0:01

Hey Better Babes, it's Jonathan Van Ness

0:03

and welcome to the Monday Edit. This week,

0:05

like every week, we are joined by

0:07

our senior producer, Chris. Chris, say hi, Chris.

0:09

Hey, hey. There's nothing more that

0:12

I love than saying your name like five

0:14

times as fast as I can on

0:16

a Monday morning, honey. How are you doing? I'm

0:19

doing so so good. How are you doing?

0:21

I'm just so good and we're here breaking

0:23

down the news pop culture tiktok drama beauty

0:25

wrecks and expanding on the topics We're covering

0:27

over on getting better like we do every

0:29

Monday, honey Which if you're a longtime listener

0:31

many thanks to you for being here and if

0:33

you're new here We love you too, honey.

0:35

We dropped new episodes of this show, the Monday

0:38

edit every Monday, and you can get getting

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better every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcasts. And

0:42

you guys, we are so excited because we

0:44

are doing full video episodes of getting better on

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YouTube the same day the episode drops. So

0:48

catch up on those in those places, honey. You

0:51

guys, happy Earth Week. We've got a

0:53

gorgeous Earth Day episode coming up this

0:55

week on Getting Better, more on that

0:57

later. Meanwhile, last week on Getting Better,

0:59

we had Gabby Bernstein on all things

1:02

manifestation and parts therapy

1:04

slash IFS, which she's like,

1:06

just, you really should listen to it if you haven't listened to

1:08

it yet. I'm obsessed with her.

1:11

Chris, have you ever manifested anything? I

1:13

think the, the one thing that I manifested was

1:15

the casting of Cynthia Arrivo and Ariana Grande

1:17

in the Wiccan movie. I think I, Nathaniel

1:20

and I, I can't take full credit. Nathaniel

1:22

and I have been casting that spell, have been

1:24

like reiterating that manifestation. I really think that

1:26

maybe every single day since they said that the

1:28

movie was actually like happening, happening, it

1:30

was like a spell that we witch had. It was

1:32

like, all right, to find a Cynthia Arrivo, Ariana Grande Cynthia

1:34

Arrivo. And then sure enough, the day that it happened,

1:36

that was like, oh my God, manifestation realized. I was like,

1:38

here we go. It was so good. What about

1:40

you? That was really good. I also like

1:42

that you and Nate are single -handedly taking

1:44

credit for our, yeah, but 100 % like

1:46

it is nothing to do with literally

1:49

anything else that is just from in our

1:51

gay hands. No, but you guys, if

1:53

you knew Chris and Nate IRL, what you

1:55

really should, um, I

1:57

mean, scintillating, no, scintillating

1:59

socials, scintillating people. We love them

2:01

so much, but they are the biggest theater girlies.

2:03

They love theater so much. So this really

2:05

was very important to them. I'll tell you something

2:07

about manifestation. That's one time

2:09

I was at this like Phoenix Pride

2:11

in 2005 and I was vegan because

2:13

I just read skinny bitch. It wasn't

2:15

2005. It was 2009. Now that I

2:18

realized, let's get these years right. 2009

2:20

honey. And I just read skinny bitch

2:22

and I was like, I need vegan

2:24

cookies so bad and there's just like no

2:26

vegan cookies. I'm so hungry. And the next thing

2:28

I knew this lady was like, step right

2:30

up, get your vegan cookies. That's

2:33

like a fried up fried

2:35

up vegan cookies. Interesting.

2:39

It wasn't interesting. It was just

2:41

a manifestation. I accidentally started reading

2:43

ahead. You guys, the point is

2:45

this, manifestation and part therapy, it's

2:47

so major. Her work really does

2:49

work. And so in all seriousness, if you

2:51

haven't had a chance to listen or watch last

2:53

week's episode with Gabby, please do that. Meanwhile,

2:56

it's Earth Week. This week

2:58

on Getting Better, we have intersectional environmentalist

3:00

Leah Thomas, who I just fell in

3:02

love with when I got to talk

3:04

to her. She's joining us to celebrate

3:06

Mother Earth. We're talking about

3:08

sustainability, how that interacts

3:10

with racial justice, and how we can

3:12

all be better environmentalists. But

3:15

in a really like fun, non

3:17

-shamy way. Leah is

3:19

the founder of Intersectional Environmentalist,

3:21

a groundbreaking nonprofit and resource hub.

