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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you should know, a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark,

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Speaker 1: and there's Charles w Chuck Bryant, and there's Trooper Jerry

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Speaker 1: Rowland out there somewhere their scout you know I'm talking about,

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Speaker 1: and this is stuff you should know. Be prepared. I

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Speaker 1: am prepared, Tosh. Yeah, I wonder if Jerry. I wonder

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Speaker 1: if Jerry was a girl Scout. I know we didn't

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Speaker 1: get a chance to ask because it's all business with hers.

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Speaker 1: She's just busy, busy, busy. I know she had to

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Speaker 1: leave to go to a meeting. But my guess is

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Speaker 1: that what do you think? I think, Yes, I think

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Speaker 1: there's actually a one in three chance that she was,

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Speaker 1: because Chuck, that is the stat, the astounding stat at

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Speaker 1: one and every three American adult women were a girl

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Speaker 1: Scout at some point in time. Yeah. I think they

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Speaker 1: are currently around the two point six million level, and

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Speaker 1: it varies between two and a half to three million,

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Speaker 1: kind of depending what's going on. And I think in

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Speaker 1: recent years it's numbers have gone down a little bit, uh,

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Speaker 1: and they're always trying to get those numbers up. So,

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Speaker 1: but but what what I've seen is that it is

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Speaker 1: remarkably steady, though it's it hovers around that same that

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Speaker 1: same amount, and I've seen that that's the total number

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Speaker 1: of Girl Scouts. Have also seen that that includes the

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Speaker 1: adult volunteers, and that at any given time there's about

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Speaker 1: one point seven million Girls Scouts active Girl Scouts in

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Speaker 1: the United States and that they usually hang in there

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Speaker 1: for about four years is the average length of time,

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Speaker 1: which is pretty good. That was longer than my boy

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Speaker 1: Scout or cub Scout run. I can tell you how

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Speaker 1: long was your run. I think it was not a year.

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Speaker 1: I had a real problem at a young age of

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Speaker 1: idea of giving respect to elders just because they were old.

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Speaker 1: Like I was like, no, I feel like there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of old jerks out there who don't really deserve

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Speaker 1: to be treated particularly special. So that was my big

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Speaker 1: issue with it. The problem is is my dad was

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Speaker 1: the den leader and he decided to be a good

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Speaker 1: role model and stick it out so without you, yes,

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Speaker 1: but with me watching TV like in the house at

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Speaker 1: the same time when they were having Yeah. So the

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Speaker 1: upshot of all this long story shorts my dad doesn't

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Speaker 1: really like me, right, Uh, that's the upshot of most

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Speaker 1: of your stories. Um My, cub Scouting lasted one meeting.

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Speaker 1: That was my tenure because I went to a cub

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Speaker 1: Scout meeting and I guess I went during the candy

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Speaker 1: drive and literally at the first meeting, they were like,

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Speaker 1: here's a bunch of candy. You gotta go sell this stuff.

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Speaker 1: And I kind of was just like, what, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to. I don't want to do this, Like I

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Speaker 1: don't even know what's going on yet. Yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 1: working for you. That's got to be an odd time

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Speaker 1: to jump in feet first, you know, you kind of

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Speaker 1: want to ease into it a little more. I guess so,

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Speaker 1: but it I didn't do it my and you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe we'll do one on the boy Scouts at some

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Speaker 1: point too. But my nephew Noah, who is now a

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Speaker 1: grown adult who was getting married next weekend. Actually, oh hey,

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Speaker 1: congratulations Noah. Yeah, no and Ella are getting married, which

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Speaker 1: is great, but he is now an adult college graduate.

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Speaker 1: But he scouted. He went all the way through, and

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Speaker 1: I was I always thought that was very cool and

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Speaker 1: that really shows a stick tuitiveness, whether you're a boy

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Speaker 1: scout or a girl scout. Um to go all the

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Speaker 1: way through the whole process. He's so Noah is Scott's son, right, correct, Yes, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not at all surprised that Noah made it an

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Speaker 1: Eagle Scout because also I'm sure that like when Scott

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Speaker 1: he didn't. He didn't boy scout either. He didn't need to.

