Spelling Bee Mix-Tape: Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives
Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness
Sony Music
4.9 • 21.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Better Babes, welcome back to the Monday edit. This week, like every week, we're joined by our executive producer Chris. Say hi, Chris. |
| 0:07.9 | Bonjour. Y'all, we are giving you spring break. We are going to almost be out of this break soon. It's giving MTV without the problematic partying. It's that one show that I love so much from the 90s that no one ever knows that I'm talking about, Sam Blast, but more self-care. |
| 0:26.1 | That said, we're delighted to share with you a compilation, a mixtape, a collection of our TME spelling bees, honey, for your listening pleasure. You spoke, we listened. This segment is |
| 0:32.2 | here to stay, so we're giving you, as the song goes, more, more, more. So buckle up and enjoy us chaotically learning in public. |
| 0:40.9 | Speaking of learning in public, this week on getting better, |
| 0:43.4 | I'm talking to Julia Minson, a Harvard decision scientist, |
| 0:47.5 | talking all about how to disagree better, |
| 0:50.0 | which I cannot think of something that we collectively need to work on more. |
| 0:53.0 | I got so much out of this. |
| 0:54.4 | And the biggest thing is the difference between curiosity and convincing. |
| 0:59.7 | And what that has to do with disagreeing better. |
| 1:03.0 | So even in my professional life, I've gotten so much out of the conversation that I had with her since, especially in my professional life. |
| 1:11.6 | So get into that one. |
| 1:13.4 | It's especially good. |
| 1:14.3 | I know I'm always saying that, |
| 1:15.1 | but it's really so good. |
| 1:16.5 | But with that being said, |
| 1:17.8 | let's get into our gorgeous spelling me compilation. |
| 1:24.6 | One of my favorite kinds of travel memories |
| 1:26.5 | is when a trip becomes bigger than you even knew it was going to be. |
| 1:30.1 | You think you're just going to have a fabulous time with your friends, and then suddenly it becomes one of those trips you remember forever. |
| 1:36.1 | That's what Joshua Tree was like for me. |
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