Latest / The Woody Show / HIGHLIGHT POD 30 MINS: The Woody Show May 28th 2026 Podcast

Transcript

HIGHLIGHT POD 30 MINS: The Woody Show May 28th 2026 Podcast · The Woody Show

0:01
Speaker 1: Woody Show.
0:04
Speaker 2: And we are into another hour for you here on
0:08
Speaker 2: the Woody Show, Woody Greg a man, It's Gina grat
0:11
Speaker 2: Phones open eight seven seven forty four Woody Text two
0:15
Speaker 2: two nine eight seven find us, follow us on social media.
0:19
Speaker 2: You can find us there at the Woody Show. Our
0:23
Speaker 2: friend Dexter Holland from Offspring. He's a smart guy, man.
0:29
Speaker 1: He like a legit genius.
0:31
Speaker 2: Yeah he was. He was gonna be a doctor, that's
0:33
Speaker 2: what he wanted. He well, that's what he went to
0:35
Speaker 2: school thinking he was gonna do, and then he ended
0:40
Speaker 2: up being Dexter from Offspur. You know, things happened. Oh
0:44
Speaker 2: and you know, by the way, also learned how to
0:46
Speaker 2: fly a plane and he's a certified flight instructor. He's
0:50
Speaker 2: atp rated. He's like, he's done all these things. He
0:52
Speaker 2: got his master's in molecular biology. He's just a smart guy.
0:58
Speaker 2: But he was speaking at USC's commencement, you know, he
1:02
Speaker 2: was the commencement speaker. That's cool at the US graduation.
1:06
Speaker 2: And here's a little bit of what Dexter from Offspring
1:09
Speaker 2: had to say as a USC graduate.
1:11
Speaker 3: I want to say that USC Dornsife is where I
1:13
Speaker 3: learned some of the most important skills.
1:15
Speaker 4: Of my life.
1:16
Speaker 3: I learned that when you have a goal that carries
1:18
Speaker 3: enough weight, it creates its own will, its own pull,
1:21
Speaker 3: a force that's pulled me throughout and kept me moving
1:24
Speaker 3: even when I was struggling. My own pressure came from
1:27
Speaker 3: feeling pulled in two different directions, one towards science and
1:30
Speaker 3: one toward art. You're told to pick a lane, and
1:33
Speaker 3: it feels like a massive, heavy decision that you have
1:35
Speaker 3: to stick with. But I've learned that life is an
1:38
Speaker 3: iterative process. You try something, you make adjustments, and you
1:42
Speaker 3: try again. Life is not a straight line, but a
1:44
Speaker 3: series of pivots. Be prepared to pivot, especially if you
1:48
Speaker 3: follow your passions. My path took me from education to
1:52
Speaker 3: rock and roll, and back to education. I hope you
1:54
Speaker 3: find your dual life, that you harness the gravity of
1:58
Speaker 3: your aspiration, because the avity that pulls you also grounds you.
2:02
Speaker 3: I hope you never feel forced to trade your aspiration
2:05
Speaker 3: for a paycheck or your passion for a title. I
2:08
Speaker 3: hope you find the space to be both a rigorous
2:10
Speaker 3: thinker and a wild dreamer. We need people who can
2:13
Speaker 3: solve the world's most complex problems with a scientist's precision,
2:17
Speaker 3: but we also need people who can see the world
2:20
Speaker 3: through an artist's eyes and heart. Don't just choose a career,
2:23
Speaker 3: choose a life that is as messy and as brilliant
2:26
Speaker 3: as you are.
2:28
Speaker 2: Wow, he's a cool guy, man. I love that guy.
2:32
Speaker 2: He's a nice dude.
2:34
Speaker 4: Man.
2:34
Speaker 2: That's so smart, it's so genuine. You know, I'm gonna
2:38
Speaker 2: a I wrote that, Yeah, iterative. I'm kidding.
2:48
Speaker 1: That's good.
