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There's her light.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
Hello everybody, just in time, Allison lit herself as we
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How are you everyone? I'm Pamela Bob, I'm your host
creator and start living on a prairie.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
I am here with our awesome, wonderful, although terrible prairie bit.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
That's right, Alison.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Arngram and are wonderful, awesome, not terrible hashtag imaginary boyfriend
Dean Butler, Hi, guys, how are you?

Speaker 6 (03:21):
How are you? Pamela?

Speaker 3 (03:23):
I'm you know, I'm hanging in there. It's hot in
New York. It's huge and gross. Oh it's been yucky.

Speaker 6 (03:29):
It's uh, it's sort of you know, it's it's really
been unseasonably comfortable in southern California. Overcast on the west
side this morning. You know, it's just it's like sixty
five degrees. I mean it's just like it's perfect. You.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
No, it's hot and very close to you up here,
but we've been at least getting a little light clouds
in the morning.

Speaker 7 (03:50):
So it's yeah, keeps a cool lot of heat.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
It was, yeah, I found I found it.

Speaker 5 (03:59):
I'm here with my do and it's so hot that
it's it's uncomfortable walking the dog.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
And it's concrete.

Speaker 8 (04:06):
You know.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
I have trees and tof of my nerror, but it's
more mostly concrete. Even the dog park around here is
concrete dog park, and there's just no relief. I thought,
I need to get to water where the dog can
be in the water too, And I found one about
a half an hour away in marchmonth.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
And it's a beach.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
It's the Bay, so it's a beach on the bay
and it's a dog beach so the dogs can be
free and play in the water and swim.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
And that's what we did yesterday.

Speaker 7 (04:31):
It was great dog. I didn't know they had dog.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
It was genius. It was great and it was such
a good relief.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
And she was pooped the rest of the day, so
I didn't have to walk her again until the sun
went down and it was cooler outside. What about you, guys,
what's happening in your life?

Speaker 3 (04:50):
In your world?

Speaker 6 (04:51):
It's a little house all the time. It really is endless.

Speaker 8 (04:56):
Back about Yeah, because we've got with uh, well, I've
got Indiana and and I got Wisconsin, and it's just yeah.

Speaker 6 (05:03):
That's right. You're going to Peppen Yes, which is so
pretty in the fall, so pretty.

Speaker 7 (05:11):
I love it.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
We're going to be in Indianapolis together on September sixth,
so that's the same weekend you're going to be in Peppin, right.

Speaker 8 (05:18):
Alison, We're doing in Indianapolis, and then I'm doing Yes
and you guys in uh whatever it is, what's the
name of the.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Town, which is the fabult thing.

Speaker 8 (05:27):
Blue Angel Connect is this benefit thing and I get
to do my show and then we get to autographs
and this little and then and then the very next
week and I'm off in Peppin Land.

Speaker 6 (05:38):
There you go. So we're going to be there with
you and you and I are going to be there
with with Karen Grassley, which is really fun. We do
you know, Karen. Karen is so selective about it.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
I know, I'm so surprised.

Speaker 6 (05:50):
It's really fun that she's coming to Indianapolis. I'm looking
forward to that. Well, then I will be in I
will be in Mansfield. Somber twenty six, twenty seventh with
Charlotte Stewart and Wennie Lully, perhaps one of her final
appearances with us for a while. I'll be doing Fan
Expo in Dallas October fourth and fifth and doing something fun.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
So yeah, I'm so exciting.

Speaker 6 (06:16):
On November twenty second in NYC. Oh.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Okay, guys, here here's the announcement.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
And I did tease it last week on my Instagram
and Facebook pages, but I'm so happy that we're officially announcing.
And I've been wanting to do this for a year now,
so it's finally happening. Dean Allison and I are going
to be doing a live podcast WOOO special event. We're
doing it November twenty second at the Green Room forty
two in New York City. And also the good news

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is if you cannot be here in New York City,
they offer digital live streaming tickets awesome, so anyone around
the world can purchase a ticket less expensive ticket digitally.
And also the link if you can't catch it actually live,
the link is live for I think at least thirty days,
so you can watch it whenever you can watch.

Speaker 6 (07:10):
It, so you can come home and watch it.

Speaker 8 (07:13):
Yes, that is it exactly and finally yes, yes we
have yes so us.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
We might have some special guests to be but things
are in the works and we will take audience questions.
And we just wanted to have have events where the
audience can come and be with us. And like I
say to you guys all the time, people just want
to be in the room with you, you know. So
this is the chance for it to happen. And it's

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the first of hopefully many and I'm super excited.

Speaker 6 (07:45):
Well, thank you for a pamely you have been You
have been cracking that whip on this idea for a while,
so thank you.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
I've been driving them crazy about it.

Speaker 6 (07:57):
Then so and then after that, December twelfth to fourteenth,
we are now this is not a formal announcement, but
this is just a pencil it. In December twelfth to
fourteenth and Semi Valley at Stratharn Park, we are going
to be announcing an event there, a holiday little house
cast reunion were doing see Valley, So we're returning to

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the scene of our not exactly the same location, actually
a very cool eighteen hundred's themed to go in in
Seamy Valley, which is really going to be fun for
us so stay tuned for that announcement. To step right
into this. You've got so much to cover to them.

Speaker 8 (08:40):
Go on. It's the Talking Machine, one of my greatest
great full of them.

Speaker 7 (08:45):
As directed by mister Victor French.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
I'm just saying, but first, let me say produced from
a secret Southern California location. Ooh, Tony moved.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
The studios of UBM go.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
This is the Little House fiftieth Anniversary podcast secret.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
It's a secret, secret location.

Speaker 5 (09:24):
Okay, Allison, this is a classic villain episode. Dean.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Why don't you tell us what we're recapping today?

Speaker 6 (09:32):
Yeah, so today's this episode, Season two, episode twelve.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
The Talking Machine.

