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Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E27 Founders DaySend us a textThe Squid Games come to Walnut Grove for this last episode of the season! Sarah and Emily reminisce over town days and school fairs and Emily comes up with a great idea called "Mother Carnies," (if you'd like to be one please contact her.) Walnut Grove has their very first town celebration and Pa is up against an elderly gent who trash talks him the entire episode and challenges him to a chopping contest. Will Pa take the high road? Also, we learn what hoop balling is, talk about cheese curds and the...2025-05-0459 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E26 To See the WorldSend us a textAn old friend shows up and is about as exciting and welcome as a case of Montezuma's Revenge... good ol' Johnny Johnson! Johnny decided he's going to see the world, but first stop, Mankato! He falls in love with a lady of the evening and Mr. Edwards takes it upon himself to teach the lad a lesson. Not much from the Ingalls girls this episode, so they must have been on Spring Break. But, there's a lot of Mr. Edwards so don't worry! Remember to like, subscribe and join our Facebook p...2025-04-2049 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E25 SurvivalSend us a textJoin Sarah and Emily and special guest star Annie as they discuss this episode where the Ingalls get "woke!" Ma, Pa and the girls are stranded near Mount Kato during a Spring snowstorm. With nothing to eat but old cornmeal and horses, they are on the brink of starvation when a mysterious stranger comes to save them, despite the fact that he is being hunted himself! CW: this episode uses outdated language and racial themes and we tried our very hardest to not sound like total priveleged jerks while talking about t...2025-04-021h 06
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E24 Money CropSend us a textNOTE: Emily and Sarah did NOT do the episode we were supposed to this week and are choosing to skip it. That episode is called Child of Pain and deals with child abuse. If you want to watch it this week, go ahead, BUT DON'T TELL THEM ABOUT IT! There's only so much they can handle right now. A new scammer and schemer comes into Walnut Grove... or is he? This episode Sarah and Emily go down a lot of rabbit holes and discuss befriending crows, colonoscopies and wanting to just ta...2025-03-1859 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E23 Circus ManSend us a textSo much grooming! More grooming happens on the Prairie as the worst circus ever comes into town. Pa is too trusting and falls for the tricks of a leprechaun who tells people not only is his sad wagon an actual circus, but he can heal people with a secret powder! Emily remembers a pet store from her childhood that had a monkey in a diaper, but we have no evidence it existed outside her brain. We also discuss an alternate ending for this episode which doesn't involve Jack and a tabby c...2025-02-2857 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E22 The Plague (Now With More Rats!)Send us a textThis week we revisit one of Emily's favorite episodes; The Plague! The town of Walnut Grove is besieged by rats and bad cornmeal and suddenly everyone gets sick! But how did this happen? It most certainly could not be from the super cheap sacks of cornmeal with an unknown provenance! The very sacks of cornmeal crawling with rats! We discuss how gifts with purchases would be better if they included your choice of rats, how Emily's middle son figured out their neighborhood's pizza night schedule and how Mike Landon must have h...2025-02-181h 02
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E21: Doctor's LadySend us a textIn this episode a grifter comes to town in the form of a sexy lady that looks a lot like Harriet. Hiram Baker falls in love and has a whirlwind romance. Emily declares she has HAD IT with predators and also divulges the name she gave her kitten (spolier alert: it's stupid and doesn't make any sense.) Michael ("Mike") Landon was clearly off this week for filming and all eyes are on Doc Baker. Pa still manages to get a heroic rescue into the fist five minutes though! Make sure to f...2025-02-041h 00
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E20 Family QuarrelSend us a textIn this episiode we get a little peek into the homelife of Nels and Harriet as they contemplate divorce, an issue I am sure many children in the 1970s were having to grapple with. Nels suddenly becomes an expert fisherman and Harriet resorts to violence with eggs when pushed too far! Doc Baker doesn't mind his own beeswax and comes up with a cockamamie plan noone really follows through on.Sarah and Emily also discuss the origin of "tell me longer," the elite status of Pepperidge Farms and Emily admits she...2025-01-1654 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!