August 2025 Three Things

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

It’s time for the most August 2025 Three Things to Ever Three Things. From AI to face shapewear to Labubus, and more, there’s so much to discuss! Let’s get into it.

Olivia’s Things

DNF-ing

Skims Face Shapewear

Labubus

Becca’s Things

The articles “I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students” by Meghan O’Rourke [gift link] and ”The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public” by Ted Gioia

Mind Meld Game

The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3

Obsessions

Becca - Freakier Friday

Olivia - Sorry, Baby

What we read this week

Becca - The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett

This Month’s Book Club Pick - The Knight and The Moth by Rachel Gillig (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.
0:21.5	And I'm Becca Freeman.
0:22.7	And today is a Three Things episode.
0:25.6	Yeah, we had a very serious episode last week.
0:29.1	We've also gotten so much lovely feedback on our episode about comparison and competition.
0:34.1	So this week is more of a grab bag, a little bit of a sillier one, if you will.
0:39.5	Yeah, I loved reading all of that feedback. It really has meant a lot to me. But I'm excited about
0:45.1	this one too. Well, before we get into it, tell me your high. My high is that I finally got to
0:50.6	reveal the cover for a little one. And I've been waiting very patiently for weeks and weeks, if not multiple months now.
0:59.0	And I was just so thrilled and got to do a really cool article with people, which was like very surreal.
1:07.9	And it was so amazing to see how excited people were and how much people cared
1:13.9	because I think something that's kind of interesting about this being my second book is that
1:19.1	there's like already a basis by which people can make their opinion about whether or not
1:24.6	they want to read this book. So it felt like almost there was
1:28.4	more of a chance that people were like, I'm out. I don't care. I don't care. I've already decided I don't like her. And of course, there's also the added benefit of there's more people who have hopefully read the book and LinkedIn, one a second one. But you just, I don't know. You just don't know how it's going to go. You don't know if people are going to care. You build it up in your mind to be this big thing because, you know, it is.
1:49.2	It's like, I was thinking this morning, I was like, I wonder how many more times in my life I'll get to
1:53.1	have that moment and it's so special. So I really did enjoy all of it. And I'm so thankful for the response from everyone. And you can
2:04.5	pre-order it right now. Yes, you should. Well, from the outside at least, it looked like you were
2:09.6	the queen of the internet for a day. I saw so many excited comments and reshairs. It looked great.
2:20.3	But I feel like you are burying. To me,
2:26.4	what feels like one of the most important pieces of this, that you have this phenomenal blurb from Amity Gage, who you have brought up on this podcast no less than 15 times this year.
2:34.8	I know.
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