1 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: Hell though, I'm the favorite protection of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: I'm Annie Reese and I'm Lauren Vocalbaum and today we're 3 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: talking about Girl Scout cookies. I am so excited to 4 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 1: be talking about Girl Scout cookies. Yeah, but you're you're 5 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: not particularly a girl Scout. I mean you don't really 6 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: like I mean, yeah, no, I'm not a I'm not 7 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: a big Girl Scout cookie person. My favorite was thin mints, 8 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 1: and I can't have mint, So there you go. People 9 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: are always shocked that I don't like the peanut butter ones. 10 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: They're fine, They're fine, Okay, but see, I would have 11 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: I would have thought that would have been like like something, Yeah, 12 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:51,199 Speaker 1: that like those those DVDs that are stacked behind you 13 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: in your fancy podcasting closet would just be boxes of 14 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: the peanut butter Girl Scout cookies. I maybe I missed 15 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: like the wind because I didn't My family wasn't the 16 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: type that got them, you know, Okay, sure, yeah, so 17 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: maybe I missed like the nostalgia window. And it's not 18 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 1: that I don't like them. I'd think they're fined. It's 19 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: when Girls Gout Cookie season comes around. I usually don't 20 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 1: even realize until one of my friends says, you know, 21 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: you buy girl Scout cookies from my child. I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, 22 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: but I do love I love the loyalty, the cookie loyalty. 23 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: I love seeing despair when a cookie is discontinued. I 24 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 1: love the arguments about like do you put your thin 25 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:41,839 Speaker 1: mints in the freezer? If not, you're a monster. I 26 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: love how people talk about them. And I have so 27 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: many friends who do love girls got cookies, and there's 28 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: this sort of mythical, addictive rhetork around it. Um, I 29 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: don't know, I do. I really really enjoy witnessing that. Okay, 30 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: all right, I see you're you're you're in it for 31 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: the for the like for like you're in it for 32 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: the like a like borderline chaos kind of Okay, yes, 33 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: I think so, it's not a there's no mean spirit 34 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: about it. I'm just like, I like seeing this passion. 35 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 1: It's joyful. Yeah yeah, yeah. I was a girl Scalp 36 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 1: for about two seconds. I think I went to one 37 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: meeting and then told my mom, no, I'm good. But 38 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: I did have to sell chocolate bars and doughnuts and 39 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: fancy lollipops for band throughout high school. So I feel 40 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 1: like I had a similar, at least a taste of 41 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: this experience. And I got kicked out of Walmart for solictening. 42 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: So I was walking around trying to sell donuts and 43 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: I learned, yeah, that's no, Yeah, you can't do that 44 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: within another that's not that's not why you can do 45 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: at Walmart. No. Yeah, well okay, so that's that's fair. 46 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 1: Uh I was I was never a Girl Scout. Um. 47 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,519 Speaker 1: I do love a cookie. Um. I also for like 48 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: yearbook had to sell candy bars maybe at some point 49 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 1: something like that, but yeah, I don't know. I I 50 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: love Girl Scout cookies. I I realized a couple of 51 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: weeks into COVID isolation that I had hidden a box 52 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: of Samoa's from even myself for for like a year, 53 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: like since the previous Girl Scout cookie season. Um, they're 54 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: still great. I personally think that like sitting on my 55 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: kitchen floor and eating Samoa's in moments of desperation counts 56 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: of self care. So I agree, And I have some 57 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: some follow up questions. Okay, one, remind me which one 58 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: are Samoa's. Oh Um, they're uh, They're sometimes called caramel Delights. 59 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: They're the ones with the coconut and the and the 60 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: caramel and the little chocolate bits. Yeah, got you okay too? 61 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: Are those your favorite? Yes? They are? Okay, okay, so yeah, 62 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: I know that's like a lot of list ranked them 63 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: and that was the number one. And I can never 64 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: remember what they are because their names aren't very apart 65 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: from thin mint and the like limon one, it's not 66 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 1: very clear what's going on in these cookies. Yeah, the 67 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,720 Speaker 1: the little Brownie Baker's names for them, um are are 68 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:40,279 Speaker 1: fairly of tuse. I would say, I like, uh uh, 69 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 1: not not not immediately clear, but but that But that's 70 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 1: part of the fandom of Girl Scout cookies, I know. 71 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 1: And we're definitely gonna get into that before we do. 72 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 1: And this story is actually really related because there's a 73 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: lot of fandom going on. I actually have a really funny, 74 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 1: what I think is really funny COVID nineteen Girls Scout 75 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: cookie story. Okay, okay, our friend Ramsey's daughter, and you know, 76 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: Ramsey's friend of the show. He's been on the show before. 77 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: He was helping his daughters sell Girl Scout cookies. And I, 78 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,479 Speaker 1: because I don't like them, I often ask my group 79 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: of friends if they will buy them. And my friend Katie, 80 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:24,599 Speaker 1: uh yeah, she she bought a bunch from him. She loves, loves, loves, 81 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: like lives for Girl Scout cookies. Okay, she lives in Athens, though, 82 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: so Ramsey gave her order to me to give to 83 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: her when I saw her next, and she came to 84 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 1: visit me on Friday March and yes I remember the 85 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,039 Speaker 1: date because we were supposed to go see Return of 86 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: the Jedi at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra together that night. 