Savage concluded his speech by challenging F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous claim that 'there are no second acts in American lives,' calling it 'insane.' He rattled off examples: Raymond Chandler didn't write a word of fiction until his forties, Julia Child learned to cook at forty, Clint Eastwood directed his first film at forty-one. As someone who didn't find his defining career until MythBusters premiered when he was thirty-six, Savage spoke from experience. He reminded graduates that reinvention and rebirth are intrinsic to the American experience — that there are not only second acts, but third acts, fourth acts, finales, and curtain calls.