Speaker 6 (09:39):
Yeah. The Talking Machine is episode number thirty six in
the series, premiered on January fourteenth, nineteen seventy six. Written
by Harold Swanton, who wrote three other episodes of Little House.
If I Should Wake before I Die, one of my favorites,
The Hunters, and I'll Ride the Wind. The Talking Machine
was directed by one of our absolute favorites, Victor French. Allison,

(10:02):
what's it about?

Speaker 7 (10:04):
It's it's it's the best.

Speaker 8 (10:05):
You have a synopsis which Bally Bally doesn't justice, But
I fight. I was a Nelly and Laura again again
as per usual, both clamoring for the affectious boy at
school and what is in the water in Walnut Grove.

Speaker 7 (10:24):
Even the children are like, I must have a wifefriend.
Like they're just like a little, a little over the
top about this. It's just like out of control. Angered.
When Jason indicates a preference for Laura over Nelly attempts
to sabotage the relationship by using her new fangled talking.

Speaker 8 (10:38):
Machine No Kidd as a malicious tool for Laura's humiliation.
But in the end, Laura and Walnut Grove survived first
ever brushed with reported cruelty.

Speaker 6 (10:48):
Yeah, yeah, Now, I just want to say, at the
end of this episode, I was a little bummed and
I saw Laura carved j R. Plus l I in
a tree girl.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
That's in my notes.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
How many trees has she.

Speaker 7 (11:02):
Like killing the tree loved deforestation.

Speaker 8 (11:05):
She's just this terrible deforestation campaign of Laura's love life.

Speaker 7 (11:09):
He's just wrecking the joint.

Speaker 6 (11:11):
And I want to say, they did exactly so. Ted
boit Lander did exactly the same shot for this he
did in Back to School where the track, the walking
and the tracking through the trees to the to the
j R plus Ally moment. Uh, Laura falls for every
blonde guy she meets.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
At seas shadowing, older shadowing with the.

Speaker 6 (11:34):
Whole older, older blonde guys.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
I'm like, his voice has changed in your eight what
are you doing?

Speaker 6 (11:42):
I think that's really interesting because because Melissa generally has
not been in Melissa, not Laura, but Melissa has generally
had no interest in blondes at all. So it's sort
of an interesting thing for her.

Speaker 8 (11:55):
Loa And now I checked the ages because the marvelous,
the marvelous Eric Shaite.

Speaker 7 (11:59):
Now, my mother used to joke about the Shae brothers.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Back in the days in Hollywood.

Speaker 8 (12:04):
There were the Shade brother Eric Shay, Christopher Shay. I
forget how many they were, but they were the Shade Brothers.
They were all marvelous child actors and they worked all
the time. They were in everything, and between the three
of them there, IMDb just goes from here to the
end of the ear.

Speaker 7 (12:16):
But they were and everything. And my mother used to
joke about it being an audition to go, oh.

Speaker 8 (12:20):
It's the Shase. As they get older, there's always another Shay.
They're breeding them in a lab, you know, in a basement.

Speaker 7 (12:27):
Just the endless Shay Brother.

Speaker 8 (12:29):
So he's one of the many Shas and is here menudo.
He's lovely Shay boys, but there's it's the boys from Brazil.
We don't know they're cloning them, but the Shame boys.
And he was sixteen when we did this, so he's
not at least he's not thirty seven, you.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Know, he's right sixteen.

Speaker 8 (12:50):
This air January nineteen seventy six. I turned fourteen on
the eighteenth that year, so this was SHO. I was
only thirteen, which means Melissa Gilbert was eleven, an eleven
year older. I remember being an eleven twelve year old, yes,
getting crushes and puppyla, but like on another eleven year

(13:10):
old life. When I was about twelve almost thirteen, I
did have a boyfriend. He was also twelve, and it
was very sweet and like normal people.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
Sixteen is like, yeah, that's it's another universe.

Speaker 7 (13:25):
It's more than like fifteen and seventeen.

Speaker 8 (13:27):
You could kind of see them. They're both in high school.
They have something to discuss. But she's in middle school
or late elementary school.

Speaker 7 (13:35):
He's in high school. Would be learning to drive.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
Is basically she's in sixth grade. He's in tenth grader, no,
eleventh grade.

Speaker 8 (13:42):
Yeah, and even if a girl, yeah I remember eleven, Okay,
you fall for you know whoever it was that year,
Sean Cassidy, You fall for some boy who's much older. Wow,
I gotta tell you, sixteen year old boys are not
interested in eleven year old girls unless.

Speaker 7 (13:56):
There's a terribly wrong there.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
That fired for him too.

Speaker 7 (14:01):
Sixteen year boys to be like, why why are you
even speaking to me?

Speaker 6 (14:04):
But that you know, of course that's the that, of
course is the cuteness of the whole thing is that
that's just such an unlikely deal. And the way it
ends is so sweet, I think, in a very unexpected way.

Speaker 7 (14:17):
But he's like a agreeing to date her.

Speaker 6 (14:23):
It's not tip it too far here. Now I want
to talk about George Firth. George Firth was Hannibal Godfrey
in this wonderful actor writer always played flim flammers in
his career. I met George birth in the nineties when
I was doing Company in Long Beach. George of course
wrote Company.

Speaker 7 (14:43):
George Firth wrote freaking Company.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
I was not so George right, Yeah?

Speaker 6 (14:49):
Yeah, he wrote Company with Stephen Sondheim. And he was
a neighbor of mine in Beechwood Canyon. I didn't know this.
He invited. He had a bunch of cast member is over.
I mean he was George Firth was effusively complimentary about
our production of Company and was look projecting that it
should go to Broadway. He was calling Steve and he

(15:11):
you know all of this that he was. We went
to I was not Bobby in the show, by the way,
so it was that was Patrick Cassidy who did a
wonderful job in that. But we I went to his house.
It was like I walked around. I walked like two
blocks around the corner in Beachwood Canyon and there was
George Firth's beautiful house looking out had same view I

(15:34):
had looking out over the city of Los Angeles. It
was just he was a lovely, lovely guy and so funny,
clever and and in this just as he always was,
just sort of like dancing as fast as he can
to make a deal of some kind.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah, yeah, and he was in everything. He was in
what was it?