87 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: Oh oh, I still think about it, clearly, I still 88 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: think about it. Um. We are huge Star Wars fans, 89 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 1: and I was gonna go as my first crush Loop Skywalker. 90 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 1: My current goal just one day get Mark Cambell to 91 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 1: respond to me on Twitter before quarantine is up. But 92 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 1: I'm never gonna do it because I'm way too shy. 93 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: And I'm actually working on my new evolution of Luke 94 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: Skywalker cosplay, and I guess I'm going to incorporate that 95 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: into my new edict of wearing a costume once a 96 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: week while working from home because that's my self care. Okay, 97 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: But anyway, girls got cookies. That was the day Atlanta 98 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 1: shut the hell down and the event was canceled, and 99 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: me and Katie were very confused as to what to 100 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 1: do because this was early on where there's a lot 101 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: of conflicting information. Um, did this mean she's gonna have 102 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: to quarantine with me for who knows how long? Um? 103 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: So we decided she would stay the night and we 104 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: would figure it out in the morning. So we stayed 105 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: up and watched all of the original Star Wars trilogy 106 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: because of course, and she's somehow, somehow, like without me 107 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: really witnessing it, a three boxes of those Girl Scout cookies. 108 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's a lot of Girl Scout cookies. Yeah. Oh, 109 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,919 Speaker 1: and she paid the price for it, uh for the 110 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: next two days. I took a video of her in 111 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: agony because I'm a terrible, terrible friend, and I sent 112 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: it to Ramsey and later posted it on Instagram because 113 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: I thought it was hilarious. I do have a clip, 114 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: maybe I'll put it in here. It's essentially her wailing like, 115 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: damn you cookies. It was quite funny. Well, you know, 116 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,239 Speaker 1: I'm glad that she recovered. Um, yes, she did, I guess, 117 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: like eat responsibly. Yes, yes, I'm sure there was some 118 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: stress involved. Yeah, yeah, No, we're all kind of doing 119 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: the wacky right now. So yeah, so that's okay. It 120 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: was yeah, it was okay. And she did recover and 121 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: she did eat the rest of the bus, but at 122 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: a slower pace, more controlled fashion. I actually asked me 123 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: if she could get some more. Oh my gosh, Wow, 124 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm glad it didn't put her off. That's 125 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 1: that's great. It would take a lot, I think to 126 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: put her off. Girl Scout cookies really really speaks to 127 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: the power of healing, which is which is good. It does, 128 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: it does, and due to COVID nineteen, Girl Scout cookie 129 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: sales have gone online and there's so so many stories 130 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: of Girl Scouts donating cookies too, folks on the front line. 131 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: Will come back to that later, but all right, let's 132 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: get to your question, Girl Scout cookies. What are they? Well, 133 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: Girl Scout cookies are cookies specifically produced for members of 134 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: the Girl Scouts organization to sell as a fundraiser and 135 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: a business learning activity. Uh So, the Girl Scouts is 136 00:08:55,679 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping girls develop key life els. Um. 137 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: It's a it's core like a like a leadership development program, 138 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: but you know, also a fun thing for kids to do. 139 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 1: UM Their five goals are to help members and i quote, 140 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 1: develop a strong sense of self, seek challenges and learn 141 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: from setbacks, display positive values, form and maintain healthy relationships, 142 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: and identify and solve problems in the community. And yeah, 143 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: adult men and women can get involved. Of course, there's 144 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: an emphasis on women as role models, but yeah, trans 145 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: girls are welcome. It is a secular organization, but local 146 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 1: troops might be involved in faith activities or partnerships. UH 147 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: troops take part in all kinds of activities UM and 148 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: members can earn badges or pins for their participation and 149 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: successes in UH in STEM activities, science, technology, engineering and math, 150 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 1: UM camping, civic engagement, and entrepreneurship, i e. Cookie sales. 151 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: So um so, there are a couple different industrial bakeries 152 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: that create these cookies. In these are Modern Times UM 153 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers. And though most of 154 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: the cookie lineup and recipes are standardized across both both 155 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: of these companies, there are a few regional differences. Uh so. 156 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: You know, like like even among the standards, your your 157 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 1: flavor and texture might vary a little bit from brand 158 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: to brand, but but yeah, the standards are thin mints um, 159 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: which if somehow you have never heard of. They are um, 160 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: thin chocolate wafer cookies that are uh in robed in 161 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: like a mint chocolate stuff. And by chocolate stuff, I 162 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: mean that I don't think that they have enough cocoa 163 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 1: content technically count as chocolate. But