2:48
Speaker 2: You know, you learn stuff as you know, you get older,
2:52
Speaker 2: as you go along, and you realize really kind of
2:55
Speaker 2: what's important, what people really need to know. And so
2:57
Speaker 2: when you have an opportunity, I just know, as a
3:00
Speaker 2: as a dad, I'm having these conversations with my son
3:02
Speaker 2: or my daughter and just trying to impart some of
3:05
Speaker 2: that experience or wisdom. And it's not always well received
3:09
Speaker 2: no way now, because you know, you're seen as an
3:11
Speaker 2: idiot or what do you know, You're just saying things
3:13
Speaker 2: because that's what you're supposed to say. And I really
3:16
Speaker 2: wish when I was younger that I would have been
3:20
Speaker 2: more open to hearing and heating heating, you know, that
3:27
Speaker 2: that wisdom, that advice, because there was so much waste
3:31
Speaker 2: of time but same same thing I say to my
3:34
Speaker 2: son on occasion. Now, I go, you know what, man,
3:37
Speaker 2: I could sit here, because bruh, I could sit here
3:40
Speaker 2: and I could tell you a thousand things. And I've
3:44
Speaker 2: said to him, I could tell you these, and I
3:45
Speaker 2: could try to get you at some point. I just
3:48
Speaker 2: maybe just need you to experience it for yourself, because
3:51
Speaker 2: then you're really Then you'll really see and hopefully those
3:54
Speaker 2: things that you end up ignoring me and experiencing for
3:56
Speaker 2: yourself aren't anything too too terrible, you know, but sometimes
4:01
Speaker 2: you got to get burned to learn not to touch
4:03
Speaker 2: the stove.
4:03
Speaker 1: They'll see in the future. Yeah, and they'll say Dad
4:06
Speaker 1: was right, Yeah, there was actually Oh yeah, here we go.
4:11
Speaker 2: This is this is pretty good. People are asked what
4:14
Speaker 2: actually mattered in the long run and what didn't. And
4:17
Speaker 2: they were talking to people forty plus, so, you know,
4:20
Speaker 2: really old people. Yeah, all these old heads. Health friends
4:30
Speaker 2: and getting a do my job and go home attitude.
4:33
Speaker 2: That's what actually mattered in the long run. Somebody said,
4:36
Speaker 2: spending time with family. The older you get, the more
4:38
Speaker 2: you realize that you could you could lose loved ones
4:40
Speaker 2: at any second. Make sure you value getting together more
4:44
Speaker 2: that's what Sammy's been saying. Yeah, all of.
4:49
Speaker 1: That is accurate.
4:51
Speaker 2: Yeah.
4:52
Speaker 1: And when you're a kid and adults say, oh, time flies,
4:55
Speaker 1: the years go by so fast, and you say, no,
4:57
Speaker 1: they do.
5:00
Speaker 5: Summer who felt like forever? Yeah, it feels like two seconds?
5:03
Speaker 1: Two seconds?
5:03
Speaker 2: You know. It's something people tell my wife and I
5:06
Speaker 2: and we are like children listening to adults giving advice,
5:09
Speaker 2: and we go, please, that sounds awesome. When people talk about,
5:13
Speaker 2: you know, empty nesting and their kids get old and
5:18
Speaker 2: go to college and you know, they're out of the house. Yeah,
5:20
Speaker 2: or graduate college. Now they're out of the house, We're like,
5:23
Speaker 2: that sounds awesome. You have like and they're like sad
5:27
Speaker 2: about it. We're like, so, I don't know. I'm sitting
5:30
Speaker 2: here going like, oh, I wish I would have, you
5:31
Speaker 2: know what, maybe listening it will come and you may
5:33
Speaker 2: be bumped. Maybe maybe maybe maybe you'll just miss it.
5:38
Speaker 1: I think.
5:39
Speaker 2: So okay. So again, people forty plus were asked what
5:41
Speaker 2: actually mattered in the long run and what didn't what
5:44
Speaker 2: doesn't matter? Getting so lost in your milestone checklist that
5:48
Speaker 2: you forget to actually live life sure makes sense. If
5:52
Speaker 2: you get on the wrong train, get off the next stop.
5:55
Speaker 2: The longer you stay on, the more expensive the return trip.
5:58
Speaker 2: Don't stay in a bad relationship ship. You can waste
6:02
Speaker 2: decades trying to change people or even yourself in order
6:05
Speaker 2: to make things work. It's good, uh people. Forty plus
6:09
Speaker 2: has what actually mattered in the long run? What didn't
6:11
Speaker 2: I think people like on their death better forty plus?