Speaker 7 (15:57):
There was the thing the Scarlett O'Hara wars as to do,
and he was George Kukor in that. I mean, yeah,
George Firth.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
Was what was it? Wasn't he in Butch Cassie and Sunday?

Speaker 3 (16:06):
And I think so, yeah, he was in yeh, he
was in.

Speaker 6 (16:09):
Butch Cassie, wasn't he Like he worked for the the
bank company. He's he's guarding the money and there he's
like that.

Speaker 8 (16:17):
Guy in everything. And then it was so weird. It's
like and then he was writing these plays for a
friend and he wrote Company.

Speaker 7 (16:23):
If he wrote company, they know him, it's sell as
a writer.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
I didn't even know.

Speaker 5 (16:29):
This is like and I know this episode eighty gazillion times,
and this is the first time I realized, Oh my god,
that's George Firth.

Speaker 6 (16:37):
I know he's he's he's he's so terrific. I want
to talk about look so on the Nelly mean scale,
how awful are you and this? I didn't think you
were as awful as we've been talking about you being awful.
You were sort of like you weren't terrible in this thing?

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah yeah, because okay.

Speaker 8 (16:58):
Yeah, the this is.

Speaker 6 (17:02):
Like total that's worse.

Speaker 7 (17:04):
That's worse.

Speaker 8 (17:05):
But I'm kind of terrible here because when you see
how badly I've heard her when she's crying.

Speaker 7 (17:11):
Later to Paul after I've.

Speaker 8 (17:12):
Ruined her life in the school. I've just destroyed her emotionally.
I have revealed I've really hurt her. She's really like
hurt by.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
That nice, so manipulent glee with which I did it.

Speaker 8 (17:28):
This episode, by the way, is also the first episode
where Willie is told to stand in the corner, and
it's the beginning with the running gag someone noticed the
worst time.

Speaker 5 (17:36):
Also, why didn't we feel that was a bit harsh
for the comment that he said? His comment was clever
and funny. Why is he being punished or I don't
get it?

Speaker 3 (17:45):
And why?

Speaker 8 (17:46):
And miss By looks like things that are going out
of control in that class go.

Speaker 7 (17:49):
On way too long, like stop that.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
But yeah, I'm so I'm Sue, and I too.

Speaker 7 (17:56):
I'm only you know, like I said, I'm only thirteen.

Speaker 8 (17:59):
I shouldn't be chae see this guy either. We're both
way way too young to be remotely interested.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, but at thirteen it makes a lot.

Speaker 6 (18:07):
I think, well, look, it's benign infatuation. Nothing's going to happen, right,
That's the sort of the sweetness of it is this,
It's this benign thing.

Speaker 8 (18:19):
And can I stand Also, Sue is so brilliant in this,
Melissa so Anderson, this is I think one of her
greatest episodes.

Speaker 7 (18:25):
Agree, he does an.

Speaker 8 (18:26):
Eye roll at the dinner table with Jason Tanya. Jason said,
and she just like her eyes go right back into
her head. She rolls her eyes so hard she almost
hurts herself at the dinner.

Speaker 6 (18:37):
That's the be Benjamin Franklin.

Speaker 8 (18:40):
And she feels like the greatest teenage I roll in
the history of Earth at the I really there were
several scenes where I had to hand it to her
that was really good.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
She was good. She wait, let's take a back.

Speaker 5 (18:53):
Let's let's take it back from the beginning so people
understand where what we're actually tracking here. So we still
art the show with Jason kid in school of which
we've never seen before.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Again angry boy.

Speaker 6 (19:08):
Well the wait a minute, we really go back. We're
really starting in the mercantile. We're introducing the whole concept
of the of the talking the machine. The talking machine
is going to be the problem.

Speaker 5 (19:20):
And the Olsens don't know why they would have such
a contraption, so they're not to buy it. And this
reminds me of the very first time I ever heard
about Twitter and Facebook. Why someone told me, and again
my first reaction was, why would I use that? Why
do we need to upreat people on my life? Like
who's watching this, who's reading this?

Speaker 3 (19:39):
I don't get it.

Speaker 6 (19:41):
I think this, like so many episodes we've talked about,
this episode is prescient projecting into the future. Now, look,
it also has the advantage of a lot of knowledge.
Where Okay, Jason's projections about where the world's going, Yes,
that's fine, but the social media that that audio thing
that can hurt people, that that was prescient and it.

Speaker 7 (20:04):
Nails meets the internet. He's like, what is this for?

Speaker 3 (20:07):
And the trolls behind it?

Speaker 5 (20:09):
I mean when when I'm skipping ahead again, but when
Nelly is recording Laura and you just see Willy doing
the recording with his hand over his mouth trying not
to laugh. Is so cruel and trully and horrible. So
there's a George birth. It's a freaking for a home

(20:30):
a natural homeopath. And what else did his wagon say?
A homeopath? A was he an inventor or anyway, he's
a guy who trash.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
He is a blim flammer. He is trying to sell
I don't have any cat, I don't have any cash.

Speaker 7 (20:47):
Can I give you this ridiculous thing?

Speaker 3 (20:50):
You don't exactly so uh.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
Anyway, so we were introduced to this talking machine that
Olson's pass on. Then we go to school where the thirsty,
thirsty girls.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
I'm thirsting after this boy, Jason.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
The thirsty girls. I love that girl.

Speaker 8 (21:10):
It's like every week it's like, oh, look something in
pants and.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
It's all No.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
Even Laura have a similar taste in men because they
always want the same.

Speaker 7 (21:21):
We always want the same guy. Or do I always
want them just because she wants them?

Speaker 3 (21:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
That's we don't well, I think you who started it?

Speaker 7 (21:29):
But you really I started it.

