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Speaker 2 (02:37):
Well.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Hello Boneheads, Welcome Mack, thank you.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
For being here.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
I'm Pamela Bob, your host I'm the creator and start
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with our beloved prairie bitch. That's right, the blonde bombshell
Alison Ingram their shoes, yes, but I'm showing it out
and of course my hashtag imaginary boyfriend, our other blonde

(03:04):
bomb shellding Butler.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Are hi, Pamela? How are you.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Always such good Harodane?

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Oh? Well, you know, you just get out of the
shower and run a brush through it. That's it. Yeah,
that's secret right there.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
I do a little gel you product.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
No, I see it, and you've got the nice bangs
I do.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Make it shiny and make it shiny.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, and you've got lip gloss on too, because that's
an important aspect.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
There's some line a bit chaint nothing with over lip gloss.
I don't know who said it, but it's true.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
It must be you. I bet you said it.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Alrighty well, you guys are are heading out very soon.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Rude again, Yeah we are? This is this really is
we zero in on the actual celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of Little House. We are really starting to travel
now through the end of the year. We're off to
Connecticut this weekend with Jack Bishop's Gravel Road Markets for
a fiftieth anniversary celebration in Hartford Hertford at Kids Play

(04:03):
Museum and in Torrington at the beautiful Hillstead Museum. So
it's going to be three days of little house love
in Connecticut.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
And then because we're completely out of her mind, I
have no idea right around and go after straight from Connecticut,
straight form Connecticut to Pennsylvania, do this whole thing, not
Lancaster like we say in California, but Lancasta in Pennsylvania,
Lancasta for September third and fourth, we're going to do
it all again out there at two different locations, and
your your sister Lucy Lee, Lucy Lee Flipp and Miss

(04:34):
Eliza James supposed to be joining us. Yeah, we get
her that love.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Having Lucy there. At least that people want to know
about any of these events, they can check out gravel
roadmarket dot com for times and ticket information.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
So yes, can't believe her at the end of August already,
it's incredible, Happa.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, it's incredible.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
The first hole, the whole first half of the year
is just a complete blur. It has been amazing.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
And then I'm going to French again because again I'm
in Shane, so for.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
A while, right, for a long time.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
We're going to be.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Like seven shows. I'm heading out October. You're just month
of October.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
It's incredible you all in French, you are you are
totally bilingual with all of your Yeah, it's just it's
just awesome. Good for you, good for you. So and
what's so Patreon Penal Justice tell people about Patreon.

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Speaker 2 (05:50):
Listen. You know something that something that you and I
need to Allison, you and I need to talk about
is that we are going to be making an appearance
at the initial What Country Con. Yeah, May twenty twenty five.
This is just we're just announcing this year the first time. Yes,
we are booking next year.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
It's definitely never heard of Country Con.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
I guess it's brand new.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's really cool. Okay, it's an old friend of mine,
Robert la New from from ETV. Great guy calls me up.
So the people have done this, They've done a whole
bunch of cons and events, so they're cool. But new
is Country Con in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Brand new and we're
going to be there.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
We're going to be there. But today, Pamela, but today.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yes, yes, yes, Today is really exciting as we as
we look ahead to Little House is actual fiftieth anniversary,
which the actual day to September eleventh.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
We're also looking back to.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Our fiftieth anniversary celebration in Siam Valley, which was pretty epic,
and talking.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
About Cozy TV.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
That's right, who would we be without Cozy TV? We
would And an all new documentary produced by Cozy TV,
which is really the brilliant.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
We've just seen. We've seen a pro I've seen promo.
I don't know if you've seen it, you're in it.
They put out a promo. This is the show. We're
going to talk to them all about this, but it's
very exciting. We could not have done what we did
with see Me without the support of Cozy TV. They've
been an incredible partner for us. So very exciting. So

(07:20):
let's get to it.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
So yeah, but before we meet them, I just have
to say that from the studios of UBNO in Burbank, California,
me from New York City, this is a Little House
fiftieth Anniversary podcast.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Okay, okay, okay, let's get right.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
To today's special guests had been so important to the
build up to this fiftieth anniversary.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
No, they have been. You know when we started this process,
when Alison you were right there at the very beginning
of this, and it was Rachel Greenbush and super fans,
and then the Seemi Valley Chamber of Commerce got involved,
and that brought us eventually to Cozy TV, who stepped

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in because they're so vested in Little House and and
Eric Can have been airing it continuously for a long time.
They were so great to get involved with our program.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Know, we we love Cozy because Cozy also does really
cool Little House promos. They do really funny promos and
stuff they've done so Mary like Nelly's worst moments, Nelly
Evil Nelly videos.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Are they all worst moments?

