Speaker 1: This is Conversations with Olivia Jade and I Heart Radio podcast.
Speaker 1: Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of Conversations. I
Speaker 1: am so so excited for today's guest, be amazing Olympic
Speaker 1: swimmer Ryan Lockty. I honestly didn't know too much about
Speaker 1: Ryan Lockty, and I know one thing that we have
Speaker 1: in common is that we have both been on Dancing
Speaker 1: with the Stars, and so that really piqued my interest.
Speaker 1: And I just want to learn more about him personally here,
Speaker 1: about his personal life, his goals, how he got into swimming,
Speaker 1: and I want to bring you guys along to talk
Speaker 1: about his journey as well. So with that being said,
Speaker 1: let's jump right into it and let's hear from Ryan
Speaker 1: Locktey himself. How are you doing. I'm really good. I'm
Speaker 1: really excited to be interviewing you. This will be fun. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for having me on. Oh my gosh. Of
Speaker 1: course I'm really new at this, so you can take
Speaker 1: over as much as you want and you know, just
Speaker 1: speak your mind. Um. But obviously I know you as
Speaker 1: an amazing, famous swimmer, Olympic swimmer, and I don't know
Speaker 1: the proper way to get into these types of podcast,
Speaker 1: but I think we should just jump in and I
Speaker 1: want to hear everything about you in your life and
Speaker 1: how you got into this and I know you have
Speaker 1: a baby or two babies or yeah, I just want
Speaker 1: to hear it all. So I think, yeah, maybe you
Speaker 1: just want to start off by telling the audience like
Speaker 1: who you are, where you're from, how you grew up
Speaker 1: a little bit. Okay, Um yeah, um I'm Ryan Lockey. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm a twelve time Olympic medalist. I've been to four
Speaker 1: for swimming. Um, I've been to four Olympics, um in
Speaker 1: two and sixteen. And yeah, I mean I grew up
Speaker 1: in New York, up state New York. Yeah, I grew
Speaker 1: up there and I was always around the swimming pool.
Speaker 1: Um both my swimming My parents were swim coaches. So
Speaker 1: I mean I guess you could say I grew up
Speaker 1: on the pool deck. Ah, so that makes sense. So
Speaker 1: I fell into the pool like um my parents. It
Speaker 1: was unique was my parents never pushed me to swim.
Speaker 1: I kind of I chose um it. And one thing
Speaker 1: they did say is like whatever you do, like you're
Speaker 1: not gonna half act, like you're gonna go wall in
Speaker 1: and give it a shot. So I gave it a shot,
Speaker 1: and I immediately just fell in love with the water,
Speaker 1: like it was like my happy place. So I I
Speaker 1: just stuck with um swimming. Um. I did a lot
Speaker 1: of sports growing up, like you name it. I did
Speaker 1: a basketball, soccer, lacrosse, baseball, surfing, skateboarding, like I did everything.
Speaker 1: So you're an athlete in general, not just swimming. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe it. And but it was always like swimming
Speaker 1: that just brought me back to the pool. Um. I mean,
Speaker 1: I could be having the worst day of my life,
Speaker 1: and once I stepped foot in that pool, everything just disappears.
Speaker 1: That's so awesome. At home, that's so cool. Wow, because
Speaker 1: I had a totally different experience. I was forced to
Speaker 1: do swim class when I was in like seventh three
Speaker 1: grade and they put me in the swim cap and
Speaker 1: make me go in the pool, and there was just
Speaker 1: like the slowest hour of my life. I was like,
Speaker 1: get me out of this pool. So it's really cool
Speaker 1: to hear you know something that you're genuinely super passionate about.
Speaker 1: Are you still swimming? Yes, Yes, I am still swimming. Um.