3:24

She has a leading voice in the environmental space.

3:27

Recognized on Forbes 30

3:29

under 30 list and

3:31

time 100 next, she's

3:33

spoken on Dreamforce, Ted

3:36

and Aspen ideas major. So

3:38

tune in Wednesday for that. We so hope you're

3:40

enjoying what we're doing over there. And if you

3:42

want to share that honey with your friends, with

3:44

the people on the social. We sure would appreciate

3:46

it. We love you guys. Word

3:48

of mouth is really where it's

3:50

at. We're going to take a

3:52

quick break, but when we come back, we're

3:54

going to catch up on last week in

3:57

our world. We're talking TikTok roundup, the pit

3:59

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you guys, right now I

4:59

am in a hotel in Cincinnati. We

5:03

had the chattiest driver from the

5:05

airport I've ever had. He literally told

5:07

us about the history of Cincinnati from the

5:09

time we got in the car. Uh,

5:11

about 20 minutes from the hotel. Yeah, it

5:13

was really, it was really, really, really, really,

5:15

really so fun. Um, I

5:19

know it was. What was your favorite

5:21

takeaway? That

5:23

their bridge here was the

5:25

prototype for the Brooklyn bridge, but

5:27

when they started to put the.

5:29

foundations of it down before the civil war. They

5:32

then ran out of money. So then it took

5:34

a really long time to build. Oh,

5:37

so Gilded Age. Wow. Yes.

5:39

Very Gilded Age of him since the

5:41

Natty giving prototypes. Um, but no,

5:43

the, I love, I, I am really excited

5:45

though that I'm here. Cause I haven't performed

5:47

here since 2019. Um, and I,

5:49

and I never performed in the Natty. It

5:51

was in Cleveland. So. I

5:53

love Ohio. People here are great. So

5:56

I'm excited be here. I get to go to

5:58

Vegas tomorrow for the first time since I filmed Queer

6:00

Eye There. So that'll be fun. And

6:02

yeah, she's just really loving

6:04

this hot and healed tour. And this comedy

6:06

is like, it's the

6:08

most like political that I've ever

6:11

done. And I also think

6:13

that I'm just like learning to

6:15

like, I just,

6:17

I feel like every time I write

6:19

and perform, I just find my

6:21

voice more and more. And

6:23

this being my fourth hour, I just feel

6:25

like I'm my, and I feel like my physical

6:27

comedy just gets better and better. So this show is

6:29

like fun. I'm having so much fun developing it. Meanwhile,

6:33

I know I said before that I was going

6:35

to talk about the espresso martinis that almost

6:37

killed me. And while that's true, cause I had

6:39

three on Sunday and then we did

6:41

an episode about neuroscience where spoiler alert,

6:43

I got to hold a brain the next day, but then I

6:45

almost threw up on it. I don't

6:47

want to talk about espresso martinis anymore. I want to

6:49

talk about another. Um, beverage that

6:51

has entered the chat a

6:53

bombshells of the diva or a

6:55

bombshells of the diva. A

6:58

diva has entered the island. The

7:00

diva. Yes. Absolutely. That

7:02

actually is true. Which

7:04

is diet. Dr. Pepper,

7:07

you guys. Oh man.

7:09

So we'll talk about our TikTok

7:11

roundup later, but there is one standout for my

7:13

TikTok just smaller sand PCOS. I think I've talked

7:15

about her on the pod before. I am just. Yeah,

7:18

I know I have. Well, I have on Ask JVN. I

7:20

know we've talked about her on Ask JVN, but maybe you

7:22

guys weren't listening to Ask JVN when we were doing it

7:24

that same way. So, uh, Smaller

7:27

Sand PCUS is my girl. She

7:29

is my hair social girly pop

7:31

on TikTok. I love her so

7:33

much. She reminds me of like,

7:36

she reminds you of like. Well,

7:38

if she's listening to this, I don't want her to

7:40

take this the wrong way. She reminds me of my

7:42

mom, but like a young hip mom, like, like if

7:44

I was a baby, that's who I would want my

7:47

mom to be. But I also love my mom. You

7:49

know what I'm saying? Sure. Like, I just think she

7:51

would be like a really fun, hip, young, like cute

7:53

mom to have. Um, so,

7:55

but she drinks Diet Coke and her catchphrase is

7:57

like, and a Diet Coke for the haters. Aesthetically,

8:00

no, not aesthetically. Taste wise,

8:03

I've just never really liked Diet Coke. Like I

8:05

don't. Love the taste of a

8:07

diet coke like sure don't love

8:09

um Coke zero.

