Welcome back to full-time. It's me, Meg Linnehan. Tamara Griffin is still on vacation. Good for her. I am so jealous.

So once again, I am joined by my friend and fellow writer at The Athletic, Seth Young.

Steph, how are you doing on this fine day?

It's me, your boy. I'm doing great. We're still the last end of summer here in Boston.

I'm discovering that I kind of am a hot weather girly.

Not like a hot, hot weather girlie, just a hot weather girly.

You know, like if we're getting to 85, 88, I could manage any higher.

I'm like, oh, this climate change thing is not for me.

Wow, okay.

It's starting, like, I am in a full sweater today because it is 67 degrees currently,

but also a little gusty. It was a little rainy this morning. I was like, it's fall here. It's time to go.

When is apple picking started? Not even that I eat apples, but like I'm ready to go apple picking.

That's why you left for Burlington, but yeah, we're, fall is not quite here yet. We're still picking the last of the summer tomatoes. We're

eating corn, so I'm having a good time. Yeah. No, I mean, it's still, you know, I feel like all

of the coffee places have flipped over. I'm mostly, too early. It's like a hundred days until

ski season for me, maybe less, depending on when it actually

starts here, but I'm ready.

Yeah, I was at a coffee shop in D.C. and I had a real choice between iced or hot, and I

could have done either one and been comfortable. So I was like, okay, we're really in the,

like, the liminal space in between seasons.

It's uncomfortable. I don't like it. I like certainty.

Okay. All right. Well, let's, we'll try to get some certainty on today's topic, because today

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