Speaker 1: It's a lot harder now than it was back in
Speaker 1: the day. I'm sure, how do you manage all that
Speaker 1: with like a family and um, you know, that was
Speaker 1: probably one of the hardest things that um, I was
Speaker 1: trying to deal with. UM is when and when I
Speaker 1: started having kids, UM, you know, just trying to be
Speaker 1: like my life changed. UM. I was no longer like
Speaker 1: swimming was my number one thing. It wasn't like swimming
Speaker 1: was just like the cherry on top. UM. I became
Speaker 1: a dad, a husband, and that's what I was so
Speaker 1: passionate about, and nothing else really mattered in life, Like
Speaker 1: it was just me and my family, and I was
Speaker 1: just so happy. UM. I was genuinely happy. Um. And
Speaker 1: so swimming became like a second priority. UM. So that
Speaker 1: was the hardest thing I was trying to juggle, you know,
Speaker 1: just being a super dad and a super husband, but
Speaker 1: then going to the swimming pool and trying to compete
Speaker 1: against kids half my age. UM, I just um and
Speaker 1: it was just hard and it was taking a toll
Speaker 1: on me. So I started trying to think outside the
Speaker 1: box of how can I recover, how can I do
Speaker 1: things to help my energy levels to help just basically
Speaker 1: everything that I was doing, um, and trying to keep
Speaker 1: up with these younger kids So one of the main
Speaker 1: things that I started finding. I found out was this
Speaker 1: on It's this unique form of vitamin B three that
Speaker 1: supports a healthy aging and sillier repair UM called true nitagen.
Speaker 1: And I started taking it, and I immediately started feeling
Speaker 1: my energy levels like skyrocket skyrocket, Like I was I
Speaker 1: was going to swim practice in the morning, training with
Speaker 1: these younger kids, then going home and being a super
Speaker 1: dad playing with my kids all day, and then going
Speaker 1: back to the swimming pool later on that afternoon and
Speaker 1: having more energy than the kids. I was swimming against
Speaker 1: the Like where did you get this stuff? They called
Speaker 1: me like, they call me Big Daddy. That was my nickname, Solar,
Speaker 1: a big daddy, Like how are you doing this? How
Speaker 1: are you kicking her ass? I'm like, I'm not telling
Speaker 1: you my secret. She just told it on my podcast
Speaker 1: to these kids. I wasn't saying I didn't tell them
Speaker 1: that was like my secret weapon. So like that was
Speaker 1: one of the things I was doing. And then of
Speaker 1: course you know as you get older, like it's harder
Speaker 1: for your body to recover. UM. So I also started
Speaker 1: I found out this dr Riggs relief UM. It's like, um,
Speaker 1: it's a supplement that you can take that helps your
Speaker 1: aches and pains. Okay, this is really good for me
Speaker 1: to know because I'm doing Dancing with the Stars right
Speaker 1: now and I'm in so much hurt. And I congratulate you,
Speaker 1: like I know you did it too, which we'll talk about.
Speaker 1: I will train eight years straight of swimming every day,
Speaker 1: then dude, dancing with the start again, because that was
Speaker 1: really do you think that's how it? Then Olympic training
Speaker 1: and swimming like pointing your toes and having your like no, no,
Speaker 1: it was. It was brutal. So hey, actually this stuff
Speaker 1: will help you. Way what's it called again? All right?
Speaker 1: So we got true Niagen that will help your like
Speaker 1: cellular energy levels. And then dr Riggs Relief, the suplement
Speaker 1: that you put in your water. And it's like, because
Speaker 1: I used to take at Ville all the time for
Speaker 1: practice just to get through the pain, but I stopped
Speaker 1: taking it because you know, it messes up your digestion,
Speaker 1: like your organ Yeah. I started taking the doctor Riggs
Speaker 1: Relief and it works even better. So achs and pain.
Speaker 1: So like when you're like dancing all like for eight
Speaker 1: hours straight, take this stuff and you will be back
Speaker 1: at it. Oh my gosh, my partner is gonna be like,
Speaker 1: who are you? You're a different person, and yeah, I
Speaker 1: got the inside scoop. Okay, well obviously we can. I don't. Also,
Speaker 1: being somebody who's you know, gone through stuff publicly, I
Speaker 1: know that sometimes it can be weird to talk about
Speaker 1: certain things, so there's no pressure to cover stuff that
Speaker 1: you don't want to cover or but obviously you did
Speaker 1: make headlines, um, which I get. You're not alone in this.
