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Here is a life hack tip. I pass along every now and then.

If you feel cold, this will make you feel warmer instantly.

On your weather app, on your phone.

Oh, let's not do to your cuts.

Are you going to your cuts?

You are, aren't you?

Add Yakutsk to your phone.

Yakutsk, Russia.

It's always colder. It'll be like, oh, or I am, it's negative 12. They're at negative 60. It's still cold where you are, though. Don't you feel better? No. Like it's 48 degrees. Those poor people in Yakuts, there's 300,000 people that live there. Yeah. It's negative 60. I know. Okay. Well, I mean, what? It's all relative. I don't know why my voice is going up. To make the point, it just keeps going higher. I don't know. Good news for the show right here as you're listening. The early lead for Word of the Year.

I was just reading for Word of the Year for 2026.

Yep.

Is whimsy.

Oh.

People want whimsy.

And you find us to be whimsical. I think we can bring the whimsy.

I really do.

I feel.

Yeah, I feel pretty strong.

If you like whimsy,

we may be, yeah, your option. It's going to go our way. Here we go with another hot take from a listener. It's an extreme opinion about something that's not all that important.

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