Speaker 1 (08:39):
They are my worst moment. Cozy has definitely done Nelly
highlight things.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
And I want to know knows Little House so well
that well, I guess we'll meet them. Let's bring them on.
Producers Cody Broadway, Aggie Phodoor, and the creative director of
Cozy TV, Tom Hill. Welcome you guys, Welcome.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Welcome, welcome, here there they are here.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
What a name, Cody Broadway. I want to be named
Cody Broadway.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
The best name ever, name, great, great, great name.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Tom.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
I want to start with you, please, will you? Will
you tell our audience about Cozy TV as if they
don't know what it is already and it's connection to
Little House.

Speaker 6 (09:24):
Please, Well, we are thank you, and we're happy to
be here. I'm excited about everything that's been going on.
But Cozy TV has been around about eleven years now,
digital broadcast available in many places, you know, on an
antenna it's old school TV on an old school way,
but also in lots of cable channels and things like that.

(09:47):
And yeah, we added Little House and just looked it
up twenty sixteen, so it's been good eight years and
It's been always popular, always a big part of our schedule.
Currently on every morning for three hours. We're adding an hour.

Speaker 7 (10:01):
I'm going to go to four September.

Speaker 6 (10:02):
So there's just you can't get enough of it, right,
And yes, we've had a little bit of fun over
the years, so doing what we do, which is putting
a little spin on it and putting a contemporary spin off.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Again, that's right up my alley. You're talking, you're you're
You're right in my wheelhouse. I love that so much.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Well, Tom, Tom, I'm wondering, you know, you've been involved
in your ongoing career life a lot with vintage television
I described as vintage television, and I think that's probably
what brought you to Cozy is your is your connection
and your ability to work with vintage television programs. I'm
just curious as we approach the fiftieth anniversary, and from

(10:43):
someone who's really inside it, where does the Little House
stand and the pantheon of of you know, of of
family television that you know you're talking to who has
stood the test of time.

Speaker 6 (10:55):
And well, I don't have to pretend it's obvious, I know, yeah.

Speaker 7 (11:03):
It's yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
No, my career I have.

Speaker 6 (11:05):
I've spent my whole life in rerun, so somehow the
other I stumbled into niked Knight back when it was
dawning back end of Nickelodeon. Yeah, yeah, I was there
Nick Night and tv Land And actually I was, I
was remembering, in the terms of silly promos, we we
did a wonderful thing at tv Land. Now here, I
am already talking about tv Land instead of Cozy TV.

Speaker 7 (11:25):
What am I doing here?

Speaker 2 (11:25):
I'm not a good It's okay.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
I was on tv Lan a bunch dug well, I.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Mean, Melissa Gilbert and I won an award for TV
at tv Land is the greatest kiss of all time
on television.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
And it's like, I have my award on the Mantle Piece,
my awards dance.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
It's character my award.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
I got my character most desperately need of a time out.
I got it all the Mantle money.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's awesome. That's awesome.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
Teve Land Awards was always an epic part of our year.

Speaker 7 (11:58):
Yeah, actually I was.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
I was just recalling that we did a promo with well,
you know, I shouldn't even get into politics, but Donald
Trump promos for the tv Land Awards one year shining
the shoes of JR. Ewing.

Speaker 7 (12:11):
It was just a just getting started as a reality star. Wow.

Speaker 6 (12:19):
But but yeah, but the one thing we did that
was so epic for Tea or Little House was the
Half Pints, a heavy metal band.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yes, yes, they were great. Remember Yes, there was a
bunch of dudes in half pint drag with big braids
playing guitars.

Speaker 7 (12:34):
Awesome, Awesome, it was completely crazy. It's probably somewhere out
there and.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
They have videos and everything. Yeah, they had these metal
songs about the party.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
But Tom, I'm sorry, I have to I got to
get Tom to answer this question. It's like, so you
know what the question, Yeah, so I mean where do
where do you as you look at it as a
purveyor of vintage television, you know, where does the Little
House stand in that?

Speaker 8 (12:58):
In that conversation, it's well, I remember we at one
point did pick one hundred greatest episodes and and uh
and Mary going Blind.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yeah, I'll be waving as you drive away.

Speaker 6 (13:12):
That was just like the one that just wrenched everybody's
heart and was so unforgettable.

