"Once upon a time in Barfland" (Kitchener)

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

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Stephanie shops for underwear, Sean re-writes “The Three Little Pigs,” Tanis dreams of Jonathan Brandis, and much more. Recorded live at The Walper Hotel in Kitchener.

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0:00.0	When Elaine was a teenager, she found herself love sick over the holidays, and she wrote about it in her diary.
0:10.4	March 29th, 1972.
0:14.0	Tonight was the first Seder. Happy Passover. I'm getting a little depressed.
0:20.4	About the fact that I don't have anyone here I like.
0:27.4	Please God, give me Russell for Passover.
0:37.3	That's Elaine, reading from her teenage diary.
0:40.3	I'm Dan Meisner, and this?
0:42.4	This, right now, is growing up three things they wrote as kids.
0:46.5	How are you doing tonight?
0:49.0	It's very, very nice to see you.
1:01.5	This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up.
1:05.1	This time recorded live at the Walper Hotel in Kitchener, Ontario.
1:10.6	We have an underwater love story, shopping for underwear and lotto tickets, an alternative interpretation of the
1:12.8	three little pigs, and much more.
1:15.8	This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, and it can help us understand who we are.
1:21.4	So think about who you were, when you were a kid, and stick around.
1:28.5	We're going to hear a little bit of fiction right now.
1:31.7	Our next reader, Jamie, is going to share a short story written in grade five.
1:39.0	This is all about what he describes as a sad sack of a kid whose life is terrible, he assures us
1:47.0	this bore no resemblance to himself at that age. Please welcome Jamie to the grown-up
1:52.8	Street thinks they wrote his kid's day.
1:59.0	Martin sighed.
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