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Zen Parenting Radio

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

Zen Parenting Radio

Todd and Cathy Adams

Education, Philosophy, Parenting, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8636 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2013

⏱️ 43 minutes

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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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