Speaker 1: I do get it, and I know you know. It's
Speaker 1: like I I tried to explain it when people ask
Speaker 1: me in interviews where it's just like it's hard to
Speaker 1: talk about at least for me, and like my situation
Speaker 1: it was hard for me to talk about and it's
Speaker 1: so weird because it's just like I carry around so
Speaker 1: much like embarrassment with it that it's just like I
Speaker 1: don't want to be like brought back to that place
Speaker 1: every single time somebody does an interview with me. Just
Speaker 1: asked me the same question again, and it's just like
Speaker 1: you really want to move forward. But I also think
Speaker 1: what is so important when you do make headlines like
Speaker 1: that is to hear from the actual person and their
Speaker 1: perspective because at least for me personally. I feel like
Speaker 1: so much got twisted in the media in my situation
Speaker 1: where I just like I still haven't really cleared much up,
Speaker 1: but I could imagine something similar happened to you or
Speaker 1: one one thousand percent Like it started, the story started
Speaker 1: getting twisted, and it started getting to the point where
Speaker 1: I like robbed a convenience store like it was. It
Speaker 1: was the media like twisting everything. But I mean, I
Speaker 1: just had to stay true to myself. Um. I mean
Speaker 1: I was getting interviews and it always went back to
Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen. The headlines started. So I was
Speaker 1: younger than I was, probably like fifteen turning sixteen. So
Speaker 1: from your perspective, walk me through what happened back then.
Speaker 1: Well back then, I mean, well everyone knows the story.
Speaker 1: So my story that I told it was the actual truth. Um,
Speaker 1: the media turned it and it started becoming like I
Speaker 1: was lying, um and everything like that, and it just
Speaker 1: got misscrewed. And but and then like all the shaming,
Speaker 1: Like I think the hardest thing that I had to
Speaker 1: deal with back then was going on social media and
Speaker 1: looking up messages being like from little kids being like
Speaker 1: you used to be my role model and now you're not.
Speaker 1: Like stuff like that killed me out of everything, Like
Speaker 1: I'd wake up crying every day. Um, and then you
Speaker 1: know she was my she was my girlfriend at the time.
Speaker 1: She's my wife now she like kind of like slap me,
Speaker 1: he said, snap out of it, Like this is not
Speaker 1: who you are, Like you can't let them win. Like
Speaker 1: I know who you are. I know the person you are.
Speaker 1: You gotta keep fighting and change people's minds about you
Speaker 1: because this is not This is not you. Like what
Speaker 1: people think about you is not the real you. So
Speaker 1: you have to keep fighting. You have to be a fighter.
Speaker 1: So I was. I started fighting every day trying to
Speaker 1: change my image because you know, being uh like a celebrity,
Speaker 1: I guess, um, and I had this persona of like
Speaker 1: the rock star of swimming, so I had that better. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I had that bad boy image and I had to,
Speaker 1: like I feel like I had to live up to it. Um,
Speaker 1: but it deep down it wasn't really me. I wasn't
Speaker 1: truly happy with myself until I found out, Like until
Speaker 1: I had a family on my own and my entire
Speaker 1: life changed. Do you how old are your kids or
Speaker 1: how many? First of all, how many kids do you
Speaker 1: have two kids, kid and my boy he's four years old.
Speaker 1: Then I had a world live that is too Oh
Speaker 1: you got babies. I got babies. Every day It's like
Speaker 1: it's a gift. Yeah, every day I wake up, I'm like, jeez,
Speaker 1: this is this is what life is. Yeah. Do you
Speaker 1: feel like you from that experience that we were just
Speaker 1: kind of talking about a little bit, like you, what's
Speaker 1: like your biggest takeaway or learning lesson or something that
Speaker 1: maybe you would pass down to your children. And you know,
Speaker 1: someone asked me, like, are you gonna let your kids
Speaker 1: know like what happened with me? And I was like, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna set them down and tell them like everything
Speaker 1: that happened, because I want them to know. And this
Speaker 1: is probably one of the things that I want to
Speaker 1: get them across and things. Thing. The thing that I
Speaker 1: learned was you know, in life, you're gonna get knocked down,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be like your dad got knocked down
Speaker 1: to the very bottom. I lost everything, all my sponsors, friends, money,
Speaker 1: like you name it. I lost everything. I was like
Speaker 1: the most hated man in the world. Like at one point,
Speaker 1: it was just brutal, and but that's what happens. In
Speaker 1: life sometimes, but it's how you get up and how
Speaker 1: you keep moving forward is that is what's going to
Speaker 1: define you as a person. And that's what I want
Speaker 1: to like teach my kids, like in life, you're going
Speaker 1: to get knocked out, but you gotta keep up. You
Speaker 1: gotta get up and keep moving, keep moving forward. So
Speaker 1: that's definitely what I want to teach them. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a great takeaway. I feel I feel similar towards that.
