Hi, everyone and welcome to Bout on Paper podcast. I'm Olivia Mentor. And I'm Becca Freeman. And today we have a very

special episode talking about one of Becca's favorite things of all time, maybe. Is that fair to say? Yeah, I think so.

Highly requested, highly desired. It's our heated rivalry episode. And I have just come off of

two days of watching all the episodes, so I'm ready. I also feel like I need the listeners to know

that this was not my idea. Oh, yes. Well, you know, we have Valentine's Day coming up. I wanted to be

part of the cultural conversation. I wanted to be pushed to watch it. And so I did. I'm so proud of you. I can't wait to discuss this. I feel a lot of pressure to adequately and articulately express how much I love this show. Listen, I get it now. I have so much I want to talk about.

I have five pages of notes. We'll get into it. This is perhaps, I mean, I don't usually have

longhand notes for episodes, but this is perhaps the most prepared I've ever come into a podcast

recording in almost eight years. It's also good timing

because I think we're both having like supremely shitty weeks. So I think it's going to be,

it's going to be a nice distraction. Well, before we complain about our shitty weeks, tell me your

high. Well, it's also one of those weeks where we about my high in relation to my low seems very stupid because the low is so low. But yes, some weeks are like that. But yeah, some weeks are like that. Which is also a weird thing because when people listen to this, little one will be out in the world. But we're still in the past recording this.

So theoretically, your high is that Little One has launched and it's fantastic, but here in the past,

we're not there yet. Yes, I kept thinking about that this morning and how I should sound like

excited and thrilled and everything is great and happy in this episode

because it will be coming out within the first 24 hours that the book is in the world.

But this week has just been just garbage, straight garbage.

But my high, my high is that I found a new Neil person who's very close to me where I live, which is extremely hard to find.

And she does a great job. I booked an appointment with her. And I wanted to do something really

fun, inspired by my book cover. And so I went to the appointment. I watched heated rivalry

during the appointment. Oh, wow. And I got a pedicure the day before appointment. I watched heated rivalry during the appointment. Oh, wow.

And I got a pedicure the day before.

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