March 2026 Three Things

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

New month, new installment of Three Things! We're ready to get introspective, set goals, get random, and more!

Becca's Things

Reece Witherspoon's Reel about talent vs. passion.

Is contemporary romance dead?

How to set writing goals.

Olivia's Things

Things from our childhoods that aged poorly (and well).

What we're excited about this year.

The last internet rabbit hole you fell into.

Obsession

Becca - Viral rotisserie chicken recipe

Olivia - The Hand by Annabelle Dinda

What we read this week

Becca - Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

March's Book Club Pick - So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, and welcome to Bout on Paper podcast. I'm Olivia Mentor. And I'm Becca Freeman. And today is a three things episode. Very excited. What kind of things have you brought? Give me one word. Oh, gosh. I have one writing thing. I have one serious thing. And then I have a reading thing. Okay. Great. A true reflection of
0:41.8	bad on paper interests. What about you? What's your one word summary? Random? Okay. I guess they're all
0:48.7	pretty random, but easy and fun, I think, too. Okay. All right. Tell me your high and let's kick this off.
0:55.2	Let's get into it.
0:56.2	I had a few highs to choose from this week.
0:57.9	So it was a really good week.
0:59.0	But I changed it at the last minute to this conversation I had yesterday.
1:06.1	And in preparation for this episode of Little Pod about Gigi, the owner of this bookstore in the Outer Banks, who I've talked about on here, who passed away suddenly a couple weeks after our interview, we decided we wanted to turn into a tribute to her.
1:21.2	So we ended up finding her family and some of her friends, and her brother, George George ended up emailing me to let me know that
1:30.1	she had passed, which was very kind. I already knew, but he somehow found me in her inbox because
1:35.4	she and I had been emailing, and he let me know, and was just very sweet. And so we ended up talking
1:40.8	to him yesterday, basically just to fill in some gaps of her bio and stuff.
1:45.2	But it ended up being like a two-hour Zoom conversation with this man named George, who is a retired
1:52.8	nurse and lives in West Virginia and just the absolute most lovely, sweetest, kindest, most thoughtful man.
2:04.4	And we laughed, we cried.
2:07.0	He talked so lovingly about his sister.
2:09.8	At the end, I told him, I wish, you know, I hope one day my brother talks about me like this.
2:14.8	Like, it was just the most moving conversation, 99.9% of which I'm sure
2:20.4	no one will ever hear, but it was just one of those moments. I told Jake after, like, one of those
2:25.9	moments where life is really distilled and really simple. And it's just about coming across people
2:32.5	who are so kind and generous and have their own
2:36.1	interesting lives and histories and stories. But like you find some sort of connection with them.
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