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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

🗓️ 22 May 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Kate shaves her armpits, Jeffrey meets a religious blood cell, Mary publicly shames her father, and much more. Recorded live at La Sala Rossa in Montréal.

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0:00.0	When Kate was in grade six, she was preoccupied with body hair, and she wrote about it in her journal.
0:09.1	March 9th, 1990.
0:11.9	Mom said I could start shaving my armpits.
0:16.5	March 19th, 1990, I did it. I shaved my armpits.
0:22.6	Monday, April 9th. Today at school, George asked Femmy, Jonathan, Peter, and Daniel, if they had hair on their dick.
0:33.1	I have absolutely no idea what they said.
0:39.7	That's Kate, reading from her grade six journal.
0:42.8	I'm Dan Meisner, and this?
0:45.0	This, right now, is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.
0:49.8	How are you doing?
0:52.9	This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good, the bad,
0:57.6	and the awkward parts of growing up. This time recorded live in Montreal, we have an
1:02.5	after-school emergency, a trip to TV land, a very pious blood cell, and much, much more. This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, and by looking
1:14.5	back at who we were, it can help us understand who we are today. So think about who you were,
1:20.5	when you were a kid, and stick around. You know that thing that happens in movies sometimes where a character will say the name of the movie in the movie?
1:37.2	There's a name for that. They call it a title drop.
1:40.2	And when our next reader, Natalie, was 16, she wrote a short story that included many title drops.
1:47.3	It's a story called If I Only Lived in TV Land.
1:50.9	And in it, Natalie included dozens of TV show names from the 60s all the way up to the 90s.
1:57.3	And if you listen closely, you might be able to pick up on all of them.
2:01.9	A quick heads up. Natalie includes a cuss word in this story, which we do not bleep.
2:06.3	There's your heads up. Here's Natalie.
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