6:16
Speaker 2: What you think of yourself, not what others think of you.
6:19
Speaker 2: H that's true.
6:19
Speaker 1: That matters.
6:21
Speaker 2: You're learning that. Yeah, you're just talking about that. You
6:25
Speaker 2: love quotes?
6:25
Speaker 1: What is it?
6:27
Speaker 2: What people think of me as not my business? None
6:29
Speaker 2: of my business? Yeah? Yeah, Oh that's good. Yeah, there's
6:33
Speaker 2: a really.
6:33
Speaker 5: Good yeah in a song. When I was in an
6:37
Speaker 5: interview with her, she's like, you know, she's like, what
6:41
Speaker 5: people say about me on the internet is none of
6:43
Speaker 5: my business.
6:44
Speaker 4: I just you know, do what I I love that classic.
6:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a good one. This is actually from
6:50
Speaker 2: Bill Cower, former head coach Bill Cower. That's what I
6:55
Speaker 2: was going to say. You're never as good as you
6:57
Speaker 2: think you are, but you're never as bad as they
6:58
Speaker 2: say you are also very good. Yeah, because you don't
7:02
Speaker 2: want to buy your own hype. You don't want to
7:03
Speaker 2: me saying that the opposite of people feeling bad about
7:06
Speaker 2: themselves based on what other people say are the people
7:08
Speaker 2: that just really think that they're super awesome. Yeah, and
7:11
Speaker 2: buy their own hype. And you know there's swaggy douchebags.
7:14
Speaker 1: Yeah.
7:14
Speaker 2: God, I hate that. I must be entitled to this
7:16
Speaker 2: because three people told me, uh mattered? Sleep saying no,
7:22
Speaker 2: keeping friendships alive, learning to cook yeah didn't matter, staying
7:28
Speaker 2: late to impress a boss who forgot my name after
7:30
Speaker 2: I left, buying stuff to look successful. Every argument, I
7:36
Speaker 2: quote one on the internet. The scoreboard at forty looks
7:40
Speaker 2: completely different than the one at twenty five. Yeah, true
7:42
Speaker 2: hopefully yeah, true love, And then I'll give you one
7:46
Speaker 2: more knowledge compounds don't stagnate or ever stop learning. Absolutely, yeah,
7:54
Speaker 2: people forty plus res what actually mattered in the long run.
7:58
Speaker 1: I have a new doctor who gave me a really
8:00
Speaker 1: good quote because we had this really long consultation and
8:04
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I feel like I've never
8:06
Speaker 1: had a good doctor. And he said, you have the
8:08
Speaker 1: best doctor yourself.
8:15
Speaker 2: You're your best your best patient, you are, you.
8:21
Speaker 1: Have the best doctor yourself.
8:23
Speaker 2: It's tire. Here you go, Morgan, what changed in your
8:28
Speaker 2: life that made you care less about what people think
8:30
Speaker 2: for you, it was following a cult leader. According that exactly,
8:43
Speaker 2: I'm happy for you.
8:44
Speaker 4: That's just one of thes that has helped me.
8:47
Speaker 2: As present said, I realized life is short and most
8:48
Speaker 2: people are too busy worrying about themselves to notice me
8:51
Speaker 2: everyone else. Caring less became easier once I treated other
8:55
Speaker 2: people's opinions like background noise. Exactly, this other person says,
8:59
Speaker 2: when I realized I could take people pleasing, or I
9:01
Speaker 2: couldn't take people pleasing anymore, Like it's just enough, Like
9:04
Speaker 2: oh god, it's hard failed publicly at something I really
9:08
Speaker 2: cared about. Once the worst case scenario actually happens and
9:12
Speaker 2: you survive it, you realize most of the stuff that
9:13
Speaker 2: you were afraid of was never that serious. After that,
9:16
Speaker 2: other people's opinions just stop hitting the same way. It's
9:19
Speaker 2: true and all true.
9:21
Speaker 4: Just willing to put yourself out there and fail, that's
9:23
Speaker 4: the stuff further than most people are willing to take.
9:25
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And this person, I know you had a real
9:27
Speaker 2: struggle turning thirty. God I'm almost thirty two, borderline suicidal, right,
9:35
Speaker 2: This person said, Turning thirty made me value peace over approval. Yeah,
9:39
Speaker 2: I agree with that. Yeah, yeah, it's good stuff, so
9:41
Speaker 2: you're living.
