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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Better Babes, it's Jonathan Van Ness, and welcome to The Monday Edit. This week, like every week, we're joined by our senior producer, Chris. Say hi, Chris. Hello, hello, hello. We're breaking down pop culture, TikTok drama, beauty wrecks, and expanding on the topics we're covering over on getting better, our show that drops every Wednesday here on the podcast feed and on YouTube and its full video glory. Few honorable mentions, you guys, |
| 0:21.5 | at the top of the episode, Wayward, May Martin, are non-binary crush as it turns out. |
| 0:28.8 | Like, I, okay, May Martin already shivered my timbers in real life. And I think that we all know that. |
| 0:33.4 | But May Martin is really mussely. |
| 0:44.2 | And I feel like I want May Martin to like pick me up and throw me somewhere. |
| 0:47.1 | And I got that feeling in real life. |
| 0:51.0 | But after watching May Martin be like a cop and like chase people through the woods, |
| 0:55.5 | I just have to say my shivers are timbered. |
| 0:57.9 | Or no, my timbers are shivered. |
| 1:00.1 | And I am, wow. |
| 1:01.3 | But just congratulations, May. |
| 1:05.3 | Number one on Netflix, that really is a huge accomplishment. |
| 1:06.5 | Such an incredible person. |
| 1:09.6 | And I just, I love to see good people win and they really deserve this. And I think they have a really, like, I think they have like a Shonda Rhymes, like, honestly. Production, producing future. Like, they are a powerhouse storyteller. And it's just not their fault that they're that fucking talented and tall and musseling. Number one scripted on Netflix. I mean, come on. Like, that's like... You know what it makes me think of? What? May is number one. May is number one. |
| 1:30.7 | Brought it a cheer. It's very bad. It's very that. It's very that. We must cheer on. Yeah. Meanwhile, this week on getting better, we have president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, who's actually a returning guest to the pod. it was the pod formerly no one was getting curious when we first got to interview none |
| 1:45.8 | other than Alexis McGill Johnson. |
| 1:48.2 | We're talking about what happens when we no longer have access to our health care, which is |
| 1:51.8 | something that's like a rapidly evolving situation around us. |
| 1:56.0 | And Alexis has a really unique perspective on rural health care and reproductive health care as a |
| 2:02.5 | president of Planned Parenthood. So I was really eager to talk to her and see kind of what the |
| 2:07.3 | situation on the ground there is. And also, what can we do to help? Because we actually have a lot |
| 2:11.0 | more power and the information game and the funding of Planned Parenthood than what we think that we do. |
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