Episode by Episode: Country Girls

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1:27Hello, this is Mark and you're listening to One-A-Grovecast. I have on tonight returning to the show from forever ago after having a lot of technical issues. Any quen, how you doing? Hey Mark, I'm doing great. How are you? Doing all right. Welcome back to the podcast. Yeah. Thank you. Are you there in the beginning of it all? Yes. With no gear, with no electronics and basically recording the whole thing on a tape deck. Hey, there you go. I mean, not too far removed from a tape deck, but as technology evolves, so there's this podcast. Right. We're going back to, you know, this is the second part of the watching in order type of thing that we're doing with the last napari.

2:28What episode are we hidden on tonight? We are hitting on Trigo. Exactly. He corrected my note to myself. Like what? What are you saying? Killing me. Killing me. That's all right. Oh, you've missed me. Yeah. Sure. This originally aired September 18th, 1974, like 152 years ago. Wow. Yeah. It's crazy, right? Crazy, crazy. This is a great episode. I recommended it to people as a first episode, but then I was thinking, how can I recommend this being the first episode when you could just watch the first episode? Right? This actually seems like the first episode. I don't know. I don't know. They got their timeline wrong on the other one. Are you seeing there's like, you think there should be perhaps a viewing order deconstruction?

3:29Well, I just think that a circle of friends, which is the first one, is a little over the harvest of friends. Oh, harvest of friends. Yeah. All right. That other one's a book. I mean, I know they build the house in harvest of friends, but you would think that they would know the townspeople by then. And this one seems to show that they don't know anybody. I think that episode one and two should have been a two-parter. Yes. And a, there you go. Going back to school should have been a part of that. But they didn't know that this show would do well. You know, they, I mean, it had a lot of hubbub around it with little Joe and stuff, but it didn't have a guarantee. I mean, it was going up against like all in the family. She go in the man, which I cannot believe was on the air for four years.

4:29I find she go in the man to be, it didn't age well. No, it did not. Some of these shows they age too well. But some of the other shows that were like in the top spot that it's going up against are also San Ferdinand's son. So I mean, they have all under family in San Ferdinand's son, which are genuinely like really funny. And even now they've really held up. And also the Jefferson's. Yes. That's been off, yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of really good kind of, I guess, I guess louder humor. Right. And then you have no else in the person in the middle of it. In the top spot, there weren't too many dramas. I mean, with the Walton's, that was already kind of, I don't know when the Walton's went off the air. I kind of forget. But wasn't it around this time? Yeah, they're kind of parallel of each other.

5:31Although Victor French, when he was on the Walton's, he was a lot in here. Yeah. Then he was on Little House in the Prairie. Yeah, it's weird. But Charlotte Stewart was on the Walton's. Yeah, they were all. I mean, I don't think the land in was, but all of the smaller, you know, like the people who I think Mr. Larabee was on the Walton's. Yeah, like so many people. I liked the Walton's. I thought it was okay. It was a couple of cringy episodes. And the way it ended was awful, but nevertheless, you know, it was all right. It was worth watching. But yeah, I'll never tell you that I got to see the piano that was in the Baldwin's house. It was really a mechanic. That's awesome. Yeah. I got to touch it. It was, I geeked out. It was also the piano that Irving Berlin wrote, white Christmas on. Really? The same exact piano. The same exact piano. Yeah. Like I did the Walton's podcast for a while and it was okay.

6:33I mean, it just didn't have the same fun of a little house. But while I was doing that, one of the people who kind of, I don't know, they have a lot of Walton stuff and they sent me a small box of stuff. And one of the things was just this big envelope. There's this full of scripts that they gave me. It was really nice. Oh, wow. Yeah. So I have a bunch of autograph scripts from one of them. One is signed by the entire cast. And the others are just kind of randomly signed. I think there's about 15 scripts total. Wow. Yeah, I didn't expect it. That's cool. And it's also, I wouldn't, I wouldn't sell it either. Right, right. It's nice. It's nice to get these kind of things. But I don't know if I was the right person to really have that sent to you. I mean, people have sent me things and it's like, I don't, like it's just not, not my

7:37cup of tea. Right. Like if somebody has the actual shepherdess, you know, from Little Asnappery, yes. I'll take it. But you know, I did notice in the later seasons, I brought this up recently how the shepherdess must have been dropped at some point because it's all smashed. Oh, yeah. Not in the early days. We never, I don't recall there being a time when the shepherdess breaks. So it's like one of those Brady Bunch moments where they break the lamp. Right. Yeah. And then they tried it, somebody tried to put it back together. It was a lamp or a vase. I forget. That was a vase as a vase. Yes. But I told you we are play ball in the house. Mama says don't play ball in the house. Mama says don't play ball in the house. That's it. And then they kind of like repeated over and over again. Exactly. So here we are in the kitchen as we normally are.

8:41The mantle is barely suited up. Right. This brand new brand new. Oh, you're ready. You're going. Mary, Laura come to breakfast. Breakfast. Where's this? I've got. I know. Yeah, it's so strange. And Mary's like 98, 99, 100 with her brushing. Laura's laying in bed like my son in the morning. Laura, hurry up. You heard, Ma. Don't you? You dare make a slate for school. Not in the very first day. I'm not going. So yeah, it's just one of those type of things. And I remember having that kind of stress as a kid. Yeah. Let's see. So Charles kind of comes in. He's like, hey, everyone, I got the milk. Yeah, he didn't milk that cow.