Speaker 8 (21:31):
I think she wants I wanted I dropped my books,
did you Okay? Can I just say skin one of
my fabulous performances in this episode when I dropped the books.
I dropped my book all right, book drop to get
the guy. I was dying of laughter. I didn't watched
Crack It Up and I was like, oh.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
That that was good. That was good.

Speaker 5 (21:54):
Now.

Speaker 7 (21:55):
Fun fact.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
Jason is a little mini scientist and he is trying
to do an exp with the Benjamin Franklin experiment of
discovering electricity by flying a kite and a lightning storm.

Speaker 7 (22:07):
Historical heat danglorical moment.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
Now another fun fact, My sister and I absolutely tried
to do.

Speaker 7 (22:13):
This and how badly did you get hurt? Never? Never?

Speaker 3 (22:19):
It never worked. I mean it's not it never.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
I checked.

Speaker 8 (22:24):
Yeah, Benjamin Franklopsy didn't really discover electricity. Electricity. They knew
it existed since one hundred years before. They just hadn't
figured how to use it or what his thing was. Hey,
that lightning stuff, that's electricity.

Speaker 7 (22:38):
That was a theory they're going is likening electricity. I
think it's electricity.

Speaker 8 (22:42):
He's like, yes, it's electricity. And he set out to
show that. So he said, I bet I could capture it.
And now the story about the key and the kite and.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
The thing is kind.

Speaker 8 (22:50):
Of like a little George Washington chopping down the cherry
tree thing. They're not totally sure this went down that
they think they know when happened.

Speaker 7 (22:57):
And they said it was him and his son, and.

Speaker 8 (23:00):
There's several people, go, no other witnesses that swear that
he ascended this. But everyone's like, does anybody else there?

Speaker 7 (23:05):
No, But they said when he did this, if he
did do this.

Speaker 8 (23:09):
What he described was really static electricity from the lightning
storm catching the keys. Had lightning actually struck the key,
like everybody who does this in a cartoon or a
television show.

Speaker 7 (23:23):
Franklin, his son would be dead. It would send you
to the hospital or kill you.

Speaker 6 (23:27):
It's well as as it would have killed Laura. I
mean that she's just so like ooh, and she falls down.
But it would have been much more.

Speaker 8 (23:36):
In child that size, she Doc Baker would not have
been able to She would have died.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Baker Doc is good? Would he's not that good? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (23:44):
People, A lot of people have gotten hurt very very
very badly fooling around with keys on.

Speaker 6 (23:50):
What all right? What I want to know, Allison, is
how do you know these things good that when Google record,
I have time to look it all up.

Speaker 8 (24:01):
I want stuff because when I was a kid and
I wanted to, of course run out in the pouring
rain with the key, my mother was like, you know,
that's insanely dangerous and that the string gets wet, and
like that's not how that works really, because you'll like die.

Speaker 7 (24:15):
They had some sense, they and then I been with this.

Speaker 8 (24:20):
I looked at it when how and they're going, yeah,
we're not even sure now if a bend friend really
did it, but they're going, no, you can't get wet.

Speaker 7 (24:25):
They were in a building.

Speaker 8 (24:26):
He and his son were like under a shelter because
obviously they couldn't actually get wet when they're fully with electricity.
Like these two children are in the show running around
in the rain, and obviously they had to keep stuff
dry and know if it was a direct hit from
the lightning that close to them, it had been taken
away on a stretcher. So they're like, yeah, that's not
how it works at all. Just when my parents said no,
you're not going out with a kite in the rain,

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because there.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Was something at this episode for little kids watching it.
If like ooh, I want to.

Speaker 7 (24:55):
Try this exactly, do not try this at home.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
This is said, do not try this at home. Okay, yeah, totally,
do not go out in the rain.

Speaker 6 (25:03):
Where do you want to go, Pamela, I'm sort of
fascinated by it, and I think this is so in
your territory here in terms of things that you really
pick up on. So much gendering information or roles, you know,
gender roles being talked about in this episode. I think
it's really that, you know, that is other than the

(25:24):
fact that Laura's crazy in love here or an infatuation.
It's the discussion of what's possible for young girls. And
when she says I'm not pretty enough, I know, you know,
I mean, it's like it's such an interesting and of
course Pod just you know, Pop being the good he
just sort of blows that off. That's that's not that's

(25:46):
not important. But I think it's really interesting. I'm just wondering,
like how millions of young girls watching this through the
years have reacted to that.

Speaker 5 (25:58):
Conversation pause being awesome, Well, that conversation of I'm not
pretty enough. I think every single girl has had that
conversation or that thought period, Like every single girl has
ever has thought those thoughts pretty scruel, you know, has
had yeah, one thousand percent. But you know, more more

(26:21):
than the pretty conversation is the is the And again
I don't think I picked really picked up on this
as a kid, but as a woman, I'm picking up
on the things like well, I'll never be as smart
as Hymn, or like maybe you think I could like
a woman is a doctor in man Cato, that's crazy,
or and to think that that's the first time she's

(26:42):
ever heard that that could even be a possibility that
a woman could be a doctor or any.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Kind of scientist.

Speaker 7 (26:49):
And of course still.

Speaker 6 (26:50):
At eleven years old, that's not terrible. I mean that
she wouldn't know.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
That, but in that day and age there weren't women
doctors easy, unheard of rot.

Speaker 6 (27:02):
But don't think that her wanton is projecting into the future.
He's yeah, he's modeling a little bit for.

Speaker 8 (27:08):
Young and in the eighteen seventies, and sure in London,
in New York there were female scientists and female daughters.
Not a lot of them, but they existed. But yeah,
not not really in Minnesota in the eighteen seventies. You
would have to go to the big city. Yes, in
London and New York, and sure, like my daughter at France,

(27:30):
but you know, and at one point Laura says like,
I don't know if some somewhere.

Speaker 5 (27:34):
She says something like maybe one day or I don't
know if one day I'll be a lady scientist, And
I'm like, you mean a scientist, it's just a scientist.
But it was a novel idea, I'm sure, so no,
It's it's interesting that also that he's going to be

(27:55):
the big scientist and she's just going to be like
his little sidekick.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
Who will really get like who won't really get any.

