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Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

Dan Misener

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4.7 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Firearm accidents, a speech for Bill Gates, and a step-by-step guide to popularity. Recorded live at Cliff Bell's in Detroit, MI. ## Links ## Rate GRTTWaK in iTunes: https://goo.gl/qK5ndx Join the mailing list: http://goo.gl/ZbF6Ve Upcoming live events: http://goo.gl/poIIBl Photos from our Detroit event: https://goo.gl/Yg9ZDe Twitter: http://twitter.com/GRTTWaK Instagram: http://instagram.com/GRTTWaK Facebook: http://facebook.com/grownupsreadthingstheywroteaskids

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0:00.0	When Bailey was 11, she went to summer camp, where she swam and did arts and crafts, and where she learned to shoot a gun.
0:10.9	Dear mom, I like shooting my rifle a lot.
0:16.7	But now I have a bruise on my shoulder, and I slammed my thumb in the spot where you lock the bullet.
0:22.8	It took Jane the nurse seven band-aids in 20 minutes to stop all the bleeding.
0:28.1	But then I got a popsicle.
0:31.4	Please send me food and more underwear.
0:34.4	Love Bailey.
0:43.5	That's Bailey, reading a letter from camp. And this is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids. This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good,
0:49.0	the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up. From cute little kid writing to angsty teenage writing,
0:55.8	everything you hear was written by kids and then read verbatim by those same kids all grown up.
1:03.8	This time recorded live at Cliff Bells in Detroit, Michigan, we have a letter to Bill Gates,
1:09.2	a plan to save the earth, and a step-by-step
1:12.5	guide to popularity. This stuff is weird, and it is wonderful, and by looking back at who we were,
1:19.8	well, that can help us better understand who we are today. So think about who you were,
1:24.1	when you were a kid. And stick around.
1:34.2	Our next readers, Becky and Stephanie, are twin sisters.
1:35.9	I'm Becky Dennis.
1:37.9	This is my twin sister, Stephanie Dennis.
1:43.2	And when Becky and Stephanie were in fifth or sixth grade, they got in a big fight.
1:46.4	It was such a big fight that in order to keep the peace, their mother made them sit down and write each other apology letters. So at our Detroit
1:52.7	show, we got to hear two letters written by two sisters about the same incident. Now, a quick
1:59.4	heads up, pop culture reference,
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