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Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

Dan Misener

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4.7 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Tara writes a letter to her future self, Ron loves and lusts in vain, Felicia and Skylar discuss hookups, and much more. Recorded live in Vancouver, BC.

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0:00.0	When Kate was eight years old, she wrote an acrostic poem.
0:04.5	Now, an acrostic poem is one of those poems where the first letters of each line spell out a word.
0:10.5	You might have had to write one of these in school.
0:12.1	So Kate wrote this poem, and the word that she spelled out was her little sister's name.
0:18.7	Hillary.
0:19.8	H. Hog. H. Hog.
0:24.3	I.
0:25.7	Invites weird friends over.
0:29.1	L.
0:30.1	Little nincompoop.
0:32.9	A.
0:34.1	A. A little nice sometimes.
0:36.6	She's a trend. R. R. Rumpled up brain. A. A little nice sometimes. She can see a trend.
0:38.6	R. R. Rumpled up, brain.
0:42.9	And then why? You get out of my room now.
0:51.5	That's Kate, reading an acrostic poem about her sister Hillary. I'm Dan Meisner and this.
0:58.5	Vancouver, this is grown-ups rethinks they wrote as kids. Hello, how are you doing? It is nice
1:03.2	to see you. Boy, oh boy. This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up.
1:13.5	This time, recorded live in Vancouver, we have rekindled romance, letters from Germany, and a poem about socks.
1:22.5	This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, and it can help us understand who we are today. So think about who you
1:30.1	were when you were a kid. And stick around. When Tara was in grade 10, her entire class got
1:43.5	an assignment.
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