9:42
Speaker 5: The other one I like is everything's cringe until it works,
9:45
Speaker 5: and everyone's like everyone thinks you're cringe. But then when
9:49
Speaker 5: it works, they celebrate you and say how awesome it is.
9:51
Speaker 4: But even just not even waiting to win, living and
9:54
Speaker 4: cringe is a very powerful, brave thing to do, right,
9:59
Speaker 4: And that's where the magic happens.
10:00
Speaker 2: When you're out of your comfort zone.
10:02
Speaker 5: Eah, people constantly make fun of you and tell until
10:05
Speaker 5: it works, it takes off, it works, and they're like,
10:07
Speaker 5: oh man, that's awesome.
10:08
Speaker 4: But you've got to be willing to be cringe for Yeah.
10:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a method to the madness here of this conversation,
10:14
Speaker 2: because ladies and gentlemen, an annual tradition is waiting for you.
10:18
Speaker 4: Next. Oh, but chugging, Greg, it's been a while, yes, summer,
10:26
Speaker 4: But would you have done that during training? I would say,
10:32
Speaker 4: but checking creating?
10:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, And it's not it's not but chugging. It's
10:40
Speaker 2: Greg Gory's commencement address. Nice for the class of twenty
10:44
Speaker 2: twenty six. Yeah, go to high school.
10:47
Speaker 1: College, right, Yeah, anybody.
10:50
Speaker 2: But Greg does a great job of these because Greg
10:51
Speaker 2: is super smart and super insightful and sensitive and all
10:54
Speaker 2: that stuff, and he's such a great writer. Hey yeah,
10:58
Speaker 2: thank you, and he promises he didn't use a force
11:01
Speaker 2: not to write this.
11:02
Speaker 1: And what did I tell you yesterday? The older I get,
11:04
Speaker 1: the more disturbingly stupid I guess.
11:07
Speaker 2: So this is probably gonna be dumber than last year.
11:12
Speaker 2: But Greg will address the commencement addressed for Greg for
11:15
Speaker 2: the class of twenty twenty six is coming up NEXTI
11:18
Speaker 2: we are a heavy metal band.
11:19
Speaker 4: I mean everybody knows that.
11:21
Speaker 2: Wait wait, hold on, wait, wait more on where am I?
11:25
Speaker 2: The Woody Show? Graduation promotions depending on h what what
11:34
Speaker 2: we're talking about here? Like when you're going from kindergarten
11:37
Speaker 2: to first grade, that's a promotion ceremony.
11:39
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, Yeah.
11:41
Speaker 2: You're going from fifth to sixth grade, we're promoting you.
11:45
Speaker 2: I know, that's a that's more of like a newer thing.
11:49
Speaker 2: That's more of a newer thing.
11:50
Speaker 1: In kindergarten, they gave us a rolled up piece of
11:52
Speaker 1: paper with nothing on it and put a ribbon around
11:54
Speaker 1: soud parents.
11:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, their parents get the yah buddy junior high into
12:04
Speaker 2: high school. That was that was That was the thing
12:07
Speaker 2: in the obviously high school and then college. I think
12:09
Speaker 2: those are the ones that are legit. All the other
12:11
Speaker 2: ones are lame, kind of dumb. Yeah, But whether it's
12:14
Speaker 2: high school or it's college, these are things that our
12:18
Speaker 2: honorary doctorate recipient Greg Gory oh Wow, from the School
12:22
Speaker 2: of Hard Ducks. He has his annual commencement address to
12:29
Speaker 2: the class of twenty twenty six. My if if I'm
12:36
Speaker 2: the I'm the dean or whatever, what do I what
12:39
Speaker 2: do I? How do I address as students.
12:41
Speaker 1: My student body?
12:43
Speaker 2: I guess, well, all right, everybody, here's a here's here,
12:47
Speaker 2: hey people, here's great glory.