but but chocolate stuff yeah. 164 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: Um uh. There are plain shortbreads which are printed with 165 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:53,719 Speaker 1: the Trefoil Girl Scout logo and are thus called trefoils 166 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: in some regions. Um. There are shortbreads dipped in lemon 167 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: icing on one side, which are called lemonades or lemon ups. Um. 168 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: The lemon ups have like positive statements embossed on them, 169 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: like I'm a go getter or innovator or risk taker 170 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: or leader cute. There are oatmeal cookies sandwiched with a 171 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: sweetened peanut butter, which are called peanut butter sandwiches or 172 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 1: dosy does uh why I couldn't tell you. Um. There 173 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: are vanilla cookies topped with caramel, shredded coconut and dipped 174 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 1: in chocolate stuff, which are called, as I said earlier, 175 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: either caramel delights or Samoa's. And um, there are vanilla 176 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 1: cookies with a thick layer of sweetened peanut butter that 177 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:34,319 Speaker 1: are coated in chocolate stuff and those are called either 178 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: peanut butter patties or tag alongs and then yeah, m. 179 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: In some places you can get thanks a Lots, which 180 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 1: are which are shortbreads dipped in fudge on one side, um, 181 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:48,679 Speaker 1: and each have the words like thank you in bosted 182 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: um in one of five different languages. There are two 183 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: varieties of some Moors cookies more on those a little 184 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: bit later. Um, and each region has a gluten free 185 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: option um. Ours here in the South is the toffee 186 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:05,599 Speaker 1: tastic um, which are these like kind of like chewy 187 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 1: butter cookies without a little crunchy toffee bits in them. Um. 188 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 1: And the other is the caramel chocolate chip which are 189 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: apparently I have not had them. They are chewy chocolate 190 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: chip cookies with little bits of caramel in them, I think. 191 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: I So this was news to me and I love it. 192 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 1: I love that depending on where you are you can 193 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: get a different set of Girl Scout cookies. And I 194 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 1: also read so many articles about the power of these 195 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: two bakeries to decide what cookies we get. The responsibility Yeah, yeah, 196 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: it's a it's a big creating these cookies, um and 197 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:48,839 Speaker 1: and rolling them out is a big process. I mean 198 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: because they're you know, the companies that make them. You 199 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: know that they only distribute from uh I think January 200 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: through March or April, um every year, and so it's 201 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: this huge ramp up and for this very short production window. 202 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: But yeah, they they all make them, um in close 203 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: conjunction with Girl Scouts of the United States, which is 204 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 1: the national organization. And yeah, yeah, there's all kinds of 205 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: like marketing research and taste testing and collaboration with with 206 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 1: some of the members and troops. It's it's a whole process. Yeah. 207 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 1: And I also love that I found not one, not 208 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:33,319 Speaker 1: to but multiple multiple articles comparing like the taste of 209 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: thinness from these two different and like claiming that there's 210 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:40,599 Speaker 1: definitely a difference, and like going into all these points 211 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 1: about what the differences are. Okay, see that's what I love. 212 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 1: I just appreciate it. Yeah, No, I mean, yeah, like 213 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 1: there is this like mythical sense to Girl Scout cookies 214 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: because you know, they're they're only available for a limited 215 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: time every year. UM, it's for a good cause and 216 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 1: so you know, like in addition to like sugar and 217 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: fat being amazing motivators. Uh there's yeah, this like added 218 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: psychological boost to buying and eating them. And I think 219 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: it's really like the most brilliant, probably originally unintentional marketing 220 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 1: scheme that I've ever heard of in my life. Yeah, yeah, 221 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: I would agree. Um, and the troops use the money 222 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: they earn from cookie sales to fund projects throughout the year, 223 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: from from camping too robotics to scuba lessons and like 224 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: ocean conservation projects. It's it's great whatever whatever they want 225 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: it to go to. It's part of part of the 226 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 1: U part of the business learning activity of the cookie 227 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: sales is figuring out how much money they earn and 228 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 1: how to use that money in the future. Right, kind 229 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: of a detour. Apparently there's a strain of weed called 230 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 1: Girl Scout cookies not affiliated perhaps obviously, and I have 231 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 1: been loving the stories of Scouts selling them next to dispensaries. 232 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: That always brings a smile to my face. Um. And 233 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: there's also lip bombs and cocktails and Girl Scout cookie flavors. 234 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: The cocktails are not officially licensed, but the lip bomb is. 235 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: There are all kinds of tie in products Pillsberry makes 236 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: or perhaps has in the past made a line of 237 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: confusingly cookie flavored baking mixes so that you can make 238 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: like Girl Scout cookie flavored cupcakes or brownies. I'm not 239 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: sure that I get it, but anyway, Um, there's a 240 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 1: Girl Scout Cookie easy bake style oven. Um. I know 241 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: that there's been at least one ice cream tie in 242 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: all kinds of yes. Yes, And I was telling Lauren 243 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: right before this. I know here in Atlanta, I have 244 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 1: been to at least one Girl Scout cookie and beer pairing. 