WEBVTT - Girl Scouts: More than cookie sellers 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:04.280 Welcome to Stuff you should know, a production of I 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:14.160 Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:18.720 and there's Charles w Chuck Bryant, and there's Trooper Jerry 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:23.800 Rowland out there somewhere their scout you know I'm talking about, 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:28.120 and this is stuff you should know. Be prepared. I 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.960 am prepared, Tosh. Yeah, I wonder if Jerry. I wonder 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.880 if Jerry was a girl Scout. I know we didn't 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.320 get a chance to ask because it's all business with hers. 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.280 She's just busy, busy, busy. I know she had to 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.080 leave to go to a meeting. But my guess is 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:48.400 that what do you think? I think, Yes, I think 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.120 there's actually a one in three chance that she was, 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:56.120 because Chuck, that is the stat, the astounding stat at 0:00:56.160 --> 0:01:00.680 one and every three American adult women were a girl 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.480 Scout at some point in time. Yeah. I think they 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:09.000 are currently around the two point six million level, and 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.039 it varies between two and a half to three million, 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.600 kind of depending what's going on. And I think in 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:20.600 recent years it's numbers have gone down a little bit, uh, 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.440 and they're always trying to get those numbers up. So, 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:25.720 but but what what I've seen is that it is 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.680 remarkably steady, though it's it hovers around that same that 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.679 same amount, and I've seen that that's the total number 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.800 of Girl Scouts. Have also seen that that includes the 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:38.600 adult volunteers, and that at any given time there's about 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.000 one point seven million Girls Scouts active Girl Scouts in 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.080 the United States and that they usually hang in there 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.760 for about four years is the average length of time, 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.240 which is pretty good. That was longer than my boy 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.720 Scout or cub Scout run. I can tell you how 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.840 long was your run. I think it was not a year. 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.760 I had a real problem at a young age of 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.600 idea of giving respect to elders just because they were old. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:06.960 Like I was like, no, I feel like there's a 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.320 lot of old jerks out there who don't really deserve 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:13.440 to be treated particularly special. So that was my big 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.920 issue with it. The problem is is my dad was 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.679 the den leader and he decided to be a good 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:24.440 role model and stick it out so without you, yes, 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.000 but with me watching TV like in the house at 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:31.639 the same time when they were having Yeah. So the 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.040 upshot of all this long story shorts my dad doesn't 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.760 really like me, right, Uh, that's the upshot of most 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:44.440 of your stories. Um My, cub Scouting lasted one meeting. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.720 That was my tenure because I went to a cub 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.160 Scout meeting and I guess I went during the candy 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.720 drive and literally at the first meeting, they were like, 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.080 here's a bunch of candy. You gotta go sell this stuff. 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.320 And I kind of was just like, what, I don't 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.120 want to. I don't want to do this, Like I 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.520 don't even know what's going on yet. Yeah, I'm not 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.760 working for you. That's got to be an odd time 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.080 to jump in feet first, you know, you kind of 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.600 want to ease into it a little more. I guess so, 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.680 but it I didn't do it my and you know, 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.120 maybe we'll do one on the boy Scouts at some 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:20.040 point too. But my nephew Noah, who is now a 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.079 grown adult who was getting married next weekend. Actually, oh hey, 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.239 congratulations Noah. Yeah, no and Ella are getting married, which 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.680 is great, but he is now an adult college graduate. 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.520 But he scouted. He went all the way through, and 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.840 I was I always thought that was very cool and 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:37.320 that really shows a stick tuitiveness, whether you're a boy 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.160 scout or a girl scout. Um to go all the 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:46.600 way through the whole process. He's so Noah is Scott's son, right, correct, Yes, Yeah, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.720 I'm not at all surprised that Noah made it an 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.720 Eagle Scout because also I'm sure that like when Scott 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.440 was born, there like just give this guy the Eagle badge. Now, 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.440 he didn't. He didn't boy scout either. He didn't need to. 