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Commencement Speeches for the Class of 26 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: twenty is a production of I Heart Radio. Class of Parents, Faculty, 27 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: rising graduates. Welcome to commencement. You made it. This year 28 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: is a little different at difficult time to graduate because 29 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: the traditional graduation day has been put on hold, So 30 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: we're bringing it to you wherever you are because this 31 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: is still your day, your moments, and now put your 32 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: hands together. It's time to be inspired. This year's commencement 33 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 1: speaker the one and only Chuck Bryant. Hello, Class of twenty. 34 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:25,519 Speaker 1: I am Charles W. Chuck Bryant from the Stuff You 35 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: Should Know Podcast. Over the past twelve years, I've had 36 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: the privilege to do a show that has meant quite 37 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:33,799 Speaker 1: a bit to a lot of high school and college students. 38 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: We have heard great things over that time from students 39 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:41,119 Speaker 1: who are smart and curious, funny and opinionated, the real 40 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: seekers in life, and it's my honor to bring them 41 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: in all of you. This message here for your fake 42 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: commencement Class of I'm sorry, you worked really hard for 43 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: twelve years and then maybe four more years in college. 44 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 1: And you were supposed to finish out your senior year 45 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 1: with pro um graduation, senior skip day, and more than anything, 46 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 1: walking out of your school knowing that it was for 47 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:11,399 Speaker 1: the very last time. But you aren't getting that privilege 48 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:14,239 Speaker 1: that you earned, and that really sucks. I'd like to 49 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: sugarcoat it, but that's the God's honest truth. Now, with 50 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: that out of the way, let me tell you why 51 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: one day you're going to look back on all of 52 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: this time and actually smile, because you will. You will 53 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: forever be known as the Quarantine Class capital Q, capital 54 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: C trademark Charles W. Bryant. You will go down as 55 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: the most cheated group of seniors in high school in 56 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: college history, and that's something you should embrace because all 57 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 1: of this will only make you stronger, more resilient, and 58 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: more prepared for the inevitable future disappointments you will all 59 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: suffer over and over again in life. You might think 60 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: I'm kidding, and I kind of am, because see, I 61 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: use humor to help deflect my own pain, and we're 62 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: all feeling that pain right now. You See, I have 63 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: a niece in the Quarantine class, and I have some 64 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: close friends with kids in the quarantine class, and I 65 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: have an almost five year old daughter who is part 66 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: of the quarantine class of her preschool. She will never 67 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 1: set foot again inside this little hippie dippy school where 68 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: she made her very first friends, and she will likely 69 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 1: not see many of them ever again. I have seen 70 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 1: through my daughter and my niece and my friend's first 71 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 1: hand the pain and disappointment of what this dumb situation 72 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 1: has caused. But back to the humor part, right, because 73 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: I am kidding in a way that life is a 74 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: series of disappointments and you will be better prepared because 75 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: of this. But life really is a series of disappointments 76 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: and also a series of sweet victories and wonderful friendships 77 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: and bitter betrayals. It's true love and utter heartbreak. It's 78 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 1: exciting and boring as hell. It's exhilarating and mundane. Your 79 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: future will be filled with all that's amazing and terrible. 80 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: The whole point of life is to experience the full 81 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 1: range of emotions and experiences. You'd be short changed if 82 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: everything was awesome, because sadness and pain are valuable. Some 83 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 1: of the best art and history came from sadness and 84 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,359 Speaker 1: pain most of it. Actually, you know those songs about 85 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,919 Speaker 1: somebody who's really happy all the time, There are very few, 86 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 1: and they suck. So what I'm getting at is that 87 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: you have an opportunity to use this experience, and use 88 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: this time, one unlike any other in human history, to 89 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: your best advantage. The world we live in has, by 90 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: and large, simply stopped for a moment. Not your neighborhood, 91 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 1: or your city or state, or even your country, the 92 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 1: entire world. We're all at home. We're all granted so 93 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 1: much time with our families and loved ones, and more importantly, 94 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: with ourselves. Will you miss graduation? Yes? Does that suck again? Yes, 95 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: but you know it. I honestly barely remember anything about 96 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: my graduation, and I didn't even drink back then. But 97 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: I know I'll remember these days and weeks and these 98 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: months more clearly than any other time in my life. 99 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: Now is the time to think about what you're going 100 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 1: to do to make the world a better one. We 101 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: shouldn't go back to normal, because normal wasn't the best 102 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:24,679 Speaker 1: for the world. We can do better. We can slow down, 103 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: we can be kinder to the earth and to each other. 104 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,279 Speaker 1: We can share things and use less we can forge 105 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 1: a brighter path. But you see, there's a catch, Quarantine 106 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 1: Class trademark. It's got to come from you guys. We 107 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 1: can't do it. We've showed that we can't do it. 108 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: Old people are the worst at making real change. People 109 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: my age aren't so great at it either. But you 110 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 1: know what, you guys are the best. Your spirit, your ingenuity, 111 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,600 Speaker 1: your passion. This is what we need if we're going 112 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: to use this time to reboot humanity, because we need to. 113 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: It's a big job, but we have a little head 114 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: start here, and we have all of you behind us, 115 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: pushing this huge barge in the right direction, just a 116 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: few short inches at a time, so that it all 117 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: ends up in a very different place years from now. 118 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: So in closing, yes, the country is all super sad 119 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 1: for the quarantine Class. You have all been cheated and 120 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: it really does suck. But it won't define you. I've 121 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: heard from enough of you over the years to know 122 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: that that's true. One day you'll look back on this time, 123 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: and that will one be up to you what that 124 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: memory looks like. I believe in you, and the world 125 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: believes in you. Congratulations on all you've achieved. And all 126 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: that you will achieve. Now, go out there and crush it. 127 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 1: You can find a collection of incredible commencement addresses from 128 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: all your favorite speakers at the Commencement Podcast on I 129 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: Heart Radio or wherever you listen to podcasts.