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Scouters love to shoot the breeze about the next campout, newest merit badge, or tastiest recipe.<\/p>\nScouters love to shoot the breeze about the next campout, newest merit badge, or tastiest recipe.<\/p>\n
But when someone brings up a more-sensitive topic at a roundtable or leader meeting, it\u2019s often greeted by silence.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s where the new ScoutCast comes in. The new podcast, a close relative of the popular CubCast<\/a>, will\u00a0focus on topics that you might not feel comfortable talking about at roundtable meetings, such as bullying. That\u2019s January\u2019s subject.<\/p>\n The goal: Get you and your fellow Scouters thinking and, ideally, talking about these critical issues facing Boy Scouts.<\/p>\n The hosts are familiar\u00a0 For the debut episode, J.D. and Paula chat with New York Times<\/em> best-selling author Michael Gurian about the best ways to handle bullying in your troop. (P.S.: Read\u00a0Scouting<\/em> magazine\u2019s 2010 article on the subject<\/a>\u00a0for more insight.)<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to listen or to download the file to your smartphone or MP3 player for offline listening.<\/p>\nfaces<\/del> voices to those of us who work for the BSA\u2019s magazines. Meet J.D. Owen, editor-in-chief of Boys\u2019 Life<\/em>,\u00a0Scouting<\/em>, and\u00a0Eagle Scout<\/em>\u00a0magazines, and Paula Murphey<\/a>, senior editor of Boys\u2019 Life.<\/em><\/p>\n
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