WEBVTT - Now That's A Graduation Speech! 

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<v Speaker 1>Now that's a graduation speech. It's one more thing I'm.

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<v Speaker 2>Strong and Getty thing, or more importantly, commencement address, which

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<v Speaker 2>we've been talking about on the Armstrong and Getty Show

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<v Speaker 2>a lot and do every year this time of year.

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<v Speaker 1>We got this text before we get to one that

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<v Speaker 1>has gone viral from last week. We got this text

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<v Speaker 1>from somebody. I was at the Berkeley graduation on Saturday,

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<v Speaker 1>my daughter's graduation. She went through the Davis School district.

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<v Speaker 1>Man went through the Davis School district and graduated from Berkeley. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>Robert Reich was the keynote speaker.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh my god.

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<v Speaker 1>He's a Berkeley professor. Remember he's the one last week.

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<v Speaker 1>He's a former economic advisor to Clinton and Obama. Everybody,

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<v Speaker 1>he's the guy the last week basically said the only

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<v Speaker 1>way you can become a billionaire is to be a

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<v Speaker 1>thief or a cheat. No other way you can become

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<v Speaker 1>a billionaire, hardcore socialist. The fact that a guy can

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<v Speaker 1>teach economics and advice and say there's no way to

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<v Speaker 1>become a billionaire on the up and up is amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>Remember when I complained about that Simpsons episode where they

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<v Speaker 1>had him the actual Robert Reich as a cartoon character

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<v Speaker 1>do a song about up with socialism.

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<v Speaker 3>On the simple right. Yeah, disgusting.

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<v Speaker 1>It was unbelievable. Anyway, Robert oak Reich was a keynote.

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<v Speaker 1>He wasn't as insufferable as I thought he would be,

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<v Speaker 1>although he'd go on and on about authoritarianism and how

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<v Speaker 1>they need to pack the Supreme Court and add New

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<v Speaker 1>States and abolish the electoral college to avoid authoritarianism. Yes, indeed,

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<v Speaker 1>I won't get off on that topic. That's what Kamala

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<v Speaker 1>Harris put out a video last week talking about packing

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<v Speaker 1>the Supreme Court in the New States, and maybe we'll

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<v Speaker 1>talk about that on the Armstrong and Getty radio show. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>the heartening thing was that one of the other speakers

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<v Speaker 1>was a guy named Manu Meal, a former Berkeley student

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<v Speaker 1>who founded Bridge USA. It was in response to the

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<v Speaker 1>twenty seventeen riots. When controversial that would be anybody that's conservative,

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<v Speaker 1>speakers were uninvited to speak on campus, and they had

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<v Speaker 1>him up there. He was engaging, funny and thoughtful on

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<v Speaker 1>that topic. So to your point on the radio show,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe the pendulum starting to swing back the other direction. Maybe?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Yeah, As I often say, it's the end of

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<v Speaker 3>the beginning. People are aware and there's progress being made.

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<v Speaker 3>But man, it's going to be a long fight.

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<v Speaker 1>Havn't somebody represent the idea that they shouldn't have uninvited

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<v Speaker 1>those speakers at Berkeley a decade ago, or having Jonathan

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<v Speaker 1>Heide speak at NYU. That's a step in the right direction,

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<v Speaker 1>I would agree. Another liberal institution, but aren't they all

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<v Speaker 1>University of North Carolina tar Heels at Chapel Hill, they

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<v Speaker 1>had a country music star, Eric Church there to do

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<v Speaker 1>an address that he kind of combined music and his message.

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<v Speaker 1>And I haven't actually heard this. I've just had people

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<v Speaker 1>bring it up to me in real life. It went viral,

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<v Speaker 1>it got a lot of attention. So we're going to

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<v Speaker 1>play the whole thing for you here.

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<v Speaker 4>You were made uniquely, wonderfully, distinctly. There's a sound only

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<v Speaker 4>you can make, a voice that has never existed before

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<v Speaker 4>you and will never exist again, a contribution only you

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<v Speaker 4>can bring a way of seeing that belongs to only you.