9:42Now, and we have Mary, who's this basically going to rat out, Laura. Right away, which I guess I can't really blame her either. This is not going. Don't worry, I'll see to it. So Charles. He's so laid back. What is it? He's so laid back. Yeah. Yeah, but whatever. He goes up. He kind of gets it. He pulls the cover. It's going to hurt for me to hear you. Those covers all over the head. I don't want to go. I want to stay here. Well, I wish you could stay. You know, I made a promise to your mom. Told her once we got settled if we were near a school, you and your sister would go. But you need me here. Who's going to help you with the fish traps? Who's going to take care of Jack? You're going to have time for all that. You want me to break a promise that I made to your mom, would you? No, pot.

10:43So I mean, of course in these early episodes, everything's like really soft, right? Right. Oh, wow. But this episode does wake up. It ends up being a pretty decent episode. I carry a super cuteness episode. And on. This is. Look at that face. Yeah. Like, she's lining up just like the girls to make sure they're nice and clean. Mine at her. What? Mary scubs so hard she like to take the skin clean off. Big enough to do your own scrubbing only you won't. I don't like being big. I wish I was carried. It's just really fun. The first it only time anybody was just they were carrying. Right. So, Ma's like sending them off to school but she has something special to give them. Something we will never see again. Let's go to books of yours now. Take good care of them. We will. Well, time to get started. So they head out basically and it's a sweet little moment.

11:48Carries like I'm going to run with them. Good vibes for someone who's gone to the home for a summer. And this is tough. I mean, sending your kids off. You remember what it was like to you know, I don't know if you took a boss or some like that. But you just kind of. I wonder what time it was. It's probably his. They had a long time to walk to school. So it's about two miles. They have a leisurely morning. Yeah, I mean, it's about two miles to the school. So let's say it takes them about what 20 minutes to walk. I don't know. Yeah, it's probably like 730. I don't know what time do you think they start school nine? Maybe so maybe this is like quarter after eight. Yeah, I mean, it depends on if they were sent home for lunch or if they stayed there for lunch or.

12:49A lot of farming communities would send their kids home for lunch so they could get their chores done and then they come back. But these have pal. These kids have pals. Yeah, so they're paying. Yeah, so we go into town. We get to see. Let's see hands on doorflers, blacksmith shop. Hands are pretty good guy to make it's replaced by a rapist. I know. That's kind of crazy, but use a pretty great guy and pretty nice. All right, so we come into town. And immediately the kids love Laura and Mary. There are more kids playing that I've ever seen in my life. And the kids are never the same kids. It's so I mean, it's one of the more irritating aspects of the casting. Like they have like a few core kids, but they couldn't have more repetition. Right. There's new kids every week.

13:50And their skirts are kind of high up. I mean, a little bit. Yeah, compared to the grill and yellow. Yeah. This is, I mean, it is kind of funny how Laura just kind of like throws like some comments around and Mary's like modified. And sound to me, we think it'd be coming to a flak of berry chickens. Laura. Like, what's the big deal? Like I don't understand. Laura. Snipes yourself. A lot of way it snipes. Snipes. Snipes. Snipes are birds, right? So I guess they have birds. Yes, I think they're, they're purry chickens. She's. I'm. I'm. I'm. There she is. By the way, I just noticed her bell is like a handheld bell. But when she comes out, it's like the big, it's like the one that's usually hanging not on the whole church, but there's one where they have to pull the rope.

14:55And there's no way that little bell makes that big ringing sound. I'm going to play one more time. Snipes yourself. A lot of way it snipes. Snipes. Snipes. Snipes. Just looking at their legs. But here. I mean, listen to the bell and look how small that bell is. Snipes. Snipes. Snipes. There's no way that little bell is making that much racket. If Tinker made it. Yeah, right. Maybe. Maybe he knew what he was doing. Yeah. Definitely possible. So we go into school. And this feels like, come on in. The kid is the whitest hair I've ever seen. It is easy. Drawing shade, man. That is nuts. So they're walking in a mortified the at the laser eyes from Nelly. Oh, but she missed the country girls.

15:58Not yet. When she. Yeah, no, she. She. Oh, you're absolutely right. Yeah, you're absolutely right. Sorry. She looks them up and down. Back with the kind of trick girls. Wall that girl. As if Wall that girl was a big metropolis. Right. It's like the head of class, you know. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. You must be the new girls from Plum Creek, aren't you? Yes, man. I'm a speedle. I'm Mary Ingalls, man. And that's Laura. I'm very pleased to meet you. I mean, Nelly is giving her like daggers. It's crazy. And Laura's like, we have our own box.

17:02So they're just like getting set up. Oh, I'm sorry. So just like how much school have you had? None. But I can read. I can't. But I know the alphabet. I thought you got to know. Thank you, Laura. And don't you worry. You'll learn fast. And I'll help you every spare minute I can. Thank you. Even Laura was pretty cute back then. You know, like very slow actress. You're kind of buying into the whole thing. It's pretty good. Pretty good. So everyone's like say hello to Mary and Laura. Well, you can sit together and share your books. So here we get Country Girls number two.

