Grad Speech Wisdom | Brant Hansen

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this eye-opening episode of the FamilyLife Today Podcast, guest Brant Hansen gives a "graduation speech" unlike any other. He uses an AI-generated speech to expose how chasing worldly freedom can lead to loneliness and exhaustion.

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0:00.0	What would Satan say if he had a brief speech to graduates? You've worked hard, and now the world
0:06.7	lies before you. I invite you to embrace it, not as followers, but as architects of your own paths.
0:13.2	Ask questions, challenge conventions, trust your own desires. Seek what brings you joy, what sets
0:19.5	your heart free. This is the perspective of what Satan would say at the graduation.
0:25.2	That's what you put in.
0:26.4	Doesn't that sound like the typical advice?
0:32.2	Okay, Ann Wilson.
0:34.3	Are you ready for a done,
0:36.6	dun, dun, dun dun that's graduation day
0:39.9	it is graduation day
0:41.4	I wish we had a really good speaker to give a really good commencement
0:45.1	I know we always want one you always get those duds you know
0:48.0	celebrities they have nothing really to say but they have a million people
0:52.9	following them on Instagram and they put them up there and they don't know what they're saying.
0:55.5	So do you have a good one today?
1:09.1	We have Brian Hanson giving the graduation speech today. Thank you. Yeah, well, sort of a cooperative speech. Do you guys remember who your speaker was, like for your high school graduation? No, I don't. I was going to say. I don't know. I don't know. non-memorable.
1:09.5	Yeah.
1:10.1	I don't remember.
1:45.6	I can always remember a student giving a speech. I gave ours. Did you really? Wait, wait. I didn't give a speech, but I gave a five-minute something. What? Yeah. You know, I was the quarterback, you know, a guy. Now, I don't think I knew this. No, no, no, no. They don't just go, hey, we want to hear from the quarterback for graduation. That's why you're surprised. It's just one chance for the non-quarterback to get some attention to the valedictory of it. They had the scholars give the speech. You did not. Did you? I wasn't the only one, but I you say I have no idea what I said I guarantee it was terrible like hey go uh grow your hair and be the party animal I don't know
1:52.8	I had no values in my life at that time that's funny and she went there brand she's three years
1:57.5	younger okay so she went that did you guys do yours in the stadium?
2:01.3	Yes.
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