Speaker 7 (13:19):
And yeah, but yeah, I mean and again.

Speaker 6 (13:23):
It's so apples and the largest right the sitcoms, right,
is it better than Seinfeld or the Simpsons?

Speaker 7 (13:29):
You know, how do you even compare.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
To ye it's just different. It's different. It's different, yea.

Speaker 7 (13:34):
But it certainly stood the test of time, right, I
mean in the.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Fact that you have four hours of air time every
morning Dedicational House and other networks have twenty four hours
of Little House. I mean it's something. Something's still going
on with a Little House.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
It's still works.

Speaker 7 (13:53):
I'll say top twenty five.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah, we'll just roughly sure. That's not bad. Consider the
thousands of the series titles that have been created over
the years. That's that's not a bad place to be,
not a bad place to be.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
So Alison, I want to I want to also say
hi and introduce Aggie photoor Hi Aggie, how are you.

Speaker 9 (14:17):
Here?

Speaker 3 (14:19):
But I'm the jerk that before we started recording said,
oh do you get a lot of Game of Throne
comparisons or photo? That's just being okay, moving on.

Speaker 6 (14:32):
I'll jump in and say, Aggie is the true expert
on the show within.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
So really, Oh so you were a fan already, you know?

Speaker 9 (14:42):
So I was already a fan of the show and
then rewatching it again as an adult, you know, it's
part of my job to promote it. I just had
a whole new appreciation for the show, and you know,
gathered so many tibbets. Yeah, and of course interviewing the cast,
learned even more about the show that I didn't know.

(15:02):
So that was really fantastic.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
What a fun job.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
I would love being the person that could do the
promos for Little Else on the Prairie.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
That's awesome.

Speaker 7 (15:12):
In the midst of right now.

Speaker 6 (15:14):
We do a thing sometimes with shows where we do
a kind of a hot mix of one second of
every episode.

Speaker 7 (15:21):
Wow, that's cool. And six months ago I said, Aggie
really got to do one. She's been doing it.

Speaker 9 (15:30):
I'm almost done with it. I'm almost done with it.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
That must take you forever.

Speaker 9 (15:35):
Well, we talk about it because you know, in order
to really do it quickly, you have to not be
too too vested, right, But I was sort of really
bent on, like trying to find the quintessential second from
each episode that she would tell people.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
They're still going to take how long? Tease?

Speaker 2 (15:54):
So so we we'll tell you so two, two d
and three episode? So I mean, is that what are
you literally pulling a second from each one?

Speaker 9 (16:04):
Yeah, one second from every episode.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
It's still several minutes long.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah yeah, yeah, three minutes long.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
And you're definitely in there for one second in your
wheelchair going half yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
I love all the poems you've done. I've seen like
where you've had Nelly promos and stuff where it's great
Nelly's clips, and then there is this this what does
Carrie say? Thing that we were chatting about because we
just can't no one can resist the hilarity of baby Carrie.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
She's well, I'm curious Aggie after Aggie, after doing all
these interviews, I mean, who which one of us did
the best interview? I'm not competitive?

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah yeah, wait, I know, I know they had that quiz.
They had that quiz, and did I Did I get
the better score in the quiz?

Speaker 2 (16:49):
I'm sure about the wagon.

Speaker 9 (16:53):
Was Alison got the most minute. So let's leave it
at that.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Okay, Well, that's a median for you. She's always cracking wise.

Speaker 9 (17:04):
But actually, I you know, I thought you both were
phenomenal and I learned so much from both of you
as well things I didn't even know not to mention,
like just insights on the show. You know, I think
one of the questions I asked everybody was you know,
why do you think this show is still relevant? And
I remember, Alison, you made a really excellent point about

(17:28):
how you know people all over the world can relate
to this show. Yeah, because most people don't live in
fancy apartments or big mansions. They live in a small
house like the Ingles, with a big family trying to
make it week to week. I think that's the gist
of what you were saying. Yes, yeah, and that everybody,
wherever they live, there's always a missus Olsen and any

(17:48):
kid who's ever gone to high school hasanelly, and so
everyone can relate to the show. And I thought, oh,
I hadn't really thought about that, and I thought that
was an excellent point.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, oh yeah, because I had people in other countries
and go, well, you know, dall some diagnosty issues. Oh
they're fun. Yeah, I wish I had those clothes. But
I don't even know anyone who does little house. That's
my life. That that is a thing I can see.
It's like, oh, yeah, the missus also to my job.
She was a pain again today.

