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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

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

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This week, we’re talking: Elyse Myers making The NY Times Best Seller List, Unisex Bathrooms, our TikTok round up, scorned Trump supporter centrists, the election of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, taxing billionaires and corporations, and answering your listener question! 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 New video episodes Getting Better on YouTube every Wednesday. Senior 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 [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Better Babes, it's Jonathan Van Ness.
0:04.0	And welcome to The Monday Edit.
0:05.2	This week, like every week, we're joined by our senior producer, Chris. Say hi, Chris. Bonjour, beaveno. Oh, my God, I was wondering what we get today. We're here breaking down the news, pop culture, TikTok drama, beauty recommendations, and expanding on the topics we're covering over on getting better, our show that drops every Wednesday here on the podcast feed and on YouTube in its full
0:21.6	video glory.
0:22.6	Queens, how are you?
0:24.4	How is it already the first week of November?
0:27.4	Wow. This year is giving me Nikki Hilt's energy just fast, quick-paced. How are we already here?
0:33.5	Chris, can you handle that it's already November the 7th? I really can't handle it.
0:37.8	It really feels like it was February yesterday.
0:40.0	Sidebar.
0:41.2	Elise became a New York Times bestseller, you guys.
0:44.7	She did it.
0:45.3	We're so excited for her, and her video was so sweet.
0:48.5	And I just, I think talking about neurodivergence and parenting is just I just parenting my five cats and
0:56.3	three dogs. I know I said it to Elise, but just reiterating full-time job, hands full. I can't imagine
1:01.4	raising a human. And I'm just so proud of Elise and I'm so proud of all the parents, but especially
1:05.8	the neurodivergent ones showing up, doing their thing. And now she is going to need to get a Chanel bag. So we, maybe we shall go shopping. She's going to have to. Maybe we could do that for Patreon. Elise, if you're listening to this. No, you know what? It just needs to be like a friend thing, unless she's down. Oh my God. But whatever. We're just so excited for her. And then, meanwhile, this week on getting better, we have psychologist, Dr. Jonathan
1:28.3	Matthias Lasseter, whose new book, How I Know White People Are Crazy and Other Stories, is out now.
1:34.8	That title gave me life, gives me life, stop me in my tracks. I was like, we really need
1:39.2	Dr. Lassiter to come on the pod. We are getting into our political psychology bag and exploring the connection
1:45.6	between how the news and what we absorb around us on social media and in work and in the
1:52.2	news affects our mental health, how we can care for ourselves better. And it's exploring that
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