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<v Speaker 4>The world does not need another cover song. It needs

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<v Speaker 4>an original. Six strings, six strings of life, and willingness

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<v Speaker 4>to keep them in tune, six principles, six pillars. When

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<v Speaker 4>all six are in tune with each other. The cord

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<v Speaker 4>your life makes is full and resonant and truth. All

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<v Speaker 4>six will drift, not one or two, all six and

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<v Speaker 4>their own time and their own season. Your faith will

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<v Speaker 4>go quiet when you need it loud. Your family will

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<v Speaker 4>get complicated in a way only the people who love

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<v Speaker 4>you most can complicate things. You will go through hard

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<v Speaker 4>seasons with your spouse. Viistion will hollow out, and your

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<v Speaker 4>resilience will wear thin. Your community will start to feel

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<v Speaker 4>like an obligation, and your world will try to sand

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<v Speaker 4>down the edges of exactly who you are. This is

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<v Speaker 4>not failure, This is not weakness. It's the inevitable universal

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<v Speaker 4>experience of living in an imperfect world that doesn't stop

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<v Speaker 4>to let us tune up, and the difference between a

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<v Speaker 4>life that sounds like music and a life that sounds

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<v Speaker 4>like noise. It's whether you stop and listen, whether you're

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<v Speaker 4>honest enough to hear which string has drifted out of tune,

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<v Speaker 4>and humble enough to make the adjustment instead of just

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<v Speaker 4>turning up the volume and hoping nobody notices. Wow, Because

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<v Speaker 4>you will notice, the part of you that knows what

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<v Speaker 4>the chord should sound like will always notice it will

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<v Speaker 4>not let you go. Life won't be right until it

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<v Speaker 4>is tuned. Trust what your heart hears and is telling

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<v Speaker 4>you about your song. So, graduates, now I encourage you

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<v Speaker 4>to take your six strings, make it something worth hearing,

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<v Speaker 4>and play your song. As I leave you with mine,

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<v Speaker 4>I carry you in.

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<v Speaker 1>The Okay, we probably don't need this song. That was fantastic.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh where is the hall of fame of metaphors? That

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<v Speaker 3>needs to be in the front hall, the front entry.

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<v Speaker 1>How freaking good was that?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh lord, that was a poetry.

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<v Speaker 1>We got to play that on the radio show.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, let's do it.

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<v Speaker 1>That is so damn good. Oh my god, all of it,

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<v Speaker 1>like you say, as a metaphors so good, you know

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<v Speaker 1>when they're out of tune and you either just blow

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<v Speaker 1>by it and hope nobody notices.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, yeah, and I've never been a fan of the

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<v Speaker 3>Pollyanna Lemonade will Rain from the Sky's bullshit speech either.

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<v Speaker 3>I just I like him saying, look, it is going

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<v Speaker 3>to be hairy at times. All the good stuff gets

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<v Speaker 3>tough at times. That's not failure. I've told the story

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<v Speaker 3>before of you know, the one real radio mentor I

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<v Speaker 3>had very young told me it's going to be hard,

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<v Speaker 3>it's going to take a long time, and you're not

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<v Speaker 3>gonna make any money. So when that was the situation,

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<v Speaker 3>I thought, here we go, we're on track.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, oh that was so good. Your family is going

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<v Speaker 1>to be out of tune at sometimes, your marriage, your ambition,

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<v Speaker 1>your morals, just all those things very fun. Then you

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<v Speaker 1>got to tune them back up because you know they're

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<v Speaker 1>out of tune. Yep, that's that is really good. Good

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<v Speaker 1>for him. It'd be better to give stand up there

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<v Speaker 1>and give a speech about how Trump is. Like getting

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<v Speaker 1>back to Scott Pelley, which I was talking about on

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<v Speaker 1>the radio show. He gave his commencement addressed not long

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<v Speaker 1>ago about basically Trump being a dictator and ruining the world,

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<v Speaker 1>and you're job to get out there and oppose him.

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<v Speaker 1>That's your role.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Robert Reich saying we got to pack the Supreme Court,

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<v Speaker 3>an idea so horrifying even FDR was just shot down

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<v Speaker 3>for it.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, and just all that stuff. It's about, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>some other entity that you need to fight against as

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<v Speaker 1>opposed to your own life. The only the things you

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<v Speaker 1>can control in keeping them all in tune together. Wow,

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<v Speaker 1>that was so freaking good.

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<v Speaker 3>No, that's an excellent point. You despare it there.

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<v Speaker 1>No wonder people brought that up to me in real

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<v Speaker 1>life people. It's a couple of different people said me,

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<v Speaker 1>did you hear Eric Church's graduation thing? No, oh, you

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<v Speaker 1>got to hear it. People said, I thought, yeah, I've

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<v Speaker 1>heard this sort of thing before. That was really good.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, let's post that that audio end or video at

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<v Speaker 3>Armstrong and Giddy dot com so people can find it

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<v Speaker 3>super easily and zapper around with the friends.

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<v Speaker 1>Love that. Well, I guess that's it.