245 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 1: So right, yeah, yeah, but all right, Well here's here's 246 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: perhaps quite an answer to your question. What about the 247 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 1: nutrition of these cookies. Uh well, despite what Wednesday Adams 248 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: may think, Girl Scout cookies are not made with real 249 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 1: Girl Scouts. Um, but you know, I mean, shelf stable, 250 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: industrially produced cookies are always going to be in the 251 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: treat category. Um. I'm always a little bit surprised by 252 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: exactly how many calories they managed to pack into those 253 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: little cookies. Um. I will say the shortbreads and the 254 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: thin mints are the lightest on fats and sugars. The 255 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 1: samoas are the heaviest. You know, treats are nice. Be 256 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 1: mindful of your portion sizes as your friend Katie learned. Um. 257 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: And but yeah, but yeah, you know, it's a treat, 258 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: enjoy them. Yeah, and I know that. Um. One of 259 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 1: the criticisms that comes out about Girl Scout cookies is 260 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: that it's sort of this unhealthy treat that we're selling, 261 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: getting kids to sell to other kids a lot of time. 262 00:16:55,600 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, everything in moderation, you know, including moderation exactly. 263 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 1: So numbers, we do have numbers. Um. So one point 264 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 1: eight million girls participate in the Girl Scout Cookie program. 265 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: That is about the number of Girl Scouts. Yes. I 266 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: got really confused over that at first, Like, didn't everyone 267 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 1: but it's mostly everybody. Yeah. The Girl Scouts are present 268 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 1: in ninety two countries and boast over fifty million alum. 269 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 1: Here in the US, there is a national Girl Scout 270 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:32,399 Speaker 1: Cookie Weekend and it is the last weekend in February. Wow. 271 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 1: Each year, the two hundred million boxes of Girl Scout 272 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: cookie sold accounts for eight hundred million dollars. They sell 273 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 1: more than oreos and more than chips, Ahoy and Milano combined. Yeah. 274 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:52,439 Speaker 1: Technically that means that the Girl Scout Cookie program is 275 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,880 Speaker 1: the largest girl led business in the United States, or 276 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,880 Speaker 1: as promotional material likes to put it, the quote largest 277 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 1: financial investment in girls annually in the United States. Food 278 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: analyst John Frank told USA Today the annual Girl Scout 279 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:11,639 Speaker 1: cookie sale is a force of nature at the national level. 280 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:15,120 Speaker 1: Big companies like Kraft No, it's coming, and they've learned 281 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: to live with it like a storm, and there's nothing 282 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:20,680 Speaker 1: they can do but wait for it to pass because 283 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: there is no upside to marketing against the Girl scounts fair. Wow. Yeah, no, 284 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:34,160 Speaker 1: that's accurate. Finn Mints are the top selling cookie, accounting 285 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 1: for an estimated twenty of sales hum According to Little 286 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,119 Speaker 1: Brownie Baker's they're gluten free option, the the Toffee Tastic 287 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 1: is the fourth best selling gluten free cookie in the 288 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: United States. Not all the cookies have been winners, uh. 289 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:55,880 Speaker 1: Several have been discontinued, from the chocolate vanilla sandwich cookies 290 00:18:55,920 --> 00:19:00,720 Speaker 1: called fawn Chos, the rice crispy chocolate caramel cooka burra, 291 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 1: and even some savory options like cheese. They were these 292 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:11,360 Speaker 1: cheese crackers called Golden Yangles. Golden Golden Yangles. They looked 293 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: like Bengals. All right, I guess I should re rephrase 294 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: some of them weren't winners, but some of them they 295 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: just discontinued and people desperately, desperately missed them. Again, going 296 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 1: back to that kind of mythical remember in the eighties 297 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: when they add that thank you very much or whatever 298 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 1: it was. Um, yeah, yeah, people get intense about it. 299 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: They really really do. Elizabeth Brenton, the Cookie Queen as 300 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:43,120 Speaker 1: she's called, holds the record for most cookies sold during 301 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:47,200 Speaker 1: her time with the Girl Scouts, over one hundred thousand 302 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 1: boxes sold to people like Sandra Day O'Connor, President George W. Bush. Yeah, 303 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: okay hmm. Girl Scout leadership is adamant that this is 304 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 1: about out more than the cookies. For many girls, this 305 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: is their first foray into business and their first taste 306 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: of something similar to having a job. You have to 307 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:11,359 Speaker 1: learn how to manage money, how to market, how to 308 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 1: talk about a product with strangers, how to sell a 309 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 1: product and then deliver that product. You have to set 310 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: reasonable goals because you have to buy these cookies to 311 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:26,439 Speaker 1: sell two people. The Girl Scout Research Institute found that 312 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: over a half of quote female entrepreneurs and business owners 313 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 1: are Girl Scout alum and that of the women elected 314 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 1: in the mid terms, most have been Girl Scouts at 315 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 1: one time. On the flip side, there has been criticism 316 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 1: that this is essentially free child labor to sell things 317 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:52,199 Speaker 1: for a major organization. And also, as we all know, 318 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: it's not always the Scouts that are selling the cookies. 