8:11

However, I realized

8:13

is delicious. I

8:15

Stopped it. I haven't had a

8:17

diet. I had not had a soda since

8:19

probably Gosh, I don't know when

8:22

I was like 16. So however long ago

8:24

that was, like the early odds, I stopped

8:26

drinking the soda, you know? I

8:28

mean, I think a lot of millennials did, but

8:30

now I feel like it's coming back.

8:33

Like everything nineties is like coming back. So

8:35

there's Coke zero and diet. Dr.

8:38

Pepper is, I'm just

8:40

trying not to get addicted. You guys, I just,

8:42

I think one a day is okay. I

8:44

just don't to fall back into those like dark,

8:46

like Cuba day days. Sure.

8:48

Yeah. No, you don't want to remember the

8:50

cubes or two stacks of 12. Oh,

8:53

yes. I love that. Oh, yeah. Do they

8:55

still make those? Um, I

8:57

don't know that it's all about the

8:59

little cans now. It's all about like the

9:01

tiny one. It's so true. It's all

9:03

I love. I also love these little

9:05

fucking petite hands because they make feel

9:07

so fucking teeny, tiny, duty, didn't just teeny,

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9:11

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a big like Sprite, like lemon

9:16

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9:18

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9:22

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we got to do the most amazing photo shoot for

11:49

JV and hair. For this new

11:51

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11:53

really excited for we also just have like

11:55

a very tantalizing summer for JVN hair

11:57

ahead with some new products. I feel like

11:59

I don't think I've ever talked

12:01

about this a lot on

12:03

the podcast, but I'll

12:06

fuck it up for a minute right

12:08

now. So JVN hair we It

12:10

really could be like a behind -the -music

12:12

thing. We were like in 2022

12:14

we were like One of

12:16

if not the fastest growing haircare company

12:18

in the country We were like really

12:20

on our way to like doing a honey. Then

12:23

our parent company goes

12:25

bankrupt. Rug gets pulled

12:27

out from under us hardcore. This

12:29

is like in like August of 2023.

12:32

So from August of 2023 to

12:34

like December of 2023, we

12:37

were fighting for our lives, fighting for our

12:39

futures, trying to pull this out of the fire.

12:41

trying to save jobs. This was in

12:43

the fish to lay era, honey. I

12:45

grow a second butthole from the stress.

12:47

I am just breaking out. Yeah. And,

12:50

and anyone who knows about like entrepreneurship

12:52

or trying to launch a company of which

12:55

I knew nothing when I started and I

12:57

have gotten is a president of JV in

12:59

here likes to say the business degree I

13:01

never asked for. It has been such a

13:03

crash course. I've learned, I've learned so much

13:05

stuff. My JV in here. Yeah.

13:08

But your transact like a year after or

13:10

like your transition year is notoriously difficult

13:12

and our transition year was really difficult and

13:14

we actually just had our board meeting last

13:16

week. I was posting about it on stories

13:18

and it went so well and I'm just

13:20

so proud of us. I feel like we've

13:23

turned a corner here. If you are a

13:25

JVN hair user, your support, especially last year,

13:27

holy shit. Like we literally wouldn't be here

13:29

without the people that support us and are

13:31

like ride or die for our air dry

13:33

cream. Um, so I just, I love you

13:35

guys so much. What we got to do.

13:37

And also like when you go through

13:40

that, you don't have budget for new products. And

13:42

it's really important to expand your line thoughtfully.