Speaker 9 (18:15):
Yeah, And Dean, I if I if I can, I thought,
I remember something you said that sticks with me still.
I know, HAFANDU or of David Rose the composer, and
I like what you said about how he was able
to reflect the emotional life that was going on, because

(18:36):
on face value, the show is, you know, pretty austere.
I think you said there's lots of dirt and dust, right.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Sure, and a lot of silence, but the emotional life
is huge, and David Rose brought this huge emotional spectrum
to these to this simple setting, which I magnified the impact.
I think of what of what we were all doing.
It's it's a He's a huge character in the program.
Y's no question with the wind, yes, yeah, yes, exactly.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
I think David Rose is part of why people cried
there's between Michael and the music. Michael would get that
that the chin quiver, but that music would kick in
and that's it tears, boom water works.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
I mean, take away that music and you wonder what
the impact is. I mean, I think it's just or changed.
The music. Music is just incredibly important to drama.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
And oftentimes that hits you in the opening credits, before
the story started, it's just the title of the show.
The music is on and oh boy, strap yourself in
because you're you're about to be on an emotional ride
for for this.

Speaker 9 (19:45):
I love my god. I love the opening theme song
as soon as I hear it, right, it just emotional.
It just grabs you and you're just like, here we go.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Well, and Aggie, I'm sure you know that that that
theme started as a cue from a from a I
believe an episode of Bonanza called the Cattle Drive.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's cattle going over the river and playing.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Exactly, and David resurrected that queue and transformed it into
the tide of the opening.

Speaker 10 (20:12):
Titlest girls coming over the hills, and the way it
was orchestrated in the cattle clip, it's a little more
like dunk the do like a Marble commercial kind of things,
as the cow has come through the war, and you're
like that sounds familiar.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, exactly. And we treat it. I mean, I've done
a number of different projects through the years and treated
all kinds of different ways. I love treating it very
simply with a sink with a solo piano, and it's
just there's just such warmth and heart to it.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
And who has a French hole in their opening theme?

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Who has a friend my kids have been and my
husband have been camping this week, so they haven't been home,
and they finally facetimed me last night. So I saw
my six year old daughter for the first time in like,
you know, a few days, and she was sitting in
langanor Ben. She was just looking at me, and then
she just going, I am winning at the parenting I

(21:12):
have run.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
So let's the time is running on. Let's go back
to see me Valley for just a second. There was
so much going on that weekend, Cody, but you were there.
You were there to capture it all for Cozy TV.
What was that like for you being there in this
in this Yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
You know, it's interesting because right now I'm in Texas,
but I just moved here from Castaic Santa Clarita area,
so it was a good opportunity to go back. And
I learned so much just from because I spent so
much time in Simmy Valley, but I didn't know the
history of little House in Simi Valley. So showing up,
I have never seen so many people at a festival

(21:57):
like that, and I was just blown away by the
energy that everyone had and the joy. I mean, the
lines were long, but there were still just so much
positive energy talking to people from around the country and
even around the world, just how wholesome the show was,
and you know, and people from all ages. You know,

(22:18):
they were bringing their their young daughters and signs along
with them, dressed up and just it was something that
was truly remarkable to see.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
I would, you know for our audience, NBC Universal is
just a huge content creation machine. Cody, your title is
that I saw is NBC l X Digital Storyteller l X.
I love that, so, so what does that mean? What
does that mean? And how was it that that title

(22:53):
brought you to this project that we're going to talk about.

Speaker 5 (22:57):
So since that title, I'm now the executive producer of
documentaries and series. So my goal is to go out
and find different subjects that would be great documentaries. On
the storytelling side, I've been telling stories for going on
fifteen almost twenty years now, and from short format to

(23:17):
feature length documentaries. And you know, I was talking with
a management about the Cozy TV in the fifty years
and we thought it would be.

Speaker 11 (23:27):
A perfect opportunity to kind of team up and be
able to use a lot of stuff that you know,
Angie did a phenomenal job of shooting interviews and working
together to put this documentary together to air in September.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
So all right, so we haven't we haven't dropped the
title yet. What is the title of the documentary and
tell us when we're going to when?

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Right?

Speaker 5 (23:50):
Yes, yes, it is a Loving a Little House fiftieth anniversary.
This will drop Septembers. Sorry, what was that?

Speaker 1 (23:59):
It's Loving Little House, right, Rob, Yes.

