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Here’s a clip from tonight’s tribute on Around the Table with the AOTR.

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Tonight, we pause to honor the incredible lives and legacies of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. We sat down to reflect on their immense contributions to music, cinema, and culture, as well as their unwavering advocacy—from global literacy and philanthropy to fierce self-expression and creative freedom.

We also take time to celebrate the pure joy, heart, and boundary-pushing artistry they gifted the world across generations.

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Transcript
00:00The LGBTQIA community is mourning horribly tremendous losses from both of them being passed away at this point because they
00:08were just pioneers and they really challenged the status quo in so many ways and shown and still showed that
00:15people can be wonderful humanitarians and truly have the most beautiful hearts and souls and get out there and make
00:21legacies and make money and not become these horrible, selfish, disgusting, greedy billionaires that are trafficking children around islands.
00:29And we want to take all of our water away with AI data centers and crazy things.
00:33There are still things that we can look to to give us kind of that push.
00:38But now that those people are gone, it's not so much that I think that we need to mourn not
00:43just their losses, but we need to step up and say, how am I going to carry those torches forward
00:49myself?
00:50How am I going to dream it and be it?
00:53Not just dream it, but how am I going to be that kind person but not be a pushover?
00:58How am I going to stand up for the people that need me to, but at the same time, give
01:05back so much from what they gave to me?
01:07That's really, that's really the lesson that I think, you know, I'm constantly at my day job telling people, no
01:15matter what the incident, no matter what the situation, there's not always a silver lining, but there is always a
01:23lesson.
01:24And if we can take a lesson from both of them and just carry those lessons with us to the
01:31people that come after us, you know, from generation to generation, that's the legacy that they have left for us.
01:39You know, it's not, they wouldn't want us sitting here bemoaning their death.
01:43They'd want to see what we're doing with their life.

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