Does that feel different for you today?

Well, do you think you and...

The I, I...

So, I, I wasn't nervous today at all, but, like, do you think you were nervous when you're racing, though, because it's literally your livelihood as well on the line, and, like, there's a world stage and stuff like that? Whereas today-

Yeah.

But it's, there's, there's no pressure, and that's actually a massive confidence boost in just all of my running because it's, it's like actually pushing yourself.

And I'm not training for a 10K.

It's a handmade mug, and on the side it says, "Number four best dad." Thanks, buddy.

[Instrumental music] My name is Tom Dunn, and I'm a senior staff writer on the home improvements team.

The best Father's Day gift I ever received, when I'm not testing the air conditioners, I'm also a musician, so my wife and kids like to get me some fun guitar swag sometimes, and I think my favorite of all was, uh, one year they got me a graphic T-shirt with the fingering charts for a D, A, and D chord.

Get it? I get a lot of, a lot of mileage out of that graphic tee in a lot of situations, so that's always fun.

Okay.

And that's just to get you to the start line.

And that also then, from the start line, you have to wear that to go down the first three kilometers of the race to the first checkpoint area.

From then on, you're still at five, you're still at 5,900 meters, so it's still quite cold.

Um, so then you would strip down into more hiking, like fastpacking hiking gear.

So still jackets.

Um, some people opted to put trail shoes on there, or you could wear, like, faster hiking boots.

So what was the process of, like, trying to get to the start line?

I think he's gonna love it.

Hi.

My name is Tom Dunn.

I'm a senior staff writer here at Wirecutter and I live in Boston.

The best pick I bought this year was easily the COSORI air fryer toaster oven.

We'd had our old toaster oven for probably 15 years or so, and it was probably dangerously on the fritz for a while.

And then our main oven died and, long story short, it was going to cost us several thousand dollars to replace, at which point we realized that we may as well just update the entire kitchen.

Mm-hmm.

But that is a temptation you should resist.

Last year I was, I started wondering about this, because they were so much cheaper, especially I found that Costco always had sales on huge versions of our picks.

And what I found, I did some tests last year, I was testing one of the 12,000 BTU units in my office space.

I was so miserable.

I went and grabbed a hoodie, and I was sitting here and I was like, "Okay, it's July.

It is 85 degrees outside.

Tom, what are some of your basic strategies that anyone could use, whether they're using AC or not, to keep their home cooler this summer?

This is a tricky one.

My name is Tom Dunn, and I'm a staff writer on the home improvements team here at Wirecutter.

I do mostly, uh, HVAC stuff on heating, cooling, humidity.

Cleaning your humidifier is a crucial part of simply owning a humidifier, because what humidifiers do is they pump moisture out into the air.

And water is a wonderful thing, but also water helps things to grow, including gross little microbes and other nasty things.

So, you need to make sure you're cleaning your humidifier on a very regular cadence.

Otherwise, all those teeny microscopic things that love the water just as much as we do, they start to fester and grow.