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Oh, hi. Welcome back to Tunis. I'm your host, Elizabeth Cott. This is the show where each

week we pick a topic and we haul it. So happy you're here to join me. To be honest, I was planning on a classic gift guide episode,

a classic gift guide hall revolving around what you could get yourself for the holidays,

treat yourself a little delight here and there. But as I was getting ready this morning,

I honestly was like bored by the concept.

And I feel like we've been gift guided to death. We're all set. Great, great, great. So I'm going to

pivot a little bit. It is going to be a bit about what you can do for yourself, but also

mainly everything's free and it's kind of more concepts.

So I'm calling this the non-gift guide gift guide. The first item to discuss is the fact that the Oxford word of the year is brain rot.

This is deeply relatable and also deeply concerning.

And that's why I need to step up on a soapbox for a second and talk a little bit about

how we need to change our relationship with social media and with our phones and all of this

because things are grim, you guys. We have to shift the behavior. So, you know, I lead these club artist way

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