Episode 9 - Growing up Gay and Mormon (Ty French)
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4.7 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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This week the hilarious & always iconic Tyson French, a photographer and influencer from Los Angeles and long time friend of the girls, joins the WWS podcast! Tyson tells his story about growing up in a religious LDS home and being gay, coming to terms with who he truly is, and finally coming out to his friends and family at the age of 18. Follow Tyson on Social Media: @tyfrench @tyfrenchphoto
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| 0:00.0 | What's up you guys! We are here today with our first guest ever. |
| 0:12.9 | Woo! And we are so excited! This is one of our besties, Ty French. |
| 0:17.6 | What's up, what's up? In the flesh. And we have known Ty since in high school. |
| 0:22.5 | Um, we actually hired him for photo shoot. When we were, were we seniors in high school Chelsea? |
| 0:28.0 | Oh, I hope not. I've been honestly in here. We met before senior year. |
| 0:35.2 | Could I drive? No, I drove. Oh yeah, Chelsea did drive. I don't remember that situation, but |
| 0:41.2 | um, so Tyson and I, we basically, we met through photography in Instagram. Yeah. |
| 0:45.5 | Because we both were photographers at the time. And Instagram wasn't honestly like a huge thing at |
| 0:49.9 | that time. So it was kind of like, he was one of the, we were two of the only people who like |
| 0:53.8 | did photography in Arizona. I feel like at that time. We knew Tyson and he had a thousand followers. |
| 0:58.9 | And we were like, he is the shiz. Like he was the ultimate because he had a thousand followers. |
| 1:04.9 | And now Jason's bigger than me. I feel really great. |
| 1:09.7 | I'm like, we said we did something. We invited him on this podcast too. |
| 1:13.8 | It was me. In various you. No, um, wait, I'm going to show you the pics, Ty. Hold on. |
| 1:20.3 | We just pulled up a few pictures. We'll post them on our actually. |
| 1:22.9 | They might be too scary to post. Like honestly, I'm embarrassed. |
| 1:26.8 | No, it's not your hobby. Because the photography is honestly good. |
| 1:29.6 | Where they edited on picnics.com. Probably. Oh my gosh. Okay, this is one of the first. |
| 1:35.1 | Oh, what? First off the outfits, the coordination of them. I know the Cheetah. The literal mint. |
| 1:40.5 | Also, why are they over exposed? It's so much that you literally cannot see your face. |
| 1:44.3 | You're a ghost. Please look at this. Oh my gosh. |
| 1:47.7 | Oh my goodness. Okay. First of all, Jay, he has like dark, dark red hair. |
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