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Speaker 1: He was an Eagle Scout by birth. Well, and we also,

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Speaker 1: you know, my dad raised his camping, so he was

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Speaker 1: always just sort of like, you guys don't need to

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Speaker 1: do that stuff because we do all that stuff anyway,

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Speaker 1: right right. Yeah, And plus also there's some dudes money,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah, exactly, Yeah, that's sort

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Speaker 1: of the thing. I think Girl Scouts dues money is

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Speaker 1: is low. It's because those Girls Scouts can print money

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Speaker 1: they print money, man, They make like four or five

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Speaker 1: gross revenue I think last year was eight hundred million

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Speaker 1: because they actually stay with the local councils, which we'll

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Speaker 1: we'll talk more about that. But speaking of Girl Scout cookies,

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Speaker 1: I want to give a shout out, um to a

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Speaker 1: couple of troops, one in particular, TROOPO, because my friend

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Speaker 1: Annabella King is a Girl Scout, a junior Girl Scout

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Speaker 1: in that troop. And yes she is the daughter of

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Speaker 1: Hum's very close friend. Uh wheezy and um. She actually

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Speaker 1: wrote a little bit about what it means to her

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Speaker 1: to be a Girl Scout. If I could share a

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Speaker 1: I would love to hear it. So Annabella says, and

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Speaker 1: she's been doing this for years by now. She said

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Speaker 1: she's working on her Star or her Silver Award, which

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Speaker 1: there's bronze, silver, and gold, and these are like very

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Speaker 1: prestigious awards for a Girl Scout to go after. So

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Speaker 1: she said she's working on the silver one right now

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Speaker 1: and in parentheses it's something really good to have on

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Speaker 1: your resume, by the way, But she says that Girl

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Speaker 1: Scouts is a great opportunity for greater jobs in life.

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Speaker 1: Gives a pathway to pioneering your own business. They train

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Speaker 1: you to be an entrepreneur in the early stages of life.

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Speaker 1: And here's that cookie thing. Selling the cookies is the

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Speaker 1: way they examine your skill and take note of the

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Speaker 1: abilities you may have. It is also showing you what

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Speaker 1: real life situations may be like. For example, when having

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Speaker 1: a cookie stand out and advertising that you are selling something,

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Speaker 1: you have to put in some enthusiasm. You can't just

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Speaker 1: if interested. You have to grab their attention. She is

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Speaker 1: an up and coming person. She also says that back

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Speaker 1: she was saying that um to her before she was

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Speaker 1: in the Scouts, that Girl Scouts were just annoying little

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Speaker 1: girls selling cookies and stealing your money. But I have

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Speaker 1: to say that as probably what a lot of people

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Speaker 1: think as well. But Girl Scouts is something that impacts

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Speaker 1: the community. It brings people together. I love that I've

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Speaker 1: also got a quote from our good friend John Hodgeman,

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Speaker 1: who was a girl Scout, and he said, a Yale

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Speaker 1: a that's a great, like all purpose quote from Hodgeman. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you know what, that'll that's a joke that will

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Speaker 1: be lost on many people because it's a call back

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Speaker 1: to our Ivy League episode in three D that not

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Speaker 1: many people probably even got through because it was in

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Speaker 1: three D. So yeah, yeah, I guess sorry saying chuck, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: sorry about the three D episode everybody. We have made

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Speaker 1: sure that that will never ever ever happen again. All right,

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Speaker 1: Should we go back to the early days of girl Scouting.

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Speaker 1: We should. But while we're at it, I want to

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Speaker 1: I'm affiliated with two. I want to shout out Troops

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Speaker 1: the Movie Stars troupe. Oh that's great. I like to

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Speaker 1: call it Troope Beverly Hills. Shelly Long the leader Long,

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Speaker 1: Shelly Long, and she is actually the leader. Yeah, it's wonderful. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, So let's go back in time. And congratulations

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Speaker 1: what I learned from researching the Girl Scouts is that

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Speaker 1: you know, I tried to dig into controversies and stuff

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Speaker 1: They're great two or Scouts USA, but they they have

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Speaker 1: Girl Scouts tend to be controversial is because they're inclusive. Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: it's the problem that people have with girls because let

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Speaker 1: the other human beings in this troop. That's the controversy

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Speaker 1: their troops, the Girl Scouts were already on their first

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Speaker 1: African American President so they have in progressive from the

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Speaker 1: I guess to integrate. They were um inclusive of girls

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Speaker 1: Juliette Gordon Lowe, UM, she was deaf. She became deaf

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Speaker 1: But let's go back in time to Juliette Gordon Lowe,

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Speaker 1: He eventually died during divorce proceedings. But long story short,

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Speaker 1: she had a very faithful meeting at a luncheon party

