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-Hello, everybody. Thank you so much for joining me.
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I really appreciate you being on the show.
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Thank you for coming back and talking to me.
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I appreciate this.
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-Thanks for having us. -Anytime, Jimmy.
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-Before we get into the show,
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I just want to say congratulations to Tan.
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You became a U.S. citizen like a couple minutes ago.
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-Whoo! -I really did!
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-Yay.
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-That is so cool!
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-Thanks! Thanks.
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It's taken 20 years to get here, and we're so darn grateful.
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-Are you se-- Was it 20 years, for real?
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-20 years, and it actually feels kind of perfect
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that it happened right now.
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-Really? -Yeah.
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-We need every vote. Like, every vote counts.
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I'm going to vote.
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-You're going to vote. Oh, my gosh.
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Have you registered yet? No, just minutes ago.
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-Well, you're the first thing I'm doing
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since I became a citizen,
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so as soon as I'm done with this,
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I have a break, and I'm going to register to vote,
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without a doubt. -Priorities, Tan.
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Priorities. -I know. I know.
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I mean, it took so long to get here.
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-20 years is a long time. -Yeah.
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But the actual experience of getting my oath thing done today
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was just lovely.
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It was such a beautiful, emotional experience.
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As you may know, I'm not much of a crier.
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If anyone knows me from "Queer Eye,"
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I'm not the crier of the group.
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But I got so emotional.
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It felt just really powerful to become an American today.
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-Do you feel attacked, Antoni?
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[ Laughter ]
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-My sensitivity is my strength.
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-It is. It's beautiful. It's beautiful.
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-What were you thinking of? Who were you thinking of?
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Why did you get emotional?
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-I was just thinking of all the times I've been sent home
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and the people I've missed, and I was apart --
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I was away from my husband for six years
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because I was sent home.
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And so just to now be in a position
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where I know nobody can kick me out
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and I can actually truly make some changes,
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actually vote to change and encourage people
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to vote to change the state of this country.
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Like, that -- that really made me feel very emotional.
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The timing couldn't be more perfect for me.
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-Jonathan, you were saying earlier
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that the show obviously is not a cure
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for all the world's problems,
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but it may help give some light to people that need it.
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-Yeah.
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I think having, you know, moments
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to, like, rest and recharge is great,
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and, you know, like, "British Baking Challenge"
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is, you know, that for me.
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And yeah, so, I think you need sort of, like, joy
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that you know people can experience in this time is good.
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But getting your citizenship, I think, is a pretty --
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That is a change, honey.
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You want to talk about change, that is a some change.
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And, Tan, not to go back to you, but I can't help it.
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I could see the emotion in your face on that one picture.
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I said, "I think Tan's been crying in public."
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[ Speaking indistinctly ]
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[ Laughter ]
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-That's so cool.
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I watched the first episode of this new season,
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Season 5 for you guys,
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and I know it's probably hard to promote a product right now
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with all that's going on in the world,
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but I will say, man, you guys do such a great job.
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What an excellent show, top to bottom,
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not just you guys, but the producing of the show,
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the way it's -- how intelligent you guys are
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and open to dealing with anything that comes at you.
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I only watched the first episode
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with the pastor, the openly gay pastor,
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and, dude, it's not just the end of the show where you cry.
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I cried like three times in the middle of the show
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and going --
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Karamo, specifically your scene, I think this was,
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with all the other pastors sitting at the table.
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I lost it.
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And honestly, it's always, now and then, just a curveball
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and I go, like, ah.
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This was great that you're talking,
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and you're making people have these conversations
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that may be uncomfortable, but they're needed.
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-What I love most about what you said
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is that, you know, a lot of people have been like,
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"How are you going to promote a show during this time
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where, like, everyone is worried about a pandemic
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and also is supporting the Black Lives Matter movement?"
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I think what is beautiful
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is that people get to take a break from --
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a mental and emotional break, which is necessary
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so that you can recharge and come back stronger
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to help other people.
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And it's nice because you get to see
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these people that we're helping, our heroes,
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turn into these full, whole, beautiful, vulnerable people.
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And it kind of just recharges you and says, "You know what?
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I want to go out there and protest.
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I want to do better for tomorrow.
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Let me recharge, break down, and come back,"
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and I think that's really a beautiful part of our show.
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-Yeah, I love that you're calling them heroes.
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Heroes puts it in a different light for me.
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And I think that's a great change that you guys made.
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Antoni, do you want to talk about that?
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-Yeah, I mean, like,
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so, I've only seen the first two episodes.
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-What?! You haven't binged it yet?
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-I've been traveling. I drove from Texas to New York.