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:01.800 He was an Eagle Scout by birth. Well, and we also, 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.720 you know, my dad raised his camping, so he was 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.120 always just sort of like, you guys don't need to 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.000 do that stuff because we do all that stuff anyway, 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.960 right right. Yeah, And plus also there's some dudes money, 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.360 you know what I mean? Yeah, exactly, Yeah, that's sort 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.120 of the thing. I think Girl Scouts dues money is 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.279 twenty five dollars annually. Uh, they do have financial assistance 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.279 and then you have to pay for some other you know, 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.000 program stuff along the way. But that is a very 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.640 low fee. And we'll get to this, but the reason 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:33.240 is low. It's because those Girls Scouts can print money 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:37.159 with those cookies. Yeah. I was not familiar with the 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.599 Girl Scout cookies until I started researching this episode. Oh min, 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.640 they print money, man, They make like four or five 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.160 million dollars a year off that thing. My friend, the 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:53.440 gross revenue I think last year was eight hundred million 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:59.560 dollars I'm sorry, in five hundred net I think five 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.360 or six Okay, yeah, And that's why those dudes are slow, 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:06.240 because they actually stay with the local councils, which we'll 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.560 we'll talk more about that. But speaking of Girl Scout cookies, 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:14.360 I want to give a shout out, um to a 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:19.560 couple of troops, one in particular, TROOPO, because my friend 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.880 Annabella King is a Girl Scout, a junior Girl Scout 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:28.400 in that troop. And yes she is the daughter of 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:34.080 Hum's very close friend. Uh wheezy and um. She actually 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.440 wrote a little bit about what it means to her 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.279 to be a Girl Scout. If I could share a 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.839 couple of passages, I think it really gets the point across. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.680 I would love to hear it. So Annabella says, and 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.680 she's been doing this for years by now. She said 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.240 she's working on her Star or her Silver Award, which 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.760 there's bronze, silver, and gold, and these are like very 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.080 prestigious awards for a Girl Scout to go after. So 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.719 she said she's working on the silver one right now 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.599 and in parentheses it's something really good to have on 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.760 your resume, by the way, But she says that Girl 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.360 Scouts is a great opportunity for greater jobs in life. 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.760 Gives a pathway to pioneering your own business. They train 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.520 you to be an entrepreneur in the early stages of life. 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.720 And here's that cookie thing. Selling the cookies is the 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.320 way they examine your skill and take note of the 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.120 abilities you may have. It is also showing you what 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.599 real life situations may be like. For example, when having 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.880 a cookie stand out and advertising that you are selling something, 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.680 you have to put in some enthusiasm. You can't just 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:34.920 stand there and wait for others to come walking by 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:39.320 if interested. You have to grab their attention. She is 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.320 an up and coming person. She also says that back 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.880 when she was younger, so she's in the seventh grade, 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.640 she was saying that um to her before she was 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.599 in the Scouts, that Girl Scouts were just annoying little 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.400 girls selling cookies and stealing your money. But I have 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.559 to say that as probably what a lot of people 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.359 think as well. But Girl Scouts is something that impacts 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:03.520 the community. It brings people together. I love that I've 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.800 also got a quote from our good friend John Hodgeman, 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.280 who was a girl Scout, and he said, a Yale 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.560 man never talks about the girl Scouts. That's right, that's 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:15.240 a that's a great, like all purpose quote from Hodgeman. Yeah, 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:16.680 and you know what, that'll that's a joke that will 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.400 be lost on many people because it's a call back 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.640 to our Ivy League episode in three D that not 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.800 many people probably even got through because it was in 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.600 three D. So yeah, yeah, I guess sorry saying chuck, Yeah, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.800 sorry about the three D episode everybody. We have made 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.560 sure that that will never ever ever happen again. All right, 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.680 Should we go back to the early days of girl Scouting. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:38.560 We should. But while we're at it, I want to 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.920 give one more shout out to another Girl Scout troupe 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.920 I'm affiliated with two. I want to shout out Troops 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.560 seventeen one oh seven. That is my niece Mila at 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.360 the Movie Stars troupe. Oh that's great. I like to 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:57.240 call it Troope Beverly Hills. Shelly Long the leader Long, 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:02.080 Shelly Long, and she is actually the leader. Yeah, it's wonderful. Yeah, 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.400 all right, So let's go back in time. And congratulations 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.120 to both of those young ladies for pursuing this, because 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.280 what I learned from researching the Girl Scouts is that 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:15.280 it is a pretty great organization and they have, um 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.840 you know, I tried to dig into controversies and stuff 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.400 like that, but um, and I'm not disparaging the Boy Scouts. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.000 They're great two or Scouts USA, but they they have 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:25.840 certainly had a little more controversy over the years in 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.520 the Girl Scouts. Well. One of the reason that the 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:34.560 Girl Scouts tend to be controversial is because they're inclusive. Yeah, exactly, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.559 it's the problem that people have with girls because let 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.960 the other human being in there a little different than 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.760 the other human beings in this troop. That's the controversy 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:47.280 that comes up. Typically. Yeah, they have always been more conclusive. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:51.040 I think in the nineteen fifties the Girl Scouts desegregated 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.120 and it's oh the way to nineteen seventy and a 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.400 lot of pressure from the Double A CP for the 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.360 Boy Scouts to do so. And also of note, Chuck 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.880 is by the time I'm the Boy Scouts fully integrated 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.720 their troops, the Girl Scouts were already on their first 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:09.640 African American President so they have in progressive from the 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.760 outset and then um, even though it took to the fifties, 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.880 I guess to integrate. They were um inclusive of girls 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:21.200 with disabilities too, because the woman who founded the Girl Scouts, 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:26.840 Juliette Gordon Lowe, UM, she was deaf. She became deaf 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.160 after an accident, so she made sure that girls with 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:32.680 disabilities were included from the get go. That's right, and 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.840 we want to shout out by name Gloria D. Scott, 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:38.160 first African American president of the Girl Scouts in nineteen. 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.360 But let's go back in time to Juliette Gordon Lowe, 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:50.320 who was a Southern gal from Savannah, Georgia. Yeah, no, 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.079 it's it sounded like a cross between Andy from the 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.240 Office doing a Southern thing and Kevin Spacey and Midnight 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.439 in the Garden of Good and Evil. Not good all 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:05.040 the way. Yes, Julia Gordon lowis from Savannah. She was 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.600 raised in the South, and um, you know I had 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:10.160 came from. I don't think it was like a rich 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.520 family or anything, but a family that was doing well 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.240 enough to where she got a really good education compared 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:19.800 to some of her peers. And she uh ended up 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.800 getting involved in a marriage that wasn't so great, a 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.320 husband that was um an alcoholic and a gambler and 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:31.440 a philanderer, and their whole marriage and divorce saga lasted many, 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.920 many years because it was a time where getting a 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.400 divorce wasn't super easy. And then he had a stroke 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.000 and she thought she maybe should stay with him, but 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.320 he had a mistress who he left his money too. 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:45.400 He eventually died during divorce proceedings. But long story short, 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:49.440 she ended up a widow and went to London where 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.680 she had a very faithful meeting at a luncheon party 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.480 one day with Sir Robert Baden Powell. Yes, and this 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.480 guy is the guy who co founded the Scouts, the 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:03.080 Boy Scouts and the Girl Hides. If you are a 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.920 at least back in the day, if you were a 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:09.440 Girl Scout over in the UK, you were a member 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.440 of the Girl Guides. But they're all affiliated under a 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.079 single umbrella, basically a whole a bunch of different scouting 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:20.680 groups around the world. And at first Um Juliette Low 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.960 her nickname was Daisy by the way, Um, she was 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.199 a Scout leader, a troop leader for Girl Guides over 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.240 in England, but when she moved back to the United 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.360 States full time, she said, I'm gonna set up my 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.360 own shop basically based on my experience that is there. 