August Three Things: Glen Powell, the Olympics, and political hope
Bad On Paper
Becca Freeman
4.9 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Happy August! We’re kicking things off with some fun, weird, zeitgeisty things!
Becca’s Three Things
Where is the fanciest place you’ve ever pooped?
Glen Powell
Big swing podcast guests
Olivia’s Three Things
The Olympics
What songs you can’t listen to anymore
The state of politics (how the tables have turned!)
Obsessions
Becca - her spring green manicure
Olivia - Shogun
What we read this week
Becca - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to go. Hi everyone welcome back to bat on paper podcast I'm Becca Freeman and I'm |
| 0:21.8 | Olivia mentor and today it is our August three things |
| 0:25.9 | It is indeed Olivia give me like just the very highest level preview like what is the tone of your things are they fun are they serious are they I would |
| 0:37.2 | say two are in the zeitgeist right now things in the zeitgeist okay and, things in the zeitgeist. |
| 0:43.0 | And one of them is sort of a branch off of one of those. |
| 0:47.0 | Okay. |
| 0:48.0 | But what about you? |
| 0:49.0 | Give me a teaser. |
| 0:50.0 | I would say mine are fun and weird. |
| 0:52.0 | Great. I'm excited. I am too. I mean, you are fun and weird. Great. I'm excited. |
| 0:53.4 | I am too. I mean you really should have saved your pasta head shape question for this week. |
| 0:57.6 | I know. |
| 0:58.9 | I asked everyone not in Maine and this question is the gift that keeps on giving because everyone has a such strong feelings and b the answers are so different. |
| 1:08.0 | What was your favorite answer that you received? Well my friend Ali wanted to know if her head could be a meatball |
| 1:14.2 | with spaghetti coming out the top as hair, which I said, who am I to stop you? |
| 1:19.1 | I mean that's as close as you can get to sort of our natural state as humans. |
| 1:24.0 | So that's interesting. |
| 1:25.9 | It was interesting, yeah. |
| 1:27.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.3 | I hadn't thought about incorporating meat. |
| 1:29.9 | Although I did see in the Geneva group, |
| 1:31.7 | someone said that their husband said a |
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