Speaker 5 (24:02):
Yes, Loving Little House. So this will top September.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
So it drops on September seventh.

Speaker 5 (24:09):
We have event.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
We have a quick promo for this. Let's just let's
just let everybody see the promo. Let's just pause for
a second.

Speaker 8 (24:18):
Holy smoke, this is big.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
People love it. People are obsessed with the little House
in the prairie, and it makes me feel comfortable.

Speaker 9 (24:25):
It reminds me of my childhood.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Michael was a genius.

Speaker 8 (24:28):
He made it real.

Speaker 11 (24:29):
Loving Little House the fiftieth Anniversary Celebration September seventh on
COCY TV.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
That's great, you guys.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, you're leaving us watching more and more and more
because there's.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
So many people at that thing. Talk about it.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
Teaser my goodness.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
So when you do all of you you know, tom
Aggie Cody. When you do something like this, what kind
of and you're running it three times? Right, so on
the seventh and ninth and the twenty fifth of September,
so you can check Cozy's schedule for that. Where else
will it air? I mean, is it going to have
a Is it going to be on Peacock? Is it? Where?

(25:07):
Where will it be? No? It will not be.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
Its awesome awesome Okay only yeah, Cozy get it.

Speaker 7 (25:19):
You'll have to find us.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Oh you're so hard to find. You're easy to find.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
They will to a watchful list thing, they sure will.
I think we need to take a very quick break.
But when we're when we come back, we'll be with
tomag and Cody again and talk more about Little House
fiftieth Anniversary on Cozy TV.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
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the Little House fiftieth Anniversary podcast.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
And we're back with Tom Hill, Aggie Photo and Cody
Broadway have to do the jazz hands on to talk
about Little House in the Faeries fiftieth anniversary on Cozy
t V.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Okay, So what was it about they're at the scene now,
seem Valley was mind blowing. It was it eighteen thousand
people that think that was I mean we'd never seen any.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Eighteen from twenty seven country twenties.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
I remember the Peruvians stopped by my table. It was
quite something. So when you what surprised you the most,
I mean we were just like our minds.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Were were shocked.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Three days, We're a mess. I'm surprised.

Speaker 5 (27:03):
I think just the energy, you know, when you have
eighteen thousand people and to be able to have that
type of energy on the positive side, and everyone just
really in all about what was going on, and all
about all of the signings and things that the meet
and greets that went on, and everyone said, you know,

(27:24):
how wholesome the show was and how it made them feel.
You talked about David Rose earlier. Several people talked about
how the score itself was one of the emotional side
of you know, really embarked the emotional side for them.
You know, that is something that I've done several stories
over my career, and just the fact that people are

(27:45):
paying that close attention to those types of details speaks
a lot. And you know, those were probably the biggest
prizes and takeaways.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Now, Cody, were you a Little House fan? Have you
been Allus fan through the years, or is the Little
House World a relatively new thing for you?

Speaker 5 (28:00):
It is so I grew up on it and in
West Texas. I grew up watching it here and there
with my family, and then you know, life got in
the way and everything and I got away from it.
So I've really started spending the last six seven months
really you know, digging deep into it to put this
story together. And you know, it is one of those

(28:21):
things that I've now introduced it to my own children,
and we have watched it on Peacock and Cozy throughout
the summer and it was one of those things that
sticks up to me as an adult. And this is
one thing I heard other you know a lot of
people say, was that the life lessons from when they
are children are completely different. You know today that they

(28:42):
can take something away and then you know, same thing
of passing down to my children. They're taking certain things
away that I'm taking maybe a little bit different going
through life totally.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Each generation is getting something else out of it. We're on,
as I say, we're on our seven generation of viewers,
I think, but their eage generation is finding stuff in
it that people It's yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
And the difference between watching it as a child and
then watching it again as an adult is a very
different experience as well, and you get something out of
each experience, but they're different. They're very very different.

