WEBVTT - SYSK's Guatemalan Adventure, Part Two 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.880 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:07.480 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:16.799 from House Stuff Works dot Com. And now for the 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.960 exciting conclusion, it's s Y s K is Guatemalan Adventure. 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:22.639 Here we find team Stuff you Should Know about to 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:28.440 depart for their second school visit. So we take off 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.040 from there and we go to our second school for 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.640 our first Computer Center inauguration. And it's here, Chuck, that 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:39.000 we ran into one of my favorite people, Mr Howard Lab. Dude, 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:45.080 Howard Lab is one of the coolest, strangest dudes I've 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.240 ever met in my life. I'm just gonna go ahead 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.040 throw that out there, and he grows on you like 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.440 real quick. Remember when we first met him at the 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:55.800 hotel in Guatemala City. He came up and was shaking 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:57.880 our hand and wearing a Fannie pack and talking real fast, 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.120 and he was all smiles and he leaves in the 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:04.319 three of us cynics were like, that guy's weird. Then 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.280 we meet him again. Really, um, I think it was 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:08.920 before this one we got to hang out with him, 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.000 but by the time we interviewed him at this Computer 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.840 Center inauguration, we hearted Howard, Yes, we hearted him very 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.440 much and still do. Howard's a great guy, a stand 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:19.560 up guy, as I call him in one of the interviews, 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.280 that I don't think we're gonna use. So the computer 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:27.080 program Josh works a lot like the textbook program. UM. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:29.720 But why should we talk about it when the truly 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.080 weird and awesome Howard Lob can describe it for us? 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.560 In large part, we typically work with larger schools and 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:40.120 a textbook program. Uh, if the school has fifty to 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.400 a hundred kids, you're good to go. It doesn't matter 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:46.280 a number of kids so much. But in the computer center, UM, 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.640 we typically look for schools that I have about two 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.880 d kids or more. That way you cover all the 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.760 costs and still keep that student contribution guns and you 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.240 have partners as well. Right, that's right. All of our 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:04.040 like Rotary Club, Mike Soft, UM, other foundations, et cetera 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:08.160 help us with that seed donation, and Microsoft as well 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.760 helps us with licenses. So that's an ongoing gift and 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:14.440 kind UM. And that that kind of starts that jump 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.959 starts the program, and then after that we look for 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.839 the communities to really make it self sustaining. We don't 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.760 expect donors to come back year after year to pay 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.560 the electric bill, to pay the to provide new computers. No, 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.840 the ideas it's kind of a prompt our promise to 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.840 the donors that their money is well spent um in 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.400 a in an effective way and that the community will 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:39.640 take that ball and run with it. So so that's 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.799 how it works in a nutshell. Um, much like the textbook, 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:46.280 revolving funds self sustainable. But the kids paid just a 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.359 little bit more money. Well, I think it's more frequent. 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.520 I think where they paid two dollars a year for 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:54.320 a textbook, they paid two bucks a month form a computer. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.640 How is that what it is? Yeah? And um, but 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.639 you spread it over two hundred kids again in five years, 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.839 you have that self sufficient s grow fund um that 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.200 compared to replace all the computers. And the computers chuck 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:11.320 were they were nice computers. But there was something really 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:15.920 strange about them. Do you know what? It was? No Internet? 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:20.079 No Internet. They had a simulated internet. Here's what the 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.720 kids learn on these things they learn, these rural, poor 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:27.720 Guatemalan children are learning Microsoft Office programs courtesy of Microsoft, 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.359 one of their little partners, which is great. Yeah, I 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.400 think he mentions them in one of the clips. Okay, 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.200 they learn how to email, they learn in Carter, which 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.760 is might seem a little old fashioned to us, but 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.560 it's great for them, right and Windows movie Maker, and 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.680 they have a simulated Internet, so when they eventually get 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.640 out into the workforce and see the real Internet, they're 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.840 not like, what is this? What's going on? But it 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.680 will still be blown away. Yeah, I'm still blown away 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.480 on a daily basis. Right. But one of the things 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:00.800 that you were talking about that that blew you away was, Um, 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.200 these kids are just encountering computers for the first time, 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.480 and they were already making like power point slide shows 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.800 and stuff like that. Right. And um Howard was telling 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.720 us about, uh, some of the successes that have come 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.720 from these computer centers. Uh that cooperative for education a 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:21.680 k A. Co ed sponsors or sets up. Um and 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:23.880 uh he was talking about these kids that made a 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.640 T shirt