Hi, everybody.

Hey, y'all.

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Welcome to Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole.

We are a weekly podcast where we have on queer folks from all walks of life.

They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large. Because who doesn't love the coming out story?

Y'all, today we are here with Melanie Crystal.

Melanie is the founder and CEO of Laurels.

Now, if that sounds familiar to you, it's because Nicole and I, over the years, have done many a recorded

advertisement for laurels, which are undies for oral sex. Depending on how long you've been

listening, you've heard us do, we've done Valentine's ads, we've done Christmas ads, we've

talked all about these oral sex undies, And now we are with the founder and CEO,

the creator of this amazing contraption. That's not a sexy word. We'll talk about better

verbiage for Laurels later. But yeah, we're here with Melanie. I know, I've known Melanie for years

from her stories, which is one of the groups I facilitated for the LA LGBT Center. But yeah,

we wanted, we wanted to have Melanie on finally to tell her story. Welcome. Hello. Thank you. I'm

so excited to be here.

Yay.

This is thrilling.

So for our audience, Melanie, how do you identify?

So I identify as a lesbian, as queer, bi works, gay works, pan, any of that stuff.

Any of them.

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