12:50
Speaker 1: Well, ladies and gentlemen of the graduating class of twenty
12:52
Speaker 1: twenty six. Each and every year, various commencement addresses will
12:56
Speaker 1: make their way into the headlines, and they're generally filled
12:58
Speaker 1: with platitudes. Now, for those of you who went to
13:01
Speaker 1: the same high school as Menace, a platitude is an
13:04
Speaker 1: overused statement, not a semi aquatic mammal. Yeah, you may
13:09
Speaker 1: hear a platitude here and there today, but not if
13:11
Speaker 1: I can help it. Instead, I'm gonna stick to the
13:14
Speaker 1: spirit of honesty and reality, because sometimes if you want
13:17
Speaker 1: something done the way you envision it. You just got
13:19
Speaker 1: to do it yourself. So let me just simply start
13:21
Speaker 1: by giving a resounting congratulations to you all. It's been
13:25
Speaker 1: a hell of a year, a year during which you
13:29
Speaker 1: and all of us have been put to the test,
13:32
Speaker 1: a year where our wallets have been stretched wider than
13:35
Speaker 1: a sphincter in prison, or MENACE's throat when a celebrity
13:40
Speaker 1: walks through the door, or MENACE's mouth of the Coachella
13:44
Speaker 1: VIP pavilion, or the elastic on MENACE's underwear that one
13:49
Speaker 1: time with Diplo and a Betha. Now, if you paid
13:55
Speaker 1: your own way, congrats, you did it yourself. You learn
13:57
Speaker 1: just how cruel and uncarrying the world can and you
14:01
Speaker 1: learn that you too often have to do it yourself.
14:04
Speaker 1: If you don't know the difference between a router and
14:06
Speaker 1: a modem, do it yourself. Make that call yourself and
14:10
Speaker 1: have your friends hook them up for you. You gain weight,
14:13
Speaker 1: then you lost it, your neck ended up looking like
14:15
Speaker 1: saggy lady bits. Well, guess what You're calling your doctor
14:19
Speaker 1: friend and booking that surgical procedure all by yourself, because
14:23
Speaker 1: now you're all set to learn about the majestic hellscape
14:27
Speaker 1: known as adulthood, where you're gonna need to download a
14:30
Speaker 1: nap that doesn't work in order to get a better
14:32
Speaker 1: price at a grocery store that doesn't honor their own
14:35
Speaker 1: pricing policies. Now you've heard that old line it takes
14:38
Speaker 1: a village, And in most cases that is not true
14:42
Speaker 1: at all. The village is understaffed and underpaid, they don't care,
14:45
Speaker 1: and they probably quote work from home on Fridays. But
14:49
Speaker 1: at least in one case, it certainly does take a village.
14:52
Speaker 1: Have you heard about Aurora Avenue in Seattle? The residents
14:57
Speaker 1: on Aurora Avenue have been so frustrated by recurring gunfire
15:01
Speaker 1: and the long running, increasingly deadly crime problems that the
15:04
Speaker 1: neighbors have started barricading streets themselves. They are using planter boxes,
15:10
Speaker 1: dirt rocks, random big pieces of metal to stop gunmen
15:14
Speaker 1: from speeding down streets during shootings over turf disputes, or
15:18
Speaker 1: to keep people from speeding down the street after a
15:20
Speaker 1: shooting over prostitution and human trafficking. Now, sure, opponents to
15:24
Speaker 1: this idea say it could delay fire crews and ambulances
15:28
Speaker 1: responding to emergencies, but damn it sometimes you gotta do
15:31
Speaker 1: it yourself. And the neighbors rallied and they said, if
15:33
Speaker 1: our socialists may or won't do it, damn it, we will.
15:36
Speaker 1: I mean all babe. It's truly a very sweet story.
15:40
Speaker 1: Now you're about to enter a world with a do
15:43
Speaker 1: it yourself philosophy. You want customer service, sorry doesn't exist anymore.
15:48
Speaker 1: Do it yourself. You want to ring up your nine
15:50
Speaker 1: dollars coke and your seventeen dollars magazine at the airport,
15:53
Speaker 1: Do it yourself and be asked to leave a tip.
15:57
Speaker 1: You want to hand your suitcase over to a desk
15:59
Speaker 1: agent as you and bark for that one vacation it
16:01
Speaker 1: took four years to save up for. Oh no, no,
16:05
Speaker 1: get your boarding pass print, that luggage tag, toss that
16:08
Speaker 1: to me, luggage onto the conveyor belt yourself. You want
16:11
Speaker 1: a new console table, good luck. You need a degree
16:14
Speaker 1: in architecture. You're gonna have fourteen leftover screws and three
16:17
Speaker 1: unused Allen ranches because guess what, you're building it yourself.
