Washed Up Walkons

Tyler Kluver

Sports, College Football, Ncaa Team, Nfl Draft, Big Ten, Athletes, Hawkeyes, Iowa

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Known also as Skinny Kenny, DJ Octane, and several other nicknames from friends, Kennington as you will soon find out is an absolute grinder in the world of Sports media/journalism. A guy with the passion, dedication, desire, AND though he's only 27, the experience you would ask for when looking for someone to cover your team. Listen to his story from 12 yrs old in middle school to now 15 years later as one of the newer beat writers in the Iowa sports scene, and you will hear the love he has for the game of journalism and the work ethic bleed through his answers.

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0:00.0	episode 339 of the Washton's Podcast.
0:03.8	Somehow this show just keeps on rolling today.
0:06.6	On the show, Kennington Lloyd Smith, the third,
0:08.7	one of the newer members of the Iowa beatwriting scene,
0:12.3	he is an absolute treat of a guest. He will be back for sure. You're going to hear
0:15.8	his drive and passion for the space and really an incredible story starting all the way back at 12 years old to be in sports media. Let's have it now. Let's go. Oh, I think 3,000. Welcome back Washup Walkons fans to episode I think
0:54.7	339 or 340 of a podcast.
0:56.8	Cluever didn't tell me before he sat down and record so that is his fault.
0:59.8	But today we're actually going to be talking about a lot of Iowa football, which has not been the case for however many months.
1:06.0	Because we've got a really cool guest on with us today.
1:09.0	This guy is fairly new to the Iowa City, Iowa sports media, but not new to media at all.
1:17.2	Kennington Smith is joining us and he started off the conversation by saying that we were held in high esteem in the
1:24.2	Iowa media realm which blows my mind and now I don't really know what's going
1:28.7	on but this should be a fun conversation so Kennington welcome to the
1:32.0	podcast man we're happy to have you here
1:33.4	yeah thank you for having me all for sure like I said before we started recording
1:37.2	the fans hold you in very high regard I'm sure a lot of Iowa media who maybe have come to know y'all through your
1:45.2	playing days or listen to you since I started this podcast holds you in high regard
1:48.6	as well so for me as a traditional media member or new media as Jay Mongrain likes to coin the phrase for me to share this space with y'all is a great honor and I'm just looking forward to the conversation.
2:00.8	We're definitely happy to ride the tailcoats of people who are actually respected in a true traditional form.
2:09.6	So you are a part of that.
2:11.1	Now, as Drake mentioned, you go by many names.
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