Speaker 6 (28:00):
I can help you. And she comes running out to
the field to find him working on his kite. I
didn't quite understand why she fell, you know, she comes
running out and she falls down, and when she's chasing
him the first time, she always falling.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
In this episode.

Speaker 8 (28:17):
How many times does she throw She also throws herself
on the ground a couple of times. Like later, she
was constantly falling down.

Speaker 7 (28:26):
I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
She's also screaming a lot.

Speaker 6 (28:32):
Was really like that was pretty big.

Speaker 5 (28:34):
I was watching this early in the morning and she
kept screaming and I was like, comment down, and I don't.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Have enough coffee in my system for this comment. And
I'm thinking, but again, a sixteen year old boy and.

Speaker 8 (28:50):
He's being pursued by the eleven year old girl, and
he might go, that's cute, and he might think.

Speaker 7 (28:54):
While she's really smart, we could be friends.

Speaker 8 (28:56):
Except she's like, dogs are marking, dogs are working. And
I'm like, I don't think that's gonna really he's not
gonna want.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
To know she's got no game. She never had games.
She never Laura Engels never had game.

Speaker 6 (29:16):
Cr Cringey game.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Eventually, No, she didn't. You're just a nerd. You go
for her, that's all happy.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
She did not even later in life she did not
live so Cringey Lady Doctors.

Speaker 7 (29:30):
Elizabeth Blackwell.

Speaker 8 (29:31):
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first well known female dactor course started.
She came from England, but she indeed founded the where
did she fe? A big center for typha? She founded
the New York Confirmary for Women and Children with her
sister Emily Blackwell in eighteen fifty seven. So there in
New York and she started teaching women and girls and
she's very wow. But yeah, she's all about typhus and stuff.

(29:55):
And so he could have if one Paul was saying, yeah,
you know in the big because you knew York who
is supposed to or he would have known, Oh wasn't
there that infirmary that there was such a big feel
those two women who he would have heard of it?

Speaker 6 (30:08):
So all right, so we've established we've talked about the
genre here, which is sort of interesting. I think we
should take a quick break and come back and talk
about how the talking machine creates this quality humiliation.

Speaker 5 (30:27):
A break, we will be right back and come back
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Speaker 3 (31:31):
Hi, We're back. Okay.

Speaker 5 (31:32):
So, at this point, Nellie confides in her mother that
she doesn't understand why Jason isn't in love with her,
and missus Olsen understands, Oh, he's into science. Let's get
that talking machine because talking machines hagana catch the man. Yeah,
Nell has nothing, says love like science.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
Can.

Speaker 8 (31:56):
The only one with any sense on the whole freaking
show says, this child is not old enough to blow
the foam off.

Speaker 7 (32:03):
Assess, why are we even doing this? She's she's thirteen.

Speaker 8 (32:11):
Yeah, he's the only one who is like, what are
you even all talking about?

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (32:16):
Nels, thank god, Nell says.

Speaker 8 (32:19):
But yes, so talking to you now, I personally the
scene on the porch, how outrageous is this? He comes up,
he's walking along Laura and she's finally getting somewhere with him.
And I sit on the porch and I don't say
like hi, I just sit there, crank on the things and.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
We are alive.

Speaker 8 (32:40):
Walker and he's like, what the hell and comes up, now,
are you interested in my talking machine?

Speaker 7 (32:46):
I mentioned I had a talking mass when you were
interested before. I have a talking mission.

Speaker 8 (32:49):
And and it's most outlandish performance but this and it works.
He's so fast, he just walks right away from Laura
and I go call and then I say, well, not Laura,
because my mother does like, you know.

Speaker 6 (33:02):
Children, children in the house.

Speaker 8 (33:06):
So yeah, that that is so outrageous. I mean it
was written outrageously. And then with Victor French, right.

Speaker 7 (33:12):
I mean, I'm just like, that is banannas.

Speaker 8 (33:15):
And it works and I get them up my god,
So Laura has a fit. And then and then well,
when he still likes her, I've got to now ruin
her life as I want to do.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Yes, clearly, always put the gun the only way.

Speaker 8 (33:29):
When Nelly offers you candy, it's like some guy in
a white van offering you.

Speaker 7 (33:36):
Nellie says it's okay, you can have all the candy,
take a handful.

Speaker 8 (33:38):
It's something bad. So I'm like, come up to the room,
coverture and why and so again, I mean this at
least was early, and she's like, why does Laura keep
trusting me?

Speaker 7 (33:48):
So Lucy, I get her.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
It's that it's that blank spot in her consciousness that
drives everything basically, And again.

Speaker 7 (33:59):
Neil's is going, what what now?

Speaker 1 (34:01):
The only person.

Speaker 7 (34:03):
What's going on? He knows that's all wrong.

Speaker 8 (34:06):
And I get her up there and clearly I'm being
way too creepy and way too nice.

Speaker 7 (34:10):
And of course the brilliant, the brilliant Jonathan Gilbert.

Speaker 8 (34:14):
Evil screen so good, he's so good in this way,
and we're on.

Speaker 6 (34:18):
With so did Victor so talk about a little bit
about what because I think this is sort of interesting
Victor French, How Victors take to you about how to
do this interesting freaking brilliant.

Speaker 7 (34:32):
He was really good about how things should.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Build and to like no more, no more, to go all.

Speaker 7 (34:38):
The way and he knew how to get it.

Speaker 8 (34:40):
And his thing was, it didn't really matter how you
got there or what the hell you were thinking about.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
You could be method.

Speaker 7 (34:47):
It didn't matter as you just you went somewhere with
this thing.

