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Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

Dan Misener

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4.7 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

John feels funny about Christmas carols, Roger moves to Canada, Esther writes mandatory letters from camp, and much more. Recorded live in Toronto at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema as part of the inaugural Hot Docs Podcast Festival.

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0:00.0	The year John was in grade seven, Christmas was especially meaningful.
0:05.0	He knew the story of Jesus, but John had also just learned about human reproduction.
0:11.0	1981. Right now I realized something weird has happened to me.
0:16.0	Yesterday, I couldn't get Christmas carols out of my head.
0:20.0	They were about birth.
0:25.6	When I came home from school, the little girl next door told me her mother was in the hospital,
0:30.6	and this morning her father phoned my mother and told her he had a new daughter.
0:36.6	I just remembered the carols now and felt weird.
0:46.0	That's John reading some grade seven Christmas memories. I'm Dan Meisner and this? This is grownups
0:53.3	read things they wrote as kids.
0:56.1	How are you doing?
1:00.8	This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up.
1:07.5	This time, recorded live in Toronto at the Bloor Hot Doc Cinema, we have mandatory
1:12.2	letters from camp, a famous fashion designer, and an unfortunate encounter with a screen door. This
1:20.1	stuff is weird, it is wonderful, and it can help us understand who we are today. So think about
1:26.1	who you were, when you were a kid.
1:28.3	And stick around.
1:38.1	This episode was recorded as part of the Hot Docs podcast festival in Toronto.
1:43.5	It was a really special show for a lot of reasons.
1:46.4	And one of those reasons is that we got to invite back some of our all-time favorite readers
1:51.8	from the past 10 years of grown-ups read things they wrote as kids. Readers like Jason.
1:58.4	Jason is going to read some things he wrote when he was 14 years old.
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