319 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 1: I mean, parent serve very often involved um and what 320 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:09,920 Speaker 1: level of involvement can vary? It can, it can I'm 321 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: not really judging, but I'm just saying that is a 322 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: criticism that I have seen. So there are fours of 323 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 1: nature we've established. Yes, we do have some history. We do. 324 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,239 Speaker 1: But first we've got a quick break for words from 325 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 1: our sponsor and we're back. Thank you sponsor, Yes, thank you. 326 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,679 Speaker 1: The Girl Scott's Got started in nineteen twelve, the brainchild 327 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:48,239 Speaker 1: of Juliette Gordon Lowe. She was affectionately called Daisy and 328 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 1: she was firstly one at the time that she started it, 329 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 1: and she was also a big believer in teaching girls 330 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: about self sufficiency, individuality and showing their potential. She was 331 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 1: also by the Boys Cats, which had been founded that 332 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: same year. The first meeting took place in Savannah, Georgia, 333 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: gathering of eighteen girls. Low shared her knowledge around an 334 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:14,919 Speaker 1: outdoor educational movement she'd encountered abroad, and these meetings, as 335 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 1: they continued, consisted of things like hiking, sports, star watching, 336 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,439 Speaker 1: learning a new language, helping out around their community. The 337 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 1: Girl Scouts expanded pretty rapidly during the nineteen twenties um 338 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: and not only in the United States, but also in 339 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 1: other countries like Mexico, China, and Syria. Low passed away 340 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: in nineteen seven, but she is remembered through the Juliette 341 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: Low World Friendship Fund, which helps finance Girl Scouts projects 342 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 1: throughout the world. In President Obama awarded her the Presidential 343 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 1: Medal of Freedom for her quote dedication to empowering girls everywhere, 344 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 1: and that's one of several several several, several awards and 345 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,879 Speaker 1: things that have been named after her. So she is 346 00:22:55,920 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 1: remembered in many ways. But the cookies cookies. As early 347 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: as nineteen seventeen, the Girl Scouts began selling cookies to 348 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 1: finance their operations. Reportedly, the idea came from girls from 349 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 1: the Missiletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, or perhaps from one 350 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: of their mothers. UH edition of the American Girl magazine 351 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: included the recipe for an easy sugar cookie provided by 352 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: the Mistletoe Troop local director Florence eat Neil, and the 353 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: recipe suggested baking these cookies to help raise money, so 354 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: the Girl Scouts would go door to door selling these 355 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: homemade sugar cookies wrapped in waxed paper bags. The idea 356 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,159 Speaker 1: was for the girls to make them themselves, hence the 357 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: simple recipe, but there are several several anecdotes about some 358 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: of the Scouts employing the help of relatives. The ingredients 359 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 1: required to make six or seven dozen cookies was estimated 360 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 1: to be around twenty six to thirty six cents, but 361 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,200 Speaker 1: one dozen could be sold for twenty five to thirty 362 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 1: since big money maker. Yeah, that's right, good r o I. 363 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:09,679 Speaker 1: We gotta all about that, r o I. Girl Scout 364 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,199 Speaker 1: leadership identified five things they hope selling cookies would foster. 365 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:18,880 Speaker 1: Setting goals, decision making, people skills, business ethics, and money management. 366 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 1: Scouts set goals for cookie sales and plan yeah where 367 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:26,439 Speaker 1: that money will go projects, summer camps, community events. The 368 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 1: Greater Philadelphia Girls Scout Council became the first to sell 369 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: commercially produced cookies and nineteen thirty four, somewhere around twenty 370 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: three cents for forty four cookies. A year later, the 371 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: Girl Scout Federation of Greater New York sold commercially baked 372 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 1: cookies in a box that read Girl Scout Cookies, making 373 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: it the first to do so. The following year, in 374 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: nine six, the Girl Scouts officially licensed their first commercial 375 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 1: bakery to produce the cookies to meet demand, and this 376 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: also allowed for them to produce different types of cook 377 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,679 Speaker 1: these including the first iteration of the thin mint the 378 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,640 Speaker 1: cookie mint in ninety nine. And I will point out 379 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 1: that that was cookie spelled with a Y at the end, 380 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: which is one of my favorite things, like favorite things 381 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 1: for the annuals of history that I wish would come 382 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 1: back see O O kay y. I think it's great. Yes. Also, 383 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: um ABC Bakers, which is one of the surviving cookie 384 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: companies UM that that creates these cookies for the Girl 385 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 1: Scouts joined in on the baking in seven. During the 386 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 1: Great Depression in the nineteen thirties, the Girl Scouts collected 387 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: and distributed food and clothing for those that needed it. 388 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: Due to shortages and rationing, the production of Girl Scout 389 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 1: cookies was put on hold during World War Two, but 390 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 1: they pivoted to things like collecting fat and growing victory gardens. 