Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: uncertainty
19 Jul 2022 Acquired Walmart
“You cannot become a Boy Scout—and these are the rules now, I don't know if it's the rules then—until you're 12, 11 ½, or something like that.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 19 Jul 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Walmart
Transcript context
…Besides all of these proto-entrepreneurial ventures that Sam is undertaking as a teenager, he also becomes, at age 13, the youngest Eagle Scout ever certified in Missouri history. Ben, you're an Eagle Scout, how old were you when you became one? I got one just in the nick of time when I was 17 ½. You must get one before you turn 18. That is the last day that you can get one. You cannot become a Boy Scout—and these are the rules now, I don't know if it's the rules then—until you're 12, 11 ½, or something like that. It's when you graduate Cub Scouts. Sam got his Eagle at age 13, so it must have been the only thing he did for that 1 ½ year or whatever. That's the fastest advancement to go through five or six ranks in that short period of time. Maybe he counted raising the rabbits and pigeons.…
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