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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

🗓️ 31 August 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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An elementary school detective agency, teenage infidelity, and an urgent desire to shave your legs. Recorded live at Broken City in Calgary, AB. ## Links ## Rate GRTTWaK in iTunes: http://goo.gl/83A07W Join the mailing list: http://goo.gl/5cbGT3 Upcoming live events: http://goo.gl/RgVZT9 Photos from our Calgary event: https://goo.gl/8wYlh0 Twitter: http://twitter.com/GRTTWaK Instagram: http://instagram.com/GRTTWaK Facebook: http://facebook.com/grownupsreadthingstheywroteaskids

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0:00.0	When Brittany was 13, she listened very carefully to a TV theme song, and the words spoke to her.
0:09.1	You know at the beginning of friends were they sing when it's not been your day, your week, your month, or even your year?
0:16.2	What if it's not been your life?
0:23.4	That's Brittany, reading from her teenage diary,
0:26.2	and this is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.
0:29.9	I'm Dan Meisner.
0:31.1	This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good,
0:34.3	the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up
0:37.0	by reading original source material
0:39.2	on stage in front of an audience. This time recorded live at Broken City in Calgary, Alberta. We have
0:46.0	an elementary school detective agency, teenage infidelity, and an urgent desire to shave your
0:53.3	legs. This stuff is weird, it is wonderful,
0:56.5	and it takes a lot of courage to share.
0:58.9	So think about who you were, when you were a kid, and stick around.
1:09.0	When our next reader, Shauna was 13, she wrote a list, and she titled it, My Man.
1:16.1	This is a list of must-haves for her future man, a 52-point list.
1:24.5	Please welcome to the grown-up three things They Wrote as Kids Stage, Shawna.
1:32.3	My man must consist of the following. Dark hair, dark eyes,
1:40.3	mysterious, quote unquote, nice hairy chest, drinks tea.
1:53.0	Has full knowledge of all Monty Python skits.
2:00.0	Strong sexual urges
2:02.3	strong hands
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