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Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfAlaugh podcast with clips today from the Southern

Poverty Law Center, all in with Chris Hayes, Linsor Denser on YouTube,

Papaganda from Bitch Media, Glad, Ted Talks, BackTalk from Bitch Media, and Dan Savage.

My name is Tristan Brussell and I'm from Hathaway, Louisiana, I was from originally from

Number Crawfish Filled in War and Cost and Light.

I came out as gay in like the eighth grade because I was really all I could do at the time.

But all my life I've always dressed like a boy and never wore a shirt, I always had short hair,

cried whenever my mom even tried to put me in a dress or told me to dress like a girl.

And I've been on my home since I was 18.

The day I turned 18 was whenever I could legally do it myself.

I graduated high school back in 2011, moved out, got a job, then eventually I ended up working my way up,

starting at like bedbath and beyond for eight bucks an hour, and then I eventually got the job of Tower Lones for 15 an hour.

So it was pretty excited about it.

Miss Leah, we sat in a little cubicle and she was like, I really like y'all,

give you a call, you know, and let you know how it goes.

I said, all right, and she sat in the next few days, well, as soon as I left and got on the road,

I was maybe five minutes on the road and she called me and said, you know what, you got the job.

And you know, she had one point, she had told me, man, you're very hands on, you know, like just for two days here,

you're doing a lot for, you know, how long you've been here.

The manager ends up tapping me on the shoulder, like I said, I was expecting him to come.

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