13:44

Like I never want to be one of those

13:46

founders that just like turning out shit to,

13:48

I don't want it to be in people's grave,

13:50

like in product graveyard. I really want people

13:52

to use things and I want the products I

13:54

make to like need to be used. Um, so

13:57

like, but thoughtful creation

13:59

is really important to the growth of our

14:01

brand. And if you just have nothing new

14:03

coming out for like a year, that's Kind

14:05

of the kiss of death. So I'm really

14:07

excited. We've been busy in the kitchen cooking

14:09

up a storm for I mean, I was

14:11

I was formulating all of last year through

14:13

that and preparation because it takes a really

14:15

long time to formulate and launch a new

14:17

product. But all that work that was that

14:19

was happening last year, it's finally starting to

14:21

pay off now. And so I'm really excited

14:23

for for our community to get to try

14:25

these products because they really are incredible. I

14:27

have so much of it in my hair

14:29

right now from the shoot yesterday. Oh

14:31

my god, my hair is giving Pull

14:34

together, honey. Just to give you a little clue.

14:37

Um, but yeah, so, but yesterday's shoot

14:39

was really fun. We did like six

14:41

models. Actually Chris's dear friend, Charlotte was

14:43

one of our modells. Oh, yes. She

14:45

won. Um, and I got to, I

14:47

got to do Charlotte's hair. We did

14:49

some other amazing people's hair. We did

14:51

my hair. It was a

14:53

definitely eight hour shoot day, but that's

14:55

okay. But last night when I

14:57

got home, not to be like emotional,

14:59

you guys, but it really is

15:01

true in December of last year, like,

15:03

There was a time where when I

15:06

would, I remember I had gotten home

15:08

from like Denver and I was getting the surgery and

15:10

it was like the week before the surgery and I

15:12

went into my bathroom and I like saw a tube

15:14

of air dry cream and I just like started like

15:16

sobbing. Like I just like crumbled into like a ball

15:18

on the floor and I just felt so embarrassed and

15:20

so much guilt and so much shame. And I was

15:22

like, just how did this happen? And what do people

15:24

think? And there was this really viral tech talk video

15:26

about like this lady being like, I've never seen such

15:28

a big brand failure and I really wish I would

15:31

have never seen it, but I did. and

15:34

then yesterday when I got home from this

15:36

shoot and I mean I just like was you

15:38

know how I am when I do hair

15:40

like I just was like running around like doing

15:42

all of this hair having so much fun

15:44

and getting to go to the monitor and being

15:46

like oh let me get this let me

15:48

get that like just doing hair on set on

15:50

a photo shoot is so different than like

15:52

on Queer Eye and it's It makes me just

15:55

feel like I'm in like a magazine shoot

15:57

in the nineties, but probably like way less toxic.

15:59

Um, but I just had the

16:01

best day. Like our models were incredible. Our

16:03

team was incredible. Like I

16:05

was just so happy

16:07

and present. And I also feel like a

16:10

lot of the work that we've been

16:12

doing on getting better, like is helping me

16:14

in my life, like be more present.

16:16

And like just like we got to,

16:18

um, Sidebar you guys like

16:20

spoiler, but don't tell anyone yet. We

16:22

got to interview Dan Harris He's coming up

16:24

on the podcast later and he taught

16:26

me this thing that I've been using so

16:28

much since he taught us but anyway

16:30

The shoe was just so good. So when I

16:32

got home to my apartment last night in New

16:34

York, I Went to go turn

16:36

on fortnight to play and I just sat on the

16:38

chair and I just had this moment where I

16:40

was just Mark like went out to dinner with us

16:42

with his friends. I was alone and

16:45

I just had this like moment

16:47

of like such overwhelming gratitude. I just

16:49

started to like happy cry so

16:51

hard and it felt so good to

16:53

like happy cry. Like it wasn't like

16:55

a full kill bill. I won

16:57

happy cry because we're not out of

16:59

the woods. Um, it's so much

17:01

better. It's so much better than we

17:03

were, right? It's time for TikTok

17:05

roundup on my TikTok. You guys, the

17:07

external sunshine deluxe album has taken

17:09

over. I saw this girl who

17:11

is saying that like, The eternal

17:13

sunshine deluxe album is for all

17:16

the girlies who are in a

17:18

way better place at this time

17:20

this year than when the original

17:22

got released and the original got

17:24

released on like March 5th, 2024,

17:26

honey, or like March 6th. It

17:28

was like, it was in the.