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.040 And she set up the first Girl Scout troop meeting 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.520 in March of I believe nineteen twelve, um, and it 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.840 included eighteen girls and the first registered Girl Scout was 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.000 her niece, uh Daisy Gordon, who I take it was 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.880 named after her. That's wonderful. And I think they were 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.880 even called the Girl Guides at first. Oh is that right? 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:59.920 I think so, And I should have had that down Cole, 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.040 but I'm pretty sure that I saw that. But regardless, 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.920 they either were Girl Scouts initially or became Girl Scouts. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.559 And you know, she just the whole thing appealed to her, 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:13.080 teaching girls, um how to be self sufficient, how to 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:17.680 know their way around a campfire, how to um be 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.840 meaningful to their community as a lot of community service involved. 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.960 It really all spoke to her. And these days you 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.120 can get involved in the Girl Scouts if you're between 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:31.199 five and seventeen and they are broken down thussly uh 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.959 Daisy Scouts, which I guess comes from Juliette's name right, 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:39.840 her nickname Daisy Scouts with the little list the most adorable. 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:44.199 I imagine brownies. I never knew that. I thought brownies 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.559 was the first step in. So Daisies come before Brownies. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.720 Then you have your Junior Scouts, and then Girl Scouts 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.599 rounded out with eleven to seventeen year olds. And I 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.440 believe they used to be Cadet, seniors and ambassadors, but 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.319 um now those are the names that they take. I've 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:03.280 seen them heard two still as Cadets and ambassadors on 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.560 the Girl Scout site, so still use that some, I 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.680 guess so. But yeah, once you once you reach a 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.800 certain age, I guess eleven, they lump you in together 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:15.360 with all of the older girls. That's right. The Daisies 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.600 are five and six, like I said, and they meet 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:22.280 with a couple of adult leaders. They earned pedals learning pedals, 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.280 which is super super awesome and sweet. I mean, this 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.640 whole thing is overflowing with just you know, sugary goodness. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:30.720 Well yeah, and those petals too. They're based on the 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:35.439 ten points of them the Girl Scout Law, which are 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.839 things like, you know, be considerate and caring. So that's 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:41.080 a pedal courageous and strong as a pedal, honest and 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.280 fair responsible for what you say and do. So it's 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.160 like some pretty great, you know, character development from a 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:50.480 very young age. Yeah, and those ten laws are also 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.679 represented by the Girl Scout dime, isn't that right? Yes, 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.720 so you can get a free dime just by becoming 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.240 a Girl Scout because one of the ceremonies is time, 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.559 the ceremony of the dime, and that dime ten cents 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.440 represents the ten points of the Girl Scout law. And 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:07.920 the girl Scouts are like, wait a minute, I just 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:12.920 gave you. They're like, you just learned your first life lesson, chump, 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:17.320 Welcome to the Scouts. But regardless of which group you're on, 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:22.400 you are earning these pedals, these badges, these patches in 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.480 various ways. A lot of times it's by completing a 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:30.760 craft project. Uh. Sometimes an older group may like present 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:35.080 the American flag at a professional baseball game. Uh. Sometimes 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.680 there's a lot of stem activity these days. Yes, Uh, 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.800 you know, it's just started out sort of with more 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:42.880 you know, as as you would think back in the 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.760 nineteen thirties, things like cooking and stuff like that, and 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.240 I think they still don't shy away from that. But 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:52.720 these days it's all about STEM and getting girls into science, technology, engineering, 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.120 and math and uh, you know they're doing full on 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.240 coding and stuff like that. So they really kind of 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:00.600 rolled with the times. Yeah, and a lot of that 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.440 develops over