Almanzo Wilder

Little House on the Prairie fans, don't miss this.

I toured Almanzo Wilder's boyhood home, and I'm going to take you there.

And that's all tonight on the show that looks at politics, culture, and relationships through a psychological lens.

I'm Josh Slocum.

They got that way because they weren't raised properly by people with decent values, American values, Christian values.

They were raised by parents who had reverence for integrity and character.

We're going to take a tour of Almanzo Wilder's boyhood home.

You know it from the book Farmer Boy in Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic series Little House.

Um, so yeah, it goes back.

So my, my shirt, cause obviously the viewers can't see me, but it says team family and there's a big picture of Almanzo on my shirt.

And my mom had one that said team, uh, team Charles.

And when we would watch it together, um, I was more of an Almanzo fan and she resonated more with paw.

And I think I just loved the Laura and Almanzo relationship.

And

yeah.

And the children were disciplined and punished sometimes quite harshly with belts.

And in Almanzo Wilder's case, a bullwhip.

That goes farther than I would go in disciplining children.

I think that veers into abuse.

And last week, I had a chance to do something that I didn't even know I could do.

I didn't even know it existed.

My good friend Holly, you know her from her writing on Substack, figured out that Almanzo Wilder's boyhood home is not only still extant, but has been restored and is open to visit from the public.

Yes, if you've read Farmer Boy, it's that house.

And joining us will be award-winning producer and director and documentarian Dean Butler.

He played Almanzo Wilder on Little House on the Prairie, and he's the author of Prairie Man: My Little House Life and Beyond.

And joining us will be Carolyn Hennesy.

She's the Emmy Award-winning actress who has created characters that fans love to hate on both the big and small screen.

Oh my goodness.

Well, it's time to take a break, and when we return, our guest will be the award-winning author of this fabulous book that we're chatting about today, A Letter Is Better: The Art of Thank You by Erika Gerard DiBona.

And joining us will be the award-winning producer, director, and documentarian Dean Butler, who played Almanzo Wilder on Little House on the Prairie.

He's also an author, Prairie Man: My Little House, Life, and Beyond.

It's called Little House on the Prairie 50th Anniversary Podcast.

And Alison Arngrim, who plays Nellie Olsen, and Dean Butler, who plays Almanzo Wilder, Almanzo, excuse me.

They run the podcast.

And Pamela Bob is just a precious lady that keeps them both in check.

You know, Mary never gets married, but they're like, we have to give her a husband because it's TV, it's a soap opera.

For anyone who isn't a Laura, L-I-W fan, who does Laura marry? Almanzo Wilder.

She calls him manly, affectionately calls him manly.

Farmer Boy is the book about him in case anybody wants to read about Almanzo's life.

Anyone who's read Little House on the Prairie, those schools were terrifying.

American one room school houses, like the story about Almanzo's father and the bullwhip.

Like, I mean, they, they would have, they had these, at

the end of the year, they beat up the teacher.