company. Right, Yeah, let's hear that one. For example, 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.080 in a town not far from here, this um group 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.440 of girls broke into a group of four six students 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.000 and they did a project that we call Microsoft or 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.560 Project Off excuse me. And in this project they learned 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:43.960 to create a business usually it's as simulated business. In 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.200 this case, they made it a real business. And they 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.279 decided that they were going to create T shirts UM 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.640 to sell to UH, to sell to UH fellow classmates 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.240 and things like that. So they use Microsoft Sell to 0:04:56.279 --> 0:05:00.640 create a budget, They used Microsoft PubL As Sure and 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:05.120 MovieMaker to create advertising material and like a fake a 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:10.520 mock tv ad UM, they worked with a local silk 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.240 screening company and created T shirts and started selling them. 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.680 And even though they graduated from middle school, they still 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.360 got this thing going. So so you've got kids going 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.800 from middle school and actually generating income for themselves, UM 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.880 and their families. How awesome is that? It is pretty sweet? 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.840 Really really cool? And Chuck it's uh he he tells 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.599 another story that we didn't use UM where kids in 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.200 in the surrounding or kids going to school who lived 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.359 in the surrounding area. It was all agriculture, all farming. 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.360 And so there's this ongoing debate over whether snow peas 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:46.360 or broccoli were more profitable, and UM, these kids did 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:50.880 data analysis of all the costs and outputs from broccoli 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.679 and from snow peas and found, in fact, snow peas 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.960 are actually more profitable and then they made a presentation 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.960 and gave it to the town and completely changed them 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.440 minds of all the farmers around there so they could 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.839 make more money. Pretty amazing. That is really amazing. Well, 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.240 it's so amazing that a guy like Howard quit his 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.680 good job in the United States to move to Guatemala. 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:15.560 Most of them, we should say, most of the co 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.680 ed UH coopetive education is based out of Cincinnati, and 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.440 most of them live there and they go to Guatemala 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.360 a few times a year, but they can work remotely 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.240 because of the Internet and all the great things there. 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:28.599 But a few of them actually live in country, and 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.040 Howard is one of those, and he gave up his 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:35.320 life in America. Of course he met a Guatemalan woman. Yeah, 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.240 I might add something to do with it. And here's 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.159 what he had to say about that. I think you've 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:45.719 seen today that the people here are very expressive, very 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:49.679 grateful for the help that we can bring to them. Uh, 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.320 the kids want to learn. The parents now know how 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:58.840 important education is, and that just that just feeds are 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:03.200 any emotion that we came to this country with um 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.800 and so it's it's kind of easy to help in 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.680 that sense. Um, and really in code. I think all 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.280 of us who work here have now find found a 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.960 way to to help development human development a little bit, 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.600 and we feel like it's like, maybe it's really having 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.560 an impact. It's we have a mechanism, a system that 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:26.120 provides a sustainability and that's key, you know, just to 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:30.200 donate something, drop it off and run. We've just seen 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:31.960 it over and over. It just doesn't work. So we 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:33.920 feel like we're kind of grateful that we have this 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.720 opportunity to help others. Um. That makes us happy. Hope 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.080 it makes them happy. Um, And we we'd like to 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.440 think it's having a real impact. And more, more and 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:47.280 more we measure our programs were between seeing good results. Awesome, 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:51.520 thank you sir. We meant you. Yeah, glad, I meant you. Guys, 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.280 We're glad we met Howard. Yeah, he's a cool guy, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:58.640 very cool guy. So we go to the school and 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:03.040 they have a big shady tent set up, cool breeze blowing. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.760 We're kind of out on the open range. Remember it 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:07.880 was like you could see for miles. Oh yeah, it 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.560 was great, very nice scene. They get this old guy 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.400 out there to play the harp. But it wasn't like 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.160 a regular harp. It was this like a harp guitar thing. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.520 Do we have any of that harp music? Oh? Is that? 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.960 It is? That? It? I hear right now? That is it? Yeah? 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:23.760 That guy was good. He was very good and like 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.000 a hundred and thirty and he was very old. And 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.200 there was some ritual dancing. This is when the little 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.880 girls came over and picked us up and by the hand. Yeah, 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.559 and we danced with them. First of many humiliating moments 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.880 for a man. You're not a big public dancer. No, 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.400 I've got like that that like plastered grimace of like 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.600 embarrassment on my face. It's just horrible. Right. It was 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.720 very cute though, actually, and we had pictures of that 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.920 that we're gonna have on the website and fantastic. Uh. