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Hello, I'm Matthew Price.

This is Beyond Today from who are you, Jonathan Vatnes?

Has anyone got a party blower?

Because it's exactly... Has anyone got a party blower?

Because it's exactly a year since the first episode of Beyond Today.

Happy birthday everyone.

And it seems to be the perfect time to have this guy on, Jonathan Van Ness.

Welcome to Getting Curious, I on Jonathan Van Ness. Welcome to Getting Curious.

I'm Jonathan Van Nuys.

His podcast Getting Curious was one of our inspirations in launching beyond today.

Every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

Partly because he always seems to have a knack for asking a simple question about a really complex story and then helping to explain

something more about that story. How do we get people to give a fuck about climate

change? As well as a podcaster he's a hairdress. a He does stand up. He's definitely most well known as one of the fab five on queer eye

and Harriet noble you're producing today big fan of queer eye.

I love queer eye it's it's my happy place and Jonathan or JVM, this is called,

is just a bundle of joy on it. The whole program is so, and actually if all of the people we've had

on Beyond Today he's the person that I think my friends have been most excited about.

Yeah and it was exciting when he came in. He came to talk to us because he's just

written a book which is called Over the Top and in it as well as getting the fun and

bubbly JVN that most people have come to love. He also addresses some really

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