What Jonathan Van Ness Can’t Live Without

I’ll play with myNintendo Switchat home with certain friends, but for the most part, I use it when I’m traveling and when I’m on a plane. I mostly stick toMario Brothers andMario Kartbecause that’s what I played as a kid. I don’t playZeldaso much. But I should, oh my gosh, I should try. I just hate learning new games. New ones stress me out.

My really good friend and makeup artist started using one of these easels for theiriPhoneand I was like, “oh my gosh, that’s so silly.” And then, within a day, I was like, “I need one.” It’s the most amazing thing. It frees up your hands so you don’t have to hold yourphoneso much. If I’m eating at the table, like at home eating, I’ll put my phone on it while I’m reading the news so I can eat and use both hands.

I love these. After youblow-dryyour hair or after you do your style, you kind of smooth your little flyaways down and use theseclipsto keep your hair in place until right before you walk out of the door. They’re so convenient.

I just adore the Dysonblow dryer.It doesn’t overheat your hair, and it’s so compact and light. She’s also really durable and dries your hair a lot quicker than other hair dryers.

I use Spotify a lot. I listen toThe Dailyon there, I listen to all my podcasts on there (except now that I think about it, I alsolistento them on Apple — don’t aggravate the podcast gods). And I use it tolistento a ton of songs. I like the mixes they put together and I also have my little “getting ready” playlist that I’ve been assembling over like, the last year and a half. Whenever I like a song I just throw it on there — that’s what I listen to mostly.

The Litter-Robot changed my life. She’s a little bit pricey, but I like it because you really can’t smell yourcats— and I have four cats, so that’s important. It has a motion detector in it, so after thecatjumps out of there, it waits a minute and then it rotates and all the clumps of cat waste get sifted into this drawer underneath the Litter-Robot. Then theclean litterjust kind of sifts back through. So it cleans the poo like every time the cat goes in and out of it.

I always felt a kinship with Mr. Peanut because we both have really aggressivehandlebar mustaches. So getting to work with Planters, especially forMovember, is important to me. I think that some of the pressures that men face, it can add an extra layer of difficulty — historically it’s not beendinner-tableconversation to talk about our testicular health or our prostate health. But as we’ve seen in the last ten, 20 years, it’s ever-more increasingly important to talk about our reproductive health, formenas well. I think any way that we can help talk about men’s health, I’m down to talk about it. And I’ve always loved a little peanutafternoon snackbecause it’s just kind of easy and gets me a little protein and gives me a littlebit of energy.These gorgeous smoked peanuts are just like, why are they so tasty? I don’t know who gave them permission to be.