Hey, I'm Candace Lim.

And I'm Kate Lindsay.

And you're listening to I see why am I.

In case you missed it.

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And speaking of missing, I thought of that pun, a little segue, literally as I was speaking

and I was like, I gotta get to it.

Speaking of missing, Candace, you were gone last week.

After battling COVID, how are you feeling? How was it?

Thank you so much for holding down the fort, Kate and team.

I'm doing better, but I got to say I was definitely in the trenches because guess what?

My first time having it.

In 2025, first time having it. I mean, you have that skill at this point to have lasted this long. I know. And was it everything you dreamed and more? I mean, here's a thing. I had the razor blade one, you know? I hear tell of this, yeah. Right? It's like it just feels like razor just feels like razor bligs going up and down your throat. You can't talk. Everything hurts. La, la la la. And I suffered. Trust me. Trust me, I suffered. However, it was nice to kind of experience season one COVID. Like, basically all I did every single day was watch movies. And that was really fun. Like, I will say, I got to the big three finally after years of ignoring it, which is Top Gun Maverick. I also got to watch Pride and Prejudice 2005. Oh, my God. Okay, we can't even get into that here because I really want to talk to you about it, but okay, move on. Yeah, and then obviously Bull Durham, the triangle.

So I got it in, I got it in. The father, son, holy spirit.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, listen, we missed you, but you returned to our Slack today and you returned with good news.

Hell yeah.

Would you like to share it?

Hell yeah, because something that we both missed is that, remember a few weeks ago, you and me pounding the pavement, talking about our little friends.

Our girl, Sylvainian drama on TikTok, and how she's just this way Irish girl and she's getting sued.

She's getting sued and we were upset.

Well, guess what?

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