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Speaker 1: one day with Sir Robert Baden Powell. Yes, and this

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Speaker 1: guy is the guy who co founded the Scouts, the

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Speaker 1: Boy Scouts and the Girl Hides. If you are a

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Speaker 1: of the Girl Guides. But they're all affiliated under a

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Speaker 1: groups around the world. And at first Um Juliette Low

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Speaker 1: And she set up the first Girl Scout troop meeting

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Speaker 1: in March of I believe nineteen twelve, um, and it

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Speaker 1: her niece, uh Daisy Gordon, who I take it was

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Speaker 1: Scout does with an adult mentor. But you're a member

427
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Speaker 1: of the council. You're just not a member of a troop.

428
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,679
Speaker 1: But like when the troops get together for like a

429
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,360
Speaker 1: GM brie or um then go to camp. You might

430
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,920
Speaker 1: be affiliated with the troop or something You're just you've

431
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,159
Speaker 1: lived too far away to go to like the weekly

432
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,879
Speaker 1: meetings basically, but in boy, I hope those girl scouts

433
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 1: are nice to those Juliets. I hope so too. It

434
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 1: kind of made my stomach a little upset thinking about

435
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: what it must like for Juliet. I was thinking that

436
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 1: a Juliet that takes a leadership position at like a

437
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: council meeting or something like that deserves like double the patches,

438
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,439
Speaker 1: because you know, you could really easily be like a

439
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 1: shrinking Violet in a situation like that. I know, I

440
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 1: would you have like that kind of like tenacity and

441
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 1: self confidence to to you know, be yourself in front

442
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,919
Speaker 1: of a group that like hangs out with one another

443
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 1: every week. It seems like, you know, hats off to

444
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,119
Speaker 1: the Juliets, I guess, is what I'm saying. Yeah, I

445
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 1: like the idea of Josh Clark going around the country

446
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: to these meetings and just saying, raise your hand if

447
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 1: you're a Juliet, double that girl's patches. And there everyone's like,

448
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 1: who is this guy who I don't think he's allowed here. Yeah,

449
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 1: I didn't actually see that. Are there Is it exclusively

450
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 1: female leadership as far as the troops go, or can

451
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:31,880
Speaker 1: dadoum by the River Valley Council. I'm not quite sure

452
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 1: what what area they are in charge of, but um,

453
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 1: they had a handy handbook about you can be a

454
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 1: male girl Scout leader. That's great. You can you can

455
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 1: rely on the fact that there will always be a

456
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 1: female co leader president with you. They would never leave

457
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 1: you alone with the girls. Yeah, that's good. I wasn't sure,

458
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,440
Speaker 1: but I figured there are plenty of dads who would

459
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: want to be involved, especially if you're a single father,

460
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't want to be shut out of something

461
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 1: like that, that kind of fun activity. So that's great. Yeah,

462
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 1: they're so well known for being inclusive that they're like, no,

463
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,360
Speaker 1: we can do this. There's there's a way to do this.

464
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 1: You know. That's great. Uh, they wear their these days,

465
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: and I think for a long time they have their uniform,

466
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:13,639
Speaker 1: which I think it used to be more of a

467
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 1: full uniform kind of head to toe, and now you

468
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: kind of wear your regular clothes and you might have

469
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: a sash or a vest or something or scorts, as

470
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: this how stuff works are Oh it does scorts. Scorts.

471
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 1: It's that's such an ugly word to hear, but seeing

472
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,399
Speaker 1: it written down it's even worse somehow, uh it is. Um,

473
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: there was one other thing. I'm sorry. I want to

474
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,439
Speaker 1: give another shout out to a different um sentence in

475
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: this how stuff Works an article, because it is so

476
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: like two thousand ten how stuff Works, so that it's

477
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: talking about how one of the traditions of girl scouting

478
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: is to take ashes from a campfire and save it

479
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,360
Speaker 1: until the next time you build a fire, and then

480
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:56,879
Speaker 1: you put those ashes in that fire. So there's this

481
00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: continuous kind of chain of fires no matter where you

482
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: build the fires or win. And then it says, um,

483
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 1: if more than one scout collects ashes, they're pooled before

484
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:12,360
Speaker 1: adding them to the camp fire, as if there anyone

485
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: would have even thought about what might happen if more

486
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 1: than one scout collected ashes, as if they would say, no, no, no, don't.

487
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,919
Speaker 1: Scout is much more good looking and popular than you.

