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Eric Church Speech · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mama's. Dear mama's, what
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  Speaker 1: did you think of Eric Church's six string commencement speech?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask Americ and mama's.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so joining.
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  Speaker 1: Us now, our American mama. Terry Netdeville. Eric Church a
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  Speaker 1: country western singer, right big star. He was doing the
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  Speaker 1: commencement speech at North Carolina and in C State?
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  Speaker 3: Is it INC State?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, whoever?
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  Speaker 1: The tar heels are yes, it was the tar heels,
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  Speaker 1: thank you? Yeah. The baby blue And he's there and
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  Speaker 1: he's got his guitar wrapped around his shoulder and he
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  Speaker 1: uses the six strings on a guitar to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the six strings of your life that if they're not
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  Speaker 1: each one of them's not perfectly in tune, then your
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  Speaker 1: life doesn't make a pretty noise.
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  Speaker 3: This was the single greatest commencement speech I have ever
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  Speaker 3: listened to. Really, I would love to tell the listeners
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  Speaker 3: if you have I think it's a little over fifteen minutes,
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  Speaker 3: sixteen seventy minutes. It is worth your time. Just google
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  Speaker 3: Eric Church commencement speech twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: It's all over the pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: And I wrote down some notes for you know, all write, Biggs,
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  Speaker 3: I don't let these cards for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because card.
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  Speaker 3: So he goes through the strings. In the first one,
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  Speaker 3: he says, you know, these are the principles. You know.
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  Speaker 3: He kind of decided, I'm going to equate this to
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  Speaker 3: the strings of my guitar. String one lo e, that's
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  Speaker 3: the foundation. It's the thickest string, the heaviest. Every chord
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  Speaker 3: of guitar makes can make rest on this being string
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  Speaker 3: being in a tune. And so this represents your faith.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So he's like, this is the most important thing. He
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  Speaker 3: goes into a little thing about that faith string too.
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  Speaker 3: The a string, this is family. It gives the cord
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  Speaker 3: its body. Talking about the string, it's the string that
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  Speaker 3: makes it, you know, gives it the richness. You feel
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  Speaker 3: like you aren't alone in a room with this string.
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  Speaker 1: Start your life with faith and family.
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  Speaker 2: Guy, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: Third, the D string sits right at the heart of
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  Speaker 3: the instrument. And he said this is not by accident.
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  Speaker 3: It's in the middle of the low in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of the high strings. This represents your life, partner. And
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  Speaker 3: he talks about how this outside of the decision for faith,
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  Speaker 3: this is the single most important decision you can ever
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  Speaker 3: make in your life. And then it goes into the
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  Speaker 3: g string, which of course all the college students died
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  Speaker 3: laughing at that. This is the string that drifts. He says,
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  Speaker 3: this is a string that represents ambition and resilience. They
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  Speaker 3: both live on the string, but they pull in opposite directions.
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  Speaker 3: And he says, want things. The world has more than
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  Speaker 3: enough people standing on the edge of potential waiting for
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  Speaker 3: permission slip that was never going to arrive. So he
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  Speaker 3: talks about wanting those things, but being very mindful that
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  Speaker 3: you don't drift, you know, remain who it says. He
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  Speaker 3: actually said this when you fail, remember the world breaks
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  Speaker 3: everyone afterwards. The best of us are stronger at the
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  Speaker 3: broken places. And we all know that it's the harder places,
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  Speaker 3: the broken places, that we learn the most. That's when
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  Speaker 3: our spiritual muscles grow. That's when God really really reaches.
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  Speaker 1: In there and hell growth comes outside your comforts.
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  Speaker 3: Number five, the best string, this is your community. And
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  Speaker 3: he said this generation faces a temptation unlike any generation before.
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  Speaker 3: He said, the temptation is to perform for everyone and
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  Speaker 3: belong to no one, to be globally visible and locally invisible.
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  Speaker 3: He said, resist this put down roots, volunteer, build the
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  Speaker 3: thing your community needs, even if the Internet never sees it.
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  Speaker 3: This got the most applause to the most rousing applause
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  Speaker 3: of the speech. They went crazy over that one, the
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  Speaker 3: final one, the high east string, the thinnest string, the
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  Speaker 3: highest note, the one that carries the melody. It's also
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  Speaker 3: the one most easily bent by outside pressure. He said,
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  Speaker 3: do not let outside noise shake you. You are made uniquely, wonderfully, distinctly.
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  Speaker 3: You bring a contribution only you can bring to the world.
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  Speaker 1: And that high string is your individual that's right, And.
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  Speaker 3: He says, he's the one that can give into the
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  Speaker 3: outside pressure. It's like the thinnest string. And so that
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  Speaker 3: what it does is it represents all of us, you know,
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  Speaker 3: our need to feel validated by everybody when even if
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  Speaker 3: we even if in our in our gut, we know
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  Speaker 3: this is right. If somebody else says something to us
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  Speaker 3: and makes us bend a little bit and cater to
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  Speaker 3: I mean creater and not be ourselves, you're doing you're
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  Speaker 3: doing your self harm as well as the world because
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  Speaker 3: you were As we all know, God has deposited great
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  Speaker 3: seeds of greatness in all of us, absolutely and only
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  Speaker 3: we can fulfill the dreams and the purposes that He
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  Speaker 3: has for us. So do that. No matter what the
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  Speaker 3: out outside noise says about it.
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  Speaker 1: It was an excellent, excellent speech. It was You could
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  Speaker 1: tell that the students there were just hanging on every word.
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  Speaker 3: They I could tell, you know, every time it panned
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  Speaker 3: to the kids, they were so they were beaming, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like this is I wish everybody would do this. I
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  Speaker 3: wish everybody who is giving a commencement speech. Number one,
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  Speaker 3: don't get political at all, right right. Number two, Lift
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  Speaker 3: them up, build them up, give them.
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  Speaker 1: Focus on your audience.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, right, know your audience. Know what it is that
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  Speaker 3: will make them feel like these years at this school
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  Speaker 3: was done for a purpose. There's a reason why I
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  Speaker 3: work so hard. I'm gonna go out there, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: do great things. Like our dad used to say to us,
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  Speaker 3: I expect great things of you, right, I expect it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't hope it, I don't wish it. I expect it.
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  Speaker 3: And what he did was he said, basically, I expect
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  Speaker 3: great things of you, and here's some ways that.
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  Speaker 1: You can heure, some ways you can do. And I
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  Speaker 1: love how he said all of those strings have to
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  Speaker 1: be in tune. Yes, if one of those strings gets
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  Speaker 1: out of tune, the chord sounds awful. Right, You've got
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  Speaker 1: to have that balance of all of those things.
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  Speaker 3: In your life. It was beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: It was a great commencement address. Maybe later on this
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  Speaker 1: week we'll talk about Virginia Governor al Aviga Spamberger's Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we will, I say what not to do?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: If you'd like to ask our American Mama is a question,
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  Speaker 1: go to our website American ground Reader dot com slash
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  Speaker 1: mamas and click on the ask the Mama's button. Terry Netteville,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you,