391 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 1: Japanese American girls in internment camps formed their own Girl 392 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:03,199 Speaker 1: Scout troops. Yeah, the cookies came back with a bang 393 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 1: during the fifties, establishing booths and malls to sell three 394 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:12,440 Speaker 1: types of cookie, shortbread, sandwich, and chocolate Mint. In nineteen nine, 395 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 1: Thin Mints joined the Girl Scout cookie line up for 396 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: the first time like thin Mints as we know them 397 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 1: Okay Yes. In the sixties, the Docy dough debut and 398 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: the Samoa slash Caramel Delight came onto the scene in nine. 399 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty five, Lowe's home was designated a National 400 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: Historic Landmark. The Girl Scouts elected their first black national 401 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 1: board president in the seventies, Gloria D. Scott. They held 402 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 1: speak out talks to press for racial equality, and they 403 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 1: got involved in a lot of environmental movements. The nineteen 404 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 1: seventies were also when the Girl Scout started calling the 405 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: twenty nine companies producing cookies at that point down to 406 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: four to make things quicker and easier. The move also 407 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 1: standardized the packaging and the taste of the cookies. UH 408 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:10,679 Speaker 1: and Little Brownie Baker's joined the crew in nineteen seventy three, 409 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,879 Speaker 1: low fat and sugar free varieties of cookies became available 410 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,919 Speaker 1: in the nineteen nineties. In two thousand seven, uh, the 411 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 1: bakeries debuted new recipes that omitted trans fats, which had 412 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:24,879 Speaker 1: been These recipes have been in the works for a 413 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 1: couple of years. At that point, two Girl Scouts campaigned 414 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: for the company to stop using palm oil in and 415 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 1: that the organization responded with a promise to reduce, not stop, 416 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 1: to reduce their use of it. Uh yeah, I think that. 417 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 1: I think that Little Brownie Bakers has promised the palm 418 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:49,199 Speaker 1: oils they use are sustainably obtained. And then uh inten 419 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 1: Comedian John mulaney poked fun at the Girl Scout cookies. 420 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,199 Speaker 1: One of the quotes I remember from it, I just 421 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: remembered this, how come I have to know a g 422 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: old in a beret to get them? It was a 423 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: very loving like he loves Girl Scout cookies. Why is 424 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 1: it only at this time of year? Like, what business 425 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: model is this? And this was all on on SNL right, yes, yes, yes, yeah. 426 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 1: In digital cookie was launched, allowing people to purchase Girl 427 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:25,679 Speaker 1: Scout cookies online for the first time. According to their site, 428 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:30,399 Speaker 1: this teaches quote vital entrepreneurial lessons and online marketing application 429 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,159 Speaker 1: use and e commerce, And there was sort of a 430 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 1: hesitation to do this because it is purportedly fostering these skills, 431 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 1: so they wanted to find a way where moving it 432 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 1: online didn't get rid of that aspect that was important 433 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: to the cookie selling. Uh yeah, yeah, like like you 434 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: still have to receive an invite from a Girl Scout 435 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 1: or a member of her family who is helping her 436 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: do this in order to buy from the kid. Yeah 437 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: you can't. Just yeah. Also, gluten free options launched in 438 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: the cookie lineups, and then the Smores cookie debuted in 439 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen or cookies exactly. I love this. The Girl 440 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 1: Scouts asked each of their two bakeries to riff on 441 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 1: the idea of s'mores, and each bakery created their own version. 442 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: The ABC version is a chocolate covered square with a 443 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: Graham cracker layer and a vanilla marshmallow layer, while the 444 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 1: Little Brownie version is a sandwich cookie with a layer 445 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: of chocolate and a layer of marshmallow esque icing. So 446 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: two different cookies, same name, both available. I think they 447 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: were that year at least. Yeah, yeah, they are still 448 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,960 Speaker 1: They're still both available UM in their respective regions. UM. 449 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 1: And there was some GMO related kerfuffle leading up to 450 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 1: and include the Little Brownie version of of this cookie 451 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: because UM so for a couple of years, some anti 452 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: GMO parent groups had been targeting Girl Scout cookies and 453 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: under that pressure, Little Brownie created this Samores recipe without 454 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 1: any genetically modified ingredients, and UM labeled it as non 455 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: gmo UM, which then got pushed back from pro science 456 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:27,959 Speaker 1: parent groups because because genetic modification, I mean, while a 457 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 1: complex issue and we definitely have to do a whole 458 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 1: episode on that at some point. We've been putting it 459 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: off because it's it's it's it's a lot. But uh 460 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 1: but scientifically speaking, genetically modified foods as a category are 461 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,959 Speaker 1: not less safe or less nutritious than conventional foods. And 462 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 1: so the entire like non gmo like anti gmo movement 463 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: is headache because it turns into this like fearmongering marketing 464 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:59,040 Speaker 1: thing that isn't productive or helpful. Yes, but yeah, I 465 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: had no I do that was going to pop up 466 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: in this research. I never know. Yeah, yep, and uh yeah. 467 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: As of late March of you can buy Girl Scout 468 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: cookies online without being in direct contact with a local 469 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: Girl Scout. UM. You just enter your zip code and 470 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 1: it directs you to a local Troops sales page. UM. 471 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,440 Speaker 1: From there, you can order boxes for yourself or whoever 472 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 1: I suppose UM, or donate boxes to