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- [Interviewer] We have a little treat for you guys.
We'd like you to choose your favorite winter warmer.
- Oh, man, I did not see that.
- You guys have a lot of fun in here.
- Why, I would take a mug, does it have coffee in it?
- You're like a pilot in like the 30s, or something.
- Oh you have, okay, alright.
- [Interviewer] Do you drink it black?
- Yeah, this is the look for me.
- [Interviewer] That's a great look.
- So, now that you're all warmed up, how do you feel
about this time of year, January, February, March?
- These are typically my least favorite months.
- You have all the fun stuff in December
and then you get to January and you're just like,
"What am I doing," "Where did everybody go?"
- Worst than March, March is not quite warm,
but it is rainy and miserable and muddy
- But you know the good weather's coming though.
- You have to wear so many layers to go outside and be warm
and the second you walk indoors, you're sweating.
Or you walk into Subway and you have to keep your coat on.
- My birthday's in February, so that's like
my favorite part of the year.
- Okay, very good.
- I tend to be fairly excited about this time of year.
Weather, not so much, but.
- [Interviewer] You're literally the only person to say
that this is you're favorite time of year.
- Seriously?
- [Interviewer] Yeah, everybody else hates
this time of year.
- I think it's because I like myself so much.
(laughs)
- [Interviewer] Do you guy have tips
on how to survive the winter months?
- Booze.
- Plans.
- Generous work at home policy is really key.
- I figured out that if you bought
a giant pack of those hand warmers
that you use while you're skiing,
and put them in your shoes,
you can wear any kind of shoe,
even in the coldest weather,
and your feet won't freeze.
- I was just miserable all winter,
and this year I said no, there will be plans,
and I will be happy.
And it's worked so far.
This winter has been so much better.
- I like a shot of Jameson's Whiskey
on cold night with some Walkers Shortbread cookies.
- I like that.
- What do you do when they wear out though?
You just switch them out?
- They last for a long time,
they're like 12 hours.
- Baths.
Set nice bath and just like lie there
and you have a glass of whiskey
and maybe a good book or a magazine.
And light a candle, it's just like it's perfect.
- [Interviewer] We kind of brainstormed
some things that folks on the video team do,
and I'll just start throwing 'em out.
- Over the weekend I watched a significant amount
of Designated Survivor.
- I just watched You which was not comforting,
even a little bit.
- Yeah, I've heard that show is
- Traumatizing. - traumatizing, yeah.
- I'm watching Sex Education.
It's about teenagers learning how to have sex.
- There was a documentary on Netflix
about the Fyre Festival.
- I just can't get into it, I don't know what it is.
Part of me is just like, I don't care about
some bunch of douche bags getting ripped off
by bigger douche bags - That's what I'm saying
- I've been watching the Masked Singer lately,
which is this random TV show,
and it is not good but every Wednesday night I'm like
"Gotta watch it, gotta see who's wearing that mask."
It's awful. - Wednesdays.
- Yeah (both laugh)
- I've heard of S.A.D. but not the lamp.
- One of my old coworkers was from Florida,
and she genuinely had a really hard time
in the winter so she would sit at work
with this lamp in front of her all day,
and people would be like
"Why do you have a spotlight on your face?"
- I'm actually working on a story about
how all these lighting science products that
- Have no science? - Are maybe bullshit.
- But if maybe the lamp has
a psychological affect I can kind of see
how it would work.
It's not something I would do.
I go back to the whiskey.
- Sunlight is great for you, but I don't know
that the S.A.D. lamp will save me. (laughs)
- So that's when people get together and they start dating
because they don't want to be alone.
I think that's real.
- Yeah, I do too.
- We're probably not the right people to ask about this
given that we're both married. - We're in long time cuff.
- Long time cuff.
- I personally don't think there's anything
about the wintertime that makes people
more inclined to do that, I mean,
I could be totally wrong,
but it feels to me more like a media term
than something that's actually a real thing.
- [Interviewer] Did you get cuffed during cuffing season?
- Have I ever cuffed, is that what you're asking me?
(both women laugh)
- [Interviewer] Well, Ruth!
- I don't know if necessarily think people pre-meditate like
"I'm going to get together with someone in November"
- I think that some people do! - You do?
- I 100% think there are people that are out there
that are like "Alright, it's about to be the holidays"
- I think they're probably smart!
Because my whole winter is me by myself watching
The Masked Singer. (laughs)
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