🇨🇦 “The Great White North” (Canada Day special)

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

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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To celebrate Canada Day this July 1, it’s a very special episode full of childhood and teenage writing about our home and native land. Letters to Canadian prime ministers, encounters with Canadian wildlife, a harsh introduction to Canadian weather, and much more. Show notes Support 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 Marsha was 14, she had a crush, and she wrote about it in her diary.
0:08.3	Thursday, 21st of June, 1990 AD.
0:12.0	I am totally, well, pretty much totally in love with Chris Beardmore.
0:17.5	He's okayish, good-looking, and I don't know what his personality is like.
0:24.9	So you're thinking, why does this guy make her feel faint?
0:29.7	Turn her knees to jelly, set off little fireworks inside her heart at the mention of his name.
0:35.7	Why? Listen to his voice and you'll find out.
0:40.5	Canadian accent.
0:47.9	That's Marcia, acknowledging just how attractive a Canadian accent can be. I'm Dan Meisner, and this is a very special episode of grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.
1:00.3	We're releasing it on July 1st, Canada Day.
1:03.2	And to celebrate, we've put together a special collection of our favorite readings from and about our home and native land. Now, don't worry, you do not
1:13.7	need to be Canadian to enjoy this episode, regardless of where you're from. These readings
1:19.5	are a ton of fun. We have letters to Canadian prime ministers, encounters with Canadian
1:25.3	wildlife, a very harsh introduction to Canadian weather,
1:29.5	and much, much more.
1:31.5	This stuff is weird, it is wonderful,
1:34.1	and it has a distinctly Canadian flavor.
1:37.9	That's flavor with a you.
1:40.3	So think about who you were when you were a kid,
1:42.9	and stick around.
1:50.6	So often in Canada, we compare ourselves to other countries.
1:54.3	We think about ourselves in relation to others.
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