July Three Things

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

Skincare, Beauty, Society & Culture, Comedy, Advice, Books, Arts, Careers

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Happy July! It’s time to share our Three Things for the month. We got summer reading memories, cultural phenomena, weird Facebook groups, and So! Much! More!

Becca’s Things

Summer Reading (And our Summer Reading Memories)

Iconic Music Videos (Olivia’s: You’re Still the One by Shania Twain, Becca’s: Candy by Mandy Moore, I’m A Slave 4 U by Britney Spears, Everybody by Backstreet Boys, It’s All Coming Back to Me Now by Celine Dion)

What to do for an energy reset

Olivia’s Things

Zyn (What it is and its overall impact)

Go to chain restaurant orders

WTF is going on with Facebook

On Becca’s Summer Reading List

Real Americans by Rachel Khong

I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue

One Last Summer by Kate Spencer

Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand

Olivia’s Summer Reading List

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker

Obsessions

Olivia: Killing Eve

Becca: Hair Gloss

What we read this week

Becca: I Regret What's In My Camera Roll on the substack Totally Recommend

Olivia: Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

This Month’s Book Club Pick - Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're going to go. Hi everyone and welcome to about on paper podcast I'm Olivia mentor and I'm
0:22.0	Becca Freeman and today is our July three things episode.
0:27.0	Yes it is but before we get into that what is your high?
0:32.0	My high is that we officially kicked off renovating what will be my office one day. I don't know when I don't know how long this will take it could be years for all I know I've learned not to put a timeline on basically anything
0:46.4	but we started cleaning it out and it's been really
0:50.4	interesting and
0:55.0	you're exciting.
0:56.0	yeah it's happening, finally.
0:55.0	I love that you dangled this a couple of episodes ago
0:58.0	in our goal episode and you were like,
1:00.0	we're going to wait until the fall until it cools down
1:02.0	and you were like, you know what? No, we're going to start in the middle of a heat wave.
1:05.6	Okay well in my defense that is Jake who is incapable of rest so I just like wake up in the morning and he's out there. I'm like, do you want to wait or like we should probably like save some money?
1:16.2	Just he loves it. The the Reno compels him. I don't know.
1:21.4	The new age Bob Vila. I'm very lucky. But yeah, so I don't know how long
1:27.7	we'll take. We'll probably have to pause and but yeah I'm really excited to have like an
1:32.1	official space every time we record I think I'm in a different room
1:36.4	Because I'm just bouncing around so is there
1:40.1	H-Vac out there? No, there is a wood-burning stove for heat, which I think will be really cozy.
1:45.8	How romantic. Thank you. I'm really excited. And then we'll probably put in a small window unit or something next summer. I can't imagine that by the time it's done it will still be hot here so
1:57.0	Olivia the idea of you going out to your writing cottage at
2:01.3	6 in the morning in the week winter light and lighting a wood-burning
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