488
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 1: Your ashes are you just dump them on the ground

489
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: right now, We're going to put only Jenny's ashes in. Yeah,

490
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 1: we don't want your garbage ashes. I know that. I

491
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,159
Speaker 1: mean that was us. Yeah, I don't think I have

492
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,120
Speaker 1: written this one. You did. I don't think I did.

493
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,680
Speaker 1: I don't think I did either. So Uh, speaking of inclusivity,

494
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: the Latina population, by one in three girls in the

495
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 1: United States will be Latina and it is a really

496
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 1: growing population. And the Girl Scouts of America recognize this.

497
00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: They've created Spanish language website. Uh, they have bilingual camps.

498
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,880
Speaker 1: They try to incorporate some of the culture into their meetings. Uh.

499
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: And and I think from a two thousand eleven to

500
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen, Anna Maria Chavez served as the CEO

501
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: as the first woman of color, and today that is

502
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: Judith Batty who was the CEO, who was the first

503
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,159
Speaker 1: African American woman. She is a former Scout herself from

504
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: Nassau County, New York, which is just great. And I

505
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: think a lot of times, if you scouted when you

506
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 1: were young, you grow up and try and pass along

507
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: that tradition to your children and at least try to

508
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,640
Speaker 1: get them involved in then serve as as a Scout leader. Yeah.

509
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: I think some some really high number like pent of

510
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: former Girl Scouts end up volunteering for Scouts when they

511
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: have kids. That's right, um, And then all you said

512
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: that Judith Batty was the first African American CEO. People

513
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 1: are probably like, what a minute. You guys mentioned a

514
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: woman named Glory back in the seventies. She was the

515
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 1: first African American president CEO of the relative a new

516
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: position for Girl Scouts. I think in the twenty one

517
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: century it was created. Can we talk about these cookies?

518
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: Have we taken a second break yet? No? We should

519
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: take a second break because I need to go gather

520
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: some cookies to fortify myself before we start talking about

521
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: cookies for like ten minutes. Alright, go get a cookie, everybody. Okay,

522
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: I'm ready cookie time. Like you said, eight hundred million

523
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: in sales I have from and it was about the

524
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: same in twenty nineteen. I think, yeah, my friend, that

525
00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: is more than OREO generates into giving. That's amazing. And

526
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: this idea goes way way back. In nineteen seventeen, a

527
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: Girl Scout troop makes some cookies. Troop from Muskogee, Oklahoma

528
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: shout out the high school cafeteria as their service project.

529
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: And then in nineteen twenty two, in their publication The

530
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: American Girl, they gave out the recipe, and they basically

531
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: said right away, hey, listen, we're gonna make some money

532
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: off these, because you can make six or seven dozen

533
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: of these for a little more than a quarter up

534
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: to thirty five cents, and we're gonna sell them for

535
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: that amount per dozen. And they were like, this is

536
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,959
Speaker 1: how we're gonna fund our organizations. And people loved them.

537
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: I mean, it's become a part of American tradition, is

538
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: the Girl Scout cookie drive because that's the only place

539
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: you can get these exact cookies and people love them,

540
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: including me. Yeah, so yeah, they're good cookies, of course, obviously,

541
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: without question, the tagalongs are the best of the best

542
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: by far. That is my number two. Oh you're kidding?

543
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: What is number one? The docy dough is my favorite,

544
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: which is the peanut butter sandwich. I always find those

545
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: hard to find? Are they? Are they out every year? Oh? Yeah,

546
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: they're the third most popular. Maybe I'm just like, no,

547
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: I'm set on the tag alongs and I've always skipped

548
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,719
Speaker 1: over the docy Does all have to try those? Those

549
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: are your number one? Huh? Number one is a docio

550
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: dosy do tag along is my number two? And then

551
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: I will rock a Samoa. Even though I'm not the

552
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: biggest coconut fan, I will still rock up Samoa. Okay.

553
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: So one of the things you'll see about Samoa's, which

554
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: were introduced in nineteen seventy four. By the way, um,

555
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: they are frequently called Caramel d Lights depending on where

556
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 1: in the country you are, because there are two bakeries

557
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: in the in the country in the world I guess

558
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 1: that are licensed to make Girl Scout cookies every year,

559
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: and depending on the bakery, they're either producing Caramel Delights

560
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: or Samoa's, And I guess the bakery decides what they

561
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: want to call and people will say that's the only difference.

