"Smiling is an infectious disease" (Toronto)

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

🗓️ 30 January 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Bhoomika gets infected, Benj has a love affair with an inanimate object, Chelsea invents a menstruation detective, and much more. Recorded live in Toronto at the Tranzac club.

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0:00.0	When Bumika was 11, she realized the power of a human smile, and she wrote a poem about it.
0:08.6	Smiling is an infectious disease.
0:13.2	It catches you like a flu.
0:16.3	Today when someone smiled at me, I started smiling too.
0:22.6	I just went around with it when I saw a man grin.
0:26.6	And suddenly I realized I had passed it to him.
0:32.6	So remember, when you see a smile begin, let's start an epidemic quick.
0:38.3	And get the world infected.
0:42.3	Thank you.
0:45.3	That's Bumika, acknowledging the viral nature of smiles.
0:51.3	I'm Dan Meisner, and this?
0:53.3	This is grown-ups, read things they wrote as kids. How are you doing?
0:56.6	It is very, very nice to see you.
1:00.7	This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up.
1:07.7	This time, recorded live in Toronto, we have an angsty live journal, a pinball wizard,
1:13.5	and a menstruation detective. This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, and it can help us understand
1:21.9	who we are today. So think about who you were, when you were a kid. And stick around.
1:41.4	Each episode, I say that our show is about the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up.
1:45.8	And when it comes to awkward, puberty is right there at the top of the list. Our next reader, Jocelyn, shared two journal entries from when she was 14. The first was
1:52.4	written before she got her period, and the second afterwards. Okay, April 12th, Monday afternoon.
2:01.4	Rachel really knows how to insult me and make me upset and mad.
2:05.7	Already today, she's made two comments of my dysfunctional period, aka lack thereof.
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