medical professionals and 473 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: first responders. There's no shipping cost for donation boxes. For 474 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: your own orders, shipping is also free, but you do 475 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 1: have to buy four or more boxes. I think that's 476 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: probably pretty easy for a lot of folks. Uh huh, yep, yeah, 477 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,239 Speaker 1: And that was UM. Doing it that way was in 478 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 1: direct response to UM to Kevin nineteen and people being 479 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: in isolation. UM. There are also overseas US Girl Scouts 480 00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:00,320 Speaker 1: in Belgium, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, South Korea, Turkey, 481 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: and the Virgin Islands who also do Girl Scout cookies 482 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: and because of that, they have they have cookies that 483 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 1: they need to do something with at this point. UM, 484 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 1: So if you want to, you can donate boxes to 485 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 1: UH frontline workers in those communities. If if you go 486 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 1: online and just search r UM USA Girl Scouts Overseas, 487 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,240 Speaker 1: then it'll lead you to a page that will help 488 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: you do that thing. If that's the thing that you 489 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: want to do. And uh, yeah, the local Girl Scout 490 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,320 Speaker 1: troops have been doing all kinds of things in their 491 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:36,360 Speaker 1: communities and these uncertain times. Um, you know, uh, making 492 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:40,440 Speaker 1: masks for for healthcare workers, stuff like that. Um. And 493 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 1: the organization also launched Girl Scouts at Home, which is 494 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: a free online platform for for all families, not just 495 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 1: members of the Girl Scouts, to access um self guided 496 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:57,800 Speaker 1: skill building materials and activities during isolation. Very cool. Yeah, 497 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 1: so they got a lot, they got a lot more 498 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 1: going on than cookies. But dang, do people love those cookies. 499 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 1: It is such a remarkably positive association. I Um, I 500 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 1: really am like you, you really cannot design positive impact 501 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: like that. I'm really blown away by it. Yeah. Yeah, 502 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 1: it's impressive. It is very impressed. I have never ever, 503 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 1: if you had asked me, Girl Scouts like even putting 504 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:38,920 Speaker 1: them in the same range as Oreos, that's mine. That's amazing. 505 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:47,920 Speaker 1: Gosh for that short period of time, man, it's impressive. Yes, yes, 506 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 1: well that's about what we have to say for Girl 507 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:55,480 Speaker 1: Scout cookies today. It is. Uh, we do have a 508 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,479 Speaker 1: little bit more for you, but first we've got one 509 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:09,640 Speaker 1: more quick break for award from our sponsor, and we're back. 510 00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:16,279 Speaker 1: Thank you sponsor. Yes, thank you, and we're back with listener. 511 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,319 Speaker 1: That was good and very difficult to follow along with. 512 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:32,399 Speaker 1: I'm sorry incorporated a knocking sound. Ope, they didn't freak 513 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,880 Speaker 1: anyone out. Yeah, by the time I realized what was happening, 514 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: it was I was laughing, and it was that's fair. 515 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:45,040 Speaker 1: That's fair. I expect too much from you, Laurd, expect 516 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,960 Speaker 1: too much from anybody to try to follow those no 517 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:53,200 Speaker 1: whatever we call them, I don't deserve you. I should 518 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 1: step up. Okay, we'll work it out. Well, I don't 519 00:34:55,960 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 1: think that's true anyways, Kate wrote, I was listening to 520 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,960 Speaker 1: your recent episode and you spent a fair time while 521 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,279 Speaker 1: talking about which Harry Potter houses each of you are 522 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 1: in and why, and it was glorious. I wanted to 523 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,120 Speaker 1: make sure you were aware of the sorting hat chats. 524 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,240 Speaker 1: This is a Tumbler blog that goes into extreme detail 525 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 1: about the personalities of each house, basically going full Myers 526 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: Briggs on it or astrology if that's more your cup 527 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,480 Speaker 1: of tea. And there is a quiz. While a quiz 528 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,160 Speaker 1: of sorts, it all boils down to a system where 529 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,560 Speaker 1: everyone actually has two houses, the primary and the secondary. 530 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,280 Speaker 1: They also go into detail about how each house reacts 531 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,920 Speaker 1: to a trauma, what happens if they get broken. I 532 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,799 Speaker 1: love this system. It's also insanely useful when creating a 533 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:45,440 Speaker 1: character for any fiction you are writing, or a D 534 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:49,600 Speaker 1: and D campaign. You know, if that's something I can do. Yes, 535 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:54,120 Speaker 1: I loved this so so much. Um And I love 536 00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:56,480 Speaker 1: that people are still trolling me about this, and I'm 537 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,560 Speaker 1: still getting upset about it because it's like working and 538 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,359 Speaker 1: I know it's working, and I just can't stop. But 539 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:06,799 Speaker 1: it's so funny. But I took this test. I read 540 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,920 Speaker 1: all the materials. I spent like a whole day, um, 541 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,480 Speaker 1: and I got griffin Or as my primary and so 542 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 1: then as my secondary or maybe Hufflepuff. But either way, 543 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:26,400 Speaker 1: the case is closed. That closed. Oh I want to 544 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:32,440 Speaker 1: say the case is closed regular conversation. Well, congratulations, you 545 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:36,279 Speaker 1: keep doing it. Um. I you know there is the 546 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,560 Speaker 1: thing where the sorting hat will entertain your personal preferences, 547 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,440 Speaker 1: and so if you want to be a Griffin door, 548 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,680 