562
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,479
Speaker 1: Those people are liars, liars, liars. There is actually a

563
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: very big difference between Samoa's and Caramel Delights. Samoa's are

564
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: made with dark chocolate. Caramel Delights are made with milk chocolate,

565
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: which means, having only ever had Samoa's, I have not

566
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,959
Speaker 1: truly lived yet, because I can imagine a Samoa with

567
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: milk chocolate rather than dark chocolate is probably exponentially better,

568
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: unless the milk chocolate they use as Hershey's, Oh you

569
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: would rather have the milk chocolate? Yes? Oh? Interesting? Yeah, totally.

570
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: You're a dark chocolate guy. Huh. I mean I like

571
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: all chocolate. I'm a chocolate lover. But um, I do

572
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: like dark chocolate. Developer will taste for it in the

573
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: best fifteen years or so. Okay, Yeah, I mean like

574
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: I I would. I just wouldn't even go near it

575
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: when I was a kid. I think because I ate

576
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: some Baker's chocolate once, like I learned a harsh lesson,

577
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: even though it was the wrong lesson. Um. But yeah,

578
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: I think it's an adult thing. Like you don't like

579
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: Scotch when you're eight, but you love Scotch when you're thirty.

580
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, when you're eight, you're totally a beer person. Sure.

581
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: I think by popularity, thin mints are lead the way

582
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: with sales. Summos a number two at nine, dosy does

583
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: or number three at sixteen, and then tag alongs come

584
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: in at thirteen, and then you've got your your tree

585
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: foils at number seven. I'm sorry with seven percent, and

586
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: those are the short bread cookies. But there's still such

587
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 1: a staple that I believe trefoils are one of the

588
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: leading ones in production at least, so tree foil or

589
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: trefoil if you've ever wondered what that means. That's actually

590
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: it's it's I think both work man um the the

591
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: uh the I was just gently trying to put out

592
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: the alternate so um. It's actually referring to the shape

593
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: of the cookie. And remember we talked about in the

594
00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: Adidas versus Puma episode, the Adidas logo as a trefoil

595
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: has three lobes. Well that that three lobes shape, it

596
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 1: actually looks like four, but the bottom ones supposed to

597
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: be kind of like a point. It refers to a

598
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 1: clover that was part of the original logo for the

599
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: Girl Scout cookies that was turned into It was kind

600
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: of blown up and really kind of turned into this

601
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: minimalist icon by a very famous and incredibly prolific um

602
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: logo designer named Saul Bass. Oh yeah, he did uh

603
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 1: Hitchcock posters, Oh he did. He did the Shining poster,

604
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: the very famous the Shining Poster. Um, he did Minol,

605
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers, Kleenex, Dixie Cup, the Hanna Barbaras Star, a

606
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: T and T United Way, I mean basically everything. And

607
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 1: one of the signature things about Saul Bass's logos is

608
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,280
Speaker 1: the ones that he created in the seventies are still

609
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: in use today. Like they may have you know, made

610
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 1: him like three dimensional or chain the color slightly, but

611
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: it's basically the same thing. That guy was that good.

612
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: But he came up with this. Um this, this new

613
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: updated trefoil version of the girl Scout logo back in

614
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, and they're still using it today. And

615
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 1: if you look closely, it is um The three lobed

616
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 1: clover that was part of the original logo makes up

617
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 1: the hair of the girls. And there's three girls. The

618
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: middle one is a girl of color, the other two

619
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: are white, and they're all smiling and looking to the

620
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 1: right toward the future, which is pretty cool if you

621
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: think about I love that. I got one something I

622
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: want to play for you real quick, okay, trefoil, all right,

623
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:44,240
Speaker 1: I'm sure I can find one. This a truff foil.

624
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: Go find one. Then you'll build a robot. I know you.

625
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 1: You won't be defeated. So there I was looking one

626
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: other thing about cookies, real quick. I was looking at

627
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,879
Speaker 1: the at like all of the cookies they ever came

628
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: out with, and there were not a bunch that I

629
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: was said to miss. But I did see two that

630
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: escaped my attention that I wish I had had eaten

631
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: one We're Apple Cinnamons, it was out from two thousand one.

