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Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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

4.9 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This week, we asked listeners in our Facebook Group for categories to share our top 3 rankings! We cover (almost) everything, from food to books to pop culture and more!

Food

Trader Joe’s products

Becca - taco seasoning; hold the cone; pastry pups

Olivia (Costco remix) - Rotisserie chicken, Costco Pizza, Carbonara Buldak Ramen, Built Bars

Fast food orders

Becca -McDonald’s (Chicken Selects), Shake Shack, Dunkin’ (Sausage Egg and Cheese Wake Up Wrap)

Olivia - McDonald’s (2 Cheeseburgers, extra pickles), Auntie Anne’s (Pretzel Bites), Starbucks

Dips

Becca - Chili’s salsa, Hillstone Spinach & Artichoke Dip, Spicy Feta

Olivia - Helluva Good Onion Dip, mom’s spinach dip in bread bowl, Chili’s ranch

Plane Snacks

Becca - Mini pretzels, Twizzlers, peanut butter crackers

Olivia - Gardetto's, Cheez Its, Peanut M&Ms

Books:

Romance

Becca - The Idea of You by Robinne Lee, The Royal We by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan, People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

Olivia - Talking at Night by Claire Daverley, Shark Heart by Emily Habeck, Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

Thriller

Becca - Verity by Colleen Hoover, First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston, All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klefoth

Olivia - The Push by Ashley Audrain, Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Books that deserve the hype

Becca - The People We Keep by Alison Larkin, Musical Chairs by Amy Poepell, A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood

Olivia - We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman, Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash, Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

Books to recommend

Becca - The Idea of You by Robinne Lee, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Olivia - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, The Wedding People by Alison Espach, The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

Book-to-Film adaptations

Becca - Crazy Rich Asians, The Devil Wears Prada, The Summer I Turned Pretty S1

Olivia - Gone Girl, The Martian, Pride & Prejudice 2005

Pop Culture:

Newsletters to receive

Becca - As Seen On (Ochuko Akpovbovbo), Gossip Time by Allie Jones, Galley Brag by Ezra Kupor

Olivia - The Composite by Jordan Bogeegean, Morning Person by Leslie Stephens, Literary Leanings by Michelle Martin

Formative celebrity crushes

Becca - Leonardo DiCaprio, Paul Walker, Joshua Jackson

Olivia - Ashton Kutcher, Sean Faris, Robert Pattinson

Karaoke Songs

Becca - Hero by Enrique Iglesias, Never Ever by All Saints, Spice up Your Life by the Spice Girls

Olivia - Goodbye, Earl by the Chicks, 2 a.m. by Anna Nalick, How To Save a Life by The Fray

TV Romance Plotlines:

Becca - Olivia+Fitz+Jake love triangle in Scandal, Blair Waldorf + Chuck Bass in Gossip Girl, Connell + Marianne in Normal People

Olivia - Nick+Jess on New Girl, Emma+Dexter in One Day, Priest+Fleabag in Fleabag

Reality TV Shows:

Becca - RHONY, NYC Prep, Laguna Beach

Olivia - RHOSLC, RHOOC, Below Deck

Misc

Things to do when you need a reset

Becca - Take a walk, go to bed early and don’t set an alarm, journal

Olivia - Let my phone die, take a shower, journal

Candle scents

Becca - The New Savant Summer Splendor, Brooklyn Candle Company Apple Cider, Hotel Lobby Candle Signature

Olivia - Anything that doesn’t smell like cologne

Late 90s/early 00s beauty products

Becca - Hard Candy lip gloss, Stila Kitten Sparkle Powder, Clinique Black Honey

Olivia - Dream Matte Mousse, Lancome Juicy Tube, Clearasil Face Pads

Obsessions

Becca - Paradise on Hulu

Olivia - Gap Barrell Overalls

This Month’s Book Club Pick - Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley (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	Hi, everyone and welcome to Bout on Paper podcast. I'm Olivia Mentor.
0:21.8	And I'm Becca Freeman.
0:23.4	And today we have a fun, rapid fire. It's not really a game. How would you describe this?
0:31.0	It's kind of a game. It was sourced by the listeners, which I love the most. You guys really came to about when we said,
0:38.1	give us things that you want us to name our top three of,
0:42.3	which is not a very distinct way to put it,
0:44.7	but talk about our top three of a bunch of things.
0:47.7	Trader Joe's items, fast food orders, plain snacks, books, of course.
0:53.1	We've got a lot, a variety, a smorgasbord. I'm very excited. I feel like
0:57.4	this is, I mean, we're recording in advance, so it's not daylight savings yet, but I feel like this is
1:02.6	the kind of punchy, happy, upbeat energy that next week is going to have. I always feel so good
1:10.2	after daylight savings. Yeah, I'm ready.
1:12.7	Me too. Well, tell me your high. Oh, I've had such a bookish week in the best way. I went to an event
1:20.4	on Tuesday for Reese's Book Club and Apple Books, which was so cool. It was such a pinch me moment.
1:26.4	It was a smaller event than I expected.
1:28.8	Like, I'm really bad at guessing numbers of things. I have terrible spatial relations. But I guess maybe
1:34.7	it was 40 or 50 people. And it was a conversation between Reese Witherspoon and Claire Leslie Hall,
1:40.1	who wrote Broken Country, which Olivia, you already read, and is the Reese's Book Club March
1:46.3	Pick. So it was a really interesting discussion and such a cool event. And then on Thursday,
1:53.7	I moderated an event for Holly Brickley, the author of Deep Cuts, for her book tour. And, oh, it was so nice. I got,
2:03.8	there were a bunch of listeners there who I got to meet, which was so lovely. And I'm so
2:07.6	obsessed with this book. It was such a joy to talk to Holly more about its origins and her backstory.
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