What Is It Like To Be An Adult?
But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids
Vermont Public
4.3 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What is it like to be an adult? It's a big question from a young mind! We invited adults who listen to share their perspectives and Nora McInerny, host of the podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking, helps guide us through that and a few other questions about the strange world of adults: Why can adults do things that kids can't do? Why don't adults play pretend like they used to when they were kids? What happens when you don't listen to your boss? And why do people cry when they're happy?
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| 0:00.0 | This is But Why, a podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public Radio. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm Jane Lindholm. I host the show Melody Bodette and I make it and it's our job to take your |
| 0:32.4 | amazing questions that you send us and find you some answers. We are interested in whatever |
| 0:38.5 | you all are interested in. Science, history, art, music. We love all of your questions and all of you. |
| 0:46.9 | Hey, by the way, as we wrap up 2018, I thought it might be fun for you to know that we have gotten |
| 0:52.2 | more than 3,000 questions from you since we started this show in 2016. You've downloaded |
| 0:58.3 | episodes several million times and we have heard from kids in 47 countries all over the world |
| 1:06.4 | and 49 US states. How cool is that? If you're a kid listening in South Dakota or if you know |
| 1:15.2 | any curious kids who live in South Dakota and might want to give this show a listen and send |
| 1:19.6 | in a question, tell them about but why that is the only state we're missing. Today we're answering |
| 1:26.0 | a question that doesn't really fit a category. I'm Blake. I'm 9 years old. I'm from Edmunds, |
| 1:32.3 | Washington and I want to know what is it like to be an adult. One of the things we love about this |
| 1:37.6 | question Blake is that there isn't one right or definitive answer. If you asked every adult you |
| 1:44.4 | know that question, you'd get a different answer from each of them. You could even ask the same |
| 1:49.8 | adult that question two days in a row and they might give you different answers. How they answer |
| 1:54.6 | might depend on their mood or what's going on in their life and it can also depend on how old they are. |
| 2:00.2 | So we thought it would be fun to ask some of the adults who listen to but why to send in some answers. |
| 2:06.1 | Here's what two younger adults sent us. My name is Emma. I'm from Burlington, Vermont |
| 2:11.8 | and I am 23 years old. Being an adult is like being a kid but doing adult things. I don't feel like |
| 2:20.2 | an adult all the time. I usually feel like someone who isn't an adult yet but has to do adult things |
| 2:26.4 | anyway. My name is Jess. I am originally from Westford, Vermont. I am now living in Portland, |
| 2:34.4 | Oregon, however, and I am almost 24 years old. When I was growing up, I always felt older than my |
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