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Bad On Paper

The 8th Anniversary Episode

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

How time has FLOWN! Eight years into the podcast, we wanted to look back and re-listen to our first episode with Olivia as a co-host! We reflect on how our lives have changed since 2022, listen back to highs and lows of the time, and revisit the questionnaire we used to break the ice! 

 

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Obsession

Olivia - Project Hail Mary (The movie!)

Becca - Godlight by Noah Kahan

 

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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.

0:23.6

And today, we are celebrating a milestone. Last week was the eighth anniversary of Bad on Paper.

0:32.1

It's hard to believe. It's almost a decade. It's really hard to believe. And what's even harder to believe is that there's

0:37.8

so many listeners who have been here since day one. Yes. Thank you to all of you. I actually had

0:44.7

someone come up to me at a book event and they said, I am an OG listener from what was? Young

0:50.6

Adulting. Yes, young adulting. That's what they said. So yes, thank you to the people who have stuck through all the changes and everything.

0:58.1

So we are going to be looking back at Olivia's first episode, which was four years ago, which I'm very excited to discuss.

1:06.7

It feels like no time and forever ago at the same time.

1:10.1

Yes.

1:10.9

Re-listing to it was, it was different than I thought it would be somehow.

1:14.9

But yes, I'm excited about this.

1:17.1

Well, before we get to that, tell me your high.

1:19.8

So I should start by saying I have seen Project Tell Mary, we both have.

1:24.3

But I'm going to save that for my obsession.

1:26.2

So that gives you a taste of how I felt

1:28.3

about it. But seeing it was definitely one of my highs, but I couldn't think of an obsession again.

1:33.5

So I was like, you know what? I'll put that into it. And then my other high is that the final

1:37.5

episode of Little Pod went live this week. And it was the episode all about Gigi, the bookstore

1:42.5

owner and the Outer Banks that I've talked about a lot here.

1:45.9

And I just am so proud of it and the conversations that I had with her friends and family.

1:53.6

And I got an email from one of them last night in response to the episode.

1:58.2

And she said, thank you for like basically letting us hear her

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