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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 August 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Nikki fights to end cruelty in nursery rhymes, Brent is different when he's alone, Chris watches late-night erotica on TV, and much more. Recorded live at the Tranzac in Toronto, ON.

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0:00.0	When Rebecca was nine, she thought there were a few things she could improve about herself.
0:06.0	So, she wrote them down.
0:08.0	This is a list, ways to improve me.
0:10.0	One, don't shout as much.
0:13.0	Two, do good deeds.
0:15.0	Three, don't get carried away with the good deeds.
0:22.4	That's Rebecca, with some good advice about moderation.
0:26.3	I'm Dan Meisner, and this?
0:28.2	This is it.
0:29.0	You're here.
0:29.7	I am here.
0:30.5	We are all here together.
0:31.7	Toronto, this is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.
0:34.8	It's nice to see you.
0:36.0	How are you doing?
0:39.8	This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up.
0:46.7	This time recorded live in Toronto, we have the cruelty of nursery rhymes, teenage poetry about loneliness, and a naked guy who jumps out of the forest.
0:57.0	This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, and some of it, like Rebecca's reading, is full of good advice, no matter how old you are.
1:05.0	So think about who you were, when you were a kid, and stick around.
1:10.0	One of the things I love to were, when you were a kid, and stick around.
1:19.7	One of the things I love about kid writing is how honest it can be. Often, this stuff is the raw, unvarnished truth about how we felt at the time. When Leslie was 12, she had her first
1:26.9	boyfriend, a guy named Chris, and at our Toronto show,
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