Your voice gets stronger the more you listen and that is the quote of the day.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Crox and a

Sean Crox and dot com. Today's commencement address comes from best selling

author John Green. He's the author of Turtles all the way down the fault in our

stars paper towns and he totally crushes this talk is probably my favorite of

the entire week. There's all kind of gems in here and I can't help but smile all

the way through. I hope you enjoyed. Here's Mr. Green. So when I was a student

here, there was widespread agreement among my peers that the so-called real world

of proper adulthood was basically a disease you caught and then eventually died

from. Like adulthood with its mortgages and spreadsheets and lawn

maintenance seemed to be a thing to be dreaded and resisted until finally it

overtook you like a zombie plague. And then like once you acquired adulthood you

would start saying things like brand awareness in a fractured media landscape.

And we need a president who knows how to get things done. To be an adult meant

engaging in totally uneironic conversations about the weather. I remember

once when I was at Kenyan my grandmother called me to tell me that she was

watching the weather channel and that it looked like it was raining in Ohio. I

explained to her that I was reading Ulysses that I wasn't even in Gambier but in

Dublin Ireland in 1904 and that history was a nightmare from which

Dettelace was trying to awake and that nothing literally nothing mattered

less than the current weather. And then after a moment she asked well is it

raining or isn't it? To be an adult was to be a river rock blasted by an

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