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You know, it's college commencement season because that's sort of a thing right now, again.

Well, and it's frequently, right?

Because the college students can't often handle having speakers come in that they haven't completely mind-melded with in every single opinion

they have on every single occasion. So the school body will rise up, at least in small,

loud numbers, not usually the majority, and insist that someone should not be the speaker.

That has happened surprisingly, ooh, shocker at NYU this year.

Yeah.

Well, they seem to be ground zero for that kind of bad idea.

But let me ask you before we get into this.

Who was your commencement speaker?

You know what?

I didn't actually go to my big commencement speech, and was a it was a prominent lawyer from Georgia

and now I can't remember exactly who hold on one second I'll find it for you well yeah okay um

I was not blown away and if that gives you a clue right well my whole thing is I have no idea

who my commencement speaker was yeah well okay the same boat my gosh. I just looked it up and it was Julian Bond. Oh, great. So mine was Larry Thompson, I believe. I'm not positive.

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