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Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

Dan Misener

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4.7 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Weak bladders, friends of the forest, and a proven strategy for dealing with bullies. Recorded live at the Black Knight Pub in Yellowknife, NT. ## Links ## Rate GRTTWaK in iTunes: http://goo.gl/swuUg3 Join the mailing list: http://goo.gl/M32ZX7 Upcoming live events: http://goo.gl/EGqjBl Photos from our Yellowknife event: https://goo.gl/rHsHwG Twitter: http://twitter.com/GRTTWaK Instagram: http://instagram.com/GRTTWaK Facebook: http://facebook.com/grownupsreadthingstheywroteaskids

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0:00.0	When Jack was a kid, she went out with this guy named Aiden, but they broke up after about 12 hours.
0:07.2	And to explain why, Jack wrote Aiden a letter.
0:11.1	Dear Aden, you're incredibly shallow and self-centered and horny.
0:16.9	I mean, I get it.
0:18.5	You're a guy?
0:19.7	But lay off a bit. I mean, if you use girls, you a guy, but lay off a bit.
0:21.1	I mean, if you use girls, you are going to get a huge punch in the face one day.
0:25.8	I mean, can you say jerkhead?
0:28.4	I can.
0:29.8	Aiden.
0:32.6	And then, as I sign all letters, Jackie B, X O, X, X, X, OO-X-O-X-O-X-O-X-O-X.
0:40.9	P-S. P-S. You.
0:51.9	That's Jack, reading a breakup letter that she wrote but never actually sent.
0:57.4	And this is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.
1:00.4	I'm Dan Meisner.
1:01.5	This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up.
1:07.8	This time, recorded live at the Black Night Pub in Yellowknife, we have weak
1:11.9	bladders, friends of the forest, and a proven strategy for dealing with bullies. This stuff is
1:18.9	cute, it is weird, it is angsty, and it gives us an instant connection to our past. So think about
1:25.6	who you were, when you were a kid, and stick around.
1:35.4	When our next reader, Paige was growing up, he was bullied. And so, between the ages of 10 and 15,
1:41.9	he wrote something that he called The Guide to Social Survival.
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