"I need adventure" (Kitchener)

Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

Dan Misener

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4.7 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Rachel predicts the future, Tim carries a knife, Sara compares Lucy Maud Montgomery to Stephen King, and much more. Recorded live at TWH Social in Kitchener. Show notes Support GRTTWaK. Become a patron. Photos from our Kitchener event Rate or review GRTTWaK in iTunes Join the email newsletter Upcoming live events Music by Podington Bear and Lullatone Closing theme is “Oh Dear Diary” by Sloan Twitter Instagram Facebook

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0:00.0	When Jenny was in grade nine, she wrote a poem, and she called it school.
0:08.7	Sitting in classrooms, my mind is constantly fried.
0:13.6	Good thing I'm not an egg.
0:20.2	That's Jenny, reading a poem from grade nine.
0:22.8	I'm Dan Meisner, and this?
0:24.9	This, right now, is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.
0:28.7	How are you doing tonight?
0:33.1	This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up.
0:40.4	This time recorded live at TWAH Social in Kitchener, Ontario.
0:44.3	We have a seven-year-old in need of adventure, concern for a pot-smoking friend,
0:50.9	critical analysis of a Canadian children's novel, and much, much more. This stuff is weird,
0:57.3	it is wonderful, and it can help us understand who we are today. So think about who you were,
1:03.1	when you were a kid, and stick around. When Rachel was 10, she wrote fortunes for her friends.
1:14.5	These are sort of like predictions about how her friend's lives might play out in the future.
1:20.1	Rachel would write these fortunes in a little book, which she would then share with her friends for their reactions.
1:26.7	Please welcome Rachel to our stage.
1:34.5	Your fortune.
1:36.6	You will marry Noah and have ten children with him.
1:40.3	Your children will grow up and move away.
1:43.1	When you get your grandchildren, you dump him.
1:47.5	You marry Nathan to become Becky's sister.
1:51.5	You play games as you did when you were children.
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