18:02Did you read on your slate? No, man. Well, you can't learn to write properly without a slate. I'll end you mine. Country girls. He's bullying. In other words. Cheshire bells. Cheshire bells. Today we're going to start with sums. Ah! Ah, cheese. Sums. Sums. They ask Willie to go up and write on the board. And Laura has a question. Look at Willie doing the hard math. 3 plus 3 plus 6. Man. How's he ever going to get all those numbers off again? Willie's face is just like you're getting me right now. Like he's landed on earth. Exactly. Silence.

19:02Like whoa. There will be silence in this classroom. Willie Laura has asked a question. Will you please demonstrate the answer? Oh man, I gotta get rid of all my work. Right. And Laura's response is really very Country Girls. Yes. Mary, look. It's clean as a whistle. What did I tell you? Country Girls. Don't even know what a blackboard is. Nelly. It's just ridiculous. So, Zee, we go home and Laura apparently loved school. Right? I mean, that's exactly what pop predicted. And it is, I mean, it's good.

20:03It's a good thing. Laura's learning quickly. And there's putting a lot of pride into education, which is really great. They mentioned Lermot or Bina. Right. So I have a spelling book, an elementary spelling book from 1880, which, and I'm sorry, you had to know how to read in order to use this book. Really? So there's a lot of reading in this book. And is the text like really small? Yeah, I mean, I've just find so many older books have such small types of. Well, that's all types of. Well, probably because the paper was so expensive. Well, I mean, that makes sense. But I mean, I would just imagine that. I say now, you know, like with the, with proper lighting and proper glasses. It's hard to read now. Yeah, making my text as big as I can.

21:05You should. Oh, sorry. But these, I mean, the words that they have. It's more of a kind of a phonics kind of thing, I guess. Does it say what ages? It would be for. This just says elementary spelling book. So I mean, like the basics, right? So and it's right, but it, I mean, it's the basics are far more than I had even in sixth grade. So that's interesting. Before smarter back then. Yeah, I mean, also, I guess I get, maybe a textbook had to go further. Yeah, you know, like when we're growing up, it's kind of like every grade is sectioned. And all that kind of fun stuff. Right. But Laura's is going on and on about her. In fact, you're with Miss Beetle. See Miss Beetle. He's the best teacher in the whole world. Right there, Mary. And Ma's like, I'm a whole world, huh?

22:05Oh, exactly. And I love the little gesture from Charles when she's going on and on. It'd be something special to be even close to your mouth. Oh, here we go. Oh, I do. Well, it's good she looks. I came right out and asked. And she told me she wear something called lemon verbina. She's the most beautiful lady I ever saw. Except for Ma, of course. Yeah, she's one of the good hit. She wants extra pieces. And all that want to get hit. Right. Let's see. She must be something special to be even close to your mom. Charles. Charles. How about you, Mary? Do you like school today? There's a real nice girl named Kristi. She'll probably be my best friend. Unlikely. And I'll never see her again. I feel like we do see her again. But she may not be Kristi. I don't think we're seeing Sandy are in the tinker episode.

23:07But. Then they go away. Yeah. Sean Penn takes them away. Pinker. Yeah. Anybody in particular you like Laura? Someone in particular I don't like that. Snippy Nellie. Laura. You know what you call best country girls. Well, you're a country girl. There's nothing bad about that. There is the way she said it. Look at the country girls. Made me so mad. I wanted to smack her good. And I just admit it. I don't know how you're talking like it. So Charles jumping on that instead of... I mean, Caroline already corrected her. But it's interesting that he's like... Yeah. You know, hey. You go to school to learn. He throws fists. Yeah. He's always doing it. He's always going to fight. Yeah. Fight. Part of what you have to learn is how to get on with others. All right. I'll try. You only see it. It's reputable.

24:07You want more just try. Remember Laura. Do one two others. That's right. That means no name, Colin. No fighting. And no teasing. Understood? Yes, sir. Don't. You didn't say no. I doubted. Yeah. Exactly. Disreputable. So they had the bed and... They're just like... You know, doing their like basic banter. It's like nothing too great here, but it's sweet. Let's see. Mary says... Spelling another word. What you doing? Fat. F-A-T. Fat. F-A-T. Fat. Fing it. To see, we go into the mercantile. Look how little Willie is. It's just really bananas. I don't find Willie. I don't find him. It's still going on. You're famous. Now, I think in this particular scene, Nelson's being weird too much of a pushover.

25:17Don't you think? I'm not even. I'm not even for the kids. Yeah, he's... Definitely. How are he's being hard out of here? Now, this store is not a playoff. Willie, do you hear me? Out. So where are we going? Like, he's just ignoring the fact that they're raiding the candy. Exactly. Now, what can I do for you? Get out of the candy. Yeah. It's bizarre. I... Go ahead. Keep it. It's all ours anyway. We can have as much candy as you want. Even that comment, he could have corrected it. I don't know. I just feel like Nelson's... Maybe he's just unaware. We just have to... Here we are. So they need a pencil. And it's going to cost another penny. And they don't have it. Which is a real bummer. I feel like Nelson should have insisted that they take it.

