What If The “Good Old Days” Are Right Now?

Zen Pop

Todd and Cathy Adams

Arts, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.9 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2013

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Is it naïve to be positive, or is it naïve to be negative?

This is the question surrounding the short video entitled “This is Water”, an audio from author David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech. It’s backed up by meaningful and thought provoking video, reminding us to consider that if we view the world differently, we can change our own reality. Cathy and Todd discuss the common “monotony” of an adult day, and how we can make choices to live a more beautiful life, and recognize that we are indeed smack dab in the middle of the “good old days”

Have your kids watched Star Wars yet? Cathy and Todd discuss the appropriate age to watch this classic movie, and why you should talk to your kids about the plot and characters beforehand. They also discuss their 5 year old’s recent restaurant meltdown, one of their favorite movie clips about “choice”, and why they love Andy Bernard from The Office.

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0:00.0	and doctor my name's Todd Adams this is Kathy Adams Zen parenting radio and we are going to talk
0:15.1	about a commencement speech given by an author who is now passed on he actually took his own life
0:20.3	I don't know, in 2008,
0:21.4	something like that. And the guy's name is David Foster Wallace. And he's an amazing writer. He wrote
0:26.4	a book called Infinite Just, which was one of the top 100 novels of all time by Time magazine. So
0:32.2	anyways, he did a commencement speech, and somebody put video to it, and it's a really
0:36.8	inspiring, moving speech, and that's going to be the it's a really inspiring moving speech and that's
0:38.4	going to be the theme of our show.
0:39.9	Well, interesting.
0:40.6	Can I just say something before you move on to the next thing?
0:43.2	You're right.
0:44.0	It is moving and inspiring but not moving in the way that commencement speeches usually are moving.
0:48.6	Exactly.
0:49.1	I really encourage people.
0:50.5	We have it on our Facebook page and obviously it'll, you know, you could probably just
0:54.4	Google it and look it up, but I encourage you to watch it because I think it has more truth
0:58.4	than most commencement speeches do. It's a different direction for commencement speeches.
1:02.1	Yeah, and very, to us, very moving, and to probably people listening to this show very moving,
1:05.8	but in a very different way. And the name of it is called This is Water. And I don't know if I mentioned that. So anyways, and if we get through that, we might talk about Star Wars, one of my favorite
1:14.5	subjects.
1:15.1	Okay.
1:15.5	I like Star Wars.
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