Best of 2025

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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

4.9 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The year is coming to a close, and you know what that means! It's time to look back at our highs of 2025. We reminisce on work wins, new hobbies, mantras, and more!

Best New Artist Discovery of The Year (Author, Artist, Filmmaker, Dancer, etc.)

Olivia - Allegra Goodman, Joshua Burnside

Becca - Francis Featherstone, Anna Kwan, Sarah Martinez, Barbara Bourland

Best Song of The Year

Olivia - Baby Steps by Olivia Dean

Becca - Moves by Suki Waterhouse

Best Movie or Show of The Year:

Olivia - Train Dreams

Becca - The Summer I Turned Pretty

Best Purchase of the Year

Olivia - Shiseido Illuminating Micro Spot Serum

Becca - Weighted Eye Mask

Best Sandwich of The Year

Olivia - Fork & Whisk Chicken Salad

Becca - Hillstone French dip

Obsession:

Becca - Margaret from Bad Art Everyday's Post

Olivia - Pluribus

Reading:

Olivia - Wreck by Catherine Newman

Becca - Between Two Kings by Lindsay Straube, I Wrote This for Attention by Lukas Gage

This Month's Book Club Pick - No December book club, but now's the perfect time to catch up on past book club picks!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone back to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman. And I'm Olivia Mentor. And we are starting our end of year wrap-up content this week. And today we're talking about our bests of the year for everything except for books, which is separate. And if you want to tell us your best book of the year, that is an upcoming episode.
0:41.1	We would love to hear about it. Send us a voicemail. You can either record a voice note on your
0:46.8	phone and email it to us at bat on paper podcast at gmail.com. Or you can call and leave us a
0:53.5	voicemail at 843405-3-3157. I can't wait to hear all about your
1:01.6	favorite books, although I am sort of in denial that we are already starting end of year content.
1:07.2	It seems impossible. I feel ready. I'm excited. I'm excited both for the wind down of this
1:13.9	year and maybe getting some quiet and relaxing time. And I'm excited for the fresh start. You know I love
1:20.8	a new notebook, a new page. Well, let's get into some highs and lows first and then we'll
1:26.8	go through this episode.
1:28.7	Let's. What's your high?
1:30.4	My high is that Jake and I visited his family in Orlando for Thanksgiving, which was a bit of a mess in some ways, which I'll get to in the low.
1:39.5	But there was this one day that was really good.
1:43.5	And I went to see Wicked to the second Wicked with
1:47.7	our five-year-old niece and her mom and it was so cute to just see how excited she was about it and
1:54.6	she like wore her Glinda dress to the theater and she had like all of her dolls and she brought them all with her
2:02.4	and they sat in the seat with her and it was so, so cute. And then afterwards we went to like a
2:07.4	playground and our nephew is too and so they were both playing. And I'm not around kids that much.
2:13.8	I'm really not around kids that age that much. And it was just this nice reminder of
2:19.9	like how unbothered they are by so many of the things that we think about. Like I was just thinking
2:26.8	about her walking into the movie theater and her princess dress, like not worried about,
2:31.7	oh, is everyone else going to be this dressed up? Or am I going to be the only
2:34.7	one? Or is this too much? Or is this too fancy or too dramatic? Or like, you know, playing on
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