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🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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We’ve been trying to make an episode about comparison and competition (an Olivia Muenter favorite topic!) happen for a while, and it’s finally here! We’re discussing our personal histories with comparison and competition and how it manifests in our personal and professional lives. We’re even diving into whether we ever compare ourselves to each other.
We’re talking about if we define ourselves as competitive people, topics that bring up jealousy, how comparison and competition manifests in our author lives, and even within the podcast.
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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. |
0:23.6 | And today we are doing a deep dive into all things, comparison, competition, jealousy. This is actually one of my favorite subjects. So I've been wanting to do an episode on this for a while. So yeah, we're going to dive into all of it. I'm excited to hear |
0:39.6 | your thoughts. Ditto. Okay, well, I think that people will be excited to know this. So tell us your |
0:46.5 | hi. So I am a two-time lobster roll-off champion. Congratulations. |
0:55.4 | How does it feel? |
0:56.5 | Thank you so much. |
0:57.6 | I'd like to thank the fans. |
0:59.9 | I'd like to thank my fellow competitors, the judges. |
1:01.3 | It feels really good. |
1:05.0 | I was not being falsely modest. |
1:08.7 | I did not expect to win this time. |
1:15.1 | And I feel like we all agreed that the roles across the board were much better this year than they have been in any previous year. Like everyone took a step up. Usually there's |
1:20.4 | one or two that are either straight up bad or just kind of lackluster or disappointing. |
1:31.0 | And this year, like, even the last place ones, were very good. |
1:36.5 | So I'm also doubly honored to win against such a competitive field. |
1:37.6 | I'm forgetting. |
1:39.5 | Have you already talked about what you made? |
1:40.9 | I think so. But, I mean, let's have everything in one place. |
1:43.6 | So I did a colobrian chili garlic butter with like a little bit of honey. |
1:51.2 | So it was a warm roll. |
1:53.6 | And then I did very thinly sliced basil on top and lemon zest. |
1:59.9 | So another spicy roll, which is why I thought I wasn't going to win because I thought people |
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