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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

🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Ryan gets in a fight, Adelade describes a very special dog, Freddie reads from his DeadJournal, and much more. Recorded live at the Tranzac Club in Toronto. Show notesSupport GRTTWaK. Become a patron.Rate or review GRTTWaK in iTunesJoin the email newsletterUpcoming live eventsMusic by Podington Bear and LullatoneClosing theme is “Oh Dear Diary” by SloanTwitterInstagramFacebook

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0:00.0	When Katie and Meredith were in grade 11, they were best friends.
0:05.5	And as a way to make sure they would stay best friends, they drew up a contract.
0:11.2	Signed on the letterhead of Friendship Company.
0:16.9	Section 1A, the following forces of evil and destruction must not intervene with the bonds of sisterhood.
0:25.5	Money.
0:27.1	Right-winged fanatics.
0:33.1	Incidents that have occurred over six months ago.
0:38.7	Anything with a Y chromosome.
0:47.6	That's Katie and Meredith reading a contract that I'm pretty sure is unenforceable.
0:53.7	I'm Dan Meisner, and this?
0:55.8	This is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.
0:59.3	How are you doing? It is so, so nice to see you.
1:03.6	This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up.
1:13.3	This time, recorded live in Toronto, we have angsty online journals, poems about unrequited love, a very special dog named Sparky, and
1:21.4	much more. This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, and it can help us understand who we are today.
1:28.3	So think about who you were, when you were a kid, and stick around.
1:36.3	Kids often have special relationships with animals, especially family pets.
1:45.2	When our next reader, Adelaide, was seven, she wrote a journal back and forth with her teacher.
1:49.9	And as you'll hear, she wrote a lot about her dog, Sparky.
1:55.2	January 7, 1994, the best dog.
1:59.2	One day my dad said we were going somewhere. He said it was a surprise and he took me to the pet shop to get a puppy,
2:04.6	and his name is Sparky.
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