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Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

Dan Misener

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4.7 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Zahida passes out during sex ed, Geoff writes a very Canadian spy story, Mandy gets a crush on the class president, and much more. Recorded live at the Rio Theatre in Vancouver. Show notesSupport GRTTWaK. Become a patron.Photos from our Vancouver eventRate 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 Mandy was growing up, she learned that you can tell a lot about somebody from their taste in music.
0:10.6	April 11th, 2001.
0:13.5	Okay, Jess is the most bitchiest person ever.
0:17.3	Like, just because I like rap and she likes Christian songs, makes me a bad influence on other people, whatever.
0:31.6	That's Mandy, reading from The Diary, she kept as a teenage music fan, I'm Dan Meisner and this. This is grownups read things they
0:40.2	wrote as kids. How are you doing? It is very, very nice to see you. This is a show where we go back in
0:48.9	time to remember the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up. This time, recorded live in Vancouver,
0:55.8	we have a James Bond-inspired spy story, a celebrity crush on Michael Jay Fox, a talking
1:02.8	Subaru legacy, and much, much more. This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, and, like your
1:10.0	friend's taste in music, you might not agree with
1:12.4	all of it. So think about who you were when you were a kid, and stick around.
1:26.1	A minute ago, we heard from Mandy. She liked rap, her friend liked Christian, but music, it wasn't the only thing that she wrote about in her diary. Mandy also shared a few more entries about puberty, angst, and firsts. All right, June 1st, 1999. This is my first writing in this diary, so let's make it a good one.
1:47.5	Mandy, what should I write about?
1:49.3	Ah, I know the thing everybody is talking about, boys.
1:53.4	To start off, Kayla is the one who told me about them.
1:57.9	Well, Kayla, they are nothing but a pain in the butt.
2:01.7	All they talk about is someone named Steve Austin.
2:06.5	Nintendo 64 and beating up girls.
2:11.7	All of us think that boys do that except for our love.
2:16.4	I don't know why they call him crush as you know because it
2:18.8	kind of sounds like you're dumping them. Anyway, my first crush ever was on Mike, but I dumped him.
2:26.5	I just better not tell Andrew that I already dumped someone because he will act like I'm some sort
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