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Life advice inspired by graduation songs

Life Kit

NPR

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Education, Business

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

With graduation season here, our friends at NPR's All Songs Considered asked listeners to tell them about songs that bring back memories of the final days of high school, when they said goodbye to old friends, left home and struck out on their own. Join NPR's Robin Hilton and Stephen Thompson as they reflect on graduation through song.

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0:00.0

I'm Rachel Martin. After hosting Morning Edition for years, I know that the news can wear you down.

0:05.8

So we made a new podcast called Wild Card, where a special deck of cards and a whole bunch of fascinating guests help us sort out what makes life meaningful.

0:15.0

It's part game show, part existential deep dive, and it is seriously fun.

0:20.0

Join me on Wild Card wherever you get your podcast, only from NPR.

0:24.0

Hey Life Kit listeners, I'm Robin Hilton, host of NPR Musics, all songs considered.

0:29.0

It is graduation season, so we decided we do something fun for it this year. We asked listeners to

0:35.1

tell us about the songs that remind them of their final days of high school. And

0:39.8

turns out those songs unlocked a whole lot of memories and stories and also some great

0:46.8

advice that we wanted to share with the Life Kit audience. So enjoy this episode and

0:51.3

then maybe share it with the graduate in your life.

0:55.0

And as always you can listen to new episodes of all songs considered every Tuesday wherever you get

0:59.5

podcasts.

1:00.9

Here's the show.

1:01.9

Stephen Thompson, I heard a rumor about you.

1:05.0

What would that be, Robin?

1:06.0

And it's a rumor that I just cannot believe is true, so I have to ask...

1:12.0

Anything you have heard about me is a dirty dirty lie. Well what I heard was that

1:17.1

you were actually a very very good student. Well keep in mind that half the curriculum in those days was just cave maintenance.

1:26.0

So...

1:28.0

How to keep your cave clean?

1:30.0

I was a terrible student.

1:32.0

I truly was terrible. I never really took to school I guess you can say and you know I could not

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