16:21
Speaker 1: Because the business world has said, with resounding clarity, wait,
16:26
Speaker 1: we used to pay people to do our tasks. Let's
16:29
Speaker 1: have the customers do it.
16:32
Speaker 2: Now.
16:33
Speaker 1: Let's hope you succeed in every way personally and professionally.
16:37
Speaker 1: That is the hope for sure. Now I have this
16:40
Speaker 1: one good friend. He hosts a morning radio show, and
16:42
Speaker 1: his advice to me often fits a very different theme.
16:45
Speaker 1: Don't do it yourself, get a gardener, get a housekeeper,
16:48
Speaker 1: have a mobile car detailer, have an in home messuse
16:51
Speaker 1: and when you travel, only go first class. Now, for
16:54
Speaker 1: some reason, I have followed none of that advice. I'm
16:57
Speaker 1: not sure why, but it might have something to do
17:00
Speaker 1: with that wallet that now resembles the aforementioned inmates poop
17:03
Speaker 1: poop pocket. But honestly, and really, even for those doing
17:08
Speaker 1: it themselves, nobody even really knows what they're doing. Every
17:10
Speaker 1: adult you ever admires is just sitting in a parking
17:13
Speaker 1: lot getting life advice from chat GBT. Your doctor is
17:17
Speaker 1: just typing symptoms into a computer and nodding confidently while saying,
17:22
Speaker 1: just keep an eye on it and show me your
17:23
Speaker 1: penis and lose some weight. So do your best to
17:27
Speaker 1: learn to do things yourself. Cook a decent meal, unclog
17:30
Speaker 1: a drain, know when to walk away when you hear
17:32
Speaker 1: the terms circle back, and let's put a pin in
17:34
Speaker 1: that independence not about individualism. It's about accepting that help
17:39
Speaker 1: is currently unavailable because of high call volume. Life really
17:43
Speaker 1: is just one giant, do it yourself project with zero instructions,
17:47
Speaker 1: bad hair days, and bad lighting. Remember it, nobody is
17:50
Speaker 1: coming to save you. And weirdly, it's kind of the
17:54
Speaker 1: good news because it means you don't have to wait
17:56
Speaker 1: for permission or approval or a time when you're gonna
17:59
Speaker 1: suddenly feel ready, because you're never gonna feel ready, and
18:02
Speaker 1: because most of life is just people improvising with alarming
18:05
Speaker 1: confidence and alarming cockiness, and rest assured you will have
18:09
Speaker 1: that one coworker who thinks he knows everything but wouldn't
18:12
Speaker 1: know the meaning of self deprecation if it rammed them
18:15
Speaker 1: in the butt cheek like a syringe full of gonrhea medication. Now,
18:19
Speaker 1: these successful ones aren't necessarily the smartest or even the
18:23
Speaker 1: most talented. They just figured it out as they went along.
18:26
Speaker 1: So build your life, which you're gonna have to do
18:29
Speaker 1: cheaply at first, held together with duct tape, preferably not
18:33
Speaker 1: guerrilla tape. And one day you will look back at
18:35
Speaker 1: this strange trip that we're all on and you're gonna
18:38
Speaker 1: realize against all odds, and against all expired passwords and
18:41
Speaker 1: endless apps that you'll have to download just to order
18:44
Speaker 1: a goddamn cheeseburger. You actually made it work. Congrats Class
18:50
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty six.
18:52
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. Bring dory.
18:54
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's arm bed prove as always granks always Greg,
19:02
Speaker 5: very nice, very thought out, brilliant except for.
19:05
Speaker 1: The David Getta whatever.
19:15
Speaker 2: Alright, well there he is.
19:18
Speaker 1: That's right.
19:18
Speaker 2: I think that all the things he said, that's the
19:21
Speaker 2: one thing that Gina will take away from this. Remember
19:24
Speaker 2: that Forever More Woody show is coming up for you
19:27
Speaker 2: next hang out.
19:28
Speaker 1: So what do you