26:18Exactly. But instead... He doesn't. Well, that would be another penny. I don't think the kind of two girls have another penny. What do you think, Willie? I'm telling you, too, for the last time. Now, you get on out of here. I would have made no idea of the penny. Yeah. Exactly. Now block a cheese that we get a good shot of later. I don't know what kind of cheese that is. Do you? I don't know. It's probably moldy by now. Yeah. I mean, it's good old Minnesota cheese. Government cheese. Yeah. Well, if you weren't planning on buying a pencil, I imagine you were a little short. You just take it along with you anyhow and tell your part of pay me the next time it comes into town. No, sir. Cash on the barrel. Cash on the barrel. Mom makes that a strict rule. Cash on the barrel. That's a good one. Really? Because I think...

27:18I told he needs something. I mean, I think he even has stuff on credit in the first episode. Yeah, he does. But it gets the horses and... Oh, the oxen. The oxen, yeah. So most folks find it hard to live by. We thank you anyway, Mr. Ross. Cash on the barrel. You're welcome, girls. Bye-bye. Bye. So they need a penny. They decide they're going to raid their Christmas penny. Solutions. No, no. I mean, that's a thing also with kids if they're kind of... All right. So the issues I have with the fact that Laura can't read and all of this stuff is that how come Caroline wasn't pushing more of this at home? Because she was busy building a log cabin and keeping carry out of the string. I mean, you're not wrong, right? But, you know, part of her job is going to be to educate the girls. And America can read at the very least Mary can help Laura get started.

28:22Well, yeah, I don't know. Let's do like my kids. We could never homeschool. One of us would not make it out a lot. It just wouldn't work. It would not work. Yeah. My kids graduating this year in two months. Oh, is going off to university, I guess in the fall. You already? Is that early? No, he's not graduating early. He's 17. Oh, okay, because, oh, I, because I thought he was supposed to remind. I'm 16. Oh, okay. 16 and he's a sophomore this year. Yeah, he's a senior. Maybe you're started early. No, he's just doing his, I think he's regular. He'll be 18 in June. Oh, okay, okay. And yeah, he's psyched about he committed to university of Albany. And he's going to first become a nurse and then expanding to a physician's assistant.

29:27And then if he likes to enter the world of spending like a decade or two, you have becoming a doctor. I don't know. Be doc baker. Well, the goal is for him to be Dr. J. Oh, yeah. No. I don't know if it's worth the price in the time. No. But he's psyched about it. For him. Yeah. It's a lot of stress. But education comes at a cost. So with Laura, you know, she is kind of going really quickly through this and picking things up in a great way. And seems like you know, Miss Beato is really mentoring her. And her handwriting on the numbers isn't that bad. No, it really isn't.

30:27I hate writing with chalk, you know, like, yeah, I'm a left. I loved it. I'm a lefty. So it was like, it was impossible. So reading Tiki Birdland. Laura's coming along. Great picture. Jack. Oh, Jack. And Jack's always fighting, you know, Jack. Jack. There's a boat. All right. Whenever you see Jack. I'll never let go. You know, well, Titanic action. So we're playing, um, Run the Rosie. Only Maryls. So when everyone is playing anything but running around a Rosie. Now we play something else. I didn't want to. Is it ring around the Rosie like ringworm or something? No, it's like a death camp. It's it was during the plague.

31:29I'm looking this up. Yeah, Ring Run Rosie is a popular nursing rhyme. I'll know it's often falsely believed to be about the 1665 Great Plague of London, but a reality. It originated as a 19th century children's game. The dark interpretation only emerged in the mid 20th century. And it's considered a myth or folklore. But you know what? Who knows? I mean, I thought it had some. A lot of the poses. Ashes ashes. We all fall down. I mean, that's. I don't understand. That's. To me, it doesn't sound that much like a child's game. No. I call BS. Much like the muffin man. The muffin man. I think I can't drop buttons. All right.

32:29I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We're in game. Yeah. It's. When do we? See that again. I'm sorry. I'm cutting it. It's a boring game. Bring around the Rosie. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, all they're doing is going in a circle and falling, right? Yeah. Boring. This is where Nell's is selling weed by the pound. Yes. To the old lady. I'm poor comma. That's right. Now home home. Yeah. Thank you. Give my best to Eli. And tell him not to make himself such a stranger. Thank you, Nell. I will. Eli. Who the? That's probably Eli's head in there. Yeah, right. Aussie. So Caroline comes in to meet. I'm Nell's in Harriet. One that grew. One that grew. That grew. That grew. That grew. I miss his angles.

33:30How do you do, Mrs. Engels? I believe I am. I have the perfect music for when we see Harriet for. Has been spoke with you? Yes, yes, yes indeed. Yes, yes. A fresh eggs. He said you're violent. Yes, yes, you're fine looking woman, Caroline. Yes, we do. I do the buying. I do the buying. I do the buying. I do the buying. I do the buying. I do the buying. I do the buying. Misses Engels? My wife? How do you do, Mrs.었어? Nell is told me about your round girls. All good, I hope? How many do we have here? Three dozen. Oh. Brown. Huffie's eggs are brown. I like brown eggs. No, thanks. She should paint them white. Bright spray paint them. So she's like, they get four cents less a dozen. How much do you think they were selling dozens of eggs for?