Speaker 1: you can be. You can be a Griffin Door. No 549 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:47,440 Speaker 1: one's telling you you can't, or if they are trolling me, 550 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 1: if they are there, if they are there being me. No, 551 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,839 Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not trolling you. I believe you when 552 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,479 Speaker 1: you say that you're a Griffin door. Um, I took 553 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:06,040 Speaker 1: a picture of it for proof. Um, I was aware 554 00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,880 Speaker 1: of of that one. I also, like, I think I 555 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:12,640 Speaker 1: spent like a whole morning one one weekend taking that 556 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:16,080 Speaker 1: quiz and reading all this stuff. And um, okay I was. 557 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:20,759 Speaker 1: I was a hufflepuff primary and secondary. But on my 558 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,400 Speaker 1: primary I'm model Griffin door and on my secondary I 559 00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:28,359 Speaker 1: model raven Claw. Which this is getting into so much 560 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:32,160 Speaker 1: detail about this quiz, but okay, so it means um, okay, 561 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:36,320 Speaker 1: so within the system, um, your your your primary house 562 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,279 Speaker 1: is um why you act the way you do, you know, 563 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:44,359 Speaker 1: like your motivations, and your secondary house is how you 564 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,839 Speaker 1: go about doing things, your your methods and your behaviors. 565 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,200 Speaker 1: And you can also be in one house but put 566 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,000 Speaker 1: so much value on aspects of another house that it 567 00:37:55,080 --> 00:38:00,000 Speaker 1: flavors your your motivations or your methods or or both. Um. 568 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,760 Speaker 1: So what it means that I'm a hufflepuff that models 569 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,960 Speaker 1: Griffin door and Raven Claw, Um, is that I am 570 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,840 Speaker 1: like such a dang huffle puff I have it for 571 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:14,279 Speaker 1: both my primary and secondary. Uh, stuff, But I try 572 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:19,120 Speaker 1: to move through life with Griffin door ideals and raven 573 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:24,279 Speaker 1: Claw methods whenever, like like, whenever it doesn't interfere with 574 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:30,320 Speaker 1: my base huffle puff at tude. Yeah, I see that. Yeah, 575 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:36,120 Speaker 1: I love huffle Puff a tude. That's great. So good 576 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,080 Speaker 1: I I do. I do. My My friends insist that 577 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,839 Speaker 1: that I'm a I'm a Hufflepuff slash raven Claw um, 578 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:47,440 Speaker 1: and and they call me a puffle claw. UM. Also good, 579 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:51,600 Speaker 1: moving on, UM. Michelle wrote, my partner Jeff and I 580 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,560 Speaker 1: have been listening to your podcast since it was started 581 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,359 Speaker 1: as food Stuff, and we love it. Thank you UM. 582 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,400 Speaker 1: A while ago we listened to the episode where you 583 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,439 Speaker 1: mentioned a uniquely Midwest or in tradition of pairing chili 584 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,359 Speaker 1: with cinnamon rolls. We live in Lincoln, Nebraska, but Jeff 585 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:09,360 Speaker 1: is from a town called Wahoo or Wahoo anyway, famously 586 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,160 Speaker 1: and weirdly the home office of David Letterman. I am 587 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:15,040 Speaker 1: from Omaha, which is a larger city, and was both 588 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:19,160 Speaker 1: confused and appalled by the cinnamon roll in chili combo 589 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,719 Speaker 1: when I moved to Lincoln. Jeff, on the other hand, 590 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,960 Speaker 1: had grown up with it. Lincoln is a college town 591 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,239 Speaker 1: with plenty of folks from nearby small town, so it 592 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,640 Speaker 1: tends to reflect small town culture. Chili and cinnamon rolls 593 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:33,760 Speaker 1: are unquestioned here. Jeff and I are both high school teachers, 594 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:35,960 Speaker 1: and they even serve chili with cinnamon rolls in our 595 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,279 Speaker 1: high school cafeterias, so it's true that it's a thing, 596 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,879 Speaker 1: but not everyone is a fan, though small towners might 597 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:49,360 Speaker 1: point that out as Omaha snobbery. Also, Jeff's thirtieth birthday 598 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:53,400 Speaker 1: is Saturday, April eighteen. We love food and usually celebrate 599 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,640 Speaker 1: with food. However, he's the real chef of the house, 600 00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,960 Speaker 1: so I had plans to throw a surprise party with 601 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,160 Speaker 1: our friends at a restaurant, but social distancing has stopped 602 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,600 Speaker 1: that plan. I'm attempting to cook something for him, but 603 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,680 Speaker 1: need a backup surprise if I burned down the kitchen. 604 00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,440 Speaker 1: So can you give a birthday shout out to my 605 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:19,200 Speaker 1: chef Jeff? Yes, we can, absolutely, Ah, Happy birthday, Chef Jeff. 606 00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,319 Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Chef Jeff. We would say happy birthday, but 607 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,520 Speaker 1: when it might be a disaster and to everyone's probably 608 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:30,399 Speaker 1: tired of the happy birthday. So I'm fine now, but yeah, 609 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,359 Speaker 1: I hope that it's great and I we have confidence 610 00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:37,680 Speaker 1: that you won't burn down the house. Michelle, I think absolutely. 611 00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,680 Speaker 1: I think that you know whether or not the food 612 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,520 Speaker 1: is an unmitigated disaster. I think that you are going 613 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:47,080 Speaker 1: to be so fine in terms of not burning down 614 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,280 Speaker 1: your kitchen. Yes, and if the food is a disaster, 615 00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:57,280 Speaker 1: just remember funny stories later. Absolutely, but you've got this. You, 616 00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,759 Speaker 1: You've totally got this. We we believe in you. Yes, 617 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,839 Speaker 1: So thanks to both of them for writing in. If 618 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,520 Speaker 1: you would like to write to us, you can. We 619 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,160 Speaker 1: would love to hear from you. Our email is hello 620 00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:12,240 Speaker 1: at savor pod dot com. 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