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But I'm going to catch up on it, I swear.
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But, like, you know, you brought up Noah, this openly gay pastor
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who's basically stepping into a leadership position
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in his church, and all of the struggles
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and, like, the confidence that comes with that.
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I'm so glad that you brought up Karamo's scene in that.
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I just thought that was incredibly touching,
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for Noah to be around, you know, other people of faith
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who kind of, to use Jonathan's line, like, gave him permission
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to be that leader.
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I think that was incredibly empowering
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and that's something that a lot of people can relate to.
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We have Rahanna, a businesswoman and creative who --
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She has her own dog grooming business called Stylish Pooch
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with this, like, mobile truck
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that she goes around, like, giving little makeovers to dogs.
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-But also, I will say, Rahanna's makeovers are not little, honey.
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She will make this dog pink, honey.
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She will make it purple.
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But she'll also do a trim.
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You know, sometimes they're little, tiny, baby ones,
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but other times, they're, like, epic make--
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She's major. -She does it all.
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I think the episode that really touched me the most
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was Tyreek -- -Out of the two.
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-No. Well --
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[ Laughter ]
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But no, I mean, I haven't seen Tyreek yet,
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but I just kind of -- -It's so good. It's so good.
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-That's one that I've really been thinking about a lot.
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I mean, all these heroes in this season
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and in every single season,
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whether they're heroes in their own personal lives
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or whether they're activists in their own right,
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I think it's important now more than ever to honor heroes,
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I think in a time of --
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I think there's -- Maybe I speak for myself,
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but there's been a lot of hopelessness.
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Heroes give us hope.
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It gives us someone to look up to,
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and they come in all different, you know, shapes and sizes.
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This morning, I was watching an interview with Gianna Floyd,
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with George Floyd's daughter.
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And her mother was talking about
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how she doesn't fully understand what happened to her dad
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when her mother tried explaining it,
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but she knows that everyone's talking about it.
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And she was saying, I think in a video segment,
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like, "Daddy changed the world."
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And as horrible as it is what happened to him,
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it's people like that, that I look up to.
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Or, like, I listened to -- You know, I turned on Instagram
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five minutes before we logged in here,
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and I saw that Tan got his citizenship,
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and I'm thinking, like,
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I think that takes a tremendous amount of courage
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during times like this.
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It's so easy to be a pessimist and to not have hope,
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that something like that is just, like --
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It's stuff like that that keeps me going,
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and I'm just so grateful that we get to do it week after week,
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hero after hero.
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-Karamo, is there different types of grieving
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and the ways to approach it?
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-Yeah, definitely. And most people don't even realize
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that they're grieving right now.
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They're experiencing severe loss.
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Like, what people don't realize,
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even when the pandemic was happening,
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you were grieving the loss of financial stability,
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of our regular schedules.
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And you have to go through a process of acknowledging it
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and starting to heal from it.
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And that's happening again when people --
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It's now compounded also
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with the fact that Black Lives Matter's movement is happening.
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People are, you know, waking up
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and they're going through so much loss,
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and everyone is screaming out for, "I need change.
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I need things to be different."
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And it's a very beautiful moment that we're living in.
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I mean, I just, I look at the five of our Instagrams,
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even yours, Jimmy,
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and all of us, we're just all in a space of, like,
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if you're grieving what was happening,
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if you want to see a better tomorrow,
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it's okay to acknowledge it, and it's okay
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to start trying to do things to move towards a better tomorrow.
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-I was going to ask you guys, after five seasons,
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do people kind of know what's about to happen to their lives?
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Bobby, like, can you talk about, do people go, like,
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"Oh, there they are, the Fab Five, and I get it.
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You're going to cut my hair.
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You're going to put me in an outfit."
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-You know, it was very different for us for Season 1 and 2,
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because no one had seen the show before.
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No one knew who we were. No one knew what to expect.
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Same with us. We had never seen the show.
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We didn't know what to expect. I'd definitely say
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it's become a little different as seasons goes on,
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because a lot of our heroes have seen the show.
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So, a lot of them have this idea in their mind
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how they want to be perceived already on television,
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and they have their narrative set,
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and it's our job to get in there and just kind of make them --
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kind of make them forget they're on a television show,
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to where we really are actually helping them,
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to where we really are getting down to the core problem
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and helping change their life.
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You know, we really get to go in there
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and do our jobs to help people.
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-I want to talk to you a little bit more.
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Do you guys mind? Another five minutes, please?
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-We'll take 20. -Yeah, absolutely.
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-Alright, thank you. We'll be right back
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with the cast of "Queer Eye." -Just like I didn't offer 20.