The Scouting Stuff Podcast

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The Scouting Stuff Podcast episodes

June 30, 2016 Episode 17 - Advancement
Whether it's called Swim-Up or Advancement, how do we celebrate when youth progress through the Scouting movement?

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What is advancement? How does advancement differ between Boy Scouts of America, Scouts Canada, and other Scouting organizations arou
53 min
June 15, 2016 Episode 16 - Long Distance
Colin phones in from all the way across Canada to discuss advancement and summer Scouting programs.

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We missed recording this last week, in part because Ken was at the Northern Lights Council's Beaveree
32 min
May 18, 2016 Episode 15 - Emergency Preparedness
It was Emergency Preparedness Week last week...which, at least for our Canadian crew, has been given a very pointed example in the Fort McMurray fires.

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Emergency situations can come up quickly and with little warning, although some kinds of emergencies can be fore
1 hr 2 min
May 11, 2016PSA 1 - Fort McMurray Fires
To help other people at all times; it's part of the Scout Promise.
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Links to Fort McMurray Relief Services (and more!)
If you have shelter you can offer: A website where locals can register space available to house Fort McMurray evacuees and where evacuees needing a p
8 min
April 27, 2016 Episode 14 - The Jungle Book (Review)/Good Turn Week
There's a new Jungle Book movie out; we give our impressions (both spoiler-free and spoilerific). It's also Good Turn Week; we talk a bit about that.

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We're in the middle of Good Turn Week, “an initiative spearhea
1 hr 13 min
April 13, 2016 Episode 13 - Badges (Mostly) Don’t Equal Progression
We take another look at the idea of badge earning and how it relates to a youth's progression through the Scouting program.

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Ken and Colin revisit the topic of badges as a means of evaluating a Scout's progressing through the program...and for the most part find themselves in agreement with the new instructions issued by Scouts Canada concerning disassociating badges from personal progression (which, previously, w
1 hr 1 min
April 13, 2016 Episode 13 - Badges (Mostly) Don’t Equal Progression
We take another look at the idea of badge earning and how it relates to a youth's progression through the Scouting program.

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Ken and Colin revisit the topic of badges as a means of evaluating a Scout's progressing through the program...and for the most part find themselves in agreement with the new instructions issued by Scouts Canada concerning disassociating badges from personal progression (which, previously, we had expressed reservations over).

This was, in part, spurred on by a bit of commentary in another podcast, Catholic in a Small Town. At about the 47-minute mark in Episode #337 of said podcast, the husband and wife team behind it discuss their eldest son's involvement in Boy Scouts of America...and how the pursuit of merit badges should really reflect the interests of the Scout pursuing those badges, and/or the challenges he wants to take on.

Oh, and...the board games that Ken's Beaver Scouts designed came back from the printers. You can find some pictures of the games on our Twitter account and/or Facebook page.
Shout-Outs

The Canadian Men's Curling team — the Koe Rink — for their gold medal victory at the recent 2016 World Men's Curling Championship. They defeated the team from Denmark 5-3.
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Galizur, by John Zorn & The Dreamers
1 hr 1 min
March 30, 2016 Episode 12 - Catching Up With Brian
Brian rejoins SSYSK, and we catch up with him about Pinewood Derby, a certain zombie movie, and badges.

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We were finally able to get Brian back on the show, so we took the opportunity to catch up with him about a few topics that have been discussed in recent episodes. A lot of the discussion focused on Pinewood Derby, and the similarities and differences between how Scouts Canada and Boy Scouts of America give youth the opportunity to build and race wooden vehicles.

But, we also took the time to discuss badg
40 min
March 15, 2016 Episode 11 - Beaver Buggies, Kub Kars, and Scout Trucks
Scouts Canada offers different forms of racing vehicles to different sections of its program, from simple Beaver Buggies to massive Scout Trucks.

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Ken, Colin, and Ted discuss Kub Kars — Scouts Canada's equivalent of Pinewood Derby — and the variants of it that exist for other s
54 min
March 02, 2016 Episode 10 - What About Those Other Badges?
Sometimes, Scouts are awarded badges that aren't merit badges, and don't go on the uniform. What happens if you don't fulfill the criteria for one of those?

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Ken, Colin, and Ted discuss those other badges, the ones that get handed out to Scouts (and Cubs, and Beavers) that don't get put on the uniform. These badges aren't merit badges, but rather serve to commemorate different events that the Scouts have participated in (e.g. archery lessons, camps, or even fundraising activities like bott
53 min