Speaker 8 (34:50):
And so he's like, yeah, yeah, more and more, and
then she leaves and I'm doing the tantrum and then
I get on and then the idea, the horrible evil idea,
and I was kind of even thinking a little bit
how the Grinch stole Christmas when the Grinch says, and
then the Grinch got an idea, a wonderful, terrible evil idea,
and for that moment, but the Grin smiled when he

(35:11):
realized what he's going to do to those It was
kind of I was feeling that I was kind of like, yeah,
I'm kind of there with that, and I had the
floor and I'm going.

Speaker 7 (35:18):
To start to get the idea of yes, I will
do this thing. I will record her and ruin her life.

Speaker 8 (35:23):
And Victor's going more no, no, okay, you keep it rolling.
No worse, no more evil, no more terrible.

Speaker 7 (35:30):
And then I had been reading these.

Speaker 8 (35:33):
Horror comics that week on the set, and with weir
wolves and zombies and things, they're very, very gory and fabulous.

Speaker 7 (35:42):
He was thirteen and.

Speaker 8 (35:44):
Justice and kind of really getting into that good like
almost the Grinch time of evil. And then Victor said,
think of your werewolf comic books.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
And then you just see this fabulous.

Speaker 7 (35:55):
Beautiful smile just over take me.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
And he's like, yes, that's it.

Speaker 8 (36:02):
So yet he was willing to just egg me on
an egg and go you're yeah, yeah, keep like keep going.

Speaker 7 (36:07):
Keep it coming, No, keep keep going in this direction,
go all the rest of the way.

Speaker 6 (36:12):
And so he's talking to you during this. I'm trying
to think, but there weren't any there weren't any bridge
cuts in this, so you're just sort of listening to
him and taking She's left the.

Speaker 8 (36:25):
Room and there's no dialogue it's just the music in
me picking up and having Okay, so he did, he
just he absolutely raw Rod cheered me through it more
and more, go go, go for it.

Speaker 6 (36:39):
Wolves. He's feeding you. He's feeding you increasing levels of
evil and you very quickly obviously because this this all
trains all a ten second period.

Speaker 8 (36:50):
The thing is, we were like just like he saw
where I was going, he saw that the coffee was
a perkoliten, and he was like, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 7 (36:58):
Yep, We're going the right way.

Speaker 8 (37:00):
Keep going, keep going, like you know when you're parking
a car, keep going.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Let go turn your wheel, turn your wheel. Yeah exactly.

Speaker 8 (37:09):
It was like yeah, he was walking walking me into
the parking space, and it's like yep, yep. And then
it was thinking of your wearwell of comic books, and
then it was like kaboom. He's like and cat Print.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
Had he directed an episode before this one.

Speaker 7 (37:25):
I don't know if this was his first or not, but.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
By god, he was good.

Speaker 6 (37:29):
I feel like no, I can't, no, no, no no.
He directed, He directed If I Should Wake Before I Die.

Speaker 7 (37:35):
Which is another favorite.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
God, I love that.

Speaker 6 (37:37):
Which is which is and I think one of my
favorite Michael performances and if I should wait before I die. Uh,
Victor got Michael working in a way that was very
intimate personal. Uh. Really, Victor was wonderful directly.

Speaker 8 (37:53):
Okay, I say there was a moment in the school
but when the whole thing goes down where says, yes,
yes it's me, I did it, and the class is shocked.

Speaker 7 (38:04):
They've been laughing in a shock.

Speaker 8 (38:06):
I turn around, like what the and the look on
my face I fell off couch.

Speaker 7 (38:12):
I was like, did Victor tell?

Speaker 8 (38:15):
I think Victor agy on that, which is like no,
like more like because it was just the most absolute
what the it was?

Speaker 7 (38:22):
It's hysterical. It's the greatest take he had me do
this take.

Speaker 8 (38:26):
Look at yeah, and the stuff he was directing Jonathan
when Jonathan was those priceless moments he would pulling stuff
out of people.

Speaker 7 (38:35):
It was it was lovely.

Speaker 6 (38:36):
Yeah, he was really good. The the let's just jump
back a little bit to the moment that. I mean,
we've seen Jason. He's done some he's demonstrating something. He's
talking about why what makes the talking machine work? He's
figured out the tinfoil and the vibrations, and that's what
makes it work. And then you get up and start

(39:00):
cranking this thing again, and you watch, we watch everybody's
Laura's horror growing as this happens, and you blithely continuing
to crank like there and miss beatles stop, stop and
oh it's stuck or what did you say? You say it.

Speaker 8 (39:19):
Favorite lines in the universe. I'm obviously you see me
because it's not a tight show. I am really dragging
the handle. It does not work unless you crank the
handles on and off on. I'm cranking the handle and
feels the stop and I said, I can't it stuck
as cranking the handle. Oh my god, totally dead, pat
do that beautiful?

Speaker 3 (39:40):
But yeah, it was again present.

Speaker 8 (39:42):
It was the future that people would expose people the
kind of thing so go on the internet, exposing people's
most personal things and secrets, recording people were videotaping people
in their intimate moments and destroying their lives.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
That this would one day be a.

Speaker 8 (39:58):
Thing, and especially with teenagers, this is like a horrible
mean girl book TikTok moment.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
And here it is.

Speaker 5 (40:07):
It reminds me of did you have slam books when
you're in middle school?

Speaker 6 (40:11):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Yes you did.

Speaker 6 (40:13):
What okay, sorry for those who are of us who
are a little older. And what is a slam busk
the book?

Speaker 7 (40:21):
Did boys ever go?

Speaker 6 (40:22):
Guys don't? Guys would just pound each other on the basketball.

Speaker 5 (40:26):
And my experience, the boys participated in it too. And
I know this because I got slammed.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
So just a note book goes around the room.

Speaker 5 (40:36):
The top of every page of the notebook is the
name of a person, so like Pamela Bob, there's my
designated page.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
And some questions.

Speaker 7 (40:43):
Sometimes there were questions, do you think they're pretty? Do
you think they're cool?

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Who? Or they could just freestyle what they thought of.

Speaker 8 (40:51):
You, who's the prettiest girl in class, who's the ugliest
girl in class?

Speaker 3 (40:55):
Who do you like best? Who do you not like?
The specific?