632
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 1: Done that sound good? And another one We're Savannah Smiles,

633
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 1: which I just missed because I wasn't paying attention. But

634
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: they are lemon coolers that were out from two thousand

635
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: twelve to two thousand nineteen. So if we haven't any

636
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: clout with the Girl Scouts whatsoever after this episode, I

637
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: want to put in a personal request to bring back

638
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: Apple Cinnamons and bring back Savannah Smiles. And what if

639
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: they just sent you a VHS copy of the movie

640
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: Savannah Smiles from nineteen eighties something I'd be okay ish

641
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,919
Speaker 1: with it. Uh. Here's the kind of neat thing about

642
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 1: the Girl Scout Cookie Drive is they can earn um badges,

643
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: uh the Cookie connection badges, cookie biz badges, uh, dough charms.

644
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:58,800
Speaker 1: They can earn things, but it's not by selling the most,

645
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: which is what happens at Farm of Brocamp. Like the

646
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: biggest markup in the most sales is what gets you

647
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: your badges there. It is for setting a goal and

648
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: accomplishing that goal, whatever it is. It could be for

649
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 1: making a really great advertisement or poster or maybe putting

650
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: an advertisement in the local paper. Uh, it could be

651
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 1: writing a story about the sale and getting that published

652
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: or something. There are all kinds of cool ways to

653
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: earn those cookie badges that don't and I don't think

654
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: any of them include well, we sold the most, Uh right, No,

655
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: it's it's it's the local press that that hops on

656
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: who sold the most or you know, but the girls

657
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: got themselves. They're like, yes, you go out and sell it.

658
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: But the point is setting goals, reaching goals, learning, Like

659
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: they have a digital like it's basically like Salesforce, but

660
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 1: for Girl Scout cookies called Digital Cookie, and these little

661
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: girls are learning how to like run that kind of stuff.

662
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,959
Speaker 1: It's more of a focus on entrepreneurship than anything else.

663
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,320
Speaker 1: And for a long time I was very critical of

664
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Speaker 1: Girl Scout cookie drives. I wasn't to the level where

665
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 1: I was like complaining that like the Girl Scouts had

666
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: set up on a public sidewalker um that that like

667
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: there somebody was selling their kids cookies for hum at

668
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Speaker 1: the office. I would never It wasn't to that level

669
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Speaker 1: or anything like that, but I thought I was under

670
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Speaker 1: the impression that the Girl Scouts of America was basically

671
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: selling sending these kids out to basically send all the

672
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: money back to the central like group. And that's just yeah,

673
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: apparently almost all of it stays with the councils and

674
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: that money goes back into the local troops. That it's

675
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 1: it's really like self funding thing. And I didn't really

676
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: fully grasp that. And I also didn't realize how inclusive

677
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: the Girl Scouts were. But now, I mean, like, I'm

678
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Speaker 1: just I'm gonna buy all the cookies all the time.

679
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: You thought Queen tag Along just sat on her throne

680
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 1: of money pretty much no, no, no goes to the

681
00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:02,240
Speaker 1: council's goes back to the bakeries, um. And then about

682
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:06,240
Speaker 1: twelve to seventeen percent go to the actual individual troops

683
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: from the council. And that's why those annual dues are

684
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: solo twenty five dollars. Is you know, most families can

685
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: swing something like that a year, but they still do

686
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: have financial assistance if you can't, which is which is wonderful.

687
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 1: But I mean, just that's off, you know. So the

688
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: Girl Scouts, like we said, and again we're not trying

689
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: to disparage Boy Scouts, but they have always been more inclusive.

690
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 1: They have always had policies of nondiscrimination from very early on.

691
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: And UM, like you said, some of the controversy comes

692
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Speaker 1: from people of of certain political persuasion perhaps that think, Um,

693
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 1: the Girl Scouts are too independent and feminists oriented and

694
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: they're run by militants and lesbians and this this the

695
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: worst things that you could possibly say, uh about like

696
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: a really about a really great group like this. UM.

697
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: In the seventies they had Betty for dan are old In,

698
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Speaker 1: who we've spoken about before, UM, very much a noted feminist.

699
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Speaker 1: She sat on the board of directors, which was a

700
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: great thing. But of course that didn't a squage any

701
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Speaker 1: fears that it was a feminist organization because that was

702
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 1: back when that was a dirty word. UM. Now you know,

703
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: and are we in the third wave of feminism? I

704
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: honestly don't don't know. I mean, the third waves definitely

705
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 1: come about, but I don't know if we've reached the

706
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 1: fourth or not by now. That Well, we'll do a

707
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 1: show on that at some point and we'll figure out

708
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: all the waves. But the Girl Scouts have always been

709
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: behind UM supporting legislation relevant to women, stuff like Title nine,

710
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 1: which we've talked about, which is equal funding for female

711
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 1: UM supports activities and stuff like that in colleges, and

712
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: it's it's just always encouraged young girls to be independent

713
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: and to do their own thing because that's what it

714
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Speaker 1: takes to succeed in the world. And I don't think

715
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: they tagged that as feminism necessarily, but they just said

716
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: these are rate traits to learn so you can be

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00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,879
Speaker 1: an an independent woman in America or all over the world.

