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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Gerrymandering in Texas and HIV Criminalization Battles

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.921.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Monday Edit we’re talking: the Hurricane Katrina documentary, Amanda Seales & Jubilee, Texas & California redistricting, HIV segregation in prisons, and the Correct the Map campaign,. Check out the JVN Patreon for exclusive BTS content, extra interviews, and much much more - check it out here: ⁠www.patreon.com/jvn⁠  Follow us on Instagram @gettingbetterwithjvn Jonathan on Instagram @jvn and senior producer Chris @amomentlikechris  New video episodes Getting Better on YouTube every Wednesday.  Senior Producer, Chris McClure Producer, Editor & Engineer is Nathanael McClure Production support from Anne Currie, and Chad Hall Our theme music is also composed by Nathanael McClure. Curious about bringing your brand to life on the show? Email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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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 are joined by our senior producer, Chris. Say hi, Chris. Hi, hi. Oh my God. I'm always so excited to see like what you're going to greet us with like on this like fine Monday. You know, will it be French today? Will it be good old US of A? What am I going to give you? We just don't know. But you know what we do

0:22.6

know? We're here breaking down the news, pop culture, TikTok drama, beauty wrecks and expanding

0:26.5

on the topics we're covering over on getting better. Our show that drops every Wednesday here

0:31.1

on the podcast feed and on YouTube in its full video glory, which can I just say video YouTube,

0:37.0

I hope you guys that are watchers of the pod or loving the video format if you are a

0:42.5

watcher, if you're a listener, I hope you're feeling like it's still giving you that good,

0:46.9

juicy, like my interview style that we all know and love if I do say so myself.

0:51.7

But we're really having fun on the video format.

0:54.5

Chris, I know you love watching and listening. Yeah, just the inescapableness of quality of my voice

1:01.6

in your life. It's like when Ariana Grande and the eternal sunshine goes into the big room and then

1:07.0

looks at all the memories, like that's what it is. That's what every week is just like a rolling video of every single episode.

1:14.0

You know, I just have to say, this more, speaking of her, this morning in Solidcore,

1:19.1

my teacher, like, took over from the teacher before and then turned on

1:25.1

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

1:26.8

And I just knew

1:27.6

that his class was going to fucking hit. And it hit. It hit hard. Yeah. Okay, well, it's time for us

1:37.4

to get into it. So last week, Case Kinney, Red flags, heterosexual men, settling up in life, which no offense to case,

1:47.8

I feel like straight men have this way of falling up, of oftentimes settling up.

1:54.7

But now that I think about it, I don't want to like engage in these like gendered ideas

1:59.0

because I know what it is really is white people.

2:03.8

Yeah. Yeah. Fail up. Yeah. Settle up. But that's not even what case is talking about.

2:09.2

Case is talking about in terms of like love and relationship like really, you know, not kind of

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