34:31I don't know. How? I mean, it comes only like one egg a day, so how many chickens did she have? I mean, Carol, but I think Caroline collects them for a few days. Right. And then brings them. She might have like six chickens, you know, but she would need enough for herself as well. Maybe they more, I'm not sure. But I think, I mean, nowadays, I mean, egg prices used to be like crazy. Another back down to like, I don't know, $1.50 a dozen or something. And it's, so I mean, that's a little over 10 cents an egg. Like 12 cents an egg. I mean, I'm wondering how much, how much were people paying for eggs back in 1874? I wish I knew. I don't know. I mean, then I have to wonder maybe eggs actually were kind of pricey because in order to obtain

35:33an egg, you would have to have chickens normally. Right. Right. So maybe they were kind of worth a little bit more than what we think. I don't know. But you think of eggs as like, yeah, not a big deal, but back then. But back then, you used it for everything. Yeah. I don't bring as much as right. And the way that Harry takes the cloth off and she's like barely touching it and like it's disgusting. It's just insulting and Caroline take begrudgingly takes and sells the brown eggs for four cents less for a dozen. So eggs were 28 cents per dozen in 1874. Oh, really? All right. And they could be higher for localized costs during scarcity. So now there are five times more. Right. So the only thing that is cheap.

36:34So Caroline is like sitting there doing a needle point or is that what it's called needle point when it's going to start? Yeah, she's going needle point. And I don't know. Did you ever chance to look at what she's needle pointing like what she's creating? No. I'm going to get a freeze frame of it. Ready, quiet tonight. Yes, it hasn't been a word on it for more than an hour. So it's their house. Oh, it looks like a goose there. See? I mean, I mean, maybe it is a goose. I mean, it's it's it's it's it's it's it's like their house. Um, so I just like to know what happened to this little needle point going on. Oh, oh, oh.

37:35I met Mrs. Olson today. Oh. Melis anything like her mother? I can understand why Laura's been so upset. Do you know what she told me? She told me brown eggs bring less than white. Must be something peculiar to Minnesota. I never heard of that before. You never heard it before because it isn't true. She paid me four cents less a dozen for the brown and then she turned around and sold them for exactly the same as the white. I was buying this thread. I heard her do it. I talked to her husband. He's a fair man. No. You do that. She won't buy any eggs. We need the money. I'll handle it. I'm going to fight your own battle. This one and Charles, I intend to win. I think it's nice. I like this Caroline.

38:35This is one of those things I didn't remember. Nelly pushing Laura down three times. I mean, all right, the first time I guess tried to shake it off, but the second time those are that's fight. That's like the beginning of the fight. But she actually took a third push. I was really surprised. Laura, I don't want to play your crappy game. I want to play my crappy game. I'll play duck play. Watch how we send it in. Stop. It's crazy. If you listen to Melissa Gilbert now, she sounds exactly the same. Kind of. Yeah, she kind of does. You have it your way every single day, Nelly. Well, today I want to play Uncle John. We were on the bruising. Uncle John.

39:36You want to fight. All fight. You want to play. We're playing Uncle John. What if nobody else wanted to play Uncle John? Exactly. Nelly, this is abrupt edit, which I kind of appreciate in the way because it's just really almost comical. But Laura basically tells the parents what happened and they're pretty good about it. Right. I mean, I'm sure your kids have gotten into trouble, right? This funny because this year I was going over that with, or I mean, like little time for he's gotten into trouble here and there nothing major. And it's I don't know. It's kind of comical because especially when he could look back at it. Right. Not in the moment. Yeah, not in the moment. But even in the moment, I never, I was even a way I was raised. If I got into trouble, my mother would just kind of laugh it off.

40:39Like she just, I was also kind of an eccentric kid. So the things I would get in trouble for would be big eyerollers. Right. But yeah, I mean, I just think some things that are just silly. Like for instance, Rami, when he was younger, put a pencil tip in a lock. So when the person with the key destroyed the lock, he didn't do it on purpose. He was joking around. This is like fourth grade, you know, and he got in trouble for it, but he admitted to it. Um, stupid things like that. Yeah. But the child said it was now he's formed. He didn't take the pencil and stab a kid with it or anything like that. Well, there you go. That's not good. That would not be funny. No. I was asked around the other cheek. Well, I think that's sometimes easier said than done.

41:40And we'd all be wearing halos instead of homes fun. So Charles is picking up the fiddling. He's going to fiddle his way into a popcorn. Uh, it's kind of like I think it's his move because the look at her reaction. Like she even knows like the, you know, Fiddles out. It's tuned. Yeah. You're as bad as she is. So it doesn't make sense though. What the fiddle. Yeah. And she saying yours bad. She is right. Okay. Well, I mean, unless of course we had context to it. Right. So you obviously you've seen like the new little ass and a prairie trailer, right? Yes. What is the if thoughts on this? Well, I want to know where Carrie is. Because she is. Yeah. Is there where to be seen? Um, I don't know.