17:30

Oh, it was like, into the

17:33

thick of it. Yeah,

17:35

it really was. And this, and so

17:37

the extended intro at the end, everyone's

17:39

lip syncing that part where they're like, Already

17:41

grieved you when you

17:44

started to realize I

17:46

do need ya. I

17:49

did. Wish

17:51

I could unneed ya. So

17:54

did. Oh, my job,

17:56

Ariana. It was

17:59

just, wow. So my tech

18:01

talk is really, it's

18:03

mostly her, but

18:06

in Also later, I'm going to talk

18:08

about tech talk in our, in another statement, because it's

18:10

just really giving me life right now. It's giving you

18:12

the moment. Chris, who's yours? What's

18:14

on your phone right now? And the thing

18:16

that's been pretty much like every, every

18:18

single, like every other video that I swipe

18:20

is this girl named Alice. Um, Paula

18:22

Cozer, who's screaming like it's like me, if

18:24

I was flirting with a guy named

18:26

Jason and it's her, just like yelling the

18:28

guy's name. Have

18:36

you seen it's so stupid? It's

18:38

like it is literally like

18:40

it's not it's like not It's

18:42

categorically not my kind of humor, but it is

18:44

like every other video is her So I

18:46

have to give it to her just for like

18:48

pure saturation like she is she is so

18:51

persistent and her content that she has that she

18:53

has made it work for her So that's

18:55

good. And then otherwise it's just like what carving

18:57

videos like that's generally like where I'm at

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back, everyone. Let's cash in on that

20:16

gay news. Let's head over to the

20:18

Jonathan van news desk. Jonathan, what's a

20:20

story you've got your eye on right

20:22

now? Well, you guys, I am really

20:24

trying to apply some of the things

20:26

that I've been learning to to the news

20:28

in the sense that I'm I

20:31

want to be aware of what's going on.

20:33

I don't want to, you know, lose my mind

20:35

over things I can't change, but I do

20:37

think that there is just at least one constitutional

20:39

crisis going on in the United States that

20:41

we really need to look at, which is that

20:43

the Supreme Court has allowed Donald Trump to

20:45

continue deporting people under the Alien Enemies Act. One

20:48

of the people who has been deported that

20:50

I'm sure, I'm not sure

20:52

if you've heard about this person, but there was

20:55

this Andre Hernandez Romero

20:57

is a gay makeup artist who came

20:59

to the United States last year in search

21:01

of asylum. Seeking asylum is not illegal. He's

21:04

a Venezuelan makeup artist.

21:06

He was taken to El

21:08

Salvador's that gigantic

21:10

prison and they relied on one of

21:12

Andre's tattoos to just determine that he

21:14

was a member of a gang. He

21:17

had no criminal record. But

21:19

this is really troubling what's happening

21:21

to people all across the United

21:23

States to undocumented people across the

21:25

United States. If you have undocumented

21:27

people in your life, I urge

21:29

you to make sure that they

21:31

that they are safe. Check on people. This

21:33

is like not a normal time for people to

21:35

just fully be getting to be getting disappeared. And

21:38

I also think that the Trump

21:40

administration refusing to comply with the Supreme

21:42

Court's nine zero ruling to return

21:44

a break out Garcia really shows that

21:47

the Attorney General Pam Bondi

21:49

and this administration, Donald

21:51

Trump, they do not give

21:53

a shit about undocumented or

21:55

documented people's safety. Not

21:58

to mention, you guys, the detention of Muhammad Khalil.

22:00

I mean, this really, this is

22:02

a BFD. We need to be paying

22:04

attention to it. We need to

22:06

be asking our representatives to ensure the

22:08

safety of people in the United

22:10

States and also the safety of Muhammad

22:12

Khalil. I believe he's in like

22:14

a detention center in fucking Louisiana with

22:16

his wife, like about to have

22:18

a baby in New Jersey. It really

22:21

is. It's not,

22:24

not normal times.

