May 2026 Three Things

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

We're so excited to chat through a fresh batch of new things. What are our character naming rules? What teachers made an impact on us? Do we still care about the Met Gala? Find out this and more in this week's episode!

Olivia's Things

Naming Book Characters

Teachers who have made an impact on us

Do we still care about the Met Gala?

Becca's Things

Famesick by Lena Dunham

Author Career Milestones

May's Book Club Pick - Into the Blue by Emma Brodie

What we read this week

Olivia - American Fantasy by Emma Straub, The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clark

Becca - Vantage Point by Sara Sligar

Obsession

Olivia - Killeagh by Kingfishr

Becca - Haagen Dasz Caramel Cone Ice Cream

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 is our May three things. Just a smorgas, smorgas, sport of things. Yes. But first, let's talk about some highs and lows. What is your high? I mean, I had to clear out all my other potential highs when this came through
0:38.9	earlier. My friend's daughter invited me to special friend day at her school, which is tomorrow.
0:46.6	What is this? I saw this in the outline and I was like, oh, Becca had a special day with a friend.
0:51.4	That sounds like so nice. It actually sounds really creepy in here, special friend day.
0:55.3	It is all caps. So this does make sense now. But okay, tell me more. This sounds really cute.
1:00.4	So this is a two-hour afternoon thing at her school. She's four, but her school goes up through elementary school, maybe even through middle school.
1:11.7	So it's a hybrid.
1:13.5	It is special friend day slash grandparents day.
1:17.2	So I'm getting ready to meet a lot of grandparents.
1:20.0	Oh, that's nice that they do that.
1:21.8	So if the kid doesn't have grandparents in their life for some reason, they can have a special friend.
1:26.9	Or their grandparents can't come or whatever. Yeah, all of her grandparents don't live in New York. So, and I don't think they were just going to come for this two-hour thing. We do get treated to some snippets from Trash Day, the musical. I've never heard of that one. Well, because it was written by the students there.
1:45.2	Oh, okay. Well, that's actually pretty impressive. My friend, her mom said that she's seen it and she's
1:51.4	excited to compare notes with the only other person she'll know who has seen it. And she saw the full
1:55.7	cut, which was 90 minutes. I'm happy that I'm only seeing a 20 minute selection. Four year olds? Four year olds did the
2:03.5	whole 90 minutes? No, no, no. The whole school. So the four year olds apparently had a, how did she
2:10.0	phrase this? They had a movement number that was part of the transition between trash dimensions.
2:17.8	Oh. Oh, I see.
2:19.9	I think. I don't see. But anyway, I'm excited. I'm like, I'm going to go have lunch. I'm
2:24.8	going to watch Trash Day in the musical. I think there's probably some crafts. We go to
2:29.1	their classroom and do things. I'm excited. I'm honored. That's amazing. That sounds actually like thrilling.
2:35.8	Like what a nice way to spend a day that's unlike any other day you'll have in the next six months.
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