Speaker 5 (29:14):
Well yes, oh, and I was just going to say,
just the way it was shot and it still stands
up to you know, modern television. You know, everything that
we're seeing today. It's just it's beautiful. The cinematography, the
music score that we've talked about several times, it just
really stands up to today.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Well, you know, Cody, I think the restoration that Lionsgate
did in twenty fourteen, the visual restoration. They could do
a little tweaking of the audio, that's a much harder
fix to do they but the visual restoration that they did,
I think made the show more beautiful. It's more beautiful
now than it was when it was new. It's just

(29:55):
that the subtlety of the correction that can be done.
And they went back to film and they restored all
of the original content. So we previous versions of DVDs
of the show had been made from syndicated beta cam masters.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Cut to ribbons. I mean there were whole chunks missing.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yeah, exactly. Well, it was like two minutes out of
every show. Well, Lionsgate restored, went back to all of
the originals and did it from film. So it made
it really quite spectacular. And even though it's four to
three and not, you know, not sixty nine as we've
come to expect, it just it just still works. It works,

(30:37):
It does, it really does.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
Tom. Can I just ask you something real quick? So
Cozy TV has been on for eleven years, but Little
House didn't come on till twenty sixteen, So what was that,
How did that come to be? What was that decision?

Speaker 6 (30:51):
You know that was just before my time here, But
I'm sure they said themselves, well, one of the best
shows ever is available.

Speaker 12 (31:00):
Let's get it very nice, Tom sucking up at all,
very well done.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Because it's the best show ever. That's why we go.

Speaker 6 (31:12):
So I would say, actually, just to back up and
talk a little bit about how we got to the special,
I think, yeah.

Speaker 7 (31:20):
Made, But you know, we've had the show and we're
a small place. We have limited staff, limited ability to
do things.

Speaker 6 (31:26):
It's easy to cut up old footage and make funny promos,
but production is a little harder for us. But but
we had I think I just I somehow noticed like
Karen Grassey's out there, why wouldn't we reach out and
shoot something with her? And then she she had her book,
We did an interview, and then I think that was

(31:46):
maybe how Dean first noticed us. And then Dean came
to us, and one thing led to another, and we
were like, yeah, of course, we want to shoot interviews
with everybody, and that's we got Aggie at l A
and you know, these wonderful interviews and I you know,
you guys were great. Bonnie was the one that really sold.

(32:07):
He was so amazing and such a surprise for me.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
He was just like wow, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (32:11):
And then we had we had done something similar actually with.

Speaker 7 (32:15):
Emergency, another show from you know, a.

Speaker 6 (32:18):
Year older, and and we say, oh, we got to
do a fiftieth special for that, and we did it
and it almost killed us.

Speaker 7 (32:30):
We were just, oh, we got it. We got a
day job here.

Speaker 6 (32:33):
We can't make pro we make a show on the side.
So when this came along, we were like, we love
to Luckily Cody, out of his news background, was part
of the LX group, which is sort of a subgroup.

Speaker 7 (32:45):
It is complicated, but he.

Speaker 6 (32:46):
Was available to us. We said wonderful, so we gave it.
Aggie gave him all the interviews.

Speaker 7 (32:51):
We sent him to Simmy and said magic and the
special is Everyone's going to love it. It's wonderful. It
is loving little houses.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
What it is.

Speaker 7 (33:01):
It's a love fest and it's it's yeah, it's great.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
One that you have favorite moments, Sorry, go ahead and
talk No, I was just wondering, do you guys have
favorite moments from the documentary?

Speaker 6 (33:15):
I won't jump in the story from Turkey, the woman who.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yeah, she made a social promo out of that. Very nice.

Speaker 7 (33:23):
Yeah, yeah, we can share that beforehand.

Speaker 6 (33:28):
But she was so well spoken and it was such
a beautiful story, and yeah, that stood out for me.

Speaker 5 (33:34):
Mine would probably be this sception about Michael Landon and
what he meant to the show and just the it's
a very emotional part of this documentary that to me personally,
I think it's just it fits just perfect in the
pacing of it all, and I think that's you know,
people are really going to take something away from that.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Aggie, how about you.

Speaker 9 (34:00):
Well, you know, I love when Allison talks about, you know,
the relatability and the global impact that the show has. Yeah,
I think I know there's something moving about that, you know,
just like how it's reverberated across the globe.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Well, it blows my mind. I mean when I meet
people from every country I mean Borneo, Sri Lanka, I'm
not kidding, and and places where the guys our village
had electricity for only so many hours a day, we
used it to watch the Little House in the Prairie.
My family had the only TV in our village. Uh,
the neighbors would gather in the yard to watch through

(34:36):
our window to try to see little house in the prairie.
My mother bought curtains and said, go away, get your
own TV. And I mean it was just these stories
of these It was unbelievable and blew my mind. And
one of the things is that Michael to talk about
always said, you said it to you, We said it
to Melissa. Oh you know, and we're all gone, people
will still be watching this show. And everyone he said

(34:56):
this to kind of that's nice.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
When you're twenty five years old. You're sort of going
to live forever. You don't think that it's ever going
to be a time when you're not having and.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
The idea that well, that's a great thing, but really,
really it's a TV show. You're really and here we
all are.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Here we are fifty years later.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
And he knew because who everybody asked us, did we
know it would still be hot fifty years later?