22:26

Um, So I think the way

22:28

that undocumented people are being treated in this country

22:30

is one new story that I have my

22:32

eye on. The other story that so many people

22:34

were talking about last week is the British

22:36

Supreme Court's ruled that trans women

22:38

don't meet the definition of women

22:41

under the Equality's Law. I

22:43

think we need, it also said that this shouldn't

22:45

be seen as a win for either side, but

22:47

that didn't stop JK Rowling from going and lighting

22:49

a cigar on a fucking a yacht,

22:51

but here's my takeaway from this because I'm

22:54

not a British citizen and I don't know

22:56

how this is going to impact trans women

22:58

in the United Kingdom right now. Um, and

23:00

I don't want to like add fuel to

23:02

the fire and add, you know, things for

23:04

people to be afraid of. But here is

23:06

one thing that I would say that I

23:08

think is really annoying me. I saw an

23:10

article by the telegraph, which is like a

23:12

very turfy British or Irish, some magazine and,

23:15

um, And they were saying

23:17

that when will we start apologizing to the

23:19

canceled women who brought about this incredible ruling?

23:21

Like they were heralding this ruling and they

23:23

were like, these women just, you know, spoke

23:25

their truth or spoke the truth and now

23:27

the Supreme Court has said that, you know,

23:29

they agreed with them. Here's

23:32

my thing. JK Rowling has never

23:34

been canceled. She has a multi multi

23:36

-million dollar new show coming out on

23:38

HBO to which she's an executive producer.

23:41

She's involved in the creative. She's making

23:43

mad money from this HBO deal. Not

23:45

only is she making mad money from

23:47

that, she's making mad money from being

23:49

a turf. Like her appeal has

23:51

only gone up. She is not

23:53

canceled. This idea that JK Rowling is

23:56

canceled is a joke. JK Rowling

23:58

is not a victim, but the fact

24:00

is JK Rowling is not.

24:02

Canceled she has only made more

24:04

money and more money as

24:06

she has made being an anti

24:08

and a vitriolic anti trans

24:10

or transphobe Her platform was

24:13

jk rolling a victim

24:15

of online abuse. Yes

24:17

has her life been

24:19

negatively impacted by trans

24:21

women in real life

24:23

absolutely not so It's just

24:25

she's just appalling to me And I

24:27

just think that we have to continue

24:29

to watch what's going on over there Support

24:32

our friends if you are one

24:34

of our listeners in the United Kingdom,

24:36

please check on your trans friends Make

24:38

sure you're making safe spaces for your

24:40

trans friends like Nicola did Nicola Cochlan

24:42

our Queen one of my very dearest

24:44

friends I believe she rose a raised

24:47

$70 ,000 for it's not a phase or

24:49

yeah, not a phase which are a

24:51

60 ,000 pounds via Instagram and in

24:53

response to this legislation. We

24:55

love our friend. Um, also a must

24:57

mention that protect the dolls t -shirts

24:59

sported by Pedro Pascal designed by us

25:01

fashion designer Connor Eves raised over 70 ,000

25:03

for trans lifeline. I love that. So

25:06

I love to see people taking a

25:08

negative, turning it into a positive. Love

25:10

our friends. So good. Chris,

25:13

please tell us about the other very

25:15

important, impactful news story of the weekend, Gagracella.

25:18

Oh my God, Gagracella. So, oh my God. So

25:20

if you were not one of, you know, I

25:22

don't know how many people go to Coachella, but

25:24

I have never been. Have you ever been to

25:26

Coachella? You guys breaking

25:28

news. I never have. And I think

25:30

I'd rather get a root canal. Yeah. I

25:32

think that tracks. I don't think that's

25:34

for me, but I do, but it's a

25:36

big deal. And that stage is one

25:38

of the biggest. It's like one of the

25:40

best. Like you give like the O

25:42

two, you get like Madison square garden and

25:44

you do fucking Coachella. Like that is

25:46

the tea. So, so Lady Gaga's headlining. I

25:48

think this is her second time doing

25:50

it. And she gave what many are harrowing

25:53

as one of the best. Coachella

25:55

performances of all time. It's like

25:57

Baychella and then Garda cello. It's like

25:59

those two are the ones that everyone's like

26:01

there's nobody that surpasses. There's nobody that can

26:03

or will like that's where we're coming at.