42:42They combine a whole, but I think they're, they're, they can close. Shoulder the book, I guess then, then the show, which is fine. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's what they're saying. Right. I mean, I don't know for sure if they're going to stick so closely to the books. It looks as though it's going to be semi family friendly, which I think is a pleasure. I hope so. Yeah. Um, I'm going to watch it. Obviously, I'm going to review it. And it's really, um, I don't. I mean, I have episodes coming out where I kind of really go into it. And I even have a little mini episode that's going to come out. And I mean, all in all, I'm anxious to see what they're going to do with it. Right. Now the costumes are supposed to be right on point. I really? You're supposed to be more authentic than this show than the original show.

43:44I saw an interview with a costume designer. Now, as somebody who doesn't really care about that kind of thing, right? Right. I don't, how important is that? I don't know. Well, like, maybe it's important to other people. You mom will wear a corset. She doesn't wear a corset in this show. You wear the corset because it keeps you upright and it keeps you more away from leading to close into the fire. I mean, every piece of clothing had a purpose. Yeah, I just know that because we have, we have a living history days. Mm hmm. And I have a woman who dresses in a period appropriate. Does she have well bone? Yes. Well bone is one of those crazy things that you didn't, you know, until you go down that rabbit hole, you didn't realize how big of a deal well bone was in the 19th century

44:48and earlier. Yep. Yeah, I mean, I know you're deeply involved in history and you know, in these things, it's so there. I'm sure there is a demographic out there. There's a certain audience that's going to be like, oh, that's totally period correct, but it needs to also have that story. Right. Right. My argument is the books are not that interesting. Um, yeah, people like, you know, yelling at me right now, but, but they're not. Yeah, some of them aren't. I mean, like the long winter really wasn't all that interesting, but they're not meant to be their kids books. They're just supposed to be colorful and fun, easy to read, simple stories. And that's why I feel is on my Kalandon, you know, really kind of went into a different universe with little house in a hurry. I would have really enjoyed it if they had changed the name from little house in a

45:55hurry, maybe a little house in the big woods or something. Um, oh, the new one. Yeah. This one. Yeah, the new one because I mean, for one, it's, you know, maybe that's where they're starting. It's possible. Right. Yeah, with that book. But it was they could have done little town on the prairie. They could have just, yeah, I'm just not really sure what's to be expected. And a lot of people also pointed out how the Mary and Laura are older, um, appear to be older in that trailer that they are in real life. Right. We'll see July 9th coming. Coming. So here we have a popular, very common through the window type of shot. They would do this over and over and over again.

46:58Let's see. So Caroline goes back into the mercantile. She's ready to fight. She has her boxing gloves on. She does. I expect you're here to apologize, but what happened yesterday at the school? I'm here to sell a ex-Mrs. Olson. I might have expected as much. She's a lot of like little clips. Oh, please. I expected as much. Let me tell you something, Mrs. Ingrams. Your daughter, Laura, is a troublemaker and you best take her in hand starting fights in the school yard. This is the most terrible thing I've ever heard. And pushing off the children round. Nally apparently has her own version of the truth. If you kick it. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. You had a question the other children. The eggs are still four cents less. Get a job. You didn't bring any brown eggs. Oh, my husband sold them to the men at Hanson's mill.

48:00For three cents or more than you paid me. It's gratitude. Now that's good business. Maybe they'll buy you a plate of eggs as well. It's a matter of fact. My husband said they'd be glad to get them. Good day, Mrs. Olsen. Oh, now Mrs. Ingrams, everyone's going to be the supplier. Yeah, she's like, also my weed right down the street then. Nally, the mafia queen of Walmart grew. These eggs? These eggs sell themselves. Every street corner I want it to be. He's got some mighty five eggs. Stick our own every street corner in this prairie. A very busy woman took busy to quibble over pennies. And Nally's is like, oh, that's ample, Mrs. Ingrams. We'll buy your brown eggs. We'll buy your brown eggs. Same price as the one.

49:03She's like, I thought so. So we start looking at material. And Harriet has to interject. Is more to your needs. Thank you, Mrs. Olsen. I prefer this. Won't wear well. Country folk have to think more on the practical. Do you notice they have a little sign? This is fresh eggs daily. I mean, they are literally advertising Caroline's eggs. Yes, I wonder who else brings some eggs. I bet she's the main supplier. Thanks to Doc Baker. Exactly. I think we'll be. Egg, exactly. It would be a mistake. It would be my mistake. I believe it's customary to let the buyer do the choosing, Mrs. Olsen. Sarah says, not eat. That's not eat Caroline rich girl attitude. Yeah, that's a high group with walls. That's quite all right.

50:05That's a girl who grew up with curtains. Charm Nell's. Thank you, God. I'll take a dress length, please. Well, it does come dear, but there's not a finer piece of goods in the store. It's going to look right smart on you, Mrs. Ingles. Pack it up. Nell's back up. She's not around. I was going to come smack you. Yeah, like you can't be talking that way. Oh, you have Mary. Mary, man. No, Mary will come in there. Don't talk to my mom. Oh, my God. Send it away. Have you ever noticed how hard Mary slaps Lauren's next scene? And Lauren's about to really, really cry. I've heard that, but then I don't know if I believe it because her voice shows no indication of that. Yeah, but if you look at her, if you look at her eyes, she does look it. Let's see if they're trying not to cry or trying not to laugh.