time. So like if you're a Daisy, they'll 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.760 start introducing you to that STEM stuff where it's like, 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.240 you know, this is a car, draw a picture of 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.600 a car, and it's kind of like automotive engineering. Is 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:14.880 that just the very beginnings of it. But then by 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.600 the time you're like a Brownie, you're like building prototypes 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.280 of a car that's of your own design. So it 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.800 starts to progress pretty quickly. And then yeah, coding is 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.239 a really big one too, So there's like a foundation 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.360 of those kind of things. Um, but it just gets 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.840 a little more advanced as the girl goes through the 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.840 Scout ranks. Yeah, and I gotta say, you know, it 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:40.360 really struck me today how brilliant the badge ideas for 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:44.080 boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and giving kids something to 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.680 work for and like seeing them through to an endpoint 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.600 of a goal so they can earn something because kids 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:55.840 really love to earn a little prize for accomplishing something. 0:15:55.920 --> 0:16:00.240 It's really meaningful. Yeah, they Aside from these individual rule 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.440 things that they can earn, there are also group service 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.000 projects where the whole troop where they you do a 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.320 lot of community service. They might collect food and clothing 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.760 for a homeless shelter, or they might decorate a nursing 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.240 home over holidays, uh and stuff like that. And the 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.920 older they get, you know, the more the more advanced 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.160 these things are, and the more um not autonomy necessarily, 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.840 but just just the more advanced these projects are that 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.000 they can bite off. Yeah, and as they get older, 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:33.520 they're expected to do projects on their own community service projects. Um. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.520 They go, they do what are called journeys where they 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:40.320 learn about a new thing. Um, and they that my 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.600 friend Annabella says that this past winter or no, this 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.680 coming winter, they'll they will likely buy a bunch of 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.960 clothes and presents for two or three families who do 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.440 not have enough money. We will then wrap the gifts 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.640 and someone brings it to that family. This is just 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:57.400 a great example. Sure, as they progress, and you know, 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.160 by the time they're in that final group of el 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.440 Scouts from eleven to seventeen, they start to focus on 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.000 potential careers and what these girls are interested in and 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.760 what they might want to do, and then steering them 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:15.159 towards that, whether it's um eco action and environmentally friendly 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.720 and cleaning up parks and stuff like that. But all 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.679 of these service projects and all of this stuff is 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:26.520 really all about just building skills as well as building 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:32.800 confidence absolutely absolutely and independence and UM self reliance and 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.200 also just kind of being like a generally good person too, 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.800 you know, not self reliance or independence by taking advantage 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:44.040 or exploiting others weaknesses, but becoming independent and self reliant 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.320 while also being like a person of character and somebody 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:51.240 you can trust. It's important that second part is important too. Yeah, 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.160 that's tech bro camp that you were talking about, right, 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:58.919 or farmer broke farmer brokemp. Oh boy, let's take a 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.680 break on that one and discuss whether we'll even edit 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.879 that out. No, let's leave it. Okay, we'll be right 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:32.840 back everybody. I'm still laughing at that. That's good. That's 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.440 a good sign, chuck. UM. So, yes, there's a lot 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:40.800 of focus on STEM careers now UM or just even 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:44.800 interested in STEM hobbies like coding, UM. But there's also 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.360 like still very a very large emphasis on being outdoorsy, 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.720 you know, UM, which is one of the original things 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.240 that the Girl Scouts were into back when Juliet Gordon 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.879 Lowe was uh, the founder and still active, and she 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.719 like poured herself into this, by the way, says like 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.680 we really breathed past her biography. But she was a 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:09.440 very interesting, very worthwhile human being with very little of that. 