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.240 We thought that we were going to see a live 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.640 chicken sacrifice right in front of our faces. It came 0:08:55.679 --> 0:09:00.800 down to the last second. They're doing another traditional Um, 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.079 this one wasn't the corn dance? Is it just like 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.960 the symbolic sacrificing of the chicken. It was a it 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.440 was a Mayan dance, right, and they come out with 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.720 a live chicken and strangely enough, like earlier in that day. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.640 They we've been told that Jeff told us as some 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.800 of the Mayan ruins they'll find like dead chickens. There's 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.679 still some blood sacrifices that that are carried on at 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:28.560 Mayan ruins. And so within four hours some kids walk 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.600 out with a live chicken in the middle of a 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.720 ceremonial dance, and we're like, are they really gonna do this? 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.760 And this girl like like dropped the chicken and lifted 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.520 it up and then just slid her hand right off 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.720 the end of its head, and the chicken was like yeah. 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:46.280 And there's literally like twenty Americans in this horseshoe configuration 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.840 within in the middle, all just thinking, oh my lord, 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.719 but again with the smiles, places like, hey, it's your 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.800 culture exactly. I don't want to knock it to each 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.120 his own right, and I haven't covered in chicken. But 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.600 luckily the chicken was spared and it was all symbolic 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.720 and we all breath the little side relief in the chicken, 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.439 and yeah, the chicken was glad too. They ate him 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.199 later that night, though, I'm sure. And then we went 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.120 to the computer lab and this is when the kids 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.600 actually paired us up and sat us down and they 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.760 showed us some of the things that they've been working on. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.320 And that's when you really get to see the good 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.160 that co Ed's doing. When you sit down and you 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:24.880 see a Windows movie maker slide presentation that a kid 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.400 in Rurled, Guatemala made who had never seen a computer 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.200 six months ago. That's where it really hits home. And 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.040 that was it for that school. Yes, it was, it was. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:40.760 It was a lot think computers, Howard, it sounds like 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.920 my high school experience. Uh So then we go to 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:50.400 the hotel Albert Gas Detech Pond, the weirdest hotel in Glanamala. Yeah, 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.200 it's a compound. It's not a hotel. It's a compound 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.679 surrounded by a high wall with razor wire. And the 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.640 best thing we could describe it was it looked like 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.400 the Michael Jackson of Guatemala might have owned the property 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.320 at one point. It was like a Neverland ranch. It 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.720 had these life size it was like a never Land 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.320 ranch that had been left out, exposed to the elements 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.760 for many, many years. It wasn't like nice and new looking. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.000 They had like a life size chess game and these 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.960 yes statues all throughout the property. Each each area was 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.520 more unsettling than the last. It was a little weird, 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.160 but it was kind of cool for sure. And uh, 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.000 before dinner we went to h There was this girl 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:38.280 on the trip named Gabby. Yeah, Gabby was I would 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.880 call her the translator, but Gabby was like everything on 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.160 this trip. Yeah. She's definitely a jack of all trades 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.000 for co ED. Yeah. She she's the facilitator pretty much 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.000 anything we needed. Remember in Antique at the end, when 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.480 we were you're not supposed to give tours yourself because 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.760 they have like the city tour people are the only 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.400 people that are supposed to officially do that, and Gabby 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:01.320 like always headed them off at the past and like 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:03.800 explain to the cops what we were doing and they're 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:07.360 like all right, yeah, go ahead. Yeah, and that works 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:11.240 because she is a psychiologist, right, Yeah, that's her background. 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.360 She went to school, she's a psychologist. Like well, and 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.280 then she takes time off from her practice. Oh I 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.520 thought she quit her practice this, I know. She just 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.400 like takes time off and she's like, you guys go 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:23.200 nuts for a little while. I'm gonna go do some 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.360 co ED stuff. Right, So she's got a really good 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.520 gig she's educated. Uh, she is one of the more 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.120 fortunate people in Guatemala too, had not come from a 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.160 very poor family. Did we say she's Guatemala, Yeah, oh yeah, 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.440 she's Guatemalan. Did I not mention that? I don't know? 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:41.320 She's very Guatemalan and just an awesome, awesome person. And 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.920 we asked her why that she would, you know, leave 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.080 her practice, private practice to go work with coed like 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.680 she does, and she said this, how can I not 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.720 do it? How can I not believe in this. It's 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.200 my people, it's my country, it's my kids, and I 0:12:55.320 --> 0:13:00.000 just love them. And I've have the chance, incredible chance 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.760 to meet some of them personally and just keep track 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.200 of them. And I see how they've been like no 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.319 in their houses, you don't speak any Castellano, any Spanish. 