Speaker 1: Like when you do go through something publicly, it's interesting too,
Speaker 1: because you know, a part of you feels like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is I deserve it, and then a part of
Speaker 1: you feels like, oh my gosh, this is such a
Speaker 1: bandwagon effect of so many people having this mob mentality
Speaker 1: that it's hard to see straight and for in my experience,
Speaker 1: like when I would read certain things about me, it's like,
Speaker 1: even though I know myself, it's like kind of what
Speaker 1: you were saying and you're now wife was trying to
Speaker 1: probably tell you and get you through, it's just like
Speaker 1: you kind of lose sight of who you are and
Speaker 1: you kind of start to believe everything that's being told
Speaker 1: about you, and it's really hard to like bring yourself
Speaker 1: back down and just pick I'm a good person at
Speaker 1: my core, Like I messed up bad, but I want to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, show who I am. And I deserve a
Speaker 1: second chance at life. You know, you know everyone in
Speaker 1: life does does deserve a second chance. I agree with that,
Speaker 1: and it's just how you how you use it, use
Speaker 1: that second chance. And I changed and I started people
Speaker 1: started seeing the real Ryan mocktey Um and this past
Speaker 1: Olympic trials, Um, I saw a huge change. Um, Like
Speaker 1: I got like a standing innovation when I got finished
Speaker 1: my last race. U just people all around reaching out
Speaker 1: to me on social media, like on the street being like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you're a huge role model like that,
Speaker 1: just like it's like a full circle moment. May my
Speaker 1: heart explode? Yeah? Like yes, I'm like like people are
Speaker 1: starting to see the real me now, Like what my
Speaker 1: closest family, like my family, my closest friends like that
Speaker 1: knew me, that stuck by me. Um, people are starting
Speaker 1: to see that. And it was awesome. It was amazing feeling.
Speaker 1: So this might be a dumb question, but I feel
Speaker 1: like I don't know too much about the Olympics. So which,
Speaker 1: like were you in the most recent Olympics or is
Speaker 1: this just walk me through all of this because I
Speaker 1: know nothing, so I don't even know how to phrase
Speaker 1: these questions. Okay. Um So, in two thousand four I
Speaker 1: got a gold and silver at the Olympics. That was
Speaker 1: my first Olympics. In two thousand eight, I got four
Speaker 1: Olympic medals. In two thousand and twelve I got five.
Speaker 1: Was in sixteen I got one. Um so I just
Speaker 1: missed this last uh this past Olympics. Um I fell short.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think it was just I put
Speaker 1: a lot of weight on under my shoulders just because
Speaker 1: I think I wanted it more for everyone and everyone
Speaker 1: wrong then for myself. Um I wanted definitely more for
Speaker 1: my family and not me. So I felt short. But
Speaker 1: you know the turn around, everything that happened, like everything
Speaker 1: is meant to like everything happens for a reason, and
Speaker 1: you know, like the whole thing, like and you can
Speaker 1: take away from this too, Like in two thousand and sixteen,
Speaker 1: everything that all that bad stuff that happened to me,
Speaker 1: it was a sign that like I had to wake
Speaker 1: up and smell the coffee, like I had a like
Speaker 1: if I was going down this path of like just
Speaker 1: this rock star image. I probably wouldn't have kids right now,
Speaker 1: and who knows where i'd be. Um, So everything does
Speaker 1: happen for a reason and you just gotta keep moving
Speaker 1: forward with your head up. Yeah, totally Again, could be
Speaker 1: a totally obvious question. But you have, like you people
Speaker 1: like try out every new Olympic season basically, and then
Speaker 1: if you don't make that cut, then obviously you're not
Speaker 1: in it. Yes, So a month before the Olympics, the
Speaker 1: actual Olympic Games, we have in the US Olympic trials
Speaker 1: and you have to get first or second out of
Speaker 1: every swimmer in the United States. You have to get
Speaker 1: first or second in your event. And then once you
Speaker 1: get first or second, you make the Olympic team. Then
Speaker 1: you go to the Olympics and compete for United States
Speaker 1: against the world. What is that like like being actually
Speaker 1: because it just sounds so insane, like really like, you know,
Speaker 1: competing for your country. But then also you know so
Speaker 1: many people are watching and cheering you on or maybe
Speaker 1: not cheer you on, and like what is that genuinely
Speaker 1: feel like When you're in that moment, it is the
Speaker 1: greatest feeling in the world, Like you're not swimming just
Speaker 1: for yourself. You're swimming for your entire country, the country
Speaker 1: that you like. When I put on that swim cap,
Speaker 1: that the one that you said you, hey, don't ever
Speaker 1: put me in a swim cap. When I was putting
Speaker 1: on that American flag swim cap and having my name
Speaker 1: under the American flag, that just was like, you know,
Speaker 1: I freaking made it. Yeah, thing like that is that
Speaker 1: is the best, the greatest feeling in the world. When
Speaker 1: you were younger, did you know, like you said, you
Speaker 1: started swimming at a young age, and both your parents obviously,
Speaker 1: um kind of introduced you to that world. But did
Speaker 1: you know, like or I guess at what age did
Speaker 1: you know, Okay, this is going to be my career,
Speaker 1: Like this is everything to me, and I just want
Speaker 1: to like I was a late Bloomerum yeah, I wasn't
Speaker 1: that good. And like in high school like growing up interesting,
Speaker 1: Um yeah, Um, I just had to work my butt
Speaker 1: off every day. Um when I got to college, UM,
Speaker 1: I still wasn't sure like if swimming was for me.
