June 2025 Three Things

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

It’s time for our June Three Things! But first, vote for our July Book Club Pick in our Facebook Group! Stay tuned for discussions about TJR getting the star treatment in Time magazine, the state of indie podcasting, a book battle mini-game, and more!

Becca’s Things

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Time Profile

The efficacy of learning languages via Duolingo

Podcast Longevity

Olivia’s Things

Hailey Bieber Selling Rhode for 1 Billion Dollars

Becca’s Favorite Books Battle: Fourth Wing vs First Lie Wins, You, Again vs The Bodyguard, The Rachel Incident vs The Wedding People, All My Rage and The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue, The Celebrants vs The Husbands

Our Readers’ Choice Book Club

Obsessions

Becca - Wacoal Red Carpet Strapless Bra

Olivia - Coco Mellors

What we read this week

Olivia - Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

Becca - Filthy Rich Fae by Geneva Lee

This Month’s Book Club Pick - All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman (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 back to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman. And I'm Olivia Mentor. And it's a three things episode. I don't know what that tone of voice was. I was letting it settle. You were so shocked that you couldn't, you couldn't reply. It is a three things episode. I like to mix things up.
0:38.4	Yeah, I like to you.
0:39.5	It was very sing-songy.
0:40.8	I said to you in this outline and then I screenshot it and put it on Slack that I'm feeling wild and zesty podcast-wise.
0:47.8	I can tell.
0:48.8	It's June.
0:49.7	It's a new month.
0:50.6	It's summer.
0:51.7	Here we are.
0:52.7	Here we are.
0:53.7	Well, before we get into these things,
0:56.2	tell me about your high. My high is that my low last week was that I drained my social battery.
1:03.1	I've recharged it. It took 48 hours. By Sunday, I was like, I'd like some plans, please.
1:09.8	I'd like to see people. But yeah, I had two
1:13.1	nights of no plans, which was really lovely. And then I had a really big working weekend. I'm
1:18.8	trying to finish this draft. Well, I was originally trying to finish it by the end of May, but I don't
1:23.4	think that's happening because it's now May 29th as we record. But my drop dead date is June 15th.
1:29.6	So I had a big working weekend and I put up some numbers. Like I got into it. I felt great.
1:38.2	And I feel like I'm, I don't know if I'm quite there, but I'm like getting closer and closer and closer to that running downhill feeling. So I'm like almost in the pocket. You are feeling zesty.
1:49.7	I am feeling zesty. I get it now. That sounds great. I also love that your balance is 30 straight
1:55.8	days of socializing, two days off. Yep. Yep. I think mine is, I had a three straight days of socializing last week.
2:05.3	And now 30 days off.
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