"Virginity is like a birthday cake" (Calgary)

Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

Dan Misener

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4.7 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Terra compares virginity to a birthday cake, Bradley explains how to find a rock, Mary plans to "bump off" a nun, and much more. Recorded live at Yuk Yuk's in Calgary, AB.

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0:00.0	When Stephen was 15, he'd already had his first big breakup.
0:05.0	So, in an effort to move on, he wrote a list of qualities he was looking for in a girl.
0:12.0	Trustworthy, reliable, never leave me for another guy.
0:18.0	Genuine, down to earth,
0:23.3	relatively good looking in my eyes,
0:27.3	shares most of the same values,
0:29.2	unlimited texting,
0:35.5	and of course, because I love the TV show,
0:37.6	respects scrubs.
0:46.9	That's Stephen,
0:50.7	emphasizing the importance of a good cell phone plan.
0:53.1	I'm Dan Meisner, and this... This is is grownups read things they wrote as kids. Hello,
0:56.5	Calgary. It's nice to see you. This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good,
1:03.8	the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up. This time recorded live in Calgary, Alberta, we have a
1:10.1	plot to bump off a Catholic nun,
1:13.1	a leprechaun who lives in a sandwich, and an explanation of how virginity is like a birthday cake.
1:21.0	This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, and like Stephen's dream girl, it respects scrubs.
1:28.1	So think about who you were when you were a kid.
1:31.2	And stick around.
1:39.1	Our next reader, Mary, read a few diary entries written in 1953 when she was 11 years old and living in
1:48.3	Burlington, Ontario. Okay, so I'm 11 and I'm in grade 7 at St. John's Catholic School and
1:56.1	parents are Croatian. The excerpts, yeah, who, the excerpts are all very short and very concrete. January 1st, Sandra
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