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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Air Quality, Acceptance vs. Spiraling, Hair Transplants, Madonna’s “Confessions II”

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Comedy, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Education

4.921.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re talking: USA Air Quality, Erie, PA True Crime, Sculptra in South Korea, Getting Better at accepting where we’re at, hair transplants, Internet Spelling Bee Words, Jonathan Van News Desk, coming out in your 30s, and Madonna’s new album.  Wanna see JVN on stage? Get tix to the Hot & Healed Comedy Tour here.  Catch Getting Better & The Monday Edit, now on YouTube!  Check out the JVN Patreon for exclusive content, bonus episodes, and more! www.patreon.com/jvn  Follow us on Instagram @gettingbetterwithjvn Jonathan on Instagram @jvn and senior producer Chris @amomentlikechris  Executive Producer, Chris McClure Producer, Editor & Engineer is Nathanael McClure Production support from Chad Hall Our theme music is also composed by Nathanael McClure. Curious about bringing your brand to life on the show? Email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Better Babes, welcome to the Monday Edit. This week, like every week, we're joined by our executive producer Chris. Say hi, Chris. Bonjour! First segment, what's going on in our world? I have to, not to name drop, but Aloke, I was telling Aloke about like what I'm doing this summer, and Aloke was so proud of me because they were like, you never travel, like for fun, like you only ever travel for work. So Bajordo, Mark and I are going to Italy for a little romantic vacation, but because I don't know how to only take time off, I am going to London first so we can visit some space and K stores. So I'm actually Chiuri I'm in London today, but obviously this is my office in New York, so I haven't

0:40.7

gotten there yet. But that's what I'm doing this week. I'm giving you Europe. I'm giving you

0:44.3

travel queen. I'm giving you also going to Germany this week because J.B. and Hare launched

0:49.5

in due gloss. So now J.B. and Hare is also in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, which I'm so excited about.

0:57.7

And we actually launched in March, but I'm going to do store visits and do some like education

1:03.2

and style some hair and like work with some people at the Douglas store. So that'll be fun.

1:08.3

And yeah, I'm actually really excited for that. So it's giving

1:11.4

like European moment. What's happening with you? Just desmogifying, living. Desmogifying.

1:16.6

That New York air, baby, I woke up and I was like, I can't breathe. It's so dense. That smoke is

1:23.7

so dense from Canada, darling. Blame Canada. What's going on? Our downstairs neighbor is a nurse and she had like masks. So at first I was like, oh, these people are being overdramatic. And then like five seconds, I turned around and came back and got one because I was like, it does hurt the lungs. It hurts the face. It hurts the eyes. And it really was giving like, I was like, is there an eclipse? But it was just

1:45.3

smoke from literal Canada. Literal Canada smoke. That's all that it was. And it was like

1:51.1

orange and it felt like dune and it was just very post-apocalyptic, as they say. Did you see the

1:57.3

air quality map thing? I didn't see the number, but I did see that it was, I got the

2:02.0

warning on my, on my phone. It was like air quality sucks ass here. So like New York, like it went

2:07.2

from like, I never really, I always look at like the precipitation thing on Apple Maps. Like I'm

2:11.4

never really looking at the air quality one. So the air quality, I think it was going from like

2:16.1

yellow was giving like, you know, registering, but then it was like red's not good. Purple's like really not good. And then like that deep like orangey, purpley red. Like actually, let me just show you guys because this is a video. So like, why am I having, why am I being? Okay, so here. Can you see the, like, gradient that it's giving you?

2:36.2

Like...

2:36.5

I do.

2:37.2

It's going like yellow.

2:37.9

It's not so bad.

2:38.7

Okay.

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