718
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Speaker 1: Because they do have troops all over the world, we

719
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: should mention. Yeah, And they're usually like raked over the

720
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 1: coals whenever you know, they they salute or they support UM,

721
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: like a feminist leader of feminist activist, often pro choice activists.

722
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,320
Speaker 1: They're they're usually one and the same or very often

723
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: one and the same UM. And so you know, the

724
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: far right will just like go crazy over that and

725
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,839
Speaker 1: say the Girl Scouts are like this brainwashing machine for

726
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: producing you know, leftist agenda kids, right, and UM, that's

727
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: just doesn't seem to be the case whatsoever. I think

728
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: really what it is is the the far right seems

729
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: to to to think of groups like that, like the

730
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: Girl Scouts, as as having some sort of agenda and

731
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: not realizing that the groups like the Girl Scouts like

732
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 1: have the values that they have which tend to be

733
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: counter all right, because mainstream America doesn't share the same

734
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,760
Speaker 1: values as far right, and these are fairly mainstream things

735
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: like inclusivity, UM equality, uh, female independence, like those are

736
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: pretty mainstream ideas. Uh. And I guess that's all I

737
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: have to say about that. And and for those of

738
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: you that want to write in, note, Josh is saying

739
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,800
Speaker 1: far right, he's not saying all Republicans. It's a big difference.

740
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:32,720
Speaker 1: Thanks for that. But this is uh and was also

741
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: basically uh the beginning of and the the the left

742
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 1: jumped all over the Girl Scouts for tweeting out a

743
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: congratulations to Amy Comy Barrett for becoming I think the

744
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 1: fifth um woman Supreme Court justice in history. And they

745
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: even like put the other women on there. It was

746
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: like a Twitter card with all of the women Supreme

747
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:59,439
Speaker 1: Court justices pictures on there. But everybody on the left

748
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: jumped all over them. So I think, just like the A. C.

749
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Speaker 1: L U, if both sides are mad at you, you're

750
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 1: doing you're you're right, you're doing everything right, then yeah,

751
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:14,240
Speaker 1: the Girl Scouts is a non religiously affiliated UM secular group.

752
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: But they do have UM the my Promise in my

753
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: Faith pin which uh they say, compliments existing religious kind

754
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:27,240
Speaker 1: of recognitions, allows girls to further strengthen the connection between

755
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: their faith and Girl Scouts. And there is the phrase

756
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: on my honor, I will try and serve God in

757
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: my country. But the official policy now for the g

758
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 1: s USA is that you can swap the word God

759
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 1: out if you want, and you can just say serve

760
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: the community, or serve others, or serve humanity, serve my country,

761
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 1: or you can just drop it all together if you want. Again,

762
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 1: in the spirit of inclusivity, you can also it's they

763
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: also ruled it's okay to swap out my country for

764
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: the socialist agenda, which I mean some people on the

765
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:03,880
Speaker 1: far right were like ce ce a problem with rainwashing machine. Um. Also,

766
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 1: that gold award is did you say that your ey's

767
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,240
Speaker 1: friend's daughter is going for that gold award or the silver?

768
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: She is working on her silver. I will be surprised

769
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 1: if she doesn't go for the gold. Well, only five

770
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 1: point five percent of Girl Scouts who are eligible even

771
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: get that gold to it is very prestigious. Indeed, so

772
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 1: let's hope that she can get there. Yeah, let me.

773
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 1: I want to wrap up with a couple of words

774
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 1: from her. She said that she got to read one

775
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:30,360
Speaker 1: of her essays about going to see Wicket on Broadway

776
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: on Broadway, and she said, um, I can now say

777
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: that I was literally on Broadway. Ha ha. She said,

778
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: I didn't win the competition, but out of all the

779
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: girls who submitted their essays, I got in. That trip

780
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 1: will stay with me forever. It is these small moments

781
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: that will stay in my mind forever. Girl Scouts will

782
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: always stay with you. You make friends and you learn

783
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: new things in life. It is so fun and amazing, amazing, amazing. Uh.

