GETTING CURIOUS | Can You Even Believe It’s Our 300th Episode? with Jonathan Van Ness

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

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

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

If you’d told Jonathan seven years ago that they’d be celebrating 300 episodes of Getting Curious this week, they would have passed out on the salon floor. You’d be visiting from the future, after all! We couldn’t have made it to 300 episodes without you, our listeners—so to celebrate this milestone, Jonathan’s answering your voicemails. Listen in for their takes on style, confidence, navigating the entertainment industry, and how we make the show each week. Make sure to grab some tissues and listen to the end, because this one gets emotional! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our associate producer is Zahra Crim. Our editor is Andrew Carson. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. PS - If you’re looking for style recommendations, and specifically shoe recommendations, we can’t recommend following ALOK enough! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to getting curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:08.8	Today is such a surreal episode. I think about having this idea to do this podcast standing behind my chair in like
0:15.7	West Los Angeles in 2014 and now fast forward six eight years we are embarking on our 300th episode and to celebrate
0:27.4	we're turning the mic on you, our listeners, once more. If you've ever
0:31.5	wondered what's it like behind the scenes of getting curious. This is the episode for you
0:35.9	Without further ado to quote Kathy Dooley. Let's embark on a stunning journey led by your curiosity
0:43.3	Grace who is 17 texted us,
0:46.1	I was wondering how your podcast came about and how you started doing it.
0:50.0	Let's take it back, Grace, to the year 2016, when you were 11. So basically I'd been doing
0:56.2	Gay of Thrones, and I loved doing Gay of Thrones. It was my first experience in entertainment.
1:01.5	It was the first time I'd ever like
1:03.2	performed or written or helped produce. Once that first season was over I was like
1:07.6	what the gigs up like I want to keep doing stuff and I was in the salon but
1:11.1	doing getting curious allowed me an avenue of something to work on where I could really be the director and I could really be the creator and I could do the jokes I wanted to do and I could learn the things that I wanted to learn.
1:23.0	I think the first 50-something episodes of the first season,
1:26.0	I literally did it with me and one sound engineer.
1:29.0	Like I was cold emailing 50 professors
1:32.0	to find our first guest on the show ever who was
1:35.6	Dr. James Galvin. I just learned so much I learned about booking, timing, writing,
1:41.1	editing, I learned so much through just all of it. Then eventually we moved
1:46.7	some networks, we made the shift from a bi-weekly podcast to a weekly podcast, which was really exciting as I got more support as the
1:54.7	podcast grew, so that was really exciting. We also went from a 30-minute
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