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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Epstein Files Deep Dive with Betches co-founder Sami Sage

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Comedy, Education

4.921.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We’re getting out the red yarn, receipts, proof, timeline, screenshots - f*cking everything - and piecing together the saga of that is: The Epstein Files. JVN and Betches co-founder, Sami Sage, unpack a tangled web that tracks 50 years into the past and traces all the way to today. From concrete evidence to conspiracy theories - this is just the tip of the iceberg, and we'll be keeping an eye on this EVER unfolding story here on the pod. Sami Sage, host of Morning Announcements and co-founder of Betches Media. Catch Morning Announcements wherever you get your podcasts. Full Getting Better Video Episodes now available on YouTube.  Follow Sami Sage on Instagram @sami  Follow us on Instagram @gettingbetterwithjvn Jonathan on Instagram @jvn Executive Producer, Chris McClure Producer, Editor & Engineer is Nathanael McClure Production support from Chad Hall Our theme music is also composed by Nathanael McClure. Check out the JVN Patreon for exclusive BTS content, extra interviews, and much much more - check it out here: www.patreon.com/jvn  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

Better Babes. Welcome back. How are you? Today we are diving in. I literally wore my pearl necklace

0:09.0

because I anticipate that I will be clutching these pearls a lot for what we're about to learn.

0:15.7

Put your hands together, make some noise for none other than the queen of our queen. Sammy Sage, founder of

0:22.9

Betches Media. And also, you are just, we just want to, I wish I would have gotten you a bouquet

0:27.5

of flowers because you are doing the most incredible work. And this is our first time meeting

0:33.3

IRL. IRL, but not, you know, digitally. So I feel like I've known you my whole life now.

0:37.9

And also since I started watching Queer Eye. But I've been a digital fan of yours since prior to our first episode. Then when I was researching you for our first episode, I was like, I'm obsessed with her. And I have just stayed. I feel like I'm probably like the first person on your stories. and like i don't know if I'm always like the first like. But like I am in these comments. I like I talk about you on our Monday episode or on our Monday edit episodes a lot. Like did you see Sammy's post? The video that you made when you were like, I'm on vacation, but I'm like literally coming out of vacation to like put these three things together because I've been thinking about this so much.

1:11.0

Yeah.

1:11.8

Talk to my mom.

1:14.4

If my grandparents have been alive, I would have told them about it.

1:17.2

I love your content. And I think you're doing such singular work.

1:20.5

I mean, full and that you are teaching people to connect dots in a way that most people

1:25.4

aren't.

1:26.0

And I think most people will know who I'm talking about when I say this and I'm not

1:31.0

trying to like sub-tweet, like get your bag.

1:33.1

But in some ways, I think a lot of TikTok news influencers are like regurgitating other

1:39.3

news and just regurgitating stories like without necessarily citing things a lot of times.

1:44.4

What I'm loving about you is you get flowers when you need to get flowers.

1:48.4

You like cite, but you also are actually reading deeper and you're connecting dots

1:52.7

and you're showing how one thing influences another and that none of these things are happening

1:57.0

in a vacuum.

1:57.9

You're giving us context.

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