Speaker 8 (40:58):
Or they just yet just have someone's name right, what
you really think of this person?

Speaker 7 (41:02):
And passed around freak.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
So it was hard and then it would get to you.

Speaker 6 (41:06):
And this is just like equal opportunity, decimations vile and
they were literally was everybody in the class.

Speaker 7 (41:15):
Anyone passed Yeah, you would eventually you would see it.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
There was no you were definitely gonna.

Speaker 5 (41:20):
Show because because it got passed around to you everyone
wrote on your page.

Speaker 6 (41:27):
So kids are so cool?

Speaker 3 (41:29):
Oh my god, it's so I mean, this is pre internet.
They just do that online now.

Speaker 5 (41:33):
But uh, this is.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
What it reminds me. I mean, I think the reason why.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
Episodes like this also are so like is because probably
the majority of us have experienced some kind of bullying
like this. Of course I definitely know that I have.
And the portrayal and even the image of Willie in
the corner like trying not to laugh while recording her
is so freaking brutal because we've all been there with

(42:02):
these people thinking, thinking it's funny things.

Speaker 8 (42:06):
The basics, he likes the boy, I guess, guess guess
you Handla liked Hamla likes top not be so ugly
that likes Tommy. I mean you have that this was
taking too nuclear portions and torturing this girl now.

Speaker 6 (42:21):
And of course the slammer. Unless you happen to know
people's writing, the slamming is anonymous, I mean other than you,
the printing is there and you may know someone. So
are people signing these things?

Speaker 5 (42:31):
I think some people are signing it because I know
in my experience, the boy that I was madly in
love with wrote on my page, horrible things about me,
just like cruel, nasty, and I.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
Knew it was I'm trying to remember.

Speaker 5 (42:45):
Whether I knew it was him because I knew it
was his handwriting, or because he actually signed his name.
But anyway, it is people known who's writing what for
some of it, it's so dumb, it's so mean, it's
so mean.

Speaker 6 (42:59):
Melissa is all right, so let's just jump ahead because
the time is, the time is running on here. So
this happens. Laura's devastated, rightfully. So she she runs home,
and you know, she's talking to Pa, and she's talking
to Mary, and.

Speaker 5 (43:16):
And Mary's finally nice to her because Mary, no, that's not.

Speaker 6 (43:20):
Mary, who seems to be like a bulletproof with boys.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
But she's she's from the get go, she is not
for games with this whole like I have a crush
on this boy thing.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
She couldn't be bothered.

Speaker 5 (43:34):
She finds it super annoying. It's she's mean about it,
like she has. I told you, Mary has the two
sides of Mary, and Mary has the super nice side
and then the super bitchy side. She's bitch Mary the
first half of this episode.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
And she's right, she's.

Speaker 7 (43:47):
Always a narc. But she rats me out right, yes.

Speaker 5 (43:51):
Yes, and then thank god the second half, after this
horrible thing happens to Laura. She really is like this
sister that everyone wishes they have.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
She's super supportive.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
And kind and even holding her hand going to school,
making sure she's.

Speaker 6 (44:07):
Yes, that's a good post. And Pau saying he's gonna
like you more now if he really likes you, he's
gonna like you more after after all this than he
did before.

Speaker 5 (44:19):
And did you, guys ever, did you guys ever talk
to your parents about your crushes that you had at school?

Speaker 6 (44:25):
No?

Speaker 7 (44:26):
Never, right, But.

Speaker 8 (44:31):
Because then it's the blackboard and it says Jason loves Lord.
Now it's the slam book from hell. It's the right board,
and everyone assumes someone has done this to humiliate or.

Speaker 7 (44:41):
For them, and they all think it's me. Miss Beadle
comes right over.

Speaker 6 (44:45):
Well, the shot, the shot, the sign Miss Beadle over
your shoulder. She's looking right at you and for what time?

Speaker 7 (44:55):
Like what what now?

Speaker 8 (44:59):
I think that?

Speaker 6 (45:00):
I mean? That was that was a wonderful piece of
shooting right there, yea to sort of project that onto you.
So the moment happens when so this is all sort
of spinning in my head now.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
So she.

Speaker 6 (45:19):
They look they smile at each other. So how does it?
How do we get to.

Speaker 8 (45:22):
The did and I did it, miss Beetle and it's
true and sits down in the whole gas board.

Speaker 7 (45:28):
And that's when I turn on and look at him
like he has three heads.

Speaker 5 (45:31):
And yes, right, because it turns out that Jason was
the one that wrote Jay. He does like her, and
I'm like, BRD, it's very sweet.

Speaker 6 (45:41):
It's very sweet.

Speaker 5 (45:42):
I need to take it back the scene before this though,
which is when Michael Ann and.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
Pa goes to the to go to, which is like.

Speaker 5 (45:52):
You're just waiting for this moment, the entire episode of
like kicking ass of Paw to Nellie's parents. It's right,
and Nels once again takes the belt and.

Speaker 6 (46:08):
One pretty good size belt that wasn't just a little
namby panby belt that some serious.

Speaker 5 (46:15):
And surprising and surprisingly to the viewing audience.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
Child abuse is absolutely condoned right now. It is well
deserved with the belt. Yeah, you definitely deserve it, and
I think he does it right.

Speaker 5 (46:29):
Just remember there was a there was an episode we
recapped where he also did the belt and you guys
had a theory that he didn't.

Speaker 7 (46:35):
Actually, I still think he didn't do it.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
Missus.

Speaker 7 (46:38):
I won't hear of it.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
He says, no, you don't have to cry, gives you
the talking machine.

Speaker 7 (46:42):
Good one, good lines, all the good lines.

Speaker 8 (46:46):
I said something about Jason, I can't believe he wears shoes.

Speaker 7 (46:50):
And he goes, he's from Massachusetts.

Speaker 3 (46:52):
What does that?

Speaker 7 (46:56):
Nails have all of the best lines in this episode.
But he takes me, he goes upstairs. Now we never
see it because Michael psychopath.

