"My yearly love attack" (Whitehorse)

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

🗓️ 10 October 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

George might be a bowling addict, Laurel suggests ways to improve Whitehorse, Andrew takes care of his baby brother, and much more. Recorded live at the Old Fire Hall in Whitehorse, Yukon. Co-presented by BYTE Empowering Youth.

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0:00.0	When Andrew was seven, he kept a journal, and he wrote about a lot of things, including his baby brother.
0:07.7	Thursday, November 16th, Mother says, I may take care of my baby brother.
0:13.6	I can stay with him if I'm not rough.
0:16.4	One way to make him laugh is to tickle him.
0:19.6	I like to stay home and take care of him.
0:24.7	I don't have a baby brother.
0:30.4	Full confession.
0:33.7	That's Andrew.
0:35.0	Reading about his imaginary baby brother, I'm Dan Meisner, and this, this is
0:40.7	grown-ups reed things they wrote as kids. It's a show where we go back in time to remember the good,
0:46.4	the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up. And we do it all in front of a live audience. Where's
0:52.4	that live audience? There they are. This time recorded
0:57.6	live in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. We have reluctant singing and dancing, a very bloody horror story,
1:04.8	and a list of ways to make Whitehorse a better place. This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, and it can help us figure
1:13.5	out who we are today. So think about who you were, when you were a kid, and stick around.
1:23.7	When our next reader, Jenny was 16, it was the late 1980s.
1:33.1	She was young, she was gay, she was in love, and she was living in the Yukon.
1:38.2	And as Jenny told me,
1:40.1	The mentality here was still the late 60s when it came to being gay.
1:44.3	So Jenny and her girlfriend kept their relationship secret.
1:48.0	And as part of their secret courtship,
1:50.4	Jenny wrote her girlfriend a poem in English class.
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