Speaker 1: Like I mean I love swimming, but like I wasn't
Speaker 1: great swimming. College was so hard just because I mean
Speaker 1: coming from high school to college and like you get
Speaker 1: introduced to like the college scene, like all that, like
Speaker 1: it was just it was brutal. Um. But in swimming,
Speaker 1: it took me a while. After probably about my freshman year,
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I think I can
Speaker 1: make a name for myself in this sport. You're a
Speaker 1: freshman year of college. Yeah. So for anybody out there
Speaker 1: that's listening to this right now and you're down on
Speaker 1: yourself in high school for not performing your best, you
Speaker 1: heard it from Ryan Locktey and don't give up. Don't
Speaker 1: give up. You never give up. Just keep going. Go
Speaker 1: for that gold, go for the goal. That's crazy. And
Speaker 1: you won your So your first Olympics, you got a gold. Yes,
Speaker 1: my first Olympics. So my Firstlympics was after my sophomore
Speaker 1: year of college and I got a gold and silver
Speaker 1: at the Olympics. And then seriously I used all that
Speaker 1: like momentum that I had from that Olympics to carry
Speaker 1: on throughout my swimming career. Um. After the two thousand
Speaker 1: four Olympics, I got back to Gainesville, Florida. I went
Speaker 1: to University of Florida. Um, I got back home and
Speaker 1: I immediately started setting goals for two I was like,
Speaker 1: I want to do better. I want to get my
Speaker 1: gold so um. Yeah, and then it just kept on
Speaker 1: going in that kind of pattern every four years, like
Speaker 1: setting new goals, trying to improve myself, trying to make
Speaker 1: myself better every day. And what what's the training like
Speaker 1: behind that to like really get or I guess too
Speaker 1: batter yourself, Like what things were you doing differently? Just
Speaker 1: like practicing more and being physically in the water. You know.
Speaker 1: I started setting more, um, short term goals every day
Speaker 1: in practice. Um because all those little short term goals
Speaker 1: like having short uh those goals every day like they're
Speaker 1: gonna add up. Um. So I started setting little goals
Speaker 1: every day. UM. Started taking care of my body outside
Speaker 1: the pool, um and just pushing myself. UM. Started doing
Speaker 1: more weightlifting, UM things like that. So you're just like
Speaker 1: all in all bettered yourself and took it like up
Speaker 1: a notch, really like took it next level to perform.
Speaker 1: I just kept on taking my body. I kept on
Speaker 1: pushing my body to like I can out train anyone.
Speaker 1: I feel like, just because I don't have a stopping point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I will go until I pass out. I'm bleeding from
Speaker 1: my eyeballs, Like I'll just keep going because the goals
Speaker 1: that I wanted, that was long term goals that I wanted.
Speaker 1: Nothing was going to get in my way. And hard
Speaker 1: work yeah, hard work, Yeah, it sounds like it. And
Speaker 1: I'm I'm asking that because I do want this podcast
Speaker 1: and I want people listening, Like, especially when I have
Speaker 1: guests like you and somebody that's worked so hard for something,
Speaker 1: I want people to have a takeaway and then maybe
Speaker 1: people in a similar situation would be like, Okay, So
Speaker 1: even though there were tough times, like he got through it,
Speaker 1: he's still persevering. He's still trying to, you know, make
Speaker 1: Olympics like he had. He really hasn't given up, which
Speaker 1: I think is really inspiring. Um, what do you do now, Like,
Speaker 1: what's your day to day? I know you're still swimming,
Speaker 1: but I'm still I'm still getting in the water. Um.