Speaker 6 (47:03):
Never see it. Yeah, you could hear it, but you.

Speaker 7 (47:05):
Never never hear it.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 7 (47:07):
And there's a lot of weirdos out there who always write.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
And go you should have they should have shown it.

Speaker 6 (47:12):
Sho yah.

Speaker 7 (47:16):
I don't think. I don't think he did. I think
he got up there and gave me the lecture of
all time and.

Speaker 8 (47:22):
I went, yeah, please didn't And then he said, well
you know, and I got like a severe lecture.

Speaker 7 (47:28):
If you keep doing this, I'm going to have to
hit you one day. And then he's like, so.

Speaker 6 (47:31):
No, wait a minute, does anyone really I mean, I'm saying,
you know, Allison, yeah, you do such, you do such
wonderful work in these things. But for anyone to believe
that these tears, this upset is for real, it's like,
you've got to be kidding me. I mean this is like,
this is like cry one oh one? How do I

(47:53):
be as outrageous as I can be? But I mean,
are we supposed to believe this upset is really you?

Speaker 8 (47:59):
If you want to see the difference is go watch
the episode he Loves Me loves Me not when Perceval
propose to get married. Perceval is leaving and the Olsons
find you still my room left, and I'm actually crying,
and it's like.

Speaker 7 (48:10):
And they even go, wait what because they're really cry
because all.

Speaker 8 (48:15):
The other times I am crying because I'm being supposed
to work, I'm crying because I want a horse, I
want a doll, I want a boyfriend, or I just like,
how dare she's ignoring me? I am unhappy, I am bored.
I have venal ridiculous reasons.

Speaker 6 (48:32):
Yes, well, and you okay, and you do that exceptionally well,
and I think I think I agree with you. Nells
never takes the strap to you because he's afraid that
I'm load on him, and I think he.

Speaker 8 (48:45):
Also Nells was all super like justice like. Okay, he
was again probably ahead of his time. I mean, now
they've done all the studies going yet and it really
doesn't work that well.

Speaker 7 (48:53):
Kids are still awful. Yeah, there's a lot of people kids.

Speaker 6 (48:57):
Need a little strap perhaps.

Speaker 8 (49:00):
But I think he gets up there and reads the
Riot Act and says, how many times are we going
to do this?

Speaker 7 (49:06):
I'm gonna you know, I keep telling your mother.

Speaker 6 (49:08):
Many many more times now many?

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (49:11):
Yes.

Speaker 8 (49:13):
So.

Speaker 6 (49:13):
So Laura is walking off after this moment. There's its
love and beautiful cue by David Rose. They're walking hand
in hand through the woods. It's so sa Laura, and
Laura says, I may not be a doctor. I may
not even marry Jason. I may not marry Jason, may
not but but something like that. But it felt I

(49:37):
know that he loved me.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (49:39):
I wasn't sure if I'd ever be a scientist or
if I'd marry Jason. But it was a fine thing
to know that he loved me. And then we kill
the tree carving.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
How many trees a sacrifice to the name of love?

Speaker 6 (49:53):
Yeah, exactly where's your carving?

Speaker 3 (49:56):
You have carving too?

Speaker 5 (49:58):
This is not her first time at the rodeo with
carving her loved one's name on a tree.

Speaker 8 (50:03):
It comes, but I'm pretty mean in this because I
mean also virtually sort of invent the idea of recording
people and destroying their lives with it.

Speaker 7 (50:10):
I'm the first person to do this.

Speaker 8 (50:12):
But it's also when you see her crying to Paul
and she is just destroyed. She is really like her
life is ruined.

Speaker 7 (50:18):
She is really severely damaged by this and trying and
he's like and even.

Speaker 8 (50:22):
Says, oh, dear, sweet Nelly, like it's her, it's right exactly,
and they talk about me in the way she's crying.
I'm like, I've really done some damage.

Speaker 7 (50:32):
I've heard this.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
But she's bad off.

Speaker 6 (50:35):
She well, but she felt better at the end just
knowing that Jason loved her. And that's the end of
the story. And it all were and you know, and
Laura falls in love with you a blonde. The blondes
keep coming, keeping in love and uh, the happy credit story.

(50:55):
It's a it's a really it's a really wonderful episode.
I think we're racing for the exit.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
We are racing for the exits.

Speaker 5 (51:02):
It's so nice when it's a nice, happy ending, so
that that do do do do makes sense that the
music works. Yeah, they were like, yes, happy, it's not
no one was just murdered, and then you get the
do do you know? That's how Sometimes it's why they
didn't have an alternate ending. I will never know, but anyway, Uh,

(51:23):
bravo Allison on yet another villainous uh horror story.

Speaker 8 (51:29):
Forever Beauty is tranp for villains. Forever joyed this episode
making this episode. I had so much fun making this episode.

Speaker 7 (51:40):
It was right, how were you had.

Speaker 6 (51:43):
The greatest job ever for a kid in Hollywood? You
have one of the great jobs ever.

Speaker 7 (51:51):
You see that food at the Elston's mercantile table.

Speaker 5 (51:53):
Yeah, yeah, I mean yes, I loved that juxtaposition of
the Ingles family, didn't and then the old.

Speaker 6 (52:01):
Y's wonderful Yeah, really good.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
Really good.

Speaker 5 (52:05):
China, And yeah, I love that Victor French directed this too.
It makes me very very happy.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
Anyway, that's it.

Speaker 5 (52:11):
Okay, Listen, we announced a lot of spectacular things that
are happening upcoming at the beginning of this episode. Everything
will be in the show notes for you guys to
refer to, and we'll be posting and updating you on
more specifics as we go along, but we're very thankful
for you all and excited for upcoming Jeff and you know,

(52:33):
join us on our socials, little House fifty Podcast, our website,
Little House fifty podcast dot com. All of this will
be on those as well, and we will see you
next time. Bob get the wig, let's lie.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Happy ending. Finally,

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