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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Excellence v. Perfection, GLP-1 Spelling Bee, JVN’s Memory Hack

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Comedy, Education

4.921.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week: we’re talking about CATS: The Jellicle Ball, weddings, maiden name lore, striving for excellence (not perfection), GLP-1 Spelling Bee, Alexia Moore’s arrest, sleep for memory, the North Atlantic current, and Broadway bootlegs.  Get tix to the Hot & Healed Comedy Tour here.    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.

0:02.6

Welcome back to the Monday edit. This week, like every week, we are joined by our senior producer Chris. Say hi, Chris. Bonjour. Ooh, not the elevated I connect with a double tuck. That was some choreo, bitch. That was pretty. I don't know if I handed it. No, you did. You did. I want to hit you guys with like a, just a big dose of honesty. Am I in the same glam and top as I was last Monday? Yes, because in my world, it is still last Monday because I turned 39. I am take, I took these two weeks off. I am still working on getting better at being bored. So just I want to be fully

0:38.0

transparent. This Monday, we're giving you Evergreen. That's why Chris put a wig on for you guys

0:45.5

just to show up, just to give you guys presence. But I'm leading off with honesty, transparency.

0:52.3

That's what my world is. But yeah, it's great.

0:56.5

It's very love roach, something old, something new, something borrowed something, blues and daya,

1:00.0

you know, it's very that. Yes. And meanwhile, though, I am 39. I did have, I went to Jellicle

1:08.1

ball and from from past me

1:12.7

but that is what I'm at this

1:14.6

current moment in time that is what I'm planning on doing

1:16.5

for my birthday and

1:17.8

that's but that's happening

1:20.2

it's all really exciting

1:21.3

meanwhile

1:22.1

Chris you and Nate have also had

1:26.0

a very busy week.

1:27.2

We have had a very busy week.

1:28.9

I'll tell you what, we're giving you birthdays, we're giving you weddings,

1:33.1

we're giving you major life events.

1:34.7

My sister-in-law has gotten married and past and future self.

1:40.6

My sister-in-law has gotten married, which we love and we adore.

1:43.4

Now, will there be a potential for a brother-bried choreography at this wedding?

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