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Remember that day when you sat in a plastic folding chair on a football field, sweating in a polyester robe while wearing what can only be described as a "flattened lampshade" on your head? The Rock Bottom Podcast's "High School Graduation Edition" rips the cap off America's most bizarre educational ritual with brutal honesty and laugh-out-loud humor.

We've all experienced it - the fleeting moments of genuine joy when your name is correctly pronounced and your parents erupt "like it's the fucking Super Bowl," quickly overshadowed by three hours of tedium, bad speeches, and corporate sponsorships. Why is there a Pepsi banner behind the diplomas? Why does moving a tassel three inches symbolize four years of education? And most importantly, why has this supposedly free ceremony become a commercial enterprise costing families hundreds of dollars?

From the $85 cap and gown ("basically a hotel shower curtain") to the $199 professional photo package that your aunt could have matched with a flip phone, graduation has transformed from meaningful ritual to profit center. Yet beneath the absurdity lies something genuinely beautiful - it's the last time you and your classmates will all be together before life "divides you up like the world's weirdest game of dodgeball." Some go to college, some to the military, some stay local, and yes, some might even end up in jail.

So graduates, as you sit through Captain Dipshit's speech and try not to pass out from heat exhaustion, remember to soak it all in. Roll your eyes, cry a little, and appreciate this strange ceremony for what it truly represents - your final moments of shared experience before facing an adult world that somehow makes even less sense than graduation itself. And parents, for the love of everything, if you're hosting the after-party, just take the keys.

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#PepsiSponsoredPomp
#HeatstrokeAndHonorRoll
#OneLastRollCall
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#DodgingLifeLikeDodgeball
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