Hey Better Babes, it's Jonathan Van Ness, and welcome to the Monday edit. This week, like every week, we're joined by our senior producer Chris. Say hi, Chris. Bonjour. We're breaking down the news, pop culture, TikTok drama, beauty wrecks, and expanding on the topics for covering over on getting better. Our show that drops every Wednesday, here on the podcast speed, and on YouTube in its full video glory. Now, I do have to say, today Chris came to slay

and their new, red,

Bob, that I think makes a strong case for turning the Monday edit into a YouTube full video glory too. Strong case. This is just, you look stunning. Thank you so much. Chris, and I'm just so happy to see you. I mean, my plastic surgeon told me that I shouldn't do anything where balls fly at my face. So there goes half my social life. But what are we going to do? What are we going to do? What are we going to do? I just look stunning. And I just think our corporate culture, I just think, is beyond approach, frankly. Meanwhile, our episode of Joe Nucci, how much do we love Joe Nucci? And I think my biggest hope,

and I will say that I think I'm already getting a little bit better, happily, because I was

around a whole new group of people in rehearsals for drowsy chaperone last week, which you guys,

little on me, making their debut on Carnegie Hall stage, fully singing, not dancing, but

singing and acting in a whole new way.

I was so on time for all of our rehearsals.

Like in this way.

That's so good.

Yeah, I just wanted to make a good impression.

And so I do think I was really proud of myself for, like, being on time.

And one thing that I noticed was I knew what I was doing with my hair

and makeup in like days before. And I think I've really unlocked a whole new thing. When I don't

know what I'm doing with my hair and my outfit, it takes me an extra, like, I don't even know.

And I end up, stuff gets torn off hangers. I'm shaking. I'm crying. I'm like, this is never

going to work. But when I have a soft idea of what I'm doing with my hair and makeup, it really

makes the process so much smoother. So I think my episode with Joe, I've already, I'm already

starting to heal myself on some of my stickiest points. Or as the president of JVian Hare would say,

some of my biggest opportunities, I think I'm starting to seize on getting better about. That's great. That's so good. I support. What did you think? Listen, I loved it. There's so many reels that are, I can't tell you how much we see, like, you're being gaslit, you're being gaslit, you're being gaslit. And it's like, yeah, diva, I know. And, you know, it's nice to be validated sometimes, especially by, you know, a literal psychotherapist who's there to say, you know, maybe it's like, it's not trauma. Maybe it's like a little bit more like an uncomfortable feel. I think that that's kind of like nice to like pull that kind of like the hot

button off of it all like it's like okay let's like recoup like let's figure this out

I honestly can't take myself seriously in this wig this beret and these glasses if I'm being

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