26:05

It was just so good. She's saying all

26:07

the good songs. At least we can still

26:10

rely on her like to make us feel

26:12

a little comforted. She really did.

26:15

It was excellent. It was truly

26:17

an excellent hour and a

26:19

half of just pure entertainment. She

26:21

did the songs from The

26:23

Fame, The Fame Monster, Born This

26:25

Way, and then Mayhem. She

26:28

literally skipped, she skipped Joanne, she

26:30

skipped Chromatica, she skipped Rpop

26:32

too. It was crazy. She

26:34

just selected the ones that were all in

26:36

branded and themed. So she did an amazing,

26:38

it was stunning. That's all I can

26:40

say. was it was all the rage. She was major.

26:42

Did you watch it on YouTube? It was

26:44

on YouTube. Yeah. Yeah, Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. had Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

26:46

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. had it up for like a second like on the

26:48

on the thing because it was also anymore No,

26:51

I think somebody took it down. Like, but

26:53

I grabbed it. Like Yeah. watched it before, like

26:55

it was even like, was like, before they

26:57

take it down, like let's watch this. Like, I'm

26:59

sure they'll like release like a professional shot.

27:01

Like they did it for Beyonce's later. I wouldn't

27:04

imagine. I would hope. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll,

27:06

we'll, we'll throw that out. No, they couldn't, they

27:08

couldn't, they couldn't ever. Well, you guys, we

27:10

hope, I just hope that this is setting your

27:12

week for success. Also, by the way, Trans

27:14

Lifeline, um, and it's not a phase. Both of

27:17

these places you can donate to. we can put links

27:19

to this episode if you want to donate and

27:21

help out the girls. We would love that. We'd

27:23

so appreciate it. We love you. We've

27:25

arrived at one of our favorite

27:27

moments of the episode, where we

27:29

get to ask you what's going

27:31

on in your world. We

27:34

prompted you all to submit questions about

27:36

anything and everything. And we're going to

27:38

tackle it, honey. No flag football over

27:40

here. I won't have all the answers, but

27:42

when and if that happens, you know,

27:44

we are just ready and rearing to

27:46

call in an expert to help me help

27:48

you. So with that, here's today's listener

27:51

question. Okay. This listener asks, he

27:53

shows too much interest, but won't say

27:55

he likes me. What do I

27:57

do? I think you should ask him

27:59

if he likes you. Like

28:01

let's just stop fucking around. You know,

28:03

I've always hated those games. Just

28:06

be like, do you want to, do

28:08

you want a date? Do you

28:10

want a physical relationship? Do

28:12

you want a sideways situation? Are

28:14

you not interested in me? Like

28:16

just put it on the table because the

28:18

sooner you know, like the

28:20

sooner you can move on. Yeah. The sooner

28:22

you know, the sooner you grow. Yeah.

28:24

It's, it's, it's, yes. Yeah,

28:26

just rip that fucking band -aid off,

28:28

honey. Don't beat around the bush. Don't

28:31

hold back. Just resolve. Also, I just love

28:33

to bury a little snack for you guys

28:35

if you're still listening, because that means you're

28:37

a real one. Sidebar, one other breaking news

28:39

that happened in one of our recordings last

28:41

week. I so wholeheartedly believe in

28:44

astrology now. I was always kind of like

28:46

a little bit of an internal skeptic, but we

28:48

have an astrology episode coming for you guys. The

28:51

way that I am like... been looking

28:53

up everybody's birth charts and

28:55

so obsessed with like astrology now

28:57

Like I might pivot and become

28:59

a full -time astrologer. Don't worry Chris.

29:01

We'll just make a podcast about

29:04

it, but like I'm really Don't

29:06

tease me for the good time.

29:08

Don't don't girl. It's really got

29:10

me it has got me I

29:12

did my mom's chart. I did mark mark's

29:14

chart. I am into it, but anyway

29:16

you guys If you guys got

29:18

questions about anything at all, don't be afraid to

29:20

TMS on getting better with JVN or submit via

29:22

askjvn.com, which by the way is a super fun

29:24

way to do it because you can submit a

29:26

voicemail and we love voicemails. We didn't have one

29:28

today, but we can always do it for next

29:30

time. Yeah, we certainly do love voices. We love

29:33

hearing from everybody. Now at the moment we've all

29:35

been waiting for is time for hot bitch of

29:37

the week. My hot bitch

29:39

of the week is mukbang videos.