*ANOTHER Special Christmas Episode: The Christmas They Never ForgotSend us a textEmily forces Sarah to watch another Christmas episode during teh holiday season. This one is a bit of a mixed bag with some remembrances from Ma, Manly and Hester Sue. Laps are sat upon, a kid plays dead and an unbelievable snowstorm strands everyone at the Ingalls' cabin which has now turned into a snowy grave! Make sure to like ansd subscribe, follow our page on Facebook and send all of your grievances to Swaz in HR at littlepodontheprairie@gmail.com 2024-12-3158 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!Special All Sisters Episode: Blizzard!Send us a textThis is a very special holiday episode of Little House on the Prairie! Emily picks the wrong episode and we all end up watching the most depressing, feel-bad Christmas episode ever where children get drunk, suffer frost bite and Nels' inventory count of the mercantile suffers a devastating blow. Swaz from HR joins us and she spreads her good cheer and great attitude as she discusses the show she hates the most (this one, thanks to her older sisters.) We also reminisce about times gone by and growing up in the 80s and...2024-12-181h 04
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E15 Christmas at Plum CreekSend us a textIt's Christmas time in Walnut Grove so it's time for green grass, trees with leaves and glaring plot holes! We don't care though because it is a classic feel-good episode, (even though there's no Mr. Edwards.) Ma wants a stove, Pa suddenly knows how to fix wagon wheels, half pint makes a difficult decision no adult should have let her make and we get a glimpse of the Mercantile in all of its holiday splendor! Make sure to like and follow our Facebook page Little Podcast on the Prairie wi...2024-12-0843 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E14 Part 2 The Lord Is My ShepherdSend us a textTW: This episode continues to discuss infant death. Avoid it if this is a sensitive subject to you and we will see you next time! In this episode Em and Sarah discuss cheese, who loves it, who doesn't, who's fascinated by it and who is going to get spoiled at Grandma's with a custom charcuterie board! We also reminisce about growing up in the 80s when people let their kids jsut walk home on Kidnapper's Alley and we also talk about Ernest Borgnine. (Whos IS he?? We still don't know but h...2024-11-2647 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E14 Part 1 The Lord Is My ShepherdSend us a textTrigger Warning: This episode talks about infant loss. If this is a trigger for you, we'll see you back here for episode 15! In this episode Ma and Pa have their very first baby; a baby named Charles Ingalls Jr. They forget they already have 3 other kids at home and place all their attention on this new baby which Laura does NOT appreciate! Sarah and Emily talk about the miracle of childbirth and reminisce about seeing Swaz in HR's disgusting belly button. We also talk about penny candy and the origins of l...2024-11-0544 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E13 The Award: a Real Barn Burner of an Episode!Send us a textIn this episode Sarah and Emily get a little off track because the entire episode revolves around a test and winning a dumb history book. We find out the biggest FU a kid can give Ma is studying really, really hard for a test that isn't even required, working an after school job no one asked you to do, AND keep up with your chores and regular schoolwork. We also learn Pa went on some mysterious trip to Mankato but all the townspeople seem to be covering for Pa and making sure Ma...2024-10-2351 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E12 The Voice of Tinker JonesSend us a textIn this episode we finally learn what cow bells are for as we witness all the children in Walnut Grove become thieves of tin and metal. We learn that the only thing Walnut Grove has needed during this time is NOT running water or even electricity, but a fancy new bell! We also talk about the Lebanese families that helped settle Mankato. If you would like to read more about how Mankato is what it is today because of Lebanese immigrants, you can read more here: https://blueearthcountyhistory.com/2021/08/04/lebanese-immigration-to-mankato/ and...2024-10-0950 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E11 The RaccoonSend us a textSarah and Emily revisit a potentially triggering episode for raccoon owners. Mary finds an orphaned raccoon and gives it to Laura who teaches it adorable tricks and how to eat eggs. The whole thing goes predictably downhill as one would imagine when you let a raccoon into your prairie home. There's very little of Carrie this episode but a LOT of talk about rabies. Emily calls Sarah out on the carpet for being a cold hearted b****, which isn't NOT true........Remember to like and subscribe, rate us 5 stars and if...2024-09-2548 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E10 School MomSend us a textMa comes out of retirement and steps in for Miss Beadle who suffers a workplace injury and tries to add more to her mental load by teaching an entire school. Emily and Sarah discuss whether kids really ever did bring apples to their teachers at school and discuss how many favors