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:13.239 And then they're now they're learn English, they know computers. 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.800 They bought a piece of land and instead of farming, 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:21.280 they are constructing, and they're working in a They just 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.079 have my heart. And Josh's interview went on. She got 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.840 pretty emotional about what these kids and Guatemala mean to her, 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:29.800 and let's just hear what she had to say about that. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.960 You can you can grasp or you can take count 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:39.480 with their fingers. This the kids that they're they have 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:43.280 so much strengthened them, and they're fighting and they're going 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:47.839 against everything. So you got the tissues out, buddy. I 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.280 know it's pretty moving. Yeah, it's really sweet. Um. I'm 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.560 one of those guys who's just like, yeah, yeah, you've 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.840 got a hard life whatever. But you know, when you 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:02.280 see somebody like Gabby who you almost you almost feel 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.560 for other people through somebody like that, you know, it 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.840 was real nice, that's another way to put it. So, Uh, 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:13.520 that was the end of our night. Had another awesome 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:18.439 dinner steak that night, remember yeah at that place at 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:22.440 the roadhouse. Yeah, it was like a roadhouse, and uh, 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.960 we go to our separate cabins and go to sleep. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:26.920 Jerry had a really creepy went off in the woods. 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.480 Jerry was scared. First of all, Jerry made me walk 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.240 or to her cabin, and I'm thinking, I hope Jerry 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:38.040 doesn't try to put the moves on me and and um, 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.320 by the time we get to her cabin, it's been 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.680 like an hour and a half walk and now I 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.400 have to walk back in the dark by myself. But 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.240 it was scary. I was like, all right, see you later. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.640 Good look and he helps the scream. It wasn't even 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.200 that far, but it's funny. Uh. Then we go the 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:57.520 next day, we go to an orphanage school and uh 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.680 we were late because Dan one of the guys on 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.560 the two her who was like, I'm so surprised Dan 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.440 just didn't end up walking in front of a horse 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.640 something like that. Like Dan just things just went wrong 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.000 for Dan. But he always had a great smile on 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.000 his Facebook. He couldn't find his alarm clock or something, 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.440 so he just kept sleeping. That was the first admitting 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:21.760 the tour was where's Dan? Incidences that happened? Dan was awesome. Uh. 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.560 So we we go to this orphanage school and what's 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.920 said about this one, Josh, is that it was an orphanage. Well, 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:30.760 a lot of these kids aren't true orphans, though a 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:34.800 lot of them are dropped off. They have parents and families, 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:38.000 but their parents know that they can't provide the life 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.040 for them that they deserve. So the parents dropped their 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:45.120 kids off and leave them there and maybe visit once 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.720 a month or however often they can. And we got 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:52.080 one really good story from this school that um remember 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:53.480 the girl that went up on stage when they had 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:57.520 the little presentation. They do this deal where they sort 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:58.920 of have fun with how to take care of the 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.440 textbooks and and they'll ask different questions. Well they'll they'll 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.200 tell them how to do it. Then they bring three 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.760 kids on stage and asked them to repeat what they 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.040 had just heard about caring for the textbooks, and that 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.160 they picked two boys and a girl. And the two boys, 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.480 you know, they were kind of cutting up and laughing 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.120 and they had nothing to say. But the one girl 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.360 like knocked everyone out. Yeah she did. We all have 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:23.520 presses on the very cute young girl and she completely 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.400 just like took charge of the room and recited exactly 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:29.120 how to take care of the textbooks. And you could 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.000 tell that she was on the ball right. So um, 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:36.160 after the whole, uh, the whole presentation, we were out 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.960 back interviewing Holly, who had gone and found out this 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:44.440 girl's story. Because they co had also identified scholarship students 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.560 kids were really going to benefit from, like direct help 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:52.240 from donors um and this girl had scholarship student written 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.600 all over. So Holly went and found out what her 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.840 deal was and she came back and told us. So 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.600 after the presentation. I called her over to talk to 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.440 her a little bit, and I asked her what she 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.359 wants to do, what's her dream in life, and she 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:09.280 said that she wants to be a bilingual doctor, which 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.800 is wonderful. And I talked to her about her parents 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.560 and what they do, and it turns out that her 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:22.280 dad works in agriculture and he travels around to go 