THE MONDAY EDIT: Alien Enemies Act, J.K. Rowling’s Cigar, Lady Gaga at Coachella

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

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

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week, we’re talking: deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, the U.K. Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman, J.K. Rowling’s Cigar, Nicola Coughlin, and Lady Gaga at Coachella. Not A Phase. Trans Lifeline Follow us on Instagram @gettingbetterwithjvn Jonathan on Instagram @jvn and senior producer Chris @amomentlikechris New video episodes Getting Better on YouTube every Wednesday. Our Senior Producer is Chris McClure. Our editor & engineer is Nathanael McClure. Our theme music is also composed by Nathanael McClure. Production support from Julie Carrillo, Anne Currie, and Chad Hall. 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, and welcome to the Monday Edit.
0:05.7	This week, like every week, we are joined by our senior producer, Chris.
0:09.0	Chris, say hi, Chris.
0:10.1	Hey, hey.
0:11.1	There's nothing more that I love than saying your name like five times as fast as I can on a Monday morning, honey.
0:17.7	How are you doing?
0:19.0	I'm doing so, so good.
0:20.1	How are you doing?
0:20.7	I'm just so good. And we're here breaking down the news, pop culture, TikTok drama, beauty
0:25.5	wrecks, and expanding on the topics we're covering over on getting better like we do every Monday,
0:29.9	honey, which if you're a long-time listener, many thanks to you for being here. And if you're new
0:34.1	here, we love you too, honey. We drop new episodes of this show, the Monday edit, every Monday, and you can get
0:39.5	getting better every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcast.
0:42.1	And you guys, we are so excited because we are doing full video episodes of getting better
0:45.9	on YouTube the same day the episode drops.
0:47.9	So catch up on those and those places, honey.
0:50.8	You guys, happy Earth Week.
0:52.9	We've got a gorgeous Earth Day episode coming up this week on
0:55.8	getting better. More on that later. Meanwhile, last week on getting better, we had Gabby Bernstein
1:01.0	on all things manifestation and parts therapy slash IFS, which she's like, just, you really should
1:08.0	listen to it if you haven't listened to it yet um i'm obsessed with her chris
1:11.6	have you ever manifested anything i think the the one thing that i manifested was the casting of
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