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Uh, and I, I would say, too, that, um, s- at Springboard, we've been really looking at, uh, innovating, you know, how, how artists can be funded.

So we are piloting a guaranteed minimum income program for artists, both here in Otter Tail County and then in the Frogtown neighborhood in St. Paul.

And what that means is we're, um, we're spending, um, uh, the five years, uh- Providing artists with unrestricted cash, uh, money, uh, pa- cash payments, sorry, um, to just support their, their lives and, um, not connect that funding to any, um, specific project, but just really recognize the, the, the importance of having them in the community.

So there is a lot to be, you know, um, con- to be figured out as far as how to provide flexible funding and kind of trust-based funding to artists so that they're not always having to produce, produce, produce.

um so it's so it's happened all the time but yeah getting ice is hard i know chaska has been super nice to us and trying their best to accommodate and we've gotten to know them really well and I know Brad and everybody in USA Curling works hard to try to find ice, but it's tough.

We're hopping around from Chaska to Blaine to Frogtown, St. Paul, whatever we can make work.

Some of the teams practice at 5 a.m. in Blaine.

Some of us are able to practice at 7 p.m. in Chaska, kind of dependent on where your office is, where you live.

North Carolina.

And, of course, you guys are no different.

Frogtown's busy.

And Blaine, of course, is insane with Todd and Regan there.

I'm going to wear it to the office.

I was told, Laura, when we lived in Frogtown in St. Paul that we should start our own show and call it The Hood Place.

What's the concept? Just you and Laura living your life? Yeah.

Oh.

We are now hearing about problems at the Mungtown Marketplace.

Now, the Mungtown Marketplace itself took over a lumber yard in Frogtown at Como and Marion in 2004 and turned it into this really celebrated spot for community events and a tremendous amount of commerce.

We're talking about small businesses numbering over 100 doing food, clothing, media, household goods and more.

And by all accounts, like business is steady at this location.

My great-grandfather was the glue of our family.

And just little things like every Christmas Eve, we would all go over to Grandpa Louis' house, even though he had a small, humble, uh, you know, small, humble home there in the, uh, the Rondo area, or maybe you could say it's, you know, on its way to Frogtown.

But in, in, in the heart of St. Paul, right off of Dale Street, and he had a, a little humble single-family home.

Uh, and it, it's interesting because I grew up around a, a great-great-grandfather, a great-grandfather like that who grew his own vegetables in the backyard of what was a very tiny house.