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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

WMD Playbook, Escalation in Iran, Daylight Savings

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Comedy, Education

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re talking: prepping for the Hot & Healed comedy tour, self-tape adventures, new Instagram follows, shopping quirks, our weekly spelling bee, dermatologist updates, geopolitical reflections on the military action Iran, answering your listener questions, and of course - our Hot B of the Week! The Monday Edit, now on YouTube!  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  Executive 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 podcastadsales@sonymusic.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey better babes.

0:02.8

Welcome to the Monday edit.

0:03.7

This week, like every week, we're joined by our senior producer Chris.

0:06.1

Bonjour.

0:07.1

You guys, you may notice that we're not in our kitchen.

0:10.2

Chris and I had a heart to heart, as we often do.

0:13.4

Like usually after my morning workout when I'm power walking home,

0:16.8

when I'm on a major endorphine high.

0:18.7

And we realized, a log, Dr. Judith Joseph,

0:21.9

we were getting a little bit into like burnout adjacent territory,

0:26.6

doing our Monday edits in person.

0:29.1

And we love the Monday edit.

0:30.7

We love the community that we're building over here.

0:32.5

But we realized that we were like driving a really far way

0:35.6

and like setting things up in this way that we're like

0:37.9

our internet's really good. Where can we streamline? Where can we optimize? And so in the, in the spirit

0:42.7

of like transparency and like being who we are, we are going to continue doing the Monday at it with so

0:48.2

much love, but we're also going to do it remotely because Chris and I like are driving together like

0:52.4

four days a week a lot of times like to record the podcast and doing social stuff. And so we're transitioning to like this as like a remote pod. And we love you. And that's our update on that part. That's our life. It's giving 2020 a little bit, you know? 2016 and who. It's going to 2020 remote. Just But just for this. Just for this. Yeah.

2:18.0

I mean, if you lived on this street, it'd be one thing, but we're giving like, like, we're giving East West living in New York City. And when you live, like, across, when you live across town from each other in New York City, it's just like, it's a different thing. It's a whole other thing. It's going cross town in Manhattan specifically is like, it feels like a good, like 20-minute journey to get you from like five blocks. It's crazy. Yeah, if it's not like six in the morning. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So that's that. Meanwhile, I feel like Ashley Simpson in the sense that I'm reshooting, like new ad ad mats for the Hot and Healed Tour. I remember like when she went from like her blonde hair to her black hair or it could have been the reverse. And her mom on that episode of her like reality show was like, Ashley, we shot all your covers. And now you changed your hair. So I always just think about that when I do a new photo shoot. And I'm, I'm going to do a gorgeous little photo shoot for the tour this weekend. And kind of getting prepared to jump back on the road. And speaking of that, if you live in Red Baked, New Jersey, or you live in Charlestown, West Virginia, I'm literally going there, especially my West Virginia queens, I, if you just wouldn't mind showing up your girl,

2:19.3

I'm going to West Virginia.

2:20.6

And I'm,

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