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Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

Dan Misener

Kids, Grown Up, Society & Culture, Grown Ups Read Things They Wrote, Grown Ups, Journals, Juvenilia, Performing Arts, Children, Young, K-12, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Cbc Radio, Education/k-12, Education, Diary, Adults Read Things They Wrote As Kids, Things, Grownups, Cbc, Stuff, Read, Kids & Family, Gurttwak, Grttwak, Grown-ups, Comedy, Personal Journals, Adults, Diaries, Arts, Arts/performing Arts

4.7 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Jemma tricks her grandma, Mark writes a rap song, Glen fights a skeleton, and much more. Recorded live at the Woodford Folk Festival. Show notes Support GRTTWaK. Become a patron.Rate or review GRTTWaK in iTunesJoin the email newsletterUpcoming live eventsMusic by Podington Bear and LullatoneClosing theme is “Oh Dear Diary” by SloanTwitterInstagramFacebook

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0:00.0	When Gemma was a kid, she liked to play tricks on her family, and she wrote about them in her journal.
0:07.0	Last Saturday, Grandma came to my house and stayed for the night.
0:12.0	The time before that, when she came to my house, I scared her by putting a fake spider on her left shoulder.
0:19.0	I also put a toy weasel in her shoe.
0:24.7	I love scaring grandma.
0:28.2	It's so easy.
0:33.7	That's Gemma, reading from her childhood journal.
0:36.7	I'm Dan Meisner, and this...
0:38.8	This right now is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.
0:42.7	How are you doing tonight?
0:45.8	This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up.
0:53.1	This time recorded live at the Woodford Folk Festival in Australia,
0:56.7	we have a spine-tingling horror story written by a seven-year-old,
1:01.5	a letter to an exiled love interest, a childhood rap group, and much, much more.
1:08.1	This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, and and like a toy weasel in your shoe,
1:13.7	it can be unexpected. So think about who you were, when you were a kid, and stick around.
1:20.4	Our next reader is Glenn, and Glenn is going to share a short story he wrote when he was seven
1:27.3	or maybe eight. It is a horror story,
1:31.4	though he promises it is not too scary and maybe a little bit funny. Please welcome to our stage,
1:38.0	Glenn. It is 8.30 p.m. and my mum is turning out the light.
1:47.8	Just as she does, a zombie with green skin and no eyes or hair but can still see.
1:57.3	Pertles through a round portal in the floor and sucks the blood and soul out of my mum.
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