784
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: And I guess my last thing is I want to

785
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 1: shout out some famous girls Outs. I was listening to

786
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: the podcast the other day with Jason Bateman and Shawn

787
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 1: Hayes and Smart lit Arnett SmartLess, and they had Amy Saidarison,

788
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 1: who is one of my favorite humans, and she was

789
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,320
Speaker 1: talking about being a Girl Scout, which is no surprise,

790
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: so Amy Saidarris is a veteran and by the way,

791
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: one great Instagram follow if you don't follow her, um

792
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:26,720
Speaker 1: Sally Ride, Venus Williams, Carrie Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama,

793
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift, Nancy Reagan, Gloria Steinhum, Lucille Ball, Natalie Merchant,

794
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 1: Martha Stewart, Cheryl Crow, Katie Curic, Laura Bush, the Code

795
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: of Fanning, and many, many, many more. Yeah, you and

796
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: I saw the same Good Housekeeping slide show. Apparently know

797
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: it took so long to get there? Did you say,

798
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: Natalie Merchant, she's got to get a shout out? Yeah,

799
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: she was in there. I used to be a big

800
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: ten Thousand Maniacs fan. How could you not be. I'll

801
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: bet they're one of those bands where if you went

802
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 1: back and listen to him now, you'd be like, what,

803
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:58,320
Speaker 1: They're even better than I liked, or then I realized

804
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: back then, well I still listen. Okay, Well there's a

805
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: little tip for all you girl scouts out there and

806
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: boy scouts too. Don't be shy. Start listening to ten

807
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:10,399
Speaker 1: thousand Maniacs and see what you think. Agreed, and thank

808
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:14,240
Speaker 1: you very much to our special guest, Annabella from Troop

809
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: in Maryland. I hope we earned you a badge of

810
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: some sort for this double or badges, I say badges,

811
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: and since I said double, the badges it's time for

812
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: listener mail. UH. This is Kiva plug you know, many many,

813
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 1: many years ago. I think we started our team in

814
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 1: two thousand seven. I'm looking now, Yes, it was okay,

815
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:45,879
Speaker 1: oh no, no, two thousand nine, we started a Kiva team.

816
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: And for those who don't know, Kiva is a micro

817
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 1: lending website. UM. They are not perfect, but they do

818
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 1: a pretty good job. UM where you can donate very

819
00:46:55,080 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: small amounts of money to UH entrepreneurs and develop nations

820
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: UH and all over the world that not even developing

821
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 1: nations exclusively anymore, to help people out give him a

822
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: leg up. And it's called micro lending because ideally they

823
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Speaker 1: repaid this money and most of the loans do get repaid.

824
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Speaker 1: And we started our team many many years ago. And

825
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Speaker 1: let me read this email first. Hey, guys, recently decided

826
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Speaker 1: to start the catalog from the beginning again and reach

827
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Speaker 1: the two thousand nine episode who were the first Americans

828
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Speaker 1: where we plugged the Kiva team for the first time.

829
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Speaker 1: I thought it would be good enough for Reason to

830
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Speaker 1: write in and request that you plugged the team again.

831
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Speaker 1: Because it's been a while. There may be a lot

832
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Speaker 1: of new listeners who discovered the podcast since since then

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Speaker 1: and aren't aware of the Kiva team. Uh. And this

834
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Speaker 1: is from Lee Rondorf in Minnesota, so I appreciate the nudge,

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Speaker 1: Lee we Uh. I am very proud to say. This

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Speaker 1: is amazing, dude. I haven't been to the site in

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Speaker 1: a while. The stuff you should know. Kiva Team since

838
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 1: its inception has loaned nine point almost nine point three

839
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Speaker 1: million dollars uh threety loans almost twelve thousand members and

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Speaker 1: about thirty loans per member. That is spectacular. That beats

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Speaker 1: my number. I gotta tell you, it's amazing. And um,

842
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Speaker 1: I got the reminder the ad relan. I had about

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Speaker 1: a hundred bucks in there sitting there in my account.

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Speaker 1: That's how it works. They'll give you the money back,

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Speaker 1: it'll be in your account and then you can go

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Speaker 1: reland that money. And I'm still working off that first

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Speaker 1: deposit I made many many years ago. That's nice. I've

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Speaker 1: not getting those emails anymore. That's right, So we should

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Speaker 1: encourage people to look into Kiva. If it's something you

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