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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

🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Julia picks up a hitchhiker, Mitra goes to a dance, Doug gets scientific, and much more. Recorded live at the Victoria Event Centre in Victoria.

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0:00.0	When Mitra was 15, she went to a dance, and she wrote about it in her journal.
0:07.1	Tuesday 11th, the prefect's ball, at which I was bored and horrified.
0:15.0	My bra showed through the ultraviolet disco light.
0:23.6	I wore a brown shirt fairly thin with a white bra
0:26.6	and the light made the white bra glow.
0:31.6	It did explain why boys who never said a word to me
0:41.3	wanted to dance with me all of a sudden most embarrassing and all so superficial
0:46.6	I don't think I'd like to go again
0:49.6	I couldn't stand it
0:52.0	it was so deadly boring
0:54.0	Thank you I couldn't stand it. It was so deadly boring.
1:02.8	That's Mitra, reading from her teenage journal.
1:08.1	I'm Dan Meisner, and this, this is grown-ups who he thinks they wrote as kids.
1:09.6	How are you doing tonight? It's very, very nice to see you.
1:15.5	This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of
1:21.8	growing up. This time recorded live in Victoria, BC, we have a mock scientific essay, a dangerous trip to an active volcano,
1:31.3	misanthropic poetry, and much more. This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, and, like an
1:38.2	ultraviolet light, it can be revealing. So think about who you were when you were a kid. And stick around.
1:50.0	When Kirsten was in grade six, she kept a creative writing notebook. And at our Victoria
1:55.5	show, she shared a short story entitled The Birth of a Volcano. It's all about a news reporter with a pilot's license who gets a very exciting and very dangerous assignment.
2:08.6	Live on stage in Victoria, here's Kirsten.
2:10.6	The Birth of a Volcano.
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