29:41

They just continue to

29:43

be this source of constant

29:45

dopamine addiction. and

29:47

like just safety for me.

29:49

There's one girl in particular who

29:51

is my special, special honorable

29:53

mention, Janie Devours. Janie

29:55

Devours on TikTok. She

29:58

also comes to my Instagram algorithm. I finally

30:00

just bit the bullet and went ahead and followed her

30:02

cause like I just was relying my for you page to

30:04

bring her back to me cause I watch her so

30:06

much, but I just thought, you know, I'm engaging

30:08

so much with their content. Like this is rude. I should really

30:10

follow her. I think she lives in LA.

30:13

She wears this like really bold

30:15

red lip and this like really

30:17

amazing winged eyeliner and I just

30:19

Love how she talks about food, but

30:21

I also really like how she eats

30:23

food and I also love how she

30:25

leaves like Red lip marks on like

30:27

her mugs and also like baked goods.

30:29

It's just it's really giving me like

30:32

comforting like Like, um, like, like

30:34

a teacher that you love that, like, you

30:36

know, when you looked at her mug, like

30:38

in second grade, like there was like always

30:40

like a, you know, lipstick stain there. I

30:42

just, I just love her. I'm,

30:44

I'm, have you seen her, Chris? Yeah.

30:46

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Once you showed me, now

30:48

she's magical kind of, she's pretty magical.

30:50

Yeah. It's a good vibe. It's a, it's

30:52

a good, it just, I feel the,

30:54

I feel the vibes of your feeling. It's

30:56

like, it's peaceful. It is. It

30:58

gives you that good, that good warm fuzzy, the

31:00

nostalgia feel. Okay. Who's yours? So

31:03

mine this week is going to

31:06

a couple of sister acts and it's

31:08

not sister act one, it's not

31:10

sister act two. I am giving you

31:12

to the sister acts of Allie

31:14

and AJ and Hyme. The new music

31:16

that is coming from the two

31:18

of these sister acts is... Major it

31:20

is so so good. I can't help

31:22

it. It is I'm all about it. It's

31:24

giving California so Cal Rock soft vibes

31:26

Like I don't know where what these women

31:28

are doing, but they are doing it,

31:30

right? And it's it's I've always loved him.

31:32

Is it him or him? How do

31:34

I say it again? Hi. No,

31:36

I know I'm doubting, but I thought it

31:38

was high. No, I always know hi Yeah,

31:40

I've always but I always have loved their

31:42

music and I'm that one to song that's

31:44

really big on tiktok. Why am I in

31:46

this relationship? It's so good

31:48

Yeah, it's cute. Their first album like

31:51

came out my senior year of college and

31:53

it was that if I could change

31:55

your mind, that was so fun. I love

31:57

that one. Oh, classic.

32:00

And I do love Allie and AJ. I can't help it.

32:02

I can't it. They're amazing. They're so, they're so good. I

32:04

mean, to leave them out. We love Allie and AJ. We

32:06

love Allie and AJ. So good.

32:08

You guys, I have to go

32:10

get ready for my show and Cincinnati because I don't to be late. I

32:12

love you so much. I'm, I have to go

32:14

now, which reminds me of that one episode that we did

32:16

when I was in, um, Raleigh

32:19

Durham. I just I love us as

32:21

the point. I love us. I love you

32:23

guys. I hope you enjoyed our show Thanks for

32:25

stopping by the Monday edit. We had so

32:27

much fun again this week on getting better I'm

32:29

sitting down with environmentalist Leah Thomas to talk

32:31

all things sustainability and how to do it with

32:33

no shame more fun Like, more flounce.

32:35

Happy Earth Week, everyone. We love you so

32:38

much. And how excited are we for that, Chris?

32:40

It's gonna be major. I'm so, so excited. Okay, we love

32:42

you guys, and we'll see you next Wednesday. We'll see you

32:44

Wednesday. I'm getting better, and we'll see you right back here

32:46

for the Monday Edit next Monday. Bye.