51:06Don't touch, Laura. You'll get it all grubby. I don't know if it's that. See, at first she's smiling. And then, but then it does look like her eyes are starting to well up. Let's be spending so much money on myself. If Mrs. Oleson just hadn't gone on so about country folks, is it well, we're fit to wear flowers? Oleson go, but it's like I'm going to kick your ass later. I am going to put gum in your hair. X. I'm glad you bought it. So am I. So am I. What are you carrying? Pride goes before fall. Now house. Though, she's like, it's got to go back. And then they're like, no, no, no. Peace of heaven. I'm going to start this weird crack in the wall. What am I going to do with the lava?

52:12I'm going to start this weird crack in the wall. What am I going to do with the lava? So they have just tons of eggs. I don't know. You know, it's Prairie Hills. Apparently, they're, they're, they have enough eggs so then Laura can walk with Ma or Lauren and Mary can walk with Ma three times a week. Yeah. That's a lot of eggs. I mean, sounds are good. Layers. They're good. Layers. Um, let's see. Let's see. Oh, yeah. So we have this little scene. It's nice.

53:13Like getting really involved with her score. It's one of the weirdest scenes. It's like the wizard of all us. Yeah. We're quite having a wizard every day. Basically, everybody in town will be there. You and Ma and all the parents and all the kids. And you get to see what Mary and me say. And I just want to say about anything we want. We think the people who make this podcast. We have a great new good rest. I am able to produce the podcast, the stickers and creative cards and all types of other goodies that are maldout to you. If you would like to support WarnerCost and get some of these goodies delivered to your mailbox, please visit patreon.com slash. Want to grow cast any support is appreciated now back to the show. So they're working on their ss. Sweet. Ma and Mary and me worked hard and steady that whole week.

54:16But before we knew it, time was up. Visitors day was the next morning. Ma's dress was pretty near gun. And so was Mary's essay. I like these little moments in the early episodes where everyone's just kind of hanging out. You know, it's just it's very relaxed and sweet. What's hanging on the back of that chair? Is that the here? Is that material? Yeah. Yeah, looks like a dark material though. Indians having to move on. And how he came to plum creek. How's that sound? That sounds good to me. Sounds like some of the larynx powder. It's horrible. It's that's terrible. How about that? So we're going to talk about Laura's being a little bit nervous. Not like Mary. It's not supposed to be like Mary's. She's older than you are.

55:16She knows more. Or is this an s? I know lots of words, Ma. No, it's a my letter is T. Trouble is there in my head. And I can't get them down on paper like they're supposed to be. All I know how to write little words. It's all you're supposed to know. You just speak up, Todd. I feel better. I'm saying that because it's true. So yeah, she's just nervous. And Charles gets woken up by Caroline the mill the night. She's being suspicious. Now here's the angle we don't normally see. This is like from up in the loft looking. And that's usually where the camera is. Right. That whole wall. They could have pot down for carry this on that's kind of interesting. Yeah, there's an episode where Charles is actually building the. High chair, which I thought was okay. Yeah. And then it's the one they start using, which is kind of incredible.

56:16You know, like nice. You know, continuity. So let's see, we're going to have the begin reveal. So she comes out with two blue dresses. Mary's like, do you want me to hit Laura if she goes to touch her? I'm glad you do. People are pretty. Yeah. Mom, can you use your yarn goods to make dresses for us? And why not? My brown dress is perfectly good. Besides, I don't have to get up from all those people like you do. We wouldn't have minding wearing our callacos.

57:16We wouldn't have to mind it. Well, I would have minded. How long are you going to make me wait to see how they look on you? I'm going to put mine on right now. I sure would do that. Be more as grateful. Yeah, it's sweet. We have Willie reading about his enjoyment of writing horses. I think I'll carry it around it. Yeah. My days, I like writing horses more than I like. That would have been kind of funny if Harry had ridden it. And then he has to ask her how to pronounce a word. Because I know what this word is. Right. More than I like, I like writing horses. My part is going to buy me a pony. He will let me pick out any pony in the... We have Mrs. Foster there, right?

58:18Yes. So we know Mrs. Foster has twins, but they're be... I think it's the dude behind her. Before her kids. I don't think they're born yet, just her kids. But this isn't open to the town. This is for parents. You'll be a creepo. Get out! The whole town will be there. It's your danger. That's what I think. I've never seen these people in my entire life. No. To buy for me for my birthday. It's so proud of himself. That was a horrible ending. Yeah. I noticed Nelly isn't clapping at all. So this is the old time to play Nelly's entire. That's a very nice dress. I love that dress. My home.

59:18My home. My home is the best house in all of Walnut Grove. We have carpets in every room, bottom carpets. We have three sets of dishes. One for every day, one for Sunday, and one for when someone... It's the most terrible thing I've ever heard. For someone special and very important comes to visit. Which way do you say water, Cun? We have real lace curtains. And six genuine oil paintings. And... Six genuine oil paintings. And I have my own room and Willie has his own. All of our furniture is bought in two and it costs a whole lot. If I told you how much you probably fainted away. My paul, since Merkin Tile, says talking about how much things cost is in profit.

