April Catch Up

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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

4.9 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

We thought it was time for a good ol’ catch-up! We have much to cover, including (but not limited to) writing updates, new journaling habits, career developments, travel plans, spring hobbies, and MORE!

Highly recommend reading What is Glitter by Caity Weaver in the New York Times

Obsessions

Becca - Soeos White Peach Candy

Olivia - He Wasn’t Man Enough by Toni Braxton

What we read this week

Olivia - This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead, The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin, The Dream Hotel by Laila Lailami

Becca - Quicksilver by Callie Hart

This Month’s Book Club Pick - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (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 Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Olivia Mentor. And I'm Becca Freeman.
0:23.2	And today we're doing a catch-up episode. Yeah, I feel like we haven't just talked in a while. I actually feel a little out of the loop on some of your life updates. So if I feel that way, I'm sure the listeners do. And I thought we could just catch up about literally everything.
0:39.0	Oh, really? Okay. Well, I love a chatty episode. So I feel like you're like an international
0:43.9	woman of mystery. What? I don't know. That's a step too far. I want to hear more. I want to hear more
0:51.3	about this. I want to hear more about this one minute. But first, please tell me about your high.
0:58.9	I have to do it. I have to talk about the weather again. This is in a good way, though. I got the sun in my bones and I feel renewed. Oh my gosh. I've worn a dress.
1:12.0	I've gotten a little bit of a tan.
1:13.4	In fact, I got a little bit of a sunburn by accident.
1:16.9	I am so happy.
1:20.6	I played two and a half hours of pickleball both last weekend and the weekend before.
1:26.5	I am, oh my gosh, everything feels better.
1:31.7	We signed on the Zoom and I was like, how are you? And Becca was like, I am great. I know,
1:36.7	Monday morning. Monday morning, bright and early. I love it. We all needed it. We all needed it up
1:42.1	here in the Northeast. We did. What is your high?
1:45.1	My high, I really had like a week of highs. It was a jam-packed week last week. It was a very
1:50.4	social week for me. I hosted my first, like, dinner party where I actually cooked the main dish,
1:57.8	which also ties into my low, but we'll get to that in a minute.
2:00.8	It was mostly a high, but it was just a lot of wine was consumed.
2:04.7	I really, I went hard for a Wednesday.
2:07.4	I feel like I remember when you moved into this house and when you were getting it ready,
2:14.6	like, taper candle dinner parties was a huge part of the vision board.
2:20.8	It's true. Yeah. Thank you for reminded me of that. Yeah. It really was a nice moment for me because I just get,
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