"Homemade birth movies" (Ottawa)

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

🗓️ 16 January 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Cassandra explores Wicca, Adam avoids birth movies, Derek writes a food-based love poem, and much more. Recorded live at Yuk Yuk's in Ottawa.

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0:00.0	When Gillian was in grade one, she was full of national pride, and she wrote about it in her journal.
0:07.3	I like my country. So do my parents.
0:12.5	It is called Canada. I like it because there are so many wonderful things in it.
0:18.5	My home is in my country. My city is in my country. And my province is in my
0:24.7	country. That's why I like my country. Well, you can't argue with that logic. That's Jillian
0:36.3	explaining why she loves her country.
0:39.0	I'm Dan Meisner.
0:40.1	And this?
0:41.2	This is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.
0:43.7	How are you doing?
0:44.6	It is very nice to see you.
0:49.1	This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up.
0:56.3	This time recorded live in Ottawa, we have a love song about a convenience store,
1:01.9	ambitions for the future, and one of the most epic love poems I have ever heard.
1:08.0	This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, it's a lot of fun to listen to. But why? Why revisit
1:14.2	the past like this? Well, because sometimes the best way to figure out who we are is to start by asking
1:20.6	who we were. So think about who you were, when you were a kid and stick around.
1:37.5	When Derek was 16, he had a high school girlfriend, and as a way to express his feelings for her,
1:41.0	he wrote a poem called I'll Do.
1:48.0	So yes, my name is Derek in this hilarious poem I wrote as a 16-year-old me. I was hungry,
1:53.9	horny, and poor. I wrote it for my first love. She never heard it. And for some reason,
2:01.0	I'm going to share it with you awesome people. I'll do. When I'm set with my dream house in cash, I'm going to buy us an endless food stash.
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