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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

What's Your Origin Story? with Bobby Berk

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Comedy, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Bobby Berk is an interior designer & fellow Queer Eye cast member who joins Jonathan to talk growing up closeted in the Midwest, emancipating himself from his parents as a teen, landing the role on Queer Eye, finding his way to New York City, and his love for interior design. Check out the Queer Eye cast's Glamour friendship test here. Find Bobby Berk on Twitter & Instagram @bobbyberk & visit his site https://www.bobbyberkhome.com/ Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

I wish I could get Anthony to tell me how to say welcome in French so I could say welcome to getting curious in French

0:05.9

I'm Jonathan Beness and every week I sit down for a gorgeous 30 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious

0:12.4

This week

0:13.6

Bobbers, what is your origin story with Bobby work?

0:17.0

Hey, I have a gorgeous

0:20.6

Gorgeous friend of mine. I'm named Bobby Burke who's sitting right across from me. Who's only one eye I can see right now

0:27.0

Hi

0:29.0

so like

0:31.0

We did this one thing for these one people it was this one thing that made us cry

0:36.5

It's top-sucker. We can't talk about it, but I cry a lot. Yes, we can talk about what we did

0:40.6

We just can't talk about who it was for tell him what we had to do

0:43.3

For a full minute we had to gaze into each other's eyes very longingly and passionately. No

0:50.6

Passionately well

0:52.8

Passionately doesn't have to be sexually. Yeah, that's true. What's passionately? Yeah, that's John hold hands and then

0:58.2

Talk about our favorite things about each other and compliment each other. It was a friend exercise

1:04.3

Yeah, and then we hugged for a whole minute. It was so hot when it was sweaty. I cried I cried when I did

1:10.6

Bobbers one

1:12.6

And around about way we will talk about one of the things that made me cry

1:16.1

But I just will never point out exactly what it was, but then maybe someday you'll remember and you'll tweet about it

1:21.3

That was fun. So I met Bobby on a February 28th

1:29.1

2017

1:30.6

I don't know Wednesday night. Oh really? And then it was a Thursday Friday. Oh

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