Michael Landon owed his former Bonanza co-stars. Make sure to email us your remembrances, your thoughts and prayers by emailing us at littlepodontheprairie@gmail.com 2024-09-1050 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E9 Ma's Holiday (Bringing Bonnets Back)Send us a textIn this episode of the docuseries, Pa has a grand plan to make Ma stop being such a wet dishrag and have some fun by going to the Cancun of MN... Mankato! Ma and Pa eat a fancy meal, see a suspect play, and just have a terrible time because Ma cannot forget she has children 82 miles away. Meanwhile, the gals back home have the time of their lives with Mr. Edwards, eat rattlesnake soup and learn a valuable lesson about locking up firearms. Trigger warning: this episode contains some cultural s...2024-08-2958 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E8, Town Party, Country PartySend us a textIn this episode Sarah explains the phantom whistling in last week's pod and all the paranormal things that have happened in her home. Sarah and Emily discuss yet ANOTHER foot focused episode and are introduced to one of Kim Richards's earliest roles which happen to be that of a child with a limb difference. Pa does some light blacksmithing, Laura is an amateur marine biologist in the hills of Western Minnesota and Carrie is actually cute this episode.Don't forget to like, subscribe and email us at littlepodontheprairie@gmail.com 2024-08-1448 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1E7 If I Should Wake Before I Die..... Paranormal Edition!Send us a textIn this episode two old ladies with very Millennial names die, or kind of die, with the help of Ma and Pa and the Ingalls family. Irish accents come and go, kids peel eggs in a grotesque way and Sarah and Emily get triggered by the use of an autoharp in the episode. But more importantly, make sure you listen all the to the end, starting at the 37:00 minute mark. You can hear ghostly whistling that Sarah's mic captured. Backstory on the whistling: (Sarah's account) When Em and I were recording l...2024-08-0244 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1E6 The Love of Johnny JohnsonSend us a textThis episode is a big YIKES as Laura gets groomed by an older boy, (well actually, she grooms herself.) There are some problematic themes in this episode but Sarah and Emily work through them. They also discuss Emily's youngest child who frightens them both the most.2024-07-2146 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1E5 Mr. Edwards' HomecomingSend us a textIn this episode Sarah and Emily discover that Mr. Edwards is the originator of the original Stanley mug! (Except it was a clay jug he found at the sawmill.) Sarah gets grossed out by watching kids eat, Emily realizes Edwards was a feminist before his time and we get to see the fanciest town of them all..... Mankato! Royalty free music provided Uppside 2024-07-1046 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E4 The 100 Mile WalkSend us a textThis week Pa takes a long walk to go visit Sarah in Mankato. Emily and Sarah discuss Pa's journey as he meets a hunky Swede and explores a new relationship with him, learns how to be a drill jack and watches a new friend explode to bits. This is one of the goriest episodes Little House has to offer so strap on your floppy soled boots, make a pot of Dinty Moore stew and buckle in for a wild ride! 2024-06-2949 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1E3 Country GirlsSend us a textIn this episode Sarah and Emily reminisce about their childhood field trips to the Cahill school, Angel Face Barbie and meet Nellie Olesen for the first time. Laura learns to read and kinda write, Ma begins her years long feud with Harriet and Pa doesn't really do much in this episode. Remember to like and subscribe! Music provided royalty free from Uppside, 2024-06-1736 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!S1 E2 A Harvest of FriendsSend us a textSarah and Emily discuss the second episode of the series in which Pa makes a tragic mistake and almost sends the family into ruination, we meet the Olesons, briefly, talk about gorgeous oxen, bulldogs with obstructive sleep apnea and ask the age old question "How IS Baby Jessica doing these days?" Hold onto your bonnets! It's going to be a bumpy ride! *audio quality is getting slightly better but don't worry, it should be MUCH better next time! Remember, we are just two sisters on the prairie trying our be...2024-06-0837 min
Little Podcast on the Prairie With Sisters!Wolves! Pa! Mr Edwards!Send us a textSarah and Emily discuss the very first episode that really should have been made into 4 separate episodes. The Ingalls set up their home in Kansas, (NOT Minnesota,) and endure a year of hardship including being stalked by wolves and white people wearing a lot of bronzer. We cry because we thought Jack died, Michael Landon shows off his luxurious locks and Mary and Carrie may as well not have been in the episode because all eyes are on Half Pint. Music provided royalty free from Uppbeat, New Life by Moire 2024-06-0453 min