1:00:20But it costs dear. I can tell you that. And it's the nicest furniture of any furniture in any house in Walnut Grove. And she's clapping early so she... Oh my god. Partically the only one clapping. Laura's goes on for a bit. But she basically says some really nice things about mom. How she's sacrificing everything for her. We found out she made dresses for the two of us instead. Can that paper be more wrinkly, by the way? Well, she crushed it. I know, but... When she was riding on it. But it's like... You don't uncrump it and then take it, rewrite it. That's why she's paper crossed money. Hey. I love this. That's the kind of mother-mouse. Don't crumple it. And that's why we love her so much.

1:01:20Now this is a fitted wig that looks good, right? Yes. But there are times where it just doesn't look right at all. You see how the doll is clapping? Yeah. I was surprised she didn't stand up and go, you didn't write that. You! Right. So everyone's like, what's up? You're a little bit more than Caroline having experience in knowing her daughter confronts her. Alright. What you said today was beautiful. And I treasured as long as I live. But... You're a filthy little liar, aren't you? It wasn't what you had to get beat on the paper, was it? It's what I wouldn't have written if I could.

1:02:21I know that dear. But it wasn't really an essay. Was it? It was an S. Well, I mean, it was an oral essay. Right. No, ma. So they're like, wow, we're getting better now in torture. You know who. This is a fond of a good teacher. And a good parent? Mrs. Ailes. You and your husband must know who drew that. I don't know, a circuit artist. Yeah, it's not bad. That's the, you know, that's Hansen's, uh, mercantile. I mean, I'm, Hansen's, well. Be very proud of your girls today. We are. And you young lady. You gave one of the finest recitations. It's been my pleasure to hear. She embellished a little. But you're still getting a zero. Right. I'm going to pay for Miss Beetle. That's minus.

1:03:21Oh. So we get the big reveal where it says, ma's good. She works hard. She cooks. She's so. She's so. She's dull. It's not bad, right? So. Miss Beetle's like. The penmanship needs a little improvement. I think with a little more hard work, by the time the school years out, she'll have that mastered as well. I try to kill her in a blizzard. Well. But I'll certainly try. Thank you, Miss Beetle. Miss Beetle's on. I'm going to try to kill you. So they head out. We get a nice little voice over. Ma took Mary's essay in mind, too. She said she was going to put them in the special box,

1:04:22where she kept the schoolbooks and her wedding dress and everything she loved most. Made us proud she'd want them for remembering. But I knew, even without the papers, there wasn't one of us likely to forget that day, not ever. Aww. Aww. And that's it. Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm glad you're doing well. I'm glad you've done. Episode two is on the books again. There you go. But I'm, and I want to thank you so much for getting together and doing this. What have you been up to? Like, you know, have you, I'm having any projects in front of you? I know you were working on a podcast for a while. Yeah. We're still doing our podcast. It's all destroyed. So can that just, I think somebody just church searches for historic, I'd on Spotify or Apple. Yes, on spot, we're on Spotify and we're on YouTube. Alright.

1:05:22Awesome. And the YouTube one center, our chestnut square. Yeah. I'll put a link to them, the show notes and I'll be checking that out. And then we're getting ready to do a, a show, a show, a show, a show, a show, a show, a show, we got 400 quilts donated to us a couple last year. And we have 150 something crazy quilts that we have curated into our collection from this one lady. And we're getting ready to put them on display at the end of, a. So what will you be auctioning them off? Or. We'll be selling some of them, but we want to keep a lot of them together. So we're gonna buy from the late 1860s to early 1930s, yeah. Like one of them has a campaign ribbon. From Grant. As a soldier, though his campaign as a soldier,

1:06:23and then one has a political campaign ribbon of Lincoln. Wow. Yeah, and then one has a death ribbon from you at you, Lissy says Grant. So they're just, they're so pretty. That's so nice and so historical and a good luck with that. That's, um, yeah, I mean, yeah, displaying quilts can be a little bit of a struggle. But the way I've seen it is, um, kind of like when you would go and buy a poster when you were a kid, they have those doors that you would flip. Yeah, no, this is we're going to be displaying them on tables. Oh, okay. Though people can see them like, that's all. They can kind of get up and close and personal, but they're not going to be able to touch them. Obviously. And when is that? It's the weekend of May 22nd through the 24th. Oh, wow. The, um, and we're with people.

1:07:24People who go and learn more about that. Hmm. Where would people be able to learn about that? On our Facebook page, we have a lot. I put out a lot of information on Chestnut Square Heritage Village's Facebook page. Um, and then on our website at, uh, ChestnutSquare.org. So chestnuts where dot org. And, um, yeah, I'll make sure everything is put in the show notes and, um, good luck with it. That sounds really, that sounds great. I know you have, um, you have an itch that you're always scratching when it comes to historical, um, artifacts. Yes. Yes. Yeah, I think that's really incredible. And I've learned more about crazy quilts and I've ever. They're very interesting. That's awesome. Well, I hope you have a lot of fun with it. Um, again, thank you so much for taking the time to do this. I appreciate it. Oh, I loved it. And anytime you want any books or anything from the 1800s, just let me know and I'll look.

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