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.639 and work in the field. So he's kind of the 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:28.120 lowest level of agricultural worker here in guatemal He probably 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:33.200 earns three dollars a day, maybe at the most, maybe 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:37.399 two dollars a day. And her mom has left to 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:41.760 go be a servant for a family in the city 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:46.560 and just comes home on Sundays. So this girl, who 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:50.080 is fourteen years old, for the last year, has been 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:54.240 going to school full time and doing everything in the 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:56.800 house for herself and her ten year old brother and 0:17:56.880 --> 0:18:00.800 her six year old brother. So she gets up at 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.720 five in the morning and makes the tortillas, she gets 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.280 them ready for school. She's basically a little mom and 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.040 has been for the last year because her parents have 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.720 gone away to work. And um, you know, I was 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.919 amazed by this. I couldn't believe that she was doing this, 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:20.639 and I asked her why her parents had left to 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:24.000 do that, and it's because, uh, neither of them can read, 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.320 neither of them has any education. They went to school 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.040 until third grade, but they really didn't pick anything up. 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.400 And those are the only options they have to get 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:37.240 a job that's good enough that it will allow her 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.240 and her younger brothers to continue their education and to 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:44.120 go further in school. So then I asked her, well, 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.040 why do your parents care. They're they're getting along, they're 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.679 they're making it somewhat, So why do they care if 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.399 you have a good education? And uh, she said what 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.920 most people say is that they wanted opportunities for us 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.640 that were much better, better than the opportunities that they had. 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:05.240 They have no choices in this country. So she kind 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.479 of captured all of our hearts. I think. I think 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:09.160 I said at the time in the interview that if 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.680 I was a thirteen year old Guatemalan boy, I would 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.040 ask her to the next dance and then probably to 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:17.800 marry her shortly thereafter on the ball and just ride 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.679 on her coat tails after that. Yeah, she wants to 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.639 be a bilingual doctor. Yeah, how cool is that? So 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:25.720 we took off after that, we went to our last 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:29.680 school stop, and this Josh to me, was the best one, 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:35.960 mainly because Jerry gave a speech. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:37.879 for the first time in the history of stuff, you 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:41.680 should know you're going to hear Jerry's voice. We tried 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:45.080 it once before in the Hiccups podcast. We originally had 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.760 her say boo. It just didn't work out, so it 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:58.000 got cut. So here is Jerry the producers voice. It's 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:02.320 definitely my honor and privilege to be here with you today. 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:05.320 Most of us have come a very long way to 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:09.000 be here, UM, to let you know that we care 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:27.800 very much about your future. Amente laud uh. These these 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:31.840 textbooks here today, UM, are just like any other tool 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:34.800 you could ever use. As long as you work hard 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:38.560 and you use it correctly, many great things will come 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:41.080 from it. UM. I would like to say directly to 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:49.119 all of the young women here, you can do great 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:52.720 things in your life and it can start here. And 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:55.399 I'm I hope to see all of these succeed. And 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:57.720 I think that we all feel the same way. Very 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:00.680 proud to be here. Your your country is beautiful, You're 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:06.880 beautiful people. Thank you so much for having me. It's 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:10.119 a man. How awesome was that? It was great. I 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:12.000 remember filming this. I had the camera at the time, 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:14.040 and I got all choked up, I know. I remember 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:16.360 being like, why does Chuck get the camera? Right, I'm 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:20.520 gonna go have a cigarette. So this was called the 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:24.479 Santiago Cooperative School. And the other cool thing about this, 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:29.000 besides Jerry speech, was the principle that ran this joint. Yeah. 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:33.399 So this guy was around in in Santa Santiago was 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:36.960 a hotbed of of activity during the Civil War, and 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:39.720 this guy was a prominent figure in the town and 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.359 had to shut the school down. Uh. And he was 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:44.760 kind of lefty, he liked to you know, he saw 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:48.679 things the ten years of Springway, um, and he had 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:50.720 to keep his mouth shut. But as he was, he 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:55.520 was also quietly building this school so when the civil 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:58.439 war ended he could reopen and hit the ground running. 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:01.840 And Chuck, like you said, he is a revolutionary and 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:06.080 that he um thought girls should be educated, right. Yeah, 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:09.200 it's not the most popular notion that that women should 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:11.600 have the same rights as men or girls and boys 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:14.800 in Guatemala. So he's done a very unpopular thing for 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:17.880 many years and and fought to get girls the same 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:20.480