Hey, Wunderfels Welcome to episode 555 of the JV club with my marvelous guest,

Ellie, you know.

I just am so excited for you to listen to this episode.

I gotta tell you, Ellie is wonderful.

I laughed and laughed.

Yes, I did. Ellie is a stand I laughed and laughed. Yes I did.

Ellie is a stand-up doing wonderful comedy in a city I love, Minneapolis, Minnesota,

and I know you're going to enjoy this conversation, so let's get into, let's jump in. And I'm just be in Minnesota nice when I say that I love the city of Minneapolis so much. I just find it to be, it felt very

homey to me when I finally got there. I hadn't been there before. It is so homey. I've been here for like 20 years, more

than that actually, probably 25 now and it's, I'm only from Wisconsin like I didn't go that far but it definitely once I was

settled here it was like oh I'm never like this is where I live now this is now my yeah

people really don't leave.

Well, yeah, I mean, if I were more used to, like,

long-term cold weather, I think that I'd be just as likely to move there

as I would to move to like,

it's awful, you know, Portland or whatever. Like as long, I don't know, but it's awful you know Portland or whatever like as long I don't know but it's it was hard and when it was I when I was up there it was it was cold it was pre Christmas I think it was like early November, maybe, or maybe even, here's how I'll gauge it.

If this means anything to you, I went to the Swedish American Museum, which is this great

mansion, right?

And they were in the process of like just about I think

even maybe the next day they would have had everything decorated for Christmas so I don't know

like if it's like Disneyland where they start decorating for Christmas. So I don't know like if it's like Disneyland where they

start decorating for Christmas in October but yeah but I feel it I mean it was

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