Speaker 9 (35:17):
We would do it?

Speaker 1 (35:17):
No, we did not, Michael did. Michael did. And it's
just that that the resonating with other countries and the
people would come up to me crying. I was on
a train in France and this young guy in like
the tracksuit with the gold chains kind of like a
you know, a tough young teenage guy, and he was
touching his chest and saying, mon on, false, mon on false,
my childhood, my childhood, and crying, Yeah, what what what show?

(35:42):
Who does that?

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (35:43):
Well it's fair.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
I mean, so you're running this three times on your air?
Is there any plan to make it available for sale?
Are you or you know? Is there going to be
any other kind of digital distribution on this? Because there should.

Speaker 7 (36:02):
Be, as as you know, there's a lot of underlying rights.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Yes, there are, right, I will Oh damn.

Speaker 7 (36:11):
I would suggest that you dB are this baby because.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Good to know ya.

Speaker 6 (36:20):
No, it's here for a limited window. You know, it's
there because we're promoting the show.

Speaker 7 (36:26):
On Cozy TG.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
What else you know?

Speaker 7 (36:30):
And it may you never say never.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Sure, but beyond the you know, so beyond this? What
else is? I mean? I do so? Aggie created these
beautiful packages with I guess what was it eight or
ten of eight of us or something like that, Actually
twelve beautiful packages that allowed you to sort of crystallize
our individual stories on the program. Really nicely done. How

(36:58):
is it? How do you say? And your audience has
responded to all this during the course of the year
leading up to September eleventh, to the to those of
high promos, to all the things that you've done. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (37:12):
Yeah, Well when I see most of course people, you know,
it's it reminds me of their childhood and a lot
of fun memories. I also remember like reading a lot
of comments for people when people like Leslie Land and Matthews,
which she talks about her dad, and you know, there
were a lot of people who said, when I was

(37:34):
a kid, I pretended Charles Ingalls was my dad. Yeah,
And I was like, wow, I didn't realize that, and
I thought that was super cool. And yeah, and I
think people you know, you know, in response to Alison,
you know, the character of Nelly. You know, I think

(37:54):
people have this, you know, probably every year that goes
by this profound understanding how they understood that when they
were kids they hated Nelly and so they hated the act,
you know, the actor, but then realized, actually she was
so brilliant because she's such a nice and wonderful and
funny person and she could make us hate her in
the show.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
You know.

Speaker 9 (38:15):
So there was a lot of comments that people really
appreciated what you you know, your performance, Allison. I think
people really really got that.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
It only took me fifty years to get credit for
what I did on that show.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Damn it well, but.

Speaker 13 (38:32):
You procurely as the as as the creative director. It
it just blew our social media numbers away. Oh yeah,
I don't even We were just looking at the.

Speaker 7 (38:46):
Double triple of what were.

Speaker 8 (38:47):
Nearly would get.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
Our fans are on the internet, Yes you are.

Speaker 9 (38:51):
People were just hungry for more and more and more,
even though most of the people already know everything about
they still they just ate it up. They just loved it,
and I think there is It's great to hear from
the actors directly, right, I'm sure what would be better
than hearing from your voice, your own experience of being

(39:12):
in the show and your thoughts about it. I mean,
you can't really beat that.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
Yeah, yeah, Cody, did you film so? I'm sure when
you were in Seni you filmed the fans and the
fan experience, But were you filming like the panels.

Speaker 5 (39:24):
And yeah, yeah, so we have some of the panels
that would be featured in this and yeah, I you know,
there's a little bit of everything from Simmy, so I
tried to put as much as I could in because
there was so much that was going on from you know,
just the fan reaction to things, but then the panels,
the meet and greets, things like that that were really personal,

(39:46):
and then also the Big Sky Ranch as well, putting
some of that in there too, because that was just
for me, you know, coming into this, it was that
was all jaw dropping just to see.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
I think I have a video that I took.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
So we you know, we arrived sort of like the
day or two before the festival actually took.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
Off, and.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
Kevin was me and Chris, and Chris and I were
doing the panels, moderating the panels, and he was like, Okay,
get in the car and I'll take you to the ranch.
I'll have a private tour. And we're like okay, and
we're and I just sort of filming on my phone
as we're going up the hill, having no idea that
as soon as you curve on that hill there's the house.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Yeah, there's the hill.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
And it's just a video of me screaming, streaming at
the top of my lungs. I just couldn't believe it.
And you know, seeing the town center and even seeing
the interiors of.