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.760 You know, when you're talking about somebody from a hundred 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:15.560 years ago, you're like and then well, it just kind 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.760 of glaze over this because she was a proctor of 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.560 her time. Now, she was a very progressive person who 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.920 would fit in quite well today, I think. Um, and 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.520 she she was just a good person. But um, she 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:31.200 emphasized things like outdoors nous in addition to you know, 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:34.240 learning how to cook and run a home, um, that 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:36.640 kind of stuff. So that that whole emphasis is still 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:40.480 around today with things like camping. Um, that's still a 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:42.880 big part of being a Girl Scout is spending time 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:46.560 at camp and spending time outdoors too. Yeah, Brownies, I 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:48.200 think by the time you were a Brownie and then 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.840 a junior and then a full on Girl Scout, you 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.960 definitely go on camping trips. You go on overnight trips 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:58.000 sometimes there at established camps. Sometimes it's a little more 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:02.280 of rustic kind of style camp thing. Uh. Sometimes they 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:04.679 Scout leaders can kind of bite off all of their 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.840 responsibility if they're comfortable with that, And sometimes they go 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:10.320 to places where they have what's called a core staff 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.160 who are kind of doing meals and stuff like that. 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.679 There's really no exact setway it can go down, but 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:18.600 the point is is to get these girls out in 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:23.800 the woods, adventuring, building campfires, rock climbing, doing crafts. Making 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:27.359 s'mores um just something that really speaks to me and 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.200 that I really believe in, of course, because I grew 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:31.359 up doing that stuff. And by the way, if you 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:34.600 like smores like I do, I like s'mores anything, sure 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:38.520 you can thank the Girl Scouts for that, because they 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:43.920 are the ones with the first recorded recipe for smore 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:46.720 yes um back. I don't know if they invented it, 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:51.080 but they told everybody else about it. Back in there 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:54.000 was a Girl Scout handbook that had the first printed 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:58.240 recipe for s'mores. It was so old timey. They were 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:02.280 called some moors. They wasn't It wasn't turned into a 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:06.440 contraction until the seventies. I never knew that's what it's for. 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.280 I never thought about it what. I don't know. I 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:11.120 just I was just called them smores. I never thought 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:13.119 about the fact that it was a contraction. It stands 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:16.119 for some mores some mores, yeah, because once you have one, 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:20.159 you want some more. Yes. But apparently in this article 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.880 it says that while they're called some moors, just one 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:28.640 is plenty filling. Basically, I'm paraphrasing, I got a level 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:32.800 up recommendation for your small game. And I'm a small traditionalist. 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:34.919 I don't like to get too fancy, but I have 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:41.160 lately started. Um, I'll get the Garadelli dark chocolate caramel 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:45.639 square instead of a regular old Hershey. I'll throw one 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:49.160 of those dark chocolate caramel s'more squares in there, and 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:52.959 it's really pretty good. The addition of the caramels nice. Yeah, basically, 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:56.000 and I'm so sorry to the good people of Pennsylvania. 0:21:56.080 --> 0:22:00.400 But the Hershey chocolate is is basically anything is level 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:02.280 up from that, as long as it's not like the 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:06.200 generic store brand version of chocolate, not really good chocolate. 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:09.920 To tell you, there's so much better chocolate out there, 0:22:10.160 --> 0:22:14.960 especially if you travel eastward across the Atlantic. All the 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:17.400 chocolate over there is amazing. And then if you keep 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:20.280 going east and you hit Japan. All of their chocolate 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:22.080 is amazing, and then you come back around you're like, 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:25.480 we're back to Hershey again, although you hit Gary Delli 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:27.959 Square first, and then you keep going eastward and you 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:31.960 hit Pennsylvania and things get sad. Is Japan has good chocolate. 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:36.280 Oh yes, Maisie chocolate products. They make a chocolate covered almonds, 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:38.359 chocolate covered bacadamia nuts, and you can get them here 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:41.320 in the States. Just I'll get you something and you 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:44.159 can take me forever. Okay. Oh, by the way, I 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:47.560 should tell everyone you you very sweetly sent a postcard 0:22:47.560 --> 0:22:50.640 to me with the Fred Rogers stamp and you set 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:54.240