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Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

"My new nickname is 'mouth'"(Toronto)

Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

Dan Misener

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4.7653 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2015

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A bald eagle, war between Canada and China, and lots of French kissing. Recorded live at The Garrison in Toronto, Ontario.

Transcript

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0:00.0

When Heather was 12, she went to camp.

0:03.8

Camp Manitimono, 1982. Friday night, July 2nd.

0:08.1

Dear Diary, this is a brief resume of today's activities.

0:12.0

Morning dip, breakfast, cabin clean, canoes, free swim, lunch, horizontal, crafts, war canoe,

0:18.0

what fun we had a water fight with the Seneca's, free swim, dinner,

0:22.1

lecture, tuck, night activity which was bingo, Kaibo, teeth, and last but not least,

0:27.6

Frenching at the fork with Paul. To be honest, it was only my second time Frenching. I should

0:35.9

do it more often.

0:47.3

That's Heather, reading from the Camp Diary she kept when she was 12.

0:52.2

And this, this is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.

0:53.2

I'm Dan Meisner.

0:58.8

Grown-ups read things they wrote as kids is exactly what it sounds like. Brave adults on stage sharing the weird, wonderful, and sometimes embarrassing things they wrote when they were

1:04.9

younger. This time recorded live at the garrison in Toronto, we have a pet bald eagle, a war between Canada and China and Frenching.

1:15.6

For some reason, we have a lot of French kissing in this one.

1:19.5

This stuff is funny, it is odd, and in some cases, it has a lot to tell us about who we are today.

1:26.6

So think about the stuff that you wrote when you were a kid.

1:29.9

And stick around.

1:34.4

A minute ago, we heard from Heather, who spent the summer of 1982 kissing a guy named Paul.

1:45.8

Well, Heather brought along more from that camp diary.

1:49.2

Here she is, picking up the story right where she left off,

1:52.8

the moment immediately after kissing Paul.

1:58.2

Anyway, when we were finished, I opened my eyes and the kitchen girl Karen was standing right

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