Speaker 7 (40:39):
The Yes a little rainbow moment then oh.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
My gosh, just just a really insane experience. Really, just
I'm so glad you.

Speaker 14 (40:50):
It's not that it's fantastic that cozy like tom Aggie Cody,
that you made the commitment to capture them, as it's
if it's a time capsule piece of something that was very,
very special, and you know, the coverage.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
That resulted, the the overall covers that resulted from the
event was spectacular and we've gotten and yet even with
all that, there are so many people that have said,
I didn't know anything about it. I wish I'd been
able to be there, and you know, and we're there's
conversation about maybe doing this again and some you know

(41:31):
and some other level a different, slightly different level.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
You're scaring me, yeah, Scar, But.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
There is that conversation because I think there's an audience
out there that wants to hear it. And all of
you have been so essential in helping to celebrate this
fiftieth anniversary. We thank you so so much for what
you've done, all of you.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Yeah, and of course eleven eleventh is a big day,
but don't forget the eighteenth, because eighteenth is when country
girls air. That's not my person.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
So are we where are we all meeting? We do?

Speaker 1 (42:07):
We gotta go, I know, no, I got I gotta
find a liquor restaurant. We gotta go party. We gotta
have like serious party of the ad.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
So you're gonna take a DVD in there and yeah, yes,
of course we have to do that.

Speaker 9 (42:19):
How are you to order and cinnamon chicken?

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Yeah? Yeah, what? Yes? You know? I made cinnamon chicken
for the never had cinnamon chicken about two months ago.
We did a social peace on it where we found
a recipe and made it in my kitchen at home.
Catherine and I made it and it was delicious. It's great,
It was it was fantastic. I did put a little

(42:44):
cayenne pepper on it, just because I like a little spice.
But the combination of that, you know, of the of
the cinnamon and the cayenne and the apple cider that
was in the marinade and the new was just incredible.
I thought it was fantastic. Gotta be a regular. I
recommend it to everybody. Check out my social official Dean Butler.
You can search to find the making apples.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
That's really nice.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
That makes it an apple got honey in it. Oh
that's too good.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
I do mine. I do so like a pan for
a like crunchy, crusty thing, but with cinnamon and it's yeah,
there's there's multiple recipes, but cinnamon and chicken actually do
go together. It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Yeah, yeah, amazing. Now let's not just send into a
cooking show, Pamela. I think we we have to we
have to sort of excuse ourselves here. But uh, thank you,
thank you, thank.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
You for everything you've done so much.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
I cannot wait, genuinely cannot wait to see the documentary.
I'm I'm thrilled that you did it, and I'm so
excited for it. And thank you for you know, supporting
Little House all all of these years and and the
festival and see me.

Speaker 7 (43:49):
It's a privilege.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
Welcome, Yes, Okay, Tom, Aggie and Cody. It's it's time
to go. Unfortunately, thank you so much for being year.
What else, guys, Dan Ellison, what else have we got
anything to say before?

Speaker 2 (44:04):
You know, really just you know, uh country con coming
next year, Connecticut this weekend. Lancaster, Lancaster. Is that how
you say it? Lancaster, Lancaster, PA. Johnny Cash's Farm in
September for an.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
Event in uh to Salt Lake City in September the
Fan x Fan.

Speaker 12 (44:24):
XSA Gilbert will be there.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
We'll both be the Salt Lake City and then France
begin to France. I'm going to France again in October
for like seven shows.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
I don't know it's gonna it's just going to be hysteria.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Yes, history really hysteria.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
And hopefully I'll be able to pop on by Connecticut
this weekend.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Please because you will have to sneak me in though
so will.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
Also if you want to check us out, please check
us out on our socials, Little House fifty Podcast or
website Little House fifty podcast dot com. We will have
your all of your packages, your promo, all of it
for Cozy TV up there, and uh, I can't wait
to share it all with you guys. So anyway, I
think it's time for Bob go get the.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Wig, Get the wig.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
Are you guys ready to do some airplane ones? We're
gonna run down that hill.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
Come on, good guys, there you go.

Speaker 9 (45:21):
Yeah, rescrain it.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
I was at that hill and see you now

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