It's an acquired taste podcast. Hey, I'm Bethany. I'm here with Sam. Hi. We are down

a lady today for Kathleen. It's two thirds of an acquired taste. Yeah. Kathleen is not

feeling well. She has the flu, so she's been gone the last couple days. So we love you,

Kathleen, and we are thinking of you, and we miss you very much. Yeah, one of us. I'm

kidding. Please come back. It's really annoying making those jokes with only Bethany as my audience.

I need you here to think I'm funny. I don't laugh enough for the whole group. So one thing

that just happened not terribly long ago is the Academy Awards, and everybody's talking

about them, and they've been talking about, you know, Leonardo DiCaprio and winning and

all of that stuff. But the big thing that really stood out for me was I was watching the

Red Carpet Coverage, Sam, and which really has become, if not bigger, at least as big as

the Academy Awards. Oh, I know people who will just watch Red Carpet, and then as soon as

the awards go on, you know, they're disinterested. Yeah, it's sort of like choosing the commercials

over the Super Bowl. I feel like perfect. Yeah. Exactly. So I was watching the Red Carpet

Coverage, and I glanced up, and they were talking to Mindy Kaling, who I love. I think

Sam, you would probably agree that like she is one of those role model women. Yeah, she's

someone I'd want to hang out with because she's fabulous, and she's on apologetic, and she's

herself, and she really does not succumb to a lot of the pressure that the industry who

happened to work in, unfortunately, put on people totally, totally. And yeah, and she's so smart.

She's the kind of woman that I want my nieces to look up to and say like this is, this

is an example of a woman totally with you. So as I look up at the Red Carpet Coverage,

I notice that it looked to me like Mindy Kaling had gotten plastic surgery. Okay, see, I was

asleep by, I say seven. It was a late night for me. So I was in bed by seven o'clock. And

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