Speaker 1: You know. You know, after after Olympic trials in July,
Speaker 1: it was really hard for me. Um, Like mentally, I
Speaker 1: mean physically, I was drained from the sports swimming. I
Speaker 1: mean I've been doing it for what twenty eight years,
Speaker 1: so I was a little tired. Um, But mentally I
Speaker 1: was I was really frustrated with myself because you know,
Speaker 1: I care so much about everyone and I wanted me
Speaker 1: to make the Olympic team for everyone else, to prove
Speaker 1: everyone wrong, and that I didn't make it. I was
Speaker 1: I would wake up after Olympic trials, like when I
Speaker 1: was home, I would wake up, go to the mirror
Speaker 1: in the bathroom and be like, I'm a I'm a
Speaker 1: failure because I felt like I failed, I failed everyone,
Speaker 1: and it was the hardest thing to move on throughout
Speaker 1: my day. I was just I was depressed. I was
Speaker 1: like I just failed everyone that like was cheered for me,
Speaker 1: Like I failed my family, like looking at my kids
Speaker 1: and my wife every day being like like your dad's nothing.
Speaker 1: And then there's a different way to look at it too,
Speaker 1: where it's just like but you still went out there
Speaker 1: and tried and like that's so. So that was like
Speaker 1: that was the hardest thing to me overcome that, How
Speaker 1: did you overcome that? Um honestly playing with my kids
Speaker 1: every day, like having my kids come up to me
Speaker 1: and being like I love you, dad, Dad, like this
Speaker 1: is like I love you, and so like I had
Speaker 1: to turn to my family. I had to turn to
Speaker 1: my close circle, and that's what I did this time,
Speaker 1: Like I turned to my family. I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: like I can't be depressed, Like there's there's no like
Speaker 1: look at my kids, Like look at my family that
Speaker 1: I brought into this world, Like I can't be depressed
Speaker 1: over that. Like this is the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 1: So like I kind of like basically snapped out of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like now I'm I mean I still think about like, man,
Speaker 1: I wish I made the Olympic team, but I'm not
Speaker 1: suppressed anymore. Like I'm the happiest I've ever been right now.
Speaker 1: That's amazing to him. Getting back myself. I'm getting back
Speaker 1: into the water. I'm starting to train again, hanging out
Speaker 1: with my family more. Like it's just it's funny. Do
Speaker 1: you think you're going to try for the next t Lympants?
Speaker 1: Oh is that a voted question? I know? Um to me, continued,
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see. You know, I'm definitely gonna be involved
Speaker 1: in the sport, whether it's me competing or me What
Speaker 1: I really want to do is I want to help
Speaker 1: the younger generations. I love that I want to teach
Speaker 1: kids how to swim. I want to teach kids things
Speaker 1: that I've learned throughout my swimming career and help them.
Speaker 1: Just help the younger generations because I want to see
Speaker 1: the younger youth like grow totally. That's so cool. I
Speaker 1: don't want to take up too much of your time.
Speaker 1: I think the last question I have because you are
Speaker 1: so iconic, I think in so many ways and such
Speaker 1: a talent. If you could give advice to kids or
Speaker 1: adults or whoever is listening to this, what would you
Speaker 1: say that really got you through those moments to persevere
Speaker 1: um and just to keep your mental in check. And
Speaker 1: I'm even going to take a page out of this
Speaker 1: book because I could use it. I say, never lose yourself.
Speaker 1: You out of anyone in this entire world, know who
Speaker 1: you are. Do not lose who you are, and try
Speaker 1: to better yourself every day, no matter what. You might
Speaker 1: have everything handed to you, or might have everything going
Speaker 1: for you, but always try to better yourself every day
Speaker 1: and just keep moving forward. Like you can learn from
Speaker 1: the past, but don't dwell on the past. I love
Speaker 1: that love that you guys heard it here first. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for coming on. Ryan, you were so sweet,
Speaker 1: so much for having me and hey, kick some ass.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm going to try it. It's been so
Speaker 1: much fun. I mean, it's so hard. Yeah, I totally
Speaker 1: agree with you, but I don't know how it is
Speaker 1: so much fun. Yeah, but it's a it's a blast.
Speaker 1: I'm having a good time for sure. Hey, good luck. Well,
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